| Website | https://somethingaboutmaps.com/ |
| Prints | https://somethingaboutmaps.com/Storefront |
| Tree Climbing | https://dryad.substack.com/ |
| Patreon | https://www.patreon.com/pinakographos |
Today I mused about a literal heatmap with my colleague Caroline: could you project infrared light of differing intensities in a 2D pattern onto a surface, creating warm spots that would allow a user (perhaps visually impaired) to feel a spatial pattern?
I also speculated about whether you could have an array of tiny speakers, putting out sound of different intensity/frequency in different zones. Not sure if human hearing would be sufficient to get much of a pattern out of that, though?
I am *very* tardy in sharing this, but: last August I was honored to speak at GeoCart '24 in Aotearoa New Zealand. My first ever keynote! (and I only came up 20 minutes short because I rushed a bit) "Sharing the Emotional Work of Mapping" — have a look to hear me discuss why mappers should share more of their feelings https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26sIj4iHiss&t=1s&ab_channel=NewZealandCartographicSociety
I'd definitely love to return to a future edition of GeoCart. It has a similar vibe to NACIS, though with a smaller, better size for quiet folks like me.
One more of these. As Congress passed a bill to rob Michigan of the Toledo Strip, Ohio added a humiliating provision that required Michigan to hold a convention to approve its dismemberment. I reconstructed the voting districts and tracked down the vote totals.
The Kingdom of Bamum, the best example of indigenous African cartography
A brief history of the Kingdom of Bamum, who had their own alphabet and were the creators of possibly the most iconic map of African cartography.
https://www.cartographerstale.com/p/the-kingdom-of-bamum-the-best-example
varx/social
Mapas Milhaud
ieeevis