iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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

Job density in the Twin Cities — how the geography of employment shapes the metro. Ty to QGIS wiz @cchurchili.bsky.social for help with the height extrusions.

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Carl Churchill @handle.invalid · 02/12/2025

Everytime Blender auto-resets a preset I had painstakingly created I lose a part of my soul

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Robert Simmon @rsimmon.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

"the medium of data visualization is the decision" (of how to map from variable to visual) @jerthorp.bsky.social

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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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The Map Center @mapcenter.com · 15/10/2025

"Go toward realism to make sure you can do it, but then back away to create clarity." - Blender wizard @cchurchili.bsky.social

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Robert Simmon @rsimmon.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

*Sigh*. My intended python demo for NACIS is gonna get tripped up by a version of Python released last Tuesday (3.14), which is not currently compatible with numpy. (I would prefer not having to spend time explaining how to downgrade a fresh Python install.) 😢

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Carl Churchill @handle.invalid · 13/10/2025

the issue with bluesky is that it took me 2 months to find this amazing trick by @southarrowmaps.co.nz and it has seemingly no engagement

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Andrew Tyrrell @southarrowmaps.co.nz · 17/07/2025

This animation shows the difference between rotating the orthographic camera (first half) which produces foreshortening, and adjusting the Y-value of the input normal to the displacement node (second half).

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Carl Churchill @handle.invalid · 12/10/2025

Definitely bit off a lot on this latest upcoming blog post...

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Carl Churchill @handle.invalid · 05/10/2025

An #infographic of an Indigenous calendar cycle from #Colombia, I found today

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Carl Churchill @handle.invalid · 16/09/2025

The mapping soundtrack atm

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Robert Simmon @rsimmon.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

I have a weird GDAL problem. I am trying to assign a spatial reference system to a JPEG world map and then reproject. Everything works if I use gdal_translate to make a GeoTIFF, but if I create a VRT as an intermediate step the corners of the reprojected image are filled. What gives?

Equal earth map reprojected from a GeoTIFF source file with areas off the map correctly filled with white (no data). (Original GeoTIFF is transparent.)

Equal earth true color map reprojected from a VRT source file with areas off the map incorrectly filled with data from the other side of the international dateline.

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Carl Churchill @handle.invalid · 31/08/2025

The accent on an 'i' will be the death of me

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Carl Churchill @handle.invalid · 20/08/2025

im just so jazzed about blender + satellite mosaics

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Carl Churchill @handle.invalid · 14/08/2025

To one and all a happy anniversary of the beginning of the world in the Maya long count calendar (give or take a day or 2).

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Sertralina com café @luciob.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

O de Washington DC:

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Carl Churchill @handle.invalid · 29/07/2025

shoutout to whoever did USGS art in the 90s

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Carl Churchill @handle.invalid · 19/07/2025

you can do anything in blender yk

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Carl Churchill @handle.invalid · 11/07/2025

My favorite map here is Laris's

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Carl Churchill @handle.invalid · 07/07/2025

cloud volumes generated from *real* satellite imagery

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Carl Churchill @handle.invalid · 05/07/2025

guess the place WITHOUT googling

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Carl Churchill @handle.invalid · 02/07/2025

My alma mater, ASU recreated their entire GIS hub physically inside a ArcGIS scene...

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Carl Churchill @handle.invalid · 29/06/2025

At the 0th Meridian, where the great plains do not begin

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Carl Churchill @handle.invalid · 29/06/2025

Begging people to use the weichel projection to inflict maximum headaches upon your readers

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Santiago Gassó @sangasso.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

A reminder that air pollution is a trans continental problem. After a +7000km, air quality in the Caribbean area and Southern USA is being impacted by a long distance event. While models are useful for such predictions, they need to be verified (and corrected if needed) w/satellite observations.

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Carl Churchill @handle.invalid · 28/06/2025

Museums in London spend more time talking about the war of the Spanish succession than the American revolution smfh

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Carl Churchill @handle.invalid · 20/06/2025

Averaging GOES images together

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Carl Churchill @handle.invalid · 19/06/2025

I wrote a post on my #blog about the variety and history of #hachure, the distinctive strokes on 'old' #maps. Big thanks to Daniel Huffman (of course), Jake Steinberg and Alexander Fries for help with feedback. churchillgeo.com/variety-in-h...

