March 3, 2025 • #
“Topographic beauties straight from old geography books”, @egeberkina.
Topic / maps
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January 16, 2025 • #
New York and Erie Railroad diagram, 1855.
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November 18, 2024 • #
Map of the Bell Telephone System , 1909.
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April 10, 2024 • #
The Yukon River delta , Alaska.
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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 25, 2024 • #
James Niehues’s famous ski resort maps.
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February 23, 2024 • #
Heliopolis , from Description de l’Égypte , 1809.
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February 17, 2024 • #
The island of Hispaniola , from the ISS.
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February 8, 2024 • #
Bird’s eye view of Cairo , 1882.
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February 7, 2024 • #
If you go back to the Permian, you’d find the Appalachians, Massif Central, Atlas Mountains, and Scottish Highlands were all part of a single range cutting through the Pangean supercontinent.
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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 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 29, 2024 • #
Neat tool for the curious when traveling.
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Open Buildings
July 18, 2023 • #Google publishes an open archive of 1.8 billion building footprints.
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The Spread of Writing
October 12, 2022 • #An animated map visualization of the spread of writing through cultures around the world.
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The Challenge of High-Capital Startups
August 17, 2022 • #Thoughts on satellite/earth observation startups, high-capital requirements, and the search for product-market fit.
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Map of Notable People
August 15, 2022 • #Topi Tjukanov's map of noteworthy people.
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Subterranean Trees of Magma
September 15, 2021 • #Superheated plumes of magma, hotspots, and the composition of the mantle.
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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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Weekend Reading: Digital Librarians, Tech Trees, and Alternate Histories in Maps
November 22, 2020 • #When to hire your first Chief Notion Officer, product roadmaps as tech trees, and maps of alternate histories.
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OpenStreetMap is Having a Moment
November 20, 2020 • #Joe Morrison updates us on the state corporate investment in OpenStreetMap.
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Why Maps Are Civilization's Greatest Tool
August 23, 2020 • #A review of some of the most important mapmaking achievements in history.
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Places: The English Channel
June 28, 2020 • #The English Channel with a phytoplankton bloom.
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Weekend Reading: Children of Men, Google Earth at 15, and Slate Star Codex is Gone
June 27, 2020 • #Remembering Children of Men, Timoney on Google Earth, and the NYT and Slate Star Codex.
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Weekend Reading: Optionality, Pangaea, and Regulatory Disappointment
May 16, 2020 • #The trouble with optionality, modern day Pangaea, and when regulation goes wrong.
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Weekend Reading: Cloud Services, Cities After the Virus, and Corona Care Map
March 28, 2020 • #The value of cloud services, what cities might look like after the virus, and COVID resources mapping.
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Weekend Reading: LightSpeed, Kubernetes, and a Car-Free Market Street
March 14, 2020 • #Facebook rebuilds Messenger, Kubernetes is mostly overcomplicated, and how Market Street has fared with no cars.
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Weekend Reading: Figma's Typography, Xerox Alto, and a Timeline of CoVID
February 29, 2020 • #Figma's attention to typographic detail, restoring a Xerox Alto, and mapping the spread of CoVID-19.
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Google Maps at 15
February 6, 2020 • #A history of Google Maps' development on its 15th birthday.
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The Roads of Planned Cities
January 26, 2020 • #Visualizing the road networks of planned cities.
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Running Map 2019
January 19, 2020 • #My running map for 2019.
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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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Weekend Reading: Darwinian Gastronomy, Humboldt, and Taxes
November 16, 2019 • #Spicy foods and evolution, Humboldt's maps, and picking apart income taxes.
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Weekend Reading: Blot, Hand-Drawn Visualizations, and Megafire Detection
November 9, 2019 • #A new blogging tool, the complexity of hand-drawn visualizations, and detecting wildfires from satellites.
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Weekend Reading: Strasburg Tipping, RapiD, and TikTok Investigation
November 2, 2019 • #Stephen Strasburg tipping pitches, mapping with AI, and ByteDance under CFIUS investigation.
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How PG+E's Aging Equipment Puts California at Risk
October 30, 2019 • #Visualizing the situation in California with PG&E and wildfires.
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All of the World’s Borders by Age
October 28, 2019 • #✦
mapwith.ai
October 22, 2019 • #An extension to the iD editor for automated feature detection.
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Weekend Reading: Ted Chiang, Renewable Energy, and ColorBox
September 21, 2019 • #An interview with Ted Chiang, renewables outlook around the world, and a tool for color generation.
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Tracking Fear: Measuring Safety Perceptions in Saskatoon
September 15, 2019 • #A cool post on a study done by a research team in the City of Saskatoon, looking at the perceptions of safety in a downtown area using Fulcrum.
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Weekend Reading: Observable Edition
September 7, 2019 • #This week highlighting a few Observable notebooks on cryptography, bicycle chainring calculators, and generative maps.
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Team Rubicon Leverages Fulcrum in Cyclone Idai Response
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Imaging the Earth, Every Day
July 28, 2019 • #A visualization of Planet's global constellation coverage.
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Weekend Reading: Brain MRI, Flash Cards, and Movie Maps
July 27, 2019 • #A 7 tesla brain MRI, Anki for flashcard learning, and Andrew DeGraff's Cinemaps.
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Weekend Reading: Rhythmic Breathing, Drowned Lands, and Fulcrum SSO
July 20, 2019 • #Rhythmic breathing for impact reduction in running, drowned lands in Upstate New York, and SSO in Fulcrum
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MapSCII
July 19, 2019 • #A neat tool for accessing an interactive map on a terminal console.
