Tag: cartography
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2024 Total Eclipse cartography
It’s no secret I’m on a maps kick. I’m constantly sketching cool maps I want to make or GIS and scene design skills I want to develop. I also got really interested in the upcoming solar eclipse that will cross the North American continent 2,830 miles from Mazatlan, Mexico to Gander, Canada and some 43.3…
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Open Source Cartography
During my sabbatical, I came upon a podcast called Very Expensive Maps by way of Jason Kottke. It’s hosted by Evan Applegate, cartographer who talks to better cartographers.” It quickly landed among my favorite must-listen-to podcasts alongside Las Culturistas, How Did This Get Made, and The New Bazaar. The first episode I listened to on…
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Leaflet and Stamen on the blog
I changed the tagline of my blog to “Nomad public servant, learning out loud” when we moved out of DC. In addition to writing about the different places we’ve visited, I also end up writing a lot of these posts from places other than where we live. So over Thanksgiving weekend I decided it was…
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20 Years of Gustavus: A bird’s eye view
Inspired by the Google Earth Time Machine blog highlighted by Kottke.org a few days ago, I decided to see how far back the imagery over my college campus reached. I figured it being in rural area, there was probably a lot of agricultural aerial photography going on, but I was wrong, the imagery only went…