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  1. 🧵 1/2: I recently saw this vintage #Qantas poster with a unique “flower” map projection centered on #Sydney (1st image). I love how it almost neatly divides the four largest continents (Eurasia, Africa, and North and South America) into the 4 “petals”.

    I sorta became obsessed and wondered if I could recreate it using my mapmaking and coding skills.

    Some days of tinkering, coding, and mathing later, I think I managed to do it! (2nd image) 🎉🗺️

    #maps #cartography #Mapstodon #gischat #Australia

  2. 🧵 1/2: I recently saw this vintage #Qantas poster with a unique “flower” map projection centered on #Sydney (1st image). I like how the map almost neatly divides the four largest continents (Eurasia, North America, South America, and Africa) into the four petals.

    Well, I kinda became obsessed and wondered if I can recreate it using the mapmaking skill I have.

    After some tinkering and mathing I think I was able to do it! (2nd image) 🎉🗺️

    #maps #cartography #Mapstodon #gischat #Australia

  3. 🧵 1/2: I recently saw this vintage #Qantas poster with a unique “flower” map projection centered on #Sydney (1st image). I like how the map almost neatly divides the four largest continents (Eurasia, North America, South America, and Africa) into the four petals.

    Well, I kinda became obsessed and wondered if I can recreate it using the mapmaking skill I have.

    After some tinkering and mathing I think I was able to do it! (2nd image) 🎉🗺️

    #maps #cartography #Mapstodon #gischat #Australia

  4. 🧵 1/2: I recently saw this vintage #Qantas poster with a unique “flower” map projection centered on #Sydney (1st image). I like how the map almost neatly divides the four largest continents (Eurasia, North America, South America, and Africa) into the four petals.

    Well, I kinda became obsessed and wondered if I can recreate it using the mapmaking skill I have.

    After some tinkering and mathing I think I was able to do it! (2nd image) 🎉🗺️

    #maps #cartography #Mapstodon #gischat #Australia

  5. 🧵 1/2: I recently saw this vintage #Qantas poster with a unique “flower” map projection centered on #Sydney (1st image). I like how the map almost neatly divides the four largest continents (Eurasia, North America, South America, and Africa) into the four petals.

    Well, I kinda became obsessed and wondered if I can recreate it using the mapmaking skill I have.

    After some tinkering and mathing I think I was able to do it! (2nd image) 🎉🗺️

    #maps #cartography #Mapstodon #gischat #Australia

  6. The Russian navigation app 2GIS shows an ad for a place... in a completely different location. You’d think this “8 Марта” place is right here, but it’s actually on the opposite side of the city. What you see is just a banner ad.

    Thanks @khambogrus for the picture

    #Cartography #Navigation #Map #GPS #2GIS #Ad #Banner

  7. La France abandonne la projection cartographique dite « de Mercator » et demande une représentation du monde plus équitable
    lemonde.fr/international/artic
    Dans le cadre d’un mouvement porté par l’ #Unionafricaine, Paris a annoncé, vendredi, abandonner l’utilisation de ce #planisphère. Pour respecter la réalité, la place de la France sera désormais plus petite
    #cartography

  8. Now maps without New Zealand will come in Equal Earth projection.

    #gis #cartography

  9. Some news for cartographers, from the highly-sensationalized #CorrectTheMap campaign

    (Their mission to get rid of #Mercator-projection illustrative world maps is a good fight, but a lot of their rhetoric is very ill-informed/misleading.)

    #cartography #geography #GIS #worldmap #Africa #maps #mapping @geography @geopolitics @cartography

  10. 🚋 Vienna’s tram line 18 now runs through the Prater to U2 Stadion 🏟️

    🗺️ Drawn in the style of the old Wiener Linien single-line maps: geographic, black and white, connecting lines at every stop. My additions: stylised rivers, the rest of the network faintly in the background, north arrow and a scale bar.

    🏟️ 3.1 km of new track, seven new stops – and for the first time since line 21 was withdrawn in 2008, you can reach the stadium by tram again.

