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Maps Mania
Pixel the Planet!
3 weeks ago
GeoCurrents
Is Apple Maps Erasing Druze Identity by Calling the “Jabal al-Druze” the “Jabal al-Arab”? Armed conflict over the past few weeks in southern Syria between the Druze and Bedouin militias...
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Armed conflict over the past few weeks in southern Syria between the Druze and Bedouin militias receiving help from the Syrian military have taken over a thousand lives. As reported in the Kurdish press, Tawfiq al-Hijri, Deputy Head of the Foreign Relations Office of the...
Adventures In...
Time-warp walkability mapping in ArcGIS Pro In my mental model of a walkability map it’s not enough to know how far away something is, but also...
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In my mental model of a walkability map it’s not enough to know how far away something is, but also how long it takes me to get there. My perceptions of the same distances, but with different walk times, are much different. There are realities that slow me down like...
somethingaboutmaps
A Sketch of Isle Royale It’s been a summer full of side projects here. Which is a very good sign — I used to do many, many...
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It’s been a summer full of side projects here. Which is a very good sign — I used to do many, many side projects, but for the last couple of years, poor health has left me with reduced energy, and my output dropped off significantly. It’s nice to feel inspired again, in so many...
Maps Mania
Solve the Global Treasure Hunt!
3 weeks ago
Maps Mania
7 Free Alternatives to GeoGuessr
2 weeks ago
Adventures In...
The Dress: perceptual madness and what it means for mappers
2 weeks ago
Maps Mania
Which states have the ugliest kids?
4 weeks ago
Maps Mania
Mapping the MutiVerse
3 weeks ago
Maps Mania
Zero Chance of Rain on Mars Today
4 weeks ago
Maps Mania
Ocean Warming Stripes
2 weeks ago
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The Underground Atlas
2 weeks ago
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A Speculative Atlas of Climate Disaster
3 weeks ago
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The Global Movie Map
3 weeks ago
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America’s Carnegie Libraries on One Map
4 weeks ago
Maps Mania
Where is Your Dinner From?
2 weeks ago
Transit Maps
Submission – Official Map: Northern Railway Map, England, 2025 Submitted by Nicholas, who says: Northern Rail’s new map is well worth a look – I find it exemplary...
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Submitted by Nicholas, who says: Northern Rail’s new map is well worth a look – I find it exemplary for making such a previously nebulous network entirely understandable. Graphics pretty well impeccable. I understand this network may not survive the transition to Great British...
Adventures In...
I Got a Drone, part 1: Unboxing & Goals I heard regular people can just buy, and then remotely pilot, small flying robots with exquisite...
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I heard regular people can just buy, and then remotely pilot, small flying robots with exquisite cameras. I figure these things have to have some utility in the mapping realm, so I got the cheapest one I could find that might get me going on making some basic maps. Why? Why not?...
Maps Mania
Ghost Signs: Phantoms of the Past
2 weeks ago
Maps Mania
The Trump Appeaser's Map
2 weeks ago
Maps Mania
Swimming With the Tide
a week ago
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The Map to Your Heart
2 weeks ago
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Earth’s Greatest Hits, Live!
a week ago
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Draining the Planet
a week ago
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Spies in the Sky - Satellites of the Cold War
a week ago
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Love Story 2 - Dressed to Kill!
a week ago
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The Cold Case Murder Map
a week ago
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🙂 The Emoji Map of Train Delays ☹️
6 days ago
Twelve Mile Circle –...
Arc of Columbus, Part 1 The summer flew by so quickly. It seems like only yesterday that I drove to Michigan to pick up the...
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The summer flew by so quickly. It seems like only yesterday that I drove to Michigan to pick up the kid from college after the end of the spring semester. It was a great trip and I managed to collect eight previously unvisited counties in Ohio along the way. But now I was doing...
