Reposted by Antonio AntoineTopi Tjukanov @tjukanov.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Next month is November, which means the #30DayMapChallenge 2026 themes are here! More information on the official website: 30daymapchallenge.com 32715
Antonio Antoine @aasmith.bsky.social · 01/10/2026That is a good read. I am definitely a fan of the full bleed print in cartography. I tried a neatline with the Prudence Island map and it failed lol. I am going to talk about it in upcoming webinar. 020
Antonio Antoine @aasmith.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Thank you! The background color and the river were my base colors that I built a palette around. I am pretty happy with it. UT orange is a tough color to build a map with. 120
Antonio Antoine @aasmith.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I am normally not a neatline/border kinda guy, but I think with this USGS topo inspired map it works. #cartography #gis #gischat 4180
Antonio Antoine @aasmith.bsky.social · 01/10/2026+20M visits from Canada in the 2010s is pretty wild. Their population was like ~35M. 001
Antonio Antoine @aasmith.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Oh man, I forgot all about cartographic representations. I did some digging and it looks like they are kinda read only in Pro. It appears that Attribute Driven Symbology replaced it. resource.esriuk.com/blog/cartogr...resource.esriuk.comCartographic representations in ArcGIS Pro - Resource Centre | Esri UKHow to transition cartographic representations from ArcMap to ArcGIS Pro. Learn about attribute driven symbology and the Cartography toolbox. 110
Antonio Antoine @aasmith.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Knoxville "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 091
Antonio Antoine @aasmith.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I get several of these "loan" voicemails a day. Very annoying. 010
Reposted by Antonio AntoineRandal Hale @rjhale1971.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Predicting 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...geohipster.com 021
Antonio Antoine @aasmith.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Thanks for nothing. I think I prefer if it just crashed... 020
Reposted by Antonio AntoineRandal Hale @rjhale1971.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Geohipster 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…northrivergeographic.comGeohipster 2027 CalendarAbove 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. 041
Reposted by Antonio AntoineAlex McPhee @awmcphee.ca · 24/08/20261,000 more hours and this should be a really nice product. 3435
Reposted by Antonio AntoineAman Bhargava @aman.bh · 24/08/2026Every 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...diagramchasing.funMapping India's CloudsA daily pixel map of cloud cover over India, read from IMD meteograms. 1275
Antonio Antoine @aasmith.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Link to the Landsat Explorer app: livingatlas.arcgis.com/landsatexplo...livingatlas.arcgis.comEsri | Landsat ExplorerExplore and begin to unlock the wealth of information provided by Landsat through an intuitive user experience leveraging a variety of ArcGIS capabilities. 032
Antonio Antoine @aasmith.bsky.social · 23/08/2026A 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 150
Antonio Antoine @aasmith.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Hmmm... You may have to use page queries that filter features based on the location. I use them to remove features outside the AOI for my map series maps. 110
Antonio Antoine @aasmith.bsky.social · 20/08/2026You may be able to use the Thematic Map Series with sub-group layers. I don't have a map handy to test it on. doc.esri.com/en/arcgis-pr...doc.esri.comIntroduction to a thematic map series | ArcGIS Pro documentationA thematic map series generates a set of pages using a layout and iterating through a set of layers from a radio group layer. 230
Reposted by Antonio AntoineMarkonthemaps (Mark Ovenden) @markonthemaps.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Book 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! 5577
Antonio Antoine @aasmith.bsky.social · 18/08/2026I saw the 2017 eclipse! We had to drive a bit south, but we saw totality from a farm on a hill in Sweetwater, TN. It was nuts. Very difficult to capture it on camera. 130
Antonio Antoine @aasmith.bsky.social · 17/08/2026I 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! 031
Antonio Antoine @aasmith.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Thank you! I will give that a shot. I am pretty sure I change something each time, so it crashes every time. lol 010
Antonio Antoine @aasmith.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Do you just copy/paste the WRT into QGIS as a new projection? I managed to get it to work once, but now QGIS crashes every time. 100
Antonio Antoine @aasmith.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Fair. But, that is the risk one takes when conducting a year long experiment in public on a pretty divisive issue. If the goal is an exploration of genAI in carto then that could have been communicated easily enough. I'm still not a fan of the approach, but that is at least understandable. 100
