🔊🎶Meeting the challenge🎶🔊 A map shared on each day of Nov 2025: 25 brand new maps + 5 'classics'. See my timeline or my @linkedin.com page @mildthing99 at the other place #GoGIS4GA #GIS 🙏🎶Mix of 'Crosswalk' @TEEDinosaurs 🙏 @tjukanov.bsky.social who started #30DayMapChallenge Day 30: Makeover
Geographical Association Special Interest Group ICT
@gasigict.bsky.social
We're particularly interested in all things #geospatial and ways to develop and improve teaching with and about #GIS #EduSky
🔊Walking On The Moon🔊 #Apollo15 26 Jul-7 Aug 1971 'Falcon' LM lift off from Hadley-Appenine 2 Aug 1971 Georeferenced with #MediaLayers in @esriuk.bsky.social ArcGIS Online #3DScene w Moon Elevation Surface DEM incl other Apollo missions: arcg.is/1GmKHG7 #30DayMapChallenge Day 18: Out of this world
🔊Thrown Around🔊 Atlantis/Conic Equidistant/Equirectangular; Orthographic/Patterson/Stereographic/Waterman Butterfly/Winkel Tripel #SST Nov 2025 centred on #NullIsland 🙏 @cambecc.bsky.social 🙏🎵 @jamesblake #30DayMapChallenge #GoGIS4GA Day 19: Projections #GISDay earth.nullschool.net#current/ocea...
🔊🎶*Bohemian Toponymy*🎶🔊 50 yrs ago in 1975 Queen's 'Bohemian Rhapsody' tops UK chart *Is this the real place? Is this just fantasy?* Data🙏@natlibscot.bsky.social OS 1900s > 'Bohemia' maps.nls.uk/projects/os1... > ArcGIS Online #30DayMapChallenge #GoGIS4GA Day 24: (A Day At The) Places + their names
🔊🎶Urban river restoration Lima, Peru with sub-fluvial Lima Expresa road under Rio Rímac #braiding #PEPRR tinyurl.com/yttxekkw 1908 map #MediaLayers🙏via @royalscotgeosoc.bsky.social 🎶🙏 Sofia Kourtesis Map arcg.is/0nOPDj0 @esriuk.bsky.social ArcGIS Online #30DayMapChallenge Day 26: Transport
🔊🎶Hexagons of Grammichele Sicily, Italy: #PlannedSettlement 1693 after #earthquake at Occhiolà 👣5.34km/3.32mi via @_outdooractive_ @esriuk.bsky.social ArcGISOnline w #FireflyIcons by @johnelson.bsky.social ✝️RIP Ornella Vanoni d 21 Nov 2025 arcg.is/e9OLL #30DayMapChallenge Day 25: Hexagons
🔤🌐The Earth spells it out🌐🔤 #YourNameInLandsat uses lookie-likie letters in satellite images from @NASA_Landsat over the last 50 years managed jointly with @USGS #EarthObservation #RemoteSensing landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/apps/YourNam... 🙏 @thenasaearth.bsky.social #30DayMapChallenge Day 29: Raster
An excellent way to investigate spatial variations in placenames, incl parts of placenames: 'British Placename Mapper' 🙏 to Robin Wilson @sciremotesense using @ordnancesurvey.bsky.social data incl 'Starts with' 'Ends with' etc #30DayMapChallenge Day 28: Black placenames.rtwilson.com#W3sidGV4dCI6...
🔊Using #GIS to visualise the impact of physical and human processes on coasts🌊 @oaknational.bsky.social lesson stepped explanation demonstrating #GIS integration at KS4 GCSE Geography for coastal erosion on Holderness peninsula UK tinyurl.com/mwpn2229 #30DayMapChallenge Day 23: Process
🔊🎶On the border*🎶🔊 The England-Wales border follows old meanders of the River Vyrnwy e.g. the #ShropshireWay crosses border 6 times in 6 km betw Pentreheylin Hall to Llanymynech 🙏 🎶 @alstewartinfo 🙏 Route plan + #FlyoverVideo @_outdooractive_ #30DayMapChallenge Day 27: Boundaries
🎹🔊 Isn't it iconic?🔊🎹 World piano manufacturers *There are places I'll remember* Iconic 'In My Life' original speed Iconic solo by George Martin Iconic Beatles album 'Rubber Soul' #MusicTeacher #GeographyTeacher #30DayMapChallenge Day 21: Icons Map: arcg.is/1zK5Sj0
🔊🐳'A prison-like aquarium' 🐳🔊 Threats to #BlueWhales in the Gulf of Ancud, Chile #EcosystemFragmentation also happens in the sea 🙏@Seasaver @BedrinanaLuis @ballenaschile Full video 6m: www.youtube.com/live/rMW2-3f... #30DayMapChallenge Day 22: Data challenge: Natural Earth
🔊💧Whatever happened to Capel Celyn?💧🔊 OS 6" 1830s-80s (county layers) v @esriuk.bsky.social Imagery v @ordnancesurvey.bsky.social 1:25000 #GIS 🚰#Dams 🚰 🙏@natlibscotmaps @BritishPathe 🙏🎵Jon Hopkins - 'Cold Out There' #30DayMapChallenge Day 20: Water maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/...
