This is a fascinating way to explore time and place—a spyglass view of hundred year old maps overlaid on the digital maps of today.
This project, based on OpenStreetMap, looks great:
OpenFreeMap lets you display custom maps on your website and apps for free.
You can either self-host or use our public instance.
I’m going to try it out on The Session once there’s documentation for using this with Leaflet.
This is kind of about art direction and kind of about design systems.
There is beauty in trying to express something specific; there is beauty too in finding compromises to create something epic and collective.
My only concern is whether we are considering the question at all.
There are some beautiful illustrations in this online exhibition of data visualisation in the past few hundred years.
Robin Hawkes has made a lovely website to go with his newsletter all about maps and spatial goodies.
Well, this is a rather wonderful mashup made with data from thesession.org:
The distribution of Irish traditional tunes which reference place names in Ireland