April 10, 2024 • #
The Yukon River delta , Alaska.
Topic / geography
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April 3, 2024 • #
Map of Paris by Michel-Étienne Turgot. 1739.
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April 2, 2024 • #
The beautifully rendered topography of Switzerland.
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March 28, 2024 • #
The blue and white architecture of Sidi Bou Said. Tunis, Tunisia.
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March 19, 2024 • #
The Richat Structure in the Saharan Desert of Mauritania.
An eroded geologic dome.
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February 24, 2024 • #
Log booms and sawmills. From Edward Burtynsky’s Anthropocene project.
Vancouver Island above, Lagos below.
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February 19, 2024 • #
Põhja-Kõrvemaa Nature Reserve , Estonia..
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February 17, 2024 • #
The Siberian city ofYakutsk, in the Russian Far East, is unfathomably cold, yet home to over a quarter million people:
Yakutsk has an average annual temperature of 17.6 °F winter high temperatures consistently well below −4 °F, and a record low of −−83.9 °F. As a result, Yakutsk is the coldest major city in the world
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February 17, 2024 • #
The island of Hispaniola , from the ISS.
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February 15, 2024 • #
**Bell Island, **part of the Franz Josef Land archipelago in Russia.
I couldn’t believe this:
The island was the first among the Franz Josef archipelago to be visited by Benjamin Leigh Smith in his 1880 expedition. In his second expedition to the islands in 1881, Smith built a wooden lodge on the north side of the island which he used to winter. The lodge stands to this day.
A small wooden shack, built on an island in the Arctic Ocean, stands for 150 years. Will think about that next time I’m building something.
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February 15, 2024 • #
The karsting limestone of Mount Api , Malaysia.
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February 13, 2024 • #
Chillon Castle , island fortress on Lake Geneva, Switzerland.
The building originally dates to the 11th century, but there’s evidence the Romans had forts on the small island a millennium earlier.
It’s functioned as fort, prison, and summer home to counts and dukes. Added to my one-day-Swiss-vacation list.
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February 2, 2024 • #
Europe and its fragmented city-state landscape of 1444.
See the full, zoomable hi-res version.
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February 1, 2024 • #
The Aladaghlar Mountains of northwest Iran.
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January 30, 2024 • #
Lucerne’sKappelbrücke (Chapel Bridge) was built in 1360.
I got to walk across when I visited in 2014. Switzerland is like a 2-sided time warp: part medieval village, part urban futurescape.
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January 29, 2024 • #
Centuripe — a Sicilian town that looks like a person.
Browsing maps is my favorite way into new rabbit holes. Now central Sicily is on the travel wishlist.
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January 24, 2024 • #
The barren highways of Naypyidaw.
Don’t listen to the high modernists. You can’t will cities into existence.
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Seaflooding
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The Invisible Barrier Keeping Two Worlds Apart
May 8, 2023 • #On the biogeographic boundary between Asia and Oceania, the Wallace Line.
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Architecture from Every Country
September 12, 2022 • #The Cultural Tutor's architecture examples from every country.
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Intro to Areography
February 7, 2021 • #Areography is 'geography' on Mars. This is a brief lesson in Mars's topography.
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Places: The English Channel
June 28, 2020 • #The English Channel with a phytoplankton bloom.
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Places: the Tes River Basin
March 11, 2020 • #The beautiful meandering Tes River of Siberia and western Mongolia.
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Weekend Reading: Tagging with Turf, Mars Panorama, and Kinds of Easy
March 7, 2020 • #Tagging data with Turf, Curiosity high-res photo, and different kinds of easy.
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Places: Remnants of an Ancient Lake
February 17, 2020 • #Satellite data shows the expansive ancient shores of Lake Chad.
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Weekend Reading: MiLB, Naming Public Transit, and Soccer Playing Styles
November 30, 2019 • #Mapping MiLB, renaming transit stations, and how soccer players play.
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All of the World’s Borders by Age
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An Island Chain
October 24, 2019 • #The Bahamas, Turks and Caicos, and Puerto Rico from the air.
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Places: Kimbolton Region
October 2, 2019 • #Folds anf fjords of Western Australia's Kimbolton coastline.
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EthicalGEO
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Places: The Kolyma River
August 8, 2019 • #Sediment flow from the mouth of a Siberian River.
