Enjoying the weekend before it starts all over again Monday Morning #mappymeme

#30DayMapChallenge - Day 27 - Boundaries Sheetz vs Wawa, the battle appears to be intensifying in eastern PA, MD, and VA while each chain is also expanding into new territories to the west.

#30DayMapChallenge - Day 26 - Transport During last year's challenge, I found a dataset for public transportation systems in Japan. With some patience and a translation app on my phone, I was able to make this map of the Shinkansen High Speed Rail.

#30DayMapChallenge - Day 25 - Hexagons I asked ChatGPT to match each character from The Breakfast Club with a chain restaurant that serves breakfast, based on "vibes". I chose to use 30 mile hexbins for mapping the locations as points were just too overwhelming.

#30DayMapChallenge - Day 24 - Places and Their Names I knew of the existence of Hell, Michigan, but I was curious about which other places in the US have "Hell" in the name. These are just the "populated places" in the GNIS dataset. There are several hundred places otherwise.

#30DayMapChallenge - Day 23 - Process Screenshots from when I was working on yesterday's map. Top screenshot is my layout window while the bottom is my data view.

#30DayMapChallenge - Day 22 - Natural Earth I took the Natural Earth state/province dataset, then removed the Great Lakes. The states are grouped together as roughly one Alaska (except the group with the smallest states is only about 75% Alaska).

#30DayMapChallenge - Day 21 - Icons It seems like just a few years ago, Chick-fil-A announced that they were coming to Michigan. Then I noticed Dave's Hot Chicken and Raising Canes. Finally, the upcoming entrance of Bojangles to the Michigan market. Is Zaxby's next?

#30DayMapChallenge - Day 20- Water Today's map is just lakes in Minnesota. The title was inspired by the Capt Crunch's Oops All Berries. I did play around with the reference scale to try and make the lakes stand out without being overpowering, unlike the box of crunch berries.

#30DayMapChallenge - Day 19 - Projections Seeing how Alaska gets squished, pulled, and distorted to fit in these different coordinate systems. Definitely explains how I got much of the way through grade school before realizing the sheer size of Alaska.

#30DayMapChallenge - Day 18 - Out of this World I have never heard of Planet Smoothie until yesterday when I asked ChatGPT for some inspiration.

#30DayMapChallenge - Day 17 - A New Tool So the new tool / process I tried this time was using the Raster Calculator in QGIS to run NDVI on this orthoimagery dataset that I downloaded for Adams County, Ohio. Why Adams County? That's the "Roulette Part"

#30DayMapChallenge - Day 16 - Cell Took the 2024 NCLD data, clipped it to South Dakota, then resampled the data to various resolutions. Nothing fancy...

#30DayMapChallenge - Day 15 - Fire I almost made a map with a more serious tone, but then I came to my senses. Here is another Taco Bell map. Vermont only has 5 locations and if I squint really hard, Vermont is sort of shaped like a torn Fire sauce packet.

#30DayMapChallenge - Day 14 - OpenStreetmap I really wasn't sure how to approach this theme so I started with a base map layer from OpenStreetMap. Then I just sort of "scribbled" all over it. No real direction, just playing around with layers and fonts.

#30DayMapChallenge - Day 13 - 10 Minute Map 10 Minute Map? Well...probably more like 12 minute map. Quick and dirty map? Definitely. There is an obscure music pun hidden in the map if you can find it.

#30DayMapChallenge - Day 12 - Map from 2125 This is by far the most challenging day for me during this challenge. I chose make a hypothetical high speed rail map of the lower 48 states of the US. I'm not sure how I feel about it, but there is always tomorrow.

#30DayMapChallenge - Day 11 - Minimal Map For today's map, I kept things minimal (including the effort).

#30DayMapChallenge - Day 10 - Air Woke up on Sunday morning to find snow on the ground with flurries throughout the day. Needless to say, this map idea was inspired by Sunday's weather. Brrrrr....🥶

#30DayMapChallenge - Day 9 - Analog I shall call it LEGO-HIO! I've made a few LEGO maps in ArcGIS Pro, so why not try it with real LEGO. Would have been nice if the colors matched but at least I had enough flowers for the big cities. 100% FUN!

#30DayMapChallenge - Day 8 - Urban Today I decided to just experiment and play around with visualization, nothing too crazy or purposeful. Obviously the focus is Detroit but several suburbs are also included. I did highlight the road network and freeways for some razzle dazzle.