# tlohde

To Hungary

A black and white map of Western Europe. The oceans are black, as are the lakes, and rivers. The land is white, with some black stipples denoting the areas of higher ground. Country borders are not shown. Text in the upper right reads: 'From Calais (Fr) --> Orfu (Hu) via: Belgium where it rained; the Netherlands for (second?) breakfast; Germany where it was hot and I filled my thermos with ice cream; Austria for the only proper hill; and into Hungary for a swim in Lake Balaton.' The route taken is shown, along with the elevation profile of the route along the bottom of the image. At the bottom the text reads: '~2100 km / 13 days / 0 punctures' with credits: 'by tlohde / Copernicus Global DEM (ESA) & Natural Earth'
To Hungary: A solo 2017 cycle tour from Calais, (Fr) to Orfu (Hu). Ridden during my mile-munching phase. Made for the Day 4 of the 2025 #30DayMapChallenge, My Data.
projection UTM Zone 32N
tools Python libraries: geopandas, cartopy and matplotlib; along with QGIS and Inkscape
data Elevation data from Copernicus Global DEM (ESA); coastlines and rivers from Natural Earth
font Recursive Sans & Mono, by Stephen Nixon, with Lisa Huang, Katja Schimmel. Rafał Buchner & Ben Kiel
comments The reasoning behind the harsh black & white styling of this comes from the intention of making this in such a way that the pen-plotter loaded with a 0.5 pilot will produce something nice. Quite like the elevation styling. The elevation profile needed a gratuitous number of buffered strokes so it always had contrast with the background, should probably thin the middle on a bit. Adding labels to this is on the to do list. Just the rivers and a few of the cities along the route? I think so. Is it obvious that the dots are where a I slept? I hope so.
date 04/11/2025