Pinhead v5 is now released with 38 icons added since v3, including icons from the OSM Americana map style. I also added a page where you can compare Pinhead to the likes of Maki, NPS, and OSM Carto pinhead.ink/coverage/ github.com/waysidemapping/pinhead/releases/tag/v5.0.0
*New article*: How to create maps for Substack posts that look great in email and on the web www.earthlingmaps.com/learn/add-a-...
Earthling Maps | Add a map to a Substack post
Make a map in Earthling Maps and embed it within a Substack article or email
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And for my more technical friends: in future posts I'll go deeper into its automatic projection system, meaning that even if users have never heard of projections they'll result in maps with less distortion. See you later Web Mercator!
Earthling Maps@earthlingmaps.com · 2w agoEarthling Maps is here! It's all about creating focused maps for articles, newsletters, social media, and presentations, to orient your audience. Learn more in the launch post: www.earthlingmaps.com/updates/intr...
Big news 🌎🌍🌏: Earthling Maps v1 has launched! Read about it, give it a try, and reach out with any feedback. They're maps that aim to work well even when really small, with defaults to set the stage for great cartography regardless of map-making experience.
Earthling Maps@earthlingmaps.com · 2w agoEarthling Maps is here! It's all about creating focused maps for articles, newsletters, social media, and presentations, to orient your audience. Learn more in the launch post: www.earthlingmaps.com/updates/intr...
NASA's Psyche spacecraft captured this stunning view of Mars on Friday, while approaching the planet from the night side for a flyby. #Psyche 🔭🧪 Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/Simeon Schmauß flic.kr/p/2sdBDyw
Let's give a Bluesky welcome back to my friend Brian Jacobs. If you're into journalism, design, maps – follow! And check out his new tool that allows you to create beautiful maps for your stories, essays, etc!
Brian T Jacobs@btjak.es · 3mo agoI'm long overdue for a social media update, so here it goes. I moved out of DC to the Hudson Valley and I've been freelancing, continuing to enjoy making graphics and tools, designing, coding, and a lot of mapping. I'm about 2 hours north of New York City:
I'm long overdue for a social media update, so here it goes. I moved out of DC to the Hudson Valley and I've been freelancing, continuing to enjoy making graphics and tools, designing, coding, and a lot of mapping. I'm about 2 hours north of New York City:
Doing some casual reading on fused quartz and happy to see that the Time Magazine deep archive is right there on the internet serving up articles from 1924 with a take from Einstein time.com/archive/6651...
📣 NEW! I’ve just released the BIGGEST and perhaps most creative project I’ve ever worked on! “Searching for Birds” searchingforbirds.visualcinnamon.com 🐤 A project, an article, an exploration that dives into the data that connects humans with birds, by looking at how we search for birds.
This is a real timelapse video of the Moon transiting in front of the Earth. It was captured by the Artemis 1 Orion spacecraft in November 2022 while flying at it's furthest point from the Earth. The video covers about 3.75 hours of real time. 🔭🧪
It's like my hometown dentist Lou Smoler • “Cartesian” comes directly from Cartesius, the Latinized name of René Descartes. • “Cartography” is rooted in the Latin charta and Greek -graphē, concerning maps and writing — with no connection to Descartes’s name or mathematical concepts.
I have been experimenting with different ways of visualizing the curvature of meandering rivers. Plotting curvature in the context of the meanders themselves helps QC-ing the curvature data ⚒️🧪
Geospatial pareidolia: when you stare at maps all day, things like the eastern seaboard appear in coral shadows
Coral City Camera@coralcitycamera.bsky.social · last yr.Two squids making a splash and they’re gone in a flash 🦑💨🦑💨 #caribbeanreefsquid #reefsquid #squid #oopsiinkedmyself #ink #squidink #cephalopod #cephalopodsofcoralcity #poof #gone #jetpropelled #coral #coralhead #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #biscaynebay #coralcity
The Alliance of Freelance Cartographers needs your help! By taking our short annual survey, you strengthen your #cartography community. This survey is for anyone (globally) who did any amount of freelance mapping last year (even a little). forms.gle/VaZqPpxeB8Qu... Please help spread this widely!
I wrote a short interactive article👆 It uses simulations to demonstrate how different cardiac arrhythmias can develop. Try it out! (It has defibrillators ⚡️) jenevoldsen.com/posts/excitable-cells #medsky #cardiosky #cccsky #emimcc
Yesterday's eclipse captured in 2 frames about 2 hours apart, from the eyes of DSCOVR's EPIC camera (epic.gsfc.nasa.gov) parked around Lagrange point L1. I've been working a lot with this data recently, project coming soon...
Today, Doogie Typer is loaded up with Doogie's first entry, written on his 16th birthday in the pilot episode. He would have turned 50 today, just a tad younger than @nphstuff.bsky.social. Happy birthday Doogie. 🎂⌨️🔊 btjak.es/doogie/
Doogie Typer
You're a genius teenage doctor and it's time to reflect
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Brian T Jacobs@btjak.es · 3y agoGonna put my hifi lofi Doogie Howser M.D. journal simulator right here https://btjak.es/doogie
Cover illustration I did for the book “Ultimate Dinosaurs: Stegosaurus” by the talented Professor Ben Garrod. The book is out today! 🐡 🎨 🧪 #paleontology
I can think of few things better to do on a holiday Sunday than wander through this meticulous 3-D reconstruction of Tenochtitlan at its height. tenochtitlan.thomaskole.nl (I particularly dig the overlays between modern Mexico City and Tenochtitlan as it was.)
To be fair, I’d be proud of such a ‘shop effort
Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 3y agoThem: AI is amazing AI: Graphic design is my passion
Another day, another amazing anatomy fact! 🧪 Your teeth are joints. They're a fibrous joints called dento-alveolar syndesmoses. Science speak for: pegs of tooth fit into jaw socket. LOOSE teeth are bad right? Why's it a joint? Because a tiny bit of movement tells you how hard you're cronching!
On the shores of the Rockies
MU-Peter Shimon 🀄@mu-peter.bsky.social · 3y agoPeak in the diversification of fossil vertebrates in the Campanian Upper Cretaceous terrestrial strata 🧪 Calibrating the zenith of dinosaur diversity in the Campanian of the Western Interior Basin by CA-ID-TIMS U–Pb geochronology https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-19896-w
Congrats to @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com for winning the first Tiny Awards! rotatingsandwiches.com was chosen from over 300 nominees and publicly voted from 16 finalists as best representing the small, playful web. https://twitter.com/kleinkleinklein/status/1683822941895532545
Andy Baio@andy.baio.net · 3y agoTiny Awards is a new effort to celebrate the best of the "small, playful, and heartfelt web.” As part of the selection committee, I helped narrow the ~300 nominees down to 16 finalists, and now you decide who wins! Voting’s open until July 20. https://waxy.org/2023/07/vote-on-the-tiny-awards/
