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The Nicknames of America
2 months ago
Twelve Mile Circle –...
Inland Northwest, Day 7 (Abrupt End) What should have been a ten day trip ended unexpectedly on the seventh day. The previous evening our...
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2 months ago
What should have been a ten day trip ended unexpectedly on the seventh day. The previous evening our kid who was watching the house called to tell us about our soaking wet basement carpet. Our ancient boiler was leaking. So we immediately contacted our insurance provider, a water...
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Ghost Tubebusters
a year ago
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Mapping the Amazon Underworld
a year ago
Map of the Week
The Possible Collapse of Oceanic Circulation This map, via Down to Earth shows the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC). The AMOC...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
This map, via Down to Earth shows the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC). The AMOC is like a "heat conveyor belt". It moderates temperatures on the planet by moving warmer air to northern latitudes while returning cooler air to the tropics. It has already slowed...
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Guided Across Switzerland by Hand Drawn Maps The New York Times has a piece where the author ditched his phone and walked across Switzerland...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
The New York Times has a piece where the author ditched his phone and walked across Switzerland guided only by hand drawn maps from the people he met along the way. I love a nice hand drawn map and this article provides lots of good examples. These maps illustrate the things...
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Tiny World Map
8 months ago
Twelve Mile Circle –...
Dayton, Ohio Part 7  (Hodgepodge) The Dayton trip came to an end but I still had a bunch of stuff to talk about that didn’t fit into...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
The Dayton trip came to an end but I still had a bunch of stuff to talk about that didn’t fit into any of the earlier articles. Naturally I’ve collected them all together within this final compilation to serve as a wrap-up. Then we can call this one done and move onto the next...
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The June Deportations
a year ago
Map of the Week
America's First Subway Map The first subway in the United States was built in Boston. The tunnel ran along Tremont Street,  a...
a year ago
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a year ago
The first subway in the United States was built in Boston. The tunnel ran along Tremont Street,  a chaotic mess of streetcars, horse-drawn carriages and pedestrians. The tunnel was built to route the streetcars underground to ease congestion. Here is a plan of the original subway...
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The Bellingcat Open Source Challenge
3 weeks ago
Map of the Week
Artwork of Mary Edna Fraser Those who have read this blog over the years know that I love the intersection of art and...
a year ago
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a year ago
Those who have read this blog over the years know that I love the intersection of art and cartography. One of my recent discoveries is artist Mary Edna Fraser. Her textile work (from silks to rugs) and paintings range from the continental scale, East Coast, US-batik on...
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OSM GPT
a year ago
James Cheshire
PhD Opportunity: An Atlas of Health and Social Inequalities Excited to announce that we have funding for a +3 studentship in the UCL Department of Geography for...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Excited to announce that we have funding for a +3 studentship in the UCL Department of Geography for the project “An Atlas of Health and Social Inequalities”. The research will be carried out in association with the Health Foundation and will comprise the creation of a range of...
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Bat Virus Jump Zones
a year ago
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Where Students Travel to Study Abroad
a year ago
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The 10 Day Fall Color Forecast
a year ago
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The Global Inflation Tracker
8 months ago
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Gaza is 42 Million Tonnes of Rubble
4 months ago
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America's Changing Plant Hardiness Zones
a year ago
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Stack Overflown
a year ago
Twelve Mile Circle –...
St. Mary’s (and Calvert), Maryland County counting becomes increasingly difficult as I continue my glacially slow progress. Now it...
a year ago
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a year ago
County counting becomes increasingly difficult as I continue my glacially slow progress. Now it takes more than five hours to reach the closest unvisited county from my home. Fortunately I found a workaround by shifting my focus to overnight county visits. There are plenty of...
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The Self-Driving Car Simulation
12 months ago
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US Air Force WWII Photos
a year ago
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170 Years of American Immigration
5 months ago
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15 Minute US Cities
8 months ago
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The Liverpool Overhead Railway I found this cool strip map of the Liverpool Overhead Railway, the first elevated electric railway...
a year ago
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a year ago
I found this cool strip map of the Liverpool Overhead Railway, the first elevated electric railway in the world. It opened in 1893 and was dismantled in 1957 because the company could not afford to make the necessary repairs. This map is dated "c1938". via Flickr According...
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Icelandic Glacier Web Portal This web portal is a collaborative effort by Icelandic institutes, agencies, companies, societies...
a year ago
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a year ago
This web portal is a collaborative effort by Icelandic institutes, agencies, companies, societies and private persons to display an overview of glaciological research and variations of Icelandic glaciers. The portal provides access to measurements, observations and photographs...
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Scrambled Maps on Toast
3 months ago
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Below the Ice This past fall scientists uncovered a vast landscape that has been "frozen in time" under the...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
This past fall scientists uncovered a vast landscape that has been "frozen in time" under the Antarctic Ice Shelf. Here is a nice graphic from phys.org. The topography was determined by a combination of radio wave echoes and satellite images. This landscape, more than 2...
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Maps of Julian Hoffman Anton I'm always excited to find new cartographic artists. Here are some maps from Julian Hoffman Anton....
a year ago
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a year ago
I'm always excited to find new cartographic artists. Here are some maps from Julian Hoffman Anton. The first one is his Tokyo Eat Map. I've cropped the map a bit to fit the format of this page. To see it all click here. This is really a heat map showing restaurant density. Egg...
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2024 UK Election Maps
6 months ago
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Active Video
7 months ago
Twelve Mile Circle –...
Southern Heat, Part 1 (Road Trip) It feels like I just got back from Costa Rica and then I’m right back on the road again. True...
a year ago
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a year ago
It feels like I just got back from Costa Rica and then I’m right back on the road again. True enough, we made it home for only a couple of weeks before we began an extended drive through the southeastern United States. However, those were the only dates that worked with...
Adventures In...
Make this AI-inspired topo landscape please Many weeks ago I saw an achingly beautiful bit of AI-generated terrain art shared by Esri’s glorious...
a year ago
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a year ago
Many weeks ago I saw an achingly beautiful bit of AI-generated terrain art shared by Esri’s glorious instagram account. Initially I was a bit intimidated by the robots; it was so charming and tactile and wondrous and dreamlike and sinuous. But also…inspiring. I wondered if I...
