A number of hikers who rely heavily on their cell phones to get around Gatineau Park have gotten lost, a trend that is starting to worry park staff. In a statement, Great Canadian Trails tour guide Nathalie Gauthier said: “It’s a growing problem. I think people forget that their phones have limits. Gauthier noted that […]
Month: August 2018
End of the rainbow? New map scale is more readable by people with color blindness
Data visualizations using rainbow color scales are ubiquitous in many fields of science, representing everything from ocean temperatures to brain activity to Martian topography. But cartographers have argued for decades that the “Roy G. Biv” scale makes maps and other figures difficult to interpret, sometimes to the point of being misleading. And for color blind […]