An animated graphic showing wingbeats of different birds. This one is so beautiful. Image: Eleanor Lutz tabletopwhale.com/2014/09/29/f...

Mappy New Year! 🗺️ Kicking off 2026 with this triple polar vortex animation #Geospatial #GIS #GISChat #DataVisualization #Automation

This is pretty cool. I wonder how this might be used to do better climate work — e.g., for addressing emissions linked to buildings, and mapping infrastructure for climate adaptation work? interestingengineering.com/innovation/f...

#30DayMapChallenge | Day 24: Places and Names (Miniature Globes Edition) Today’s submission is a replica of the Erdapfel, the oldest surviving terrestrial globe. This historical map captures the state of geographical knowledge in 1492, just before new discoveries that would reshape the world.

#30DayMapChallenge: Day 23's theme was "Process", here are several interesting spatial tutorials that came across my feeds ⬇️ 1/ #cartography #GIS #remotesensing #GIStutorials #GISChat

Readability is important #livetv

An excellent compilation of portfolios from cartographers working in the news-media industry ➡️ juanchiparra.github.io/data-folks/ #gischat #cartography

#30DayMapChallenge | Day 21: Icon (Miniature Globes Edition) Today's submission is a miniature replica of the giant globe at ESRI headquarters! #handcrafted #mappycraft #cartography

#30DayMapChallenge | Day 20: Water (Miniature Globes Edition) Today's submission is a miniature replica of the 2024 Spring Phytoplankton Bloom map created by Chiara Phillips, as seen in Copernicus Marine Services' March 2025 webinar, lnkd.in/gphFw428 #mappycraft #handcrafted #gischat

#30DayMapChallenge | Day 18 - Out of this world (Miniature Globes Edition) For today's theme, Out of this world, I handcrafted a miniature globe of Venus! This mosaic is part of the data collected during the Magellan mission, which mapped 98% of the planet's surface. #mappycraft #gischat

#30DayMapChallenge | Day 12: Map From (Miniature Globes Edition) The "Chart Of The World On Mercators Projection" by Hermann Berghaus is a masterful representation of 19th-century cartography, encapsulating the period's technological, cultural, and geographical advancements. #handcrafted #gischat

#30DayMapChallenge | Day 11: Minimal (Miniature Globes Edition) Today's miniature globe is a 🌎Wanmei Liang x Perrin Remonté collab showing global tidal range. Perrin's map 🔗https://lnkd.in/gtJuk9rS #handcrafted #cartography

#30DayMapChallenge | Day 10: Air (Miniature Globes Edition) Today’s miniature globe shows surface air temperatures from late December 2022. Notice the powerful cold front sweeping across the United States — bringing intense winds and whiteout conditions #mappycraft #handcrafted

#30DayMapChallenge | Day 7: Accessibility (Miniature Globes Edition) For today’s theme, “Accessibility,” I created a miniature globe of the NASA Earth Observatory basemap created by Joshua Stevens. #cartography #mappycraft #handcrafted #gischat

#30DayMapChallenge | Day 6: 3D (Miniature Globes Edition) Remember those Pangaea maps from middle school? For today’s “3D” theme, I made a miniature globe showing what the supercontinent looked like millions of years ago. #cartography #mappycraft #handcrafted #gischat

#30DayMapChallenge | Day 5: Earth (Miniature Globes Edition) Every day is Earth Day in this “miniature globes” edition of the #30daymapchallenge! Easily, today’s dataset for the theme “Earth” is NASA’s Blue Marble dataset. #cartography #handcrafted #mappycraft #gischat

#30DayMapChallenge | Day 4: My data (Miniature Globes Edition) For today’s theme, “My Data,” I created a miniature globe based on Adolf Henze’s Erd-Globus atlas, one of the largest printed globes of the 19th century. #cartography #handcrafted #mappycrafts #gischat

#30DayMapChallenge | Day 3: Polygons (Miniature Globes Edition) For today’s theme, “Polygons,” I created a miniature globe depicting the global extent of ice sheets during the Last Glacial Maximum, approximately 18,000 years ago. #cartography #handcrafted #mappycraft #gischat

Dude, these mini's are incredible, especially the fact that they're hand crafted. She literally printed out the gores and everything. #gischat

#30DayMapChallenge | Day 2: Lines (Miniature Globes Edition) For today’s theme, “Lines,” I created a miniature globe of NASA SVS’ Global Sea Surface Currents and Temperature visualization. Look closely to see the mesmerizing ocean eddies!

#30DayMapChallenge | Day 1: Points (Miniature Globes Edition) Happy first day of the #30DayMapChallenge! For today’s theme, “Points,” I created a miniature globe using NASA’s Black Marble dataset, which captures the glow of artificial light across Earth at night. #gis #cartography #gischat

This satellite image highlights the confluence of three of Guyana’s major rivers—the Cuyuni, the Mazaruni, and the Essequibo. Darker waters likely contained less suspended sediment. Light brown waters likely contained enormous amounts of fine-grained sediment🧪

Reshaping the Forests Around Kisangani: This map details where forest losses have occurred around Kisangani, Democratic Republic of the Congo, between 2001 and 2024, older losses in purple and pink and more recent losses in orange and yellow 🧪

An astronaut aboard the International Space Station captured this downward-looking photo of part of Mozambique’s northern coast in southeastern Africa. The light-toned Rio Lúrio snakes across the top half of the scene. Its delta empties into Baía do Lúrio, which opens into the Mozambique Channel.🧪

Cooper Creek Replenishes Lake Eyre: Floodwaters in Cooper Creek began filling Lake Eyre in late July. These false-color images show the shift in contributing tributaries and the changes in the lake’s extent.