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The Map to the White House
3 months ago
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The Lost Pathfinder Game
6 months ago
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The New Medieval Map of London
6 months ago
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NYC's Subway Stories
a month ago
Adventures In...
Stories Here are some StoryMap stories that I’ve written over the years… Piracy & Time Travel How Deep is...
a year ago
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a year ago
Here are some StoryMap stories that I’ve written over the years… Piracy & Time Travel How Deep is Challenger Deep? Julie’s Improbable Flight How to Write a Story, starring sharks and hurricanes Gap, Pass, Notch, & Saddle College Football Air Mile Index Rivers of Plastic Smoking,...
Transit Maps
Historical Map: Argentine Railways, 1907 Now this is a map! This is just superb cartography: detailed, clear and lovely to look at. I love...
a year ago
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a year ago
Now this is a map! This is just superb cartography: detailed, clear and lovely to look at. I love the way that brown is used for mountainous features, and a light blue is used for water features – it allows this information to be visible, but it doesn’t compete with the overlaid...
Transit Maps
Submission – New Official Map: UTA Rail and BRT Map, 2023 Submitted by Browne, who says: UTA, the primary transit provider for northern Utah, has officially...
a year ago
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a year ago
Submitted by Browne, who says: UTA, the primary transit provider for northern Utah, has officially launched its newest BRT service, and with it, a new transit map. The OGX is a new BRT route from Ogden Central Station, downtown, Weber State University, and down to McKay-Dee...
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The Night Train to Europe
a year ago
Transit Maps
Submission – Unofficial Map: Brussels S-Train by Elliot H Submitted by Elliot, who says: I’ve come across this blog a couple of months ago, and have been...
a year ago
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a year ago
Submitted by Elliot, who says: I’ve come across this blog a couple of months ago, and have been lurking ever since. I’ve always wanted to try my hand at designing a trasit diagram, and having gotten some free time, I decided to redesign the S-Train diagram for Brussels. So here...
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The 2024 #30DayMapChallenge
2 months ago
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Travel Cat's Aerial Adventures
a month ago
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Swimming in Sewage
a year ago
Map of the Week
Radical Atlas of Ferguson, USA Coming out this summer from Belt Publishing (publishers of the "50 Maps" book series on Cleveland,...
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7 months ago
Coming out this summer from Belt Publishing (publishers of the "50 Maps" book series on Cleveland, Detroit and Buffalo) is the Radical Atlas of Ferguson, USA.   "Ferguson, Missouri, became the epicenter of America’s racial tensions after the 2014 murder of Michael Brown and the...
Twelve Mile Circle –...
Cumberland Parkway Time Zone Crossing Time Zone crossings in the United States generally happen at state borders which of course are...
a year ago
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a year ago
Time Zone crossings in the United States generally happen at state borders which of course are easily recognizable landmarks. So you simply cross the state line and you change your watch. No big deal. Unfortunately Time Zones cut right through the middle of some states, like...
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Car Commutes are Getting Longer
11 months ago
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US Car Fatality Hotspots
a year ago
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AI Your Home on Street View
10 months ago
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The Book Banning Map of America
4 months ago
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AI Street View
a year ago
Map of the Week
Mapping Etymology Mapologies is a website that shows many interesting etymology maps such as this one showing the word...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
Mapologies is a website that shows many interesting etymology maps such as this one showing the word for Earth throughout Europe-from their planets page. The countries are color coded by the language family origins of the words. Here are peaches from the fruits page. I like...
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Where Might I Live?
a year ago
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2023 Spanish Election
a year ago
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The World Map of Podcasts
a year ago
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The Ring of Rain
a year ago
Transit Maps
Official Map: C-TRAN Bus Network, Vancouver, Washington, October 2023 Perhaps somewhat surprisingly, Transit Maps has never taken a look at the map for Portland’s...
a year ago
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a year ago
Perhaps somewhat surprisingly, Transit Maps has never taken a look at the map for Portland’s northern neighbour, the (original) Vancouver. With the recent addition of their second “The Vine” BRT route along Mill Plain Boulevard, now seems like a good time. At first glance, it...
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Mapping the Oct 7 Hamas Attacks
a year ago
Map of the Week
Map Failbruary Challenge Days 15-28 Here is the second half of the #MapFailbruaryChallenge. For the first half and explanations...
a year ago
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a year ago
Here is the second half of the #MapFailbruaryChallenge. For the first half and explanations see here. Here are the categories, again with minimal commentary.   Day 15 - You do not need to know geography to be a cartographer Day 16 - Not safe for work Day 17 - Not enough or...
James Cheshire
Being creative is reason enough to try different data visualization A simple line chart might be all you need to communicate the patterns in a dataset, but it might not...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A simple line chart might be all you need to communicate the patterns in a dataset, but it might not be given a second glance. Getting the viewer to work a little harder to interpret and think about a graphic can be a very effective way of generating engagement. This is where the...
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Text Search for Street View
4 months ago
Adventures In...
Vintage Retro Old-School 1890s Basemap for ArcGIS Pro Here’s how to stack up some tile layers and blend them up to concoct a basemap that wouldn’t look...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Here’s how to stack up some tile layers and blend them up to concoct a basemap that wouldn’t look out of place in 1890. Except that you wouldn’t have anywhere to plug in your monitor so it would be hard to show it to people back then. Ok bring a small generator. Wait, all these …
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Tripgeo Cities
4 months ago
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Racial Profiling in Redlining Maps
a year ago
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Mapping the U.S. Electoral Divide
a month ago
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The Year of the Map Game
12 months ago
Adventures In...
Cartography Workshop in Utrecht, April 2024 I’m going to be in the Netherlands April 23, 2024, to spend a day nerding out on map making. I’ll be...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
I’m going to be in the Netherlands April 23, 2024, to spend a day nerding out on map making. I’ll be a guest of Esri Netherlands, and will lead this workshop day, called “Mapping Magic with John Nelson” (no pressure). It’s a kickoff to their Esri Connect 2024 event. Here’s a...
