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Rhodes Cartography

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Maps, mapping, geoviz. No politics. Fellow @RGS_IBG Board member @wmsmapsociety Adjunct Professor @georgetownsfs www.thinkinginspace.net Simple Orthographic Map Creator with MetBrewer colors: https://www.mapspam.net/MetOrtho.html

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Rhodes Cartography @thinkinginspace.bsky.social · Apr 30

Excited to have one of my maps featured in the new Rumsey Map Center exhibition "Spheres of Influence" at Stanford. Please visit if you are in NorCal, but you can also see the digital exhibit here:
storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/83a4...

Spheres of Influence: Projecting Power & Fear onto the Globe

April 2nd - September 19th 2025 at the David Rumsey Map Center

storymaps.arcgis.com

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Rhodes Cartography @thinkinginspace.bsky.social · 11h

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Brilliant Maps @brilliantmaps.bsky.social · 1d

Counterintuitive Comparison Of Relative Population Latitudes Of US, Canada & Europe

Full map: brilliantmaps.com/populatio...

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Rhodes Cartography @thinkinginspace.bsky.social · 2d

Great work. Glad you found the tool useful.

Paul "Princejvstin" Weimer📷🚀 🚀 📸 @princejvstin.com · 3d

Via the map projection app from @thinkinginspace.bsky.social

Map projection with Duluth in the center

Rhodes Cartography @thinkinginspace.bsky.social · 2d

Been consumed with other things lately and not making enough maps. But had a fresh look at the Baltic and came up with this take with an old style. Labeling needs work, but feels more dynamic than the traditional view.

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Robert Simmon @rsimmon.bsky.social · 6d

I added a few new things to the maps section of my portfolio.

#cartography #dataviz

Screenshot of my map portfolio. The maps are in two columns. Clockwise from upper left: south-up map of the world; map of California’s Mother Lode; map showing the route of the Chinese surveillance balloon over the U.S.; global map of dead zones; map of flood risk in Bangui, Central African Republic; temperature forecast map of the continental United States, with color and contours.

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Brilliant Maps @brilliantmaps.bsky.social · 15d

No Hurricane or Typhoon Has Ever Crossed The Equator

brilliantmaps.com/no-hurric...

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Pascal Mamassian @mamassian.bsky.social · 19d

A nice shift in perceived colour between central and peripheral vision. The fixated disc looks purple while the others look blue.

The effect presumably comes from the absence of S-cones in the fovea.

From Hinnerk Schulz-Hildebrandt:
arxiv.org/pdf/2509.115...

An array of 9 purple discs on a blue background. Figure from Hinnerk Schulz-Hildebrandt.

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Rhodes Cartography @thinkinginspace.bsky.social · Sep 13

Great map. Clear story, excellent use of projection and scale to frame the narrative on the page.

Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · Sep 12

This fantastic map shows just how much Winston Churchill traveled between June 1940 and July 1945. He visited the US, Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East (all the key World War II theaters). Source: buff.ly/ByRIuFT

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Robert Simmon @rsimmon.bsky.social · Sep 12

A Cartographic Tour of Gold Country. Inspired by a trip to the Sierra Foothills, I made a map of the Mother Lode, paired with some vintage maps highlighting different types of mines.

🗺️ #cartography #mapping

pixeum.org/exhibits/715...

A Cartographic View of the California Gold Rush

Original map by Robert Simmon

pixeum.org

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Rhodes Cartography @thinkinginspace.bsky.social · Sep 7

It should zoom with the mouse scroll wheel or the corresponding movement on a touchpad. I should probably add a manual zoom slider on the controls. And not sure how every browser will perform. Mobile version is still under development.

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Rhodes Cartography @thinkinginspace.bsky.social · Sep 7

Need a 16x9 map for your PPT? Want bluebook outline maps for a classroom? Are you really into equidistant projections? Do you like fun maps in strange orientations with bold colors?

Skip the image search and make the map that suits your own needs:

www.mapspam.net/OutlineMap.html

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Rhodes Cartography @thinkinginspace.bsky.social · Sep 6

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Rhodes Cartography @thinkinginspace.bsky.social · Sep 5

Having fun coding a new simple outline map generator.

Rhodes Cartography @thinkinginspace.bsky.social · Sep 1

Two oblique Ortho views of the Caribbean.

Rhodes Cartography @thinkinginspace.bsky.social · Sep 1

Bluebook map of the Caribbean

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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · Aug 30

Only a small part of the Atlantic Wall was penetrated and made famous during D-Day. The defensive infrastructure was gigantic. Source: buff.ly/O8zVaFC

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Rhodes Cartography @thinkinginspace.bsky.social · Aug 30

Two more Palacios maps, from Ed Jablonski, "Pictorial History of the WWII Years. Only two colors, saturations of black and blue-green. This is how you do macro and micro stories on a theater-wide scale.

Rhodes Cartography @thinkinginspace.bsky.social · Aug 30

Give yourself a Saturday morning #geography lesson. Print this "Pakistan to Gibraltar" blank outline map and fill it in from memory. See if you notice anything new. "North up" is an arbitrary convention. Made with QGIS and naturalearthdata.com

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Brilliant Maps @brilliantmaps.bsky.social · Aug 17

Bad Map Projection #299: The Greenland Special: Equal-area map preserves size everywhere except Greenland, which uses the Mercator projection

Credit: XKCD

Explanation & 7 Other Examples: brilliantmaps.com/bad-map-p...

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Leventhal Map & Education Center @bplmaps.bsky.social · Aug 17

✍🏽Want to become a map maker in 1895? Great, all you need is skills in cartography, some artistic talent, and… perfect penmanship?

#bpl #LMEC #maps #bostonmaps #localhistory #bostonhistory #bostonmuseum #thingstodoinboston #bostontourism

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Rhodes Cartography @thinkinginspace.bsky.social · Aug 10

More foldouts!

Jen Mapes @mapesgeog.bsky.social · Aug 9

This is the first fold-out map I’ve made, for a book for the historical society. It turned out great! Looking forward to reading the book, too, esp the interurban chapter.

Map based on Sanborn map of one of three Kent railroad yards in the 1930s.

Steel Rails, Small Town: The Railroad History of Kent Ohio by Bruce Dzeda et al. 2025

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Jen Mapes @mapesgeog.bsky.social · Aug 9

This is the first fold-out map I’ve made, for a book for the historical society. It turned out great! Looking forward to reading the book, too, esp the interurban chapter.

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Mapas Milhaud @mapasmilhaud.com · Aug 10

Plano de Palencia, por Alberto Martín (1918)
Puedes leer más sobre el mapa aquí: https://mapasmilhaud.com/mapas-urbanos/plano-de-palencia-por-alberto-martin-1918/
#Mapas #Maps

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Mapas Milhaud @mapasmilhaud.com · Aug 6

El reverdecimiento del bosque boreal (2000 - 2019)
Puedes leer más sobre el mapa aquí: https://mapasmilhaud.com/uncategorized/el-reverdecimiento-del-bosque-boreal-2000-2019/
#Mapas #Maps

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