Andrew Middleton
@mapcenter.com
'Peddler of Wheres,' job creator, Owner at The Map Center in Pawtucket RI- it's like a hip record store but for maps.
www.mapcenter.com
Cartographer, GIS specialist and educator
Linktr.ee/ecoandrewtrc
www.mapcenter.com
Cartographer, GIS specialist and educator
Linktr.ee/ecoandrewtrc
Reposted by Andrew Middleton
Do you like #maps? The Independent Map Artists (mapartists.org) has hit a big milestone and now has 50(!) members, all interested in helping with your holiday shopping. Hundreds of maps & mappy goods, straight from small businesses.
Connecting creators & customers is hard; please consider sharing.
Connecting creators & customers is hard; please consider sharing.
November 22, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Do you like #maps? The Independent Map Artists (mapartists.org) has hit a big milestone and now has 50(!) members, all interested in helping with your holiday shopping. Hundreds of maps & mappy goods, straight from small businesses.
Connecting creators & customers is hard; please consider sharing.
Connecting creators & customers is hard; please consider sharing.
Reposted by Andrew Middleton
You don’t often get a view of North Korea from above, but this satellite image gives you a rare chance to explore it.
For the curious: soaratlas.com/maps/asia-ko...
For the curious: soaratlas.com/maps/asia-ko...
November 26, 2025 at 12:01 PM
You don’t often get a view of North Korea from above, but this satellite image gives you a rare chance to explore it.
For the curious: soaratlas.com/maps/asia-ko...
For the curious: soaratlas.com/maps/asia-ko...
Reposted by Andrew Middleton
Via @engelsman.bsky.social, Bloomberg with some space-based GPS jamming data around Venezuela! www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
Venezuela Sees GPS Jamming Surge Amid US Military Buildup, Flight Cancellations
For a smartphone user on the ground in Caracas, this interference might just mean a slow map load. For an aircraft cruising at 30,000 feet, the implications are far more severe.
www.bloomberg.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Via @engelsman.bsky.social, Bloomberg with some space-based GPS jamming data around Venezuela! www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
"Diving Monterey" is my atlas of scuba diving around the Monterey Peninsula in California. Includes full color maps, descriptions, bearings to points of interest and a field guide with tons of local critters you can find. www.mapcenter.com/store/p/divi...
November 27, 2025 at 1:46 AM
"Diving Monterey" is my atlas of scuba diving around the Monterey Peninsula in California. Includes full color maps, descriptions, bearings to points of interest and a field guide with tons of local critters you can find. www.mapcenter.com/store/p/divi...
Reminder to folks that you can get anything you want at The Map Center, even 8x10 glossy prints with a washable finish so you can draw circles and arrows on them, wipe them clean and reuse them. No need to send them to the landfill!
Also, we will be closed on Thanksgiving.
Also, we will be closed on Thanksgiving.
November 26, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Reminder to folks that you can get anything you want at The Map Center, even 8x10 glossy prints with a washable finish so you can draw circles and arrows on them, wipe them clean and reuse them. No need to send them to the landfill!
Also, we will be closed on Thanksgiving.
Also, we will be closed on Thanksgiving.
Reposted by Andrew Middleton
"Geography is not just a way of thinking. It’s a way of becoming more aware, more grounded, more connected. It’s about seeing your place in the world clearly enough to act in it and, we hope, to remake it"
Demian Hommel
www.edsurge.com/news/2025-11...
Demian Hommel
www.edsurge.com/news/2025-11...
What If Geography Is the Curriculum We Need for the Future? - EdSurge News
A student once told me, halfway through the term, “I thought this class would be about memorizing countries. But now I can’t stop seeing systems.”He ...
www.edsurge.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:27 AM
"Geography is not just a way of thinking. It’s a way of becoming more aware, more grounded, more connected. It’s about seeing your place in the world clearly enough to act in it and, we hope, to remake it"
Demian Hommel
www.edsurge.com/news/2025-11...
