{"id":816,"date":"2012-01-27T23:13:20","date_gmt":"2012-01-27T22:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/visurus.wordpress.com\/?p=816"},"modified":"2013-12-10T10:52:33","modified_gmt":"2013-12-10T10:52:33","slug":"interactive-zipscribble-maps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/2012\/01\/interactive-zipscribble-maps\/","title":{"rendered":"Interactive ZIPScribble Maps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have made various ZIPScribble Maps \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/visurus.wordpress.com\/2011\/10\/27\/zipscribble-map-switzerland-%e2%80%93-part-ii\">Switzerland<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/visurus.wordpress.com\/2011\/11\/22\/zipscribble-map-germany\">Germany<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/visurus.wordpress.com\/2011\/11\/22\/zipscribble-map-france\">France<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/visurus.wordpress.com\/2011\/11\/19\/zipscribble-map-italy\">Italy<\/a> \u2013 as well as\u00a0a <a href=\"http:\/\/visurus.wordpress.com\/2011\/10\/16\/zipscribble-map-switzerland-%e2%80%93-part-i\">two-part<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/visurus.wordpress.com\/2011\/10\/27\/zipscribble-map-switzerland-%e2%80%93-part-ii\">tutorial<\/a> on how to produce them using Geonames data, TileMill basemaps and Processing as visualization environment.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_713\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-713\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/postalcodesit_level3_dark_it1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-713\" title=\"Visurus: ZIPScribble Map Italy Level 3, alla Italiana\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/postalcodesit_level3_dark_it1.png\" width=\"640\" height=\"819\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-713\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Visurus: ZIPScribble Map Italy Level 3, alla Italiana<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Those were inspired by the original ZIPScribble Maps by Robert Kosara. He&#8217;s back with <a href=\"http:\/\/eagereyes.org\/zipscribble-maps\/interactive-zipscribble-map\">an interactive version of many ZIPScribble Maps<\/a> (interactive in this context meaning that you can pan and zoom the map).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_817\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-817\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/eagereyes.org\/zipscribble-maps\/interactive-zipscribble-map\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-817 \" title=\"Robert Kosara: Interactive ZIPScribble Maps of various countries\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/kosara_interactive_zipscribble.png\" width=\"640\" height=\"475\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/kosara_interactive_zipscribble.png 648w, https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/kosara_interactive_zipscribble-300x222.png 300w, https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/kosara_interactive_zipscribble-624x463.png 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-817\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robert Kosara: Interactive ZIPScribble Maps of various countries<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Unlike the earlier, non-interactive version, the new maps are built using\u00a0Polymaps and\u00a0employ Geonames datasets like my ZIPScribble Maps. In the case of Switzerland the latter improves the quality of the map considerably. Like in the earlier versions, the interactive maps can also be coloured by state or administrative region. Thus, these ZIPScribble maps deviate from other implementations (including mine) which use the actual post codes to colour the ZIPScribbles (and in that way try to elucidate the numerical pattern of post codes of a country).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have made various ZIPScribble Maps \u2013 Switzerland, Germany, France, Italy \u2013 as well as\u00a0a two-part tutorial on how to produce them using Geonames data, TileMill basemaps and Processing as visualization environment. Those were inspired by the original ZIPScribble Maps by Robert Kosara. He&#8217;s back with an interactive version of many ZIPScribble Maps (interactive in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/2012\/01\/interactive-zipscribble-maps\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Interactive ZIPScribble Maps<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":817,"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":"Interactive ZIPScribble Maps","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[51,52,85,125,133,134],"class_list":["post-816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-note","tag-fun","tag-geo","tag-play","tag-visualization","tag-zip-codes","tag-zipscribblemap"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/kosara_interactive_zipscribble.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pPwF-da","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816","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=816"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1470,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816\/revisions\/1470"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}