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What does summer feel like where you live? Hot or cool? Rainy or dry? For the #30daymapchallenge Day 25 prompt "Hexagons", I mapped summer climates across North America. I averaged the 1991-2020 climate normals for mean summer temperature and total summer precipitation within 50,000 square kilometer hexagons using data from ClimateNA.
#30daymapchallenge Day 22 "Data Challenge: Natural Earth". Natural Earth is such a valuable source for spatial data layers! I made this pseudo "North America at Night" type map using the urban areas and roads (subsetted to major and secondary highways) data from Natural Earth. I like the strong sense of interwoven connectivity I get when looking at this visualization.
#30daymapchallenge Day 27 "Boundaries": imagining a North America with countries, states, and counties replaced by nested watersheds at multiple scales. I used data from the CEC's North American Environmental Atlas to map the major watersheds of North America using a color palette, text style, and overall aesthetic inspired by 1950s era political maps.
The prompt for Day 16 of the #30daymapchallenge is "Choropleth." Over nine million people live in the Salish Sea Bioregion, but population density varies dramatically over space. Here are the US Census Tracts and Canadian Census Sub-Divisions that had an average 2010/2011 population density of two or fewer people per square kilometer.
You can explore more detail through the Human Populations chapter of the Salish Sea Atlas: arcg.is/0WaK51.
The prompt for Day 15 of the #30daymapchallenge is "My Data: Map something personal. Map data from your own life." I wondered, what is the farthest away from my home in Bellingham, WA that I have traveled? Here is a map of towns I have visited that are the farthest from Bellingham. The lines show great circle routes and I chose four destinations to represent following a great circle route departing to the NW, SW, NE, and SE from Bellingham.
#30daymapchallenge Day 14's prompt is "A world map". I wanted to focus on the 70% of the world made up of oceans and I wanted to try some new fun cartography tricks, so here is a map of global ocean currents shown using the ocean-centric Spilhaus projection. Once again, thanks to John Nelson for making this so much faster to create with his Spilhaus template and bathymetry vector tiles. Ocean currents are from maps.com.
The prompt for Day 12 of the #30daymapchallenge is "Time and Space". This is a map from my forthcoming Salish Sea Climate Change Assessment showing the 1901-2022 linear trends in average annual temperature at climate stations with long, continuous records in the Salish Sea Bioregion. All climate stations show a warming trend, with temperature increasing by 0.12 to 2.48° C (0.21 to 4.47° F).
I had fun exploring historical cartographic styles for the #30daymapchallenge Day 7 theme of 'Vintage". Here is a visualization of elevation and bathymetry in the Salish Sea Bioregion. I used topobathymetric data from the Salish Sea Atlas (arcg.is/0WaK51). I looked at some of my favorite local 18th and 19th century maps for cartographic inspiration and historical toponyms.