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Antonio Antoine @aasmith.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Knoxville "Topo" Map WIP I am a big fan of mid-century USGS Topo maps. This is a 48k scale 24x36 version of Knoxville. Still have many labels to edit. One day, I will stop making multiline labels in QGIS. They are a pain to edit in Illustrator/Affinity. #gis #cartography #gischat

A portrait map of Knoxville, TN, modeled after mid-century USGS Topographic maps.

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Randal Hale @rjhale1971.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Predicting the future one year in advance - I give you September's Map from the Geohipster Calendar #geohipster #calendar www.geohipster.com/2026/09/04/m...

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Antonio Antoine @aasmith.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Thanks for nothing. I think I prefer if it just crashed...

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Randal Hale @rjhale1971.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Geohipster 2027 Calendar Above is a map from the 2026 Geohipster Calendar by Antonio Smith - Noteworthy because it's East Tennessee. The 2027 Geohipster calendar is now accepting admissions. You may think "Well it's a bunch of open source weirdos over at Geohipster" and you could be right - but…

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Geohipster 2027 Calendar

Above is a map from the 2026 Geohipster Calendar by Antonio Smith - Noteworthy because it's East Tennessee. The 2027 Geohipster calendar is now accepting admissions. You may think "Well it's a bunch of open source weirdos over at Geohipster" and you could be right - but we're also a group of Map weirdos. The above map used about everything you can use for maps and graphs.

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Alex McPhee @awmcphee.ca · 24/08/2026

1,000 more hours and this should be a really nice product.

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Aman Bhargava @aman.bh · 24/08/2026

Every day, India's Met department publishes a forecast chart for ~1,200 stations. Their cloud-cover panel is drawn to look like a pixelated cloudy sky! I've been analyzing the charts to convert them to data, and map them daily in the same pixel art style. #dataviz diagramchasing.fun/2026/mapping...

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Mapping India's Clouds

A daily pixel map of cloud cover over India, read from IMD meteograms.

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Antonio Antoine @aasmith.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

A few days ago, Lake Mead water levels were mentioned (I don't remember the post), which got me curious. Normally, I like to create a little map, but I didn't have time for that. So I made a quick screen record of a swipe map. July 1984 v July 2026 Seems not ideal. #gischat

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Markonthemaps (Mark Ovenden) @markonthemaps.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Book launch ahead! Love #maps #railways #design? Know people who do? Search "Mapping Britain's Railways" & "Ovenden" for new #BritishLibrary title out 18/08/26. 1st with every #TrainOperatingCompany & newest #GreatBritishRailways maps, plus historical ones. #transit & #cartography lovers must-have!

Mark Ovenden poses inside the Stanfords book store, Covent Garden, London, with piles of his new book, just signed!

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Antonio Antoine @aasmith.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I hate driving most new cars. They are big and isolated from the road, it is hard to tell how fast you are going without staring at the speedo. 25 mph feels the same as 50!

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Antonio Antoine @aasmith.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

1902 newspaper ads be wildin'. Are you a pale lady? That's because you are clearly diseased!! Buy and drink our alcoholic concoction!

1902 Knoxville Sentinel newspaper ad that reads:

ARE YOU PALE

Bloodless Faces in Women Denote Sickness

Vinol Makes Rosey Cheeks.

There is no surer indication of a diseased condition than a pale face.

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Michele Tobias, PhD @micheletobias.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

First rule of cartography: first we make ugly maps and then we make them pretty. This is a corollary to "write drunk, edit sober". #gischat do you have any rules or encouragement you tell yourself?

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Antonio Antoine @aasmith.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I have seen this gap in census primary road layer for years. I assumed it was a state highway that ended and became a residential street or something. Nope! It's I-275 and that's I-40 to the south. Le sigh

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Leventhal Map & Education Center @bplmaps.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

This map uses a graphic technique to argue that New York City was already a mostly socialist community by the end of the 19th century. It uses just two colors: red, the printing color, and the negative white space of the paper color.