    #transitmap #vienna #tram #cartography #mapdesign

  11. Spotted in my RSS feeds: a Chrome extension called Retake the Lake. (This link goes to a GitHub repository. Here is the extension in the Chrome Web store.) “This is a (hopefully temporary) extension for Chrome browsers that corrects ‘Lake America’ to ‘Lake Ontario’ in two ways.”

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/05/chrome-extension-retake-the-lake/
  12. Spotted in my RSS feeds: a Chrome extension called Retake the Lake. (This link goes to a GitHub repository. Here is the extension in the Chrome Web store.) “This is a (hopefully temporary) extension for Chrome browsers that corrects ‘Lake America’ to ‘Lake Ontario’ in two ways.”

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/05/chrome-extension-retake-the-lake/
  13. Spotted in my RSS feeds: a Chrome extension called Retake the Lake. (This link goes to a GitHub repository. Here is the extension in the Chrome Web store.) “This is a (hopefully temporary) extension for Chrome browsers that corrects ‘Lake America’ to ‘Lake Ontario’ in two ways.”

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/05/chrome-extension-retake-the-lake/
  14. Spotted in my RSS feeds: a Chrome extension called Retake the Lake. (This link goes to a GitHub repository. Here is the extension in the Chrome Web store.) “This is a (hopefully temporary) extension for Chrome browsers that corrects ‘Lake America’ to ‘Lake Ontario’ in two ways.”

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/05/chrome-extension-retake-the-lake/
  15. Spotted in my RSS feeds: a Chrome extension called Retake the Lake. (This link goes to a GitHub repository. Here is the extension in the Chrome Web store.) “This is a (hopefully temporary) extension for Chrome browsers that corrects ‘Lake America’ to ‘Lake Ontario’ in two ways.”

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/05/chrome-extension-retake-the-lake/
  16. U.N. endorses map change to represent Africa more accurately - The Washington Post
    archive.ph/QfKF2

    'The U.S. was the only country to vote against the U.N. resolution, which encourages the use of an “Equal Earth” map. The U.S. described it as a “radical ideological project.” '

    #UN #Maps #Cartography #USA #RightWing

  17. Map showing the high and low water mark and the original city grants of lands under water made to various parties from 1686 to 1873, extending from Battery to Fifty-first Street, Hudson and East Rivers, New York City, also the several pier and bulkhead lines established from 1750 to 1873 (New York City, New York)

    From Digital Collections of New York Public Library
    http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/5fd48a6d-…
    #NewYork #NewYorkCity #NYC #NYPL #US #USA #history #image #photo #maps #cartography
  18. Map showing the high and low water mark and the original city grants of lands under water made to various parties from 1686 to 1873, extending from Battery to Fifty-first Street, Hudson and East Rivers, New York City, also the several pier and bulkhead lines established from 1750 to 1873 (New York City, New York)

    From Digital Collections of New York Public Library
    http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/5fd48a6d-…
    #NewYork #NewYorkCity #NYC #NYPL #US #USA #history #image #photo #maps #cartography
  19. Map showing the high and low water mark and the original city grants of lands under water made to various parties from 1686 to 1873, extending from Battery to Fifty-first Street, Hudson and East Rivers, New York City, also the several pier and bulkhead lines established from 1750 to 1873 (New York City, New York)

    From Digital Collections of New York Public Library
    http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/5fd48a6d-…
    #NewYork #NewYorkCity #NYC #NYPL #US #USA #history #image #photo #maps #cartography
  20. Map showing the high and low water mark and the original city grants of lands under water made to various parties from 1686 to 1873, extending from Battery to Fifty-first Street, Hudson and East Rivers, New York City, also the several pier and bulkhead lines established from 1750 to 1873 (New York City, New York)

