Here’s a portfolio of online maps that I’ve made or significantly contributed towards. I’m particularly fond of slippy maps and urban areas where people and infrastructure interesect and how they are represented.
Online slippy maps, which offer multiple zoom levels, enable cartographer to create visualizations from multiple perspectives (if they so desire) and enable the map reader to see an area in multiple ways that they haven’t imagined.
I primarily use Mapbox and leaflet for the map interaction. For the map design, I use a combination of tools: TileMill, Mapbox Studio, Carto, QGIS, and Mapzen’s Tangrams. The source code for these are all available, as indicated in the links below.
View my proposed ward boundaries for the City of Cleveland
How are ward boundaries made for the City of Cleveland? Here’s a brief walkthrough of one way that they could be made.
View the 2020 Presidential results of Cuyahoga County
A map displaying the percentage of votes for 2020 Presidential Election, in Cuyahoga County, Ohio by electoral precinct (the enumeration unit). I purposefully chose to highlight the variability of the Biden support thoroughout Cuyahoga County. and I was also on a self-imposed time pressure to publish this shortly after the election (published a few days after the 2020 Election) Not my best work but received a fair amount of positive publicity on social media and cited in the local alt-weekly, the Cleveland Scene.
A interactive map of Cuyahoga County Food Pantry and Hot Meal sites. Designed for food pantry managers to refer those in need of food to nearby resources based on their location. Base Map designed by Mapbox. (No longer maintained; made in 2015-2016)
View The Cleveland Building Ages Map - code
A map displaying Cleveland’s Building Ages. The black base map was designed by Carto. Done in 2015.
A Halloween-themed experimental map of spooky places. Utilizes regular expressions in Mapbox Studio Classic.
A relatively simple, muted map style. Use of Pastels and Spring colors. Made in Mapbox Studio Classic. 2016.
Downtown Cleveland’s Public Parking Map; Without any available public data of public parking lots in downtown Cleveland, I manually surveyed them; uploaded them to OpenStreetMap, . First made in 2013.
Assisted in development and design of HOT (Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team) Base Map designed for Humanitarian contexts during HOT mission in Haiti, Spring 2013. Featured on Openstreetmap.org
View the 2012 Cleveland Photography Society Scavenger Hunt Map - code
Given 125 small photos, participants sought to replicate each photo in Downtown Cleveland. This map reveals where the all 125 photos were taken. Made in late 2012. Made with Imposm, Tilemill, and mapbox.js.
All maps feature data from © OpenStreetMap contributors