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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 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

  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. @bibliolater It doesn't surprise me at all after the silly Trumpistan "maps".

    It's good to see how the Rest Of The World resists and works. The US-fascists isolate their country effectively!

    It's a pity that the article gives so much quote place for the losers.

    #map #UN #maps #cartography #geography

  24. @bibliolater It doesn't surprise me at all after the silly Trumpistan "maps".

    It's good to see how the Rest Of The World resists and works. The US-fascists isolate their country effectively!

    It's a pity that the article gives so much quote place for the losers.

    #map #UN #maps #cartography #geography

  25. @bibliolater It doesn't surprise me at all after the silly Trumpistan "maps".

    It's good to see how the Rest Of The World resists and works. The US-fascists isolate their country effectively!

    It's a pity that the article gives so much quote place for the losers.

    #map #UN #maps #cartography #geography

  26. @bibliolater It doesn't surprise me at all after the silly Trumpistan "maps".

    It's good to see how the Rest Of The World resists and works. The US-fascists isolate their country effectively!

    It's a pity that the article gives so much quote place for the losers.

    #map #UN #maps #cartography #geography

  27. @bibliolater It doesn't surprise me at all after the silly Trumpistan "maps".

    It's good to see how the Rest Of The World resists and works. The US-fascists isolate their country effectively!

    It's a pity that the article gives so much quote place for the losers.

    #map #UN #maps #cartography #geography

  28. Map of the city of New York : the imperial city of the new world, embracing the entire city limits, based upon official surveys (New York City, New York)

    From Digital Collections of New York Public Library
    http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/b7c9de90-…
    #NewYork #NewYorkCity #NYC #NYPL #US #USA #history #image #photo #maps #cartography
  29. Map of the city of New York : the imperial city of the new world, embracing the entire city limits, based upon official surveys (New York City, New York)

    From Digital Collections of New York Public Library
    http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/b7c9de90-…
    #NewYork #NewYorkCity #NYC #NYPL #US #USA #history #image #photo #maps #cartography
  30. Map of the city of New York : the imperial city of the new world, embracing the entire city limits, based upon official surveys (New York City, New York)

    From Digital Collections of New York Public Library
    http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/b7c9de90-…
    #NewYork #NewYorkCity #NYC #NYPL #US #USA #history #image #photo #maps #cartography
  31. Map of the city of New York : the imperial city of the new world, embracing the entire city limits, based upon official surveys (New York City, New York)

    From Digital Collections of New York Public Library
    http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/b7c9de90-…
    #NewYork #NewYorkCity #NYC #NYPL #US #USA #history #image #photo #maps #cartography
  32. Map of the city of New York : the imperial city of the new world, embracing the entire city limits, based upon official surveys (New York City, New York)

    From Digital Collections of New York Public Library
    http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/b7c9de90-…
    #NewYork #NewYorkCity #NYC #NYPL #US #USA #history #image #photo #maps #cartography
  33. The U.N. has voted to adopt a new world map as standard. They are dumping the Mercator Projection for an Equal Earth Projection, a map that shows landmasses much closer to their real size.

    It makes Africa and other equatorial landmasses look larger than previously, and shrinks Europe, North America, Russia, and especially Greenland.

    The only country to speak and vote against the resolution was the USA. No surprise.

    The US delegate actually sat there and claimed that the UN was ignoring real problems while working on changing maps for idealogical and political reasons (ignoring the science completely). How she stopped from dissolving in a puddle of irony I'll never know. She also claimed that passing symbolic resolutions like changing maps was why the U.N. is "losing its credibility" – the puddle deepens.

    Six countries—Estonia, Georgia, Lithuania, Moldova, Serbia, and Ukraine—abstained from voting.

    news.un.org/en/story/2026/09/1

    #UN #World #Cartography

  34. RE: en.osm.town/@seav/116823204398

    So the 80th session of the #UnitedNations General Assembly held a vote yesterday on the anti- #Mercator resolution that I wrote about back in June. It passed 164–1, with the #UnitedStates being the lone opposing vote very likely because the resolution is “woke” and goes against Trump’s distaste of DEI.

    Resolution: docs.un.org/en/A/80/L.104

    #maps #MapProjections #cartography #Mapstodon #gischat #geopolitics

  35. UN votes to adopt new that shows Africa’s true scale

    In a session at its headquarters in New York, the UN general assembly officially retired the 16th-century Mercator projection in favour of one based on the more accurate 2018 Equal Earth design.

    theguardian.com/world/2026/sep.

  36. UN votes to adopt new #world #map that shows Africa’s true scale

    In a session at its headquarters in New York, the UN general assembly officially retired the 16th-century Mercator projection in favour of one based on the more accurate 2018 Equal Earth design.

    theguardian.com/world/2026/sep.

    #142holdheap #geography #cartography

  37. UN votes to adopt new #world #map that shows Africa’s true scale

    In a session at its headquarters in New York, the UN general assembly officially retired the 16th-century Mercator projection in favour of one based on the more accurate 2018 Equal Earth design.

    theguardian.com/world/2026/sep.

    #142holdheap #geography #cartography