Yeesh!

A screenshot of a map showing forests along the Appalachian Trail.

The map in question (wip).

I wasn't planning on using a dark background, but this may have changed my mind. 🤔

Posting this mostly for myself. How to print transparent backgrounds in QGIS. There's a second background to turn off. #gischat

gis.stackexchange.com/questions/19...

You can see a copy of Antonio's work printed here at The Map Center!

A cool map showing the locations where bad things happened in waters around Rhode Island.

Rhode Island Shipwrecks Map 🗺️

As someone who lives in or near the mountains, shipwrecks are like barn finds, except the barn is a dungeon, and the monsters are not too thrilled about you taking their treasure.

More deets:
antonioantoine.com/2026/04/19/r...

#gischat #cartography

It is pretty cool to see the curve shift over a century.

Thanks! Good luck to you as well.

I did! The closest I ever got to winning was one of my former classmates who got 3rd place last year.

That sucks. People are assholes.

Thank you!

Better late than never!

Everything looked good on my end. Even in incognito mode. I accidentally hit F5 while in incognito mode, and my access changed. Chrome must have been using an old cache or something. Idk.

Welp! I don't know how long my site's visibility was set to "Coming Soon", but I guess that explains the traffic nose dive.

I built an interactive guide on how GPS works!

perthirtysix.com/how-does-gps...

Soar | The New Atlas Explore view and share maps and imagery of the Earth.

I never used Avenza, but this might be an option.
soaratlas.com/discover

Spring is definitely the 2nd worst season, fighting for the worst spot:
-Pretend summer that is somehow both too hot and too cold (boo)
-Plants/bugs/animals trying to kill me just because I walked outside (rude)
-Pollen everywhere (yuk)
-Murder storms (why)
-Already had to mow my yard (gross)

Fixed!!

Also, these Census carto boundaries are a PITA to find. I had them bookmarked but they changed the link.

www.census.gov/geographies/...

I haven't paid close enough attention to find a pattern yet. I just noticed a post that I liked earlier today, and it was missing shortly afterward. So I clicked like again, annnnd, probably unliked the post. 🫠

I can't tell if I am accidentally unliking a post or if my likes aren't registering on BSKY lately. If the post shows up in the algo again, the like is missing. Sometimes, when I click on the post, it shows up. If you experienced this odd behavior from me, I am sorry! lol

Yep!! It's my own fault for using an older county feature layer. I think they just changed the names in 2025. Normally, the table join is all or nothing.

One day, I will remember that CT changed their counties to county equivalents before nearly wrapping up a map. 😭 #gischat

Screenshot of a browser window with an interactive graphic. At the center is the Earth. The Moon is in the upper right, with the line of its orbit drawn across the screen from right to left. A loopy blue line leads from the Earth to a point further along the Moon’s orbit in the upper left, and back to Earth. A circle on the blue path is labeled “Orion”, which is the name of the spacecraft for the Artemis II mission. At the bottom of the screen, four dials show the mission elapsed time, Orion’s velocity, its distance from Earth, and its distance to the Moon.

Artemis Real-time Orbit Website: www.nasa.gov/missions/art...

A diagram showing the path of the Artemis II mission around Earth and then out around the moon and back. Below, text reads Artemis II's journey to the moon, day by day across 10 days

Highlights from the first half of the Artemis II mission include entering high Earth orbit on day 1, setting a trajectory toward the moon and back on day 2, practicing flyby procedures on days 3 and 4, and entering the moon's gravitational influence on day 5.

Highlights of the second half of the mission include traveling behind and photographing the moon on day 6, continuing experiments on days seven through 10, and reentry and splashdown on day 10.

NASA’s Artemis II mission is aiming to launch in less than three hours! If all goes smoothly, the astronauts aboard the Orion spacecraft are in for a packed 10-day schedule as they journey around the moon’s far side.

Graphic by Amanda Montañez; Source: NASA (reference)

That's awesome. And your hillshading looks great!

A Joy Plot Map of elevation and population for Ohio. Each line shows the rising and falling value of either population or surface elevation.

Next Joy Plot Map is Ohio.

Lots of people, very flat.

#gis #gischat #cartography

I agree! Everyone else should have public transit, so I can drive my ridiculous car in peace. 😂

(Side note: You should have a new map from me in your inbox by the morning.)

A Joy Plot Map of elevation and population for Colorado. Each line shows the rising and falling value of either population or surface elevation.

Colorado Pop x Elev Joy Plot

We can see a pretty good relationship between elevation and population density in CO. Even though the Rockies and high plains cover some of the small cities and towns. I may add an offset or extra VE point for the population layer.

#gis #gischat #cartography

The release of Windows 95 is now closer to the Moon landing than to today.

Thanks, I hate it!

Side note: I was born on the 10 year anniversary of the moon landing in the Rocket City.

More reminders of mortality at profmusgrave.github.io/anotherday

A map showing the population and elevations of North Carolina using the Joy Plot style.

Now that I have a working model in QGIS for my Joy Plot workflow, I can focus on refining the maps. I have been interested in mapping elevation and populations for a long time, but I have struggled to find a method that shows both variables evenly. Joy Plots look promising.

#gischat #cartography

I think I see the bivariate scheme for the language now. Is the tipping point for each class/color 80%?

I think I just lost a year of my life trying to get a PyQGIS environment set up in Pycharm.

On the plus side, I finally built a working model in QGIS for one of my workflows. I may try to turn it into a plugin one day.