Map Club — Cartogram Hexmaps with Tilegrams

The latest session of Map Club took a data journalism bent: last Friday, we focused on creating cartogram hexmaps with Tilegrams, a generator by data visualization studio Pitch Interactive. The tool enables users to quickly create proportionate hex-based maps of the United States using custom or built-in data, and export generated maps to both SVG and topojson. Tilegrams provides […]

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Map Club — Simple Maps with geojson.io

Map Club spent last Friday’s session exploring geojson.io, a simple, open-source editor for map data. geojson.io seeks to be a quick tool for creating, viewing, and sharing maps. Compatible with a number of different data formats, the interface of the tool offers basic styling functionality, as well as enables Github users to turn any map into a shareable secret Gist for […]

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