Joseph Davies

Cartographer, visualization designer and consultant.

About

Hello there! I'm Joe and I love maps.

I am committed to exploring new ways of using visualization design principles and cartographic best practices to help derive meaningful insight from geographic information.

Gallery

Bivariate choropleth map of the contiguous United States combining temperature and precipitation, with a diamond-shaped colour legend. The Southwest is orange, the Northeast dark blue-green and the Northwest pale.

Flow map of air passenger traffic between airports on a grey basemap. Dense bundles of dark lines converge on a few large hub airports, with circles sized by passengers.

Dark map of Spain's river network. Rivers draining to the Atlantic are drawn in red and those draining to the Mediterranean in blue, showing the two watershed basins.

Map of the ten busiest flight routes to and from Madrid, drawn as curved blue lines whose width shows passengers carried and colour shows change on 2023. Annotations call out Barcelona and Palma de Mallorca as the busiest route.

Shaded relief model of Great Britain and Ireland coloured with a bivariate palette, with blues in the Scottish Highlands and oranges across the lowlands.

Globe centred on North America with coloured lines tracing submarine internet cables across the oceans, densest along the US coasts and the Caribbean.

Ridgeline plot of Europe where stacked black ridges peak over major cities, with labels for London, Paris, Madrid, Rome, Berlin, Warsaw, Stockholm, Helsinki and Athens.

Dorling cartogram of European countries as orange circles labelled with country codes. Germany, France, Italy and Spain are the largest.

Map of Europe showing nights spent in tourist accommodation in 2022 as small coxcomb charts per country, with one petal per month and colours for domestic and foreign guests.

Map of European cereal production in 2022 using pie charts sized by tonnes and coloured by cereal type such as wheat, barley and maize.

Two side-by-side green choropleth maps of Europe titled Male and Female, showing life expectancy in years, with the darkest greens in southern Europe.

Small-multiple maps of Europe, one for each year from 2012 to 2023, showing population change per 1000 inhabitants on a diverging yellow to teal scale.

Relief map of the world's oceans in the Spilhaus projection, in pale blue with a graticule, with the continents shown as raised blocks.

Map of Wales showing primary schools as hexagon symbols sized by number of schools and shaded in red by the share that are Welsh-speaking. The title notes that 32.5% of primary schools are Welsh-speaking.

Circular 3D-style map of a dense city district rendered in Blender, with yellow buildings, green parks and a pale blue river crossing the scene.

Animated map of Madrid that begins from a blank outline of Spain.

Relief map of the whole world in an oval projection, showing green and blue land with ocean-floor topography.

Map of the Roman road network around the Mediterranean, with major roads in dark red and minor roads in lighter red on a cream background, beside a statue of an emperor.

Shaded relief map of Japan, with the elevation shown in blue and purple, on a pale background. The title reads JAPAN in English and Japanese.

Shaded relief map of Italy, green in the lowlands and red-brown in the Alps and Apennines, with labelled peaks and an Italian flag.

Animated choropleth map of GDP per capita in EU countries in 2022, from yellow for low values to dark blue for high values, made with the eurostat-map library.

Projects

eurostat-map
Thematic mapping library for Eurostat data.

gridviz
JavaScript library for visualizing gridded data.

Map of Europe with population pillars from the Statistical Atlas

Statistical Atlas
Eurostat's web atlas for exploring European statistics on interactive maps.

Awesome Frontend GIS
Awesome list for frontend GIS developers.

Statle
Worldle-like guessing game using country statistics.

Relief map of Greece, the Geoblender project image

Geoblender
Tutorials for making 3D-looking maps with Blender and QGIS.

Contact

Email: jwd101 [at] gmail [dot] com

GitHub: @joewdavies (opens in a new tab)