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Weekend Reading: Atlas of Moons, Opendoor and Redfin, and Thinking While Walking
July 13, 2019 • #National Geographic's Atlas of Moons, Opendoor and Redfin partnership, and walking to spur creativity.
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Weekend Reading: Summer Solstice, Zoom Learnings, and TeachOSM
July 6, 2019 • #“Visualizing the summer solstice, Zoom performance at IPO, and the progress of TeachOSM.”
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Public Health Mapping for the Pacific Islands
June 30, 2019 • #GIS and Fulcrum training for the Pacific Islands.
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The Bing of Maps
June 19, 2019 • #“Om Malik compares Apple’s position against Google in maps to Bing in search.”
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Weekend Reading: The Next Mapping Company, Apple on Pros, and iPadOS Workflow
June 15, 2019 • #Who might be the next mapping company, Apple's response to pro demands, and working workflow on iPadOS.
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Weekend Reading: Tissot's Indicatrix, National Park Fonts, and Starlink
June 8, 2019 • #Visualizing map projection distortion interactively, a National Park Service typeface, and SpaceX's move for space-based connectivity.
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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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Weekend Reading: Rays on a Run, Apple's Pivot, and Mapping Grids
May 18, 2019 • #The Rays are on a tear through 2 months, Apple's Services business, and using Observable for mapping Voronoi polygons.
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Tidal Resiliency
May 17, 2019 • #Attending a local neighborhood meeting on tidal resiliency and infrastructure improvements.
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Contours in OpenDroneMap
May 15, 2019 • #Latest release of WebODM support for contour generation.
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Weekend Reading: Running Maps, Thinking, and Remote Work
April 20, 2019 • #Planning runs, Vannevar Bush on the future of thinking, and best practices for remote work.
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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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OpenAerialMap: Open Drone Imagery for Humanitarians
February 18, 2019 • #How you can use OpenAerialMap for hi-res imagery in Fulcrum Community.
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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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Weekend Reading: LiDAR, Auto Generated Textbooks, and Paleo Plate Tectonics
February 9, 2019 • #LiDAR, Auto Generated Textbooks, and Paleo Plate Tectonics
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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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Weekend Reading: RoboSat, the State of Security, and the Equal Earth Map
January 12, 2019 • #Extracting buildings from imagery with RoboSat, the state of security in 2019, and the equal earth map.
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Topography, Bathymetry, Toponymy
December 27, 2018 • #“A few resources for topography, bathymetry, and place names in mapping.”
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topoView
December 24, 2018 • #Topo map viewer from the USGS for National Map data.
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24 Days of QGIS
December 23, 2018 • #“Nyall Dawson's annual tradition, an Advent calendar of QGIS tips.”
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Weekend Reading: Largest Islands, Linework, and Airline Mapping
December 22, 2018 • #David Garcia and Daniel Huffman's cartography projects.
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A Globe of Connections
December 19, 2018 • #Looking back on Parag Khanna's 'Connectography'.
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Video Mapping in OpenStreetMap with Fulcrum
December 16, 2018 • #A quick overview of my video mapping workflow for OSM editing, using Fulcrum.
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Weekend Reading: Ubiquitous Computing, Versioning SQL, and Video Game Maps
December 15, 2018 • #An interview with Bret Victor, Eurogamer on video game maps, and tips on using git for SQL.
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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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Orbiting the Earth, and Other Zen Videos
November 8, 2018 • #Videos to get you relaxed and mesmerized.
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Earth's Wonders Like You've Never Seen Them
November 7, 2018 • #Amazing oblique satellite photos from Planet.
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Apple's New Map
November 2, 2018 • #The latest from cartographer Justin O'Beirne on Apple Maps' updates.
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The Map Collection
October 17, 2018 • #“Cataloging my map collection using Fulcrum.”
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Recent Links: Mapping Air Quality, the Problem with Agile, Indie Jazz
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Weekly Links: Cartography's Future, Interactive Maps, and Building Moats
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Aerial imagery with the Mavic
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Weekly Links: OSM on AWS, Fulcrum Editor, & Real-time Drone Maps
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Mavic Pro First Impressions
April 19, 2017 • #Field report after the first few Mavic flights.
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mapquery
April 20, 2016 • #Map data storage and retrieval API from the Quartz team.
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Addresses and Geocoding: Do New Systems Improve What We Have?
August 8, 2015 • #An overview of new addressing and coordinate schemes, comparison of features, and an analysis of why they matter (or not).
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A Comparison of Activity Trackers
July 16, 2014 • #A comparison of activity and motion trackers: RunKeeper, Strava, MapMyRun, and Moves.
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Creating New Contributors to OpenStreetMap
January 15, 2013 • #What can the OSM community do to create a larger body of contributors, and get registered users to edit?
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Topography & Augmented Reality
May 6, 2012 • #Generating a real-time topographic map with a sandbox, Kinect, and a projector.
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Mapping Kabul
February 29, 2012 • #We've posted a map of Kabul, Afghanistan built from spatial networks GIS data.
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WhereCampTB
February 22, 2012 • #Talk from WhereCampTB on OSM Tampa Bay.
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Dymaxion
August 19, 2011 • #The dymaxion projection.
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WhereCampDC
June 23, 2011 • #Attended the inaugural WhereCampDC to talk maps.
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Traverse Me
August 1, 2010 • #The University of Warwick campus map was drawn on foot at 1:1 scale with 238 miles of GPS tracks walked over 17 days.
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Man vs. Nature
May 7, 2010 • #The ever-creeping man made landscape.
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StreetView on Whistler
February 11, 2010 • #StreetView is everywhere.
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Calendria
February 9, 2010 • #The imaginary land of Calendria.
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A Peek Into Netflix Queues
January 5, 2010 • #Looking at Netflix queues by zip code.
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