Roman Roads of Italy
If you think this would make a cool poster, you can get a high-res, print-worthy PDF for $9! Versione italiana — Italian version It’s taken me almost a year to get around to doing this, but as promised, here is the transit-style map of the ancient Roman roads of Italy! The same caveats […]
Four possible outcomes in Korea
Written by Tim Koay The Panmunjom Declaration is an exciting step towards peace on the Korean peninsula—a goal many have worked hard towards across many decades. We have forecasted four scenarios of potential developments as a result of future summits, closed-door deliberations, and agreements. A realistic view of current developments would mean that the future […]
Reconstructing Kenmore, 1890
I wrote this short essay for a class called “History of Cartography”. Prof. Danzer thought I did a good job, so I decided to share it here. The area of modern-day Boston between Massachusetts Avenue and Kenmore Square has no common name, despite being one of the city’s most important transport nodes. Beacon Street, Commonwealth […]
Life expectancy in Russia
Click the images to get PNG versions. National overview As of 2017, life expectancy at birth in Russia is 72.5 years. This is quite an improvement over the mid 1990s, when life expectancy had fallen into the low 60s, on par with much less developed countries like Sudan and Pakistan. And, for the first time, […]
Europe and Mankind—English translation
This is currently unfinished, but I want the public to be able to see the sections that I have translated so far. Europe and Mankind is an interesting essay written by Nikolai Sergeyevich Trubetzkoy (1890–1938), who happens to be a first cousin thrice removed. He was primarily a linguist, but occasionally wrote on historical and […]
Printable United States map
This is a general-purpose map of the United States, designed from the bottom up to be printable by everyone, and to look great on the humble 8.5 x 11 paper. When making maps, or just looking at data, I do a lot of sketching. I usually Google Image search some kind of basemap, and scribble […]
What if China falls apart?
I am not an expert on China or its government. I am just a casual observer with some knowledge of what happened in the USSR, and I saw some parallels that I wanted to explore, just as a thought experiment. Design shamelessly based on a great Nat Geo map hanging in my room. China is […]
France has shrunk
This is a map I made for Catholic GIS, a great organization that I worked for a couple years back. My content was never published, so I’m sharing it now here. Earlier I saw Émile Cheysson’s groundbreaking 1888 visualization, titled Accélération des voyages en France. Cheysson saw that as travel improved over the last 200 […]
US state adjacency in python
I’m working on a small project that tries to pair up US states with their twins. I was doing this in python, and needed an adjacency “matrix” but couldn’t find a good one anywhere. Here is what I made, should be self explanatory. Putting this out there to save other people some time!
List of Western countries
There is no single definition of what the West is, so the list of countries changes depending on context. The different contexts are outlined in this Wikipedia article. Since people are now visiting this page more frequently, I will present three definitions, which people can use depending on context: The Latin West (cultural definition) – […]
