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Hans van der Kwast :qgis:<p>The new QGIS Map Gallery is looking for contributions! 🗺️ <br>Share your <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/QGIS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>QGIS</span></a> creations and showcase the power of <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/mapping" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mapping</span></a> with QGIS. I've added some of my maps from <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/30DayMapChallenge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>30DayMapChallenge</span></a>. Check it out: <a href="https://hub.qgis.org/map-gallery/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">hub.qgis.org/map-gallery/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/GIS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GIS</span></a></p>
Tan G.<p><a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%2330DayMapChallenge" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#30DayMapChallenge</a> - day 27 - micromapping This is a map of Camp de Bulengo in eastern DRC. It's one of a number of camps for refugees and IDPs that the M23 rebels ordered to be emptied last week. The order is in contravention of international laws and exacerbates the crisis. <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23rstats" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#rstats</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23dataviz" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dataviz</a></p>
Tan G.<p><a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%2330DayMapChallenge" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#30DayMapChallenge</a> - day 25 - heat In the heat of battle M23 rebels (and by extension Rwandan military) have, over the past year, largely been attacking civilians and state forces in Nord-Kivu, according to <a class="mention" href="https://bsky.app/profile/acleddata.bsky.social" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@acleddata.bsky.social</a> data. <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23rstats" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#rstats</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23dataviz" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dataviz</a></p>
Doug G. (Map of the Week)<p>Thinking of doing a <a href="https://mapstodon.space/tags/30DayMapChallenge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>30DayMapChallenge</span></a> in November where every map is about the Gulf of MEXICO</p>
osmcz<p>WeeklyOSM CZ 754:</p><p>Zrušené adresy. Mapování komínů. 488 nováčků. Smazání dluhu. První a poslední. Demarkační kameny. Nepoměr darů. Funkce LocusMap. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/30DayMapChallenge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>30DayMapChallenge</span></a>. Rozděl a mapuj. SotM LatAm 2024. Městská zeleň. Chronotrains. Vektory pro QGIS. OSM pro Minecraft. Geolokace snímků. Dostupnost služeb. Sdílená kola. BRouter. OsmAnd v 2025. Překlady JOSM. Mapy pro mobil. GodView. Díry v relacích. 2006 GB dat. Zlato s Google. Vyhledávání v mapě. Historie Amazonky.</p><p><a href="https://weeklyosm.eu/cz/archives/17673" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">weeklyosm.eu/cz/archives/17673</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Gontsa<p>Check out new work on my <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@Behance" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Behance</span></a></span> profile: "My <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/30DayMapChallenge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>30DayMapChallenge</span></a>, 2024" <a href="http://be.net/gallery/213764649/My-30DayMapChallenge-2024" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://</span><span class="ellipsis">be.net/gallery/213764649/My-30</span><span class="invisible">DayMapChallenge-2024</span></a></p>
Sterna Paradisaea<p><strong>Just one thing…</strong></p><blockquote><p>How to survive in research… </p></blockquote><p>Over on Blue sky I found a link<a href="https://www.danielnettle.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Staying-in-the-game.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> to this piece </a>by Daniel Nettle – a reflection on life as a researcher, the race for the glittering prizes of high profile publications and how to “succeed” in academia, where succeed has the simple metric of ‘in ten years.. to have remained alive, and ideally continued doing some research.’ </p><a href="https://sternaparadisaea.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/2009-08-24-greenland-small-camera-025.jpg" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a>Ten years ago in Greenland, I did not imagine I’d still be doing this job-<p>I found myself very much nodding along with the sentiments of the piece, the conceit that </p><blockquote><p>“Our seduction was by the primary research process: the idea that you could find a question; hit on your own approach; perform and manufacture the work; and finally, see it there in print, with your name attached, a thread woven in to the tapestry of human knowledge. A thread of memory.” </p></blockquote><p>that also motivates me and apparently others in the research world. I still think that idea of building something bigger, no matter how tiny the contribution, the sum total of knowledge is a motivating factor. As Daniel writes, it’s a seduction, but it is also one that resonates and lasts, even through those years when the grind gets you down…</p><p>This part also made me laugh in recognition about what makes people persevere in research:</p><blockquote><p>“If she [a student interviewing professors about success in academia] knew how narrowly I have hung on, I thought, she might have chosen someone else for her assignment.”