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SO nice for Los Angeles. You can watch the city grow building by building. And you can zoom in.
lax-skyline.parcelscope.net#map=10.15/33...

#map #history #maps #losangeles

For a few days in August the hottest ground in Britain pushed past 35°C. The mountains never joined in. A month of air: colour is temperature, each strand as long as the land is high. When the heat came, the cool ground wasn't the far north, it was the high ground.
#dataviz #Britain #ERA5 #maps

Smith of the Outpost map from June that will be one of many maps featured in something very special coming early October! Look forward to the announcement later this month!
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#secret #dndmap #ttrpg #dnd #maps

The Cerne Abbas Crop Circle.
Cerne Abass, Dorset, England.

#CropCircles #SpecialRevelation #YourRevelation #England #Parousia #Logos #Maps

No longer visible on Apple IOS Maps

maps.apple.com?ll=50.818077...

I finally got myself an RTL-SDR receiver and today afternoon tracked the Meteor M2 satellite. With an antenna strapped to the end of a mop, I dangled off the edge of my balcony and got this beautiful reading of almost the entire Indian peninsula. #maps

My mind is blown!

La Poveda sits 10 km from where the Madrid Metro map puts it. Fit the official diagram over the real city as closely as it will go and the average station is still 1.7 km out.

#Madrid #Metro #maps #geography #dataviz

Where is Kyrgyzstan 🇰🇬?

#Kyrgyzstan
#StepByStep 👣
#PlacesOfWorship
Been here? ❤️
Want to visit? 🔁
#Maps #Cartography #Geography #OneWorld
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An 1837 school atlas ranked every country on Earth from Savage to Enlightened. The original chart next to a 2013 redesign. vividmaps.com/moral-and-po...

#maps

The Portuguese called this the Cape of Storms before anyone renamed it Good Hope. Every light is a real lighthouse on its own navigation cycle. Cape Agulhas, at the southern tip, sits where the Atlantic meets the Indian Ocean.

#lighthouse #SouthAfrica #maps #dataviz

My latest Substack on map projections "Can a map lie?" #maps #geography
ritchiecunninghams.substack.com/p/can-a-map-...

Road crosses N river at mouth. Clearly a town and a bridge there.

Road crosses middle river way upstream. No need to provide any link to shipping!

Road crosses S river way *outside* river mouth, necessitating a long unnecessary ferry trip! 😄

2/2

#fantasy #maps

A world map that morphs between Mercator and Equal Earth. Pick a country, see how many times too big it's drawn (Greenland: 16.5×, Norway: 9.4×, Switzerland: 2.1×).

d3, 38 KB of TopoJSON, no tracking, embeddable via iframe. Already in use at News24.

equalearthmap.app

#dataviz #maps #cartography

The UN voted 164–1 last week to encourage equal-area world maps. Here's why: on Mercator, Greenland looks as big as Africa. Africa is 14× larger.

Drag the slider from Mercator to Equal Earth and watch it happen. Free to embed, no tracking.

equalearthmap.app

#dataviz #maps #cartography

🌍 "The 'Correct the Map' resolution aims to address a colonial-era injustice that has visually shrunk Africa for 450 years, shaping how the continent is perceived in media, education, and policy around the world."

americangeo.substack.com/p/the-ags-gl...

#maps #mapping #GIS #geography #africa

Where is Yemen 🇾🇪?

#Yemen
#StepByStep 👣
#PlacesOfWorship
Been here? ❤️
Want to visit? 🔁
#Maps #Cartography #Geography #OneWorld
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"If you’re trying to show things that relate to the population of the planet, Mercator’s not the way to go, because, actually, it expands the areas where no one lives, largely.”

James Cheshire, SODA Director and Professor of Cartography (@uclgeography.bsky.social), on BBC Radio 4.

#BBC #Maps

Map projections are in the news again with the UN voting to promote the Equal Area map from 2018 by Šavrič, Patterson (@MtnMapper) & Jenny. Here is a cool video by van Wijk from 2008 showcasing the problems with turning a 3D globe into a 2D plane.
#maps #cartography
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMKa...