William B. Davis
@willbdavis.bsky.social
Graphics editor @nytimes.com weather. Formerly @mapbox.com https://williambdavis.ca/
Today's rain www.nytimes.com/weather?lng=...
William B. Davis@willbdavis.bsky.social · 6d agoFor the past couple months I’ve been working on a tiled custom radar layer that works with @maplibre.org. I wanted it to be performant, smoothly animate, and be precise. You can check it out here (the locations that have active radar change every 5 min.) www.nytimes.com/weather?lng=...
For the past couple months I’ve been working on a tiled custom radar layer that works with @maplibre.org. I wanted it to be performant, smoothly animate, and be precise. You can check it out here (the locations that have active radar change every 5 min.) www.nytimes.com/weather?lng=...
Mapping the recent wildfire smoke: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Breaking News: A major, 7.3-magnitude earthquake struck off Mexico’s Pacific coast near the Guatemala border.
Map: 7.3-Magnitude Earthquake Hits Off Mexico's Coast
View the location of the quake’s epicenter and shake area.
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We used data from AllTrails and combined it with weather data to try and find the best weeks to visit 16 national parks across the US. Here's what we found (gift link): www.bloomberg.com/graphics/ame... w @mariepastora.bsky.social on maps!
Fantastic reporting, and clear visual examples, of the danger posed to pedestrians by bigger and bigger trucks with huge blind spots www.nytimes.com/interactive/... from @mhkeller.bsky.social
The Deadly Rise of Giant Trucks and S.U.V.s (Gift Article)
The vehicles on American roads have grown larger — and they are killing thousands more pedestrians, a Times investigation found.
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More recently: I've been working on an app called Earthling, and I'm gearing up for its public preview. I'd love if you'd follow along @earthlingmaps.com www.earthlingmaps.com
Earthling - Maps for Humans
Create maps for newsletters, articles, and social media, and add context without the clutter
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Big changes are coming to Grand Army Plaza, one of the busiest and most chaotic hubs in NYC. We took a closeup look at how the space is transforming www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
How Mamdani Would Change Grand Army Plaza for Walkers, Bikers and Drivers (Gift Article)
Mayor Zohran Mamdani's plan to connect the plaza to Prospect Park would expand pedestrian spaces, add bike lanes and reroute cars to improve traffic flow in the area.
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Made some creatures using IBTrACS tropical cyclone wind data
Intense days, we’ve published many Moon pieces—including this one today in video format—for which I 3D-printed a model of the Moon exactly the size that astronauts see it from Orion. According to NASA, it looks like a basketball if you hold it at arm's length. tinyurl.com/bs8ytpap
🌖 Artemis II will send four astronauts farther than any human has ever gone. Here’s what you need to know about their mission: tinyurl.com/bdeyx8n9 🎁
Record heat is colliding with a snow drought across the Western United States, where snowpack accounts for much of the water supply 🎁 www.nytimes.com/interactive/... w/ @byscottdance.com & @sachimulkey.bsky.social
Blackouts are getting worse in Cuba. On some days, the entire island is plunged into near total darkness. The electricity crisis has laid bare the risks of depending so heavily on foreign oil while trying to maintain a centrally planned socialist economic system.
Mapping Cuba’s Blackouts
Cuba is facing a historic electricity crisis. Blackouts have gotten worse, and on some days the entire island is plunged into near total darkness.
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Job opening at @upshot.nytimes.com Come help us explain the news! We're looking for a visual journalist and graphics developer to report, write, design and code data-driven stories and visualizations. Details here: www.nytco.com/careers/job-...
Data Graphics/Multimedia Editor, The Upshot | The New York Times Company
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Interactive Maps and Charts: Tracking the Northeast Winter Storm www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Winter Storm Forecast Maps: Where Snow and Blizzard Conditions Will Hit East Coast (Gift Article)
See where snowfall and cold temperatures are expected.
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I've just added three KH-7 images of the Matochkin Shar Nuclear Test Site to the declassified imagery gallery. These shots are gorgeous. There's something about film and snowy landscapes. October 4, 1965: spacefromspace.com/declassified... May 26, 1967: spacefromspace.com/declassified... cont.
Trump's View Of the World Even on a global scale, the president's attitudes reflect a fixation on a single subject: himself. GIFT LINK 🎁 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
How Trump Sees the World: It’s Personal (Gift Article)
Historical relationships play little if any role in the second-term worldview of the president, who holds himself as the constant center of global events.
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I recently nerd-sniped myself into thinking about political points of view on maps, and wondering whether it’d be possible to create OpenStreetMap-derived, Wikipedia-informed national borders on a Protomaps base map legal for educational use in countries in conflict. medium.com/@michalmigur...
Weeknotes, 2026W04: Boundary Issues
I recently nerd-sniped myself into thinking about political points of view on maps, and wondering whether it’d be possible to create…
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Starting to look alright. Added line rendering, pictured here Jack Kuenzle's FKT route (www.strava.com/activities/9...)
My thoughts are with the +300 colleagues who were laid off today. This is not good for the industry www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/b...
Washington Post Begins Laying Off More Than 300 Journalists
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Introducing 𝐀𝐬𝐲𝐧𝐜-𝐆𝐞𝐨𝐓𝐈𝐅𝐅, a new library for reading GeoTIFFs and COGs. developmentseed.org/async-geotif... - Fast, with a Rust core - Uses a non-blocking thread pool for image decoding - Integrates with NumPy, PyProj, Affine & Morecantile - Remote data support with Obstore - No GDAL dependency
Introducing Async-GeoTIFF - async-geotiff
A fast, async GeoTIFF and Cloud-Optimized GeoTIFF (COG) reader for Python.
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The last few weeks I've seen a lot of great job opportunities shared, listing a few that stood out to me in the mapping/cartography/visual journalism space: www.linkedin.com/posts/lauren...
#mapping #cartography #datajournalism #visualjournalism | Lauren Tierney
The last few weeks I've seen a lot of great job opportunities shared, listing a few that stood out to me in the mapping/cartography/visual journalism space: Data Visualization Journalist at The Seatt...
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Join us in Bologna, Italy, 4–6 Nov 2026 for Visualising Climate — the first global conference fully dedicated to climate data visualization and its power to transform public understanding of a changing planet. Come see the data. visualisingclimate.org #VisualisingClimate2026 #DataVis #ClimateCrisis
No time like a holiday deadline to learn MapLibre and how to run a cron job for the first time 🙃 (with a big assist from @willbdavis.bsky.social ) Follow along our “slow blog” as Ray and Chang join a team of scientists traveling to Antarctica: 🎁🔗 www.nytimes.com/live/2025/cl...
Bringing back the bugle mountains with this work in progress.