</p></blockquote><p>It’s not always easy keeping going, much of our work requires intrinsic motivation and it too often dissolves into something self-destructive. Famously, science and research in general is prone to mental health problems and I rather liked the characterisation here:</p><blockquote><p>“Periodic demoralization and depression are not rare amongst researchers. It’s not not caring any more, or not being able to be bothered, as depression is often and erroneously characterized. It is caring so much, being so bothered, that one cannot advance on any front. One drowns in one’s own disorganized and gradually souring passion. This feeling is probably near-ubiquitous too.”</p></blockquote><p>But persevere we do and persevere we must and where I thought this piece gets really interesting is where he points to the techniques and lessons that lead us to surviving the academic environment. As the essay is rather long, and a pdf, I thought I would summarise his main lessons here. The first one is I think the most important and while he calls it every day has to count for something (where every day means every *working* day, time off is still essential). I prefer to summarise it as <strong>just one thing. </strong></p><p><strong>Lesson 1. Every day has to count for something</strong></p><blockquote><p>“I try to start each working day with a period of uninterrupted work. Work, for me, is: collecting data, analysing data, writing code, drafting a paper, writing ideas in a notebook, or just thinking. Things that do not qualify as work are: background reading, literature searches, answering correspondence, marking students’ assignments, peer-reviewing a paper, sorting out my website, correcting proofs, filling in forms, tidying datasheets, having meetings, and so on.”</p></blockquote><p>This goes back to <a href="http://sternaparadisaea.net/2024/11/02/paying-yourself-first/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">paying yourself first.</a> I’m not always very good at doing it, but I also try to do something meaningful and deep work like each day. Part of the reason I have found the last few months quite hard at work is a surfeit of meetings, workshops and travels, which have been in general quite destructive and distracting from the main work of the day, which could probably be summed up as, learn how the icy bits of the world work. My <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://sternaparadisaea.net/tag/acwrimo/" target="_blank">#AcWriMo</a> efforts as well as <a href="http://sternaparadisaea.net/30-day-map-challenge/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#30dayMapChallenge</a> in November were in effect just the kick start I needed to get back into the real scientific work of research, because as Daniel Nettle so eloquently put it:</p><blockquote><p>Daily deep work keeps the black dog away, for there is nothing worse for mood than the sense that one is not progressing. And it can spiral in a bad way: the more you feel you are not progressing, the worse you feel; the worse you feel the more your hours become non-deep junk; and the more<br>exhausted you are by non-deep junk hours, the less you progress.</p></blockquote><a href="https://sternaparadisaea.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/53766818741_cd3029f727_o.jpg" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a>Not all black dogs are bad. <p><strong>Lesson 2. Cultivate modest expectations</strong></p><p>This was a curiously freeing part to read and I absolutely agree with it. Too often what John Kennedy calls Natureorscience papers are seen as the gold standard. And yet as Daniel Nettle eloquently points out:</p><blockquote><p>the glittering prizes we academics strive for are positional goods kept deliberately scarce by bureaucratic or commercial interests, and allocated in ways whose relationship to long-term value is probably quite weak. For example, Nature is a for-profit enterprise that rejects nearly everything in<br>order to defend its exclusive market position. If we all send everything there, the rejection rate goes up. If we all increase the quality of our science, it still nearly all gets rejected, by the very design of the institution. The idea that all good papers can be in Nature or Science is as ludicrous as the idea that all Olympic athletes can get gold medals, but without the strong link between actual ability and finishing position that obtains in the Olympics.</p></blockquote><p>It’s absolutely true that a natureorscience paper on the CV is seen as a big thing, the ultimate to strive far. And it is. Getting through the review process is in itself an achievement. But it’s also worth bearing in mind that many natureorscience landmark studies don’t stand the test of time. They rarely shift paradigms, though they can focus attention on new subjects, and sometimes that’s a new and important field. And sometimes it’s a distraction. I can think of several notable examples published since I started working in glaciology (but no, I’m not going to call them out here). The text in these journals is often far too compressed to get important details in, I recall an old mentor suggesting that the natureorscience paper is the advert, the starter that reels you in. The good stuff, the actual filler that makes you look at the world anew with its insights, new methodologies and the rest, is very often in a very different journal. So go for natureorscience if you get the opportunity, and if you have the results, but aiming for there from the start is not necessarily the right way to position your research career. Though as this post is now veering dangerously towards giving advice rather than simply expressing my usual slightly scrambled thoughts, take this one with a dollop of Atlantic brine..