Category: Maps
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SUWANNEE RIBBON MAP
This 12 foot by 2.5 inch ribbon map shows the Suwannee River and its adjacent conservation lands, from the headwaters at Georgia’s Okefenokee Swamp to the Florida Gulf Coast. The map was made using Adobe Illustrator, and draws inspiration from similar ‘ribbon maps’ of the mid 19th century—the primary example being the Ribbon Map of…
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2022 HOLIDAY LIGHTS
For the past two seasons, we’ve driven around a nearby neighborhood and recorded the quantity and “quality” of all holiday lights displays. The results for the 2022 season and a comparison with the previous year are shared in this brief StoryMap, below. Apart from being a fun new holiday tradition, I wanted to do this…
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LAKE OKEECHOBEE HAB
A major environmental concern for Florida and a growing number of places across the world is the occurrence of harmful algal blooms. The Sentinel 3 OLCI satellite sensor maintained by EUMETSAT is capable of remotely detecting these blooms, allowing NOAA’s NCCOS to process and upload data for multiple areas of interest in the United States…
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LIGNUMVITAE KEY
Lignumvitae Key, part of the Florida Keys, sits just north of Lower Matecumbe Key, west of Islamorada. It’s protected as a Florida State Park, surrounded by the waters of the Lignumvitae Key Aquatic Preserve, and can only be accessed by boat. The island holds some of the last undisturbed, tropical hardwood hammock found in the…
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EULER SPIRAL CARD
This piece was created for Daniel Huffman’s map projection trading cards project. The idea is to have a set of trading cards for carto-enthusiasts to collect and exchange at conferences, featuring the wide variety of map projections out there. The maps on the cards showcasing these projections are all designed by volunteer cartographers. For my…
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NATIONAL CHAMPION TREES 2021
National Champion Trees are the biggest tree of a particular species based on the height, trunk circumference, and average crown spread. These trees are nominated by the public and maintained in an official register by American Forests. The 2021 list of champions features 561 trees across 39 states. This official register is available via PDF…
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MAP TURTLES MAPPED!
It’s turtles all the way down! The idea for this map first came up while on a visit to the Flint RiverQuarium in Albany, Georgia, where they had a Barbour’s map turtle on exhibit. I sat on the idea for several years until Daniel Wood proposed a #SlowMapChallenge—an alternative to the #30DayMapChallenge where instead of…
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30 DAY MAP CHALLENGE 2021
The #30DayMapChallenge is an annual social mapping event started by Topi Tjukanov in 2019. 30 prompts are chosen, one for each day in November, and participants then try to create and share a map each day that relates to the prompt. I decided to do all my maps with dry erase markers on the whiteboard…
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T-MINUS 6000
Growing up, my dad worked at the Kennedy Space Center, so it should be no surprise that I have always had an interest in space travel and exploration. This ArcGIS StoryMap highlights and explores data derived from astrophysicist Jonathan C McDowell’s website, Jonathan’s Space Report, and includes every attempted rocket launch to orbit around the…
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ST VINCENT ISLAND
I have never actually set foot on St. Vincent Island, but it’s sandwiched between a lot of places I love and close enough to home that whenever I open up a web map I can usually see it sitting there, just on the periphery. The stark ridges crossing the island from end to end are…