#GISChat Does anyone know if there is a memoir or a book about a cartographer and their reflection on their craft? I am looking for something similar to Stephen King's On Writing, but for cartography.

📢 Call for Papers: The Open-Source Approach to Geospatial Applications (Geocarto International) 🗓️ Submission deadline: 31 January 2027 think.taylorandfrancis.com/article_coll... #FOSS4G #GISchat #OpenScience

#GISChat #ESRI Listening to the Plenary, they are talk about AI, I am hesitant to use AI without a foundational understanding of the ethics and the environmental impacts that AI is having and will have. If it isn't ESRI's job to think about ethics is it the job of professional organizations?

#GISChat @sarahbell.bsky.social Today I learned, that Rand McNally has a blog and one section of their blog is called Ask a Cartographer... and its everything you want it to be. excuse me while I dive in. randpublishing.com/blog/tag/ask...

Knowing your values is vital to this fight against facism, against racism. Mt. Olive you have a customer! (I was buying your pickles before but I am proud to do so!)

#GISChat Good evening Y'all, So today I created a dice game for cartographers. let me explain: The idea for this dice game came to me when I watched the following youtube video by David Epstein titld: Why the Fastest Way to Improve is to Subtract. Where he talks about how to use constraints. 1/x

#GISChat I spent my morning learning about all the individual editing tools on ArcGIS Pro. I am sure I learned a few of these tools in grad school, but it was good to go through most of the tools within the editing ribbon. The buffer tool in editing seems very impressive.

#GISChat as you start to integrate AI into your GIS workflows, how are you learning how to use AI throughout GIS? What people are you following, what YouTube channels have good tutorials or blogs etc?

We are finally expanding our office and adding another GIS Analyst position. If you know anyone interested in such a role, situated where the Chicagoland concrete gives way midwestern corn fields, feel free to send them our way. #gischat #gisjobs #gis www.kanecountyil.gov/Pages/employ...

#GISChat GIS Software is a Choose Your Own Adventure Story. With regards to the multitude of ways to do an action within GIS software.

#GISChat Talking to people who are older then me who are in the field... is great, they mention ArcInfo and it is a trip down memory lane. I love hearing their stories. So much fun.

#Books So I went book shopping this week and I bought a book that was recommended in a video I watched called: Viktor E Frankl Man's Search for Meaning, written by a Holocaust Survivor. my copy was published in 2006. That same year, another book came out called The Boy in the Stripped Pajamas 1/x

#BikeSky #GISChat does anyone know if they make a Bike Trail Atlas like how they make a road atlas for bike trails in your state or other geographic area? A bike trail atlas I could stick in my panner would be helpful.

#GISChat Has anyone used the in-app tutorial this for any of their experience builder applications, do your end users find it useful? www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/...

#GISChat Has anyone read this? In Seeking Spatial Justice, Soja argues that justice has a geography and that the equitable distribution of resources, services, and access is a basic human right. www.upress.umn.edu/978081666668...

#GISChat Why do we make interactive web maps for leadership if they wont use the interactive components of said web map? If they want to see everything on the surface, it feels like we should just create static maps. I do not get it.

#GISChat When you make a product (Static Map, Code, an Interactive web map or application etc etc) do you have someone from you team review the product? Someone who works in GIS or outside of it, just to make sure it looks good, works the way you want or is telling the story you want to tell?

#PrimaryElections So I am reading through information about the Primaries. Now, I know that the each state has different dates for their primaries and they differ. What I didn't know was that there were different types of primaries that differed from state to state. Let's talk about the types:

#GISChat Some of the work that I am doing is creating products for others in my division and then having to write (technical documentation?) for the product that I made so that the non GIS folks can manage this product. Does anyone know if there are courses for writing up GIS technical documents?

#PolticalSky I posted this over on threads and because I think it's an important conversation I wanted to ask it here. What do you want out of your next politician? The ones you vote for the next president ( If we are blessed to get there )

#BikeSky I love my Beeline Velo 2. 75% of the time. The other 25% of the time we disagree on the route it wants me to take. I'd love to figure out how to ensure it knows that I want bike trails first, then bike lanes, then sidewalk.

#GISChat HMMM So this is a thing. The white house made a website comparing Aliens to illegal Immigrants. If you scroll down to the bottom of the page there is a map of live arrests... I am not surprised they used OSM tiles but I think its bold of them to do so. #FUCKICE www.whitehouse.gov/aliens/

Star Wars is never going to be what it was in 1977, 1980, 1983, or even during the prequels, and that's ok. The landscape has changed since then. I'm good with what it is now and people just need to realize that things change.

How do we (The US) Do this to another sovereign nation and not expect some sort of repercussions?! This is insanity. What even.

