Day 111 of #365DaysOfMaps. April 21st is National Tea Day. Celebrate with a cup of your favourite brew, unless it's Lipton's in which case throw it in the harbour.
Global Tea Production 111/365
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Day 110 of #365DaysOfMaps. April 20th is Pizza Delivery Driver Appreciation Day. Of course it is!
Pizza Delivery Driver 110/365
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Are you making an offer they can't refuse?
Day 109 of #365DaysOfMaps. April 19th is National Hanging Out Day. A day to extol the benefits of air-drying your laundry. Yep. Really. Allows me to give a nod to a famous mapping quote, and AI to miscount an entire continent.
Hung Out to Dry 109/365
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Day 108 of #365DaysOfMaps. April 18th is Record Store Day. Dig out some vinyl. Your ears will thank you.
Record Store Day 108/365
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Trust in Maps - a keynote I gave at EuroCarto in 2024, and at the Royal Geographical Society in 2025. If you're interested in Trust, ethics, politics, and maps then here's an hour of my thoughts on that very topic.
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Day 107 of #365DaysOfMaps. April 17th is National Blah Blah Blah Day so try and tune in, instead of tuning out, and celebrate by doing something you've been avoiding.
Presence and Action 107/365
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Up early today to be a guest lecturer for a group of talented Cartography students at North Carolina State University. Fun session on ethics, followed by critique of their project work. Some really great maps! The future's bright 👏
Absolutely delighted to be part of @albertocairo.com fantastic Open Visualisation Academy. Forthcoming (which means I'd better get on and build my contribution!).
Day 106 of #365DaysOfMaps. April 16th is Orchid Day. You could gift one, or better still, buy one for yourself in celebration!
Orchid Diversity 106/365
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Day 105 of #365DaysOfMaps. April 15th is Banana Day. Today would be a good day to eat a banana, and maybe learn a thing or two about them.
Global Banana Production 105/365
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Day 104 of #365DaysOfMaps. April 14th is National Moment of Laughter Day in the U.S. It needs it!
Enjoy a Moment of Laughter 104/365
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Ozzy's crazy touring train. A map on vinyl.
Day 103 of #365DaysOfMaps. April 13th is Scrabble Day! Ian's built a classic interactive geo-scrabble game for today's map so don't be a consonant complainer and go enjoy a vowel movement or two.
International Scrabble Day 103/365
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Your annual reminder of the best sporting competition #logo ever designed #map #themasters. Congratulations #Rory 🏆🏆
Day 102 of #365DaysOfMaps. April 22nd is Drop Everything and Read Day. Bit of a threat, but nevertheless a day to celebrate the simple pleasure of reading and to encourage kids to pick up a book.
Drop Everything and Read 102/365
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Day 101 of #365DaysOfMaps. April 21st is National Cheese Fondue Day. Of course it is, so go melt some cheese.
World Fondue Map 101/365
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I have questions... 2/2
Car rentals take pics of the vehicle to check it when it comes back for damage. Those astronauts have some explaining!
Is no-one questioning a military pickup of people in orange outfits, in a homemade vessel trying to enter US near the Mexican border?
I have questions... 1/2
Do they have to pay a premium for vehicle pickup in Florida but drop-off in Cali? Hertz would charge. Do NASA?
And do the astronauts have to go through border control and immigration? They've been out of this world!
Day 100 of #365DaysOfMaps. April 20th is National Encourage a Young Writer Day. We've made it to 100 in our AI mapping experiment!!! Tune in to today's map exploring US writing careers, and get a great bonus rant from Ian.
Writing not dead? 100/365
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Day 99 of #365DaysOfMaps. April 9th is Winston Churchill Day. Light a cigar and never surrender!
A life of Resolve 99/365
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Yep. And on the other side of the coin are the cold calls from orgs you have business with who then demand you prove who you are before they'll tell you what they're calling about. BUT YOU LITERALLY HAVE MY NUMBER! Infuriating.
Day 98 of #365DaysOfMaps. April 8th is National Draw a Picture of a Bird Day. You'd think I just made that one up but no, it's genuine. So I asked AI to draw some pictures of birds on a map.
How to Draw a Bird 98/365
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Day 97 of #365DaysOfMaps. April 7th is International Beaver Day. A day I'm sure Lieutenant Frank Drebin would get behind 🦫
Global Beaver Habitat 97/365
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Reminder for all but four humans that you can explore the #moon with the virtual interactive globe I made a few years ago.
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#NASA #ArtemisII #Orion
Day 96 of #365DaysOfMaps. April 6th is California Poppy Day. With an early Spring you may have missed the superblooms but here's a map anyway.
California Gold 96/365
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Day 95 of #365DaysOfMaps. April 5th is Read a Road Map Day. So here's today's map, 100% AI created without any paper or real roads to generate the look of a paper product, using a computer, with folds, on a wooden desk. Meta.
Read a Road Map Day 95/365
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*perils, not perks 🤦
Day 94 of #365DaysOfMaps. April 4th is 404 Day which exists (or not) to highlight the perks of internet censorship.
Error 404 World Not Found 94/365
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