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BRIXEL MAPS
Inspired by a childhood love for Lego® — and the discovery that QGIS vector styles could render maps that looked remarkably like building bricks — I set out to merge cartography with brick aesthetics. Fellow AFOBs (Adult Fans of Bricks) will feel at home. Everyone else is welcome to join.
Each Brixel Map begins with geospatial data: OpenStreetMap layers, land use classifications, elevation data. These are processed through a custom rendering pipeline that converts every polygon into a grid of uniform squares — each one the colour of what it represents. Forest becomes green. Water becomes blue. Urban fabric becomes grey. The result looks like a LEGO mosaic of a real place.
The maps are generated at print resolution, sized to hang on a wall. Every pixel is a brick. Every brick is a place.
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