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

Silver lining—or if you’re not from here, some additional good news—from the Patriots’ loss yesterday is that my Boston maps book will not already be out of date when it’s published in May.

My kid came home from preschool with this the other day. These poor suffering 3 and 4 year olds have spent their entire lives without seeing the Patriots in the Super Bowl! 😢

Well, they put me on TV. youtu.be/vh1g-8HrUS4

If you’ve ever yearned for b-roll footage of cartographers pretending to work by moving a map label back and forth, you are in for a treat!

Task at hand is a map that mostly copies @margot-carto.bsky.social's styles from a different map, and her work is so solid that you can accidentally turn off a major layer and it still looks great!

It's not really feasible for me to participate in things like Defeat ICE by Taking a Three Day Weekend or whatever. Usually more than time or effort, the thing I'm able to give to a cause is money. Are there organizations to which I can donate that, in any small way, might help stop this shit?

Sorry I don’t know if we’re allowed to post about meaningless things right now, but apparently in 2022 we had a top 10 snow storm here and I just… don’t remember it? Having young children is such a brain-wrecking experience.

The impending winter storm is so massive that it will wreak havoc on the geographical fabric of the USA. You’re gonna have Big Great Lakes and Little Great Lakes. States within states. Vast regions will shrink and vanish. Grab a shovel! (Source: 🤷‍♂️ via some page that Facebook wanted to show me)

Hopefully they edited out all of my parts, but nevertheless it was fun to join this conversation about maps and Cincinnati. www.wvxu.org/show/cincinn...

I was a legend back in grad school. @pinakographos.bsky.social knows what’s up.

Labeling maps is a peaceful practice, and often is half the job of a cartographer. I'm sure seas will be drained and skies will be blackened so that AI can do it in our stead in a year or two, but for now, I always enjoy looking at a "map minus map" version of completed work.

You know when people say “hey eating less meat would be better for everyone” and the toddler-brained right wing types respond by eating twice and much meat and proudly posting pictures of, like, godawful boiled steaks? I’m gonna do that with food dyes.

Two new versions of the New Mexico hierarchical elevation grid. Green and brown pen & yellow and black pen on hot press watercolor paper.

Don’t listen to what my kids say about toys or candy or whatever, I know for a fact that these map books were the best gifts they received today.

Many people simply snapped a photo or stared in wonder, but friends, I will not be a mere witness to history. I will be an active participant and spend 8 bucks for two (2) tiny hamburgers dispensed by an opaque machine.

Bringing back the bugle mountains with this work in progress.

Alright cartografriends, I have a maps book from @mapcenter.com for my 5 year old, but I still need something for the 3 year old. Recommendations? Ideally not just, like, actual maps. Something that explains what maps are, in a way that a 3 year old can kind of understand.

[speaking into the void] Look if you require me to create an account in order to purchase your product directly from you, I’m just going to leave and do the Bad Thing and buy it from Amazon, because of course I already have an account there like everyone else in the world.