</p><p>For what it’s worth though, I do believe this: </p><blockquote><p>Great art often begins on the fringe. Similarly, valuable future paradigms and innovative ideas start life in obscure places. Journal editors cannot yet see their potential, and the authors themselves are tentatively feeling their way into something new. So by focussing on capturing the established indicators of prestige, you distort the process away from answering the question that interests you in an authentic way, and into a kind of grubby strategizing. <br>Or so I tell myself, admittedly through clenched teeth at times.</p></blockquote><p><strong>Lesson 3. Publish steadily</strong></p><p>Is back to <strong>just one thing </strong>in a way. </p><blockquote><p>the mistake a lot of people make is focussing too much on getting the big shot, the single career-establishing paper in a top journal, and therefore not quietly building up a solid, progressive portfolio of sound work.</p></blockquote><p>Doing the work is the best advice I can give and the advice I would give myself back in the early days of what has become (almost by accident) a research career. Now, I would hesitate to say publish something every year. I know scientists who insist on one first author paper a year, and some who strive for 3. Both seem arbitrary and potentially dangerous in terms of motivation, particularly for a young ECR just making their first steps and unsure of how to do it. Nevertheless it’s certainly true that, regardless of publish or perish, just the feeling of making forward progress, however incremental, is so important. Keep the momentum going. It’s part of what makes the traditional british PhD ending with a big book so hard, there’s no feedback on the way. Just an hour a day (or even an hour a week in busy times) is enough to keep me moving forward, and it’s often enough to produce a decent paper, eventually. And don’t worry, science is highly collaborative, I wouldn’t be able to do it without all my colleagues to remind me on, nudge me to get on with something and keep the wheels turning. I love you all for it too…</p><blockquote><p>So if you are worrying about staying the game, rather than planning your next Science publication, I would ask yourself where your 1-2 solid papers each year are going to come from. Just as you should not go a single day without proper work, you should not go a single year without publishing anything, as one year rapidly becomes three.</p></blockquote><p><strong>Lesson 4: Get your hands dirty</strong></p><p>This is why I do field work. But it’s also why I’ve embraced the opportunity to learn more about deep learning and AI/ML methods. Learning new stuff is exciting, it keeps you fresh and helps make new connections. It’s when disciplines cross-connect that the exciting stuff happens and the sparks fly in the brain. </p><blockquote><p>“Keeping your hands dirty also means learning how to do new things. And this is a good thing: the skills I picked up in graduate school could not possibly have sustained me this long. Learning new skills has always paid dividends of one kind or another; and stepping back from doing primary research myself has always been the point at which things have started to go less well.”</p></blockquote><p>I have written one too many white paper style articles recently, it’s time to go back to the field, and back to the code to see if we can make things better by integrating the data and the models. </p><a href="https://sternaparadisaea.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/52786807231_0688037862_c.jpg" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a>Learning to fly a drone and to process the data is something I’ve been working on the last few years. I have a really exciting dataset now but little time to work on it. Ifyou’re looking for an interesting MSC thesis project get in touch!<p>A note of caution though, it’s always easier to start something new than finish an old project. The best colleagues will help you stay on track and make sure you <strong><em>finish what you started!</em></strong></p><p>I’m going to add one more point, which isn’t expressly mentioned in the original piece that started this ramble: </p><p><strong>Lesson 5: Cultivate outside interests. </strong></p><p>Far too many of us put families, friends, sports, hobbies and anything else that doesn’t taste of work to one side, in pursuit of the all-consuming. It’s not only not healthy, it’s also limiting. The brain needs time off to churn away by itself. You can’t force that unconscious process. Better to take a long walk to admire the flowers than try to twist your brain in knots when you hit a wall. A good night’s sleep is an amazingly effective part of the research process too.</p><p>So there we have it, some thoughts on being a (mid-career) scientist and how I have managed to stay in the game. YMMV as the Americans say.</p><p>Finally, all that I have said relies on having a supportive employer and good colleagues. The sometimes horrifying stories (take for example <a href="https://www.science.org/content/article/women-faculty-feel-pushed-academia-poor-workplace-climate" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">this one</a>) of people being pushed out by bullying colleagues, or structural discrimination is a whole other story. And not one I’m going to take on here, but I would point out that without organisation, labour inevitably gets crushed by capital, so organise, join a union, find out what your rights are and make sure that you have a supportive hinterland to help you get through the bad times. </p><p>And everyday, do just one thing to help you advance.