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Exploring London Through the Artist's Eye
5 months ago
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Mapping the Growth of America
a year ago
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A Nightmare on View Street
2 months ago
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Mapping Aboriginal Melbourne
a year ago
Adventures In...
Tolkien Style Maps in a GIS: part 2, Mountains “I want to see mountains again, Gandalf, mountains. And then find somewhere where I can rest.” In...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
“I want to see mountains again, Gandalf, mountains. And then find somewhere where I can rest.” In this 4-part series we’ll walk through the reckoning of a Lord of the Rings style fantasy map, right in ArcGIS Pro. We map-makers get to breathe honest to goodness geographic life...
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The Warlord Map Game
7 months ago
Map of the Week
The Film Industry's Nine Dash Line Problem This summer's hit movie Barbie has been banned in Vietnam for its portrayal of the Nine Dash Line on...
a year ago
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a year ago
This summer's hit movie Barbie has been banned in Vietnam for its portrayal of the Nine Dash Line on a world map. Note: I have not (yet) seen any of the movies or shows listed below. This line represents China's claims in the South China Sea. These claims have been rejected by...
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Guess Thy Neighbor
a year ago
Adventures In...
The Geoholics Podcast I got to join The Geoholics podcast this week and had a fun conversation with Kent Groh, Ryan Kelly,...
a year ago
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a year ago
I got to join The Geoholics podcast this week and had a fun conversation with Kent Groh, Ryan Kelly, and Nik Smilovsky Here is a link to the episode: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0sHBwsGyfAoZE3ra5RaeVB?si=f1f3bdf9ab3b4695 Here’s the episode’s description: Raised by two...
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Using AI to Age OSM Maps
11 months ago
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Tranquil Walking Directions
2 months ago
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Four Free Alternatives to GeoGuessr
9 months ago
Map of the Week
The Hidden Logic of Cities The Beautiful Hidden Logic of Cities by Erin Davis shows the streets of various cities in the United...
a year ago
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a year ago
The Beautiful Hidden Logic of Cities by Erin Davis shows the streets of various cities in the United States color coded by suffix - (street, road, avenue, etc).  From where I've lived there seemed to be a clear logic to streets, avenues, boulevards and others. In my mind...
Map of the Week
The Salt Front The salt front is the point where a river becomes too salty to be safe for drinking water. The front...
a month ago
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a month ago
The salt front is the point where a river becomes too salty to be safe for drinking water. The front moves upstream from the river’s mouth as less freshwater flows downstream to dilute it. I’d never heard of a salt front until I read about it in a recent article in...
Twelve Mile Circle –...
Southern Heat, Part 3 (Apalachicola) Next we began the actual “road” portion of the road trip as Atlanta receded into the distance behind...
a year ago
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a year ago
Next we began the actual “road” portion of the road trip as Atlanta receded into the distance behind us. We spaced our drives into four segments of 5-6 hours each to make them manageable. I figured that would cover a decent distance without consuming the entire day. The first leg...
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The World as 1000 People
a year ago
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Exploring Mars in 3D
a year ago
Map of the Week
30 Day Map Challenge-One Final Note In writing yesterday’s post I forgot about this awesome music video about the 30 Day Map Challenge....
4 weeks ago
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4 weeks ago
In writing yesterday’s post I forgot about this awesome music video about the 30 Day Map Challenge. The lyrics are French with English subtitles and it’s fun to hear how musical words like choropleth and story map can sound in French. “Some people sell houses, chickens, bidets, I...
somethingaboutmaps
Another Atlas of Minor Projects A few years ago, I compiled a PDF of various small odds-and-ends mapping projects that I’d done....
11 months ago
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11 months ago
A few years ago, I compiled a PDF of various small odds-and-ends mapping projects that I’d done. Now, I’ve done it again. Please enjoy Another Atlas of Minor Projects, which houses a few dozen cartographic items that needed a home. These are all small, mostly-quick projects that...
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Who are Your Neighbors Donating to?
2 months ago
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The Interactive Map of Ambridge
2 months ago
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AI Street View Hallucinations
a year ago
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The AI Satlas
a year ago
Map of the Week
New Orleans Slave Revolt Despite what some officials in Florida want to teach, not all enslaved people appreciated the job...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
Despite what some officials in Florida want to teach, not all enslaved people appreciated the job training they were getting from their benevolent overseers. In fact there were numerous rebellions. The largest one was in 1811 outside of New Orleans.  The map above is from a...
Map of the Week
Innovation in Segregation Before the Home Owners' Loan Corporation (HOLC) redlining maps encouraged segregation (documented...
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a year ago
Before the Home Owners' Loan Corporation (HOLC) redlining maps encouraged segregation (documented extensively including on this blog), there was this 1934 map by property analyst J. M. Brewer. It showed real estate conditions in Philadelphia with a wary eye towards immigrants,...
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Some More Maps of Sounds
6 months ago
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How to Make Your Own Map Jigsaw Puzzle
4 months ago
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25 Cities
11 months ago
Map of the Week
Thirty Day Map Challenge 2023-Days 24-30 The final installment of this year’s 30 Day Map Challenge.  Day 24 - Black and White I had no...
a year ago
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a year ago
The final installment of this year’s 30 Day Map Challenge.  Day 24 - Black and White I had no thoughts ahead of time on this one. I wanted to do something with raster data and the easy, quick thing (this often requires taking the easy and quick route) was to grab the Natural...
Transit Maps
Submission – Unofficial Map: Arendal Region Transit Map, Norway by Hazael Hi! I made this transit diagram myself. I saw there was no “real” map with all the stations for the...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Hi! I made this transit diagram myself. I saw there was no “real” map with all the stations for the region of Arendal in Norway, so I decided to do this project. I would love to read your comments and criticisms! Transit Maps says: There’s a lot to like about this diagram – a...
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Battles of World War II & American Wars
5 months ago
Twelve Mile Circle –...
England, Day 10 (More Typical London) Unlike the previous day, we focused our final full London day on places more regularly associated...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Unlike the previous day, we focused our final full London day on places more regularly associated with typical tourists. Sometimes we do that. Occasionally I displayed my normal geo-oddity proclivities but mostly it was about cramming as much as possible into the hours before...
