Kenneth Wong

*Some ffmpeg command testing*

#MapsInTheWild Axonometric map of the Shimane Peninsula at the visitor centre of Hinomisaki Lighthouse

Stunning greenish hillshades and subtle ocean depth bluish gradients 🌊⛰️🗾

Back to a #QGIS #cartography project of mapping land use distribution in Mong Kok, Hong Kong by breaking down land into 6 key categories.

Together with small multiples showing area of: built structure, carriageway, footway, back-lane, open space, and others

#MapsInTheWild Topography of Izu Pensisula with illustrations of plate tectonics of the area in Mishima, Shizuoka 🌋🗻

Brings me back the vibes of old high school geography textbook

🎉 Big Changes Ahead: QGIS Is Moving to Qt6 and Launching QGIS 4.0! Exciting times are ahead for the QGIS project! We’re thrilled to share some major updates coming to the QGIS platform over the next few months. These changes are part of a long-planned technical mi…

Release of QGIS 4 is undoubtedly exciting news - I still remember the huge UI/UX leap when upgrading from QGIS v2 to v3 on my Mac somewhere in 2019 🚀

#gischat

blog.qgis.org/2025/04/17/q...

Working on bus route data and got distracted into playing with line symbology again #MapInProgress

#MapsInTheWild a detailed illustration of Mount Fuji’s surrounding areas 🗻

Found this map at Mishima Taisha Shrine. The deeper you explore the map, the more intricate details you could uncover

It's the equinox today, here is an animation showing the path of the sun and daylength as the year progresses #dataviz

#MapInProgress

Asked Cursor with Claude 3.7 to give my #RStats shiny app a facelift by switching {shinydashboard} to {bslib}

Spent an extra day to fix the broken bits, tweak the flows and polish the UI - but it’s still slick that I even have no idea where to start without Claude

Postmortem of my #30DayMapChallenge 2024 | Kenneth Wong - Cities and Maps Behind the scenes of making the maps

Finally closing my 2024 #30DayMapChallenge! Wrote a blog summarising what I learned, the behind-the-scenes challenges faced, and the fun I had creating maps last Nov.

Check the blog and maps out here:
🗺️🔗 mappyurbanist.com/blog/2025-02...

#gischat

#MapsInTheWild a giant map of Yokohama on Yokohama Landmark Tower’s observation deck

An enormous map spreading out the floor is always a cool thing to me

Highlighting research: ‘Rail Transit & Population Density’

More on the background of the project:

www.artsci.utoronto.ca/news/highlig...

Calling all map/urban/railway nerds to check out this website visualising railway accessibility across 250 cities around the globe by Aniket Kali and @jamaps.bsky.social - stunning #cartography and #dataviz

🔗 schoolofcities.github.io/rail-transit...

#gischat

#30DayMapChallenge Day 16 - Choropleth

Interactive map of median household income distribution in Hong Kong, made with #RStats

Challenging myself to create a non-static and non-QGIS map, despite a late submission 🤐

#RSpatial

Ya they have a dataset on building footprint

And you made me curious whether the Taiwan Government (at least Taipei City) also has similar open data 🤣

portal.csdi.gov.hk/geoportal/?l...

The completed map: Building age distribution around three selected Hong Kong MTR stations

Left one shows total building count, right one displays buildings 50+ years old 🏙️🗺️

#MapsInTheWild 6 masterplans of Shanghai, from 1930 to 2017, in Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Center

First visit to Shanghai on the weekend - Taking photos of the station and tube map is a must-do for map nerds and railway nerds

#MapsInTheWild two hostels I stayed in Kyoto last Nov. Both have a gigantic city map hung near reception.

Comparing the differences of their approaches to map the town and show the tourist spots would be a great cartography article

#MapInProgress (and a building age analysis article in progress)

#30DayMapChallenge Day 11 - Arctic

Populated Places in the Arctic Circle

Stumbled across Rovaniemi (home of Santa Claus Village) when doing some Christmas research, and ended up in the rabbit hole of exploring towns in the Arctic Circle

Mappy Christmas to you all also! 🎄🎅

#30DayMapChallenge Day 25 - Heat

Nighttime land surface temperature anomaly in Japan, August 2024 (compared to 2019-23 average August temperature)

It was not a hot summer, but a *scorching* hot summer in Tokyo

#30DayMapChallenge Day 22 - 2 colours

Growth / Decline of population from 2023 to 2027 in Hong Kong, by Tertiary Planning Unit (TPU)

#30DayMapChallenge Day 21 - Conflicts

Overlapped 5-min service area of two major convenience store brands (7-Eleven & Circle K) in Central, Hong Kong

Creating some spin-offs from the cvs accessibility series I have been working on

#30DayMapChallenge Day 18 - 3D

Pseudo-3D “axonometric” site plan of Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong

#30DayMapChallenge Day 4 - Hexagons

Traffic collisions involving pedestrains in Hong Kong, 2018 - 2023

Though I’ve worked substantially with traffic collisions data, my focus has typically been on data analysis rather than cartography

#30DayMapChallenge Day 3 - Polygons

Age distribution of buildings in Mong Kok, Hong Kong 🏙️

Also a small experiment on the dark theme basemap

#30DayMapChallenge Day 1 - Points

Rainfall in Japan, Aug 2024 ☔️

Special thanks to MIERUNE for developing the JAXA Earth API QGIS plugin

Back in my student days, the urban design class taught a trick of adding “fake shadows” into maps quickly in Photoshop by:

1. Duplicate the building polygons
2. Offset it by a tiny distance
3. Change it to black & put it behind

Same technique can be used in QGIS too #gischat