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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Today is a great day for the ocean! Not only is the new Attenborough Ocean film out today, but I had a sneak peak at the new Great Map at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, and it's FABULOUS. A giant Spilhaus projection with beautifully detailed topography. Opens to the public June 7th. 🌊

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John Nelson @johnnelsonmaps.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

More examples and a link to the blog post. www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/...

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John Nelson @johnnelsonmaps.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Please don't watch this video about making the Handsome Squidward version of ArcGIS Online maps. youtu.be/NL2GUU4bRVo

youtu.be

Hack a Dramatic Portrait Mode Effect for ArcGIS Online

YouTube video by John Nelson Maps

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Joey Cherdarchuk - Obumbratta @obumbratta.com · 03/04/2025

I return to @johnnelsonmaps.bsky.social 's Silly Geographic Precision table whenever I see the coordinates in a file I'm trying to make smaller. Latest file was mapping atoms. uxblog.idvsolutions.com/2013/11/sill...

Here's a breakout of coordinate precision by the actual cartographic scale they purport:

Decimal Places
Actual Distance
Say What?
6 10 centimeters Your footprint, if you were standing on the toes of one foot.
7 1.0 centimeter A watermelon seed.
8 1.0 millimeter The width of paperclip wire.
9 0.1 millimeter The width of a strand of hair.
10 10 microns A speck of pollen.
11 1.0 micron A piece of cigarette smoke.
12 0.1 micron You're doing virus-level mapping at this point.
13 10 nanometers Does it matter how big this is?
14 1.0 nanometer Your fingernail grows about this far in one second.
15 0.1 nanometer An atom. An atom! What are you mapping?

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John Nelson @johnnelsonmaps.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

I'll be at in London May 12 for a 1/2 day cartography workshop hosted by @esriuk.bsky.social. If you'd like to spend a half-day of your allotted time on this earth nerding out on map making with me, here are some details. store.esriuk.com/product/arcg...

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John Nelson @johnnelsonmaps.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

things i like: the random 3 or 4 days in a Michigan April when it hits 70 degrees and everyone goes a little bit manic.

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John Nelson @johnnelsonmaps.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

I just shared a new video about making that faded inner-ribbon pattern thing in ArcGIS Online and stuff. it's over on the you toobs.

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John Nelson @johnnelsonmaps.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

things i like: the internet circa 2010/11

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Kenneth Field @kennethfield.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

The #EsriUC agenda is out...and there's BIG news for fans of our Map Wizardry workshop. Not only have we got a third offering for the Friday crowd but we got into the plenary hall on Thursday. Thanks to everyone who ever asked for this!!! No pressure at all 🤪

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John Nelson @johnnelsonmaps.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

whoa, just had a crazy idea for getting faded inner hatched ribbons for polygons in ArcGIS Online and it totally worked! now, to try to get back to my original objectives today.

map with red border and faded hatched fill around the interior perimeter

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John Nelson @johnnelsonmaps.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

things i dislike: jeans in colors other than blue.

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John Nelson @johnnelsonmaps.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

things i like: my authenticator app gives me a two-digit number to access my account. i seem to have an impromptu anecdote for every number, which helps me remember it in the three seconds between seeing it and keying it in.

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John Nelson @johnnelsonmaps.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

things i like: the sound of Bob Ross' palette knife mixing paint.

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John Nelson @johnnelsonmaps.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

things i like: ironically, the amount of my brain's memory locked up with 80s jingles and sitcom intro songs.

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John Nelson @johnnelsonmaps.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

things i like: finding a good deal (like every other Midwesterner). www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/...

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John Nelson @johnnelsonmaps.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

things i like: the frequent random honking of geese formations overhead as they return north for springtime.

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John Nelson @johnnelsonmaps.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

things i dislike: the ideological bifurcation of the internet.

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🥔🗺️ ᴘᴏᴋᴀᴛᴇᴏ ᴍᴀᴘs @pokateo.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

👋 recently hit 3k followers on insta and 2k on here so I wanted to take a sec to say hi and share a lil about me! Feel free to reach out! Drop a hello, send maps, share mappy memes and meme ideas, and tag me in potato related posts. Let’s make the world a mappier, spuddier place! 🥔🗺️

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Andrew Tyrrell @southarrowmaps.co.nz · 04/03/2025

I made one of John Nelson's cutaway diagrams to illustrate LINZ's 3D Coastal Mapping project. It was just a static image, showing Mayor Island/Tūhua, and the nearby seabed. One of our graphic designers animated it & turned it up to 11! www.linkedin.com/posts/toit%C... @johnnelsonmaps.bsky.social

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John Nelson @johnnelsonmaps.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

things i like: when i successfully transfer a gigantic pile of wet laundry from the washer to the dryer without dropping anything on the floor.

