Happy map 100,000 moments of human happiness, mapped

This is medicinal cartography. Brilliant.
We endorse this. Good use of internet resources.
Take a bit to check it out.

pudding.cool/2026/02/happ...

#maps #map #life #happy

A speaker said to focus on "the Just Past", as in moments where humanity was trying to do things good, correct & restorative. Here's my candidate. Gandhi's Salt March on
70th anniversary. A nonviolent action that even motivated U.S. Civil Rights efforts decades later. #maps #history #map #politics

Interactive Map of the Silk Roads | Into Far Lands Use the interactive map to explore the Silk Roads, discover new routes, learn what resources and goods are traded, and find an outpost or town to dive into.

Also very cool. An interactive map for the Silk Road.
(there goes today's productivity)

www.intofarlands.com/silk-roads-map

#maps #history #map

Oh wow. An interactive map of Middle Earth.
Impressive.

middle-earth-interactive-map.web.app

#maps #lotr #map #fantasy

Ernest Dudley Chase had raging success in the second half of life as he retired, started pursuing his dream of making maps, and was well received.
His sense of design set him apart, and here, just a few of his compass roses, taken from some of his famous pictorial maps.

#maps #map #design

Just Put It On a Map An underrated strategy for urbanist persuasion, powered by open source tools

progressandpoverty.substack.com/p/just-put-i...

Darned interesting visualization

#maps #map #urban

A wonderful mix of evolving precision, and some mythical holdovers.
So much of the East Indies now becomes identifiable, but it looks like a land bridge connects Australia to Papua New Guinea. Note as well the lake which is the source to all the great rivers of SE Asia

#maps #history #map #Asia

The bias from Henry Luce, the republican publisher, here his map of the early years of F.D.R.
Starting in the upper left & apparently one mistake after another. (Notice the WPA workers resting on their shovels? They built the Lincoln tunnel, 30 hospitals, 280k of roads & more)
#maps #history #map

A favorite woodblock engraving from Sebastian Münster, c. 1558, showing some of the best of what was understood for Asia. (And including a wonderful Mermaid with a double tail)

#map #history #maps #asia

From 1802, and quickly new states and territories begin to take shape. Here numbered territories begin to look familiar...
#maps #history #map #usa

It's a game that was produced in many editions up into the 1970's. Here, well prior to the air age (c. 1911) was a game for exploring the world through the steamship and railroad routes around the world

#maps #history #map #travel #games

Was out skateboarding & did the deed. 8 screws & a big plate, back together.
My two hilarious brought the humor.

"Should I call & tell you're sponsors you are out for the season?"
- "Who's gonna tell Tony Hawk?"
"Who were your sponsors, geritol, metamucil, & life alert?"

#2026 #love #health

Producing an entirely different caliber of atlas at the time too. While so much was focused on the frontiers and colonial claims, Johnston was working at a macro and thematic level that was brilliant.

A certain macabre brilliance... that we really like

Post War, the exotic allure of Hawaii & Polynesian culture had to be so tempting. Easier air travel, disposable income, simpler times.
Prior to the surge of tourism & the unimaginable growth that would change so much, this was a promotional pictorial map for the islands.

#maps #Hawaii #map

Finding geography homework from the mid-19th century is a treasure. Some young student sketching out their world, recognizing where they were & probably noticing how much of the continent, or the world was unknown.
Fell out of the back of a school atlas we got in.

#maps #history #map #geography

"Search a map using natural language & LLMs"
llmparty.pixeletes.com/experiments/...

asked "what's a great place for dorks to hang out". M.I.T. libraries, British Museum, Cern, & San Diego Comicon.

I have hung out at some of those places & would love to go to Cern. Ouch.
#maps #nerd #map #culture

While it had been an international fascination long before America arrived, the U.S. certainly made impacts in the field, beyond the Wright brothers and Robert Goddard. The manufacturers, test pilots, military programs, on to the Space race. Here an overview.

#map #flight #maps #history

It wasn't Fulton.He didn't invent steamboats.
Here Mr Hutchings proves, w/ witness testimony, that he & Mr Fitch had done it decades prior.
Often an individual is imbued with the entirety of a development & invention, when actually, it's often a community/lineage of work that did it. #maps #history

An almost unrecognizable West (c. 1844) full of new territories, and a Texas panhandle that reaches up from modern day New Mexico and up into present day Wyoming.
Texans love this "stovepipe" panhandle, and how large it was.

#map #history #maps

In stumbling through estates and sales, we sometimes find interesting postcards. France in the early 20th century.

#politics #elections

Keeping up.
What was going to be native lands west of the Mississippi river, at one time, was now rapidly being divided into territories.
This map was published c. 1855, but an owner tried to keep up in the 1860's & brushed in new CO. & Dakota terrs.
#maps #history #map #Nebraska #Kansas #Colorado

In 1862, if you were introducing the geographical world to young people, you'd probably mention popular explorers, many wouldn't show the recent addition of submarine cable.
That cable is the infrastructure precursor to things like international calling & the internet.
#maps #history #map #tech

Have always loved this composition for part of Africa for all the diversity it covers, from the coast of Senegal, to Timbuktu, to Egypt and Ethiopia. It's a dizzying cross section of lands, languages and cultures.

#maps #Africa #map #history

Space Invader hasn't just made street art, but started a dialogue and community. Making his video game and pop culture inspired tile works, he put them up around cities, and made maps to curate a tour of his works. He later made an app for phones to find and log his work.

#maps #art #map #streetart

From Stone Henge (on the left, from 1953) to Burning Man (on the right, 2008), ritual/ceremonial sites are fascinating.
Humans have a track record for meeting at specific places at specific times, and sometimes they look kinda similar

#maps #science #map #history #archaeology

Interesting project for the Real-time radiation world map.
But, what's going on in Hungary?

www.gmcmap.com

#science #map #dataviz #maps #datavisualization

GitHub - rastapasta/mapscii: 🗺 MapSCII is a Braille & ASCII world map renderer for your console - enter => telnet mapscii.me <= on Mac (brew install telnet) and Linux, connect with PuTTY on Windows 🗺 MapSCII is a Braille & ASCII world map renderer for your console - enter => telnet mapscii.me <= on Mac (brew install telnet) and Linux, connect with PuTTY on Windows - rastapasta/mapscii

also very cool...
MapSCII – World map in terminal

github.com/rastapasta/m...

#maps #datavisualization #map #dataviz

So great. We had just been talking about how much longer the hummingbirds are going to be around, and where they are going. Now we know...
explorer.audubon.org/explore/spec...

#dataviz #map #datavisualization #maps #birds

Don't sleep on the U.S.G.S.
A classic masterpiece for the Grand Canyon which is easy to get absorbed into. The complexities of the region laid out in such elegant visual simplicity.

#maps #dataviz #map #datavizualition #grandcanyon