#Life I just paid off two big medical bills I have been paying off since the car accident I sustained back in 2023. Please clap for me.

#GISChat Request on Short Notice: would anyone be willing to review a proposal I have written for a course I'd like to offer at the Colorado Free University? The proposal is due tomorrow by 5pm so I would need feedback by 5lm today to ensure I have time to make changes. Thanks in advance!

#GISChat Big Think Literature Map. bigthink.com/strange-maps...

American literature, charted in one monumental map

From Stephen King’s Maine to Steinbeck’s California, Big Think's “A Literary Map of the United States” charts the stories that changed how we see a nation.

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When you're at the city council meeting and merely suggest that bike lanes need more than paint.

#GISChat When you are interested in solicitating feedback from your team at work, how do you go about it? For a long time i took screenshots and put them into a google doc and asked people to make comments to get feedback. So how do you get feedback?

#RandomThought I don't like the concept of Insurance. But shout out to the insurance companies for keeping the American Jingle alive and well. I got mail today from Nationwide and sang to myself Nationwide is on your side. Liberty Mutual is my favorite jingle. Hats off to keeping whimsy alive.

#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.

📢 Call for Papers: The Open-Source Approach to Geospatial Applications (Geocarto International) 🗓️ Submission deadline: 31 January 2027 think.taylorandfrancis.com/article_coll... #FOSS4G #GISchat #OpenScience

#GISChat #ESRI Listening to the Plenary, they are talk about AI, I am hesitant to use AI without a foundational understanding of the ethics and the environmental impacts that AI is having and will have. If it isn't ESRI's job to think about ethics is it the job of professional organizations?

#GISChat @sarahbell.bsky.social Today I learned, that Rand McNally has a blog and one section of their blog is called Ask a Cartographer... and its everything you want it to be. excuse me while I dive in. randpublishing.com/blog/tag/ask...

Knowing your values is vital to this fight against facism, against racism. Mt. Olive you have a customer! (I was buying your pickles before but I am proud to do so!)

#GISChat Good evening Y'all, So today I created a dice game for cartographers. let me explain: The idea for this dice game came to me when I watched the following youtube video by David Epstein titld: Why the Fastest Way to Improve is to Subtract. Where he talks about how to use constraints. 1/x

#GISChat I spent my morning learning about all the individual editing tools on ArcGIS Pro. I am sure I learned a few of these tools in grad school, but it was good to go through most of the tools within the editing ribbon. The buffer tool in editing seems very impressive.

#GISChat as you start to integrate AI into your GIS workflows, how are you learning how to use AI throughout GIS? What people are you following, what YouTube channels have good tutorials or blogs etc?

We are finally expanding our office and adding another GIS Analyst position. If you know anyone interested in such a role, situated where the Chicagoland concrete gives way midwestern corn fields, feel free to send them our way. #gischat #gisjobs #gis www.kanecountyil.gov/Pages/employ...

#GISChat GIS Software is a Choose Your Own Adventure Story. With regards to the multitude of ways to do an action within GIS software.

#GISChat Talking to people who are older then me who are in the field... is great, they mention ArcInfo and it is a trip down memory lane. I love hearing their stories. So much fun.

#Books So I went book shopping this week and I bought a book that was recommended in a video I watched called: Viktor E Frankl Man's Search for Meaning, written by a Holocaust Survivor. my copy was published in 2006. That same year, another book came out called The Boy in the Stripped Pajamas 1/x

#BikeSky #GISChat does anyone know if they make a Bike Trail Atlas like how they make a road atlas for bike trails in your state or other geographic area? A bike trail atlas I could stick in my panner would be helpful.

#GISChat Has anyone used the in-app tutorial this for any of their experience builder applications, do your end users find it useful? www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/...

Make an in-app tutorial in ArcGIS Experience Builder

Learn how to set up the in-app tutorial from the Spatial Studies Lab's Mars 2020 Mission Tracker in Experience Builder.

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#GISChat Has anyone read this? In Seeking Spatial Justice, Soja argues that justice has a geography and that the equitable distribution of resources, services, and access is a basic human right. www.upress.umn.edu/978081666668...

Seeking Spatial Justice

In 1996, the Los Angeles Bus Riders Union, a grassroots advocacy organization, won a historic legal victory against the city’s Metropolitan Transit Authori...

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#GISChat Why do we make interactive web maps for leadership if they wont use the interactive components of said web map? If they want to see everything on the surface, it feels like we should just create static maps. I do not get it.

#GISChat When you make a product (Static Map, Code, an Interactive web map or application etc etc) do you have someone from you team review the product? Someone who works in GIS or outside of it, just to make sure it looks good, works the way you want or is telling the story you want to tell?

#PrimaryElections So I am reading through information about the Primaries. Now, I know that the each state has different dates for their primaries and they differ. What I didn't know was that there were different types of primaries that differed from state to state. Let's talk about the types:

#GISChat Some of the work that I am doing is creating products for others in my division and then having to write (technical documentation?) for the product that I made so that the non GIS folks can manage this product. Does anyone know if there are courses for writing up GIS technical documents?

#PolticalSky I posted this over on threads and because I think it's an important conversation I wanted to ask it here. What do you want out of your next politician? The ones you vote for the next president ( If we are blessed to get there )

#BikeSky I love my Beeline Velo 2. 75% of the time. The other 25% of the time we disagree on the route it wants me to take. I'd love to figure out how to ensure it knows that I want bike trails first, then bike lanes, then sidewalk.

#GISChat HMMM So this is a thing. The white house made a website comparing Aliens to illegal Immigrants. If you scroll down to the bottom of the page there is a map of live arrests... I am not surprised they used OSM tiles but I think its bold of them to do so. #FUCKICE www.whitehouse.gov/aliens/

Aliens

Search illegal alien arrests in your city and across the US on our interactive map. Discover how the Trump administration is delivering on immigration promises with record enforcement actions and larg...

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Star Wars is never going to be what it was in 1977, 1980, 1983, or even during the prequels, and that's ok. The landscape has changed since then. I'm good with what it is now and people just need to realize that things change.

How do we (The US) Do this to another sovereign nation and not expect some sort of repercussions?! This is insanity. What even.

Naomi Klein@naomiaklein.bsky.social · 2mo ago

This is evil collective punishment.