{"id":2009,"date":"2016-01-07T17:47:49","date_gmt":"2016-01-07T17:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/?p=2009"},"modified":"2016-01-07T17:52:24","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T17:52:24","slug":"switzerland-tile-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/2016\/01\/switzerland-tile-map\/","title":{"rendered":"Switzerland tile map"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Blogpost auf Deutsch unter www.geo.ebp.ch<\/a>)<\/p>\n

I believe in abstraction for conveying information, or ‘rough’ context for information, efficiently. Since a while, hex and square tile maps are all the rage in the US. Check out this post by the npr visuals team on the technique<\/a>, with some US examples:<\/p>\n

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A hexagon tile grid, square tile grid and geographic choropleth map. Maps by Danny DeBelius and Alyson Hurt. (from npr)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

An even greater example (imo) comes from After the Flood<\/a>: the London Square Map<\/a>. There’s also a fantastic write-up about it<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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London Square Map example with overlaid bar charts (from After the Flood)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

With these examples and some experiments by Adi Herzog<\/a> and Yves Maurer<\/a> in mind, I finished my attempt at a square tile map of Switzerland:<\/p>\n

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Switzerland tile map overlaid on traditional map<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

(Side-note: As you can see, Switzerland has this peculiar concept of half-cantons<\/a>, that’s what the triangular shapes are)<\/p>\n

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Example visualisation of a historic vote using the tile map<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I put a shapefile, an svg file and an ArcGIS project file on GitHub<\/a>. Feel free to use any of these resources, cc-by license applicable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Blogpost auf Deutsch unter www.geo.ebp.ch) I believe in abstraction for conveying information, or ‘rough’ context for information, efficiently. Since a while, hex and square tile maps are all the rage in the US. Check out this post by the npr visuals team on the technique, with some US examples: An even greater example (imo) comes … Continue reading Switzerland tile map<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2013,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[137,23,141,52,125],"class_list":["post-2009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-piece","tag-cartogram","tag-cartography","tag-ddj","tag-geo","tag-visualization"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Square-tile-map-Switzerland-example-viz.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pPwF-wp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2009"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2015,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009\/revisions\/2015"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}