To display in an attractive and condensed way the type of projects I have been involved in, I decided to make a word cloud. I used the d3js library, which makes spot-on interactive graphs. The&hellip
Maps
OldNYC: Mapping historical photos from the NYPL
This webmapping interface is really interesting. The data is not so complex: photographs with some metadata. It’s a nice idea, to help exploring the past of places I’ve heard of or visited. What I like about&hellip
webGIS: importance of marker size on user experience
webGIS are everywhere – often GoogleMaps mashups, but also more sophisticated ones. Having programmed a few, I’m starting to have a keen eyes of the issues faced by the programmers. Here is the start of a&hellip
Human waste in San Francisco
Some maps should not be published. Not because they deal with touchy subjects ‘human waste’? iiirk. Or because the data they present is wrong. Simply because they just don’t add anything to the discussion. I think&hellip
Coastline length – Part 2 (data analysis)
Now that I had a municipality attribute in my coastline dataset, I was able to calculate the length of each segment and used Excel to summarize the calculations per municipality. Scale-dependant result To double check&hellip
Coastline length – Part 1 (data preparation)
I was recently asked “what is the length of the coastline of each municipality of Denmark?” For anyone acquainted with GIS, this is known as the ‘coastline paradox’; depending at which scale you look at the&hellip
TRAP5 – Greenland and Faeroes online!
Following on the map entrance to the cultural encyclopedia we launched at the end of March, we’ve now published the equivalent for Faeroes and Greenland. The data available was really different, so it was more difficult&hellip
TRAP5 – map entrance to the cultural encyclopaedia of Denmark
In the past 4 to 5 months, I’ve been working part-time on representing the entries of the Danish cultural encyclopaedia on a map. It was challenging in two ways, because I had to work with historic administrative&hellip
Methodology
Following discussions with current PhD students in the research group, we’ve realised that every researcher was using different methodologies, but we were not sharing enough about them. A small group of us decided to start&hellip
Havfriluftlisv – 1 year of data!
It has been a year now that we’ve opened our ‘havfriluftsliv’ platform – it invited organised people who do water-based activities (sailing, fishing, snorkelling, ..) to add points, lines, and GPX-files where they carry out&hellip