John Nelson
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Maker of maps. Talker of making of maps. Purveyor of gumption. Mitten State. I make map videos now? (views mine, etc.)
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Beautiful geography textbook from 1874. Look at that terrain.
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I made this geodesic globe ornament at lunch. Will share the template tomorrow. In the meantime please get ready to live.
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Here's a map of the Columbia River Gorge in the new Imhof style.
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Sparkline map of coronavirus cases since Feb, updated daily.
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Optica gives you a multi-scale look at earth as you whip around.
Zoom in or zoom out? Why not both?
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Here is another for-funzies collaboration with
@vannizhang
that lets you always have multiple map scales visible as you zip around. That's it.
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Lake Isabella, in Central Michigan, looks like Randall.
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Don't look at this thing about Antarctic iceberg motion.
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If you want to make LOTR style maps in ArcGIS Pro of various journeys and adventures, here's a style resource.
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How to make a bathymetric diorama micro world sort of thing for Challenger Deep.
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I make YouTube how-to videos about maps. I'd be grateful if you let me know how I might improve. Roast me at this link, and thanks!
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Here's one way to while away one minute of your allotted time on earth.
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By golly look at what I just found. There is nothing new under the sun.
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It worked! The third installment of the GIS nerd Christmas ornament project comes out tomorrow.
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hey, fun news, ArcGIS Pro styles are now available in
@LivingAtlas
. here is a pile that i've added, if you want to get weird:
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I've been at this one-minute map hack thing for 65 minutes now.
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Goofing around with minor pixel animation in the micro world graphic using the Motionleap app, for giggles.
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Whoa, check out this accidental rendering of elevation as unique values.
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Whoever it was that popularized "small scale" and "large scale" terms in engineering and geography, I scowl at you across the generations.
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Because making touchable looking maps is fun, I’m working on a cross-stitch style for
@ArcGISPro
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Here's a shot at making one of those fun 3D-boosted vintage topo maps. And a how-to if you want to try it in Pro.
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Map of Emperor Seamounts undersea range. Lots of fun making labels with pseudo perspective.
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WIP one of those idealized earth hypersaturated globe stock image things.
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Here's a video showing how to make one of those micro world 3D diorama things. This one of the glorious Straits of Mackinac.
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It's not a map unless it has a north arrow, so please don't read this.
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Maps in movies. Iron Man 3, Tony visualizing extruded data columns but probably having trouble making height comparisons because of foreshortening, occlusion, and the variability of underlying terrain.
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A thing for some stuff.
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These seafloor river-like formations around NZ are really something.
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Here is a fun way to visualize vessel traffic around the US. Also, you can download it in manageable chunks.
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Look! A literal projection. Light thru a glass globe. Old school.
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A great series of short explainers covering the what/why/who of mapping from
@wiuhighwayman
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I made a video for this free mooc about spatial analysis that starts next week. It's about classification methods and how different methods tell different stories and none of them are lies so long as you are clear in your presentation and stuff.
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I had the
@ArcGISPro
template open so I made this map of the lovely Slovenia for my friend
@BojanSavric
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Globe thing made in Pro with NASA visible earth imagery some Tom Patterson natural earth hillshade and a bunch of fake atmosphere gradients.
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Please do not look at this Appalachian Trail journal field map.
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I'm 18 weeks late to this challenge, but better late than never. Attempting to re-create the look of an AI-generated topo environment in Pro.
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Today is the first day of the free mooc, Cartography. You can still sign up for a couple weeks. It's self-paced and includes software for duration of the course.
I wrote a new lesson for it, too. We'll be making this Spilhaus map:
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How to turn those inner tint bands into inner glow sorts of things.
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Using population density as a color saturation mask in ArcGIS Online. For funsies.
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Found a practical use for the diorama thing. As the base of a GIS Layer illustration. Adding the layers will be a challenge but I like where it’s headed.
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Here's how you can make those cute little 3D diorama things in ArcGIS Pro.
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It was six years ago today I made the Breathing Earth gif. It's had a pretty fun life of its own since then.
