Biked this sidewalk today with my kid, carrying their 4 ft homemade fishing pole from camp (as you do). Trash can was directly across from the railing, thought I had clearance, did not. Fell to the hill side and not the road side. But f if I didn’t predict this & at least it was me & not my kid.

Meanwhile, out in the world. Like, it *could* just be a unique map projection?? But I do not know what would produce this truncated Lake Erie

The NACIS schedule is out! Particularly excited about our panel on the fantasy maps of Karen Wynn Fonstad. She was highlighted in the NYT series of overlooked obituaries although they annoyingly refers to her as a "novice cartographer" when she in fact was an expert. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/13/o...

Overlooked No More: Karen Wynn Fonstad, Who Mapped Tolkien’s Middle-earth (Gift Article)

She was a novice cartographer who landed a dream assignment: to create an atlas of the setting of “The Hobbit” and “The Lord of the Rings.”

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Funded Masters of Arts (Island Studies) position University of Prince Edward Island “Island Metabolisms and the Genesis of the Canadian Agri‑Food System" Supervisor - @joshmacfadyen.bsky.social , Director of the UPEI GeoREACH Lab niche-canada.org/2026/07/24/f... #envhist #aghist #PEI

Funded Masters of Arts (Island Studies) position University of Prince Edward Island

Funded Masters of Arts (Island Studies) position studying “Island Metabolisms and the Genesis of the Canadian Agri‑Food System.”

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Following @everyheron.bsky.social really brightens my feed ❤️

colleen ✧༺♥༻∞@colleenen.bsky.social · 6d ago

Last weekend was the opening night of "Out of the Book" exhibition at Neurotitan in Berlin - a collection of multi media projects by illustrators inspired by their own books. My textile hanging is based on my graphic nov in progress, titled "Heron". What an amazing project to be part of!! 🌟🪶

it absolutely feels like an instruction went round to every division going "you must integrate this tech, this is a big strategic priority" and nothing about that system let the Google Earth team go "uh but we definitely shouldn't, right"

"noted a sharp decline in in-home childcare providers — from roughly 20 in previous years to just four today." Continually voting no on affordable housing proposals has consequences. www.steamboatpilot.com/news/high-co...

High costs, low supply: Steamboat Springs’ early childhood challenges laid bare

Steamboat Springs parents and educators urged local officials this week to prioritize early childhood care, describing a system strained by high costs, low wages and limited availability — and calling...

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Ok, I know #northisasocialconstruct but please let's put north as up in shelter in place maps. (I've been to the ER there enough to know that north is to the left here, I'm guessing it was someone's phone map screenshot)

A two-mile "walk zone" for elementary school children in an unwalkable suburb just means more cars. www.news5cleveland.com/traffic/tall...

Tallmadge City Schools makes transportation cuts ahead of school year

The district said it will only offer transportation for students in kindergarten through eighth grade who live more than two miles away from their school.

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The eagerness to share and learn is probably a big reason *why* they're some of the best mappers in the world.

Normalize wide visibility for trucks ✅🦅

Michele Reeves@rethinkplaces.bsky.social · last wk.

First new mail truck seen in the wild! (Side note: can we please not ruin the USPS to the point of bankruptcy.)

“Taking the bus or the streetcar to work is a luxury often limited to larger cities. Ohio’s rural areas and small cities have fewer or no options; 25 Ohio counties have no public transit system at all. The Wheelhouse Christian Bicycle Cooperative hopes a different set of wheels can fill the gap.”

In this small Ohio city, volunteers turn old bikes into reliable transportation

The Wheelhouse in Lima recycles bicycles to help community members without a ride to work.

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Not a good idea to ask ChatGPT to draw maps 🙄

This is what happens when you replace experts with techbros using AI. It’s insulting, embarrassing, and massively damaging to US reputation capital.

Alt USAID/ USAID Forever@altusaid.altgov.info · last wk.

