See link in first post.

This has provided the most fun I've had with an interactive map in quite a while.

So cool. In just a few minutes, I've gotten a better understanding of Maastricht's built environment. I love the interactive features.

7 women and men smiling, wearing conference lanyards, standing in front of a large screen projecting a headshot of Julie Lowndes and her talk title Forking as a worldview: How Openscapes uses the open source concept of copy-modify to support researchers & shift culture in science. In center of line of people, a woman is presenting award certificate to Julie.

📅 March 19 @juliesquid.bsky.social will reprise her AGU Greg Leptoukh Lecture: Forking as a Worldview: How Openscapes uses the open source concept of copy-modify to support researchers & shift culture in science.

Everyone welcome. Details: openscapes.org/events/2026-...

#openscience #kinderscience

I have no immediate plans to migrate the content to another platform; the explanation is based on a set of numbers and groupings that are now outdated. At some point I would like to provide an updated version. If folks have recommendations for FOSS scrollytelling platforms, please let me know!
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Map of North Carolina, showing counties grouped as required for the State House districts after the 2010 census. Some counties are their own groups, while other counties, grouped with adjacent counties, are in groups, or clusters, of two to seven counties.

One thing about this early generation of scrollable story maps is that the content can't be indexed by search engines. Nonetheless, as of today, the explainer has had nearly 3,000 views, almost all presumably driven by people sharing links to it. Not too bad for a somewhat arcane topic.
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In 2019 I created a Story Map explainer of NC's distinctive county grouping requirement for legislative redistricting. Soon that resource will vanish (Esri is retiring that old platform). If you want a refresher on the so-called "Stephenson" process, now's the time! #NCPol
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arcg.is/1DnDO

Some fascinating prognostication in this episode!

Fascinating exploration. In 2024, I was a visiting instructor introducing GIS, and a student from Western Sahara refused to accept that Felt could be a credible tool given how its base map showed Western Sahara's boundary (unlike UN, Wikipedia, Google, NatGeo, etc. when viewed from the Netherlands).

An illuminating look below the surface of this topic, revealing what such a change would entail.

- I did not make a significant wrong turn that required rejiggering the route, nor was there congestion on the roads that would have been nice to avoid.
- The car I was driving didn't support Android Auto.
- Yes, my phone is set to French language, in anticipation of #QGISFR2026 🤓
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Other notes:
- I was driving from Maastricht to near Charleroi in Belgium. YMMV depending on OSM data.
- In the screenshot, you can see I was in flight/airplane mode, using downloaded data. Still worked well.
- It also offers the "first person driver" view. I just prefer keeping north as up.
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Screenshot of map interface of Organic Maps app during navigation.

After years of using Google Maps as my primary app for driving navigation, today I drove to an unfamiliar place using @organicmaps.bsky.social for the first time and was pleasantly surprised. Particularly nice was that the app was less talkative, not stating the obvious (e.g., merge).
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Episode 27: Are you GLaD about GeoAI? A conversation with Kryzsztof Janowicz

🎧 new episode of the #GLaDpodcast is out!

You can run but you can’t hide. @levijohnwolf.bsky.social, @darribas.bsky.social and I went to the source (Krzysztof Janowicz) to hear more about Geo + AI, AI for Geo, and my personal bugbear GeoAI.

#geography #geoAI

open.spotify.com/episode/7zZj...

Check out the number of parties to choose from in the image ... could be a factor in participation.

Does the event start at 1:04? ;)

I just learned from a math teacher that it is a day: Perfect Square Day!

And this is a special one for this century, because 2025 is 45²

bsky.app/profile/sara...

Also, were you aware that 2025 is 45²?

I know three people whose birthday is today. I told them that they should celebrate at 1:04. =)

Do you know anyone whose birthday is today (Sept. 16th)?

If they like math—or even if they don't—you could point out to them that 9 / 16 / 25 is a sequence of perfect squares.

AND! 2025 is also a perfect square (45²).

Best time of day to acknowledge? Perhaps 1:04. 🤓

Elections Coordinator This job posting expires at 11:59PM on September 15, 2025. No applications can be submitted after 11:59PM on September 15, 2025. Job Title: Elections Coordinator Department: External Hiring Range: $29...

🗳️Job🗳️

The Buncombe County Board of Elections is hiring an absentee voting coordinator

It's a great team in a terrific location.

Sept 15 deadline.

buncombecounty.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Buncom...

I was a bit surprised to see that searches for "census geopackage" and "tiger geopackage" in Bluesky turned up zero results. May this post remedy that situation!

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What does it say about me that I've been on Bluesky since November of 2023 and this is what I choose to make my first original post/thread about? 🤓

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Census Bureau Releases New Geospatial Data The U.S. Census Bureau today announced the release of new geospatial data, including the first-time release of TIGER/Line files in GeoPackage format.

It also appears that this is not new news; the first such release evidently was in 2024.

(For my work, I still mostly use the 2020 geographies because of their alignment with the PL 94-171 redistricting file.)

www.census.gov/newsroom/pre...

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TIGER Data Products Guide Help determining which TIGER Product to use.

And (at least as of today) it would appear that the Census Bureau is making the 2025 TIGER data available as GeoPackages and NOT shapefiles.

www.census.gov/programs-sur...

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TIGER/Line GeoPackages View the available TIGER/Line GeoPackages from the Geography program.

TIL the US Census Bureau is releasing its latest TIGER/Line data in GeoPackage format! 🧵

www.census.gov/geographies/...

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Evidently the 11th.

Is the talk on the 4th or the 11th? The CNG post shows both.

The text of this post says Sept 4; the image says Sept 11. Which is accurate?

Sending my sympathies, Ruth.