Vancouver movies 7 September 2017 This guy explains it best: Vancouver never plays itself in movies. So who does Vancouver play? Mostly Seattle, apparently. But also Honduras, Las Vegas, Albany and Siberia, among other places. I took the data from Movie Maps, which has a fairly comprehensive list of every scene filmed in Vancouver. I have a series of YouTube videos where I go through how I made this map, from start to finish. ...
Development in Russia 23 April 2017 Версия на русском. Colorblind-friendly version. I got a hold of human development data for each Russian federal subject, contained in a report ( short version here) by Russia’s National Analytics Center. The report did have a map, but I didn’t particularly like how it was split between two PDF pages, let alone the wacky color scheme. Great opportunity to make a new and improved one! ...
US supermarket turf 14 March 2016 This is my final project for the Intermediate GIS class that I just finished. I’m just gonna dump everything into this post. Classifying and Understanding Spatial Distributions of U.S. Supermarket Chains INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND A common problem in retail is the infringement of certain stores upon the “turf” of an established chain—businesses seek to establish, and maintain, market dominance within a particular physical area. ...