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Map Cubes
Jared and Claire Erickson
CUGOS November 2014
Outline
• What are map cubes?
• Where to find them?
• How to make them?
• How do you make your own?
• What did we learn?
What are Map Cubes?
• Paper craft that you can cut out and assemble
• Map on a box
• Gnomonic Projection
• Displays all great circles as straight lines
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnomonic_projection
How do you make them?
• Find a map cube
• Print map cube out on card stock
• Cut it out
• Fold it
• Glue it
• Done!
Find a map cube
http://www.progonos.com/furuti/MapProj/Normal/ProjPoly/Foldout/foldout.html
Different Shapes
Cubes
Tetrahedron
Octahedron
Dodecahedron
Icosahedron
Truncated Octahedron
Truncated Icosahedron
Cuboctahedron
Rhombicuboctahedron
Rhombic Dodecahedron
Print it
Cut it out
Fold it
Glue it
Done!
Coloring
http://www.progonos.com/furuti/MapProj/Normal/ProjPoly/Foldout/Cube/Files/cbGn_pof-bw.pdf
Create your own world
Blank Template
http://www.progonos.com/furuti/MapProj/Normal/ProjPoly/Foldout/Cube/Files/Res3/cbBl.pdf
How do you make your own?
http://www.giss.nasa.gov/tools/gprojector/
G.Projector
Astrogeology Map Cubes
http://astrogeology.usgs.gov/tools/map
Find or Create a World Map
Mercury
Projection: EPSG:4326
Bounds: -180, -90, 180, 90
Open Map in G.Projector
File New With Import
Select Projection
Change Background
Color to White
Create Map
Save Map
File/Save/Map
Add Tabs
groovy tabs.groovy Mercury.png MercuryTabs.png
https://gist.github.com/jericks/fce52336bb9132ca084f
Tile Mill
https://gist.github.com/jericks/57ea9e7a8ba5ad1f43a0
MBTiles to Image using GeoScript
Earthquakes
https://gist.github.com/jericks/6a88422bcea5129f927e
Render Map in GeoScript
Stamen / OSM / MapQuest
https://gist.github.com/jericks/530a973f44af3947c04e
What did we learn?
• Making maps is fun!
• Projections
• Computers
• Coding
• Cartography
• Color Ramps
Thank you!

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