#poland

Snippets of Warsaw

Snippets of Warsaw reflects several days spent alone in an unfamiliar city, photographing the fragmentary encounters that emerged across streets, architecture, and light.

Excited Pixels · EN

How Poland Drifted to the West

Today's #30DayMapChallenge is Polygons . At the risk of starting World War III, I've created a map of Poland's Historical Borders . The map uses polygons to show how Poland's borders have changed at different points in its history. The historical boundaries were downloaded from OpenHistoricalMap . The map includes three snapshots: the semi-autonomous Congress Kingdom of Poland in 1815, the Second Polish Republic immediately before the German and Soviet invasions of 1939, and the post-war borders established in 1945. But rather than simply displaying these three historical boundaries, I thought

Maps Mania · EN

The Era of the Voxel Map Has Arrived

It seems astonishing to me now that only a fortnight has passed since I climbed to the roof of Maps Mania Tower and proclaimed to the world that the Age of the Pixel Map had begun. And yet here I stand before you today, bearing the sad news of its demise and announcing, with no little ceremony, that The Era of the Voxel Map Has Arrived . Two weeks ago, I observed that "One notable limitation shared by most of these pixelated maps is their single, fixed perspective." My proposed solution was to create a pixel map offering four distinct viewpoints: North, South, East and West. But I should have

Maps Mania · EN