Visualizing land shapes in San Miguelito with vector hillshading #Panama

This définition os science comes from the excellent "Science for the West, Myth for the Rest?" by Colin Scott (2011). I find it a useful definition that includes non-Western forms of science

"[A] social activity that draws deductive inferences from first premises, that these inferences are deliberately and systematically verified in relation to experience, and that models of the world are reflexively adjusted to conform to observed regularities in the course of events"

Just discovered MapSCII, a vector tile to braille/text renderer. Amazing! The project is in need of developers to keep it going github.com/rastapasta/m...

Making labels that stick to the ground on a Maplibre GL JS globe. The way to solve it was to create label polygons as georeferenced objects with some Python. I'm happy with the result! Now to experiment with fonts and colors #cartography

I think it was the wonderful map of rivers by JH Colton (1864) that inspired me to stretch out the geography

Planning a cartography workshop I dug up this schematic of the Guna (Kuna) islands in Panama [1] I made a few years ago for the Almanaque Azul guide. The islands of Gunayala [2] are very small compared to the mainland and difficult to show, hence the transit map idea

Amazing stuff! Good to know this is possible. Do you have the code available somewhere?

Here's how we made this fabric map of nature-culture corridors in Panama for the MAC museum www.miramapas.com/en/portfolio...

#cartography #cartografia

It's kind of scary how cold figures appear when the reality on the ground is hundreds of towns being uprooted for "development". In any case, it's not totally clear how trustworthy pop counts for forced displacements are, but the paper demands a closer look and possibly recalibration of sources END

The study found "systematic and significant negative bias in all five datasets, ranging from −53.4% (WorldPop), −65.0% (GWP), −66.9% (GRUMP), and −68.4% (LandScan) to −83.8% (GHS-POP)"

New research compared population counts for big hydro projects that needed to forcefully expel rural villagers with several gridded (raster) global human population datasets, finding undercounts of rural inhabitants of at least half and up to -84%

Some very useful data many of us use for mapping population turns out to be very wrong, according to this new study. Should we be worried? www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Here's how it looks up close

We recently presented a fabric version of our natural corridors map at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Panama. It's been a very productive and fun experiment!

"Vamos a ganar. Vamos a seguir ganando". Leonard Peltier está libre luego de casi 50 años de prisión en Estados Unidos 😭

https://youtu.be/4bVeoNfsYGw?si=QI_6nA6f13EyA-J2

Qué bonito que los pueblos de el Panamá tropical y de la Groenlandia polar estemos hermanados ahora con la amenaza del imperialismo. Aquí puedes ver más detalles sobre mi mapa : https://www.miramapas.com/es/portfolio/artico/

Hice un mapa del Ártico para pensar y aprender sobre esa parte del mundo ahora que Groenlandia está en las noticias

Estoy experimentando usar las subcuencas para visualizar Panamá y se revelan muchas formas del territorio como nunca lo había visto. Aquí están los manglares de David, Panamá Oeste y el norte de Veraguas y la comarca Ngäbe Buglé

“Trabajamos en la oscuridad, hacemos lo que podemos, damos lo que tenemos. Nuestra duda es nuestra pasión, y nuestra pasión es nuestra tarea. El resto es la locura del arte.”

Henry James

Siria 🇸🇾 ✊🏾

Y esa es la historia del "Mapa de los alimentos esenciales de las culturas de México". Hay muchos más detalles técnicos para el que le interese. ¡Espero que les guste! Pueden verlo en toda su microscópica gloria en mi portafolio aquí: https://www.miramapas.com/es/portfolio/comidamx/

Junto con Alexander Sepúlveda, que es un experto en cocina indígena y Mauricio Ávila, investigador del equipo de Cencalli, elegimos 26 "alimentos esenciales" originarios de México.

El mapa fue un encargo de Cencalli, Casa del maíz y la cultura alimentaria @CencalliCultura que forma parte de la Secretaría de Cultura de México, y que tiene un museo hermoso, con una posición clara contra los transgénicos y por las semillas nativas (f: ProtoplasmaKid/Wikipedia)