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Variety in hachure – CARL CHURCHILL

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Carl Churchill @handle.invalid · 19/06/2025

andando no restaurante mineiro aqui em londres e dizia bão pra mostrar minha fluência

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Carl Churchill @handle.invalid · 16/06/2025

My deepest, nerdiest take is that the real secret to explaining cartographic techniques are the printing and surveying techniques avaliable at the time.

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Robert Simmon @rsimmon.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

I think my biggest cartography pet peeve is moving from rainbow palettes to overly detailed coastlines. If you feel seen, check out mapshaper.org for fast, easy, and good detail reduction:

mapshaper.org

mapshaper

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Carl Churchill @handle.invalid · 11/06/2025

Be like our reporter at WSJ who offered to buy and ship us some Mexican food from out west while working on a story

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Santiago Gassó @sangasso.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

🧪🛰️🔥🧊 Smoke over the pole? Maybe, first its detection is difficult but it can be done. Regular visible image do not show it unless it is super thick (where a regular white cloud would look brown or even black). In this case, regular visible image does not show any indication of it. But ... 1/n

VISIBLE image from SNPP-VIIRS sensor for Jun7 and 8, 2025

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Carl Churchill @handle.invalid · 09/06/2025

Never going to catch me slipping

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Carl Churchill @handle.invalid · 09/06/2025

Right now I post most on LinkedIn mostly because its where my feed is most full of cool techy stuff and projects. Only thought there

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Carl Churchill @handle.invalid · 08/06/2025

People make fun of the US for being full of scams, paywalls and poor data but fwiw I have *never* had as many problems accessing map data as I have anytime I am working on a project in the UK

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Amanda Shendruk @not-ship.com · 06/06/2025

Today is my last day at the Washington Post. Something exciting coming next! If you love when data, graphics and journalism all mush together, sign up to get notified when ~~something exciting~~ launches this summer. www.ashendruk.com/soon.html

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Voilà: Francis Gagnon @chezvoila.com · 07/06/2025

These charts by Gabrielle Merite are gorgeous. 📊 I love the mix of images and 3D effects combined with the application of proper dataviz principles, The typography is especially good and has a cheeky story behind it. figuresandfigures.substack.com/p/behind-the...

Line chart showing US net summer wind capacity (in gigawatts) from 1980 to 2024 where wind capacity has dramatically increased 23x over two decades. The line is embedded in a landscape of green hills with wind turbines, showing minimal growth until 2000, then accelerating rapidly in 2015 to reach 151 GW by November 2024.

Line chart showing capacity factor percentages of non-fossil fuel energies from 2015-2025 where geothermal energy's impressive 67.8% capacity factor exceeds both wind and solar. The visualization compares the reliability of three renewable energy sources with colorful trend lines. In the forefront, a colorful geyser.

Line chart showing utility-scale battery power capacity from 2010-2025 where capacity has accelerated 29x in just five years. The visualization displays a dramatic exponential growth curve rising from nearly zero to 45.6 GW by 2025. It is set in a green field with cows in front of a utility-scale battery infrastructure.

Line chart showing total global employment by sector from 2019-2023 where clean energy jobs (36.2M) now outnumber fossil fuel industry jobs (32.1M). The visualization features two diverging trend lines with clean energy employment in front of two works standing on a wind turbine.

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Carl Churchill @handle.invalid · 05/06/2025

#Mapa antiga da area sobre o DF no Brasil com pie charts, 1960 - Revista Brasileira de Geografia

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Keiko @keiko-geo.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

2025 Canadian wildfires (northern Manitoba and Saskatchewan), Landsat 8 & 9 Enhanced visualization with histogram equalization (RGB), False color (B7/B6/B4)

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Carl Churchill @handle.invalid · 27/05/2025

A map idea I batted around for one of now many flood events in the central US #mapping #cartography

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Carl Churchill @handle.invalid · 23/05/2025

This 1831 #map of Martinique is genuinely one of my favorite maps ever. The hachure / land cover combo here is just stunning.

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Carl Churchill @handle.invalid · 19/05/2025

A #map from a recent story on deepsea mining w/WSJ www.wsj.com/science/envi...

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