Demian Hommel
www.edsurge.com/news/2025-11...
Reposted by Andrew Middleton
For the first time, it's possible to track individual Monarch butterflies on their journey south. Cellular Tracking Technologies developed a tiny chip used to geolocate butterflies on their epic flight all the way to Mexico. buff.ly/mrNJ5y9
November 26, 2025 at 12:45 PM
For the first time, it's possible to track individual Monarch butterflies on their journey south. Cellular Tracking Technologies developed a tiny chip used to geolocate butterflies on their epic flight all the way to Mexico. buff.ly/mrNJ5y9
I'm procrastinating so naturally I'm doing a deep dive on the history of The Map Center.
I had been saying it was established in 1953 but I found a source that says 1950 which would make it the oldest map store in the USA. Which is cool. Looking forward to verifying and marketing the crap out of it.
I had been saying it was established in 1953 but I found a source that says 1950 which would make it the oldest map store in the USA. Which is cool. Looking forward to verifying and marketing the crap out of it.
November 25, 2025 at 3:47 PM
I'm procrastinating so naturally I'm doing a deep dive on the history of The Map Center.
I had been saying it was established in 1953 but I found a source that says 1950 which would make it the oldest map store in the USA. Which is cool. Looking forward to verifying and marketing the crap out of it.
I had been saying it was established in 1953 but I found a source that says 1950 which would make it the oldest map store in the USA. Which is cool. Looking forward to verifying and marketing the crap out of it.
Here @infowetrust.com have an article about the cultural history of map pins and skeumorphism in digital cartography. icaci.org/files/docume...
icaci.org
November 25, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Here @infowetrust.com have an article about the cultural history of map pins and skeumorphism in digital cartography. icaci.org/files/docume...
Found a 1943 map with a stamp for the Educational Exhibition Company on it. Wonder what relationship they had with The Map Center which, as far as I know, was founded a decade later.
November 25, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Found a 1943 map with a stamp for the Educational Exhibition Company on it. Wonder what relationship they had with The Map Center which, as far as I know, was founded a decade later.
One of the reasons I keep telling people that new maps are cooler than old ones is because old maps were made by a very narrow slice of humanity but contemporary maps are made by EVERYONE and they're rad. Here's a quick vid about gender and cartography www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8UMSJ3u/
I got a good question from a customer and I tried to answer it. Yeah, most of my customers are men but in the two years I've owned this business it's gotten much closer to gender parity because I cura...
TikTok video by the Map Center
www.tiktok.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:33 PM
One of the reasons I keep telling people that new maps are cooler than old ones is because old maps were made by a very narrow slice of humanity but contemporary maps are made by EVERYONE and they're rad. Here's a quick vid about gender and cartography www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8UMSJ3u/
Waaa waaaa I have to make videos and I don't know what to make them about!
-me
Letter carrier: here have this letter addressed to the Map Center containing a zine from Cape Verde with awesome maps in it.
-me
Letter carrier: here have this letter addressed to the Map Center containing a zine from Cape Verde with awesome maps in it.
November 24, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Waaa waaaa I have to make videos and I don't know what to make them about!
-me
Letter carrier: here have this letter addressed to the Map Center containing a zine from Cape Verde with awesome maps in it.
-me
Letter carrier: here have this letter addressed to the Map Center containing a zine from Cape Verde with awesome maps in it.
Reposted by Andrew Middleton
Reminder that books make awesome gifts for all holiday events, and they taste sweeter when they’re from indie bookstores. Don’t know what to get? Indie bookstores have gift cards!
November 24, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Reminder that books make awesome gifts for all holiday events, and they taste sweeter when they’re from indie bookstores. Don’t know what to get? Indie bookstores have gift cards!
I'm regrettably entering my "Content Creator" era. Made a short video on TikTok about why I think map stores are often assumed to be dad-coded spaces and I'm planning to make more.
Any recommendations for topics? Questions?
Any recommendations for topics? Questions?