Twelve Mile Circle –...
Inland Northwest, Day 5 (University Loop) This was another early morning start although not as early as some of the others. We wouldn’t need...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
This was another early morning start although not as early as some of the others. We wouldn’t need to drive very far anymore now that we’d settled into our temporary home in Lewiston, Idaho for four nights in a row. The Washington Race Sunrise came quickly and we soon found...
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Spikkin Scots
8 months ago
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Mapping Things
a year ago
somethingaboutmaps
A New, Unrelated Blog Kindly readers: I wanted to let you know that I’ve started another little publication, one which has...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Kindly readers: I wanted to let you know that I’ve started another little publication, one which has nothing to do with maps, but I figure is worth telling you about anyway: I climb trees recreationally, and I’ve decided to start writing about my thoughts and experiences. Perhaps...
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245 Russian Military Targets at Risk
4 months ago
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99 Red Balloons Go By
7 months ago
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The Global Problem of Forever Chemicals
a year ago
Map of the Week
Bad News For Local News Northwestern University’s Medill Local News Initiative released the latest State of Local News. It...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Northwestern University’s Medill Local News Initiative released the latest State of Local News. It highlights the dire state of print journalism with maps to illustrate the problems. This one highlights counties that are on the watch list to become news deserts. News deserts...
Adventures In...
Tolkien Style Maps in a GIS: part 1, Forests “Most of the trees are just trees, of course; but many are half awake.” In this 4-part series we’ll...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
“Most of the trees are just trees, of course; but many are half awake.” In this 4-part series we’ll walk through the reckoning of a Lord of the Rings style fantasy map, right in ArcGIS Pro. We map-makers get to breathe honest to goodness geographic life into the seminal aesthetic...
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Vintage Street View Imagery
a month ago
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The World's Largest Snow Dome
a year ago
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The D-Day Memorial Map
9 months ago
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Mapping the Census
6 months ago
Adventures In...
Close Encounters of the Cartographic Kind I was watching the Steven Spielberg 1977 classic, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, with the...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
I was watching the Steven Spielberg 1977 classic, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, with the family last night and nerded out when I saw a character that claimed to be a cartographer. I always do. It was the cartographer who recognized that the signals the aliens sent were...
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The Spookiest Places in the USA
a year ago
Adventures In...
Dashing Maps There are lots of reasons why cartographers use dashed lines in their maps. Sometimes there are a...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
There are lots of reasons why cartographers use dashed lines in their maps. Sometimes there are a lot of different sorts of lines going around and it’s the best way to differentiate between different categories of things. Or we can embed meaning into them, like a dashed line...
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Nova Scotia Map Mural I’m in Nova Scotia this week in places with poor internet so I was not planning on posting anything....
a year ago
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a year ago
I’m in Nova Scotia this week in places with poor internet so I was not planning on posting anything. Then I saw this fantastic mural on the side of a building in Annapolis Royal so I just had to share it. Enjoy!
Maps Mania
A Year of Wildfire in Europe
a year ago
Map of the Week
Nice Eclipse Maps - Part 2 As promised from last week's post here are a couple additional sites that nicely visualize the path...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
As promised from last week's post here are a couple additional sites that nicely visualize the path of next month's eclipse. The first one is from Bloomberg, How to Find the Best Cities to Watch the Eclipse. One of the best things about this page is that it starts with an...
somethingaboutmaps
Challenging the Idea of a Bad Map We’re just a couple of weeks away from the 30 Day Map Challenge, an annual celebration of...
a year ago
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a year ago
We’re just a couple of weeks away from the 30 Day Map Challenge, an annual celebration of cartographic creativity. I know some of you are already brainstorming about what you might do this year. Each day has a prompt, and you’re encouraged to make a map that day that is based on...
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An Earth Powered by the Sun
2 weeks ago
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Which Country Most Resembles Your Country?
a year ago
somethingaboutmaps
The Unnecessary Peril of the Fuller Projection Throughout my career, I’ve heard a variety of rumors and conflicting opinions about whether or not...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Throughout my career, I’ve heard a variety of rumors and conflicting opinions about whether or not you can get in trouble for using the Fuller projection. Let's find out if it's true.
Twelve Mile Circle –...
Inland Northwest, Day 2 (Walla Walla to Pendleton) We awoke in Walla Walla at the beginning of our first full day. We couldn’t check-in at our...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
We awoke in Walla Walla at the beginning of our first full day. We couldn’t check-in at our accommodations in Pendleton, Oregon until mid-afternoon and the drive would only take about an hour. So we needed to find something we could do locally and we got another chance to explore...
Map of the Week
Harry Beck's Famous Subway Map Goes Airborne This map was published a month ago in the Londonist. Just about every other map blog has already...
a year ago
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a year ago
This map was published a month ago in the Londonist. Just about every other map blog has already picked up on it and I am late to the game. However, I've spent so much time looking at it that I think it's worth a visit even if you've already seen it. It was drawn by Harry Beck,...
Maps Mania
Visit Barcelona Without Going Abroad
a year ago
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Tracking American Spies in Germany
5 months ago
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Unlocking America’s Visual Time Machine
a year ago
Map of the Week
Hidden Hydrology In my day job I've mapped buried streams to give an indication of areas that are most likely to...
a year ago
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a year ago
In my day job I've mapped buried streams to give an indication of areas that are most likely to flood in major storms. It turns out that buried streams in older urban centers is common everywhere. Hidden Hydrology is a great resource for exploring disappeared waterways throughout...
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How Not to Stare at the Sun
a year ago
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Welcome To Your New Gardening Zone
7 months ago
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Finding Your Coordinate Twins
3 months ago
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Warmer Stripes for 2023
7 months ago
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Santa Tracker Maps
a year ago
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A New Google Map of the Brain
a year ago
somethingaboutmaps
Automated Hachuring in QGIS I seem to have accidentally come up with a method for duplicating a centuries-old terrain...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
I seem to have accidentally come up with a method for duplicating a centuries-old terrain representation technique. If you’ve looked at old maps, you’ve probably seen hachures: lines that run up and down along the slope of terrain features. There were a wide variety of approaches...
