Walking around Bushy Park this time of year is always interesting. Every path ends up blocked by a stag.

Storm over Surbiton

Work related shenanigans meant I failed to make this year’s @bcsmaps.bsky.social conference. Very saddened.

The geography of American aircraft production, according to a Japanese map from Feb. 1943

I spoke all things cartography with my colleagues in the ‘DK Where to Go’ podcast. A less than ideal media choice to discuss a visual topic. I discuss my favourite map, why maps lie, how we make maps and how a cartographer’s map joke created a town. shows.acast.com/where-to-go/...

The Thames in Kingston looking unfortunate this morning.

Bushy Park during this morning’s run

Waiting for a bus home from Kingston town centre last night.

Maps are artistic scientific expressions, which is why I chose a career studying and making them. Here are some lemon-yellow Tissot's indicatrix brighten your day. Since all maps involve distortion, exploring these distortions can deepen your understanding of the map's subject. #datavisualization

I love early spring walks/runs through the royal parks

Good morning, 25th January edition.

Winter morning exercise in the park.

Outside cafe in Esher collecting croissant crumbs in the pouring rain.

Waiting for its Christmas gift of half an apple

Wonderful Q&A at the BFI Southbank today for Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl

Hello! The Atlas of Design shows off some of the world’s most beautiful and intriguing cartographic design. Every two years, we publish a new volume of full-color maps, selected from worldwide competition and judged by an expert panel. Happy to be part of Bluesky! #maps #cartography #books #design

A quite monstrous Christmas map effort from @TfL. There's nothing redeeming about this whatsoever.

Good morning

#30DayMapChallenge Day 22: 2 colours I thought I'd make life difficult for myself with this one by being strict about only 2 colours. No grey scales; no 2 colours + background colour. Just 2. Halftone dots made up of mini moons to map a big moon: observablehq.com/@jwolondon/t...

Video showing the carpark of the Blue Lagoon in Iceland being eaten by lava.... Via: MBL on X

After 5 months the pond liner is down and the rain can do its thing to fill over the next few days

Pretty certain the neighbour’s cat hates me

2025 is another not great year for the Severn Bore.

If, like me, you're increasingly disinclined to pay Adobe's significant annual subs, here are two affordable lifetime-license alternative options I'm seriously looking at: (1) Affinity Designer (recently bought by Flourish-owner, Canva) - affinity.serif.com/en-gb/design... - has a 50% discount

We're delighted to announce a new future for Ursula's home in Portland, Oregon. The Le Guin family will donate the house to Literary Arts as a site for the Ursula K. Le Guin Writers Residency. apnews.com/article/ursu...

The BFI Imax only has storage space for one more Christopher Nolan film.

Goodyear Europa. Fairoaks Airfield, Surrey 1984

Winter bee

January sunrise

January’s full (Wolf) moon over London last night.

Paperback cover dropped! ADORING this vibe

How do you like your pies? Here's a fresh serving of 'moonpies' - a new flavour of pie symbology with a downloadable style for ArcGIS Pro. Read about it in my blog 'Pie in the sky' www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/...

After 11 days stuck sick at home I finally made it out for a walk this morning.

outside the window of the HSBC

“Santa Claus in the [first] Goodyear Blimp “Pilgrim”” (1925, via www.airships.net/blog/santa-r...)

It’s always an omen when your phone wasn’t connected properly and didn’t charge overnight. 18% and falling.

Finding the book you spent three years working on at the national theatre bookshop is a treat. A great Christmas gift etc etc etc

A wonderful intro to a film I regret not rewatching more. Thanks @chrishewitt.bsky.social, for hosting.

Good morning

All drama at office - power cut / fire combo

Final prep now complete for this week's final episode recordings for Season 4 of 'Explore Explain'. Ep 8 features @denisedslu.bsky.social, as we explore her side-project visualising the variety and variability of tracks played by 'Pavement' on their reunion tour. www.deniselu.com/sandbox/pave...

Dinosaurs, consider yourselves avenged

We’ve had a guest all afternoon. Thanks police helicopter, drop by again anytime.

Back to exercising through autumn mornings in Home Park.

www.ruv.is/frettir/innl... The town is cracking, good luck Grindavik

Good morning 10/11/23

Following the reports from Iceland with nervous fascination. I went to witness the volcanic eruption in 2021 and it was awe-inspiring. I hope this one is as isolated and calm as the last few.

I've not mentioned it on here but you should all look at a book we put together this year. Huge amounts of research and fact finding went into this and really happy it's out there.