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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

A map showing the Scottish filming locations in Christopher Nolan's epic The Odyssey has been released, allowing fans to visit the stunning scenery shown in the movie. See it below 👇

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 20/07/2026

Latitude and Longitude xkcd.com/3273/

Comic. [Latitude and longitude lines squeezing Earth.] [caption: Bad news: NASA accidentally shrank Earth’s latitude and longitude lines in the wash.]

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Daniel Huffman @pinakographos.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

New on the blog: "On Sin," in which I meditate on cartographic ethics, and invite discussion on a thorny problem: how we might decide if or when the inaccuracies embedded in a #map cause it to become unethical.

Screenshot of the blog post, with a tilt-shift effect applied, along with a vignette and some rotation.

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Antonio Antoine @aasmith.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

About halfway through, I stopped reading their positions and got most of them right. Trying to guess the "did not votes" tripped me up. Race, gender & age (mostly the first two) should get you a passing score.

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Antonio Antoine @aasmith.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I am rearranging my home office, a process that will probably take 10 yrs or so, and I was thinking about getting a MercatorHater poster for my freshly painted walls. I didn't find anything, so I will probably have to make it myself. But Google did send me this Medium post from @mapcenter.com.

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Antonio Antoine @aasmith.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I love my manual until I am in rush hour traffic in Knoxville. Then I wish I had a EV. I work from home these days so it's less of an issue.

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Antonio Antoine @aasmith.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I wrote about a similar thing a few months ago. My main issue was saying Lat/Lon (which correlates to Y/X) and then saying X/Y (which correlates with Lon/Lat). Inverting the pairs led to downstream confusion. I started saying: Lon-Lat-X-Y And it helped! 🥳 antonioantoine.com/2026/02/17/l...

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Ted Stryk @tedstryk.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Today in 2020, I photographed Comet Neowise from downtown Knoxville. With the pandemic raging, it was fascinating to see people all take pictures of it from around where they live instead of traveling to exotic locations.

Comet Neowise against the Knoxville skyline with the Sunsphere on the left.

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Antonio Antoine @aasmith.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Damn. I don't think Paul had a good time at the 1982 World's Fair. 😂

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 21/06/2026

And now visualizing the June solstice from the polar regions... Animation looks downward at the North Pole (left; ☀️) and South Pole (right; 🌙) over a 24-hour period. Graphic from zacklabe.com/arctic-clima...

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Antonio Antoine @aasmith.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Happy #SummerSolstice! It is the longest day or days of the year! It is still hard to believe there are places on earth where the sun doesn't set AT LEAST a month from now. 🤯 Available as a print! antonioantoine.com/product/the-... #cartography

A map showing the duration of the summer solstice in North America.

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Antonio Antoine @aasmith.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Why can't software install other software it needs to install or update? Why don't we (meaning you) use AI for that?

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Antonio Antoine @aasmith.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

A couple of months ago, I made a map of the American Black Belt. This was prompted by a YouGov survey I read in 2022, where Americans thought black people were 40% of the population! I almost fell out of my chair. Link to the map: antonioantoine.com/2026/06/16/t...

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Jake Steinberg @jakesteinberg.com · 02/06/2026

I'm thrilled to announce that I will soon be an author! My book, The Twin Cities in 50 Maps, is a cartographic portrait of Minneapolis and St. Paul. The book includes 50 painstakingly designed maps and deeply researched essays that trace the Cities' urbanity, history, ecology, and culture.

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Antonio Antoine @aasmith.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Going through the Knoxville Library archives, looking for photographs of a building or two, and I came across this guy. I can't get over how insane it is to fly a plane like this. No cockpit, windshield, or anything. Just flying a canoe in the air. lol

A black and white photograph of a man flying an early 19th-century prop biplane with an open cab.