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2024 Fall Foliage Map
3 months ago
Transit Maps
Official Map: Newark International Airport Regional Rail Connections, 2023 Every so often, I come across a transit map that is just so unfit for purpose that all I can do is...
a year ago
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a year ago
Every so often, I come across a transit map that is just so unfit for purpose that all I can do is scratch my head and ponder, “Just why?” This is one of those maps. Produced by (or on behalf of) Newark International Airport, it purports to show regional rail services that you...
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The X-Files of Paranormal Activity
a year ago
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North America's Shrinking Railways
4 weeks ago
Transit Maps
Submission – Official Map: TRAM d’Alacant Fare Zones, 2023 Submitted by Roberto, who says: I would like to share the TRAM d’Alacant fare zone map. It describes...
a year ago
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a year ago
Submitted by Roberto, who says: I would like to share the TRAM d’Alacant fare zone map. It describes the different zones and stops of this tramway/narrow gauge train in the Spanish province of Alacant (Alicante). It’s been reopened recently after six years of renovation works....
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Three Maps & the Truth You may have heard that “all maps lie” and that’s right (also, here’s some required reading). Each...
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You may have heard that “all maps lie” and that’s right (also, here’s some required reading). Each map is a collection of compromises, whether they’re geomatic (your projection and scale choices), editorial (your choice of subject and what you’ve chosen to show and not show), and...
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Virtual Rewind Machines
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Floating Sargasso Sea Mapped from the Canaries to the West Indies, against a blank background, the Sargassum Belt seems...
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Mapped from the Canaries to the West Indies, against a blank background, the Sargassum Belt seems removed from the levels of phosphorous of our coastal oceans leaving the high density of its thirteen million tons on a blank screen as the latest whacky disturbance of the...
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Mapping the Colors of Autumn
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Discover Your Earthquake Risk
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Standing on Top of the World
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Global Sunlight Chart
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The Alphabet Railway Radio personality Bill Barry was fascinated with the place names of his native Saskatchewan. So much...
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Radio personality Bill Barry was fascinated with the place names of his native Saskatchewan. So much so that he wrote a Dictionary of Saskatchewan Place Names, I'm sure you've probably read it already but an interesting item about this toponymy is how many of the towns were...
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Global Burning
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Asia-Pacific, Part 6 (South Korea: Seoul) I didn’t get much time to wander around Seoul like I did in Tokyo. Every day was a work day and it...
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I didn’t get much time to wander around Seoul like I did in Tokyo. Every day was a work day and it was a brief stop. So I was confined mostly to what I could see from the windshield as we drove through the city or from the hotel. However, this was my first trip […] The post...
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Virtual Reality OpenStreetMap
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The 2nd 1 Hour AI Map Challenge
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Tolkien Style Maps in a GIS: part 3, Water “The world has changed. I see it in the water.” In this 4-part series we’ll walk through the...
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“The world has changed. I see it in the water.” In this 4-part series we’ll walk through the reckoning of a Lord of the Rings style fantasy map, right in ArcGIS Pro. We map-makers get to breathe honest to goodness geographic life into the seminal aesthetic found in the LOTR...
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Seoul Maps I found this nice collection of maps of Seoul, South Korea's largest city and capital from...
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I found this nice collection of maps of Seoul, South Korea's largest city and capital from theSEOULlive. This is a website/magazine of Korean culture that "focuses on unraveling the hidden jewels of Seoul that can only be found with rumination."  Unfortunately these maps are...
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The Atlas of Design, Volume 7 Note to readers on this platform: I also publish this blog on Substack. You may find that the...
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Note to readers on this platform: I also publish this blog on Substack. You may find that the pictures below show up a little better than here. The Atlas of Design is a biannual production of the North American Cartographic Information Society (NACIS). It highlights some of the...
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Scrambled Maps for Mobile
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England, Day 9 (Atypical London) Before we left on our trip to England I promised everyone in the family that we would visit at least...
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Before we left on our trip to England I promised everyone in the family that we would visit at least one thing they absolutely wanted to see. We completed that for the younger kid at Tankfest. Two more bucket list destinations happened during our first full day in London. We’re...
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Street View Surveillance
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Taiyoh Pokemon Nation Taiyoh is a fan-made Pokemon nation. It is based on Japan. In fact, the resemblance is so strong...
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Taiyoh is a fan-made Pokemon nation. It is based on Japan. In fact, the resemblance is so strong that I came across these pages when looking for maps of Japan. I will refrain from commenting on Pokemon given my lack of knowledge. However, I like the look and feel of this map....
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Merry Gridmas! Gridviz is a Javascript library for visualizing gridded (raster) data. They created a Christmas...
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Gridviz is a Javascript library for visualizing gridded (raster) data. They created a Christmas themed map showing land use with holiday emojis.  Also if you visit the Gridmas page you can watch the snow fall over Europe. You can pan and zoom around, however if you try to go...
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Discovering the Dissolution
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Inside the Tombs & Pyramids of Egypt
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Dayton, Ohio Part 4 (Venturing North) The ultimate destination was Dayton, Ohio and it took about seven and a half hours to get there....
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The ultimate destination was Dayton, Ohio and it took about seven and a half hours to get there. However we didn’t just sit in Dayton for an entire week. If I had to drive all that way you better believe I would do some County Counting along the way too. At this point I’ve...
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Planning for the Next Eclipse Maybe you saw Monday's eclipse and were impressed enough to want to travel to see another one or...
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Maybe you saw Monday's eclipse and were impressed enough to want to travel to see another one or maybe you missed it because life got in the way or you couldn't justify the time and expense of travel. Or, maybe you're like me and foolishly traveled to Rochester, New York where...
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Illumination Cartography Here are a few flavors of a technique, illumination cartography, that uses data to shed light on its...
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Here are a few flavors of a technique, illumination cartography, that uses data to shed light on its underlying basemap. There’s something satisfying about presenting a phenomenon as revealing geography rather than obscuring it. Love, John
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Submission – Official Map: Greater Copenhagen Rail Map, 2024 Submitted by Jakob, who says: The M4 branch extension to Copenhagen South has just opened, and with...