    From Digital Collections of New York Public Library
    http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/5fd48a6d-…
    #NewYork #NewYorkCity #NYC #NYPL #US #USA #history #image #photo #maps #cartography
  21. Map showing the high and low water mark and the original city grants of lands under water made to various parties from 1686 to 1873, extending from Battery to Fifty-first Street, Hudson and East Rivers, New York City, also the several pier and bulkhead lines established from 1750 to 1873 (New York City, New York)

    From Digital Collections of New York Public Library
    http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/5fd48a6d-…
    #NewYork #NewYorkCity #NYC #NYPL #US #USA #history #image #photo #maps #cartography
  22. CW: Bad in all sorts of ways

    Haha Florida now looks like an even tinier penis

    #un #cartography

  23. 🌎 Brazil Landcover Map 2025 🇧🇷 🗺️ From the Amazon rainforest, Pantanal wetlands and Cerrado savannas to the Atlantic coast—mapped using ESRI Landcover 2025 by @impactobservatory & @Esri and CGIAR-SRTM DEM . #gischat #GIS #Cartography #Brazil #Landcover #RemoteSensing #Geospatial

  24. 🌎 Brazil Landcover Map 2025 🇧🇷 🗺️ From the Amazon rainforest, Pantanal wetlands and Cerrado savannas to the Atlantic coast—mapped using ESRI Landcover 2025 by @impactobservatory & @Esri and CGIAR-SRTM DEM . #gischat #GIS #Cartography #Brazil #Landcover #RemoteSensing #Geospatial

  25. 🌍 East Africa Landcover Map 2025 🇹🇿🇰🇪🇺🇬🇷🇼🇧🇮 🗺️ From the Great Lakes, forests and savannas to Kilimanjaro—mapped using ESRI Landcover 2025 by @impactobservatory & @Esri and CGIAR-SRTM DEM by @divagis. #GIS #Cartography #EAC #Landcover #RemoteSensing #Geospatial

  26. 🌍 Saudi Arabia Landcover Map 2025 🇸🇦 🗺️
    From vast deserts to the Asir Mountains — Saudi Arabia’s land cover mapped using ESRI Landcover 2025 by @impactobservatory &
    @esri
    and CGIAR-SRTM DEM by
    @divagis
    .
    #GIS #Cartography #SaudiArabia #Landcover #Desert #Asir #RemoteSensing

  27. 🌍 Saudi Arabia Landcover Map 2025 🇸🇦 🗺️
    From vast deserts to the Asir Mountains — Saudi Arabia’s land cover mapped using ESRI Landcover 2025 by @impactobservatory &
    @esri
     and CGIAR-SRTM DEM by
    @divagis
    .
    #GIS #Cartography #SaudiArabia #Landcover #Desert #Asir #RemoteSensing

  28. For comparison, though our map of which countries are suspended from the #AfricanUnion hasn't been updated in three years, our humans labeled ALL the countries and didn't even get ONE wrong! 🤣 #AfricaMap #maps #Africa #geography #cartography

    polgeonow.com/2017/02/what-are

    @geography @geopolitics @cartography

  29. The Map Room: Gatekeepers, Luddites, Haters and AI-Generated Maps. “In the 23 years I’ve been blogging about maps, I’ve made no bones about the fact that I’m not a mapmaker. I have no cartographic skills whatsoever. I’d dearly love to be able to make maps of my own, and I’m deeply envious of people who have that skill. You’d think that an AI mapmaking tool would be a dream come true […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/07/24/the-map-room-gatekeepers-luddites-haters-and-ai-generated-maps/
  30. A conceptual atlas-style map of a proposed future Kurdistan, redrawing borders from historical Kurdish-majority regions across Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran. Not an official claim, but a visual way to discuss history, identity, self-determination and disputed borders.

    #Kurdistan #Kurds #Kurdish #MiddleEast #History #Geography #Maps #Cartography #Geopolitics #Turkey #Syria #Iraq #Iran #Armenia #Azerbaijan #Anatolia #Mesopotamia #Zagros #Diaspora #Minorities #SelfDetermination #Borders