Tag: maps

Beavercreek Bathrooms

Playing around with county parcel data to create maps of questionable usefulness.

City Population Gravity

Using a gravity metaphor, I calculated the U.S. cities with the most attraction from my hometown based on population and distance.

CONUS ZIP Codes

A map showing the progression of ZIP Codes throughout the contiguous United States.

Driving Density Maps

Maps showing how often I’ve driven in various places.

Ingress Mosaic Maps

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.

Interstate Grid

A visual representation of major cross-country interstate highways on a grid, inspired by Cameron Booth’s “Interstate Highways as a Subway Map.”

Mapping Resources

A collection of software and reference material that I’ve found useful for GPS logging and cartography.

Maps

A portfolio of maps I’ve created.

Nashville Hex

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.

Ohio County Courthouses

In the summer of 2016, I visited every one of Ohio’s 88 counties.

Travel Heatmap

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.

Unlucky Gate 13

Map of U.S. airports with or without a gate 13.

City Heatmaps

Cincinnati Heatmap

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.

City Heatmaps

Heatmaps of my time spent in various cities.

Seattle Heatmap

A heatmap of where Paul spent time on a September 2021 trip to Seattle.

Driving Log

Driving Log

Since 2010, I’ve kept maps of everywhere I drive.

Enclosed Mall Map

About the Enclosed Mall Map

About the Enclosed Mall Map

Enclosed Mall Map

An interactive map of shopping malls that I’ve visited.

Flight Density Map

About the Flight Density Map

About the Flight Density Map

Flight Density Map

An interactive map of the flight routes I fly the most often.

Flight Historian

A History of 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

Amarillo (AMA)

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 (LBB)

Lubbock’s curved terminal and prominent concrete gave it a vibe of a miniature version of DFW’s Terminal C.

PAX

PAX Maps

Maps created for PAX conventions I’ve attended.

PAX West 2016 Area Map

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.

PAX West 2022

A map of Seattle-area places I visited during the weekend of PAX West 2022.

Posts

2013 Year in Travel

31 Dec 2013 · The end of 2013 is here, which seems like a perfect time to summarize my flight activity over the last year.

2014 Year in Travel

31 Dec 2014 · 2014 has been a record travel year.

2015 Year in Travel

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.

2016 Year in Travel

31 Dec 2016 · Overall, my travel increased slightly this year. Unlike in 2015, my travel was relatively evenly spread throughout the year.

2017 Year in Travel

31 Dec 2017 · My 2017 travel statistics.

2018 Year in Travel

31 Dec 2018 · A summary of my 2018 hotels, flights, and driving.

2019 Year in Travel

31 Dec 2019 · My travel statistics for 2019.

2020 Year in Travel

31 Dec 2020 · My travel statistics for 2020. For obvious reasons, travel has been substantially lower than in recent years.

2021 Year in Travel

31 Dec 2021 · My travel statistics for 2021.

2022 Year in Travel

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.

2023 Year in Travel

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.

A Decade in Travel: 2010–2019

1 Jan 2020 · My maps, charts, and other travel statistics for the entire decade of the 2010s.

Distance From Home by Day

1 Jan 2021 · On average, I’m furthest from home in mid-February each year.

My “Worst” Layovers

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.

New York, D.C., and Iceland

31 Jan 2023 · Travel stats and photos for my January 2023 vacation, including the TWA hotel, Reykjavík, Akureyri, and mall cats.

SCC vs. OCCC Size Comparison

4 Dec 2022 · A size comparison of the Seattle Convention Center (Seattle, Washington) and the Orange County Convention Center (Orlando, Florida).