Bill Morris·Aug 30, 2018All 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:
Bill Morris·Jul 28, 2018A true mapMany an earnest cartographer/journalist/opinion-holder is currently debating — with varying degrees of condescension — the utility of the…
Bill Morris·Jul 20, 2017Bonten 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…
InPlanet StoriesbyBill Morris·Nov 11, 2016Drawing the planet in brushstrokesTo take my mind off certain things, I’ve been experimenting with a novel style of cartography: cubism.A response icon1A response icon1
Bill Morris·Oct 25, 2016Putting 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…
Bill Morris·Aug 11, 2016Superblocks 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…
Bill Morris·Apr 1, 2016From AboveOn a plain in western Kenya, mesquite trees flourish where a river spills out of the mountains. Introduced from North America, mesquite has…
Bill Morris·Dec 11, 2015Better 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…
