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  1. Reliving grade school … cutting out volvelles based on Philipp Apian’s Cosmographia of 1529s and 1530s … lunch time at Osher Map Library!! #maps #volvelle #cartography #sundial #maphistory

  2. 🧵 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

  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. 🧵 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

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. 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

  10. 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

  11. 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

  12. 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

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

    #gis #cartography

  14. 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

  15. 🚋 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

  16. 🚋 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

  17. 🚋 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

  18. 🚋 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

  19. 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/
  20. 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/
  21. 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/
  22. 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/
  23. 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/