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@mildthing99.bsky.social
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Great to be here! 🌎🌍🌏
Thinking geographically 🌐 GIS, trivia and other important things... #GeographyTeacher and author; RGS C Geog, BBC Weather Watcher; landscape art and photography; #EruditePedagogy; #EduSky; Music, poetry esp with links to place
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mildthing99.bsky.social
🔊🎶On the border*🎶🔊
The England-Wales border follows old meanders of the River Vyrnwy e.g. the #ShropshireWay crosses border 6 times in 6 km betw Pentreheylin Hall to Llanymynech
🙏 🎶 @alstewartinfo
🙏 Route plan + #FlyoverVideo @_outdooractive_
#30DayMapChallenge Day 27: Boundaries
November 26, 2025 at 10:57 PM
mildthing99.bsky.social
🔊🎶Urban river restoration Lima, Peru with sub-fluvial Lima Expresa road under Rio Rímac #braiding
#PEPRR tinyurl.com/yttxekkw
1908 map #MediaLayers🙏via @royalscotgeosoc.bsky.social
🎶🙏 Sofia Kourtesis
Map arcg.is/0nOPDj0 @esriuk.bsky.social ArcGIS Online
#30DayMapChallenge Day 26: Transport
November 26, 2025 at 9:51 AM
mildthing99.bsky.social
🔊🎶Hexagons of Grammichele
Sicily, Italy: #PlannedSettlement 1693 after #earthquake at Occhiolà
👣5.34km/3.32mi via @_outdooractive_
@esriuk.bsky.social ArcGISOnline w #FireflyIcons by
@johnelson.bsky.social
✝️RIP Ornella Vanoni d 21 Nov 2025
arcg.is/e9OLL
#30DayMapChallenge Day 25: Hexagons
November 24, 2025 at 11:29 PM
mildthing99.bsky.social
🔊🎶*Bohemian Toponymy*🎶🔊
50 yrs ago in 1975 Queen's 'Bohemian Rhapsody' tops UK chart
*Is this the real place? Is this just fantasy?*
Data🙏@natlibscot.bsky.social OS 1900s > 'Bohemia'
maps.nls.uk/projects/os1... > ArcGIS Online
#30DayMapChallenge #GoGIS4GA
Day 24: (A Day At The) Places + their names
November 23, 2025 at 10:08 PM
mildthing99.bsky.social
A spectacular sight of the #WaxingCrescent 🌒10.4% setting behind a well-defined trailing edge of an #OccludedFront over the English Channel
@davidbflower.bsky.social
@stormhour.com
@metoffice.gov.uk
@thephotohour.bsky.social
@cloudappsoc.bsky.social
#StormHour #loveukweather
November 23, 2025 at 5:59 PM
mildthing99.bsky.social
🔊Using #GIS to visualise the impact of physical and human processes on coasts🌊
@oaknational.bsky.social lesson stepped explanation demonstrating #GIS integration at KS4 GCSE Geography for coastal erosion on Holderness peninsula UK
tinyurl.com/mwpn2229
#30DayMapChallenge Day 23: Process
November 22, 2025 at 11:34 PM
mildthing99.bsky.social
🔊🐳'A prison-like aquarium' 🐳🔊
Threats to #BlueWhales in the Gulf of Ancud, Chile #EcosystemFragmentation also happens in the sea
🙏@Seasaver @BedrinanaLuis @ballenaschile
Full video 6m: www.youtube.com/live/rMW2-3f...
#30DayMapChallenge
Day 22: Data challenge: Natural Earth
November 21, 2025 at 10:58 PM
mildthing99.bsky.social
🎹🔊 Isn't it iconic?🔊🎹
World piano manufacturers
*There are places I'll remember*
Iconic 'In My Life' original speed
Iconic solo by George Martin
Iconic Beatles album 'Rubber Soul'
#MusicTeacher #GeographyTeacher
#30DayMapChallenge Day 21: Icons
Map: arcg.is/1zK5Sj0
November 20, 2025 at 9:28 PM
mildthing99.bsky.social
🔊💧Whatever happened to Capel Celyn?💧🔊
OS 6" 1830s-80s (county layers) v @esriuk.bsky.social
Imagery v @ordnancesurvey.bsky.social 1:25000
#GIS 🚰#Dams 🚰
🙏@natlibscotmaps @BritishPathe
🙏🎵Jon Hopkins - 'Cold Out There'
#30DayMapChallenge Day 20: Water
maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/...
November 19, 2025 at 9:20 PM
mildthing99.bsky.social
🔊Thrown Around🔊
Atlantis/Conic Equidistant/Equirectangular; Orthographic/Patterson/Stereographic/Waterman Butterfly/Winkel Tripel
#SST Nov 2025 centred on #NullIsland
🙏 @cambecc.bsky.social
🙏🎵 @jamesblake
#30DayMapChallenge #GoGIS4GA
Day 19: Projections #GISDay earth.nullschool.net#current/ocea...