November 24, 2025 at 2:32 PM
I'm regrettably entering my "Content Creator" era. Made a short video on TikTok about why I think map stores are often assumed to be dad-coded spaces and I'm planning to make more.
Any recommendations for topics? Questions?
Any recommendations for topics? Questions?
Growing up in the 90s and 2000s, glow-in-the-dark shit was everywhere. Plastic stars to stick on the ceiling, t-shirts, posters, school supplies. Did cheap LEDs largely kill them or am I just not the target demo? Trying to remember the last time someone said "AND check it out it GLOWS IN THE DARK."
November 23, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Growing up in the 90s and 2000s, glow-in-the-dark shit was everywhere. Plastic stars to stick on the ceiling, t-shirts, posters, school supplies. Did cheap LEDs largely kill them or am I just not the target demo? Trying to remember the last time someone said "AND check it out it GLOWS IN THE DARK."
I have now reached "emailing eccentric billionaires" level of small business desperation.
November 22, 2025 at 3:53 PM
I have now reached "emailing eccentric billionaires" level of small business desperation.
By request, here's a thread of books that I think make excellent gifts this holiday season (obviously they're cartographically inclined, you know me)
1. Best anthology
"All Over the Map" by Betsy Mason and Greg Miller
A gorgeous, full color history of maps mind-bending maps from around the world.
1. Best anthology
"All Over the Map" by Betsy Mason and Greg Miller
A gorgeous, full color history of maps mind-bending maps from around the world.
November 21, 2025 at 7:35 PM
By request, here's a thread of books that I think make excellent gifts this holiday season (obviously they're cartographically inclined, you know me)
1. Best anthology
"All Over the Map" by Betsy Mason and Greg Miller
A gorgeous, full color history of maps mind-bending maps from around the world.
1. Best anthology
"All Over the Map" by Betsy Mason and Greg Miller
A gorgeous, full color history of maps mind-bending maps from around the world.
21. Books about maps
As we enter gift-giving season, here’s a reminder that books can make a wonderful present.
The art of selecting a book as a gift, however, isn’t as easy as it may appear. Here are 20 titles to consider.
The art of selecting a book as a gift, however, isn’t as easy as it may appear. Here are 20 titles to consider.
From timeless classics to new hits: 20 must-give books - The Boston Globe
As we enter into the gift-giving season, books can make a wonderful present. Here are a few to check out this season.
trib.al
November 21, 2025 at 7:04 PM
21. Books about maps
Who has midweek flexibility that wants to join me on a quest into Boston?
Did you know there's a room in Boston City Hall where you can see the entire city ✨in miniature?✨
#bpl #LMEC #maps #bostonmaps #localhistory #bostonhistory #bostonmuseum #thingstodoinboston #bostontourism #BOSCityHall
#bpl #LMEC #maps #bostonmaps #localhistory #bostonhistory #bostonmuseum #thingstodoinboston #bostontourism #BOSCityHall
November 21, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Who has midweek flexibility that wants to join me on a quest into Boston?
Nusantara is a city under construction that will become the new capital of Indonesia, replacing Jakarta, a city wracked by environmental problems.
Johannesburg and Cape Town nearly ran out of water in 2020. Now Tehran.
Many centers of power will be relocated out of environmental necessity.
Johannesburg and Cape Town nearly ran out of water in 2020. Now Tehran.
Many centers of power will be relocated out of environmental necessity.
'Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has made Tehran impossible to sustain'
#Iran 🇮🇷
#Iran 🇮🇷
Iran president says capital move now a necessity as water crisis deepens
Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has mad...
www.iranintl.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Nusantara is a city under construction that will become the new capital of Indonesia, replacing Jakarta, a city wracked by environmental problems.
Johannesburg and Cape Town nearly ran out of water in 2020. Now Tehran.
Many centers of power will be relocated out of environmental necessity.
Johannesburg and Cape Town nearly ran out of water in 2020. Now Tehran.
Many centers of power will be relocated out of environmental necessity.
