The Twin Cities' 15-minute neighborhoods — where you can live within a 15-minute walk or bike ride from all of modern life's necessities. Inspired by an excellent map of Madison made by @latlong.shop.

Madison! Help expand @openstreetmap coverage of local Little Free Libraries. I made a web app to report LFLs in your neighborhood. Please share with book lovers or anyone down to do some surveying! little-free-library-map--latlongshop.replit.app

#30daymapchallenge | Day 30 Makeover | Madison in 50 Maps! After four years of making maps of our incredible city, I’m very excited to share that I’m writing a book! As part of the @beltpublishing.bsky.social “50 Maps” series, I’ll be the author of the forthcoming Madison edition.

#30daymapchallenge | Day 29 Raster | Algal Bloom Raster isn’t my particular area of cartographic expertise… but here’s a stylization of Sentinel 2 imagery capturing a particularly gnarly algal bloom in May 2023. This particular event led to beach closures quite early in the summer season.

#30daymapchallenge | Day 28 Black | Road America 🏁 The Road America racetrack stylized like the ubiquitous black + white license plates we all know. Part of last year’s series, I got many requests to make this one a print, pushing me to figure out full bleed printing with solid black background.

#30daymapchallenge | Day 27 Boundaries | Not Madison Wisconsin was divided in the early–mid 1800s using the Public Land Survey System, carving the territory into 6mi square townships. As Madison grew, many nearby areas chose to incorporate to avoid annexation & keep control over local decisions.

#30daymapchallenge | Day 26 Transport | Bike Map of Madison 🚲 Probably my most elaborate map to date, I launched my “Bike Map of Madison” as a print earlier this summer during @madisonbikes Bike Week. Now recently updated with the new @crono_madison location! ⭐

#30daymapchallenge | Day 25 Hexagons | Youth & Senior Population Admittedly not my best hex grid bivariate choropleth… I think the color selection isn’t quite right. But here we are! Comparing the distribution of Madisonians under 18 and 65+ across the city based on the 2023 ACS 5-year estimates.

#30daymapchallenge | Day 24 Places and Their Names | Street Name Origins While many streets are named for locals, several clusters hide bigger stories. Much of downtown is Doty’s tribute to signers of the US Constitution. In the Vilas neighborhood, a band of streets honors a few US Presidents.

#30daymapchallenge | Day 23 Process | Process(ed) Meats! 🌭 Ok, a bit of a stretch for this prompt, sorry for being a ham… Crafted a stylization of the (now shuttered) Oscar Mayer meatpacking plant as detailed in a 1942 Sanborn Map of the area.

#30daymapchallenge | Day 22 Data: Natural Earth | The Great Islands Earlier this summer I finished this print version of my map from last year depicting our Great Lakes as islands. Been trying to learn more about lighting techniques in Blender—I think this was a big leap forward from 2024 version!

#30daymapchallenge | Day 21 Icons | Pickleball Courts Across Madison Earlier this summer I created this map for Madison Magazine cover story “The ultimate local guide to the game of pickleball” in their August issue. Over 100 courts and counting in the Madison area! latlong.shop/products/pic...

#30daymapchallenge | Day 20 Water | Land of Lakes & Rivers The most superfluous waterbodies across Wisconsin! This print has been one of the best sellers all summer market season. Probably that ultra-rich inky blue we picked (looks even more sharp in person). 💦

#30daymapchallenge | Day 19 Projections | Projected Growth City projections expect the Madison pop to surge by 115k residents (+42.8%) by 2050. The city is banking on infill & densification along BRT corridors via High Residential & Mixed-Use zoning to accommodate this growth. #yimby #madisonwi

#30daymapchallenge | Day 18 Out of This World | Bike to Pluto Did you know you can bike a scaled model of our solar system from @mononaterrace to Mt Horeb—about 23mi representing the 5.9Bkm from the 🌞 to Pluto! Follow the signage as you riding along the SW Commuter Path/Military Ridge State Trail!

