Spaced Out ::

… and the stories they tell. The Washington Post ran a nice story earlier this month mapping the extent of infrastructure in the US. This is in response to Donald Trump’s (sketchy) plans to invest in infrastructure projects. This was subsequently followed up with a nice blog post on how they were created and, in particular, the courses of data and an idea of the data wrangling going on behind the scenes. What’s telling here is the simplicity of the rendering and that journalists use QGIS because its free, but that Photoshop and Illustrator (rather than GIMP and Inkscape) are still the graphic artists tools of choice. I wonder if this would be any different if there was GIS expertise on their teams to support the graphic designers…