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Aly Ollivierre @alyolli.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Who is joining in on #CreativeCarto today?? I got the kiddo set up with her own CreativeCarto mapping, I printed out maps I made for the BirdsCaribbean Endemic Birds Coloring Book and gave her a blank page and some map stamps from Lord of Maps! Now what should I work on ...?

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Vanessa KW (she/they) 📍 DC @run-for-funner.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

HELLOOOO #creativeCarto joiners! 📣 share what you are going to work on today! Me? I’m updating my portfolio site - it’s out of date! @sarahbell.bsky.social @alyolli.bsky.social @vickyjohnsondahl.bsky.social

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Vanessa KW (she/they) 📍 DC @run-for-funner.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

We will of course meet here via the #creativeCarto hashtag, and our community will also connect with others via the hashtag on LinkedIn, as well well as th NACIS wnd Spatial Community slacks - links on website: creativecarto.github.io

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#CreativeCarto

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Vanessa KW (she/they) 📍 DC @run-for-funner.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

🔔 NOTE: You do NOT need to be a cartographer to join: this meetup is all about making time to work on things you’ve wanted to do for a while and keep putting off. Motivation by meeting up with others virtually and enjoying trying new things, building, creating - together!

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Vanessa KW (she/they) 📍 DC @run-for-funner.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Check out the website for more information and links to the other community connection spaces, plus also check out the site refresh: creativecarto.github.io

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#CreativeCarto

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Vanessa KW (she/they) 📍 DC @run-for-funner.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

💥 We are BACK!!! 💥 Come join the official #CreativeCarto relaun this Sunday at 5pm EST, now with me plus 3 other hosts: @alyolli.bsky.social , @sarahbell.bsky.social , and @vickyjohnsondahl.bsky.social 💓💓 creativecarto.github.io #cartography #cartographer #gis #geospatial

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Daniel Huffman @pinakographos.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

New on the blog: "GenAI for the Static Cartographer," in which I express my concerns about AI but then give ideas on how to use it, anyway. Features results both impressive and mediocre. somethingaboutmaps.wordpress.com/2026/09/08/g...

A GIS view of the coastline of maritime southeast Asia, overlaid with a varity of low-res polygons.

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Daniel Huffman @pinakographos.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The obvious solution: we need to bring back the Carmen Sandiego game show.

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NACIS @nacis.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Cartographic Perspectives is planning a special issue on Mobile and Responsive Cartography. We are primarily seeking peer-reviewed research articles, narrative case studies, and position papers. More detail in 🧵 below

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Daniel Huffman @pinakographos.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

The Alliance of Freelance Cartographers needs your help! By taking our short annual survey, you strengthen your #cartography community. This survey is for anyone (globally) who did any amount of freelance mapping last year (even a little). forms.gle/Em7sULniXUMv... Please help spread this widely!

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Tombolo Maps & Design @tombolomapsdesign.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

We will not be conducting any freelance work on Friday, January 30th in solidarity and protest:

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Vanessa KW (she/they) 📍 DC @run-for-funner.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

I’ve wanted to do this - both relaunch #creativeCarto for community connection 🥰 and to be inspired and learn from all of you too 😍, but also because I really have wanted to be like so many others in geospatial who freely share information regularly Both of these things had such an impact on me

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Tombolo Maps & Design @tombolomapsdesign.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

For the #30DayMapChallenge Day 17 prompt "A New Tool", we played around with Eduard to make a monochrome map of Colorado. While we bought our Eduard license years ago and have used it before, we're going to sneak it in as "new(ish)" with this prompt!

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Tombolo Maps & Design @tombolomapsdesign.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

For the #30DayMapChallenge Day 16 theme’s “cell" we rasterized an old map we had made of land use around Soufrière, Saint Lucia into pixels!

