The official crowd sourced list of places you can buy carto-creations from is now live! Check out pokateomaps.com/mappygifts. Let’s help folks shop small and support our mappy friends this holiday season!

I've joined the jolly Independent Map Sellers and let me tell you, there are some fantastic gifts here! I have a few prints available (heads up Chicago fans, Wendell Berry fans) ... and I'm going to be leaving town, so order by Dec. 3 for delivery before Christmas. 🗺️🎁 mapartists.org

not the point, but I did a doubletake on this graphic - "That blob is labeled 'White House' but they left off part of ... oh right"

How Daniel makes this stunning work of art available for this low price is beyond me, but go ahead and grab it for your Michigan friends and family!

It's driving me batty that nobody except Heather Cox Richardson, the Washington Monthly, and myself is covering Trump's race to sell off (for likely demolition) "the Sistine Chapel of the New Deal," w/ murals by Ben Shahn, Philip Guston, etc. I've furnish links below to help reporters get started.

The Trump administration’s military strikes on alleged drug boats are “blatantly unlawful as a matter of U.S. domestic law—and a quickly spreading stain on whatever is left of the executive branch’s commitment to the rule of law.” Me on “extrajudicial killings” in the latest issue of “One First”:

#30daymapchallenge Day 4: My Data I'm more of a slow mapper than a map-a-day-er but lo and behold—I'm producing data today. Working up a new split primary palette for a much-anticipated final painting #handmademap #watercolormap

You'll hear me screaming much more about this book in a month or so, but for now I've made a little portfolio update to add a thing on the soon-to-be-published Cincinnati in 50 Maps, which you can and should pre-order now. andywoodruff.com/posts/2025/c...

They were already living in one of Chicago’s worst apartment buildings. Then came the ICE raid. Our story @chicagotribune.com breaks down the “mind-blowing violation of the Fourth Amendment” that occurred and the propaganda from the U.S. government. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/19/i...

Tonika Lewis Johnson, @nacis.bsky.social Corlis Benefideo Award winner (2021) is now a McArthur Fellow! 🗺️🤩 www.macfound.org/fellows/clas...

Great to see Margaret Pearce among this year's MacArthur Fellows! www.macfound.org/fellows/clas...

New poster! Hachure illustrations of the highest Cascade Range volcanoes. This one took a lot of experimentation to get the layout right. If you or someone you know loves this area, check it out. www.etsy.com/listing/4373...

ICYMI, I recently published a map of California’s gold belt on Pixeum. It combines a map of thousands of mine sites with some fascinating vintage maps. pixeum.org/exhibits/715... #cartography

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This has been coming from the beginning. All major democracy-supporting NGOs and foundations have their legal complaints already drafted. And in time, perhaps not even much time, they will win their cases. What is needed most in the meantime is courage. Keep saying what you think, doing what you do.

“The government sometimes makes brief, investigative stops to check the immigration status of those who gather in locations where people are hired for day jobs such as construction, landscaping, agriculture or car washes…and who do not speak much if any English.” -Justice Kavanaugh

Cincinnati in 50 Maps, by Nick Swartsell and me, is off to the printer, so you can get your pre-orders in now for the December launch! beltpublishing.com/products/cin... Get this, folks: I counted and there are 125 individual maps. That's 75 extra maps for free!

PSA for my GIS friends. I just updated the GIS files for our local League of Women Voter's Voter411. It's one of those things that's easy for us mappy folks, but harder for those not used to working with GIS. So, looking for a way to help keep voters informed? Email your local LWV and offer help!

Small part of Lanzarote. Image taken by Sentinel-2 back in May 2025.

i'm actually a big believer in drafting by hand. i think it helps you think in a different way then typing on a screen

ICE getting routed in my old DC Columbia Heights hood. Public, viral, resistance is the only way to prevent them from selling the idea that we love our red state military occupation are it’s a solution to urban ills Trump/Bondi/drunk Pirro are lying. Here’s how to expose the lie.

My talent is 50 yrs of practice & education. Learning critical thinking and how to support the ideas clanking around in my head with technique & medium isn't talent. It's hard work. Most of the pro-A.I. argument is magical thinking. Your work gets better because of the physicality of the process.

Just submitted my 'tiny map' entry for the @nacis.bsky.social map gallery! @kartenvergnugen.bsky.social is organizing this amazing idea. 4"x6" maps only! Deadline is Aug. 31 to submit the form, and still have time to make adjustments before #NACIS2025 in October! Form: nacis.org/gallery-regi...

