Andy Woodruff @awoodruff.bsky.social · 07/10/2026My 6 year old hardly understands what baseball is, but she knows this: Yankees suck. 1100
Andy Woodruff @awoodruff.bsky.social · 06/10/2026*but late enough for the trailhead parking to be far beyond overflowing when we arrived (9:30 or so) Hikes that Instagram ruined 🤝 Hikes that we can accomplish with young children 020
Andy Woodruff @awoodruff.bsky.social · 05/10/2026No time for our usual White Mountains camping/hiking weekend this year, but we did pull off the miracle of getting out the door early enough for a day hike at kid speed. Leaves: peeped ✅ 1150
Andy Woodruff @awoodruff.bsky.social · 18/09/2026First grade teacher: ✅ Lives in one of the most densely populated parts of Boston, maybe 10 minute walk to the train station ✅ Works at a school practically adjacent to a stop on a commuter rail line from that train station ✅ Drives to school And it’s a totally rational decision for many reasons! 010
Andy Woodruff @awoodruff.bsky.social · 18/09/2026My kid’s school is teaching solid lessons in the Great American Failed Culture of Transportation. Her kindergarten teacher: ✅ Lives about a 12 minute safe and comfortable walk to school ✅ Drives to school 120
Andy Woodruff @awoodruff.bsky.social · 14/09/2026When I wrote in a book that triple vs three could be “contentious” I worried it was too silly to be true, so I’m at least relieved to hear otherwise. 021
Andy Woodruff @awoodruff.bsky.social · 12/09/2026When are you going? One can hardly walk without tripping over one of your maps in there! 120
Andy Woodruff @awoodruff.bsky.social · 12/09/2026I’m fighting the temptation to ask AI to create a scene of, say, the Nashua Strip 210
Andy Woodruff @awoodruff.bsky.social · 09/09/2026name of thing dot com, it's that simple equal-earth.comequal-earth.comEqual Earth Wall Map - HomeA wall map in the Equal Earth projection showing countries of the world. The map is free of charge. 053
Andy Woodruff @awoodruff.bsky.social · 09/09/2026The Equal Earth projection news has spawned a bunch of TikTok explainers and, like... all of them are wrong. Incorrect "true size" comparisons, AI slop maps, etc. Tom Patterson has many beautiful versions of the real deal in the public domain, totally free! But making shit up is easier? 1178
Andy Woodruff @awoodruff.bsky.social · 07/09/2026An official seal of approval for the @mapcenter.com kids’ section! 1844
Andy Woodruff @awoodruff.bsky.social · 04/09/2026‼️ I just opened Bluesky while waiting for my own janky script to (fail to) extract some data from a REST service, and there at the top was your post. Thanks for sharing! 040
Andy Woodruff @awoodruff.bsky.social · 01/09/2026That map was based on an actual field survey. I took a printed map for a walk with the intention of marking every mattress etc. that I saw on the street. Overwhelmed, the only note I could make on the map was “OMG” 021
Andy Woodruff @awoodruff.bsky.social · 01/09/2026On this day we commemorate that time when our Allston Christmas map was a little too real for people. 1101
Andy Woodruff @awoodruff.bsky.social · 31/08/2026'tis the season* in Boston! Mind your vehicle height on Storrow Drive/Soldiers Field Road and Memorial Drive. Here's my map of some popular locations to sardine-tin the roof of your truck. (*'tis not the season. There is no season. The whole thing about students being to blame is a myth!) 1199
Andy Woodruff @awoodruff.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Not a bad thing, certainly! But, perhaps a few years ago before everyone was just too tired, I feel like hurricanes and maybe earthquakes would spur some weird competitive eagerness among maps and graphics people to design the best new and elegant disaster maps. 000
Reposted by Andy WoodruffDaniel Huffman @pinakographos.bsky.social · 28/08/2026I have often felt a bit out of the loop because I don't celebrate the two major cartographic holidays of Hurricane Season and Electiontide. 041
Andy Woodruff @awoodruff.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Since we’re in hurricane season, I hope the lake name thing at least sucks some energy from the weird joy that cartos often exude for the creative opportunities that deadly catastrophes provide to them. 320
Andy Woodruff @awoodruff.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Cartographers are secretly delighted when some body of water name bullshit is in the news. That’s the real scandal! 190
Andy Woodruff @awoodruff.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Also KFC over there has a fried chicken sandwich with Simpsons-esque donuts in place of bread? We don’t even have that in America! 010
Andy Woodruff @awoodruff.bsky.social · 20/08/2026You guys I’ve recently returned from my first visit to Portugal and can’t get over the francesinha sandwich. Bunch of meat, draped with melted cheese, drowning in a beer-based sauce… how did the entire state of Wisconsin fail to invent this first? 3110
Andy Woodruff @awoodruff.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Nice, and not a bad photo! My family drove to northern TN from my parents' place in Ohio, and on the long drive back first learned how you can see an eclipse path in traffic maps. 120
Andy Woodruff @awoodruff.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Social media shows me lots of people who "saw the eclipse" from a beach in Portugal or whatever, and again I have to be an eclipse snob: you didn't see it! Even a 99% eclipse is garbage compared to a 100% eclipse! Yes, it takes privilege and/or luck to see a total eclipse, but do it if you can! 130