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Please do not read this blog about the makery process of a map of Panama.
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Here is the template/instructions to make your own globe ornaments!
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The USGS Topographic Map Explorer has been updated. Please do not look at it.
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Please don't make AI-inspired topo landscapes. Leave it to the bots.
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Georeferenced and hillshaded 1874 lithograph of woodland density with current Forest Service lands rendered as little forests.
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Working on a reusable style to turn any vector data into a Lego map. Because Lego!
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Love to see this type of research reaching a broad audience. Rainbow is not just hard to interpret, it leads to misinterpretation.
This paper lays out a "scientific case" for not using rainbow or red-green diverging color schemes to convey information Check it out: "The misuse of colour in science communication" Perhaps required reading for anyone presenting scientific info?
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Sean Fleming isn't on twitter, but holy smokes are his elevation graphics, over on ig, glorious.
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Really liking these handsome minimalist (uncredited?) locator maps in the new issue of
@NatGeoMag
.
Charming hillshade, subtle water lines, red pop color
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Here is a Pacific blue whale migration animation. And here's the how-to:
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"Dynamic Range Adjustment" stretches a color scheme to only the lowest and highest values within your view. So panning and zooming around can look pretty hypnotoad cool.
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Geography and cartography professors faced with offering online courses...starting now...here are the full materials for the "Cartography." MOOC. Click Download to get materials, and follow the youtube links for the videos.
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Challenger Deep is as deep as a walk from the north end of Central Park to the south pool of the 9/11 Memorial.
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Definitely check out today's Google Doodle about the brave brilliant and persistent Marie Tharp, who stuck to the data in the face of dogma and elevated our understanding of the world. Science is about persistently proving itself wrong.
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This Friday I get to participate in the Delmarga GIS Conference where I will show Office memes. And how to make this thing.
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Don't make maps like this in
@ArcGISOnline
, what is this, the 18th Century? Come on.
But if you're feeling like a scoundrel...
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Deforestation in the Brazilian state of Rondônia, around Buritis, since 1985. View these Landsat images in sequence, here:
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Working on a basemap experiment that blends Kenneth Townsend's vintage painted hillshade () with NASA satellite imagery. I like where it's going!
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The tapered polygon effect is a cartographic technique to give rivers a sense of direction and representative form. Here's how (and how to reverse the geometry if some rivers accidentally flow uphill).
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Here's one of those 3D block diagram, diorama, cutaway, tiny world sort of things. I wanted to play with labeling and adding a geological element to the rock faces. Please don't look at it.
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I never made a reusable style for Willow's felt map. Remedying that this Monday morning.
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Undersea diorama WIP. This is Challenger Deep, with 10x exaggeration and not-real depth cutaway illustration.
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Found some maps my dad, Burton Nelson, made in grade school.
~1950
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Please do not make felt maps with this resource.
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Really early experiment with a Tharp/Berann-like oblique view of the seafloor.
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Here's how to make an 1883 map of forests all 3D and stuff using modern forest density data by tricking Pro into thinking it's elevation.
Please do not similarly misuse software in this way.
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I was wrestling with traditional v multidirectional hillshades. But when I do both, I likes it. In a Bertin-ish palette.
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There are lots of ways to point out your map's Area of Interest. Do not try any of these.
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Oh wow, hadn’t noticed these. Little lensed laser lines form the glass globe. I’ll just be moving this out of the light now thanks.
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I finally tried out a Joy Plot map thing. There are a zillion ways to do it probably and mine is likely the least efficient
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Gunther is my order pickup name. It reduces confusion in a word full of Johns.
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Not-hand-drawn Middle Earth style maps.
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“Fantasy Mapping: Drawing Realms & Kingdoms” is available on Amazon. Written and illustrated by my friend
@wesleytjones
, not only is is a beautiful and fun how-to, it’s also got the best landform diagrams I’ve ever seen.
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Work in progress map of Panama. My favorite part so far is the north arrow. I don't do north arrows very often so I'm really saucing it up.
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