Australia’s Howick River: Winding across the Jeannie catchment in northern Queensland, the river sustains diverse ecosystems on its way to the Coral Sea.🧪

Greenland Ice Sheet Gets a Refresh: A moderately intense season of surface melting left part of the ice sheet dirty gray in summer 2025, but snowfall has since freshened its appearance. 🧪

An astronaut aboard the International Space Station captured this photograph of the glow of city lights, the aurora, and a rising Moon illuminate the night along the northwest coast of North America 🧪

Dark Skies Over the Great Basin: Far from large urban areas, Great Basin National Park offers unencumbered views of the night sky and opportunities to study distant stars and exoplanets. 🧪

Browns Canyon National Monument: The remote and rugged landscape in central Colorado is known for outdoor recreation by day and exceptional stargazing by night. 🧪

An astronaut aboard the International Space Station captured this photograph of the Kamchatka Peninsula. The highly oblique image gives an enhanced sense of the topography. Kamchatka Peninsula experiences frequent tectonic activity 🧪

Sprawling Gifford Fire Scorches California: The fast-growing blaze charred more than 100,000 acres in the span of a week 🧪

Quabbin Reservoir is one of the largest unfiltered drinking water supplies in the United States. It supplies water to nearly 2.7 million people in the Greater Boston area, as well as three towns in Western Massachusetts 🧪

An astronaut aboard the International Space Station captured this long-exposure photo of brilliant illumination coming from airglow, lightning, and stars

Bloom Time in the Barents Sea: Arctic waters near Norway’s Bear Island teemed with tiny plant-like organisms that painted the seas turquoise-blue and green 🧪

Wildfire Sweeps Through Southern France: The Aude fire rapidly burned around 16,000 hectares in August 2025, becoming the country’s largest fire since 1949 🧪

Winds whipped across the coast of central and southern Peru on July 31, 2025, lofting dust and sand particles into the air. Giant plumes of the particles blew inland, where they turned skies orange, reduced visibility, and degraded air quality

Decades of retreat at the Steller Glacier in Alaska have left Berg Lake with new plumbing Satellites have observed the glacier’s thinning and retreat since the 1970s Satellite imagery now reveals that this retreat has reworked the outflow of Berg Lake, which fills and drains annually

The Monroe Canyon fire in central Utah experienced rapid growth during dry, windy days in late July 2025, creating hazy skies throughout the region

Based on firsthand accounts, Echimamish river’s flow splits from a beaver-flooded area west of Painted Stone Portage. The river connects with the Nelson River to the west and the Hayes River to the east, which both empty into Hudson Bay about 300 miles away.

An astronaut aboard the International Space Station captured this photograph of the Mutnovsky Volcano, located on Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula

Rare Snowfall in the Atacama Desert: Snow infrequently falls in the high plains of northern Chile. And when it does, it doesn’t last for long 🧪 📷 June 26 2025, the day after the storm 📷 July 17, 2025

The Colorado River Basin has lost nearly the equivalent of an underground Lake Mead 💧🌎⚠️ 📰 A recent study finds the basin lost about 27.8 million acre-feet ❗ of groundwater from 2002-2024. About 68% of the losses occurred in the lower part of the basin, which lies mostly in Arizona 🧪

In the early morning hours of July 20, 2025, fountains of lava began pouring continuously from vents in the summit caldera of Hawaii’s Kīlauea volcano 🧪 This eruptive episode was the 29th in a stretch of periodic activity in Halema‘uma‘u Crater that began on December 23, 2024.

Mount Lewotobi Laki-Laki, a volcano on the Indonesian island of Flores, erupted on July 7, 2025, propelling a column of ash 18 kilometers (11 miles) into the air. This latest event is a continuation of eruptive activity occurring at Laki-Laki since late 2023 🧪

Long ago, Santorini Island had a typical conical shape with steep sides. But a series of eruptions over hundreds of thousands of years emptied the Greek island’s magma chamber, which eventually collapsed & created a crater-shaped depression called a caldera, which can still be seen in modern day 🧪

An astronaut aboard the International Space Station captured this photograph of Gas Hure Lake located in Qinghai, a northwestern Chinese province on the Tibetan Plateau

The Disappearance of Lac Rouge: The cause of Lac Rouge’s emptying was yet to be confirmed, according to the Cree First Nation of Waswanipi. However, it may have been related to snowmelt, recent rainfall, and changes to the land from wildland fires🧪

An astronaut aboard the International Space Station captured this photograph of Owens Lake, CA. Settlers established Lone Pine, a gold and silver mining town in the 1860s “The Roundup,” “The Lone Ranger,” “How the West Was Won,” “Iron Man,” are among the 400+ movies filmed in this region.

The astronomical start to summer was difficult to ignore for tens of millions of people in the United States in 2025. New temperature records were set in Minnesota, Maryland, Vermont, and many places in between. 🧪