On Minimalistic Maps
Mapping Population Density in the Philippines
TJ Palanca 
1 Minimalistic maps
Taking the idea from the Population Lines Print by Spatial.ly / Dr James Cheshire, we plot local population density maps for the Philippines in the same style. The data is taken from the NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC).
2 Philippine population density maps
Fortunately, the process was relatively straightforward and it was not difficult to produce the same cool faux-3D population peak effect with a bit of data wrangling and good old ggplot2. Here are some I’ve produced for key Philippine metropolitan areas and my home region Bicol.
3 Reproducibility
Here are the notebooks containing the code, results, and commentary behind the post. You may download the resulting code and run it yourself, provided:
- You have to download the population density maps on your own access rights, and
- You agree that this is provided as-is and with no warranty.
You may also view the GitHub Repository here for the complete code and analysis that went into this post.
Citation
@online{palanca2017,
author = {TJ Palanca},
title = {On {Minimalistic} {Maps}},
date = {2017-05-01},
url = {https://tjpalanca.com/on-minimalistic-maps.html},
langid = {en}
}