Xkcd Cartography

XKCD #2067 2018 Midterm Challengers is an interactive map of all the challengers inwards the 2018 midterm election. The size of the politicians' names on the map is determined yesteryear the importance of the purpose as well as the challenger's chances of success.

If you lot click on a challenger's get upward on the map you lot tin watch the candidate's website. You tin likewise click on place-names on the map to persuasion a location's Wikipedia page. The place-name information on the map has been sourced from Wikipedia. This makes for some interesting place-names, for illustration in that location is a house called 'Port Chicago Disaster' inwards Sacramento, a '1951 NFL Championship Game' inwards Los Angeles as well as a 'Death of John Lennon' inwards New York.

Despite these foreign results from Wikipedia the map is however a corking visualization of the most of import races inwards adjacent week's election.

This isn't Randall Munroe's commencement corporation into mapping on XKCD. In fact XKCD is required reading for all students of cartography. It tin learn you lot close Map Projections

XKCD tin learn you lot why America's Favorite Halloween Candy map is rubbish (XKCD: State Word).

XKCD likewise has an of import lesson on why normalizing your information is real of import (XKCD Heatmap).


XKCD #1110 Click & Drag isn't a map but the final frame does resemble an interactive map inwards as well as then far equally you lot tin click & drag the frame but about similar a slippy map. If you lot click on the final frame you lot tin notice a real huge the world lies beyond the frame's borders. In fact, thank you lot to dividuum, you lot tin genuinely explore this frame inwards a Leaflet powered interactive map.