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 six maps are: Wisconsin, Colorado, Georgia, New Zealand, Arizona, and North America (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 will be displayed in the Map Gallery of North American Cartographic Information Society 2024 Annual Conference at Tacoma, Washington.
Additionally, I contributed a map tile in LEGO style to the Map Quilt of NACIS 2024 Conference. It displays the area Check it out at the Map Gallery.
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