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I know it’s short notice, but I wanted to let you all know that I’m doing a livestream tomorrow. It’s been well over 2½ years since my last one. I’ll be covering a few monochrome maps I made for an upcoming book. Please come on by to ask questions, offer feedback, and share your thoughts … Continue reading Going Live →
2 months ago

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Journey’s End

Nearly five years ago, I completed a project that, to my mind, remains the most significant of my cartographic career: An Atlas of Great Lakes Islands, manually printed in cyanotype, with a hand-stitched binding. I wanted to share this project with all of you, but there were only a few copies. So, I decided to … Continue reading Journey’s End →

3 months ago 76 votes
The Dream Lives

I know lately I’ve been in commercial mode, pointing you toward various projects of mine that you can support by giving me money. And I promise I’ll get back to less commercial musings as time goes on. But for now, I also want to alert you to a way you can give other people money, … Continue reading The Dream Lives →

4 months ago 64 votes
Kickstarter 3: The Return

For the past several years, I’ve enjoyed the process of cyanotype printing, and have released a number of projects based on this technique (including my favorite item I’ve ever made). Now, I’ve decided to take my recent work in developing terrain sketches, and turn it into a new series of prints. For this, though, I … Continue reading Kickstarter 3: The Return →

4 months ago 87 votes
A Free eBook of Terrain Lines

Friends, earlier this week I mentioned that I’d completed a whole bunch of terrain sketches using some novel techniques that allowed me to create a hachure drawing style from digital elevation data. If you’d like to see the whole set, I’ve now assembled them into a quick eBook for your perusing. Click the image below … Continue reading A Free eBook of Terrain Lines →

5 months ago 67 votes

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You know how you can crank up the sense of drama and studio photography professionalism by switching over to portrait mode on your phone’s camera? It just looks…cool. The subject is in focus and the peripheral background content is blurry. It’s actually how our eyes and brains work, so it’s pleasing to see in photography. …

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The Biological Significance of Micro-Continents: The Fascinating Caecilians of Seychelles (and Other Parts of the World)    

On the surface, there is little to distinguish small islands on continental fragments from oceanic islands that have no continental connections. Careful observation, however, can reveal some interesting differences. The Seychelles microcontinent in the Indian Ocean is an intriguing case in point. The islands sitting on this chunk of continental crust constitute a sovereign state, […] The post The Biological Significance of Micro-Continents: The Fascinating Caecilians of Seychelles (and Other Parts of the World)     appeared first on GeoCurrents.

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GeoCurrents Listed as One of the 100 Best GIS Blogs and Websites in 2025

I am pleased to report that GeoCurrents has been selected by FeedSpot as one of the “100 Best GIS Blogs” for 2025. It is an honor to receive this recognition and I give my sincere thanks to FeedSpot for the acknowledgement, although I do have to say that GeoCurrents is more a “GIS-adjacent blog” than […] The post GeoCurrents Listed as One of the 100 Best GIS Blogs and Websites in 2025 appeared first on GeoCurrents.

3 days ago 3 votes