Yesterday, I talked about how to build a custom map project in proj.4 and mapnik. I started this project, because I wanted to “unfold” a geographic journey, so that one axis was temporal, and the other was spatial. Before I started messing around with Proj.4, I created a quick demo of this by stretching a raster map image. However, this had legibility issues as it stretched the text, roadway widths, etc. What am I actually trying to show with this distorted map? Imagine a series of visite...