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Tombolo Maps & Design @tombolomapsdesign.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

For the #30DayMapChallenge Day 15 prompt "Fire", we failed at our self-given goal to keep things quick and simple and went down the rabbit hole to visualize the 2021 volcanic eruption of La Soufrière, Saint Vincent (which set us back a few days in prompts)

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Tombolo Maps & Design @tombolomapsdesign.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

We ran out of steam to expand on this map, but for the #30DayMapChallenge Day 12 map's theme "2125" we used @noaa.gov Sea Level Rise data to visualize 10ft sea level rise in Portland, Maine (though that would be a bit of a drastic prediction for 100 years from now!)

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Tombolo Maps & Design @tombolomapsdesign.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

For Day 11 of the #30DayMapChallenge's prompt "Minimal" we made a VERY quick map showing off one of @pinakographos.bsky.social's Project Linework handcrafted vector linework files: Geo-Metro. If you haven't found this resource yet, it's a fun one to find uses for (www.projectlinework.org)!

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Tombolo Maps & Design @tombolomapsdesign.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

For Day 10 of the #30DayMapChallenge's prompt "Air" we're resharing a map we made last year to cope with the anxiety of waiting to hear from family and friends in the transboundary Grenadines following the direct hit by Hurricane Beryl on July 1, 2024.

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Tombolo Maps & Design @tombolomapsdesign.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

For the #30DayMapChallenge Day 9's prompt "Analog" we wanted to share some of the map jewelry we've made over the years, particularly our custom, handmade, geospatially accurate—but wonderfully, uniquely imperfect—jewelry. (If you're interested, reach out at jewelry@tombolomapsdesign.com!)

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Aly Ollivierre @alyolli.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

For the #30DayMapChallenge Day 9's prompt "Analog" I sketched out a quick, small-child-friendly map and let my kiddo color it in 😋

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Tombolo Maps & Design @tombolomapsdesign.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

For Day 8 of the #30DayMapChallenge's prompt "Urban", we refreshed a map of Kingstown, the capital of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, visualizing the impact of 2m sea level rise on essential services downtown, that was originally published in Guerrilla Cartography's “Water: An Atlas".

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The Map Center @mapcenter.com · 08/11/2025

Do I know any Indigenous folks who make maps? Got a request for a paid design/cartography job and it'd be rad if I could connect you with them.

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Tombolo Maps & Design @tombolomapsdesign.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

For Day 6 "Dimensions" of #30DayMapChallenge, we are going to brag about the GIS+Blender course we took from Elizabeth Rosenbloom. After only 5hrs of learning the UI and ways to work with geospatial data within the software, we were able to make this sunrise rending of the Galapagos Islands 🌅

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Tombolo Maps & Design @tombolomapsdesign.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

For Day 5 "Earth" we refreshed a Pacific bathymetry map we made for our own "Map-A-Day" project (many years before the #30DayMapChallenge existed) to build up our original portfolio!

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Tombolo Maps & Design @tombolomapsdesign.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

For Day 4 "My Data" of the #30DayMapChallenge we refreshed a map @alyolli.bsky.social made almost a decade ago while living in Portland, Maine after a day trip via ferry to walk around Peaks Island with two wonderful childhood friends (and a trusty old chunky Garmin GPS 😉)!

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Tombolo Maps & Design @tombolomapsdesign.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

For our next map for the #30DayMapChallenge, for Day 3's prompt "Polygons", we made a quick map of Burlington, Vermont!

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Tombolo Maps & Design @tombolomapsdesign.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Another quick map for the #30DayMapChallenge for the prompt "Lines"! We grabbed Magnificent Frigatebird tracking data from Movebank and highlighted one of their tagged birds, "Boyd", who demonstrates the vast distances this species can explore while foraging.

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Tombolo Maps & Design @tombolomapsdesign.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

We're going to try and keep things QUICK and SIMPLE for the #30DayMapChallenge this year! So here, for Day 1 of the Challenge, is our response to the prompt "Points", showing all the trees in and around Cheesman Park where @alyolli.bsky.social lived for her first half decade in Colorado!

