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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Day 93 of #365DaysOfMaps. April 3rd is World Marbles Day. So here's the globe as a glassy orb.
World Marbles Day 93/365
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Ian Muehlenhaus and I are exactly a quarter of the way through our AI mapping experiment. We're making maps using nothing but #promptcartography. One map a day for an entire year. Follow along with #365daysofmaps and learn more at mapdesign.icaci.org
Day 92 of #365DaysOfMaps. April 2nd is National Ferret Day. The one you've been waiting for right?
Ferret Races in England 92/365
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Day 91 of #365DaysOfMaps. April 1st this year sees the announcement that the President has renamed the entire world. Check out Ian's map for the scoop.
New official geography of the World 91/365
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Day 90 of #365DaysOfMaps. March 31st is National Crayon Day. As an old Dean of Faculty I once knew was fond of saying "you lot just draw lines and colour in". Maybe even he could join in with today's map.
Gen Alpha's World 90/365
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Day 89 of #365DaysOfMaps. March 30th is Bipolar Day.
Cartographic Bipolar Day 89/365
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Day 88 of #365DaysOfMaps. March 29th is Piano Day. So here's a map you can actually play with countries as piano keys!
Map Melody 88/365
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Day 87 of #365DaysOfMaps. March 28th is National Weeds Day. Weeds, not weed. That's a different day altogether.
Who lives weeds 87/365
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Day 86 of #365DaysOfMaps. March 27th is World Theatre Day. Brush up on your playwrights with this map.
All the World's a Stage 86/365
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Day 85 of #365DaysOfMaps. March 26th is Purple Day. Not for the colour (because no-one should be celebrating purple!), but as a representation for epilepsy awareness.
Global Epilepsy Rates 85/365
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Day 84 of #365DaysOfMaps. March 25th is Tolkien Reading Day. In celebration I pitched a battle between AI to see which prevailed in it's ability to map like Tolkien. You could just read Tolkien instead.
Tales of Orbis 84/365
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Day 83 of #365DaysOfMaps. March 24th is National Cocktail Day. Cheers to those who celebrate.
Mixologist's Map 83/365
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Day 82 of #365DaysOfMaps. March 23rd is World Atheist Day. A day for all those who just don't buy into all that religious nonsense, and a day to celebrate the tangible world around us.
Orbis Sine Numine 82/365
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