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Submitted by Jakob, who says: The M4 branch extension to Copenhagen South has just opened, and with it, a much improved map compared to 2019 [My review of the 2019 map can be found here – Cam]. The Circle Line is now more spacious, junctions are labeled more clearly, and metro...
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The EJAtlas: A Map for Environmental Justice
3 months ago
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Submission – New Official Map: “Harmonized” Montréal Metropolitan Transit Services Map, 2023 A flurry of people have submitted this brand new map out of Montréal for review, so let’s get...
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A flurry of people have submitted this brand new map out of Montréal for review, so let’s get straight to it! First of all, it’s important to note that is part of a new suite of maps and wayfinding signage that’s been in development since 2018, Using Montréal’s iconic “black...
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AI Satellite Search
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How to make this thematic map, and stuff One of the great joys of working here at Esri is the opportunity to collaborate with amazing people....
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One of the great joys of working here at Esri is the opportunity to collaborate with amazing people. Recently I had the opportunity to present at the User Conference about thematic mapping, with Sarah Bell and Kenneth Field. It was a lot of fun and we all surprised each other...
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The Climate Impact of Your Neighborhood This latest New York Times interactive map shows how people who live closer in to city centers have...
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This latest New York Times interactive map shows how people who live closer in to city centers have a relatively small carbon footprint, while those who live further out have some of the largest footprints in the nation. While that may not be surprising by itself there are some...
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The City Map Game
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Sea Surface Temperatures With global ocean surface temperatures shot way off the charts by mid-March, beyond forty years...
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With global ocean surface temperatures shot way off the charts by mid-March, beyond forty years satellites have monitored sea surface temperatures, we’ve been struggling to map the changes in sea-surface temperatures, both globally and locally, in satisfactory and meaningful...
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Guess Where You Are
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Ephemeral Tweets
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Reconstructing a Plane Crash
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How to Reattach Land that Spills Over the International Dateline If you’ve ever made a world map before, you may have noticed that bit of Siberia that spills over...
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If you’ve ever made a world map before, you may have noticed that bit of Siberia that spills over the International Dateline only to magically appear on the left edge of the world. When it comes to projecting our not-2D world onto a 2D surface, we have to draw the line somewhere....
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The Sea Trade Monitor
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The 2023 Polish Election
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Water Taxis of Paris Here is a nice map of the water taxi system in Paris, circa 1900. Boats pulled by horses or with...
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Here is a nice map of the water taxi system in Paris, circa 1900. Boats pulled by horses or with oars or sails were eventually replaced by steam powered boats in the 1800's. They were a large part of the Paris transportation network before the railroads took over in the early...
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How to make a “peeled edge” area of interest effect Sure, everyone loves a good raised area-of-interest effect. But what about a peeled edge area of...
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Sure, everyone loves a good raised area-of-interest effect. But what about a peeled edge area of interest? It’s a snazzy trick and maybe just the sort of flair that your map needs! And it’s simpler than maybe you’d guess. To give your area of interest a peeled edge effect, you...
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Moon 2.0
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Finding History Nearby
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Take the 2024 Freelance Mapper Survey Friends and colleagues, it’s time once again for the survey that Aly Ollivierre and I conduct every...
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Friends and colleagues, it’s time once again for the survey that Aly Ollivierre and I conduct every two years. We ask people who do freelance mapping work about their fees and other business practices, in order to help bring more transparency to our little niche of the world, and...
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Inside the Maya Temples of Copan
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How Near do You Live to a Mass Shooting?
a year ago
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Submission – Unofficial Map: Tramways in Gdańsk, Poland by Arsen Mosiichuk, 2024 Submitted by Arsen, who says: Hello, this summer I with Sergey Steblina as art-director designed a...
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Submitted by Arsen, who says: Hello, this summer I with Sergey Steblina as art-director designed a transit map of Gdańsk trams. I am very interested what Transit Maps think about this. Transit Maps says: Overall, this is very solid and clean work – very much in the style of...
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Poetry Walks
a year ago
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The Southern Underground Railroad This map, via Smithsonian, shows the main passageways that the enslaved took southwards to...
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This map, via Smithsonian, shows the main passageways that the enslaved took southwards to freedom. The southern Underground Railroad was less traveled and much less well documented, but Mexico after gaining independence passed strong anti-slavery laws. Even before that the...
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Weather or Not
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When is the Coldest Day of the Year?
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Free Maps for All
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Submission – Official Map: Rail and Bus Map of Southeast Queensland, Australia, 2024 Submitted by Lachlan, who says: Brisbane dropped a new transit map and it is EXTREMELY pretty. I’m a...
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Submitted by Lachlan, who says: Brisbane dropped a new transit map and it is EXTREMELY pretty. I’m a big fan. Definitely the best-designed official transit map in Australia in my opinion. It even acknowledges the rapid bus routes and the G-Link light rail! I wish it could have...
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Geoengineering Planet Earth
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The Right-Wing Terrorism Map
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GeoTimeGuessr
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Live 2 Years Longer with Better Air Quality
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Endangered Languages of New York City In January I did a series of posts on endangered languages. A few weeks ago the New York Times had...
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In January I did a series of posts on endangered languages. A few weeks ago the New York Times had an excellent "scrollytelling" graphic story on these languages and where they are spoken within New York City. as you scroll down the page languages appear down Manhattan...
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Russia's Secret Nuclear Targets in China
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Historical Map: Diagram of Passenger Stations in the Sydney Metropolitan Area, 1928 There’s a lot to like about this simple little track diagram of Sydney’s rail system from 1928....
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There’s a lot to like about this simple little track diagram of Sydney’s rail system from 1928. There’s a lot of different angles – both with route lines and station labels – but it still manages to hang together as a coherent whole. A big part of that is the dead straight...
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The Journey of a Vampire
7 months ago
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The Catalan GeoGuessing Game
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Boost the Human Footprint in Imagery The World Imagery Basemap is a lovely resource spanning the Earth in all directions at all scales....
