My Google Analytics odometer ticked over last week and this humble blog has crossed the 1/2 million threshold after 2.5 years. Visitors have come from 211 ISO countries (I still don’t have any readers in Somalia or North Korea, la sigh). Can’t get enough geo, map, or design news? Check out my twitter channel @kelsosCorner. Want to share a link or your project? Email me: nathaniel@kelsocartography.com.
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500,000 views in 2.5 years
Tuesday, April 20th, 2010Meet Map Practical, a new carto blog
Tuesday, February 9th, 2010Kevin McManigal (also of Adventure Cycling) is teaching intro to cartography in Montana and has a new blog focused on getting into mapping. First posts focus on Google My Maps, Vector versus Raster, and Purpose and Audience.
Welcome to Map Practical, where the cartography gets done. These are the cartographic trenches, the domain of greasy hands, busted knuckles, and sore mouse fingers. This is the home of techniques, tutorials, and tricks of all things map. Here’s how we do it; your job is to make it look good!
Are you a cartographer or studying to be one? How many tricks have you found that slipped your memory and had to be re-learned? How many hours have you spent on Google looking for that long lost tutorial? Thinking back on my first mapping class, there were so many things that I figured out by trial and error, blindly groping for the right keywords in “Help.†There has to be a better way!So, here I am teaching cartography now and thought, “What if all those tips could be in one convenient place?†Well here it is, Map Practical! This will be an ongoing process; a tip a week, a link here, a comment there, and a video tutorial when I find the time. After a semester or two it should be a good resource.
Please contribute, and it will only get better.
Thanks, Kevin
Adding Ads to Kelso’s Corner
Friday, May 15th, 2009Today, I introduce an image ad at the top of my blog. Am I going to make millions from this ad? Probably not. Will I find it annoying, yes. Will the new ad drive you away? Hopefully not. I’ve had text ads in my sidebar for 2 months now and I’ve made a whopping $10.91. At that rate I’ll get my first Google AdWords check in 2010 as they don’t even pay till you reach a minimum amount. Like the existing text ad, I’m curious to explore the intersection of journalism, niche publishing (blogging), and advertising. This blog consistently gets 1,000 page views a day. My goal with the ads remains to simply break even on hosting and promotion costs. As it stands, $10.91 doesn’t even buy a movie ticket in Washington, DC.
Grain Edit Graphics Design Blog
Wednesday, March 25th, 2009
[Editor’s note: Fun site to get inspiration. Thanks KL!]
Grain Edit is a blog focused on classic design work from the 1950s-1970s and contemporary designers that draw inspiration from that time period. Site content includes interviews, articles, designers’ libraries as well as examples of rare design annuals, type specimens, Ephemera, posters and vintage kids books from our bookshelves. Brought to us by: Dave Cuzner – Founder and Senior Editor, Ethan Davis- Editor, Grace Danico – Editor. Grain Edit is based in Oakland, California.
Tóth Graphix Blog
Wednesday, March 4th, 2009
Tibor Tóth has been creating shaded relief maps (see examples below) for many years for National Geographic among others and has made himself a little blog talking about some of his projects to make the occasion of his seventy-second birthday.
Post topics include:
- RELIEF SHADING – Part 1. Including how Tibor got his start and Swiss style relief shading in the US
- RELIEF SHADING – Part 2. Tibor goes digital.
- OCEAN FLOOR RELIEF
- WHAT DOES THIS HAVE TO DO WITH RELIEF SHADING?
Continue reading to Tóth Graphix Blog . . .
Data Visualisation Blogs You Might Not Know About
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008This list is lifted straight from Tom Carden’s blog earlier this month (visit his post). Thanks Peter!
- http://infosthetics.com/
- http://flowingdata.com/
- http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/
- http://benfry.com/writing/
- http://www.formfollowsbehavior.com/
- http://dd.dynamicdiagrams.com/
- http://blog.many-eyes.com/
- http://datamining.typepad.com/data_mining/
- http://simplecomplexity.net/
- http://leebyron.com/how/
- http://eagereyes.org/
- http://accuracyandaesthetics.com/
- http://www.juiceanalytics.com/writing/
- http://diuf.unifr.ch/people/bertinie/visuale/
- http://well-formed-data.net/
- http://www.numberpix.com/
- http://www.mentegrafica.it/blog/
- http://junkcharts.typepad.com/junk_charts/
- http://informationandvisualization.de/
- http://designnotes.info/
- http://perceptualedge.com/blog/
- http://shiffman.net/
- http://abeautifulwww.com/
- http://makingmaps.wordpress.com/
- http://www.bestiario.org/blog/
- http://www.merl.net/
- http://www.neoformix.com/
- http://arbitrarian.wordpress.com/
- http://edwardtufte.com/
- http://blog.bissantz.com/
- http://complexdiagrams.com/
- http://www.tom-carden.co.uk/
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