Rooftop solar: get some now if you can ☀️👍

My BellTopo Sans font in the wild (Reuters). I love that it’s for a piece on public lands protections. Thanks for the heads-up @moriartymaps.com This is a stunning scrollymap. You can download the font for free at sarahbellmaps.com

So many beautiful decisions here 🤩

I'm on the job market and #opentowork looking for full-time opportunities in #cartography #GIS. Please help me find an amazing job! In the meantime, I will continue offering my freelance services through @tombolomapsdesign.bsky.social, so please send any potential clients my way!

Can't be stressed enough where $9 billion sits in comparison to where gov spending is being shifted. (Chart from May, so not exactly in line with the final bill)

YOOOO my talk at @nacis.bsky.social has been accepted and it looks like I'll be making 2025 a Triple Conference Year. Folks are so curious about The Map Center and I honestly love telling the story over and over and over again. See you in Louisville!

These people think they’re at the end of a story — that they ARE the end of a story — and they are wrong. More than that: the story is changing around us all the time, in the ways that people who think they will always have the power to write it cannot even begin to anticipate.

Absolutely. See y'all out there 🇺🇸☮️

🚨 Secretary Noem basically said that her agency is now dedicated to forcible regime change…in American cities and states. There 👏🏽 is 👏🏽 a 👏🏽 name 👏🏽 for 👏🏽 this

I’m intrigued by this compilation of William Smith’s maps: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo... He was instrumental in both the development of geological mapping & the idea of faunal succession: earthobservatory.nasa.gov/features/Wil... #cartography #maps 🗺️

Ahead of No Kings Day, a couple trainings we have coming up that might be useful: Safety and Deescalation: www.mobilize.us/nokings/even... Know Your Rights (w/ACLU): act.aclu.org/a/2025-kyr-t...

Essential advice. Don’t be played. Be relentlessly disciplined and peaceful — there is nothing more powerful in civil disobedience.

I'm tracking the container ship Ever Max because on board are 900 copies of "Maps on Vinyl" by Damien Saunders. It's about cartographic album art and the places that made the music. I'll be the only North American distributor. Own a book/record store? Holler. www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/detai...

Ok. Then let it die. Because theft is theft. And even worse if you’re profiting from the crime.

Harvard obviously needs to seek a preliminary injunction and I’m optimistic they’d get it quickly. But if that fails, it’s essential for other universities—as many as possible—to offer help in the form of formally enrolling students, and letting them substantively continue at Harvard uninterrupted.

Out today: storm surge maps I did for @sciam.bsky.social! This was a fun one. I had a massive raster showing surge estimates that I simplified down to show the big picture. Evenly-placed symbols along the coast, showing the median surge in the area. www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-...

We spent an entire paddling season researching and paddling across the Twin Cities to create this guide. The Star Tribune has never put out a guide this comprehensive. Get out on the water, people. It's really the best thing you can do this summer. www.startribune.com/canoe-kayak-...

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Fast-forward 4 years and a ton of research later, and my initial estimate remains the same--we've seen ~0.001% of the deep seafloor, an area approx the same as the size of Rhode Island. @oceandiscleague.bsky.social published this work in @science.org Advances today: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Hi, I'm Hannah Dormido, a graphics reporter at @washingtonpost.com. I cover mostly national and politics, but I am not limited to these beats. If you have tips, please send me a private message, email me at [email protected] or reach me on Signal. Thank you! bit.ly/signal_hdorm...

I mapped payday lenders in my county for my associates GIS capstone project. Many of them were located in middle and lower-middle income neighborhoods. This tracked with Baradaran's book, How The Other Half Banks. It is crazy that they can sue after trapping people in these predatory loans.

University leaders need to understand: they are holding INCREDIBLY good cards. It is so rare in today's polarized era to have the support of 70+ percent of the public against the Trump admiministration on anything. Universities have that—AND winning legal arguments.

It’s worth mentioning that Bookshop.org was specifically created to help indies—you can buy online, choose an indie to support, and the store gets a huge percentage of the sale. Even if you don’t have an indie in your area, Bookshop supports bookstores!

Breaking: a judge in GA ordered that the fed'l gov't CANNOT pull the visas of foreign students. The order applies ONLY to students who are part of the lawsuit. If you want to join the lawsuit, reach out to: [email protected] and [email protected] youtu.be/FS6B8CM8uf4

I am going through the process of moving my GIS portfolio to a new site (partially to cancel my Adobe subs), and it is crazy how many different federal sources I used for this one map.