Heatmaps of my time spent in various cities.
A collection of software and reference material that I’ve found useful for GPS logging and cartography.
A portfolio of maps I’ve created.
Driving Log
Since 2010, I’ve kept maps of everywhere I drive.
Enclosed Mall Map
About the Enclosed Mall Map
An interactive map of shopping malls that I’ve visited.
Flight Density Map
About the Flight Density Map
An interactive map of the flight routes I fly the most often.
Flight Historian
I travel reasonably often, and I consider myself a bit of a transportation nerd. It’s only logical that I would keep track of where I’ve flown.
One Hundred Airports
Since Altus doesn’t have its own airport, I have to drive a ways no matter where I fly. I decided to try flying into Amarillo for one of my trips.
Lubbock’s curved terminal and prominent concrete gave it a vibe of a miniature version of DFW’s Terminal C.
PAX
Maps created for PAX conventions I’ve attended.
Posts
31 Dec 2013 · The end of 2013 is here, which seems like a perfect time to summarize my flight activity over the last year.
31 Dec 2014 · 2014 has been a record travel year.
31 Dec 2015 · 2015 was a relatively strong year for me for business travel, with the first and last thirds of the year being particularly busy. Due to that, my total flights and hotel nights just edged above 2014’s numbers, for another record year.
31 Dec 2016 · Overall, my travel increased slightly this year. Unlike in 2015, my travel was relatively evenly spread throughout the year.
31 Dec 2017 · My 2017 travel statistics.
31 Dec 2018 · A summary of my 2018 hotels, flights, and driving.
31 Dec 2019 · My travel statistics for 2019.
31 Dec 2020 · My travel statistics for 2020. For obvious reasons, travel has been substantially lower than in recent years.
31 Dec 2021 · My travel statistics for 2021.
31 Dec 2022 · This year I spent 97 nights traveling, visited my 100th airport, flew 74 times (including my 1000th flight), and had some issues with rental cars.
31 Dec 2023 · I spent 87 nights traveling this year, picked up ten new airports, visited Iceland and Japan, and drove a go-kart through the streets of Naha.
31 Dec 2024 · In 2024, I earned my first lifetime status, visited 21 states, and drove on the lowest road in North America.
1 Jan 2020 · My maps, charts, and other travel statistics for the entire decade of the 2010s.
1 Mar 2025 · All February 2025 flights to or from Dayton, Ohio (DAY/KDAY).
25 Sep 2020 · Ever since I learned how to make heatmaps, I’ve wanted to track everywhere I go within a city I’m visiting on a given trip. I did so this weekend for a Cincinnati staycation.
15 Jan 2021 · Using a gravity metaphor, I calculated the U.S. cities with the most attraction from my hometown based on population and distance.
1 Jan 2021 · On average, I’m furthest from home in mid-February each year.
29 Oct 2022 · Maps showing how often I’ve driven in various places.
7 Jul 2024 · Maps of small airports which only connect through a single hub.
19 Sep 2020 · The geocaching game Ingress has been a great way to explore new cities when traveling, and it gave me the opportunity to create some maps as well.
21 Apr 2018 · A visual representation of major cross-country interstate highways on a grid, inspired by Cameron Booth’s “Interstate Highways as a Subway Map.”
7 Feb 2019 · Using math to figure out which of my layovers were the most out of the way relative to the net distance traveled.
20 Jul 2018 · After a trip to Nashville, I realized that the city’s central freeways mostly intersect at Y-intersections. That meant that I could draw Nashville’s freeways on a hexagonal grid.
31 Jan 2023 · Travel stats and photos for my January 2023 vacation, including the TWA hotel, Reykjavík, Akureyri, and mall cats.
4 Jul 2016 · In the summer of 2016, I visited every one of Ohio’s 88 counties.
15 Jun 2017 · PAX West spreads out beyond the Washington State Convention Center into many downtown Seattle event spaces. I created a map of convention venues and affiliated hotels.
8 Sep 2022 · A map of Seattle-area places I visited during the weekend of PAX West 2022.
4 Dec 2022 · A size comparison of the Seattle Convention Center (Seattle, Washington) and the Orange County Convention Center (Orlando, Florida).
2 Sep 2021 · A heatmap of where Paul spent time on a September 2021 trip to Seattle.
26 Apr 2020 · For my 2010s Decade in Travel post, I manually created a heatmap showing the parts of the United States and world where I’d spent the most time traveling. Since I’ve been playing around with QGIS recently, I went ahead and used it to create a proper heatmap of my travels.
18 Jan 2020 · Map of U.S. airports with or without a gate 13.