</p><p></p><p><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://sternaparadisaea.net/tag/30daymapchallenge/" target="_blank">#30DayMapChallenge</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://sternaparadisaea.net/tag/acwrimo/" target="_blank">#AcWriMo</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://sternaparadisaea.net/tag/blogging/" target="_blank">#blogging</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://sternaparadisaea.net/tag/job/" target="_blank">#job</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://sternaparadisaea.net/tag/jobs/" target="_blank">#Jobs</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://sternaparadisaea.net/tag/people/" target="_blank">#People</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://sternaparadisaea.net/tag/science/" target="_blank">#Science</a></p>
Gregory Marler<p>I've published the final <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/MapperDiaries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MapperDiaries</span></a> video reviewing the art-like contributions of <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/30DayMapChallenge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>30DayMapChallenge</span></a><br> <br><a href="https://youtu.be/Hk5STOi6V74?si=ELXhgoOoti6Y8rbs" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">youtu.be/Hk5STOi6V74?si=ELXhgo</span><span class="invisible">Ooti6Y8rbs</span></a></p>
Gregory Marler<p>With a Dundee street-art backdrop, part 3 of my <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/30DayMapChallenge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>30DayMapChallenge</span></a> art review video is now online...<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0a24bZk0mlU" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=0a24bZk0ml</span><span class="invisible">U</span></a></p><p>Thank you to: <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mapstodon.space/@jmviglino" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>jmviglino</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mapstodon.space/@AquilaFlower" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>AquilaFlower</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fediscience.org/@tlohde" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>tlohde</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mamot.fr/@CanFre" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>CanFre</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mapstodon.space/@stevefaeembra" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>stevefaeembra</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@gontsa" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>gontsa</span></a></span> for your map contributions.</p>
Gregory Marler<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/@andrewl" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>andrewl</span></a></span> this is clever, thanks for creating it.</p><p>I'm sure I could talk a whole video on "London that's not London" but instead this just got a mention within part 2 of my <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/30DayMapChallenge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>30DayMapChallenge</span></a> art review.<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dutwJKHEv4o" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=dutwJKHEv4</span><span class="invisible">o</span></a></p>
Gregory Marler<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://en.osm.town/@seav" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>seav</span></a></span> the journey of mapping is a great one to illustrate, thanks for creating this.</p><p>I included it in my review of <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/30DayMapChallenge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>30DayMapChallenge</span></a> part 1.<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjWOA61jnVc" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=kjWOA61jnV</span><span class="invisible">c</span></a></p>
Gregory Marler<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mapstodon.space/@stevefaeembra" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>stevefaeembra</span></a></span> so blobby and fun, this is another of your <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/30DayMapChallenge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>30DayMapChallenge</span></a> that I included in my review. Thanks.<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjWOA61jnVc" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=kjWOA61jnV</span><span class="invisible">c</span></a></p>
Gregory Marler<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mapstodon.space/@stevefaeembra" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>stevefaeembra</span></a></span> I can see where I live! (kind of)</p><p>Thanks for contributing, I included this in my review od <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/30DayMapChallenge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>30DayMapChallenge</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjWOA61jnVc" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=kjWOA61jnV</span><span class="invisible">c</span></a></p>
