Rhodes Cartography
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Maps, mapping, geoviz. No politics. Fellow @RGS_IBG Board member @wmsmapsociety Adjunct Professor @georgetownsfs www.thinkinginspace.net Simple Orthographic Map Creator with MetBrewer colors: https://www.mapspam.net/MetOrtho.html
New version of Great Circles (and range rings) tool is now live. Make your free base and reference maps here: www.mapspam.net/greatcircles...
Great Circle Range Ring Map Generator v5
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Just the one additional sheet to highlight on SABRE Maps this #MapMonday - the 1935 Ordnance Survey Half Inch #Map of Greater London. Taking in a lot more than the modern definition of Greater London, it includes lots of places that look very, very different today... buff.ly/YvH8yy9
Dutch cartocubism A forgotten attempt to simplify maps from the interwar period. attilabatorfy.substack.com/p/dutch-cart...
Dutch cartocubism
A forgotten attempt to simplify maps from the interwar period.
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I didn’t realize Saul Steinberg — the artist behind the famous “View of the World from 9th Avenue“ — had a whole series of similar illustrations. 😍 saulsteinbergfoundation.org/essay/view-o...
New tool if you want to make simple basemaps with Great Circle Routes. www.mapspam.net/GreatCircleM...
Still not perfect, esp. on mobile, here's a v1.0 new Great Circle Map generator. Enter two locations. Select MetBrewer color palettes or the REH homage. Shit+click to pan. Rotate the globe or the view. Export the visible window or the whole globe. www.mapspam.net/GreatCircle2...
I assume everyone else watching the Olympics has the urge to experiment with Copernicus DEM data to make terrain maps of the Alps in QGIS ...
Highways have fundamentally altered the landscape of the United States 🚗
I added a cool globe to my collection and learned what I could about it. www.mapspam.net/classic-1925...
Kids were making snowflakes and shadow puppets. First time making a map with scissors.
Really excited about this collection of blank maps from 1900 that I just got. Many very challenging geography exercises for students to color in historic features and boundaries with crayons.
❗Join us for our last collection showing of 2025 ... guest curated by you❗ This free showing will be hosted Friday, December 19 in the Learning Center with a staff member from the Leventhal Center available to answer questions. Drop in any time between 2:00 pm–4:00 pm. No reservation is required.
Global connectivity. Aviation route pairs on Great Circle paths (not observed flight routes).
Geography questions from the 1858 Oxford Local Examinations. How would you do? I have been looking everywhere but have not yet found surviving examples of any "accompanying map" actually used in an exam. There was a whole industry around publishing exam prep maps.
#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!
This physical map of North America by the masterful @mtnmapper puts the location of Greenland and Iceland into perspective. You can grab the map here: buff.ly/M3Y4zrV
Day 22 of the #30DayMapChallenge - Natural Earth Data. I used the Ocean Bottom layer to make a Bathymetry map of Northern Europe.
After some helpful comments from testers, I have updated this tool for making simple outline maps on an equidistant projection. Zoom and rotate functions work better now and without a mouse. Make base maps for briefing graphics or coloring books. mapspam.net/OutlineMap.html
Outline Atlas — AEQD
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