The precious jewels of summer, here but briefly.
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Daniel P. Huffman
@pinakographos@mapstodon.space
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An arboreal, poly, gender non-participating mapmaker and cat foster. I like to share my process, write tutorials, and otherwise informally teach cartography (with support from many of you on Patreon).
~10 months after I developed it, I'm finally starting to write up details about my oblique hachure method. It's going to be a *long* process of explanation and refining my script to be usable by others. But, I've at least started down the path. Goal is to submit a draft to Cartographic Perspectives by October.
Perhaps a surprise given how much writing (& editing) I do, but it's always a slow struggle for me, disentangling my thoughts. Sometimes a short paragraph can take me an hour.
The result: not great. Came out weirdly blurry — that's not the camera being out of focus. More work to be done to get this printed properly.
(And it was supposed to be on matte paper)
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.
Working on some Wikipedia mapping. The articles on the elected legislatures of the Michigan Territory described the districts and members (and sometimes their affiliations), but needed maps. Also tracked down some political affiliation info. Been years since I edited Wikipedia.
I live in a condo, so I thought I would be spared lawn maintenance, but I decided to get the kittens their very own patch of sod for a bit of extra enrichment.
Now begins the impatient wait for a test print, to see if this piece is done and ready for sharing.
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