AI and Projections

Writing code and making maps with AI

I need to catch up on the #30DayMapChallenge. Next year, I will plan a bit better to stay on track. In the meantime, I will fulfill a few topics with one set of maps - AI only (Day 9) and Map Projections (Day 26). I asked Claude.ai to write an R script to make a series of world maps showing different projections.

I didn’t edit any of the code myself, but I went back and forth with Claude for about 20 minutes to refine how the maps looked. The code and the prompts are on GitHub. The results are a mixed bag.

Here are the most successful examples:

Auto-generated description: A Lambert Azimuthal Equal-Area map projection centered on North America is displayed. Auto-generated description: A world map is shown using the Mercator projection, commonly used in web mapping. Auto-generated description: A map of North America is displayed using the Albers Equal-Area Conic Projection.

Here are some of the worst:

Auto-generated description: A world map is displayed using the Plate Carrée projection, featuring a simple latitude-longitude grid.

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