30 Day Map Challenge 2023

Day 1 - Points - Devonian Reefs of Alberta.

Day 2 - Lines - Black Rock Mountain.

Day 3 - Polygons - Municipal Parks In Calgary.

Day 4 - A Bad Map - Non-normalized choropleth, poor fonts and use of red/green color scheme.

Day 5 - Analog Map - Hand drawn map of the megatliths of Easter island.

Day 6 - Asia - Nothing says Asia to me like the Mongol Empire, and so the Silk Road was a natural extension.

Day 7 - Navigation - A map about the navigational disaster of the Franklin Expedition.

Day 8 - Africa - Tracing the course of the Nile River.

Day 9 - Hexagons - Counting the number of development permits witihn Calgary, Alberta.

Day 10 - North America - A Bivariate look at % change of percipitation and rainfall, by province, in August between 1922 and 2022.

Day 11 - Retro - A map comparing the footprint of 1961 Calgary vs 2023 Calgary showing an increase of ~650km2.

Day 12 - South America - A map showing the last know location of Percy Fawcett as he looked for the lost city of "Z".

Day 13 - Choropleth - Word Inflation for the previous 12 months from the GlobalEconomy.com

Day 14 - Europe - Drought Impact across the European Union.

Day 15 - Open Street Maps - The Southern Alberta Institute of Technology.

Day 16 - Oceania - Recent volcanic eruptions in New Zealand.

Day 17 - Flow - Looking at traffic volume and traffic incidents in Calgary in 2019.

Day 18 - Atmosphere - A look at average rainfall from May to September in Calgary for 2023

Day 19 - 5 Minute Map - A map of population density in Canada from the 2021 census.

Day 20 - Outdoors - A map of the Weaselhead natural area in Calgary, AB.

Day 21 - Raster - An NDVI analysis of Calgary using Landsat 8 Data from September 2023

Day 22 - North is not always up.  A look at the sea ice extent in January across the north pole for a period of 30 years.

Day 23 - 3D - A viusalization of my day 2 map, Blackrock Moutain, as a 3d rendering.  QGIS and Blender were used for this one.

Day 24 - Black and White - A map using gray scale to show the population change in Canada between 2016 and 2021.

Day 25 - Antarctica - A map showing recordings of the major penguin genuses of Antarctica.

Day 26 - Minimal - A quick fun map of Canada.

Day 27 - Dot Density - Dwellings in Calgary from the 2019 Census

Day 28 - Chart or map? - A revisit of day 9, this time in 3d to mimic a bar chart.

Day 29 - Populaion - Percentage of houses supporting public schools via the Calgary census 2019

Day 30 - Favourite - Using LandSat data to invesitigate heat islands in Calgary.