Ultimately, I am not a geographer so this may all be wrong but I do enjoy making textbook grade visuals.

Finally. Showing the age of oceanic crust alongside volcanoes in East Asia shows the subduction boundary where the oceanic Pacific Plate and Philippine Sea Plate subduct (dive) beneath the continental Eurasian Plate.

Pacific centred

What about volcanoes?

Pacific centred

Overlaying earthquakes locations maps the plate boundaries.

Pacific centred for those not in Europe

The age of oceanic crust is a nice map of the world's divergent plate boundaries. As the plates move apart, magma rises from the mantle, creating new crust.

Plate Tectonics. A thread

Claude did 95% of the work on this. I've been resistant to the AI hype but it does certainly have its uses. Here is a map showing the status of the death penalty around the world

Made a roads map for another project. Thought I would share.

The overlapping colors reveal where different forest biomes meet across the planet.
Built with Python (GeoPandas, Rasterio, Matplotlib)
Data: Hansen et al. Science 2013 4/4

Assigned distinct colormaps: Blues (boreal), Oranges (temperate), PuRd (subtropical), Greens (tropical)
Overlaid all four masked layers to show global forest distribution by climate type 3/4

How it was made:

Started with Hansen et al. global forest cover raster (% tree cover per pixel)
Loaded climate zone shapefile with boreal, temperate, subtropical & tropical regions
Masked the forest raster with each climate zone to extract forest cover for that zone only 2/4

I created a global forest map showing how forests vary by climate zone - Added twist, 90% of the code + the following post was generated by Claude. 1/4
#Python #GIS #DataViz #Cartography #Forests

Day 26 of the #30DayMapChallenge - Transport - Shipping Lanes.

Running a little bit behind.
Day 25 of the #30DayMapChallenge - Hexagons - I have used the @KonturInc population density hexagons to generate this population density map of Southern Asia

Day 24 of the #30DayMapChallenge - Places and their names - Here are the World's rivers with labels on some of the major ones.

Day 23 of the #30DayMapChallenge - Process - "Show how you make a map" - Well luckily, there is an entire book dedicated to how I make maps - get yours now locatepress.com/book/pymaps

Day 22 of the #30DayMapChallenge - Natural Earth Data. I used the Ocean Bottom layer to make a Bathymetry map of Northern Europe.

Day 21 of the #30DayMapChallenge - Icons - Use icons to highlight points of interest. Here are lighthouses of the Caribbean and Gulf of America. I used a few tricks to make the points look like they are shining out to sea.

Day 20 of the #30DayMapChallenge - Water - Rivers of South America

Day 19 of the #30DayMapChallenge - Projections. Here are maps showing tropical storms using a number of different projections. We have the South Polar Stereo, the Robinson, the Lambert Conformal and finally I have included a shipping lanes map using the infamous Spilhaus projection.

Day 18 of the #30DayMapChallenge - Out of this World. Here is a topographical map of Mars. I have added some hill shading and used a colourmap that simulates an ocean, proportionally equal in size to Earths.

Day 17 of the #30DayMapChallenge - New tool. It has been on my radar for a while so I tried out datashader to visualise population density. These maps usually take minutes to render but with datashader it takes seconds.

Day 16 of the #30DayMapChallenge - Cell - Here is a map of Cell tower density in Europe. Clearly this is just a population density map but gotta follow the theme.

Day 15 of the #30DayMapChallenge - Fire. Wildfire map. Data aggregated for all of 2024.

Day 14 of the #30DayMapChallenge Open Street Map - Railways.

Day 13 of the #30DayMapChallenge — 10-minute map.
Once I’ve made a particular type of map once, I can usually recreate it in about 10 minutes. This one’s a bivariate map — the style that probably took me the longest to learn the first time around. Rainfall vs Temperature in South America

Day 12 of the #30DayMapChallenge - Map from 2125 - I think Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland could merge into a new country. So here is a topography map.