24 January 2023
About ten years into his profession as a digital cartographer Robert Szucs determined to experiment with information visualization and realized learn how to create strikingly stunning, digitally correct maps. He calls it “Maps Reimagined” and explains,
Whereas my maps are at all times scientifically correct, I consider them initially as artistic endeavors.
The watershed maps turned an Web sensation by way of digital gross sales on Etsy and information retailers together with the Washington Submit and Smithsonian Journal.
His U.S. watershed map is so detailed which you could pinpoint Pittsburgh within the Mississippi watershed on the conjunction of the Allegheny, Monongahela and Ohio Rivers.
Szucs has additionally produced collections of elevation, forest and human inhabitants maps.
There got here a degree once I stated I can’t take a look at one other green-brown-white elevation map once more. I wanted some enjoyable. I wanted colors. And for not the primary or final time, I wanted to create the maps I wished to see.
This one is beautiful.
Cling a reimagined map in your wall. Go to GrasshopperGeography.com for printed copies or grasshoppergeography.etsy.com for digital downloads (you print them your self).