Honeymoon Story Map

I've always loved the Esri Story Maps I've seen online. They're used as a visually focused and dynamic way of telling location driven stories. I made my first one of the honeymoon my husband and I took after our wedding because we traveled to a lot of different locations and I had a lot of good photos to use. It was a lot of fun and I'm excited to come up with ways to use Story Maps to deliver placed-based information and stories in the future.

United Birds of America

I've been learning to work with Ilustrator more and how shapefile data can translate in useful and fun ways from mapping software into visual editing software. I thought that my skill level in Photoshop would transfer seamlessly and although it's definitely helped, there's plenty of skills to learn that are different from Photoshop. I made this map of the US using each state's state bird plumage. I was surprised to learn that many states share the same state bird creating an interesting challenge for attempting visualize the same bird in different ways either by selecting a bird of the opposite gender, playing with scale, or selecting less glorified plumage.

New blog!

Welcome to my new blog! I have used the immense amount of time spent at home with the COVID-19 stay at home order to try and develop some new mapping/GIS/data visualization skills which I'll be sharing here. I have always loved maps as attested by this proclamation you'll see below, written by a 7 year old me.