Bill MorrisAll the Takes You’re About to See on the NYC-Snapchat Map VandalismThat’s right folks, it happened - an OpenStreetMap vandal made it to prime time:Aug 30, 2018Aug 30, 2018
Bill MorrisA true mapMany an earnest cartographer/journalist/opinion-holder is currently debating — with varying degrees of condescension — the utility of the…Jul 28, 2018Jul 28, 2018
Bill MorrisBonten Poad: Generating fake Vermont placenames with a neural networkY’all, we’ve entered a computing epoch when AI is available to us at nearly the level of commodity entertainment. Take this experiment in…Jul 20, 2017Jul 20, 2017
Bill MorrisinPlanet StoriesDrawing the planet in brushstrokesTo take my mind off certain things, I’ve been experimenting with a novel style of cartography: cubism.Nov 11, 20161Nov 11, 20161
Bill MorrisPutting the Clinton campaign on the mapEverything happens somewhere. In the home stretch of this epic presidential campaign season, location awareness can impact the razor-thin…Oct 25, 2016Oct 25, 2016
Bill MorrisSuperblocks for a small cityBernie Sanders’ hometown of Burlington, VT is tiny: just 200k people in the metro area. Barcelona, on the other hand, clocks in at 4.7…Aug 11, 2016Aug 11, 2016
Bill MorrisFrom AboveOn a plain in western Kenya, mesquite trees flourish where a river spills out of the mountains. Introduced from North America, mesquite has…Apr 1, 2016Apr 1, 2016
Bill MorrisBetter friendships through mapping technologyI have trouble getting together with friends these days. I’m not alone in this — distance is a surprising obstacle to maintaining…Dec 11, 2015Dec 11, 2015