November 18, 2025 at 10:08 PM
mildthing99.bsky.social
🔊Walking On The Moon🔊
#Apollo15 26 Jul-7 Aug 1971
'Falcon' LM lift off from Hadley-Appenine 2 Aug 1971
Georeferenced with #MediaLayers in @esriuk.bsky.social ArcGIS Online
#3DScene w Moon Elevation Surface DEM
incl other Apollo missions: arcg.is/1GmKHG7
#30DayMapChallenge Day 18: Out of this world
November 18, 2025 at 12:02 AM
mildthing99.bsky.social
🙏Voyageurs Wolf Project #Wolves
YT: youtube.com/watch?v=sUkB...
November 16, 2025 at 12:10 AM
mildthing99.bsky.social
Wolf territories, Voyageurs National Park, Minnesota
#Media Layers in @esriuk.bsky.social ArcGIS Online
🙏Voyageurs Wolf Project #Wolves
FB: tinyurl.com/26mpj8eb
YT: youtube.com/watch?v=sUkB...
#30DayMapChallenge Day 16: Cell
2D Web map: arcg.is/1Oz0aa1
3D Scene: arcg.is/0KaLfX
November 16, 2025 at 12:07 AM
mildthing99.bsky.social
🔊'London Under Fire' 🔊
'12 Postcards Passed By The Censor'
Story Map inspired by the excellent blog by @alondoninheritance.bsky.social alondoninheritance.com/thebombedcit...
Georef then #GIS mapped in @ArcGISStoryMaps
🎵 @psbhq.bsky.social 'London Can Take it' ❤️Ukraine
#30DayMapChallenge Day 15: Fire
November 14, 2025 at 11:51 PM
mildthing99.bsky.social
🔊'From Bank to Bet Fred'🔊
@openstreetmap.bsky.social v map of Dundee shops in Murraygate 1991 using #MediaLayers in
@esriuk.bsky.social ArcGIS Online
#3DScene > urban retail land use change.
🙏 UoD Archives
#ThinkForAMinute #Housemartins #NEA
arcg.is/1f8zuf0
Day 14: Data challenge: OpenStreetMap
November 13, 2025 at 10:06 PM
mildthing99.bsky.social
🔊Using #GIS to visualise data in a webmap
Stepped explanation > #CreateBuffers analysis tool in @esriuk.bsky.social ArcGIS OnLine > visualise exclusion zones around #Merapi volcano
@oaknational.bsky.social #GIS integration KS4 GCSE Geog
tinyurl.com/yh56fjw3
#30DayMapChallenge Day 13: 10 minute map
November 12, 2025 at 11:03 PM
mildthing99.bsky.social
🔊*Tomorrow Never Knows*🔊
By 2125, will remoteness mean that these places can remain much the same as now?
Created in @esriuk.bsky.social ArcGIS Online using @johnnelsonmaps.bsky.social's #Firefly symbols 🙏#Beatles
#30DayMapChallenge Day 12: Map from 2125
Map: arcg.is/TWuOO1
November 11, 2025 at 11:01 PM
mildthing99.bsky.social
🔊*The shape you're in*🔊
Do you recognise all of these topological countries?
Rectangle, Triangle, Crescent, Teardrop, Hexagon, Circle...
(the last one is the world's 'most circular country' with a roundness index of 0.934)
🎵🙏
@edsheeranbr.bsky.social
#30DayMapChallenge Day 11: Minimal map
November 10, 2025 at 11:30 PM
mildthing99.bsky.social
Using #GIS to map the track of a #TropicalStorm:
Stepped explanation: how to use georef data to visualise #TyphoonRai (Odette) 2022 in @esriuk.bsky.social ArcGISOnline
@oaknational.bsky.social lesson demo for #GIS integration at KS4 GCSE Geography
tinyurl.com/352hdcka
#30DayMapChallenge Day 10: Air
November 9, 2025 at 11:23 PM
mildthing99.bsky.social
🗺️ 113 year old maps reborn 🗺️
1912 sketch maps by teacher George Nebel for a field trip from Wood Street School #Woolwich to Isle of Thanet, Kent (they travelled by ship!)
#MediaLayers @esriuk.bsky.social ArcGIS Online
#30DayMapChallenge Day 9: Analog
Map🙏 Kent Archives
arcg.is/1nr55b1
November 9, 2025 at 10:07 AM
mildthing99.bsky.social
🔊#JourneySticks are an ancient geographical information system #GIS used for millennia.
Glimpses of a brilliant KS1 Y1 lesson 'Making a map of our route' by @oaknational.bsky.social stepping 'old' #GIS and 'new' #GIS + @aphextwin.bsky.social
#30DayMapChallenge Day 9: Analog
tinyurl.com/35y5wf5r
November 8, 2025 at 10:26 PM