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The World Imagery Basemap is a lovely resource spanning the Earth in all directions at all scales. If you want to add a level of context you can always add a reference overlay. But what about baking a reference overlay into the imagery in a way that makes it look, like, sort of...
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Redesigning the World's Transit Maps
a year ago
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2022 Freelancer Survey Results Thank you once again to everyone who participated in this year’s survey of freelance cartographer...
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over a year ago
Thank you once again to everyone who participated in this year’s survey of freelance cartographer rates and business practices! Herein, you will find the results of the survey, sliced into a few different charts and visuals, all crafted by my survey partner Aly Ollivierre. For...
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⅓ of Rafah’s Buildings Destroyed
8 months ago
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The 100 Most Segregated School Districts in America
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Electrical Japan
a year ago
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Mapping Russian Military Facilities in Crimea
a year ago
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Canada's Hidden Subterranean Rivers
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How to Make Features Illuminate an Underlying Basemap Sure, we can make features look like they are glowing. But how can we make them look like they are...
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Sure, we can make features look like they are glowing. But how can we make them look like they are casting light on the basemap below? Here’s a silly little trick using crafty symbology and blend modes in ArcGIS Pro. In this case we’ll use glorious stork migration paths,...
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A Cool, Shady Spot with a Breeze
a year ago
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Tree Maps of the World
a year ago
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The First Images from EUMETSAT MTG-I1
a year ago
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Staring at the Moon
a year ago
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30 Day Map Challenge 2023 Days 3 9 Here’s what I’ve been working on for the past week’s 30 Day Map Challenges with the prompts...
a year ago
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a year ago
Here’s what I’ve been working on for the past week’s 30 Day Map Challenges with the prompts listed. Day 3 - Polygons This is not exactly a hand made map, more having fun with cutting boards. My wife gave me the Pennsylvania board a few years ago and I used it in the 2021...
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AI Search of San Francisco
3 months ago
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The Cyclotron
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Alternatives to Google Maps Street View
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Twelve Mile Circle –...
Dayton, Ohio Part 6 (Breweries) It’s the eternal question. Should I lump all of the brewery visits into a single article or should I...
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It’s the eternal question. Should I lump all of the brewery visits into a single article or should I spread them within the series? Well, as always, it depends. This time I decided to discuss them all at once because of a simple fact of geography. We visited eight breweries...
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These are the Safest Cities in the World
7 months ago
Adventures In...
On-the-Fly Generalization Hack for ArcGIS Pro Generalization is one of the most important tools in a map maker’s tool kit. Sometimes the...
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Generalization is one of the most important tools in a map maker’s tool kit. Sometimes the complexity of our geometry needs to be smoothed out to best visually represent a place or appear best at various scales. Here is a way (complete hack, but surprisingly effective) to...
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Live From Space
8 months ago
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Stolen Native American Remains In 1990 the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act was passed by the U.S. Congress...
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In 1990 the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act was passed by the U.S. Congress to gave indigenous peoples a way to reclaim their dead. 33 years later about half of the remains have yet to be returned. Pro Publica produced a piece with excellent interactive...
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The 2022 Hurricane Season While I was busy obsessing over my 30 Day Map Challenge in November, CNN put out this map in a...
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While I was busy obsessing over my 30 Day Map Challenge in November, CNN put out this map in a summary of the 2022 hurricane season. It's interesting to see all the hurricane tracks on one map. While the season started out slowly, it finished with several memorable storms...
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A Bird's Eye View of America
a year ago
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135,000 Years of Changing Sea Levels
a year ago
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The Daily Explorer
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Create an AI Poster for Your Location
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US Military Bases Around the World
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The Indoor CO2 Map
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Buffalo in 50 Maps New from Belt Publishing - the third book of their "50 Maps" series, Buffalo in 50 Maps is now out....
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a year ago
New from Belt Publishing - the third book of their "50 Maps" series, Buffalo in 50 Maps is now out. Previous books on Cleveland and Detroit have been briefly covered on previous blog posts. The author, cartographer Victoria Johnson-Dahl was kind enough to send me an advance copy...
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How Good is Your Map Memory?
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A Few Nice Eclipse Maps-Part 1 In a month a total eclipse will make its way across North America. On April 8th the path will travel...
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In a month a total eclipse will make its way across North America. On April 8th the path will travel quickly, (under two hours) from Mazatlán on Mexico's Pacific coast to Newfoundland, Canada and then into the Atlantic Ocean. There are some really nice visualizations of the...
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Ten Years of Global Marine Traffic
a year ago
somethingaboutmaps
Projection Cards: Now a Reality A couple months back, I floated an idea for making some fun trading cards based on map projections....
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A couple months back, I floated an idea for making some fun trading cards based on map projections. I’m very happy to report that several dozen of you responded and contributed designs to help make the set happen. I’ve been spending several weeks on managing everyone and working...
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Florida's Waffle House Index Score
2 months ago
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AI Map Markers
a year ago
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China vs America - World Influence Map
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Summer Light Reading 2024 Here is another installment of what is becoming an annual summer tradition. Just like the light...
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Here is another installment of what is becoming an annual summer tradition. Just like the light beach reading, here is some light map reading. Not much to comment about, just some maps and related items I like. First of all since the Olympics are in Paris, a nice papercut map you...
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Submission – Fantasy Map: New York Regional Rail Concept by James G Submitted by James, who says: I created this map based on various concepts (mainly the work of Alon...
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Submitted by James, who says: I created this map based on various concepts (mainly the work of Alon Levy) for through-running regional rail in the New York region. This network would integrate all of the current commuter rail networks, increasing frequencies to metro-like levels,...
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France Defeats the Far-Right
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Musings on Maps
“We Like Fighting Games” As he waited rather glumly for “the Feds” to arrive at his home, as his stepfather predicted, Airman...
a year ago
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a year ago
As he waited rather glumly for “the Feds” to arrive at his home, as his stepfather predicted, Airman First Class Jack Douglas Teixiera may have pondered why he had posted classified maps of heated battle fronts in the Ukraine War … Continue reading →
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Mapping Loch Ness Monster Sightings
a year ago
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Reconstructing the Ancient Trade Routes
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The Riskiest Places to Live in America
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Who is Your Closest Team?
