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I wanted to share something a little experimental this morning (very much a work in progress technically and conceptually). As a city planner, I’ve always loved “potato plan” style maps — originally popularized by Patrick Abercrombie’s Greater London Plan and since revived by contemporary designers.
Despite how good they look, I’ve always been bothered by the fact that they were primarily vibes-based. So, I decided to take a crack at making a web-based, data-driven version using land cover data from the USGS. Admittedly I leaned heavily on
Claude Opus 4.7 to help implement the raster resampling and blob-ifying, and I am sure there are cleaner ways to make this work.
Feedback and suggestions welcome!