Hello. My name is Andy. I live in the Boston, Massachusetts area and I make maps. I'm available for hireā€”get in touch if you need a map!

Formerly with Axis Maps

@awoodruff

@awoodruff@mapstodon.space

@awoodruff_maps

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My blog (personal projects)

Bostonography

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Talks and tutorials

awoodruff@gmail.com

Prints for sale

My modest online shop. More coming soon!

Eclipse 2024 map

A scrolling map following the path of the April 2024 eclipse across North America

Solo project just for kicks

30 Day Map Challenge 2023

Some favorites from a month of making a map each day

Solo project just for kicks

Leventhal Map Center Designer In Residence

Maps related to "urban atlases" made during my time as Designer-in-Residence with the Leventhal Map and Education Center

Solo project as a guest of the Leventhal Map and Education Center

White Mountains "National Park" map

A map of the White Mountains in the style of US National Parks visitor maps

Solo project just for fun

Flowing terrain maps

Stylized, feathery terrain maps that seem to show flows through the landscape.

Solo project just for fun

Daylight Saving Time maps

Interactive exploration of how Daylight Saving Time and time zones affect sunrise and sunset.

Solo project just for fun

Healthy Places Index

A public health atlas of California offering deep exploration of numerous health indicators and/or custom scores, at many levels of geography.

Team project with Axis Maps for the Public Health Alliance of Southern California

Beyond the Sea Interactive

An interactive version of the “Beyond the Sea” maps, showing straight-line paths across the oceans.

Solo project just for fun

Beyond the Sea

What's really across the ocean when you look straight out? Straight lines on a round world don't always go where you might expect.

Solo project just for fun

Contour map generator

A web map tool for generating, styling, and downloading elevation contours for anywhere in the world.

Solo project for Axis Maps. Read more about this project

Eruptions, Earthquakes, & Emissions

An animated map of 250K earthquakes and volcanic eruptions since 1960, for the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History.

Team project with Axis Maps for the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History

Rotavirus Visualization

Animated, interactive map of uptake in rotavirus vaccines in the United States, from millions of weekly data points.

Team project with Axis Maps for Merck. Read more about this project

“We Are One” touchscreen maps

Touchscreen browsers for an exhibition of historic maps at the Boston Public Library.

Team project with Axis Maps for the Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at the Boston Public Library. Read more about this project

Typographic Maps

Detailed city maps made solely with type. Buy a poster or mug or something, won't you?

Solo project originally, then team business endeavor for Axis Maps

Napa Valley Wineries Map

Explore Napa Valley Wineries and build a trip itinerary.

Team project with Axis Maps for Napa Valley Vintners. Read more about this project

Bostonography

An ongoing collection and blog of occasional cartographic looks at life and land in the Boston area.

Collaboration with Tim Wallace
DIY Hillshade

DIY Hillshade

Working through how to render shaded relief with JavaScript.

Global pollution map

Pollution.org

Global map of water/air quality, contaminated sites, pollution-linked deaths, and user-reported stories.

East India Company trade visualization

East India Company Visualization

Interactive maps and charts tell the history of commodities imported and exported by the East India Company.

Geography of Jobs

Geography of Jobs

Animated map of 15 years of job gains and losses.

NBA shot charts

Interactive NBA charts

Interactive charts for Kirk Goldsberry's Grantland article on top NBA shooters and scorers.

Flowing terrain maps

Animated flowing terrain maps

More experiments in canvas-based terrain mapping, finding and animating hypothetical drainage.

Sketchy relief maps

Sketchy relief maps

An attempt at hachure maps went off the rails but ended up being kind of pretty.

Jamaican Slave Revolt

Jamaican Slave Revolt Map

Animated interactive map of the slave rebellion in Jamaica of 1760–1761.
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MBTA bus speed map

MBTA bus speed maps

Bus locations and speeds in the Boston area over time: live maps and 24 hour composites.

Crowdsourced neighborhood boundaries

Crowdsourced neighborhoods

Collecting and analyzing opinions on neighborhood boundaries in the Boston area.
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ColorBrewer

ColorBrewer

Cynthia Brewer's work on color schemes for maps. We at Axis Maps built and maintain the current version of the tool.

AskCHIS NE

AskCHIS NE

Dashboard for exploring, comparing, and visualizing various California health estimates.
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Gas Leaks Map

Natural Gas Leaks Map

An interactive site explaining and highlighting natural gas infrastructure problems in Massachusetts.

Illinois Public Health Community Map

Illinois Public Health Map

Interactive map of Illinois public health data.

ClimateCommons map

Climate Commons

Aggregates news stories related to climate change in the US, alongside some pertinent geographic data.

Global Commodities Prices

Global Commodity Prices

A visualization of prices for 400 commodities across 245 different markets and some 1000 years of history.

Hubway trip explorer

Hubway Trip Explorer

View trip patterns to and from stations in Boston's Hubway bicycle-sharing program based on a variety of filters.

Why Not The Best?

"Why Not The Best?" Map

Interactive map showig quality-of-health-care data across various measures and scales in the US.

ideas

Boston Globe Features

Five map features I've done for the wonderful Ideas section of the Boston Sunday Globe.

Boston's summer colors

Boston's Summer Colors

Dominant hues of some 50,000 geotagged photos in the central Boston area during summer months.

nyt sept 11 map

NY Times September 11 Map

User-shared memories of 9/11. Map is defunct now, but hey, gotta show off my one NYT collaboration!

MAPC basemap

MAPC basemap

A general-purpose Massachusetts basemap for a regional planning agency.

Hubway trip explorer

Hubway Snapshots

A few infographics to pluck out some interesting bits of information from the Hubway bike-share data.

indiemapper

indiemapper

Web-based thematic cartography application.
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Boston Squared

Boston Squared

A celebration of the unique shapes of Boston's so-called "squares."

Ohio is a Piano

Ohio is a Piano

88 counties, 88 keys on a standard piano. Data becomes music!

2008 election map

2008 election map

My first experiment with what we later called a "value-by-alpha" map, as an alternative to election cartograms.

Lakeshore Nature Preserve

Lakeshore Nature Preserve Map

Interactive exploratory map of natural areas on UW-Madison's campus.

UW Online Campus Map

UW Online Campus Map

A prior version of the University of Wisconsin-Madison's web map. It's gone now, but I totally worked on it.

Cincinnati Roads

Cincinnati Roads

From the days before Google Maps: an interactive map viewer for dash-cam videos of Cincinnati streets.

Cincinnati Subway

Cincinnati Subway

A cartographic overview of the abandoned Cincinnati subway project of the 1920s.

Molokai

Molokai shaded relief

Fun with shaded relief in Photoshop, based on Tom Patterson's old tutorials.