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Geoff Wallace

@geoffmakesmaps.bsky.social

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Historical cartographer for scholarship and cultural institutions. Durham, UK. landscapearchive.com

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Geoff Wallace @geoffmakesmaps.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Hot take: most maps of the Black Death are outdated and misleading. I made a better one. #history #GISchat #cartography #map

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Geoff Wallace @geoffmakesmaps.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Early colonial Yucatán. This map appears in "The Friar and the Maya: Diego de Landa and the Account of the Things of Yucatan" by @restall.bsky.social, Amara Solari, John F. Chuchiak, and Traci Ardren (2023, Univ. Press of Colorado). #mapmonday #GISchat #history

A map entitled "The Province of Yucatán in the Early Colonial Period" showing the Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico in the seventeenth century. The extent of Spanish control is demarcated as covering the northeastern third of the Peninsula, with both the interior and eastern coast labeled as beyond Spanish colonial influence. The provincial capital of Mérida and the Spanish towns of Campeche in the southwest and Valladolid in the east are labeled, as are prominent Maya towns called "cabeceras," through which the Spanish extended their influence into indigenous society and territory. Major roads criss-cross the region under Spanish control linking major towns and cabeceras together and connecting them to port cities dotted along the coast. The following approximate political regions are prominently: Sahcabchén (extreme southwest), Champotón (far southwest, north of Sahcabchén), Camino Real Alto and Camino Real Bajo (north of Champotón and following the highway from Campeche to Mérida along the western coast), Sierra (along a ridge that extends from northwest to southeast across much of the Peninsula), Costa (the northern central coastal region), Beneficios Bajos (between Sierra and Costa, essentially in the central region of the area under Spanish control), Dzonot (a small district east of Costa and largely uninhabited), Tizimín (in the northeast, east of Costa and Dzonot), Chancenote (the extreme northeastern part of peninsula under Spanish control), Chancenote (south of Tizímin and north of Valladolid), Valladolid (in the central eastern region, named after the eponymous Spanish town), Beneficios altos (south of Valladolid and southeast of Beneficios Bajos), and Bacalar (in the extreme southeast, and abandoned in around 1650). A large uncolonized region called the "Montaña" or Borderlands is also labeled, beginning south of Sierra and extending southwards off the map.

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Geoff Wallace @geoffmakesmaps.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

The Pacific. This map appears as a double-page frontispiece in "Migrant Ecologies: Environmental Histories of the Pacific World" (ed. Beattie, Jones, & Melillo, University of Hawai'i Press, 2022). #mapmonday #cartography #envhist #GISchat

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Geoff Wallace @geoffmakesmaps.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

I'm currently working on an atlas of environmental history with a few historian colleagues of mine. It won't be ready for a few years, but here's a sneak peek. #envhist #history #maps #gischat #cartography

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Geoff Wallace @geoffmakesmaps.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

I do maps for museums too! This map of early civilizations in Africa was on the wall at the @metmuseum.bsky.social last year, and I've got another 30-or-so maps going up at the Met when they finish the Rockefeller Wing renovations later this year! #maps #cartography #history #gischat

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Geoff Wallace @geoffmakesmaps.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

[obligatory WWII map post by historical cartographer] #gischat #cartography #history #geosky #maps

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Geoff Wallace @geoffmakesmaps.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

I also occasionally faff about in Blender, where I made this map of the solar system for @dagomardegroot.bsky.social and this wall map of a land parcel in New Mexico for a friend. #gischat #cartography #maps #geosky

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Geoff Wallace @geoffmakesmaps.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

I also make maps for print publications, most recently a huge set of 30 different maps for an upcoming collection on climate history from Oxford University Press. #gischat #maps #cartography #geosky

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Geoff Wallace @geoffmakesmaps.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Intro time! I'm a mapmaker who works mostly on historical cartography, but occasionally does more contemporary stuff (like this map of ESNET6 I made for the US Department of Energy a few years back)! #gischat #cartography #maps

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