Simon Polster

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mapmaker, mainly topo & hiking maps of the Caucasus. Co-founder of cartisan. All maps made with 
Websitehttps://cartisan.org
Hey look, Adobe: you can change the interface language of an app without having to uninstall and reinstall it! 🤯 #inkscape
Love this flowy transit chart from the Baden-Württemberg train network #MapsintheWild

Contours in flat terrain are often very jagged for detailed DEMs.

To have smooth contours in flat terrain while preserving the details in the slopes I create a stronger filtered DEM, clip this with a slope mask and then merge it with the original DEM. #gischat #qgis #mapping

#Tbilisi, #Georgia 🇬🇪 update of my unofficial #transitdiagram from 2020. Connected the #funicular and aerial #ropeways to #metro stations, bigger font size for better readability and some minor corrections. 😍

Have fun and as usual constructive feedback is appreciated! And also corrections of station names are welcome!

https://www.instagram.com/p/C0y2WDaMYB5/

https://www.reddit.com/r/TransitDiagrams/comments/18nh0iw/tbilisi_georgia_update_of_my_unofficial/

The University of Chicago Press has made five volumes of “The History of Cartography,” an ambitious overview of map making, available for free online.

Via @openculture

https://flip.it/-z-UAO

#mapmaking #history #cartography

The History of Cartography, the “Most Ambitious Overview of Map Making Ever,” Is Free Online

FYI: The University of Chicago Press has made available online -- at no cost --five volumes of The History of Cartography. Or what Edward Rothstein, of The New York Times, called 'the most ambitious overview of map making ever undertaken.' He continues:

Open Culture

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#Thunderbird #OpenSource #Organization

Open-source and organization workshop

These pages contain the content of an open-source software discovery workshop for personal organization purposes, created by Clément Hardy.

Day 27: Dots of the #30DayMapChallenge
As you liked the plot of the radiosonde ascents with data by @DeutscherWetterdienst a lot (https://mastodon.social/@tabmap/111431368370022432). I thought, I'll give you another look at it from the top. So here it is, all radiosonde ascents in this year. Color visualizes the amount of data points.
Did with @makie and #julialang.
I just finished the maps for the first 22 trailhead information boards for the new Armenian National Trail 😊 . The ANT logo is very colorful & playful and I tried to reflect that in the map design #qgis #inkscape #armenia #hiking #OpenStreetMap

Day 4 - #30DayMapChallenge Bad map, aka map of a bad situation. British Columbia wildfires impact is felt in the pacific north west every summer season. Looking to extend this to more recent years.

@observablehq Plot code: https://observablehq.com/d/97b3d6ad26f1f965

#geospatial #dataviz

Day 4: Bad map

BC fires source: https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/safety/wildfire-status/about-bcws/wildfire-statistics

Observable

I wrote a silly little #QGIS plugin this morning that will show you a random entry from the visual changelog when you launch QGIS. Now I am introduced (and reminded) of new features and fixes regularly (it totally is not annoying at all, pinky swear).

Check it out at https://github.com/kannes/show-random-changelog-entry and tell me how broken it is please.

GitHub - kannes/show-random-changelog-entry: QGIS Plugin: Shows a random changelog entry on launch

QGIS Plugin: Shows a random changelog entry on launch - GitHub - kannes/show-random-changelog-entry: QGIS Plugin: Shows a random changelog entry on launch

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