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London, Paris & Berlin Metro Memory Games
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The Folk Music of the World
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World Level Zero
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Guess This City 2.0
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Puget Sound 3D block diagram Here’s a map of the Puget Sound area that I made a couple years ago for presentations to folks in...
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Here’s a map of the Puget Sound area that I made a couple years ago for presentations to folks in the US northwest. Recently I wanted to work some more at labeling in a 3D environment and found this to be a handy target. Additionally, I thought it would be fun to make more use …
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How to make this map of a melting glacier I’ve been to Columbia Glacier, just west of Valdez, Alaska, three times. The first was as a...
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I’ve been to Columbia Glacier, just west of Valdez, Alaska, three times. The first was as a youngster in 1984, the second in 1987, and the final time in 2000. Each time, the ride by boat to the terminal edge of the ice where it calves into Prince William Sound, took a bit longer....
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Assassination Simulation
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Man Made Star Signs
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The Same Size As
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Your Future Climate Twin
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Graduated It seemed like just yesterday that Twelve Mile Circle chronicled the kid who designed an imaginary...
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It seemed like just yesterday that Twelve Mile Circle chronicled the kid who designed an imaginary town and counted various forms of transportation. Now my elementary aged student is all grown up, a newly-minted university graduate. Those interceding years passed much more...
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How Well Do You Know New York's Subway?
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The Stunning Beauty of Air Traffic Data
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Using AI to Beat TimeGuessr
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The American Treasure Map
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Isochrone Maps
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The most mis-mapped US states
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Historical Maps: Private Railways and Extra-urban Tramways of Italy, 1936 I stumbled across this atlas of maps the other day and had to share. A few sample pages are below –...
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a year ago
I stumbled across this atlas of maps the other day and had to share. A few sample pages are below – head to the originating website to view all 20 of them. Enjoy! Source: Stagniweb.it
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Mapping the Big Map Index
6 months ago
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Virtual Indian Independence Day
4 months ago
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America's Drunkest Counties
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How to make tapered rivers in ArcGIS Pro Cartographers will often exaggerate the natural scale of a mapped feature to help it communicate...
a year ago
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a year ago
Cartographers will often exaggerate the natural scale of a mapped feature to help it communicate something of its nature. Some examples are vertical exaggeration of terrain or the very existence of point symbols (cities aren’t actually that big). We embellish for effect. Making a...
Transit Maps
15% Off All Prints in the “Transit Maps” Store Just a reminder that the best way to support the site is by buying a print from our online store,...
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Just a reminder that the best way to support the site is by buying a print from our online store, because you get something awesome in return! We’re having a Thanksgiving/Black Friday/Small Business Saturday/Cyber Monday sale with 15% off all prints. Choose from my original...
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Philadelphia Bookstore Map Note: As September comes to a close so does Philadelphia month. There will be a couple more posts...
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a year ago
Note: As September comes to a close so does Philadelphia month. There will be a couple more posts today and tomorrow before I return to my normal weekly schedule. This one is personal. Several years ago I was working with a Philly-based computer programmer and an artist to create...
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Real-Time 3D Mapping
a year ago
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The History of the Ordnance Survey
a year ago
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The Butterfly Superhighway
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The Real-Time GPS Spoofing Map
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How Families Live Around the World.
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A Year of CO2
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Have You Earned Your Air Pollution Stripes?
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Why the Spanish Like Vertical Living
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Free Map Data Grabbers
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Twelve Mile Circle –...
England, Day 3 (Dorchester) We began to explore a little further afield, still within Dorset, as we began to settle in to our...
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We began to explore a little further afield, still within Dorset, as we began to settle in to our home for the week. That took us a little further west and a few miles inland from the English Channel. It included a lot of open countryside and then a sizeable settlement....
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The Distressed Communities of America
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Map of the Week
Algal Blooming Across the World NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center produced a video showing the increase in harmful algal blooms...
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NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center produced a video showing the increase in harmful algal blooms over the last 50 years. If the above video does not load try clicking here. This version ends by opening the globe into a world map to show everywhere at once. There is another...
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The Hezbollah Map
a year ago
Map of the Week
Suginami Walking Tours Suginami is a ward on the west side of Tokyo. The Experience Suginami web page features a series of...
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Suginami is a ward on the west side of Tokyo. The Experience Suginami web page features a series of walks and tours with some nice maps.  The Historical Walk shows not only the shrines and gardens of the neighborhood, but also shows where you can get ramen and "healthy" soy...
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Map of Endangered Languages Languages become endangered when parents teach a more dominant language to their children. This...
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Languages become endangered when parents teach a more dominant language to their children. This clickable map can be found on Ethnologue, a language reference guide and a good place to spend part of this International Decade of Indigenous Languages.  Hover over a language to see...
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Real-Time Animated Wind Maps
2 months ago
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US Oil and Gas Pipelines Felt is a nice web mapping app that anyone can use to get a map and add your own data, mark it up...
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Felt is a nice web mapping app that anyone can use to get a map and add your own data, mark it up and share with others. One of their most interesting example maps is this map of oil and gas pipelines.  Oil pipelines are in blue and natural gas is orange. I would have reversed...
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FlightRadar's New GPS Jamming Map
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Global Sentiment Towards Israel & Palestine
a year ago
Musings on Maps
The Dystopia of Diagolon: Irrational Cartographies of Secession The quandary of our own abundant if not inexhaustible repertoire of mapping abilities and skills of...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The quandary of our own abundant if not inexhaustible repertoire of mapping abilities and skills of visualization are tried by the spread of COVID-19. As dashboards, news agencies, and media offered new maps and staked new skills of mapping, maps … Continue reading →
Adventures In...
Find and download vintage USGS topo maps The new Historical Topo Map Explorer is out of beta and ready for you to dive into a collection of...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
The new Historical Topo Map Explorer is out of beta and ready for you to dive into a collection of over 180,000 beautiful vintage USGS topo maps! Use this updated Living Atlas app to geographically browse, download, export, and even animate, these cartographic objects of joy....
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