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Daniel Huffman @pinakographos.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

After months, I finally remembered to put this print on my store page, so that people know where to look if they want a charmingly distressing world map. somethingaboutmaps.com/Storefront And if you'll be at #NACIS2025 in Louisville, you can see it in person and deface it with dry erase markers.

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Robert Simmon @rsimmon.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Kicking off #NACIS2025 with @cchurchili.bsky.social & “Advanced Terrain Modeling with Blender”. If you’re unfamiliar his work, it’s amazing: churchillgeo.com

Oblique map of flooding in Whitesburg, Kentucky. A winding blue river is surrounded by green hills with a rough texture.

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Robert Simmon @rsimmon.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Bringing life to maps with motion — the amazing @sarahbell.bsky.social Animating Maps with After Effects www.sarahbellmaps.com/animated-fly... #NACIS2025

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Animated Flyover Map in ArcGIS Pro and Adobe After Effects – Sarah Bell Maps

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Robert Simmon @rsimmon.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Panel on the state of freelance mapping. freelancemaps.org #NACIS2025

Graph of hourly rate for freelance mapmaking (hovered around 55–65 dollars/hour from 2018 to 2025)

Demographics is 2% non-binary, 78% man, 21% woman.

90% have a degree or certificate associated with GIS and/or cartography.

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Daniel Huffman @pinakographos.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

The Alliance of Freelance Cartographers has a new website! Thanks to @alyolli.bsky.social for getting it off the ground. It hosts past editions of the survey, as well as other resources. www.freelancemaps.org/home

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Jerry Shannon @jerry-shannon.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Happy to share the release of the 2nd edition of Mapping, Society, and Technology. Props to @smmanson.bsky.social for wranging multiple of us to update it. It's a free text suitable for many introductory GIS courses, hosted at UMN Libraries. open.lib.umn.edu/mapping/ #gischat

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Mapping, Society, and Technology – Simple Book Publishing

Exploring relationships among maps, society, and technology

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Steven Manson @smmanson.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Jerry added great material throughout the book, joining work from other contributing authors. Shout out to Dudley Bonsal, @alyolli.bsky.social‬, Eric DeLuca, Rachael Huerta Carpenter, Jennifer Immich, Melinda Kernik, Steven Manson, Laura Matson, Sara Holiday Nelson, and Julie Santella.

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Geospatial Professional Network @gpn-org.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Five days remain to take advantage of early bird discount rates for GIS-Pro in the Rockies! Don't miss the opportunity to learn, connect, and be inspired in Denver in October. Make your plans ASAP: thegpn.org/page/GIS-Pro

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Daniel Huffman @pinakographos.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Still working on editing the paper, but thanks to @southarrowmaps.co.nz, we've now got a method that seems to work from any viewing angle, allowing animation doodles like this.

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Daniel Huffman @pinakographos.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Just wrapped up my latest side project: my first ever map of a #NationalPark. I illustrated #IsleRoyale, which sits in #LakeSuperior, in the semiautomated hachure style I've been developing this last year. More details, and a download, on the blog: somethingaboutmaps.wordpress.com/2025/07/28/a...

A mockup of a framed image of the map. It is titled "Miinoong • Isle Royale" and has a 2:1 aspect ratio. The map is on off-white paper, and all contents are in solid black.

A detail of the image, showing some of the icons in the legend and details about the projection.

Another detail of the map, showing the hachures that illustrate the terrain, as well as some of the terrain labels around Greenstone Ridge.

Another detail image, showing Mt. Siskiwit and the terrain in the area.

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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 25/07/2025

Draw your own map of Uptown here. You get a neat social card to share when you submit your results!

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Draw your own map of Uptown

Tell us where your Uptown begins and ends: Lake and Lyndale? West of Bde Maka Ska?

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Woodwell Climate Research Center @woodwellclimate.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

🌡️Have you been feeling the heat this week? Stay informed, hydrated, and safe! Dangerously hot days are on the rise across the U.S. according to this map from @cmshintani.bsky.social. This week’s extreme temperatures are part of a larger trend of climate change.

