Ben Leamon
Hello and welcome! Projects related to programming and mapping.
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Map of Japan
For the third (and possibly final) in my series of illustrated maps for kids, I made a map of Japan. As always, the map includes plenty of hand-drawn illustrations, prefectural and city labels, and info panels for more detail.
Some of the illustrations I made for the map.
If you're interested in getting a copy of the map, please email me and we'll figure something out. If you're interested in the map-making process, read on!
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New Website!
This is the fourth iteration of this site. I'm not exactly sure, but I think I'm coming up on roughly six years of having this thing online. When I was writing the first version, hand-coding everything in HTML and CSS, Game of Thrones was still on TV. While I don't think I'd design it the same today, I was pretty pleased with it at the time.
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Eckert V Trading Card
This is my contribution to Daniel Huffman’s projection cards project. My projection, Eckert V, isn’t recommended for use anymore, and was introduced in 1906. I thought it would be interesting to try and portray the world as it was when Eckert V was first released, with much of the world divided up between global empires. That data came from the University of Minnesota’s Historical National Boundaries dataset, which the authors very kindly granted me permission to use.
It was so much fun being part of a larger project, and thrilling to get a copy of my final card in the mail!
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