This map is done enough to make prints available. If anyone you know spends time around the White Mountains, Lake Winnipesaukee, or in between, I'll be grateful for you passing the word along! 🙏 (No vacation house in the area is complete without this map!) andysmaps.bigcartel.com/product/moun...

It’s cool how they’re bringing tyranny back for a 250th anniversary tour 🤘

😤 Simply drawing a line on an existing map 🤩 Entire weird AI map with your line on it cc @transitmap.net

A books of maps about a city he loves is an S-tier Father’s Day gift (as I am pretty sure my kids would say). Available at your local bookstore!

⚠️ Father’s Day self-promo warning: Just signed a second shipment of Boston in 50 Maps at my local bookshop, after the first sold out in 10 days! I have it on good authority (the store owner) that as a Father’s Day gift it is NOT boring. www.arcadiapublishing.com/products/bos...

Hot off the presses, a map I worked on w/ the Community Geographics team, a gravel bike route in Vermont/Quebec. The trick to a nice map is having @margot-carto.bsky.social start the file, then just using the same styles she designed for another map in the region. 😉 www.nekgravel.org/lacs-et-fron...

Don't make me tap the sign

Short visit to Chicago, but I ate a hot dog and a beef, so that’s enough and I’m ready to head back home to my tofu and vegetable life.

If you're in Chicago, come on down to the library and hear us talk about maps at 3! #awfest2026

Someone bought Boston in 50 Maps from Amazon—where there are actual images of the actual maps—and thought they were getting a street atlas for getting around town. But still found it interesting enough to give it three stars. So, uh… success?

Okay, about 4700 labels later I might declare this map done soon. Then again, it surely could cross 5000 if I just take a few years to track down names for every tiny pond etc. 🤔

I'm thrilled to announce that I will soon be an author! My book, The Twin Cities in 50 Maps, is a cartographic portrait of Minneapolis and St. Paul. The book includes 50 painstakingly designed maps and deeply researched essays that trace the Cities' urbanity, history, ecology, and culture.

Intense day here in Massachusetts. Rain, damaging winds, meteor exploding in the sky, we went to ikea… just a lot, really.

I think we mappers need a name for this phenomenon. I’m proposing “The Tin Slag Effect” or “Prominence quirk.”

Okay, mostly took a week off book promo but am ready to get back into it tomorrow morning by embarrassing myself on live TV (well, streaming) news! 💀

Can confirm that the new Map Center space is indeed beautiful, and not to spoil it too much but oh man you guys are going to love this one wall in there. BS-free, floor to ceiling.

Sweet ass ribbon map of the Deschutes River by @aaronkoelker.bsky.social. www.currentflowstate.com/announcing-t...

Big thanks to @bplmaps.bsky.social for hosting the Boston in 50 Maps book launch tonight! A delight to see a little crowd of people excited about maps, new faces and old friends alike. Plus this fun combination drink ticket/bookmark they made using my Storrowing map, which I promptly lost.

Today I am officially a "my book" guy!

Searching my photos for “map” this morning—as one does on Sunday morning—and studying @aasmith.bsky.social’s Prudence Island map which was labeled as “map inspiration” in my photo. 🔎🗺️ antonioantoine.com/product/prud...

Pretty solid evening as a carto-parent! Overheard the 5 year old making maps for a while (FYI fellow cartographers, apparently the rule is that maps cannot use colors besides blue and green), and then one of the bedtime "books" with the 3 year old was a map of Spain in a guidebook.

Guess I’m not a Travel Guy but I did not realize that I could fly—in the sky! an affront to god!—from Boston to Chicago, then back again, and then make a second round trip, for about the same price as having a decent bed to sleep in for one (1) night in Chicago.

From our relentless book promo email campaign, I'm glad that one of the bites was by @clovettboston.bsky.social! It was fun to talk, and I really enjoyed the article that is about, yes, my maps, but amid greater context and musings on Boston geography and history. www.dotnews.com/2026/05/06/f...

Nothing refreshes you on a warm spring day like the taste of Chelmsford, Massachusetts.