Antonio Antoine @aasmith.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Are there gatekeepers in cartography? I wrote a thing. I might be Andy Rooney now. tl;dr: if there are gatekeepers, how come nobody stopped me from making bad maps!antonioantoine.comWho are the Gatekeepers in Cartography?Recently, there has been some discourse on BSKY about the use of genAI in cartography. In particular, this essay was released on my birthday of all days, arguing in favor of using genAI to create m… 1132
Antonio Antoine @aasmith.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Reading for fun seems like an area where you have to WANT to do it. The bar for entry is very low, but the time commitment is relatively high. Now we have TV, video games, and social media to kill whatever attention span dudes had left. I'm not sure if there is a marketing issue there or not. 121
Antonio Antoine @aasmith.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Most of my ex-gfs had degrees and read on occasion. Education may have downstream effects on reading. My wife has an MS and she reads every day. A lot of dudes I know don't like sitting still in general. Much less opening a book. The ones who do read have degrees outside of STEM. 110
Antonio Antoine @aasmith.bsky.social · 07/08/2026I started tinkering and now I have a very expensive and ill-advised hobby.🤣 My kids (both boys) aren't as bored as I was. They have no interest in cars. My oldest son reads (or at least he used to); my youngest son does not (he does draw tho). FWIW, the oldest is gay and the youngest is straight. 120
Antonio Antoine @aasmith.bsky.social · 07/08/2026I feel like things have rolled back across the board. I am a car enthusiast, one of the most male coded hobbies out there. That space has shrunk considerably! There is concern about it dying. I wasn't much of a car guy when I was young. I picked it up after HS because I was bored in rural AL. 110
Antonio Antoine @aasmith.bsky.social · 07/08/2026This is interesting. I grew up in the country (AL), but don't recall a time when men read much outside of a newspaper or magazine. When I was a teen/20-something, if my male friends read at all, it was comic books or graphic novels. We all played sports or video games. 140
Antonio Antoine @aasmith.bsky.social · 06/08/20261902 newspaper ads be wildin'. Are you a pale lady? That's because you are clearly diseased!! Buy and drink our alcoholic concoction! 010
Reposted by Antonio AntoineMichele Tobias, PhD @micheletobias.bsky.social · 31/07/2026First 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? 3244
Antonio Antoine @aasmith.bsky.social · 30/07/2026I 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 040
Antonio Antoine @aasmith.bsky.social · 29/07/2026I was more confused when I saw the web maps! The distance between the web and static maps was huge. From what I could tell, they looked like they used existing datasets for the web maps? Why not do the same for the static maps? Very confused. 010
Antonio Antoine @aasmith.bsky.social · 29/07/2026I think the big pros of AI are data collection via ML and building web apps/maps via Claude. The cons are... a proliferation of very bad maps. 100
Antonio Antoine @aasmith.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Whoa! I saw this map years ago. I didn't know you made it. I really like that idea. I spec'd it out and it is not cheap tho... Finerworks will do custom page sizes. finerworks.comfinerworks.comFinerWorks | High-Quality Art Printing Services: Transform Your Creativity into Stunning PrintsElevate your artwork and photography with our fine art printing services. Transform your photos and masterpieces into museum-quality prints. Discover precision and quality in fine art photo printing t... 110
Reposted by Antonio AntoineLeventhal Map & Education Center @bplmaps.bsky.social · 24/07/2026This 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. 1112
Antonio Antoine @aasmith.bsky.social · 23/07/2026lol. I want to jump in, but I have nothing nice to say about genAI. 030
Reposted by Antonio AntoineThe National @scotnational.bsky.social · 23/07/2026A 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 👇 03310
Antonio Antoine @aasmith.bsky.social · 23/07/2026It's about 4 hours of driving. I usually skip the foothills because of tourist traffic. I never got into motorcycles either. Most of the time, I was in this jalopy. 130
Antonio Antoine @aasmith.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Gotcha! I remember seeing the rapids. I usually come from the Tail of the Dragon, so by the time I get to that section, I am about ready to go home. lol 120
Antonio Antoine @aasmith.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Is that the river that runs next to the Cherohala Skyway? I haven't been out there for a drive in a min. 220
Reposted by Antonio AntoineRandall Munroe @xkcd.com · 20/07/2026Latitude and Longitude xkcd.com/3273/ 644836650
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