Fun locator map in Montparnasse station, Paris. Turn the whole thing and the map spins to be oriented toward the way you’re facing.
Andy Woodruff
@awoodruff.bsky.social
cartographer of things https://andywoodruff.com/
My 6 year old hardly understands what baseball is, but she knows this: Yankees suck.
No time for our usual White Mountains camping/hiking weekend this year, but we did pull off the miracle of getting out the door early enough for a day hike at kid speed. Leaves: peeped ✅
My kid’s school is teaching solid lessons in the Great American Failed Culture of Transportation. Her kindergarten teacher: ✅ Lives about a 12 minute safe and comfortable walk to school ✅ Drives to school
The Equal Earth projection news has spawned a bunch of TikTok explainers and, like... all of them are wrong. Incorrect "true size" comparisons, AI slop maps, etc. Tom Patterson has many beautiful versions of the real deal in the public domain, totally free! But making shit up is easier?
On this day we commemorate that time when our Allston Christmas map was a little too real for people.
'tis the season* in Boston! Mind your vehicle height on Storrow Drive/Soldiers Field Road and Memorial Drive. Here's my map of some popular locations to sardine-tin the roof of your truck. (*'tis not the season. There is no season. The whole thing about students being to blame is a myth!)
I have often felt a bit out of the loop because I don't celebrate the two major cartographic holidays of Hurricane Season and Electiontide.
Cartographers are secretly delighted when some body of water name bullshit is in the news. That’s the real scandal!
You guys I’ve recently returned from my first visit to Portugal and can’t get over the francesinha sandwich. Bunch of meat, draped with melted cheese, drowning in a beer-based sauce… how did the entire state of Wisconsin fail to invent this first?
The Spanish town Sigüenza, where we saw last week’s eclipse, has a lovely pair of tiled maps in its train station. Hard to capture in a photo, but they have a lot of 3D detail. But railway construction meant bus substitution, so we spent more time figuring that out than looking at the maps 😭
Here’s a bad photo from today of the 8th total solar eclipse that I’ve seen!
This was a fun one. Pretty sure we could have stretched this into like 3 hours of just being map nerds. Thanks for inviting me, Jake!
Jake @ HUBhistory@hubhistory.com · 3mo agoIn this week's episode of HUB History, history meets cartography in my conversation with @awoodruff.bsky.social about his new book Boston in 50 Maps. Listen now! www.hubhistory.com/episodes/bos...
💯 Some of the best mapmakers in the world are regularly at the NACIS conference, and in addition to being eager to share their wisdom, they're all super friendly and want to hang out with you and learn from you too.
The Map Center@mapcenter.com · 3mo agoI've been making maps for a while. I'm okay at it. Never thought I could run with the big dogs at NACIS. Now that I'm a map store owner I get to hang out with these rock stars and realize they're actually so committed to education and mentorship I could have been hanging out with them years ago.
Okay I was wrong about the flight time so we ended up at a suburban Skyline, but still: meat slop accomplished ✅
Andy Woodruff@awoodruff.bsky.social · 3mo agoThis important map will help us plan a lunch stop on the way from CVG up to the Dayton area for a visit back some soon. Own this map and at least 49 others in the book Cincinnati in 50 Maps! www.arcadiapublishing.com/products/cin...
I’ve been buying these for the kids lately and can’t get past this picture on the box. Why would you open a box of Cheez-Its outdoors on the moon? There’s no way to eat them!! Very wasteful.
This important map will help us plan a lunch stop on the way from CVG up to the Dayton area for a visit back some soon. Own this map and at least 49 others in the book Cincinnati in 50 Maps! www.arcadiapublishing.com/products/cin...
Oh no, we’re doing the daylight saving time thing again? Have you people learned nothing from me? There is no universal solution but to overthrow the clock and live by the sun.
Big news from Maine: it is the only state to share a border with exactly one other state, and it is the only one-syllable state name! Unclear at this time how either of those will affect the 2026 midterm elections.
Can’t believe we made it so deep into the tournament before a photo of Garvey appeared in my feeds
WBUR@wbur.org · 3mo agoBusiness is booming at soccer bars in Greater Boston — thanks to the World Cup. Sales are up, fans have come out in droves and local businesses are trying to make the most of the tournament.
This map is done enough to make prints available. If anyone you know spends time around the White Mountains, Lake Winnipesaukee, or in between, I'll be grateful for you passing the word along! 🙏 (No vacation house in the area is complete without this map!) andysmaps.bigcartel.com/product/moun...
It’s cool how they’re bringing tyranny back for a 250th anniversary tour 🤘
😤 Simply drawing a line on an existing map 🤩 Entire weird AI map with your line on it cc @transitmap.net
Nik DeCosta-Klipa@nikdecostaklipa.bsky.social · 4mo agomany people pointing out it would take billions of dollars to dig a fully new, five-mile Orange Line tunnel — but what about the costs of realigning the Green Line's E branch, connecting the Mattapan trolley to South Station and relocating Aquarium to a new Harbor Island?
A books of maps about a city he loves is an S-tier Father’s Day gift (as I am pretty sure my kids would say). Available at your local bookstore!
Columbus in 50 Maps
This full-color book of maps, one of Belt Publishing’s 50 Maps Series, presents the capital and biggest city in Ohio like you’ve never seen it before. Columbus is a place perpetually in search of an i...
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Andy Woodruff@awoodruff.bsky.social · 4mo ago⚠️ Father’s Day self-promo warning: Just signed a second shipment of Boston in 50 Maps at my local bookshop, after the first sold out in 10 days! I have it on good authority (the store owner) that as a Father’s Day gift it is NOT boring. www.arcadiapublishing.com/products/bos...
⚠️ Father’s Day self-promo warning: Just signed a second shipment of Boston in 50 Maps at my local bookshop, after the first sold out in 10 days! I have it on good authority (the store owner) that as a Father’s Day gift it is NOT boring. www.arcadiapublishing.com/products/bos...
Hot off the presses, a map I worked on w/ the Community Geographics team, a gravel bike route in Vermont/Quebec. The trick to a nice map is having @margot-carto.bsky.social start the file, then just using the same styles she designed for another map in the region. 😉 www.nekgravel.org/lacs-et-fron...
