Geohipster 2027 Calendar Above is a map from the 2026 Geohipster Calendar by Antonio Smith - Noteworthy because it's East Tennessee. The 2027 Geohipster calendar is now accepting admissions. You may think "Well it's a bunch of open source weirdos over at Geohipster" and you could be right - but…

Geohipster 2027 Calendar

Above is a map from the 2026 Geohipster Calendar by Antonio Smith - Noteworthy because it's East Tennessee. The 2027 Geohipster calendar is now accepting admissions. You may think "Well it's a bunch of open source weirdos over at Geohipster" and you could be right - but we're also a group of Map weirdos. The above map used about everything you can use for maps and graphs.

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1,000 more hours and this should be a really nice product.

Every day, India's Met department publishes a forecast chart for ~1,200 stations. Their cloud-cover panel is drawn to look like a pixelated cloudy sky! I've been analyzing the charts to convert them to data, and map them daily in the same pixel art style. #dataviz diagramchasing.fun/2026/mapping...

Mapping India's Clouds

A daily pixel map of cloud cover over India, read from IMD meteograms.

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A few days ago, Lake Mead water levels were mentioned (I don't remember the post), which got me curious. Normally, I like to create a little map, but I didn't have time for that. So I made a quick screen record of a swipe map. July 1984 v July 2026 Seems not ideal. #gischat

Book launch ahead! Love #maps #railways #design? Know people who do? Search "Mapping Britain's Railways" & "Ovenden" for new #BritishLibrary title out 18/08/26. 1st with every #TrainOperatingCompany & newest #GreatBritishRailways maps, plus historical ones. #transit & #cartography lovers must-have!

I hate driving most new cars. They are big and isolated from the road, it is hard to tell how fast you are going without staring at the speedo. 25 mph feels the same as 50!

David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 2w ago

Drivers who speed because they like the feeling of going fast should ride a bike. It feels fast at 20 mph.

#gischat

Andy Nosal@2feet2bucks.com · 3w ago

Map postcards now available at the WaterFire Arts Center Store - @waterfireprov.bsky.social - Mail them to your #urbanism friends, better yet mail them to the unconverted. #walkable #bikebus #carfree

Are there gatekeepers in cartography? I wrote a thing. I might be Andy Rooney now. tl;dr: if there are gatekeepers, how come nobody stopped me from making bad maps!

Who are the Gatekeepers in Cartography?

Recently, there has been some discourse on BSKY about the use of genAI in cartography. In particular, this essay was released on my birthday of all days, arguing in favor of using genAI to create m…

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1902 newspaper ads be wildin'. Are you a pale lady? That's because you are clearly diseased!! Buy and drink our alcoholic concoction!

First rule of cartography: first we make ugly maps and then we make them pretty. This is a corollary to "write drunk, edit sober". #gischat do you have any rules or encouragement you tell yourself?

I have seen this gap in census primary road layer for years. I assumed it was a state highway that ended and became a residential street or something. Nope! It's I-275 and that's I-40 to the south. Le sigh

This map uses a graphic technique to argue that New York City was already a mostly socialist community by the end of the 19th century. It uses just two colors: red, the printing color, and the negative white space of the paper color.

A map showing the Scottish filming locations in Christopher Nolan's epic The Odyssey has been released, allowing fans to visit the stunning scenery shown in the movie. See it below 👇

Latitude and Longitude xkcd.com/3273/

New on the blog: "On Sin," in which I meditate on cartographic ethics, and invite discussion on a thorny problem: how we might decide if or when the inaccuracies embedded in a #map cause it to become unethical.

About halfway through, I stopped reading their positions and got most of them right. Trying to guess the "did not votes" tripped me up. Race, gender & age (mostly the first two) should get you a passing score.

Julie Hotard Ph.D., writer, effects of disinfo on social systems@upine.bsky.social · 2mo ago

There are many different kinds of Trump supporters. Some are simply clueless. Here. Take this quiz. It tells you about clueless low info voters. Most high info voters flunk it. www.americansurveycenter.org/quiz/

I am rearranging my home office, a process that will probably take 10 yrs or so, and I was thinking about getting a MercatorHater poster for my freshly painted walls. I didn't find anything, so I will probably have to make it myself. But Google did send me this Medium post from @mapcenter.com.

I love my manual until I am in rush hour traffic in Knoxville. Then I wish I had a EV. I work from home these days so it's less of an issue.

IndiacarlessⓋ 🇺🇦@indiacarless.bsky.social · 2mo ago

NOOOOO! It's all I know how to drive. Read for $0 wapo.st/4gJh1ww

I wrote about a similar thing a few months ago. My main issue was saying Lat/Lon (which correlates to Y/X) and then saying X/Y (which correlates with Lon/Lat). Inverting the pairs led to downstream confusion. I started saying: Lon-Lat-X-Y And it helped! 🥳 antonioantoine.com/2026/02/17/l...

Simon Kuestenmacher@simongerman600.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I keep getting confused when latitude and longitude numbers are negative and when they are positive. Well, this cheat map helps! Source: buff.ly/OqIQoJX

Today in 2020, I photographed Comet Neowise from downtown Knoxville. With the pandemic raging, it was fascinating to see people all take pictures of it from around where they live instead of traveling to exotic locations.

Damn. I don't think Paul had a good time at the 1982 World's Fair. 😂

And now visualizing the June solstice from the polar regions... Animation looks downward at the North Pole (left; ☀️) and South Pole (right; 🌙) over a 24-hour period. Graphic from zacklabe.com/arctic-clima...

Happy #SummerSolstice! It is the longest day or days of the year! It is still hard to believe there are places on earth where the sun doesn't set AT LEAST a month from now. 🤯 Available as a print! antonioantoine.com/product/the-... #cartography

Why can't software install other software it needs to install or update? Why don't we (meaning you) use AI for that?

#gischat

Will Chase@willchase.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🗺️ 📣 I've been off bluesky for a while, but popping in to announce Graticule, my new app for making maps! graticule.org It's a work-in-progress but I'd love to hear any feedback. What features would you like to see next?

A couple of months ago, I made a map of the American Black Belt. This was prompted by a YouGov survey I read in 2022, where Americans thought black people were 40% of the population! I almost fell out of my chair. Link to the map: antonioantoine.com/2026/06/16/t...

#gischat

WSDOT@wsdot.wa.gov · 3mo ago

WELCOME TO WASHINGTON, SOCCER FANS. Get acquainted with our state via this highly accurate and mostly-to-scale map.

I'm thrilled to announce that I will soon be an author! My book, The Twin Cities in 50 Maps, is a cartographic portrait of Minneapolis and St. Paul. The book includes 50 painstakingly designed maps and deeply researched essays that trace the Cities' urbanity, history, ecology, and culture.

Going through the Knoxville Library archives, looking for photographs of a building or two, and I came across this guy. I can't get over how insane it is to fly a plane like this. No cockpit, windshield, or anything. Just flying a canoe in the air. lol

This chart scaling is... a choice. It's like reverse mercator for every ten latitudes or something.