In the meantime, NHGIS (https://www.nhgis.org/ has much of the data you'll need, and will remain functional. NHGIS has the latest ACS data and Census data back to 1790 along with Census boundary files.
You can support NHGIS here: makingagift.umn.edu/...
Just found this great data source of Ojibwe names for features in MI/WI/MN. Gidakiiminaan (Our Earth), published by Great Lakes Indian Fish & Wildlife Commission. glifwc.org/publications...
They also have a web map version: maps.glifwc.org
This INSANELY good site has catalogued the signage from 115 of Europe's underground stations. So much typographic eye candy, not to mention tiles and colours.
ubahn.photos
Today was a bad day for the queer community. So many emotions. But in all of it: be gay, stay gay, do gay 🖕🌈
This article hit a lot of points.
After making a massive $7.19 in 4 months (less than the $10 payout threshold), I've decided to start ungating my Medium-hosted tutorials (it's not really in the knowledge-sharing spirit anyway!) and migrate them to my website, starting with... www.helenmakesmaps.com/post/how-to-... 🎆🗺️
My office has a retiree that comes in once/week. Quirky, but a tough nut kinda guy. Recently I found out he's a big Swiftie, so I told him to check out Chappell Roan. Today he came in screaming at me "YOU'VE CREATED A MONSTER I LOVE CHAPPELL I MEAN PINK PONY CLUB IS JUST GREAT"
My job here is done.
migration map of the eastern whip-poor-will
This Tuesday, January 14, I'll be hosting a 2.5 hour cartography workshop with @womeningis.bsky.social. It's free to members and anyone can be a member.
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Occasional reminder that there’s no, “it’s too late, its over” for anthropogenic climate change. Every molecule of CO2 that doesn’t go into the atmosphere makes a difference. Preventing 0.1 degree of warming makes a difference. Every bit of climate resilience we build together makes a difference.
Was listening to #DtMF & got to LO QUE LÉ PASO A HAWAii & thought of Dr. Mei-Singh's #NACIS2024 presentation (not recorded, but panel was). While the topic was centered on Hawaii, there was a small part where she connected Hawaiian & Puerto Rican resistance. Listen to the song & listen to the panel!
Ouf, big fan of pink on a map. Very smooth color ramp.
This is a short rant about feeling like shit and excluded from the in-person shopping experience because most stores, especially the big names, refuse to carry plus size items in person and have relegated plus size bodies to the online realm... and that's if we're lucky they go past an XL or a 16.
Up next on my list of my fav #NACIS2024 talks is the bun for basemaps metaphor that has stuck with me...
Basemaps Don't Have to Be Boring by @bdon.org of @protomaps.com
Been struggling to watch #StarWars #SkeletonCrew because Neel wants to be home so badly and it's making him so sad which is making me sad. #GetHisTrunkHome
Check out @ecoandrewtrc.bsky.social The Map Center or the online storefront with various cartos that @pinakographos.bsky.social put together!
It's end of the year reflection time so I wrote about how The Map Center is going. Wanna see behind the scenes? www.mapcenter.com/new-page-2
Continuing to post some of my favorite #NACIS2024 presentations
Dr. Annita Lucchesi gave us some tough love and real truth for both NACIS and cartographers engaging with indigenous communities and data.
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Reposting this counts as my next post about talks I enjoyed at #NACIS2024.
A map of 12000 stars as small dots, mostly blue and white against a black background. The projection of the star map forms an ellipse. The title at the top reads "Where's the heat?' in white with the word 'heat' in a blue that matches the colour of the hottest stars in the map. Below the title the subtitle reads "Sample of 120,000 stars from the AT-HYG catalogue showing temperature estimated from spectral class. The hottest stars are blue.". Below the star map is a scatterplot of temperature (horizontal axis) against magnitude (vertical) with the same 12000 starts. The form an 'X' shape without the lower-left limb with colours ranging from blue on the left, through white , yellow and orange on the right. Six star shapes are labelled: 'White dwarfs' in the bottom left; 'Main sequence' the diagonal from top-left to bottom-right'; 'Subgiants' and then 'Giants' in the top-right limb and 'Bright Giants' and 'Supergiants' at the top.
#30DayMapChallenge Day 25: Heat
I was tempted to map some aspect of global climate collapse for today, but in the end looked outward instead for other sources of 'heat'.
Here are 120000 stars coloured by temperature (blue=hot, red=cold, relatively speaking)
observablehq.com/@jwolondon/t...
Two hemispheres of the moon in yellow against a black background. The title text in the top-left reads "Lunar Albedo" with the subtitle below it reading "Surface reflectance indicated by small moon symbols", Above the second hemisphere to the right is the subtitle "'Dark' side of the moon". Each hemisphere is made up of small yellow dots that when zoomed in are revealed to be small images of the moon at different phases, When grouped together this gives the impression of a continuous variation in lightness, revealing the craters and 'seas' of the moon.
Zoomed in portion of the previous image showing the individual yellow moon symbols in more detail revealing that the lightness of each is determined by the moon phase. Darker symbols appear as thin moon crescents, lighter symbols as 'full' moons.
#30DayMapChallenge Day 22: 2 colours
I thought I'd make life difficult for myself with this one by being strict about only 2 colours. No grey scales; no 2 colours + background colour. Just 2.
Halftone dots made up of mini moons to map a big moon:
observablehq.com/@jwolondon/t...
Slowly posting my favorite NACIS 2024 talks. So grateful I got to see Dr. Smiles present. Recommend this to all!
A Recipe for Ethical Geographic Work with Indigenous Communities
If you ask me whose maps I've been fan-girling hard over the past year its @latlong.shop. Also been losing my shit over @cmshintani.bsky.social and @gfiske.bsky.social maps for Woodwell, but they deserve their own fan-girl appreciation post.
⬇️ So simple, so good.
I didn't see this already, so I went through my follow list and made a Starter Pack for Women+ in geo & EO - very broadly.
I'm reminded how lopsided the gender divide is still in our field when I get 1 woman follower for every 10 men. It's particularly noticeable right now.
go.bsky.app/Ay1iTTe
❤️❤️❤️Love this!! Any chance I could be added?
Trying something new:
A 🧵 on a topic I find many students struggle with: "why do their 📊 look more professional than my 📊?"
It's *lots* of tiny decisions that aren't the defaults in many libraries, so let's break down 1 simple graph by @jburnmurdoch.bsky.social
🔗 www.ft.com/content/73a1...
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Would love to be added!
