# tlohde

Hexagons tile the plain

A map of north america with a hexagonal grid across the great plains, with each cell coloured in a shade of green-brown depending on the elevation in that cell. The map is titled 'hexagons tile the (great) plains'
Hexagons tile the plain: This is a map of a not very good pun. Sorry. Made for day 9 - Hexagons - of the 2023 #30DayMapChallenge.
projection Albers Equal Area; centarl latitude: 96W, standard parallels: 20N & 60N, datum: NAD83
tools python: cartopy, matplotlib, h3
data Elevation from ASTER GDEM via opentopodata.org; coastlines from Natural Earth, Great Plain geometry from cartographyvectors.com
font DejaVu Sans Mono
comments sorry
date 09/11/2023