Gregory Marler<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@chwoma" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>chwoma</span></a></span> Funny use of the prompt, thanks.</p><p>I included this in part 1 of my reviewing <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/30DayMapChallenge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>30DayMapChallenge</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjWOA61jnVc" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=kjWOA61jnV</span><span class="invisible">c</span></a></p>
Gregory Marler<p>The start of a 4-part series: Art within the <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/30DayMapChallenge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>30DayMapChallenge</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjWOA61jnVc" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=kjWOA61jnV</span><span class="invisible">c</span></a></p><p>Ideally I would have posted this back in November, but collating all those notes, images, and editing them into the video without always covering my facial expressions... not a speedy task.</p>
Eugene Alvin Villar 🇵🇭<p><a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/30DayMapChallenge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>30DayMapChallenge</span></a> 🗺️ Day 2️⃣8️⃣: The blue planet</p><p>Belated entry and catching up coz I needed a break! 😅</p><p>Anyway, I figured doing a variant of my North American lakes map from 2023 but for the <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/Philippines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Philippines</span></a> 🇵🇭 would be perfect for this day’s theme: <a href="https://en.osm.town/@seav/111382405567490169" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.osm.town/@seav/111382405567</span><span class="invisible">490169</span></a></p><p>Sources and tools: Map data from <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/OpenStreetMap" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenStreetMap</span></a>; top ten lakes from <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/Wikipedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wikipedia</span></a>; rendering via <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/D3js" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>D3js</span></a> using an azimuthal equal-area projection for each of the lakes.</p>
Cédric Vidonne<p>🌍 <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/30DayMapChallenge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>30DayMapChallenge</span></a> 2024 completed!</p><p>I’m proud to share a visual summary of all 30 maps I created this year! Nearly all maps were crafted in <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/rstats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rstats</span></a>, showcasing themes from my work with UNHCR and some focused on Switzerland.</p><p>Full collection: <a href="https://shorturl.at/fgRlS" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">shorturl.at/fgRlS</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/maps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>maps</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/gis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gis</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/dataviz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dataviz</span></a></p>
terence<p>A belated <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/30DayMapChallenge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>30DayMapChallenge</span></a> 2024 round-up. 30 days, 28 visualisations. First time in four years I missed not one, but two. For some reason, it was a pretty rough month. Still mostly the <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/rayverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rayverse</span></a> and <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/rstats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rstats</span></a> where possible.</p>
Benjamin Smith<p>After mentioning {mapBliss} in a large group chat, someone reached out to me and shared that they traveled accross 43 states in the United States of America and would be interested in seeing how it looks on a map. </p><p>I asked him for a list of where he traveled, and these visuals that came came out (with one function (!!)).</p><p>Definitely the biggest set of locations I tried this out on and oh boy, it did not disappoint!</p><p><a href="https://github.com/benyamindsmith/mapBliss" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/benyamindsmith/mapB</span><span class="invisible">liss</span></a></p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/rstats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rstats</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/adventure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>adventure</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/leaflet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>leaflet</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/30daymapchallenge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>30daymapchallenge</span></a></p>
Doug G. (Map of the Week)<p>One final note about the <a href="https://mapstodon.space/tags/30DayMapChallenge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>30DayMapChallenge</span></a> on the blog. I forgot to credit the video's author "hatharock" <a href="https://mapoftheweek.substack.com/p/30-day-map-challenge-one-final-note" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mapoftheweek.substack.com/p/30</span><span class="invisible">-day-map-challenge-one-final-note</span></a> Also, there's an older version of the video here <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2PWTkMakvM" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=J2PWTkMakv</span><span class="invisible">M</span></a></p>