A Mini Gallery of LEGO Style Topographic Maps

Assorted LEGO Style maps with various design styles (in NACIS 2024 Map Gallery)

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In the recent half year, I designed and created a series of LEGO style topographic maps, some of which have won several awards, making me realize that many others might share the same interest. Therefore, I compiled these attempts into this mini gallery.

Chronologically, these maps are: Wisconsin, Colorado, Georgia, New Zealand, Arizona, North America, and a piece of map quilt (click to view their individual pages).

While they do share some common features, such as layered topographic display and a majority of color scheme, each map is distinctly different from the others in various aspects, such as: representing form (orthographic graphic, 3D rendered image, physical LEGO object), style (individual round, curly surface), extent (region only, region in a bounding box), baseplate size and scale (how large one unit represents), point symbol, labeling, legend, north arrow, neatline, etc. I hope you find some joy in these LEGO maps!

(Data Source: ArcGIS Online Terrain/Bathymetry Layer, Wikipedia, Google Map, Google Image Search)

A printed version of this map was displayed in the Map Gallery of North American Cartographic Information Society 2024 Annual Conference at Tacoma, Washington.

Below is the 8-minute presentation titled "LEGO Topographic Mapping" during NACIS 2024 Conference's Practical Cartography Day:

Additionally, I gave another hour-long presentation titled "LEGO Style Topographic Mapping: A Case of Colorado" for GIS Colorado's Geo-Ruckus monthly lecture series.