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Rhodes Cartography @thinkinginspace.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

www.mapspam.net/rangefan/ Free and simple range fan map creator

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Rhodes Cartography @thinkinginspace.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

New tool if you want to make simple basemaps with Great Circle Routes. www.mapspam.net/GreatCircleM...

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Rhodes Cartography @thinkinginspace.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Still not perfect, esp. on mobile, here's a v1.0 new Great Circle Map generator. Enter two locations. Select MetBrewer color palettes or the REH homage. Shit+click to pan. Rotate the globe or the view. Export the visible window or the whole globe. www.mapspam.net/GreatCircle2...

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Rhodes Cartography @thinkinginspace.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

I assume everyone else watching the Olympics has the urge to experiment with Copernicus DEM data to make terrain maps of the Alps in QGIS ...

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Rhodes Cartography @thinkinginspace.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

I added a cool globe to my collection and learned what I could about it. www.mapspam.net/classic-1925...

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Rhodes Cartography @thinkinginspace.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Kids were making snowflakes and shadow puppets. First time making a map with scissors.

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Rhodes Cartography @thinkinginspace.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Really excited about this collection of blank maps from 1900 that I just got. Many very challenging geography exercises for students to color in historic features and boundaries with crayons.

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Rhodes Cartography @thinkinginspace.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Global connectivity. Aviation route pairs on Great Circle paths (not observed flight routes).

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Rhodes Cartography @thinkinginspace.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Geography questions from the 1858 Oxford Local Examinations. How would you do? I have been looking everywhere but have not yet found surviving examples of any "accompanying map" actually used in an exam. There was a whole industry around publishing exam prep maps.

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Rhodes Cartography @thinkinginspace.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

On Monday afternoon (GMT) I will be giving a lecture at the Royal Geographic Society on Alexander Macomb Mason. Naval history, exploration in Africa, 19th-century century science, and lots of #maps... Register for in-person or online here: www.rgs.org/events/upcom...

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Rhodes Cartography @thinkinginspace.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Who was "SHB" that made these maps for Churchill's books?

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Rhodes Cartography @thinkinginspace.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

So glad to receive my copy of Great Power Diplomacy. It was a worthy challenge to make maps for a range of case studies. I am especially grateful that Wess thought to include a "Note on the Maps": a rare chance to reflect on the interplay of maps and strategy.

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Rhodes Cartography @thinkinginspace.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Been consumed with other things lately and not making enough maps. But had a fresh look at the Baltic and came up with this take with an old style. Labeling needs work, but feels more dynamic than the traditional view.

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Rhodes Cartography @thinkinginspace.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Need a 16x9 map for your PPT? Want bluebook outline maps for a classroom? Are you really into equidistant projections? Do you like fun maps in strange orientations with bold colors? Skip the image search and make the map that suits your own needs: www.mapspam.net/OutlineMap.html

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Rhodes Cartography @thinkinginspace.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Having fun coding a new simple outline map generator.

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Rhodes Cartography @thinkinginspace.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Two oblique Ortho views of the Caribbean.

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Rhodes Cartography @thinkinginspace.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Two more Palacios maps, from Ed Jablonski, "Pictorial History of the WWII Years. Only two colors, saturations of black and blue-green. This is how you do macro and micro stories on a theater-wide scale.

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Rhodes Cartography @thinkinginspace.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Give yourself a Saturday morning #geography lesson. Print this "Pakistan to Gibraltar" blank outline map and fill it in from memory. See if you notice anything new. "North up" is an arbitrary convention. Made with QGIS and naturalearthdata.com

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Rhodes Cartography @thinkinginspace.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Rafael Palacios made his name as mapmaker in the late 1940s with WWII maps for Eisenhower. In the early 1990s, just before he died, he made the maps for Stephen Ambrose's "Band of Brothers."

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Rhodes Cartography @thinkinginspace.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Look at how many different line weights there are in this corner of a Rafael Palacios map from David McCullough, The Path Between the Seas. All freehand.

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Rhodes Cartography @thinkinginspace.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

A new mystery with some beautiful endpaper maps. Clean style and dynamic lettering, but signed by an artist I have never heard of. Jennyanne Wong.

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Rhodes Cartography @thinkinginspace.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Stopped by a library and found some more Rafael Palacios maps. They are everywhere if you know where to look.

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Rhodes Cartography @thinkinginspace.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

For your Saturday morning enjoyment, a selection of Rafael Palacios map labels and calligraphic letters.

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Rhodes Cartography @thinkinginspace.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Rafael Palacios map in the back endpapers of Eisenhower's 1965 book Waging Peace.

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Rhodes Cartography @thinkinginspace.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Classic US-China comparison graphic, remade in several different places. This one from 1922 edition of The New World by Isaiah Bowman.

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Rhodes Cartography @thinkinginspace.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Getting back into a blank/outline map mood. Working on a style that emulates "blue book" geography workbooks that are designed for students to mark up and label.

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Rhodes Cartography @thinkinginspace.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Bought this October 1950 Life Magazine for the Korea map attributed to Rafael Palacios. But also an amazing time capsule as 30 Chinese divisions are mapped but dismissed.

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Rhodes Cartography @thinkinginspace.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

1950 Life Magazine whiskey advertisement map of Pennsylvania.

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Rhodes Cartography @thinkinginspace.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

I had not previously realized that this classic article from USNI Proceedings included a unique #visualization of #strategy. usni.org/magazines/proc…

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Rhodes Cartography @thinkinginspace.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Need help from the #QGIS community. I've tried everything to use favorite oblique and unusual projections, with no success. Most PROJ options reject the +lat_0 parameter. I've had long sessions with LLMs to come up with pipelines and transformation code. Arc makes this easy. Seeking maps like these.

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