Today is a great day for the ocean! Not only is the new Attenborough Ocean film out today, but I had a sneak peak at the new Great Map at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, and it's FABULOUS. A giant Spilhaus projection with beautifully detailed topography. Opens to the public June 7th. 🌊

More examples and a link to the blog post. www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/...

Please don't watch this video about making the Handsome Squidward version of ArcGIS Online maps. youtu.be/NL2GUU4bRVo

I return to @johnnelsonmaps.bsky.social 's Silly Geographic Precision table whenever I see the coordinates in a file I'm trying to make smaller. Latest file was mapping atoms. uxblog.idvsolutions.com/2013/11/sill...

I'll be at in London May 12 for a 1/2 day cartography workshop hosted by @esriuk.bsky.social. If you'd like to spend a half-day of your allotted time on this earth nerding out on map making with me, here are some details. store.esriuk.com/product/arcg...

things I like: the Yuka app

things i like: the random 3 or 4 days in a Michigan April when it hits 70 degrees and everyone goes a little bit manic.

I just shared a new video about making that faded inner-ribbon pattern thing in ArcGIS Online and stuff. it's over on the you toobs.

things i like: the internet circa 2010/11

The #EsriUC agenda is out...and there's BIG news for fans of our Map Wizardry workshop. Not only have we got a third offering for the Friday crowd but we got into the plenary hall on Thursday. Thanks to everyone who ever asked for this!!! No pressure at all 🤪

whoa, just had a crazy idea for getting faded inner hatched ribbons for polygons in ArcGIS Online and it totally worked! now, to try to get back to my original objectives today.

things i dislike: jeans in colors other than blue.

things i like: my authenticator app gives me a two-digit number to access my account. i seem to have an impromptu anecdote for every number, which helps me remember it in the three seconds between seeing it and keying it in.

things i like: the sound of Bob Ross' palette knife mixing paint.

things i like: ironically, the amount of my brain's memory locked up with 80s jingles and sitcom intro songs.

things i like: finding a good deal (like every other Midwesterner). www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/...

how to make a seafloor map inspired by Marie Tharp and Heinrich Berann youtu.be/LNBQ1XZR4Vw

things i like: the frequent random honking of geese formations overhead as they return north for springtime.

things i dislike: the ideological bifurcation of the internet.

👋 recently hit 3k followers on insta and 2k on here so I wanted to take a sec to say hi and share a lil about me! Feel free to reach out! Drop a hello, send maps, share mappy memes and meme ideas, and tag me in potato related posts. Let’s make the world a mappier, spuddier place! 🥔🗺️

I made one of John Nelson's cutaway diagrams to illustrate LINZ's 3D Coastal Mapping project. It was just a static image, showing Mayor Island/Tūhua, and the nearby seabed. One of our graphic designers animated it & turned it up to 11! www.linkedin.com/posts/toit%C... @johnnelsonmaps.bsky.social

things i like: when i successfully transfer a gigantic pile of wet laundry from the washer to the dryer without dropping anything on the floor.

things i like: using chatGPT to quickly geocode a list of 130 place names. thinks i dislike: having to feed it the list piecemeal because it would just give up after 60 or so, and also skip some.

things i like: deftly avoiding the silt left in the bottom of the mug from French pressed coffee.

An atoll illustration I was commissioned for several years ago. I love making slices of geologic features so this was a treat to work on! #geology #atoll #oceanscience #scienceillustration

things i like: gigantic piles of fluffy snow.

things i dislike: the fake baby voice in that liberty mutual commercial

things i dislike: every map-related news article has a pun in the title. things i like: also this.

things i dislike: the stickers on building supplies.

i was asked by folks to do more with small-scale map resources so i've been tinkering with this strip, or ribbon, map of a stretch of the Red Cedar River.

Please do not watch this.

this is a thing you should watch. youtu.be/hCc0OsyMbQk

Here are global currents in the Spilhaus one-world-ocean map projection.

Are you a graphic designer and are pondering a commission, but it requires a MAP?? Please do not watch this: youtu.be/pS3MFoxCsZI

www.fisheries.noaa.gov/feature-stor.... In case anyone wants to know how the data was collected

Here's how to make a nice little StoryMap. Find free photography, do some map choreography, and make a custom theme. 1. Snag some cool Unsplash photos

Blue whale migration for those gigantic beasts of the North Eastern Atlantic. www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/...

Things I like: copying a tiny bit of code, changing one or two parameters, and it runs! Things I dislike: when it doesn't.

Thanks @womeningis.bsky.social for the opportunity!

I was genuinely amazed when this worked.

💙🔵🧊❄️An oustanding frozen heart shared between Ontario and Michigan: as of Jan 27 LakeSaintClair has iced over almost completely, resulting as a perfect piece of EarthArt⬇️ Latest #Landsat 9 image of Jan.27 after Storm Enzo

Wouldn't it be cool if my daughter Willow won this art competition? msufcuart.com/art/raspberr...

Here's a blog post for you to consider reading. www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/...

Things I like: liver. Things I dislike: also liver.

Here's a way to invest 9 minutes of your life in an attempt to recoup heaps of time for future-you. It's about how to draw detailed complex polygons in ArcGIS Pro super fast. And then how to make them look like water because that's fun. youtu.be/Ab9aqsHj8X8

things i like: felted wool overshirts. i've been alternating between a 78°F office and 4° outside and have been comfortable all day in both.

This is fun, a kajillion years ago I made a map of hurricanes for National Geographic magazine. They asked for digital assets to use in an animated version but I never saw it. Just stumbled on it now!

things i dislike: pharmaceutical advertising

Here's a thing about the Lord of the Rings-like illustration style for ArcGIS Pro. Lots of styles, including this one, at esriurl.com/nelsonstyles. Get em before they're history. And history becomes legend. Legend becomes myth.