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Not making much of pitch data #56

Open gingerhitch opened 7 years ago

gingerhitch commented 7 years ago

From SC - Not making much of pitch data.

Pitch data (in a heat map!!!!!) looks good - how can we get this in the map

dbauszus-glx commented 7 years ago

Heat maps are crap... There is a reason why not a single heatmap made it into the top 15 of best maps for 2016 according to national geographic. I think you tweeted that article yourself.

I agree that we don't do much with the pitch data. The problem is that the data is in poor format. You don't reproject data for the presentation but we need to generate the data in a good grid from the beginning. And then I can to do something like this...

https://adventuresinmapping.com/2016/07/12/five-years-of-drought/

Even the legend is gorgeous.

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dbauszus-glx commented 7 years ago

WOW... that guys raised the bar, or even the theme. Lifting the data layer looks amazing. I am officially in love with this legend.

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gingerhitch commented 7 years ago

one for the to do list!