Andy Woodruff @awoodruff.bsky.social · 17/08/2026The Spanish town Sigüenza, where we saw last week’s eclipse, has a lovely pair of tiled maps in its train station. Hard to capture in a photo, but they have a lot of 3D detail. But railway construction meant bus substitution, so we spent more time figuring that out than looking at the maps 😭 1155
Andy Woodruff @awoodruff.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Six year old has really got the hang of Mad Libs 150
Andy Woodruff @awoodruff.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Here’s a bad photo from today of the 8th total solar eclipse that I’ve seen! 2190
Andy Woodruff @awoodruff.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Enjoy—you have a lucky view! Beats the open field where we are currently eagerly awaiting the hot sun being blotted out. (No risk of clouds here, at least.) 020
Andy Woodruff @awoodruff.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Now that you’re awake, I have to tell you that this 1970s children’s book about solar eclipses is quite wrong about the 2024 eclipse path. (“The shadow will go right through New York City.”) 010
Andy Woodruff @awoodruff.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Phew! I was worried since that’s a bit beyond the “next week” window. Good luck and have fun! (I’ll be watching the skies from Spain.) 100
Andy Woodruff @awoodruff.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Unhelpful reply: only for a minute next week? If you’re not staying for the eclipse the following week, hopefully it’s because you’re on your way to see it elsewhere! 110
Andy Woodruff @awoodruff.bsky.social · 29/07/2026This was a fun one. Pretty sure we could have stretched this into like 3 hours of just being map nerds. Thanks for inviting me, Jake! 042
Andy Woodruff @awoodruff.bsky.social · 29/07/2026💯 Some of the best mapmakers in the world are regularly at the NACIS conference, and in addition to being eager to share their wisdom, they're all super friendly and want to hang out with you and learn from you too. 1201
Andy Woodruff @awoodruff.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Okay I was wrong about the flight time so we ended up at a suburban Skyline, but still: meat slop accomplished ✅ 110
Andy Woodruff @awoodruff.bsky.social · 18/07/2026I’ve been buying these for the kids lately and can’t get past this picture on the box. Why would you open a box of Cheez-Its outdoors on the moon? There’s no way to eat them!! Very wasteful. 070
Andy Woodruff @awoodruff.bsky.social · 17/07/2026You guys also I am so close to finishing my hand-crafted Cincy chili t-shirt, you’re going to be so jealous of the 5-way I’ll be sporting 000
Andy Woodruff @awoodruff.bsky.social · 17/07/2026This important map will help us plan a lunch stop on the way from CVG up to the Dayton area for a visit back some soon. Own this map and at least 49 others in the book Cincinnati in 50 Maps! www.arcadiapublishing.com/products/cin... 240
Andy Woodruff @awoodruff.bsky.social · 15/07/2026maps maps maps andywoodruff.com/blog/where-t... and observablehq.com/@awoodruff/d...observablehq.comDaylight Saving Time Gripe Assistant ToolA handy tool to help make your case when whining about a biannual time change, following earlier explorations of the geography of DST effects. Tip: rotate to landscape mode if you're looking at this o... 020
Andy Woodruff @awoodruff.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Oh no, we’re doing the daylight saving time thing again? Have you people learned nothing from me? There is no universal solution but to overthrow the clock and live by the sun. 5217
Andy Woodruff @awoodruff.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Big news from Maine: it is the only state to share a border with exactly one other state, and it is the only one-syllable state name! Unclear at this time how either of those will affect the 2026 midterm elections. 050
Andy Woodruff @awoodruff.bsky.social · 07/07/2026See now I bet everyone at Parlor Sports is sad despite my many warnings over the years to stop caring about this sport and just let me get a seat at the bar for a Sunday brunch burger. 020
Andy Woodruff @awoodruff.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Can’t believe we made it so deep into the tournament before a photo of Garvey appeared in my feeds 130
Andy Woodruff @awoodruff.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Surely I'm only poorly describing something you've been doing for years! Whatever it was, at a close look the small scale layer just seemed to darken things, but at a distance it did seem to enhance general forms. I suppose it slightly lightens/darkens everything on the NW/SE sides of larger ranges. 120
Andy Woodruff @awoodruff.bsky.social · 01/07/2026As I've posted here before, the idea is just a nice map with a ton of labels. There's not much of a story, but even so, here's a bit more info and images. andywoodruff.com/posts/2026/m...andywoodruff.comMountains and Lakes - Andy Woodruff, cartographerA new detailed map of the White Mountains and New Hampshire lakes region 261
Andy Woodruff @awoodruff.bsky.social · 01/07/2026This map is done enough to make prints available. If anyone you know spends time around the White Mountains, Lake Winnipesaukee, or in between, I'll be grateful for you passing the word along! 🙏 (No vacation house in the area is complete without this map!) andysmaps.bigcartel.com/product/moun... 1156
Andy Woodruff @awoodruff.bsky.social · 01/07/2026It’s cool how they’re bringing tyranny back for a 250th anniversary tour 🤘 030