Maps Mania
Tourist Minesweeper
5 days ago
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Using AI to Search Maps
4 days ago
Maps Mania
Roll Your Own Geocoder
6 days ago
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Changing Parking Lots to Homes
3 days ago
Transit Maps
Submission: Official Map – Transportation Network of Brittany, France, 2025 Submitted by Nicolas, who says: I live in Brittany, France, mostly on the western side of the...
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Submitted by Nicolas, who says: I live in Brittany, France, mostly on the western side of the region, so I am submitting its network map, containing coach, boat, and plane (yes, plane) routes in this great region. Since merging the transport networks a few years ago, the region...
Maps Mania
Letters Found on the Moon
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Twelve Mile Circle –...
Arc of Columbus, Part 2 The quest to add new Ohio spots to my county counting list continued, padding my efforts from...
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The quest to add new Ohio spots to my county counting list continued, padding my efforts from earlier in the day. The wide arc I took around the perimeter of Columbus swung from north, clockwise, now approaching due-east. The route now led into Licking County. Getting Licked...
Maps Mania
How Big is Anything?
12 hours ago
Transit Maps
Submission – Official Map: Tram and Busways of Casablanca, Morocco, 2024 Submitted by Leo, who says: On September 24, the Casablanca tramway network nearly doubled in length...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
Submitted by Leo, who says: On September 24, the Casablanca tramway network nearly doubled in length with the opening of T3 and T4. The Casatramway network, operated by RATP, is depicted in the new map alongside the Casabusway BRT lines currently under construction. The map...
Adventures In...
Close Encounters of the Cartographic Kind I was watching the Steven Spielberg 1977 classic, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, with the...
a year ago
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a year 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...
Transit Maps
Unofficial Map: High-Speed Rail of France, 2023 by Lars’ Transport Maps Well, this is just beautiful. Having made my own diagram on the same subject matter way, way back in...
a year ago
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a year ago
Well, this is just beautiful. Having made my own diagram on the same subject matter way, way back in 2011, I think I’m qualified to say that this is a rousing success. The maps have some similarities – routes are colour-coded either by their Paris origin station or operator...
Musings on Maps
Gaza, Again–and Again The Gaza Strip’s spatiality continues to puzzle and fascinate–as much as the pressing question of...
a year ago
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a year ago
The Gaza Strip’s spatiality continues to puzzle and fascinate–as much as the pressing question of its sovereignty. The two are of course intertwined, and the boundaries of Gaza are historically defined. The perimeter around the Gaza Strip was in a … Continue reading →
Transit Maps
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...
a year ago
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a year ago
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...
somethingaboutmaps
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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a year ago
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...
Musings on Maps
“He Could Easily Destroy Us” Tucker Carlson's move to Twitter led him to celebrate it as the last preserve of free speech. But...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Tucker Carlson's move to Twitter led him to celebrate it as the last preserve of free speech. But his relation to speech was long slippery, best reflected on the heuristic display of the 2016 electoral map that was the logo of the pundit's nightly show's and its guiding...
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...
Transit Maps
Historical Map: Trams of Brisbane, Queensland, 1957 A simple but nicely drawn map of tram services in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia in 1957. The lack...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A simple but nicely drawn map of tram services in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia in 1957. The lack of any sort of key for the routes means that users need to have some familiarity with the city to decipher where trams might go. The pamphlet that the map is part of includes...
somethingaboutmaps
My Decade with Blender It occurs to me that I have been Blendering for a long time. In fact, it’s been almost exactly a...
a year ago
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It occurs to me that I have been Blendering for a long time. In fact, it’s been almost exactly a decade since I gave my first public presentation on the technique of generating shaded relief using Blender. And in that time, the method has been adopted far more widely than I could...
somethingaboutmaps
Automated Hachuring in QGIS I seem to have accidentally come up with a method for duplicating a centuries-old terrain...
a year ago
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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...
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...
Twelve Mile Circle –...
Graduated It seemed like just yesterday that Twelve Mile Circle chronicled the kid who designed an imaginary...
a year ago
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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...