Ma-py-tas

This project is more like a Matryoshka doll of projects I worked on, creating (perhaps a few too many) maps along the way. The topics I’ve explored are diverse, ranging from the locations of barbecues and blooming jacarandás in Buenos Aires to Argentina’s vast hydrocarbon reservoirs. This is a a non-exhaustive (and continously growing) collection of these maps, each one a snapshot of data-driven storytelling through geography.

The Github repo for this project can be found at manzisebastian/Ma-py-tas.

Mapping Buenos Aires

My love for Buenos Aires may well be quantified in the number of maps I made of this city. And one of the things I love the most is that it is full of jacarandás, which bloom during November and fill the city with their purple-blue petals. The following map shows the exact location of each jacarandá.

In Buenos Aires, we see public buses (colectivos, or -rather informally- bondis) everywhere. History says that the first taxi-bus ran through Buenos Aires on 24 September 1928, so it is a long-standing tradition. We, Argentinians, take pride in saying we invented the colectivo; whether that is or not true is not relevant. Bondis are grouped by numbers and colours, and each of them has a different route. The following map showcases each bondi stop and route in Buenos Aires.

Apart from jacarandás and colectivos, Buenos Aires is also known for its barbecues: they are all over the city. Back in 2017, the Government of the City of Buenos Aires carried out a study to gather information about each of the +500.000 buldings that shape Buenos Aires. I believe a noble way to use that dataset is to look for the location of all barbecues in the city. Make sure to hover the cursor over the map below to get the address of each of them.

Other maps of interest

This section include some projects I completed a long ago, and for which code is either broken or that I found out more efficient ways to plot them.

For instance, I once mapped the rivers that shape the Paraná Delta in Buenos Aires with its hundreds of tiny islands. These rivers create beautiful patterns.

In another opportunity, I plotted Argentina’s hydrocarbons resevoirs, dividing into those that are currently being exploited and those that are not.