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Imaging the Earth, Every Day
July 28, 2019 • #A visualization of Planet's global constellation coverage.
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Places: Mergui Archipelago
July 16, 2019 • #The Mergui Archipelago off the coast of Myanmar.
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Places: Col du Galibier
June 25, 2019 • #Featuring one of the mountain climbs of the Tour de France, the Alps epic Col du Galibier.
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Places: Great Slave Lake
June 7, 2019 • #The Great Slave Lake is the deepest lake in North America, and the tenth largest lake on Earth.
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Places: Lake Natron
May 22, 2019 • #The red-hued saline lake of northern Tanzania.
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Places: Richat Structure
May 10, 2019 • #“The Richat Structure geologic dome of northern Mauritania.”
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Weekend Reading: Brains and Language, Hillshading in Blender, and Antifragility
April 13, 2019 • #The brain storing native language, Joe's work on hillshading, and living antifragility.
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The Geography of The Odyssey
March 3, 2019 • #Reconstructing the map of Odysseus's travels.
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Mapbox Boundaries
February 14, 2019 • #Mapbox's 'Boundaries' product for enterprise customers provides an impressive base dataset.
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Equal Earth Physical Map
February 11, 2019 • #Tom Patterson's beautiful topographic map.
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Sierra Nevada, Basin and Range
February 8, 2019 • #“Viewing some of my favorite American geography from the air.”
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A Live Experiment in Disassembling a Map
February 7, 2019 • #Cartographer Daniel Huffman breaks down how he builds his map designs.
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The Salton Sea
February 6, 2019 • #“Flying over Southern California's Salton Sea.”
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A Vast Wilderness
January 27, 2019 • #“The vast wilderness of Alaska in ‘Coming Into the Country’.”
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A Primer on Foresight
January 24, 2019 • #An intro to our Foresight products from Spatial Networks.
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The Earth in 8K
January 17, 2019 • #Mesmerizing 8K footage of the Earth from the air.
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What Did the Earth Look Like?
January 15, 2019 • #An interactive map to see what the Earth looked like in prehistoric time.
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The History of the World on One Map
January 14, 2019 • #Visualizing all of human history as a time lapse on a map.
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Cycling: A Sport for Geographers
January 13, 2019 • #“A reminder of how great road cycling tours are for geographers.”
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Weekend Reading: How We Collect Data, Mapping the Camp Fire, and Earth's Great Unconformity
January 5, 2019 • #How we collect data at Spatial Networks, DJI maps the Camp Fire, and on mysterious geological records.
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Weekend Reading: Mastery Learning, Burundi’s Capital, and SRTM
December 29, 2018 • #Mastery learning, Burundi moving its capital, and tools for SRTM data.
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topoView
December 24, 2018 • #Topo map viewer from the USGS for National Map data.
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A Globe of Connections
December 19, 2018 • #Looking back on Parag Khanna's 'Connectography'.
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The World's Most Remote Buildings
December 18, 2018 • #A great mini documentary about some of the most remote structures humans have ever built.
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China is Erasing its Border with Hong Kong
December 17, 2018 • #“Part of Vox’s ‘Borders’ series, on the China-Hong Kong border.”
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An In Depth History of Maps
November 28, 2018 • #On Lloyd A. Brown's 'A Story of Maps'
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Weekend Reading: Typing on iPad Pro, Climate Optimism, Visualizing GeoNames
November 24, 2018 • #Smart Keyboard Folio, defending 'climate optiism', and exploring place name data.
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Teaching OpenStreetMap
October 26, 2018 • #Attending the OSM mapathon during Geography2050 in November.
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Alaska's Dalton Highway
November 7, 2015 • #400 miles of solitary driving through northern Alaska.
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The Main Road Through the Heart of Africa
September 22, 2015 • #A great article in this month's National Geographic about the wild and lawless Congo River.
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The Diminishing Coast
September 29, 2014 • #The state of Louisiana is gradually eroding, and a number of groups are using maps to highlight the gravity of the situation.
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Door to Hell
August 18, 2014 • #A drilling accident in 1971 in Turkmenistan's Karakum Desert created this 70 meter-wide crater, when a Soviet rig hit a cavernous pocket of natural gas.
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Counterinsurgency, a brief history
June 19, 2012 • #Thoughts on counterinsurgency doctrine.
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