#30daymapchallenge | Day 17 A New Tool | Which Side of Madison? A few weeks ago, I experimented with @mapbox.bsky.social GL Draw API to spin up a simple site where people can sketch and submit the boundaries of Madison’s different “sides.”

#30daymapchallenge | Day 16 Cell | Fill the Hill 🦩 For the uninitiated, it might seem strange that a flock of flamingos descends on @uwmadison.bsky.social campus each fall. The “Fill the Hill” tradition goes back to a 1979 prank, when the Pail & Shovel Party covered Bascom Hill with 1008 flamingos.

#30daymapchallenge | Day 15 Fire | Wisconsin State Capitol(s) The Wisconsin State Capitol and its massive granite dome is certainly the most recognizable element of Madison’s skyline, but its current layout is actually the third iteration on the Capitol Square.

#30daymapchallenge | Day 14 Data: OSM | Greenspace It’s hard to be in Madison and be very far from different types of greenspaces. Do you have a favorite verdant haven in the city? #osm #openstreetmap #Madisonwi @osmus.bsky.social

#30daymapchallenge | Day 13 1(5) minute map | Almost 15 Minute Cities Updated my 2022 analysis to find Madison neighborhoods that are almost a #15minutecity w/ 15-minute walk access to four of five key amenities: schools, parks, transit, clinics, and grocery stores. Highlighted areas miss just one.

#30daymapchallenge | Day 12 Map from 2125(0 BC) | Glacial Lake Yahara This was supposed to be a map about the future 100 years from now… but instead let’s travel back 20,000 years to the last Ice Age! 🧊 Madison’s spectacular landscape was carved by the Green Bay Lobe of the Laurentide ice sheet.

#30daymapchallenge | Day 11 Minimal Map | Lakefront Access While #madisonwi is well known for its beautiful lakes, how much lakefront is actually accessible to the public? Curious to answer this, I dove into parcel ownership records. The findings reveal a stark contrast…

#30daymapchallenge | Day 10 Air | Airplane Mode A stylized depiction of the FAA Airport Diagram for Dane County Regional-Truax Field (MSN Airport). #madison #madisonwi #maps

30daymapchallenge | Day 9 Analog | Counties of Wisconsin I started this map the night before my triplets were born… too anxious to sleep, so I put my energy toward cutting out hundreds of magazine letters to spell out the 72 counties of #wisconsin ✂️

#30daymapchallenge | Day 8 Urban | Original Plat Map of Madison A stylization of the original 1836 plat of #Madison commissioned by Doty, envisioning a capital city between the “Four Lakes.” Anchored by a square, the plan's radiating avenues are reminiscent of L’Enfant’s plan for Washington DC.

#30daymapchallenge | Day 7 Accessibility | Libraries of Madison Our libraries offer access to far more than just books: free Wi-Fi and computers, career resources, skill-building classes, notary services, community meeting spaces, and much more. They truly function as essential community hubs.

#30daymapchallenge | Day 6 Dimensions | Unrealized Heights Still tinkering with this one, but here’s unbuilt volume for large buildings within 1 mile of the Capitol, where the Capitol View Preservation Ordinance restricts buildings from exceeding the elevation of the base of the Capitol’s columns.

#30daymapchallenge | Day 5 Earth | Effigy Mounds While many have been lost over the destructive course of colonial settlement, Dane County was originally home to 100s of earthen burial mounds built by Ho-Chunk ancestors. Some preserved sites can still be found across Madison.

#30daymapchallenge | Day 4 My Data | Badger Parking Revamped my map from last year a bit that features observed unofficial parking rates in the neighborhoods around Camp Randall during Badger football home games. Think rates would’ve gone down if I looked at the data YOY?? 😬

#30daymapchallenge | Day 3 Polygons | Before 1900, After 2000 (WIP) Where do buildings from the 1800s still stand since Madison’s founding in 1836? Where have things been built in this century so far?