New Honey Volition Tear These Maps Apart

Peter Saville's pattern for the sleeve of Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures album is i of the almost loved examples of music encompass art. The white on dark lines of the album encompass were inspired yesteryear an picture of radio pulsar waves.

This iconic pattern has similar a shot dice i of the biggest influences on map design. Mapbox are the latest cartographers to accept inspiration from Peter Saville's design. San Francisco Terrain visualizes the topography in addition to contours of San Francisco amongst acme beingness shown on the map yesteryear a serial of dark lines on a white background.


Elevation Lines is a Leaflet map which too takes inspiration from the Unknown Pleasures album inwards its design. The map too visualizes elevation information every bit a serial of vertical lines, presenting a global stance of elevation data. With Elevation Lines y'all tin fifty-fifty click on the map to add together a profile path betwixt whatever ii points.


This Worldwide Population map too owes pattern inspiration to Joy Division's iconic album cover. The map uses d3.js to exercise a map of the globe which represents population density yesteryear latitude.

The map uses population information from NASA. You tin select to stance the population densities for a discover of unlike years, which way that y'all tin stance how the global population has changed over the final xx years. The map was inspired yesteryear James Cheshire’s Population Lines. If y'all notice this population visualization every bit beautiful every bit I exercise y'all tin purchase prints of James' map from his website.

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