Job opening at @upshot.nytimes.com
Come help us explain the news!
We're looking for a visual journalist and graphics developer to report, write, design and code data-driven stories and visualizations.
Details here: www.nytco.com/careers/job-...
Interactive Maps and Charts: Tracking the Northeast Winter Storm
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
I've just added three KH-7 images of the Matochkin Shar Nuclear Test Site to the declassified imagery gallery. These shots are gorgeous. There's something about film and snowy landscapes.
October 4, 1965: spacefromspace.com/declassified...
May 26, 1967: spacefromspace.com/declassified...
cont.
Trump's View Of the World
Even on a global scale, the president's attitudes reflect a fixation on a single subject: himself.
GIFT LINK π
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
I recently nerd-sniped myself into thinking about political points of view on maps, and wondering whether itβd be possible to create OpenStreetMap-derived, Wikipedia-informed national borders on a Protomaps base map legal for educational use in countries in conflict.
medium.com/@michalmigur...
At 3D map of Denali with a route from the glacier up to the summit pictured in orange.
Starting to look alright. Added line rendering, pictured here
Jack Kuenzle's FKT route (www.strava.com/activities/9...)
My thoughts are with the +300 colleagues who were laid off today. This is not good for the industry www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/b...
Introducing ππ¬π²π§π-πππ¨πππ
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, a new library for reading GeoTIFFs and COGs. developmentseed.org/async-geotif...
- Fast, with a Rust core
- Uses a non-blocking thread pool for image decoding
- Integrates with NumPy, PyProj, Affine & Morecantile
- Remote data support with Obstore
- No GDAL dependency
The last few weeks I've seen a lot of great job opportunities shared, listing a few that stood out to me in the mapping/cartography/visual journalism space:
www.linkedin.com/posts/lauren...
Join us in Bologna, Italy, 4β6 Nov 2026 for Visualising Climate β the first global conference fully dedicated to climate data visualization and its power to transform public understanding of a changing planet. Come see the data.
visualisingclimate.org
#VisualisingClimate2026 #DataVis #ClimateCrisis
Playing with elevation data in #Blender. This is the #Toronto and Region Conservation Authority (TRCA) boundary which includes all of the watersheds that converge in Toronto. Going to try draping some orthophotos and land cover data over this. Other ideas?
#Maps #Mapping #GIS #3D #dataviz
From NYT World:
(Gif link)
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
So smooth!
Added some contour lines
willymaps.github.io/experiments/...
A map of California with a shaded relief layer and drop shadow.
Building drop shadows with #turfjs
willymaps.github.io/experiments/...
A map of the globe that shows the southern hemisphere, including New Zealand on the top left and Antarctica in the bottom center. The map shows the path of a ship that will travel from New Zealand to the West Antarctic and back between December 2025 and February 2026.
No time like a holiday deadline to learn MapLibre and how to run a cron job for the first time π (with a big assist from
@willbdavis.bsky.social )
Follow along our βslow blogβ as Ray and Chang join a team of scientists traveling to Antarctica:
ππ www.nytimes.com/live/2025/cl...
The basemap for the top map in this story is built off of this experiment I shared earlier in the year with @maplibre.org and the shaded relief archive: willymaps.github.io/shadedrelief/
Will You Have a White Christmas This Year? π www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Bringing back the bugle mountains with this work in progress.
Map of NYC surface parking lots
Fun little exploratory project. I mapped transit oriented surface parking lots in NYC and applied recent development densities to estimate housing potential.
Link at the end.
#NYC #Planning #Dataviz #mapping #maps #map #housing
A Dead Glacier Is a Loss. A Dying One Is a Threat. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Map of 24-hour snowfall accumulation around Lake Michigan.
Tracking snowfall around Lake Michigan overnight and into today w/ @nazaneentv.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/w...
Maps showing freezing temperatures across the contiguous United States between Sunday Nov. 9 and Friday Nov. 14, 2025.
Chart showing the actual and "feels like" temperature for Chicago between Saturday Nov. 8 and Friday Nov. 14, 2025.
@nytweather.bsky.social relaunched a freezing temperature tracker for this season. Check it out here: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Been obsessed with local flood hotspots since my ground floor apartment flooded during Hurricane Sandy. Seems like a good day to share this beautiful look at NYC's flood risk and some solutions the city is exploring (feat. lovely @nunderwood6.bsky.social maps!):
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
12 hours of Hurricane #Melissa, one frame every minute. π°οΈπΊοΈ
Intensification of hurricane #melissa overnight www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Iβve spent years collecting tools, datasets, maps, and other interesting links Iβve come across through my work and passion. Iβm organizing everything into one place: If youβd like to get it when itβs out, you can subscribe here: pablorobles.substack.com/about