Guess what the dots are…

This pre-order sale won’t last much longer as pub date approaches for @awoodruff.bsky.social‘s gorgeous book

My 3 year old asks “are we gonna have dessert?” like 30 times per day, but also loves walnuts? The nut that I’m pretty sure was invented specifically to ruin desserts? 🤨

Told my kids this morning that I’d be taking a bus ride (for a meeting) while they were at school, and they were sad that they wouldn’t get to ride the bus too. Children yearn to be pro-transit radicals!

This is the most important map I’ve ever made.

Okay @universalhub.com I guess I need to learn how to pronounce Mattapan. I frequently see/hear MATTapan (emphasis on the first syllable) but often enough—and somewhat consistently from old-timers from its Jewish days—MattaPAN. What are the locals saying?

Niche Boston map content alert: how did I never notice (until the other day) that this little park over the tunnel entrance has an embedded map of the Bulfinch Triangle?

The Alliance of Freelance Cartographers needs your help! By taking our short annual survey, you strengthen your #cartography community. This survey is for anyone (globally) who did any amount of freelance mapping last year (even a little). forms.gle/Em7sULniXUMv... Please help spread this widely!

For the true molasses heads, this map is based on the physics-based simulation by Steven N. Ward: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KC8d...

Sorry, here I am with more Boston in 50 Maps promo! This was a simple map, but nevertheless it was one of my favorites: a map of the places and events in Make Way For Ducklings. The story seems to take place in a Boston that always was and always will be, so it just seemed like an essential map.

If these astronauts don’t do the “moon’s haunted” bit when the door opens then I don’t know what all of this was for

TIL someone has cataloged (and mapped) every hill inside 128. Not sure how I've never seen this before! @universalhub.com www.bostonbasinhills.org

Our next entry in the 50 Maps series: Boston! @awoodruff.bsky.social uncovers the many things that give the city its unique personality. Pictures 2/3 give a preview of just one page, showing the varying opinions on neighborhood boundaries according to residents! Get your preorders in at our site!

Is it time for me to put out another call for cartographers for our 50 Maps series? As our forthcoming title makes clear, we’re going nationwide with this one

i'm sorry but the moon is a complete boondoggle that should never have been put up there in the first place. we still have to send repair missions up there a hundred-plus years later all because taft was trailing in the polls and decided to learn magick. i don't know why he thought it would help him

Heck yeah, never happier to help my kid with stupid kindergarten homework than when it’s map-related! So proud to live in the Yownidi Stats of Omerce. 🇺🇸

First time paying 31 bucks for my own maps, but also first time making maps for someone’s book! (I needed something new to read anyway.)

4200 labels and counting! 😵‍💫

Well folks, we are less than two months away from the publication of Boston in 50 Maps, so it's about time for me to start clogging your feeds with promotion. (You can pre-order it now! You've been able to for a while!) First: added a thing about it on my website. andywoodruff.com/posts/2026/b...

The Leventhal Center is excited to share that we're hiring a new Curator or Associate Curator of Maps & Geography! If you’re passionate about digging deep into maps and their stories, we’d love to hear from you. Apply by Monday, March 30, for full consideration: buff.ly/1I0bHuI

Today’s to do list includes creating a plan to get the word out about @awoodruff.bsky.social’s forthcoming GORGEOUS books of maps. This post is part of this work!

I’m here arguing with an “AI assistant” that a $5 credit isn’t sufficient for the $17 item missing from my food order, and am beginning to suspect that it’s distracted by doing some war crimes on the other line.

Littlest cartographer drawing a map, either of Spain or Cambridge, Mass. (Always hard to tell the difference between the two.)

It's still weird to me (from Ohio) that every school here (New England) has a week off in the middle of February, and now that it's Something I Have to Deal With as a parent, it's super rude that a crippling east coast blizzard is scheduled to make the school break even longer.

I, a hero, tried this in December! It's a real godsend for people who like their tiny hamburgers to cost $8 and be dispensed in a sealed plastic bag from a black box.

I've done a bad job keeping in touch with my longtime colleagues at Axis Maps since leaving a few years ago, but it's nice to see that they've found some time to update the website with the good work they've been up to! www.axismaps.com/projects