🔊🎶Meeting the challenge🎶🔊 A map shared on each day of Nov 2025: 25 brand new maps + 5 'classics'. See my timeline or my @linkedin.com page @mildthing99 at the other place #GoGIS4GA #GIS 🙏🎶Mix of 'Crosswalk' @TEEDinosaurs 🙏 @tjukanov.bsky.social who started #30DayMapChallenge Day 30: Makeover

🔊Walking On The Moon🔊 #Apollo15 26 Jul-7 Aug 1971 'Falcon' LM lift off from Hadley-Appenine 2 Aug 1971 Georeferenced with #MediaLayers in @esriuk.bsky.social ArcGIS Online #3DScene w Moon Elevation Surface DEM incl other Apollo missions: arcg.is/1GmKHG7 #30DayMapChallenge Day 18: Out of this world

🔊Thrown Around🔊 Atlantis/Conic Equidistant/Equirectangular; Orthographic/Patterson/Stereographic/Waterman Butterfly/Winkel Tripel #SST Nov 2025 centred on #NullIsland 🙏 @cambecc.bsky.social 🙏🎵 @jamesblake #30DayMapChallenge #GoGIS4GA Day 19: Projections #GISDay earth.nullschool.net#current/ocea...

🔊🎶*Bohemian Toponymy*🎶🔊 50 yrs ago in 1975 Queen's 'Bohemian Rhapsody' tops UK chart *Is this the real place? Is this just fantasy?* Data🙏@natlibscot.bsky.social OS 1900s > 'Bohemia' maps.nls.uk/projects/os1... > ArcGIS Online #30DayMapChallenge #GoGIS4GA Day 24: (A Day At The) Places + their names

🔊🎶Urban river restoration Lima, Peru with sub-fluvial Lima Expresa road under Rio Rímac #braiding #PEPRR tinyurl.com/yttxekkw 1908 map #MediaLayers🙏via @royalscotgeosoc.bsky.social 🎶🙏 Sofia Kourtesis Map arcg.is/0nOPDj0 @esriuk.bsky.social ArcGIS Online #30DayMapChallenge Day 26: Transport

🔊🎶Hexagons of Grammichele Sicily, Italy: #PlannedSettlement 1693 after #earthquake at Occhiolà 👣5.34km/3.32mi via @_outdooractive_ @esriuk.bsky.social ArcGISOnline w #FireflyIcons by @johnelson.bsky.social ✝️RIP Ornella Vanoni d 21 Nov 2025 arcg.is/e9OLL #30DayMapChallenge Day 25: Hexagons

🔤🌐The Earth spells it out🌐🔤 #YourNameInLandsat uses lookie-likie letters in satellite images from @NASA_Landsat over the last 50 years managed jointly with @USGS #EarthObservation #RemoteSensing landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/apps/YourNam... 🙏 @thenasaearth.bsky.social #30DayMapChallenge Day 29: Raster

An excellent way to investigate spatial variations in placenames, incl parts of placenames: 'British Placename Mapper' 🙏 to Robin Wilson @sciremotesense using @ordnancesurvey.bsky.social data incl 'Starts with' 'Ends with' etc #30DayMapChallenge Day 28: Black placenames.rtwilson.com#W3sidGV4dCI6...

🔊Using #GIS to visualise the impact of physical and human processes on coasts🌊 @oaknational.bsky.social lesson stepped explanation demonstrating #GIS integration at KS4 GCSE Geography for coastal erosion on Holderness peninsula UK tinyurl.com/mwpn2229 #30DayMapChallenge Day 23: Process

🔊🎶On the border*🎶🔊 The England-Wales border follows old meanders of the River Vyrnwy e.g. the #ShropshireWay crosses border 6 times in 6 km betw Pentreheylin Hall to Llanymynech 🙏 🎶 @alstewartinfo 🙏 Route plan + #FlyoverVideo @_outdooractive_ #30DayMapChallenge Day 27: Boundaries

🎹🔊 Isn't it iconic?🔊🎹 World piano manufacturers *There are places I'll remember* Iconic 'In My Life' original speed Iconic solo by George Martin Iconic Beatles album 'Rubber Soul' #MusicTeacher #GeographyTeacher #30DayMapChallenge Day 21: Icons Map: arcg.is/1zK5Sj0

🔊🐳'A prison-like aquarium' 🐳🔊 Threats to #BlueWhales in the Gulf of Ancud, Chile #EcosystemFragmentation also happens in the sea 🙏@Seasaver @BedrinanaLuis @ballenaschile Full video 6m: www.youtube.com/live/rMW2-3f... #30DayMapChallenge Day 22: Data challenge: Natural Earth

🔊💧Whatever happened to Capel Celyn?💧🔊 OS 6" 1830s-80s (county layers) v @esriuk.bsky.social Imagery v @ordnancesurvey.bsky.social 1:25000 #GIS 🚰#Dams 🚰 🙏@natlibscotmaps @BritishPathe 🙏🎵Jon Hopkins - 'Cold Out There' #30DayMapChallenge Day 20: Water maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/...

