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GenAI for the Static Cartographer It’s finally time for me to write something about generative AI. While I’ve made occasional comments...
3 weeks ago
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GenAI for the Static Cartographer

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3 weeks ago
It’s finally time for me to write something about generative AI. While I’ve made occasional comments on social media, I haven’t spoken in any detail. I touched on some colleagues’ genAI work in a recent blog post, but my focus wasn’t really on genAI itself — it was how and where...
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A Few Minor Niceties I recently finished up a first draft of a piece for a client, a map that gave me a chance to try...
4th Aug 2026
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A Few Minor Niceties

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4th Aug 2026
I recently finished up a first draft of a piece for a client, a map that gave me a chance to try some new things and also exercise some cartographic muscles that I haven’t for a while. So, today, I wanted to just highlight a few interesting odds and ends that came up during the …...
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On Sin To make maps, we must sin against the landscape. We distort the earth’s roundness, and we simplify...
20th Jul 2026
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On Sin

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20th Jul 2026
To make maps, we must sin against the landscape. We distort the earth’s roundness, and we simplify complex realities down to a series of colors and symbols. Ancient trees become a scattering of green pixels on a screen; a horrific battle becomes a labeled dot; and an...
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Urban Relativity It’s been a good while since I wrote a tutorial, so let’s take a moment to learn something new!...
23rd Mar 2026
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Urban Relativity

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23rd Mar 2026
It’s been a good while since I wrote a tutorial, so let’s take a moment to learn something new! Today, I’ll show you a way to create scale rankings for cities. This is a technique I have been using for years (and occasionally mentioned), but I’ve never really written it up in...
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Financial Transparency: Print Sales Edition I make most of my living doing freelance mapping and GIS (and it’s been very busy lately, hence why...
3rd Feb 2026
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Financial Transparency: Print Sales Edition

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3rd Feb 2026
I make most of my living doing freelance mapping and GIS (and it’s been very busy lately, hence why I’ve not written here in months). Clients come to me and ask me to deliver specific things, and I prepare whatever they need. But I also make a lot of things that no one...
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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...
28th Jul 2025
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A Sketch of Isle Royale

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28th Jul 2025
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...
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Map of the Month: An Experiment Friends, you might remember that, last year, I wrote to you about how I was finally able to see a...
13th May 2025
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Map of the Month: An Experiment

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13th May 2025
Friends, you might remember that, last year, I wrote to you about how I was finally able to see a dream I’d had for many years come true: bringing together a bunch of map creators onto a single website. I had hoped that this would only be the beginning of our cooperation with...
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A Usefully Useless Projection Friends, I’m excited to share that I have just completed a world physical map, in my new asymmetric...
10th Apr 2025
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A Usefully Useless Projection

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10th Apr 2025
Friends, I’m excited to share that I have just completed a world physical map, in my new asymmetric monstrosity projection. It’s free to download, or if you want to buy a 30″ × 20″ print, you can also do that (and I will be pleasantly surprised). If you download it and print it...
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Going Live I know it’s short notice, but I wanted to let you all know that I’m doing a livestream tomorrow....
30th Jan 2025
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Going Live

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30th Jan 2025
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...
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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...
27th Dec 2024
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Journey’s End

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27th Dec 2024
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...
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