I made a schlep to Northwest Mass for a library talk because libraries are awesome, I like attention and because it's basically a paid ad for my store. Today I got 3 requests for talks from MA libraries. Guess it was good. recorder.com/2025/09/23/m...

Hypothetically, where would I get a motion-sensitive convenience store door chime that can play the Google Maps "You have arrived" voice?

Story of The Map Center/Andrew Middleton where I'll perform w/Ed Osborn: thepublicsradio.org/artscape/the... Th, 25 Sep 2025 6:30p preception/7p show $10 general/$8 students NOTAFLOF www.eventbrite.com/e/a-synesthe... #ASynesthetesAtlas @mapcenter.com #experimental #cartography #OpenStreetMap

I heard recently that there was a place on the Woonasquatucket River to see American eels and holy moly did this spot deliver! youtu.be/lxnopqW2344

Spent this afternoon on the Woonasquatucket River, one of 3 that flows through downtown Providence. I got a grant from Mapillary, an opensource streetview alternative that works with @openstreetmap.bsky.social to take these pics. A map can be a menu of options and I added one of my favorites to it.

Spending my evening in Northfield MA for a library talk because I love libraries and I love attention. www.youtube.com/live/1qnTKEu...

its not a proper fantasy book unless there's maps in it. at least one nice map

I don't care what business you're visiting, "how does this make money/how are you still in business?" are never appropriate questions to ask. If the business is failing, you're rubbing salt in the wound. If the business is succeeding, you look like a naive idiot.

Free speech means calling this body of water whatever name you want: gulfof.mapquest.com

A big part of my goal as owner of the oldest map store on the East Coast, is show people that maps aren't antiques. They are living, breathing, ways of seeing the world. Audio-visual artist Eric Theise gets this. Come see him perform at The Map Center next week! www.eventbrite.com/e/a-synesthe...

"The best map of Ukraine": Lithuania's Foreign Minister hands over this symbolic gift to his counterpart Andrii Sybiha Visiting Kyiv today, Kestutis Budrys said "These 603,628 square kilometres are Ukraine, and this is its best map."

A solar punk story where every fall, homeowners pick up small modular and networked servers as space heaters in the winter. Researchers align their computationally intense projects to seasons when the extra juice does double duty by keeping folks warm.

Transit/mobility nerds 🤜🤛 Map nerds

look what you made me do (#rstats code here gist.github.com/andrewheiss/... )

Today's blog post is a bit niche, but it's important. It seems like federal redistribution maps are drawn with too much consideration of not moving voters, and they are doing it more than they did in the past. #auspol

PEAK COMMUTE from Providence to Pawtucket and back this evening (no bike lights = no riding on N. Main) home ➡️ 🚲➡️🚤 ➡️🚲 ➡️ @pvdstreets.bsky.social meeting at @mapcenter.com ➡️ 🚲 ➡️ 🚌 ➡️ 🚲 ➡️ home

Want to vicariously float down the Blackstone River? Check out the new 360 degree Google-style streetview imagery the Friends of the Blackstone River collected this weekend using my camera and Mapillary! All new opensource imagery of the river for everyone! www.mapillary.com/app/user/the...

I still think they made it.

Thanks so much for coming!

Recently watched a long documentary from the BBC about the dissolution of Yugoslavia and the wars in Croatia and Bosnia (I'm fine thanks for asking). The clips of Serbian propaganda sounded chillingly familiar and yet, oddly tame? Like this week I've heard way scarier stuff from RW media.

There are some technologies too powerful and too easy to cause destruction and ruin to be trusted in the hands of ordinary men and it's best that we as a society decide to collectively forget the good-intentioned horrors we've wrought. I refer, of course, to "Reply All."

If you have a cool new way of doing business that you want others to take up (no tipping, living wage, body positive, all gender bathrooms etc), you can't make it look hard and miserable. Pushing the envelope in a way that no one else wants to emulate isn't leadership, it's just being eccentric.

If I keep going at the rate I've been going I'm gonna be the subject of a Werner Herzog film

So this event last night was excellent! Calligraphy is one of those things that is so simple to do and so, so, so, so impossibly hard to do WELL. It's such a good activity to clear your brain if you're stressed out. I don't know if that sounds like anyone you know right now...

