I am trained in cartography within the Department of Geography at UW-Madison under Prof. Mark Harrower and a handful of other talented map geeks. These skills include:
- using geographical reference information and GIS applications to generate basemaps
- gathering and creating geographical data to build thematic maps
- applying graphic design principles to improve the aesthetics and readability of maps, and
- employing programming languages and data structures to serve up maps online .
Maps
Animated and Interactive web maps (requires Flash):
Animated and Interactive Flight Map (lab #1 for Geog 575)
Animatedand Interactive Farm Map (lab #2 for Geog 575)
Animated and Interactive Flood Map (lab #3 for Geog 575)
Advanced Maps:
A map of the ancient world as known to Ptolemy.
A map of New Orleans flood extent.
A tourist map of Madison.
A map of Geologic Bedrock in Wisconsin.
A map of landuse in Sweden.
Basic static maps:
Below are basic maps I produced within the Introductory Cartography: Geog 370 course (PDFs):
- My first map! A basic map of colorado.
- A map of four map projections.
- A map for displaying the Andies Mountains using an Albers equal area conic map projection.
- A map of the world using a Winkel Tripel map projection.
- A map of Antarctica using a stereographic map projection.
- A map for displaying Dane County Regional Airport using an azimuthal equadistant map projection.
- A map for displaying the spread of pollution through eastern Europe using an Ablers equal area conic map projection.
- A carefully labeled map of Europe (this one took hours!).
- A choropleth map of Chicago Income levels.
- A proportional symbol map of minority populations in Canada.
- A dot-density map of population in America's midwest.
- An isoline map of temperature variation in North America.
- My final project: a map showing differences between minority and non-minority representation in science fields for the Wisconsin Alliance for Minority Representation (WiscAMP).
