PythonMaps
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Mapping the world with Python. Geospatial data scientist who likes maps. Contact adam@pythonmaps.com
Trying my hand at infographics. Mapping maritime choke points. Unfortunately the publicly available data used to produce this was recorded between 2015 and 2021 - Prior to the Houthis actions in the Red Sea and the war in Iran, which no doubt change this picture.
Fun concept, the distribution of elevation levels on the earths surface
Claude did 95% of the work on this. I've been resistant to the AI hype but it does certainly have its uses. Here is a map showing the status of the death penalty around the world
Made a roads map for another project. Thought I would share.
I created a global forest map showing how forests vary by climate zone - Added twist, 90% of the code + the following post was generated by Claude. 1/4 #Python #GIS #DataViz #Cartography #Forests
Running a little bit behind. Day 25 of the #30DayMapChallenge - Hexagons - I have used the @KonturInc population density hexagons to generate this population density map of Southern Asia
Day 24 of the #30DayMapChallenge - Places and their names - Here are the World's rivers with labels on some of the major ones.
Day 23 of the #30DayMapChallenge - Process - "Show how you make a map" - Well luckily, there is an entire book dedicated to how I make maps - get yours now locatepress.com/book/pymaps
Day 22 of the #30DayMapChallenge - Natural Earth Data. I used the Ocean Bottom layer to make a Bathymetry map of Northern Europe.
Day 21 of the #30DayMapChallenge - Icons - Use icons to highlight points of interest. Here are lighthouses of the Caribbean and Gulf of America. I used a few tricks to make the points look like they are shining out to sea.
Day 19 of the #30DayMapChallenge - Projections. Here are maps showing tropical storms using a number of different projections. We have the South Polar Stereo, the Robinson, the Lambert Conformal and finally I have included a shipping lanes map using the infamous Spilhaus projection.
Day 18 of the #30DayMapChallenge - Out of this World. Here is a topographical map of Mars. I have added some hill shading and used a colourmap that simulates an ocean, proportionally equal in size to Earths.
Day 17 of the #30DayMapChallenge - New tool. It has been on my radar for a while so I tried out datashader to visualise population density. These maps usually take minutes to render but with datashader it takes seconds.
Day 16 of the #30DayMapChallenge - Cell - Here is a map of Cell tower density in Europe. Clearly this is just a population density map but gotta follow the theme.
Day 13 of the #30DayMapChallenge — 10-minute map. Once I’ve made a particular type of map once, I can usually recreate it in about 10 minutes. This one’s a bivariate map — the style that probably took me the longest to learn the first time around. Rainfall vs Temperature in South America
Day 12 of the #30DayMapChallenge - Map from 2125 - I think Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland could merge into a new country. So here is a topography map.
Day 11 of the #30DayMapChallenge - Minimal - Population density of Egypt. This was always my preferred style but recently I caved to academics who wanted labels and keys 🤮. Glad to get back to basics.
Day 9 of the #30DayMapChallenge - Analog. Create your map using traditional methods. Obviously I am not going to stick to this. Frankly nothing is more traditional that Python so here is another map made with Python. Roads of the Roman Empire.
Day 8 of the #30DayMapChallenge Urban - Roads of the world. Couldn't think of anything more urban than roads.
Day 7 of the #30DayMapChallenge - Accessibility - "Visualize travel time, barriers....." - Here is a map showing nighttime lights in the Korean Peninsula. The border between North and South is visible from space.
Day 6 of the #30DayMapChallenge - Dimensions. A thread of a few maps that cross into the three dimensional world. Here is a 3D representation of the topography and bathymetry around Gibralta.
Day five of the #30DayMapChallenge - Earth. Soil moisture. Data comes from the TerraClimate project. I love this colourmap.
Day four of the #30DayMapChallenge - Data challenge: My Data. I made some historical geojsons of the Roman and Mongol empires. Accuracy is vaguely correct but the Mongol Empire does look a bit like a bear.