Really hope this talk I'm watching on GIS and AI gets practical soon because so far the first 15 minutes are about how the project was only done because they got a ton of money from NVIDIA #gisday
November 20, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Really hope this talk I'm watching on GIS and AI gets practical soon because so far the first 15 minutes are about how the project was only done because they got a ton of money from NVIDIA #gisday
Reposted by Andrew Middleton
Museums work as spaces of possibility, sparking wonder and offering hope. To achieve a deeper connection, director of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Kirk Johnson, believes in the integrative power of #maps to relate us to our world—how it was and will be. buff.ly/7Cn2WLV
November 20, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Museums work as spaces of possibility, sparking wonder and offering hope. To achieve a deeper connection, director of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Kirk Johnson, believes in the integrative power of #maps to relate us to our world—how it was and will be. buff.ly/7Cn2WLV
Reposted by Andrew Middleton
🗺️Posters made it to @mapcenter.com where they met the new “Life After Cars” hard copy by @thewaroncars.bsky.social and the delightful “Walkable Providence” map by @2feet2bucks.com
🎤Live show & book talk at Providence’s Uptown Theater Dec. 2nd!
🎟️Tickets: events.uptownpvd.com/events/life-...
🎤Live show & book talk at Providence’s Uptown Theater Dec. 2nd!
🎟️Tickets: events.uptownpvd.com/events/life-...
November 19, 2025 at 11:57 PM
🗺️Posters made it to @mapcenter.com where they met the new “Life After Cars” hard copy by @thewaroncars.bsky.social and the delightful “Walkable Providence” map by @2feet2bucks.com
🎤Live show & book talk at Providence’s Uptown Theater Dec. 2nd!
🎟️Tickets: events.uptownpvd.com/events/life-...
🎤Live show & book talk at Providence’s Uptown Theater Dec. 2nd!
🎟️Tickets: events.uptownpvd.com/events/life-...
You there, boy! What day is this?
Why sir, it's GIS Day!
My God, they did it all in one night! Say, boy! Do you know the Map Center in Pawtucket?
The one with the globe in the window that's as big as I am?
Sharp lad, that's the one! Here's my Venmo handle just like, charge me whatever it costs
Why sir, it's GIS Day!
My God, they did it all in one night! Say, boy! Do you know the Map Center in Pawtucket?
The one with the globe in the window that's as big as I am?
Sharp lad, that's the one! Here's my Venmo handle just like, charge me whatever it costs
November 19, 2025 at 3:53 PM
You there, boy! What day is this?
Why sir, it's GIS Day!
My God, they did it all in one night! Say, boy! Do you know the Map Center in Pawtucket?
The one with the globe in the window that's as big as I am?
Sharp lad, that's the one! Here's my Venmo handle just like, charge me whatever it costs
Why sir, it's GIS Day!
My God, they did it all in one night! Say, boy! Do you know the Map Center in Pawtucket?
The one with the globe in the window that's as big as I am?
Sharp lad, that's the one! Here's my Venmo handle just like, charge me whatever it costs
Happy GIS Day to all who celebrate!
Just remember that some of us are non-denominational geospatial engineers and many of us prefer Happy Holidays.
Let's be inclusive of our CAD operators, drafters, surveyors and opensource colleagues in addition to ESRI users during these festive times! 🌈
Just remember that some of us are non-denominational geospatial engineers and many of us prefer Happy Holidays.
Let's be inclusive of our CAD operators, drafters, surveyors and opensource colleagues in addition to ESRI users during these festive times! 🌈
November 19, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Happy GIS Day to all who celebrate!
Just remember that some of us are non-denominational geospatial engineers and many of us prefer Happy Holidays.
Let's be inclusive of our CAD operators, drafters, surveyors and opensource colleagues in addition to ESRI users during these festive times! 🌈
Just remember that some of us are non-denominational geospatial engineers and many of us prefer Happy Holidays.
Let's be inclusive of our CAD operators, drafters, surveyors and opensource colleagues in addition to ESRI users during these festive times! 🌈