Trumps idea of "left wing groups" that incite violence so far seems to be NPR and a bunch of late night comics. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

No truer words were ever written...

Recently had the chance to do a little GIS analysis for a KQED (NPR) Bay Curious podcast on the Stairways of San Francisco. Should have been a story about the triumph of GIS, ended up being more about the failure of geospatial data 🙃 But it was fun to do anyway! www.kqed.org/news/1205633...

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...

I have to confess something, as a cartographer who has loved maps and map making since childhood... I really don't care for the Tolkien maps as published w his books. They get way too much adoration in our profession 🫣 His personal/working sketches are far more interesting and organic. #cartography

Charlie Kirk was a shitty person with some terrible ideas about the world. He did not deserve to be killed for those ideas, but he certainly doesn't deserve to be re-cast as national hero and role model. He was neither. Source: The Guardian "Charlie Kirk in his own words".

I stand with PBS. I stand with NPR. I stand with Stephen Colbert. I stand with Jimmy Kimmel. I stand with the First Amendment. PERIOD.* *Also #ReleaseTheEPSTEIN_Files

Register for #MappyHour with special guest Jason Boone, who will guide you through his process of creating map animations using #OpenStreetMap data with Adobe After Effects and Geolayers, plus time for Q&A. Join us at noon ET on Wednesday, September 17th. Register: bit.ly/MappyHour-ma...

The David Rumsey Map Center is holding their biennial cartography conference 10/8 - 10/10. It’s free and there’s an online option. The theme is “Above and Below” and will feature talks on “cartography of anything but the earth’s surface.”Register at www.eventbrite.com/e/barry-lawr...

The number of politicians checking shoe boxes and closets for 50th birthday cards and other memorabilia to toss in a fire pit is going through the roof tonight.

#gischat #maps A very unscientific analysis of the SF "Bay Area" in 4 maps. Map 1: The Area that is Bay. This is the combined polygon of the 3 main estuaries of the bay area - the San Francisco, San Pablo, and Suisun estuaries.

Did a little interview with Esri StoryMaps folks the other day. www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/...

The San Francisco Bay-Area viewshed. The brighter the pixel, the more of the bay surface you can see. If you can't see water, you're not in the "Bay Area"! :P #gischat

Next month I’ll be speaking at the Fifth Biennial Barry Lawrence Ruderman Conference on Cartography: ”Beyond the Image: Mapping Clouds, Oceans, and Energy from Space”. ruderman.sites.stanford.edu October 8 – 10 on the Stanford Campus in Palo Alto, California. Here’s a sneak preview:

#gischat Any other higher ed #arcgisonline admins out there? I'm looking for examples of policies around data management for users once they leave the org. How long to keep content around after they graduate, how much notice if any before deletion etc.

#arcgisonline Groups and Content management in AGO is a nightmare for admins. Reg groups can't be converted to Shared Update. Reg users can't create a Shared Update group. Content in a Shared Update group can't be moved to a new owner (even by an admin). And Groups can't own content, only users can.

Organizers behind the Correct The Map campaign say the Mercator map's shrinking of Africa minimizes the continent's global influence — and is just plain inaccurate.

Trump: If you're innocent why are you talking the 5th Amendment? Lawyer to Epstein: Have you and Donald Trump socialized with females under the age of 18? Epstein: I'm invoking the 5th!

The mapartists.org website gives you links to everyone's shops, but it's not really feasible for us to make one combined listing site right now, unfortunately. It would be nice to have, but would likely take more volunteer work to create & keep updated than we can manage.

A bunch of us at the Independent Map Artists (mapartists.org) recently summarized our experiences into a document about how to tackle the logistics of printing, selling, and shipping mappy goods. I hope it proves useful to some of you! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

This is what fascism looks like, law enforcement agencies acting in explicitly political ways. Border patrol officers and leadership should have "no opinion" about anything elected officials do or say in a press conference., esp if it's not in their jurisdiction. www.latimes.com/california/s...

