Category: Maps
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MAP TURTLES MAPPED!
It’s turtles all the way down! I made this map for the #SlowMapChallenge proposed by Daniel Wood—an alternative to the #30DayMapChallenge where instead of making one map per day, you tackle just one idea you’ve been putting off over the course of twelve weeks. I chose to work on this novelty map of habitat ranges…
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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
My dad worked at Kennedy Space Center when I was a kid, and so unsurprisingly, I have a lot of interest in space programs. This ArcGIS StoryMap was created to highlight and explore data derived from Jonathan C McDowell’s website, Jonathan’s Space Report, and covers every attempted rocket launch to orbit around the world between…
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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…
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APALACHICOLA RIVER TABLE
For this project, I upcycled a tabletop found in a dumpster and added a hand-carved “map” of the Apalachicola River. The design takes the river and arranges it into a spiral, with the headwaters at the table’s center. I then documented the process in a StoryMap called From Trash to Topographic!, which also highlights the…
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CAPE SAN BLAS
A remote stretch of sand home to crumbling lighthouses, ancient shell middens, Confederate saltworks, and Cold War missile launches.
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OF ALL THE FISH IN THE SEA
This is an ArcGIS StoryMap — a sort of map-oriented, scrolly-story I made about the menhaden fishery, which has been an important part of the United States economy since its birth. It also touches on the ecological importance of menhaden and why we should manage them with care. An auto-scrolling, embedded version of the story…
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GRAVE SMOKY MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK
I started working on this spooky map in September of 2019 and was very pleased with the fact that I had so many weeks to finish it in time for Halloween. But that ended up being a naïve hope. Great Smoky Mountains National Park (GSMNP) is renowned for its waterfalls, black bears, and misty mountain…
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THE USA OF PBJ
We’re never too old for a delicious peanut butter & jelly sandwich, in my opinion. Using data from the US Department of Agriculture’s CropScape program, I mapped out the prevalent growing regions for some of the major ingredients used to make a PBJ. Originally I was really only thinking about grape jelly, before realized that…
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LIGHTS, CAPES, AND HURRICANES
This is an ArcGIS StoryMap. It’s a sort of interactive, map-oriented narrative and analysis about a section of the coast along the Florida Panhandle that I find particularly interesting. I put an auto-scrolling, embedded version of it below – but I recommend opening it in full screen, if interested, especially for those viewing on mobile.…