🔊*Tomorrow Never Knows*🔊 By 2125, will remoteness mean that these places can remain much the same as now? Created in @esriuk.bsky.social ArcGIS Online using @johnnelsonmaps.bsky.social's #Firefly symbols 🙏#Beatles #30DayMapChallenge Day 12: Map from 2125 Map: arcg.is/TWuOO1
🔊Using #GIS to visualise data in a webmap Stepped explanation > #CreateBuffers analysis tool in @esriuk.bsky.social ArcGIS OnLine > visualise exclusion zones around #Merapi volcano @oaknational.bsky.social #GIS integration KS4 GCSE Geog tinyurl.com/yh56fjw3 #30DayMapChallenge Day 13: 10 minute map
🔊'From Bank to Bet Fred'🔊 @openstreetmap.bsky.social v map of Dundee shops in Murraygate 1991 using #MediaLayers in @esriuk.bsky.social ArcGIS Online #3DScene > urban retail land use change. 🙏 UoD Archives #ThinkForAMinute #Housemartins #NEA arcg.is/1f8zuf0 Day 14: Data challenge: OpenStreetMap
🔊'London Under Fire' 🔊 '12 Postcards Passed By The Censor' Story Map inspired by the excellent blog by @alondoninheritance.bsky.social alondoninheritance.com/thebombedcit... Georef then #GIS mapped in @ArcGISStoryMaps 🎵 @psbhq.bsky.social 'London Can Take it' ❤️Ukraine #30DayMapChallenge Day 15: Fire
Wolf territories, Voyageurs National Park, Minnesota #Media Layers in @esriuk.bsky.social ArcGIS Online 🙏Voyageurs Wolf Project #Wolves FB: tinyurl.com/26mpj8eb YT: youtube.com/watch?v=sUkB... #30DayMapChallenge Day 16: Cell 2D Web map: arcg.is/1Oz0aa1 3D Scene: arcg.is/0KaLfX
Isle of Wight Slow Ways Topological Map created using AI ChatGPT Walk betw any town, city and national landscape in Britain 10,000 A-to-B walking + wheeling routes, mapped and checked by🙏 @slowwaysuk.bsky.social Dan Raven Ellison beta.slowways.org #30DayMapChallenge Day 17: A new tool
🔊*The shape you're in*🔊 Do you recognise all of these topological countries? Rectangle, Triangle, Crescent, Teardrop, Hexagon, Circle... (the last one is the world's 'most circular country' with a roundness index of 0.934) 🎵🙏 @edsheeranbr.bsky.social #30DayMapChallenge Day 11: Minimal map
🔊🎶Let's go back 🎶🔊 GPS track of a cloudless recent ascent (+ descent!) for a long-awaited return to the magnificent Cader (Cadair) Idris, Eryri Nat Pk, N Wales @natreswales.bsky.social #FlyoverVideo outdooractive_uk + @jungle4eva.bsky.social #30DayMapChallenge Day 4: Data challenge: My Data
🔊How to use #GIS to visualise physical processes at different types of plate margin e.g. convergent plate boundary: a stepped explanation @oaknational.bsky.social lesson demonstrating #GIS integration at KS4 GCSE Geography #TectonicHazards tinyurl.com/3zecmytx #30DayMapChallenge Day 5: Earth
🔊How has phys geog/tectonics influenced biogeographic realms (faunal boundaries)? 3D: #WallaceLine #LydekkerLine #WeberLine @esriuk.bsky.social ArcGISOnline #Scene GEBCO 10x exagg #Evolution #Marsupial v #Mammal @TEEDinosaurs #30DayMapChallenge Day 6: Dimensions arcg.is/GOHq90
🍃🌉On this day 1940🌉🍃 'Galloping Gertie' Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapsed in 40mph/64kmh winds. Where were the viewpoints? Tacoma-Kitsap pen link gone until 1950. Created in @Esri ArcGIS Online using #MediaLayers Webmap: arcg.is/0j9ibq #30DayMapChallenge Day 7: Accessibility
🔊#JourneySticks are an ancient geographical information system #GIS used for millennia. Glimpses of a brilliant KS1 Y1 lesson 'Making a map of our route' by @oaknational.bsky.social stepping 'old' #GIS and 'new' #GIS + @aphextwin.bsky.social #30DayMapChallenge Day 9: Analog tinyurl.com/35y5wf5r
🔊Do you know the way to Kathmandu? 3D map: 2025 Imagery v 1967 Corona satellite via Nepali Times #MediaLayer @esriuk.bsky.social ArcGISOnline #Scene + GEBCO bathymetry 3.5 x exagg c 200%⬆️ #UrbanSprawl शहरी विस्तार + @johnmaus.bsky.social 'Do Your Best' #30DayMapChallenge Day 8: Urban arcg.is/1iPyW10
🗺️ 113 year old maps reborn 🗺️ 1912 sketch maps by teacher George Nebel for a field trip from Wood Street School #Woolwich to Isle of Thanet, Kent (they travelled by ship!) #MediaLayers @esriuk.bsky.social ArcGIS Online #30DayMapChallenge Day 9: Analog Map🙏 Kent Archives arcg.is/1nr55b1
Using #GIS to map the track of a #TropicalStorm: Stepped explanation: how to use georef data to visualise #TyphoonRai (Odette) 2022 in @esriuk.bsky.social ArcGISOnline @oaknational.bsky.social lesson demo for #GIS integration at KS4 GCSE Geography tinyurl.com/352hdcka #30DayMapChallenge Day 10: Air
🔊Using #GIS to visualise global trends in urbanisation A stepped explanation demonstrating how to create a #GIS choropleth webmap using shapefiles @oaknational.bsky.social lesson demonstrating #GIS integration at KS4 GCSE Geography tinyurl.com/3ksbwwmy #30DayMapChallenge Day 3: Polygons
30dayMapChallenge Day 1 Points arcg.is/1ab5ua4 School Y7 food investigation. Data collected from 3 year 7 classes using Microsoft, map and symbolised in Esri ArcGIS Online. Students can then investigate where their food comes from. #GISinschools #HowiusedGIStoday #GIS #ArcGISOnline