Fascinating video featuring old maps, modern maps, and even LiDAR in the pursuit of solving the mystery around an old "crossroads grave" in England. This is actual StoryMapping! #gischat youtu.be/n7WW192WKKs?...

Marines are soldiers, and have no training for "policing" roles. They train to suppress and kill enemy combatants. Mark my words, a marine "protecting" federal property will eventually kill a US citizen before all of this done.

If you are California #nationalguard, your patriotic duty is to refuse Trumps order to deploy. You will 100% be on the wrong side of history otherwise.

Safety in numbers. Cameras up. Eyes open. What they say happened and what actually happened, aren’t always the same. Be the witness. Be the record. Stay safe.

Just like in the parks, safety comes first. - Stay with your group - Follow the signs (or in this case, the facts) - Leave no one behind - Document everything - Don’t engage alone

Your safety is the top priority. Peaceful protesters have already been harmed for doing nothing. The story they’re selling isn’t legit. Please film everything, document everything.

Very cool maps here from independent map sellers. Transit maps, city maps, rivers, terrain, fantasy. I will put in a plug for @pinakographos.bsky.social (Something About Maps). I have a great print by them of Mt. Albert Edward in Strathcona. Maps! mapartists.org

See if you can detect my tone now, helpful Microsoft email AI bot... eat a bag of dicks, you fucking tool! 🖕

If the FBI wants to protect this country, they should be watching everything Trump and his bootlicking cronies are doing with a fucking magnifying glass! Not locking up Judges. JFC. #resist

Hey Ken, you there? This feels like something you'd have an opinion on! @kennethfield.bsky.social

Given a map series like the attached (same geography, ea map w different % values, values are not directly related but maps are shown together). Should ea of these maps be classified according to their own min/max range or to a single classification range? What is best practice here? #gischat

Matthew Hiller started making anti-Elon Musk stickers for Teslas after Musk's X takeover. He's made six figures selling them.

#gischat In something like 15 years of being a GIS specialist and research support person, I think I've encountered DMM (Degrees, Decimal Minutes) exactly 3 times now. Why is this a thing? Why do we ever need anything other than DD or DMS in GIS?

Saturday the 5th is fast approaching. Like Joe said “know your rights!”

Vance, praying to god for their bombing mission to successfully kill people is everything that's wrong with religion in general and the hypocrisy of right wing christianity in particular.

Glued together... like a toy. Why anyone paid money for these things is a mystery to me. www.wired.com/story/tesla-...

Trumps baseline motivation in life is to hurt people who don't like him. I don't think there is anything more complex at work than that. He's selfish and narcissistic, and if you don't give him what he wants or show him the respect he thinks he deserves, he'll try to hurt you.

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#gischat #maps teaching myself how to animate map data in After Effects. This is an old log floating around Crater Lake (Old Man of the Lake). Looks like a weird game of Pong right now!

Whatever the fuck Trump had to say about crypto or NFTs today was almost certainly bullshit. Here's some actually useful information... youtu.be/YQ_xWvX1n9g?...

I have been alive for 52 years and never really thought much about pissing on someones's grave until very recently. #resist

"After one comes, through contact with its administrators, no longer to cherish greatly the law as a remedy in abuses, then the bottle becomes a sovereign means of direct action. If you cannot throw it at least you can always drink out of it." - Ernest Hemingway (Death in the Afternoon). #resist

My big fear in all of this is the people who put Trump in power are going to need to endure YEARS of suffering from the results of his policies before they understand the mistake they made. And we will all have to suffer along with them. It could be a generation before the damage is repaired.

#gischat thoughts on geocoding HIPAA restricted data by splitting the information into two tables 1) address only plus unique ID key field 2) matching key field with the rest of the individual data. Is this protective enough assuming only the de-id table is brought over to the geocoding service?

Happy Werner Projection day to all who celebrate! The Werner is a specific case of the Bonne (as is the sinusoidal). I dug out my old Projection Connections poster to highlight it. somethingaboutmaps.wordpress.com/2022/12/19/p...