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Max Lenormand @maxlenormand.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I’m taking you deep down the streets of memory lane Friday, 6pm CET on YouTube

Max Lenormand @maxlenormand.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

What are some of the greatest contributions of SRTM? I'm looking for real world application, uses cases. Best lead so far is a 2011 "SRTM DEM and its application advances" that goes over some research papers + shows it was used in some natural disaster mapping The more specific the better

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Max Lenormand @maxlenormand.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

A few radar images made their way into Johnny Harri’s last video about War in Space And I couldn’t help but smile seeing my name in the corner there too!

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Max Lenormand @maxlenormand.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Nearly 2y after its initial release my video on satellite images passed 100k views! 4 videos in this channel: 1 with > 50k 1 with > 100k 1 with > 500k Very excited so many people are interested about satellite images & maps

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Max Lenormand @maxlenormand.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

I'm looking for any info about how & why it was decided to use the Space Shuttle do create SRTM in 2000 A few questions I have: - How of the world had we mapped in 3D before 2000? - Why the Space Shuttle over a dedicate satellite (or pair of satellites) - How the data was processed

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Max Lenormand @maxlenormand.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

If you’re a @cloudnativegeo.org in Utah and want to nerd out about: - 🐍 Python Serverless - ⚙️ Scaling geospatial workflows in 1 line of code - 🏎️ Speeding up Data Science workflows Hit me up!

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Max Lenormand @maxlenormand.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Sometimes, just sometimes, the world gives you what you secretly hoped for

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Max Lenormand @maxlenormand.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

My first demo of Fused to a live audience at @geomob.bsky.social London yesterday! Catching up a with familiar faces -and new ones- is always nice! It's nice to get some live feedback from people rather than doing everything online / remotely If you were present and want to follow up, hit me up!

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Max Lenormand @maxlenormand.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

I’m in London for Geomob London tonight! Managed to enjoy the sun while it’s out this afternoon If you’re in town and want to nerd out about maps & geospatial come along thegeomob.com/post/jan-30t...

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Max Lenormand @maxlenormand.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

I'm doing more & more research on the history of GPS and I'm amazed by the official US Gov's dedicated website for GPS: gps.gov It's so old school it actually looks cool And it ends up quite easy to navigate (would have been ironic otherwise)

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Max Lenormand @maxlenormand.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Turns out spending half a year making a video about a game series leads to a lot of in game hours Most played game of 2024: FS2020 1/5th of all my playing time of the year on that 1 game

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Max Lenormand @maxlenormand.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

The AWS favicon looks a lot like the Vision Pro's Photo icon to turn 2D images into 3D Special thought to @davidimel.com: Is the cube the sparkles emoji of "spatial computing"?

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Max Lenormand @maxlenormand.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

I really enjoyed @kylebarron.dev 's interview on the CNG website about his background and then the usefulness of cloud native geo formats I've been looking for a good, concise resource to 1. read on and 2. send people to for "WHY" we need cloud native formats Any recommendations?

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Max Lenormand @maxlenormand.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

If 'Minds Behind Maps' is in your #SpotifyWrapped this year, let me know! Thank you to everyone who's been listening the podcast this year!

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Max Lenormand @maxlenormand.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Beautiful day to spend some time in New York! 👋

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Max Lenormand @maxlenormand.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

ESA has these cool ads in Amsterdam’s airport Makes me smile to see Sentinel 2 images in the airport But I have no idea why it’s branded as Ariane 6, when Ariane didn’t send Sentinel 2 🙃

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Max Lenormand @maxlenormand.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

This was a really informative read! My favourite part though:

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Max Lenormand @maxlenormand.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

1 video has more views than *everything else I’ve ever made* Combined That includes 77 episodes of my “Minds Behind Maps” podcast across YouTube, RSS feed & the other more edited videos I’ve done before

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Max Lenormand @maxlenormand.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Guess when I posted the video that blew up 🙃

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Max Lenormand @maxlenormand.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

The main channel just passed 5k subscribers on YouTube!

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Max Lenormand @maxlenormand.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Alright bluesky, I need your help A week ago I dropped a 45min doc about the history of Flight Simulator, now seen by 220k+ people I'd like to have Jörg Neumann, the head of Microsoft Flight Simulator on my podcast to talk about Flight Simulator 2024 Can anyone put me in touch?

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Max Lenormand @maxlenormand.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

It seems like the game is somewhat stable now, so I just got the latest Flight Sim If the weather is still crap in the Netherlands I might stream for a bit to explore the world, see how it holds up to the previous ones

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Max Lenormand @maxlenormand.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Found these 2 at a book store today, looking forward to diving in Thanks for the recommendations!

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Max Lenormand @maxlenormand.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Here's my conversation with Ex-Vox video producer, turned independent Youtuber @philedwardsinc.bsky.social about how he thinks about maps to tell stories We talk video stories, journalism on Youtube, and of course, maps! Watch: youtu.be/zTL5OHu_wNo

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Max Lenormand @maxlenormand.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

New Minds Behind Maps episode dropping soon 👀 Nerding out about maps with @philedwardsinc.bsky.social

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Max Lenormand @maxlenormand.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Another opportunity to make an airplane joke That aside, I’m excited to see so many people on here!

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Max Lenormand @maxlenormand.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

A Behind the Scenes of my Flight Simulator documentary is available on Patreon: patreon.com/posts/bts-ma... It’s also the best way to support the channel and help me make more videos!

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Max Lenormand @maxlenormand.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

This is wild: 100,000+ people have watch my 45min video about the story of a map, in a video game, in just 4 days! I’m so grateful to everyone who’s watched this

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Max Lenormand @maxlenormand.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Flight Sim 2024 comes out in 45min You know what’s about 45min? This video Just sayin’ 🛫

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Max Lenormand @maxlenormand.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 comes out tomorrow I have no idea how the launch will go, but I'm so grateful to all the teams at Asobo & Microsoft for all the work they've done on the previous one, and most likely this next one Thanks for all the flights 🛫

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Max Lenormand @maxlenormand.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

So many heart warming messages in the comments, I admit I didn’t quite know what people would think of it. It’s always scary to work for months on a project and then all of sudden put it out in the world Thank you to everyone who’s taken some time to watch this video

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Max Lenormand @maxlenormand.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Less than 24h in and this video has been cleared for takeoff 🛫

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Max Lenormand @maxlenormand.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

There's a story I want to tell you See you Friday on Youtube.

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Max Lenormand @maxlenormand.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

The Humanitarian Data Exchange only had world data up to 2024, so here's a reminder that the world overall keeps on getting better for most people on average, with one big giant graph (From hdr.undp.org/data-center/... )

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Max Lenormand @maxlenormand.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

Here's my #30DayMapChallenge Day 8 (HDX data) map It's a simple color by country of their Human Development index in 2021: The lighter the color, the higher the index Sometimes I forget how crazy it is that from my laptop, I can just get data like this, and make a vis.

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Max Lenormand @maxlenormand.bsky.social · 24/10/2024

It’s one of my favourite time of the year: a lot of the Blender talks are going up and I’m going to learn a giant ton of cool new things

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