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Monday, August 10, 2020

Making Map Quiz Infographics


Earlier this calendar month the Berliner Morgenpost posted an infographic of 12 Berlin place using OpenStreetMap edifice footprint data. It therefore asked its readers if they could advert the 12 locations based purely on these small-scale circular maps. Erkennen Sie function Gegend? includes 12 small-scale circular maps together with a clue to each location. If you lot demand a petty handle therefore the answers are given (upside down) at the bottom of the infographic.

The Berliner Morgenpost infographic was created using Hans Hack's Figuregrounder. Figuregrounder is a really slow to role tool which allows you lot to brand map posters for whatsoever place inwards the basis from OSM data. The posters are elementary circular edifice footprint maps. All the Berliner Morgenpost did was practise 12 of these small-scale circular maps together with pose them together to practise 1 infographic of 12 dissimilar Berlin locations.


Inspired yesteryear the Berliner Morgenpost's quiz I made a like quiz of 6 dissimilar London locations. Can you lot advert these half dozen locations based purely on their edifice footprints? If you lot are lost you lot tin persuasion the answers (upside down) at the bottom of my London Squares, Markets together with Circuses infographic.