Originally posted at the Esri Viewpoint blog, here. Each year my siblings and our families gather at my father’s home in Mackinaw City, Michigan and spend the better part of a week procrastinating the inevitable forced structure of the annual family photograph. Pausing the beautiful chaos of the gathering for the brief formality of cramming … Continue reading Thinking about the Earth at Night
These maps were tediously cut, stacked, and stitched by hand. Took me forever but it was worth it. Also, I am lying these are digital maps. Here is an ArcGIS Pro resource to get cracking away at felting your own maps. And I do some pondering at the end of this blog post about why … Continue reading Felted Cartography
The freezing of Arctic and Antarctic waters is a seasonal pulse of our planet. The maps below show ice extents, per month, since 1979. This map shows 40 years of sea ice extents, color-coded by month . It’s interesting to see the oscillation between the opposite seasons of the North and South Poles. As the … Continue reading Historic Sea Ice Extents
Well shoot, I was just digging around my folders for something else and discovered this hillshade amplified map of a portion of the Grand Canyon that I did a couple years ago and forgot about. Anyway, I thought it was kind of neat so here it is, somewhat unforgotten… Happy Mapping! John Continue reading Random Map of the Grand Canyon
Are are some snapshots of a method using a handful of offset hillshade angles, each with a neighboring color wheel color. The result is a chromatic optical sense of surface elevation. Slightly different than a flattened single-band multidirectional method and way different than an aspect map. If you are interested in how do to it … Continue reading Throwing Shade: Gallery
Here are some examples of using selective hillshading styles based on a Glaciers masking layer. Glacial hillshade is icy and non-glacial hillshade is earthy. Here’s a how-to. Southern Andes… Southern Greenland… Alaska Range… Alps… Caucasus… Western Himalayas… Here’s a shoddy video if you are inclined to give it a go… Continue reading Selective Hillshading
Here is a scan of a tall accordion-style journal map of the Appalachian Trail. JK, it’s all digital. If you are interested in learning how.why it was made, you can check out the nerdy how-to here. In the meantime, wouldn’t this actually be a pretty cool thing to have printed? Continue reading Appalachian Trail Map Journal
