#cartography — Public Fediverse posts

Came across this interesting video today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RymX3rPsKYo #fantasy #writing #cartography

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A map of Tunis from 1844.

#NorthAfrica #Africa #Tunis #History #Histodons #C19th #19thCentury #Map #Maps #Cartography

US Historic Land Cover Map by Zachary Ammerman
https://tinyurl.com/4aftuyhb

#cartography #mapping #geospatial

tmap just got a very useful deep dive on units 🗺️

From symbols and circles to fonts, margins, and legends -- this vignette explains the hidden world of units in tmap.

https://r-tmap.github.io/tmap/articles/foundations_units

#rspatial #rstats #Cartography #GIS #DataViz

Finally got a final client approval for this commissioned map of the Pampanga River basin / watershed. 🥳

(Rivers, coastline, and borders are from #OpenStreetMap, licensed under the ODbL 1..0)

#maps #Mapstodon #cartography #gischat #Pampanga #Philippines #tootSEA

Afghanistan, Pakistan (Inde britannique) et Perse
🔸 Carte militaire britannique de 1912
https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b531984569.r
#carte #cartographie #maps #cartography #Perse #Iran #Pakistan #Inde #Afghanistan #UK #militaire #WarOffice #Gallica #BnF

Carte de l’Amérique du Nord (1847)
Publiée aujourd’hui sur Gallica / BnF
https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10063110b
#carte #cartographie #maps #cartography #AmériqueDuNord #géographie #histoire #patrimoine #BasCanada #USA #Mexique #Gallica #BnF #Amérique #Antilles

🔥 Ah, the thrilling tale of Archie G. Norcross and his vintage fire maps! Because when you're desperate to spice up your life, nothing screams *adventure* like poring over century-old #cartography. 🗺️ Meanwhile, Kerouac's existential crisis on Desolation Peak feels like a blockbuster compared to this page-turner. 📚✨
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/maine-forest-fire-maps/ #vintagefiremaps #adventure #Kerouac #existentialcrisis #storytelling #HackerNews #ngated

Archie G. Norcross' Maine Forest Fire Maps (1918–22)

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/maine-forest-fire-maps/

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49279624

#HackerNews #ArchieNorcross #MaineForestFire #MapsHistory #Cartography #PublicDomain

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On this day in1650 Italian Franciscan cartographer Vincenzo Coronelli is born.

#History #Histodons #OTD #OnThisDay #BOTD #BornOnThisDay #Map #Maps #Cartography #Italy #Europe

#Image attribution: Vincenzo Coronelli, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Coronelli_Portrait_2.JPG.

SOME SHARED SPATIAL/GIS ROLES & OPPORTUNITIES
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w/e August 14th, 2026 | GLOBAL but North America focused (as currently based there)
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https://earthstuff.substack.com/p/some-shared-spatialgis-roles-and-52e
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• I am NOT associated with HR/recruiting in ANY way
• Therefore, these are NOT endorsements, and there are no ‘referrals’ or the like for me
• I am simply sharing SOME roles I have seen – in the hope that they are of use to someone
• As such, I am not (and indeed can not) in any way ‘vet’ these roles (i.e., you are advised to conduct your own due diligence due to hideous, potential risks like fraudulent postings, ‘ghost jobs’, résumé/ATS ‘improvement’ scammers, etc)
• Further, roles listed are in no specific order (i.e., simply as I ‘encountered’ them during the week)
• There is ZERO cost to access this list of spatial / GIS roles
• I am not (really) ‘mining’ US Federal government roles - with the ‘hiring freeze’, uncertainty, etc
• You can subscribe to the (free) weekly LinkedIn newsletter www.linkedin.com/build-relation/newsletter-follow?entityUrn=7397678824928366594 or also for free at earthstuff.Substack.com - if so inclined

#fridayjobs #gischat #jobsonfriday #GIS #spatial #mapping #cartography #geography #job #jobopenings #hiring #newjob #employment #roles #GISJobs #NotARecruiter #fridayspatialjobs #scholarship #PhD #PostDoc #CareersInSpatial #career #openroles #Geomatics #GIS #Innovation #Growth #caveatNONemptor #LetsGetYouHired #GISCareer #GISStudents #PhD #postdoc #hiringalert #GISjobs #careeropportunity #NowHiring #spatialanalysis #GIS #Geospatial #GISSpecialist #Geomatics #OpenToWork

Map: Iran And Turan 1843

"German "Map of Iran and Turan", dated 1843 (during the Qajar dynasty), Turan territory indicated by orange line (here enhanced)."

#History #Histodons #C19th #19thCentury #Map #Maps #Cartography #Iran #CentralAsia #Asia

#Image attribution: Map by Stieler, 1843, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Iran_Turan_map_1843.jpg.

Croatia • viewed from space using cloudless satellite imagery

#Blender #Cartography #Maps #GisChat #QGIS

About 20% of Taiwan’s population has Hakka ancestry or cultural roots. Around 38%, or roughly 1.8 million people, can speak Hakka.

The strongest concentrations are in Hsinchu-Miaoli and parts of Kaohsiung-Pingtung.

#Taiwan #Hakka #Language #Cartography #datavisualization

Please share your favorite space map images. I'd love to be inspired.

#astronomy #cartography

If you like interactive maps in R, this is worth a look.

Nicolas Lambert’s *geovizr* is an htmlwidget wrapping the geoviz (d3-based) library, supporting everything from choropleths and spikes to pictograms and cartograms. 🗺️

https://riatelab.github.io/geovizr/

#rspatial #rstats #InteractiveMaps #Cartography #GIS

#cartography #gischat #maps
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/07/01/us/america-ancestry-census-data-map.html

#introduction

Hi! I'm Benjamin, a developer working on interactive data visualization, with a background in computational cartography and geometry.

I build VisQuill, a reactive geometry framework for constraint-driven interactive graphics.

The video shows one example: 7 million NYC 311 complaints, 2022-2025.

visquill.com/gallery/nyc-311

Here for discussing design decisions, interaction patterns, and interactive visualizations.

#DataViz #Cartography #Maps #OpenData #NYC

Cartographic subtleties: @pinakographos shares a treasure trove of #cartography tricks on the Something About #Maps blog, covering shaded relief, label brackets, blurs and glows, generalisation, and more. A great read (with pointers to other posts) if you want to level up...
https://spatialists.ch/posts/2026/08/11-cartographic-subtleties/ #GIS #GISchat #geospatial #SwissGIS