https://www.rostrum.blog/tags/geospatial/ Recent content in Geospatial on rostrum.blog Hugo -- gohugo.io en-gb Sat, 22 May 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.rostrum.blog/2021/05/22/mission-across-iow/ Sat, 22 May 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.rostrum.blog/2021/05/22/mission-across-iow/ Isle of Wight, coloured off-white. tl;dr I used R to identify and map hazards on a potential straight-line walking route across the Isle of Wight, mimicking Tom ‘GeoWizard’ Davies’s ‘Mission Across’ series of YouTube videos. You can jump straight to the interactive map. GeoWizard Tom ‘GeoWizard’ Davies is perhaps best known for his YouTube channel, where he posts Twitch stream highlights of Geoguessr, a game where you pinpoint a randomised location based only Google StreetView. https://www.rostrum.blog/2020/11/21/president-tilegram/ Sat, 21 Nov 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.rostrum.blog/2020/11/21/president-tilegram/ tl;dr The {tilegramsR} package for R contains a geospatial object for mapping the US electoral college. I amended it for states that use the congressional district method and generated a minimalist map of the results for the 2020 US presidential election.1 Send a cartogram It’s usually best to scale subnational divisions by voter count when visualising election results. This is because election outcomes are decided by people, not land area.