I am willing to be wrong about this, but from my perspective it feels like the Push to use AI, make AI, Integrate AI into EVERYTHING... Is coming from white men.... Like seriously what the fuck?! #AiDiscourse

I hate republicans, The SAVE plan would have made paying back my loans really reasonable. Sighs. Anything that helps average Americans just can't be allowed to stand. But pdfs can get off scotch free..... Fuck this country.

#Rant Three years ago I got hit by a car and my life has been drastically changed by this event and it's infuriating and frustrating. I have lots of trauma from that event and lots of medical debt that continues to grow because of this And it fucking sucks. Okay that's it. Rant over.

So with all the videos of people's water turning brown like in GA after Meta put up a data center .. we are all about to be Flint Michigan...

#GISChat How many of you are a part of a professional network for GIS and the topic of the office you work for? For instance I now work for Public Works and am considering becoming a member of APWA, at least for a year.

Nominations are now open for the Lorena Abad Crespo Award for Innovation in Spatial Data Science! 🎉 Know someone doing outstanding work in spatial data science, GIS, or geocomputation? Nominate them here: spatial-data-science.github.io/award.html Please share widely! #GISchat #SDS #OpenScience

#GISChat Has anyone created a static map as a means to get people interested in an interactive web map? I am wondering if we can't use static maps as a means to get people to use the interactive products? Sorta like a map appetizer? 1/x

#GISChat A Personal Reflection: Cartography is a Bisexual Career it is both Art and Science and yet doesn't feel like it fits neatly in either world.

#UU @uuabq.bsky.social @uu-yarn.bsky.social So I am not sure if there is a UUSky ?? But I am looking to see if a UU congregation is hosting an OWL class for women who are Peri Menopausal?

#BookSky I have a question for those of you who listen to Audiobooks as your method of reading for whatever reason. Do you attend book signings, if so, are they accessible to you? I have gone to one book singing years ago so I can't remember if the one I attended was or wasn't.

Wow gas prices are nasty... gasprices.aaa.com?state=CO

I know this is an unpopular opinion. But I am tired of browser based software. I like desktop software. I don't know why they do it this way. But It bugs me.

#PublicHealth So, I have been thinking about the hantavirus and how the absolute decimation of a federal government agency usually heavily involved with virus response...Has been picked apart for parts. And I think when new broke people got very nervous and I personally think that response was valid

#Creativity Today in I went down a scholarly rabbit hole: Enhanced Creativity in Autism is Due to Co-Occurring Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder ...

#GISChat Alright y'all something I have been thinking about in the last 24 hours (as you can see from my posts I have been thinking about a lot) What professional organization are you a part of and how much does their membership cost for the year? GISCO $50/yr NACIS $50/yr Data Viz Society $99/yr

#GISChat So this week, I started a new job as a Senior GIS Analyst for the City of Aurora and today I learned that the city hires arborists to plant and maintain all the cities trees... of which we have a lot 71K to be exact :) The fact that my tax dollars go towards arborists makes me very happy.

For decades, the US federal government has been one of the foremost producers of information in the world. But over the past year, the Trump administration has been altering and removing decades’ worth of datasets, with enormous impact on all aspects of life. 🧵

#GISChat The people who made the congressional maps in TN that have stripped black people of their congressional representation should be named and shamed... it would make sense that they would use some sort of gis software to make these maps. but they should be shamed for the harm they have caused.

#GISChat Does anyone know if there is work being done around election data regarding first time voters during any of the presidential elections or the proportion of the population who were registered to vote but didn't vote at all Vs thoes who did?

#GISChat So tonight I am watching the following youtube video to learn about how to use Qfield and I have the following questions based on the video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVLl...

Because of course I did #GISChat

#GISChat Alright Cleveland, is there a way to learn who made this map? I am a big fan of their Cartography and I think it's a fantastic visitors map. I love it so much: The buffer around the vincity that shows everything within a walking distance based on time, the colors, the neighborhood labels

So is the age verification strictly an Ohio thing ?? Cause I am pretty sure I didn't have to do this while in Colorado..it's a pain in the ass to have to verify my age to get my messages. I don't agree with this use of Geofencing #GISChst

Hello from Cleveland! I spent today walking around the city and checking out the Cleveland Public Library. I, of course went to their map collection. Here are some of the maps I saw. #GISChat

#GISChat So I am reading my first Terry Pratchett book: Hogfather and he has this to say about Cartography: 1/x

NEWS: Huge first win for Mayor Mamdani’s tax-the-rich plans in NYC. Mamdani just secured a deal with Gov. Hochul to create the state’s first-ever tax on $5 million+ second homes owned by ultrawealthy out-of-state residents.