Delicious depictions

Food stylist Caitlin Levin and photographer Henry Hargreaves have collaborated on a series of food-based country maps composed of signature national ingredients. The typography is by Sarit Melmed.
























Food Maps from Kiwi and Eagle on Vimeo.

Rapped up

This isn't the first GIS-themed rap I've posted. Unfortunately I suspect it won't be the last.  It premiered at the 2013 New Zealand ESRI User Group Conference by the company Interpret Geospatial Solutions:

Build the Lego world

Here's a treat for animated map Thursday: Google and Lego have released a new tool called "Build" that allows users to pick a place on the planet and build something there with Legos. It's a virtual environment, and the brick choices are a tad limited.... and it only works for Australia and New Zealand for now. But neat, eh?

New Zealand ... for realsies?

Here's a recent episode of the Sheldon webcomic by Dave Kellet that features New Zealand

Animated Christchurch Earthquake Map

For Animated Map Thursdays this week we're almost topical.  This isn't a cartoon, per say, but it is an awesome interactive animated map of the quakes that hit Christchurch New Zealand since September of last year. And it covers the smaller-magnitude-but-deadlier quake earlier this week.  This was created by Paul Nicholls of the University of Canterbury's Digital Media Group in Christchurch, New Zealand.The data he used is effectively the same as the data available from the USGS' Earthquake map, but the USGS' site isn't animated... yet. I do think it would be awesome if it were possible to do a cut-away view of this or any section of the Earth's surface to show the quakes hitting at depth instead of merely color-coding the depth on a 2D surface.

Here's the URL in case the link above doesn't cut it:
http://www.christchurchquakemap.co.nz/