Jeff Allen


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I make maps as part of my day job, occasionally as a freelancer, and sometimes just for fun! If you are interested in hiring me to make a map, want prints of anything you see below, or just have any questions, please reach out out to me at jeff.allen@utoronto.ca.

Wall maps

Over the past couple years or so I've created two relatively large wall maps of places that are meaningful to me — one of Central Toronto and the other encompassing Lake Nipissing and Northern Georgian Bay. Each is about 60cm x 90cm in size. Click on the images below to view at a higher resolution.




Toronto data maps

I live in Toronto and I occasionally come across a super interesting dataset that I want to map. Below are a few examples from the past couple years or so. Some of these were digressions from research projects, some were just for fun :)


Terrain
Population density
Finch 6 land use
Dog density
Line 2 trips
Travel mode share
Bike share trips
Access to skating rinks
Parking tickets

Interactive maps

I've created a number of web-pages with custom interactive maps over the years. Some of these are self-exploratory visualization tools, others are integrated into larger websites or data stories. Below are a few examples. Some are from my day job at the School of Cities and were collaborative projects.


GGH travel
Community real estate
Urban growth in Canada
City-Guesser
Gentle density
Urban activity atlas
Transit access Canada
V A P O R | R A I L
map.book

And the rest ...

Over the years I've created hundreds of maps and related graphics. These have varied quite a bit in terms of scope, scale, process, and purpose. Here's a grid gallery of a bunch them, ordered somewhat chronologically, dating back to 2012 or so.


ireland
beirut
taiwan
deer park
cuba
neon glen stewart
ottawa buildings
finch west population change
toronto apartment history
line 2 yyz
sofc postcard street space
map sketches 2025
school trips toronto area
limberlost race route
higher speed rail north america
se scarborough typographic map
songshan–xindian (green) line stamp map
cincinnatti
toronto kaleidoscope 2
toronto kaleidoscope 1
near dehradun
taipei points
taiwan pollution pm2.5
sofc postcard population density
sofc postcard buildings
sofc postcard osm
forest frontiers
wilson bus gps
green map grid
infrastructure deficit canada
lands of the Michizaagiig (Mississaugas of the Credit)
household emissions
parks vs parking toronto
montreal night
dogs per capita toronto
dbw-pixels
2?
lebanon
greater golden horseshoe overview
utsc postcard
church st streetcar
montreal postcard
knowledge of french in ontario
downtown-ish toronto vintage map
random voronoi toronto
canada population by longitude 2021
toronto hamilton trip
every building in scarborough
sj
GGR424-2022
ottawa 2c
office ratings
transit access to foodbanks
an imaginary city
vietnam (6wa)
immigration X accessibility (syd & tor)
20.21.31.19.CQLM
tracc
ttc 2054
usa commute flows
suburbanization of transport poverty (poster)
ontario line equity (poster)
urban form 3 (w)
three cities (g)
ttc schedule change covid
surrounding halifax
patterns of poverty toronto
southeast asia (p)
city re-sketch
usa population growth (1900-1500)
mode share ses toronto
intro to qgis tutorial 2019
hamilton 1971 tvs/person
simple itineraries
corona residents' workplaces
dry bones world (p)
pueblo del sol
space-time prism schematic
simple transit tiles
student travel (poster)
sky river
bike share trips toronto 2017
patagonia and nearby ocean
europa blue
utsc commuting patterns
simple walking buffer schematic
ntlos
stacked percent plots of travel barriers
population density + figure ground
seoul districts
difference-in-difference plots - bike lanes
icosahedral world map
parking ticket density in toronto, 2016
calgary three modes to city hall
volcanoes & tectonic plates
milan
travel times - bike vs. transit
home-campus trips gta
phuket
urban swatches
montreal commuting tree
mlb team relocation
access to transit service toronto
transit access to jobs toronto
simple distance to transit schematic
toronto traffic lights
huaraz terrain
se scarborough typographic map
purple city wallpaper
drone strikes in afghanistan
access to jobs in toronto
uae expatriate demographics
just the roads of great britain
winnipeg dynamic transit isochrone
unesco heritage sites
isochronic commuter rail map
dubai b/w
cinema screens per capita
olympic cities
migration routes of syrian refugees
blueprint google maps
visualizing toronto's transit ridership
libraries and population density in toronto
rinks, population density, and income
toronto fractal tree
calgary fractal tree
berlin
nhl team relocation
transit stop frequency in montreal
north america high speed rail
ventnor
global human footprint
hex bins of university students
global topographic base-map
toronto building heights 2015
toronto's red light cameras
mapping harrer's seven years in tibet
usa rail
arch city
cosmic streetcar loop
river city
sketches from 213
palace of purification