Come make maps with me on Saturday at Hope Artiste Village in Pawtucket! I've done this activity at three conferences and now you'll get to experience it yourself! Families with kids older than 13 are welcome 🗺️

Came across this old shot of me with a giant electricians' wall map I was editing. Resemblance?

Found this 1978 Patriots poster and finally framed it up for the season. What do you think @aeneas-nin.bsky.social ?

The David Rumsey Map Center is holding their biennial cartography conference 10/8 - 10/10. It’s free and there’s an online option. The theme is “Above and Below” and will feature talks on “cartography of anything but the earth’s surface.”Register at www.eventbrite.com/e/barry-lawr...

Providence is a walkable city. In some parts. Here's a map that shows you more. @pvdstreets.bsky.social www.providencejournal.com/story/news/l...

Each year, the @americangeo.bsky.social Geography Educator Initiative offers AP Human Geography teachers across the US a chance to win a $300 grant to enhance their students’ learning with geography or geospatial-related activities or resources. Apply here! www.americangeo.org/geoboost

My friend Kashif and I are going to hang out at Tea in Sahara next Wednesday the 10th at 5:30- Kashif is gonna teach me some Arabic calligraphy and you're welcome to join us!

Got my Covid and my Flu shot at the same time. Apparently my insurance is garbage because it cost $150??? I work hourly as a contractor and I don't get paid time off so I consider this a small price to protect my productive time, let alone my long term health. If you can, get vaccinated too.

A long line of cartological mishaps... www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

#gischat #maps A very unscientific analysis of the SF "Bay Area" in 4 maps. Map 1: The Area that is Bay. This is the combined polygon of the 3 main estuaries of the bay area - the San Francisco, San Pablo, and Suisun estuaries.

“Why not paintings or sculpture or other persuasive visual images, or persuasion by the written word alone? … A map is different from other forms of communication because it is uniquely presumed to be a source of honest, objective information.” persuasivemaps.library.cornell.edu/about/

Have you ever wondered what goes into making a map, or though about how maps wind up in the books you love? I draw maps for living, and every week I write about how they come into being. The posts are free and available for anyone to read. So come give them a read! patreon.com/SurprisedEel...

“I lied, put your clothes back on, we’re playing the Bay Area Regional Planner board game”

I hope everyone on the other side of the Earth is enjoying the total lunar eclipse! Except for flat Earthers.

⚙️Community Organizing Group (COG) is back and making our way to the @mapcenter.com on 9/16 @ 6:00pm! 🗺️Come early and enjoy all of the incredible and unique finds the Map Center has to offer! 🧠Then gather as we collaborate and strategize about all of the PVD Streets advocacy efforts…with snacks! 🥨

My friend Kashif and I are going to hang out at Tea in Sahara next Wednesday the 10th at 5:30- Kashif is gonna teach me some Arabic calligraphy and you're welcome to join us!

Cincinnati in 50 Maps, by Nick Swartsell and me, is off to the printer, so you can get your pre-orders in now for the December launch! beltpublishing.com/products/cin... Get this, folks: I counted and there are 125 individual maps. That's 75 extra maps for free!

What if I was a real rebel and instead of getting a North arrow tattoo I got a scale bar

before and after I clicked "ENTER" on Google Maps ⬇️

Forgot to post the pic:

@moriartymaps.com made me some really sweet art! Bonus points for including the truly awful "Save the Willy" character that was a fixture nearby, thankfully I haven't it in months. Thanks for making it small, at least. See you at @nacis.bsky.social !

@kiricarini.com sent me this kickass zine about geospatial data and I will be demanding that all of my new documentation be presented by cartoon astronaut raccoons.

Today's jam brought to you by Martha and the Muffins from Toronto, CA. Their album Echo Beach has a map of the eponymous waterfront and it's in Damien Saunder's book 'Maps on Vinyl.' www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNy8... www.mapcenter.com/store/p/maps...

Today's blog post features a bonus video from @mapcenter.com on running one of the last surviving map stores in the uSA mapoftheweek.substack.com/p/the-bog-de...