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 22/07/2025

iNaturalist Animals and Plants xkcd.com/3118/

Comic. The Most-Observed Animal and Plant in Each State on iNaturalist. (Not the most common species in the state, just the one people have reported the most times.) [labeled map of the US] WA: Mallard/Western Sword Fern. OR: Mule Deer/Western Ponderosa Pine. CA: Western Fence Lizard/California Poppy. HI: Green Sea Turtle/‘Ōhi’a Lehua. ID: Mallard/Big Sagebrush. NV: Common Side-Blotched Lizard/Creosote Bush. MT: White-Tailed Deer/Common Yarrow. WY: American Bison/Sticky Geranium. UT: Mule Deer/Utah Juniper. AZ: Ornate Tree Lizard/Saguaro. CO: Mule Deer/Great Mullein. NM: Mule Deer/Creosote Bush. AK: Moose/Fireweed. ND: American Bison/Prairie Rose. SD: American Bison/Hoary Vervain. NE: American Robin/Common Milkweed. KS: Ornate Box Turtle/Amur Honeysuckle. OK: Pond Slider/Eastern Redcedar. TX: Northern Cardinal/Pinladies. MN, WI, IL: Common Eastern Bumble Bee/Common Milkweed. IA, MI: White-Tailed Deer/Common Milkweed. MO: Brown-Belted Bumble Bee/Amur Honeysuckle. AR: Three-toed Box Turtle/Chinese Privet. LA: Green Anole/Baldcypress. IN: American Robin/Amur Honeysuckle. OH: Eastern Pondhawk/Virginia Springbeauty. KY: Common Box Turtle/Amur Honeysuckle. TN: American Robin/Christmas Fern. MS: Northern Cardinal/Pale Pitcher Plant. AL: Gulf Fritillary/American Sweetgum. GA: Green Anole/American Sweetgum. FL: Brown Anole/White Beggarticks. NY: Eastern Gray Squirrel/White Snakeroot. PA: White-Tailed Deer/Garlic Mustard. WV: White-Tailed Deer/Great Rhododendron. VA: White-Tailed Deer/Eastern Poison Ivy. MD: White-Tailed Deer/Wineberry. DE: Fowler’s Toad/American Pokeweed. NC: Eastern Gray Squirrel/Christmas Fern. SC: Northern Cardinal/American Sweetgum. NJ: Spotted Lanternfly/Common Mugwort. VT: Common Eastern Bumble Bee/Eastern White Pine. NH: White-Tailed Deer/Eastern White Pine. MA: Common Eastern Bumble Bee/Eastern White Pine. CT: Common Eastern Bumble Bee/Striped Wintergreen. RI: American Herring Gull. ME: American Herring Gull/Canadian Bunchberry.

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Woodwell Climate Research Center @woodwellclimate.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

This #MapMonday from @cmshintani.bsky.social shows the carbon stores in peatland soil across the boreal forest ecoregion. Read more at www.woodwellclimate.org/connection-b...

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Aly Ollivierre @alyolli.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

I'm on the job market and #opentowork looking for full-time opportunities in #cartography #GIS. Please help me find an amazing job! In the meantime, I will continue offering my freelance services through @tombolomapsdesign.bsky.social, so please send any potential clients my way!

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Alison DeGraff Ollivierre Portfolio

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Carl Churchill @cchurchili.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

My favorite map here is Laris's

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The Map Room @maproomblog.com · 24/06/2025

New post: 27.3% of the Ocean Floor Has Now Been Mapped www.maproomblog.com/2025/06/27-3...

A map of the world showing where the seafloor has been mapped. New bathymetric data added in the past year is shown in red. Source: Seabed 2030. https://seabed2030.org/2025/06/21/seabed-2030-announces-millions-of-square-kilometers-of-new-seafloor-data-on-world-hydrography-day/

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