We can't even. "A senior US State Department official displayed a map of Africa that was completely wrong before high-level officials from African nations, including some whose countries had been mislabelled." open.substack.com/pub/emilysba...

If the media were serious about covering higher education in 2026, the actual National Conversation™️ would be “How have universities managed to retain such a high level of trust, relative to almost all the other institutions in 🇺🇸, amidst decades of assault from the far right authoritarian party?” 🧐🤔

Chris Warren@chriswarren.info · 2w ago

Do I have any bsky friends who have a good photo or two of glacial landforms at Bull Lake WY, who wouldn't mind contributing them (with attribution) to the "Wyoming Rocks!" book? It appears to be one of the last sites I don't care for my own photos from 🫠

Why is our downtown covered up in city's bike master plan? Don't want me to shop downtown? To cross downtown to see friends? For my kid to bike to high school since they are in the (2 mi) walk zone? Downtown is the MOST important place for bike lanes imo. (guess I need to send another email 🫠)

I’m opposed to generative AI and all its works. According to some leading names in the cartographic community, that makes me a gatekeeper, a Luddite, and an irrational AI hater. So, generative AI has come… More

Do you like maps? There are so many cool things for sale over at @mapcenter.com Like these Flickr maps from Erica Fischer, which completely exploded my brain when I saw them in 2010. www.mapcenter.com/store/p/loca...

Locals and Tourists: Boston — The Map Center

This map takes a little explanation. Software developer Erica Fischer made this series of maps in 2010 by downloading the metadata related to photographs shared to the (then) popular photo website Fli...

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Love this! Thinking about work through kids’ eyes always helps me understand it more & be a better teacher to the older students ❤️

Beth Tellman@socialpixel.bsky.social · 2w ago

Adapted my intro to remote sensing lecture for preschool yesterday. Kids intuitively understood how of course a satellite could sense infrared and light is a wave and why vegetation is red in a false color composite! Blown away by 4yo intelligence and wonder!

Look at all this seating -- Main streets: pay attention! If the malls could do it, so can you. (Aviation Mall, Queensbury, NY)

cpgrouchy@cpgrouchy.bsky.social · 2w ago

... also: post your mall's weird art fountain from 1980

It’s finally here! The NACIS Shop is excited to reveal the OFFICIAL design for the #nacis2026 conference t-shirt. These shirts are 100% cotton, printed locally in Milwaukee, and run in sizes S-3XL. Pre-order when registering for the conference to secure yours!

This sidewalk disruption aka off-road experience is a block from the senior apartments on the main route to the CVS.

Tom Flood@tomflood.bsky.social · 2w ago

These new "action" spots have been placed randomly and will continually change to keep things fresh and exciting.

maybe a more precise phrasing of the original point would be people can produce careless work or careful work but LLMs can only produce careless work, even if it is sometimes correct, because they are incapable of care

Good news we cleared the road! For cars. Now the branches are on the sidewalk. (There are only a few branches but they went out of their way to move the police tape to block the sidewalk) also this road goes nowhere that cars can’t 1 min detour to. More of us use the sidewalk than road tbh

This is art.

every usps@everylot-usps.bsky.social · 3w ago

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Are you a kick-ass designer who can help make scientific information about climate change and climate solutions come to life? If so, we’re hiring! drawdown.org/careers/seni...

Senior Digital Designer, Climate Science

Our mission is to help the world stop climate change as quickly, safely, and equitably as possible.

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#GISChat Does anyone know if there is a memoir or a book about a cartographer and their reflection on their craft? I am looking for something similar to Stephen King's On Writing, but for cartography.

My worlds collide! I appreciate that such a thing as "Ohio Bicycle Users Cartographic Society" once existed.

I genuinely thought this was a metaphor for AI/ AGI but no, it’s BETTER

Odd This Day@oddthisday.bsky.social · 3w ago

Yes, this does leave unanswered the question ‘how does a person who does not know where a sunken ship is train a monkey to find a sunken ship?’, but none of the books specified the method—and you can’t use monkeys to find sunken ships now, because of woke