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Antonio Antoine @aasmith.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

This chart scaling is... a choice. It's like reverse mercator for every ten latitudes or something.

A 1927 historical black and white chart showing population growth for Knoxville, TN from 1820 to 1980.

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Datawrapper @datawrapper.de · 21/05/2026

How many twilights are there? What is a true night? Which places go without it, and for how long? Ceren from our support team answers these questions with some very cool maps! 🌃 🌐 🗺️ www.datawrapper.de/blog/twiligh...

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Antonio Antoine @aasmith.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

TIL the midnight sun at the north pole lasts about a week longer than its polar night (186 vs 179 days, respectively). This is due to our slightly elliptical orbit around the sun. We are further away from the sun in July and closer in January. All of this info is counterintuitive to me lol.

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Daniel Huffman @pinakographos.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Earlier this year I got to play around with some Roman roads data for @sciam.bsky.social. The article (with four of my #maps) is out now: www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-...

A map of the Mediterranean world in Roman times. It's in a perspective projection, which gives a "view from space" look. Throughout the empire, various roads are highlighted in a color scheme that indicates how certain the scientists are about the road data for that area.

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Andy Woodruff @awoodruff.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Searching my photos for “map” this morning—as one does on Sunday morning—and studying @aasmith.bsky.social’s Prudence Island map which was labeled as “map inspiration” in my photo. 🔎🗺️ antonioantoine.com/product/prud...

Photo of a section of Antonio Smith’s map of Prudence Island, Rhode Island.

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Antonio Antoine @aasmith.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Not a good sign! Although I wish this study had been published when I was in grad school.

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terence @tterence.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Been questioning the point of sharing stuff lately. It feeds the machine and people use the machine to copy and profit. But I remembered why I started sharing initially so here's the topography of race in the conterminous United States. #rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale

A visualisation of race in the conterminous United States, with five maps showing the distribution of Asian, Black, Hispanic, Native, and White populations

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Antonio Antoine @aasmith.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Appalachian Trail Forest Map (WIP). I finally created a hillshade in Blender. S/o to @pinakographos.bsky.social for the great tutorial. It took me a few tries (over several months). I am impatient when it comes to Blender. I am changing the format to an oversized map. Wish my computer luck. 🫡

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Antonio Antoine @aasmith.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

I saw a post on LI about a small AI company co-founder complaining about professors not letting students use AI in the classroom. His point was that AI was using "common knowledge" so professors needed to adapt to the changing times. Which is clearly missing the point of doing the work.

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Todd Jones @toddrjones.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Percent of Residents Living in Their Birth State, by County.

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Antonio Antoine @aasmith.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Oh man. The blue land broke my brain for a bit.

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Antonio Antoine @aasmith.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Posting this mostly for myself. How to print transparent backgrounds in QGIS. There's a second background to turn off. #gischat gis.stackexchange.com/questions/19...

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The Map Center @mapcenter.com · 20/04/2026

You can see a copy of Antonio's work printed here at The Map Center!

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Antonio Antoine @aasmith.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Rhode Island Shipwrecks Map 🗺️ As someone who lives in or near the mountains, shipwrecks are like barn finds, except the barn is a dungeon, and the monsters are not too thrilled about you taking their treasure. More deets: antonioantoine.com/2026/04/19/r... #gischat #cartography

A cool map showing the locations where bad things happened in waters around Rhode Island.

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Antonio Antoine @aasmith.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Welp! I don't know how long my site's visibility was set to "Coming Soon", but I guess that explains the traffic nose dive.

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shri @shrikhalpada.dev · 12/04/2026

I built an interactive guide on how GPS works! perthirtysix.com/how-does-gps...

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Antonio Antoine @aasmith.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

I can't tell if I am accidentally unliking a post or if my likes aren't registering on BSKY lately. If the post shows up in the algo again, the like is missing. Sometimes, when I click on the post, it shows up. If you experienced this odd behavior from me, I am sorry! lol

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