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This is a quick post on how to create a map as per the Wikipedia conventions. In this case I have chosen to plot the international organ donor rates, retrieved on 2019-02-10 although the data refers to 2017 (Source: IRODaT).

Want to use a flag (or any *.png file) as a background of your map? You are in the right post.

Sometimes you want to produce maps with special layouts. I specially like maps with modified geometries, e.g. simplifiying the original shapes to squares or dots. When doing a little search over the web I found the fantastic post Fishnets and Honeycomb: Square vs. Hexagonal Spatial Grids by Matt Strimas-Mackey that was a huge inspiration (by the way, don’t miss his blog, full of very interesting pieces of work).

Recently I have been struggling when trying to embed a leaflet map created with RStudio on my blog, hosted in GitHub via Jekyll (Spoiler: I succeeded ). In my case, I use the Chulapa remote theme created by myself.

This is a very personal post, where I just show the map of all the places I have traveled by plain