🔊*Tomorrow Never Knows*🔊 By 2125, will remoteness mean that these places can remain much the same as now? Created in @esriuk.bsky.social ArcGIS Online using @johnnelsonmaps.bsky.social's #Firefly symbols 🙏#Beatles #30DayMapChallenge Day 12: Map from 2125 Map: arcg.is/TWuOO1

🔊Using #GIS to visualise data in a webmap Stepped explanation > #CreateBuffers analysis tool in @esriuk.bsky.social ArcGIS OnLine > visualise exclusion zones around #Merapi volcano @oaknational.bsky.social #GIS integration KS4 GCSE Geog tinyurl.com/yh56fjw3 #30DayMapChallenge Day 13: 10 minute map

🔊'From Bank to Bet Fred'🔊 @openstreetmap.bsky.social v map of Dundee shops in Murraygate 1991 using #MediaLayers in @esriuk.bsky.social ArcGIS Online #3DScene > urban retail land use change. 🙏 UoD Archives #ThinkForAMinute #Housemartins #NEA arcg.is/1f8zuf0 Day 14: Data challenge: OpenStreetMap

🔊'London Under Fire' 🔊 '12 Postcards Passed By The Censor' Story Map inspired by the excellent blog by @alondoninheritance.bsky.social alondoninheritance.com/thebombedcit... Georef then #GIS mapped in @ArcGISStoryMaps 🎵 @psbhq.bsky.social 'London Can Take it' ❤️Ukraine #30DayMapChallenge Day 15: Fire

Wolf territories, Voyageurs National Park, Minnesota #Media Layers in @esriuk.bsky.social ArcGIS Online 🙏Voyageurs Wolf Project #Wolves FB: tinyurl.com/26mpj8eb YT: youtube.com/watch?v=sUkB... #30DayMapChallenge Day 16: Cell 2D Web map: arcg.is/1Oz0aa1 3D Scene: arcg.is/0KaLfX

Isle of Wight Slow Ways Topological Map created using AI ChatGPT Walk betw any town, city and national landscape in Britain 10,000 A-to-B walking + wheeling routes, mapped and checked by🙏 @slowwaysuk.bsky.social Dan Raven Ellison beta.slowways.org #30DayMapChallenge Day 17: A new tool

🔊*The shape you're in*🔊 Do you recognise all of these topological countries? Rectangle, Triangle, Crescent, Teardrop, Hexagon, Circle... (the last one is the world's 'most circular country' with a roundness index of 0.934) 🎵🙏 @edsheeranbr.bsky.social #30DayMapChallenge Day 11: Minimal map

🔊🎶Let's go back 🎶🔊 GPS track of a cloudless recent ascent (+ descent!) for a long-awaited return to the magnificent Cader (Cadair) Idris, Eryri Nat Pk, N Wales @natreswales.bsky.social #FlyoverVideo outdooractive_uk + @jungle4eva.bsky.social #30DayMapChallenge Day 4: Data challenge: My Data

🔊How to use #GIS to visualise physical processes at different types of plate margin e.g. convergent plate boundary: a stepped explanation @oaknational.bsky.social lesson demonstrating #GIS integration at KS4 GCSE Geography #TectonicHazards tinyurl.com/3zecmytx #30DayMapChallenge Day 5: Earth

🔊How has phys geog/tectonics influenced biogeographic realms (faunal boundaries)? 3D: #WallaceLine #LydekkerLine #WeberLine @esriuk.bsky.social ArcGISOnline #Scene GEBCO 10x exagg #Evolution #Marsupial v #Mammal @TEEDinosaurs #30DayMapChallenge Day 6: Dimensions arcg.is/GOHq90

🍃🌉On this day 1940🌉🍃 'Galloping Gertie' Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapsed in 40mph/64kmh winds. Where were the viewpoints? Tacoma-Kitsap pen link gone until 1950. Created in @Esri ArcGIS Online using #MediaLayers Webmap: arcg.is/0j9ibq #30DayMapChallenge Day 7: Accessibility

🔊#JourneySticks are an ancient geographical information system #GIS used for millennia. Glimpses of a brilliant KS1 Y1 lesson 'Making a map of our route' by @oaknational.bsky.social stepping 'old' #GIS and 'new' #GIS + @aphextwin.bsky.social #30DayMapChallenge Day 9: Analog tinyurl.com/35y5wf5r

🔊Do you know the way to Kathmandu? 3D map: 2025 Imagery v 1967 Corona satellite via Nepali Times #MediaLayer @esriuk.bsky.social ArcGISOnline #Scene + GEBCO bathymetry 3.5 x exagg c 200%⬆️ #UrbanSprawl शहरी विस्तार + @johnmaus.bsky.social 'Do Your Best' #30DayMapChallenge Day 8: Urban arcg.is/1iPyW10

🗺️ 113 year old maps reborn 🗺️ 1912 sketch maps by teacher George Nebel for a field trip from Wood Street School #Woolwich to Isle of Thanet, Kent (they travelled by ship!) #MediaLayers @esriuk.bsky.social ArcGIS Online #30DayMapChallenge Day 9: Analog Map🙏 Kent Archives arcg.is/1nr55b1

