Yellowstone Mobile App: Custom Basemap

May 15, 2016 Taylor Long

Yellowstone Mobile App: One of my main 2015 projects in which I led data development and basemap design.

One of my main NPMap projects of 2015-2016 was the development of data and custom basemap design for the Yellowstone mobile app, released in May 2016. I was assigned to lead content development for the Yellowstone app. I visited the park for two weeks in the Fall 2015, traveling all over the park to collect site locations and attribute data. I worked closely with park staff over the proceeding months to help them make decisions about how content would be organized, and I worked with GIS staff to collect data for inclusion on the custom basemap.

Park Tiles: Custom Basemaps for the National Park Service

March 21, 2016 Taylor Long

One of my main responsibilities as a Cartographer at NPMap – Park Tiles – a suite of online basemaps designed to fit the National Park Service’s graphic identity. Park Tiles includes four basemap styles: Standard, Imagery, Slate, and Light. It is used widely across the park service for a number of different mapping applications.

Mapping eBird: Visualizing Data Coverage in Citizen Science

April 1, 2015 Taylor Long

This project focuses on mapping patterns of eBird participation to develop best practices for visualizing the spatial and temporal quality and quantity of submitted data. By sharing data coverage information with the public in a cartographically clear manner, we can enhance understanding of the project and improve the utility of submissions by inspiring participants to collect more data in poorly covered areas.

The Second Expedition of Francisco Pizarro

August 25, 2014 Taylor Long

Through my graduate assistant position at U-Spatial, I was asked to design this map for inclusion in an academic paper written by Robert McCaa and Nathan Weaver Olson. The paper reconsiders the notion that Francisco Pizarro's second voyage to South America introduced smallpox to the continent. The map is not designed to tell the whole story on its own – it serves as visual support to the more complex narrative offered in the paper, placing the timeline in its proper geographic context.

Osprey Sightings in 2013

May 13, 2014 Taylor Long

This interactive map shows time-animated Osprey sightings in 2013, based on data submitted to eBird. The purpose of this project was to experiment with querying the massive eBird dataset (over 150 million records) using a PostgreSQL/PostGIS database, and visualizing the results using CartoDB.