Andy Woodruff
@awoodruff.bsky.social
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cartographer of things
https://andywoodruff.com/
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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...
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Boston in 50 Maps - Andy Woodruff, cartographer
A book of 50+ original maps of Boston.
https://andywoodruff.com/posts/2026/boston-in-50-maps/
3 months ago
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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! š (No vacation house in the area is complete without this map!)
andysmaps.bigcartel.com/product/moun...
3 days ago
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Itās cool how theyāre bringing tyranny back for a 250th anniversary tour š¤
3 days ago
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š¤ Simply drawing a line on an existing map 𤩠Entire weird AI map with your line on it cc
@transitmap.net
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Brent Warren
15 days ago
A books of maps about a city he loves is an S-tier Fatherās Day gift (as I am pretty sure my kids would say). Available at your local bookstore!
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ā ļø Fatherās 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 Fatherās Day gift it is NOT boring.
www.arcadiapublishing.com/products/bos...
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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. š
www.nekgravel.org/lacs-et-fron...
23 days ago
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Don't make me tap the sign
24 days ago
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Short visit to Chicago, but I ate a hot dog and a beef, so thatās enough and Iām ready to head back home to my tofu and vegetable life.
26 days ago
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Stentor Danielson
27 days ago
If you're in Chicago, come on down to the library and hear us talk about maps at 3!
#awfest2026
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Someone bought Boston in 50 Maps from Amazonāwhere there are actual images of the actual mapsāand 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?
30 days ago
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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. š¤
about 1 month ago
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Jake Steinberg
about 1 month ago
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.
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Intense day here in Massachusetts. Rain, damaging winds, meteor exploding in the sky, we went to ikea⦠just a lot, really.
about 1 month ago
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Sarah Bell
about 1 month ago
I think we mappers need a name for this phenomenon. Iām proposing āThe Tin Slag Effectā or āProminence quirk.ā
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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! š
about 1 month ago
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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.
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about 1 month ago
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David Medeiros
about 1 month ago
Sweet ass ribbon map of the Deschutes River by
@aaronkoelker.bsky.social
.
www.currentflowstate.com/announcing-t...
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Announcing the CFS Lower Deschutes Ribbon Map
The last 100 miles. Six feet long. On sale now!
https://www.currentflowstate.com/announcing-the-cfs-lower-deschutes-ribbon-map/
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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.
about 1 month ago
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Today I am officially a "my book" guy!
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about 2 months ago
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Searching my photos for āmapā this morningāas one does on Sunday morningāand studying
@aasmith.bsky.social
ās Prudence Island map which was labeled as āmap inspirationā in my photo. ššŗļø
antonioantoine.com/product/prud...
about 2 months ago
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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.
about 2 months ago
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Guess Iām not a Travel Guy but I did not realize that I could flyāin the sky! an affront to god!āfrom 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.
about 2 months ago
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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...
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From Landmaking to Placemaking: How Maps Tell a Story of Boston - Dorchester Reporter
If Boston is a ācity of neighborhoods,ā their boundaries are neither fixed nor uncontested, let alone waterproof. Or so it appears in Andy Woodruffās book, āBoston in 50 Maps.ā
https://www.dotnews.com/2026/05/06/from-landmaking-to-placemaking-how-maps-tell-a-story-of-boston/
about 2 months ago
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Nothing refreshes you on a warm spring day like the taste of Chelmsford, Massachusetts.
about 2 months ago
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Anne Trubek
about 2 months ago
Guess what the dots areā¦
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about 2 months ago
This pre-order sale wonāt last much longer as pub date approaches for
@awoodruff.bsky.social
ās gorgeous book
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Boston in 50 Maps
By Andy Woodruff May 19, 2026 See Boston from a new perspective in these fifty-plus new, original maps. In this fun and informative book, you can trace Paul Revereās ride as well as Viking Leif Erikso...
https://beltpublishing.com/products/boston-in-50-maps
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My 3 year old asks āare we gonna have dessert?ā like 30 times per day, but also loves walnuts? The nut that Iām pretty sure was invented specifically to ruin desserts? š¤Ø
2 months ago
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Told my kids this morning that Iād be taking a bus ride (for a meeting) while they were at school, and they were sad that they wouldnāt get to ride the bus too. Children yearn to be pro-transit radicals!
2 months ago
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This is the most important map Iāve ever made.
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2 months ago
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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 enoughāand somewhat consistently from old-timers from its Jewish daysāMattaPAN. What are the locals saying?
2 months ago
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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?
2 months ago
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Daniel Huffman
2 months ago
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!
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For the true molasses heads, this map is based on the physics-based simulation by Steven N. Ward:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KC8d...
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3 months ago
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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.
3 months ago
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If these astronauts donāt do the āmoonās hauntedā bit when the door opens then I donāt know what all of this was for
3 months ago
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Ari Ofsevit
3 months ago
TIL someone has cataloged (and mapped) every hill inside 128. Not sure how I've never seen this before!
@universalhub.com
www.bostonbasinhills.org
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Hills of the Boston Basin
https://www.bostonbasinhills.org
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Belt Publishing
3 months ago
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!
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Anne Trubek
3 months ago
Is it time for me to put out another call for cartographers for our 50 Maps series? As our forthcoming title makes clear, weāre going nationwide with this one
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Boston in 50 Maps
By Andy Woodruff May 19, 2026 See Boston from a new perspective in these fifty-plus new, original maps. In this fun and informative book, you can trace Paul Revereās ride as well as Viking Leif Erikso...
https://beltpublishing.com/products/boston-in-50-maps
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Jon Bois
3 months ago
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
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Heck yeah, never happier to help my kid with stupid kindergarten homework than when itās map-related! So proud to live in the Yownidi Stats of Omerce. šŗšø
3 months ago
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First time paying 31 bucks for my own maps, but also first time making maps for someoneās book! (I needed something new to read anyway.)
3 months ago
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4200 labels and counting! šµāš«
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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...
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Boston in 50 Maps - Andy Woodruff, cartographer
A book of 50+ original maps of Boston.
https://andywoodruff.com/posts/2026/boston-in-50-maps/
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Leventhal Map & Education Center
4 months ago
The Leventhal Center is excited to share that we're hiring a new Curator or Associate Curator of Maps & Geography! If youāre passionate about digging deep into maps and their stories, weād love to hear from you. Apply by Monday, March 30, for full consideration:
buff.ly/1I0bHuI
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Anne Trubek
4 months ago
Todayās to do list includes creating a plan to get the word out about
@awoodruff.bsky.social
ās forthcoming GORGEOUS books of maps. This post is part of this work!
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Boston in 50 Maps
By Andy Woodruff May 19, 2026 See Boston from a new perspective in these fifty-plus new, original maps. In this fun and informative book, you can trace Paul Revereās ride as well as Viking Leif Erikso...
https://beltpublishing.com/products/boston-in-50-maps
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Iām here arguing with an āAI assistantā that a $5 credit isnāt sufficient for the $17 item missing from my food order, and am beginning to suspect that itās distracted by doing some war crimes on the other line.
4 months ago
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Littlest cartographer drawing a map, either of Spain or Cambridge, Mass. (Always hard to tell the difference between the two.)
4 months ago
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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.
4 months ago
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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.
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5 months ago
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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
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