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John Nelson @johnnelsonmaps.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

things i like: using chatGPT to quickly geocode a list of 130 place names. thinks i dislike: having to feed it the list piecemeal because it would just give up after 60 or so, and also skip some.

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John Nelson @johnnelsonmaps.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

things i like: deftly avoiding the silt left in the bottom of the mug from French pressed coffee.

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Elena Hartley | Science Illustrator @elabarts.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

An atoll illustration I was commissioned for several years ago. I love making slices of geologic features so this was a treat to work on! #geology #atoll #oceanscience #scienceillustration

The illustration in the background is of an atoll. A white rectangle makes a cut in the front area of the atoll. This references the illustration in the front which is a cross section of an atoll side.

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John Nelson @johnnelsonmaps.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

things i like: gigantic piles of fluffy snow.

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John Nelson @johnnelsonmaps.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

things i dislike: the fake baby voice in that liberty mutual commercial

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John Nelson @johnnelsonmaps.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

things i dislike: every map-related news article has a pun in the title. things i like: also this.

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John Nelson @johnnelsonmaps.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

things i dislike: the stickers on building supplies.

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John Nelson @johnnelsonmaps.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

i was asked by folks to do more with small-scale map resources so i've been tinkering with this strip, or ribbon, map of a stretch of the Red Cedar River.

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John Nelson @johnnelsonmaps.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Here are global currents in the Spilhaus one-world-ocean map projection.

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John Nelson @johnnelsonmaps.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Are you a graphic designer and are pondering a commission, but it requires a MAP?? Please do not watch this: youtu.be/pS3MFoxCsZI

youtu.be

Download Map Data for Graphic Design

YouTube video by John Nelson Maps

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John Nelson @johnnelsonmaps.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Here's how to make a nice little StoryMap. Find free photography, do some map choreography, and make a custom theme. 1. Snag some cool Unsplash photos

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John Nelson @johnnelsonmaps.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Blue whale migration for those gigantic beasts of the North Eastern Atlantic. www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/...

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John Nelson @johnnelsonmaps.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Things I like: copying a tiny bit of code, changing one or two parameters, and it runs! Things I dislike: when it doesn't.

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Antonio Vecoli (@tonyveco on X) @tonyveco.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

💙🔵🧊❄️An oustanding frozen heart shared between Ontario and Michigan: as of Jan 27 LakeSaintClair has iced over almost completely, resulting as a perfect piece of EarthArt⬇️ Latest #Landsat 9 image of Jan.27 after Storm Enzo

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John Nelson @johnnelsonmaps.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Wouldn't it be cool if my daughter Willow won this art competition? msufcuart.com/art/raspberr...

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Raspberry and Lime by Willow Nelson – MSUFCU Student Art Exhibit

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John Nelson @johnnelsonmaps.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Things I like: liver. Things I dislike: also liver.

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John Nelson @johnnelsonmaps.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Here's a way to invest 9 minutes of your life in an attempt to recoup heaps of time for future-you. It's about how to draw detailed complex polygons in ArcGIS Pro super fast. And then how to make them look like water because that's fun. youtu.be/Ab9aqsHj8X8

youtu.be

Draw Detailed Polygons in ArcGIS Pro, Fast and Easy

YouTube video by John Nelson Maps

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John Nelson @johnnelsonmaps.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

things i like: felted wool overshirts. i've been alternating between a 78°F office and 4° outside and have been comfortable all day in both.

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John Nelson @johnnelsonmaps.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

This is fun, a kajillion years ago I made a map of hurricanes for National Geographic magazine. They asked for digital assets to use in an animated version but I never saw it. Just stumbled on it now!

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John Nelson @johnnelsonmaps.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

things i dislike: pharmaceutical advertising

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John Nelson @johnnelsonmaps.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Here's a thing about the Lord of the Rings-like illustration style for ArcGIS Pro. Lots of styles, including this one, at esriurl.com/nelsonstyles. Get em before they're history. And history becomes legend. Legend becomes myth.

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