Using #GIS to map the track of a #TropicalStorm: Stepped explanation: how to use georef data to visualise #TyphoonRai (Odette) 2022 in @esriuk.bsky.social ArcGISOnline @oaknational.bsky.social lesson demo for #GIS integration at KS4 GCSE Geography tinyurl.com/352hdcka #30DayMapChallenge Day 10: Air

🔊Using #GIS to visualise global trends in urbanisation A stepped explanation demonstrating how to create a #GIS choropleth webmap using shapefiles @oaknational.bsky.social lesson demonstrating #GIS integration at KS4 GCSE Geography tinyurl.com/3ksbwwmy #30DayMapChallenge Day 3: Polygons

30dayMapChallenge Day 1 Points arcg.is/1ab5ua4 School Y7 food investigation. Data collected from 3 year 7 classes using Microsoft, map and symbolised in Esri ArcGIS Online. Students can then investigate where their food comes from. #GISinschools #HowiusedGIStoday #GIS #ArcGISOnline

🔊Using #GIS to visualise + analyse #deforestation Stepped explanation #FishboneDeforestation + #EcosystemFragmentation #RemoteSensing @esriuk.bsky.social #Wayback @oaknational.bsky.social lesson demonstrating #GIS integration at KS4 GCSE Geography tinyurl.com/33wkc6sr #30DayMapChallenge Day 2: Lines

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... new 2025 imd @gasigict.bsky.social

post16 Geography superpowers @gasigict.bsky.social

📣 Next GCSJ Seminar 🗓️ Fri 14 Nov 2025 | 12–1PM | online 🔎Rearticulating archives: still thinking with Doreen Massey — exploring how Doreen Massey’s archive invites new questions about our troubled present. Register to join the critical and creative dialogue: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rearticula...

🔊💡Set the night on fire💡🔊 UK+RoI Lighthouses & Shipping Forecast areas Data AI generated in ChatGPT + cleaning needed! Mapped with ArcGIS Online Animated icons made in ezgif plus John Nelson's Firefly icons arcg.is/1ir9Oq3 #30DayMapChallenge Day 1: Points

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... gt for food studies & globalisation @gasigict.bsky.social

A gt post16 geography article to read and discuss @gasigict.bsky.social

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... energy security post16 geography @gasigict.bsky.social

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... super power post16 geography @gasigict.bsky.social

It was great to see a Geography specific session at #ResearchEd25 with @mildthing99.bsky.social discussing how GIS can become 'part of the furniture'. Here are a few of my reflections / key takeaways from the session. linkedin.com/pulse/resear... #geography #GIS #geographyteacher #ESRI #arcgis

Geographers in the house! 'How can #GIS become ‘part of the furniture’? A pleasure to share ideas with colleagues at @researchED1 #rEDNatConf written with @ahamill.bsky.social in 'What is Geography Teaching Now?' ed by @geogmum.bsky.social + @jennnnnn.bsky.social + lessons from #GIS #OakNational

www.economist.com/middle-east-... water & energy security post16 geography @gasigict.bsky.social

Looking fwd to sharing ideas at National researchED #rEDNatConf from 'How can #GIS become ‘part of the furniture’? written with @ahamill.bsky.social in 'What is Geography Teaching Now?' ed by @geogmum.bsky.social + @jennnnnn.bsky.social incl #GIS lessons I've written for @oaknational.bsky.social

New Simon Reeve bbc2 Scandinavia www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... is great for post16 geography looking at topics such as superpowers, security, sovereign wealth funds, energy @gasigict.bsky.social @geoblogs.bsky.social @jbwgeog.bsky.social

This week our Year 2 pupils took part in the first ever Hillingdon Bee. They were joined by 8 other school where their Geography knowledge and skills were put to the test! Well done to Minet who won the competition - it was very close! @gasigict.bsky.social

I'm really pleased to highlight our Hidden Landscapes of Greenland Storymap Series, which was awarded a 2025 Silver Publisher's Award by the Geographical Association! You can find out more details here, inc. storymaps, a video, teacher resources and more: www.antarcticglaciers.org/glaciers-and...

I just published a new article that took me many “brain cycles” this summer: 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁’𝘀 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗴𝗲𝗼𝘀𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮? 🌍 I explain why geolocated data requires a different mindset (for devs) + key concepts - EN: www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/... or dev.to/hhkaos/whats... - ES: medium.com/@hhkaos/qu%C...

This was a collaboration between Guy Paxman & Edmund Lea @geogdurham.bsky.social and myself! There's plenty here for #GeographyTeachers to support their GIS and cold environments teaching. @rgs-ibgschools.bsky.social @gasigict.bsky.social

2/2 Special thanks must go to my amazing colleagues in the @gasigict.bsky.social @rgsibg.bsky.social @ptieducation.bsky.social for their encouragement and support, as well as the opportunity to participate in and lead so many geographical projects throughout my career

A gt rsmesource for geography teachers @gasigict.bsky.social @geoblogs.bsky.social @jbwgeog.bsky.social