This breathtaking visualisation from @thenasaearth.bsky.social's shows how the ICESat-2 laser altimeter has provided us with a staggering amount of geodetic information for Earth allowing us to track vital signs svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5616
Didn't learn anything new but still a very enjoyable episode: 99percentinvisible.org/episode/661-...
Here's a brief cartographic exploration of Brittany's resident population by age, using Eurostat gridded data at 1km resolution ! Thread: ↪️
#map #gis #demography #gischat #cartography
Géographie des bibliothèques en France
L'Atlas des bibliothèques territoriales (Ministère de la Culture, 2024) fournit des cartes et des données très utiles pour dessiner une géographie des bibliothèques et des points d'accès aux livres en France
cartonumerique.blogspot.com/2026/02/geog...
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Me writing an email: “AI makes mistakes, check your work.”
Department of Defense: “When if we hooked it up to a machine gun”
The researchers estimated that over the course of the study period, roughly 115,000 cancer deaths across the U.S. (or about 6,400 deaths per year) were attributable to proximity to Nuclear Power Plants.
hsph.harvard.edu/news/proximi...
Why do I have to pretend that I'm going to print something in order to save it as a PDF. Why do I have to engage in a little ruse.
Very nicely done, looks epic!
A frame with two 3D printed relief maps of Rhode Island and the Rhode Island Salt Ponds, which are being backlit from within the frame
A closeup of the backlit Rhode Island/surrounding ocean relief map
A closeup of the backlit Salt Ponds relief map
wanted to share a little about a 3D printing/electronics project that I finished recently as a gift: this light-up relief map of Rhode Island and its Salt Ponds
This massive milestone continues to inspire our whole team. Harry’s work has made data more accessible, explorable, and easy to understand.
We’re honored to work alongside him in our shared mission to make maps of all kinds more interesting to explore.
about.soaratlas.com/blogs/the-ma...
Very cool and so easy to access/navigate
A large mosaic of 700 thumbnails of declassified spy satellite images on spacefromspace.com
A screenshot of a dark world map with many coloured outlines representing the areas covered by satellite images on spacefromspace.com.
spacefromspace.com/declassified... is now home to over 700 georeferenced spy satellite images of locations all over the world taken between 1960 and 1984!
I've also published a new, very experimental, map view search method for all images available on the website: spacefromspace.com/declassified...
Tout quitter et partir en Irlande 🇮🇪
Great piece from @dsquareddigest.bsky.social, which touches on one of the big theories for why English-speaking countries do especially badly at housebuilding:
Adversarial and litigious common law systems (Anglo) vs judge-led civil law systems elsewhere.
samf.substack.com/p/build-the-...
A special FT magazine issue all about maps is out today, w great pieces by @okr.bsky.social and @theboysmithy.ft.com, plus maps by me on how glacial melt is redrawing Alpine borders, the battle to redraw America and more
Read it online here (though best enjoyed in print!) www.ft.com/content/efab...
A lexis diagram - essentially a heatmap showing rates of death from transport accidents by age and over time from 2001-2024 in Scotland. For men in the 2000s there was a clear peak in deaths at ages 15-35 (plus a smaller one in the oldest age groups). But around 2010 this basically disappeared, and now all age groups have similarly, much lower, rates of transport accident deaths. For women the pattern is similar, albeit at a much lower level, except that in the early 2000s there were more deaths in older, rather than younger adults.
I was looking at some Scottish cause of death data yesterday and the extent to which transport accident deaths in young men have all but disappeared is pretty remarkable.
Nice to find a good news story in this data for a change.
Very fond of this Mr Hyde by Grickle, look at that lovely Mr Hyde face
Good review of what seems to be a very interesting book that I must pick up: www.ft.com/content/06db...
Very nice!
Un Espagnol sur cinq est né à l'étranger. Le journal EL PAÍS visualise leurs origines sur une carte extrêmement détaillée, des Européens du littoral aux Américains des grandes villes
elpais.com/espana/2026-...
Coming soon: Hyperscalers roll out new mud-covered roofs for their data centers to hide their thermal signatures like Schwarzenegger in Predator
Wow, such a clear pattern and an excellent way you've visualised it!
This #map title could be "Retirement with a sea view in Belgium".
See online version on Eurostat website: tinyurl.com/2ps59n6a
These images from 15 December 2025 show Earth’s atmosphere in terms of temperature and humidity — data that will support more accurate weather forecasting, especially for nowcasting rapidly evolving storms.
These images from 15 December 2025 show Earth’s atmosphere in terms of temperature and humidity — data that will support more accurate weather forecasting, especially for nowcasting rapidly evolving storms.
📸 The first official images from @eumetsat.int's MTG-S1 satellite are in 👀
🔗 esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/Meteorological_missions/meteosat_third_generation/Europe_s_next-generation_weather_satellite_sends_back_first_images
@thalesaleniaspace.bsky.social
Drone shot of Qeqertaq Avannarleq (Martin Nissen, 2021) . Source: Arctic Today.
For a brief time in 2021, the northernmost land in the world was considered to be the newly discovered island of Qeqertaq Avannarleq north of Greenland.
But it would soon be revealed that it was just an iceberg.
Haha, love it
Multivariate map of Canada showing environmental vulnerabilities – biodiversity loss, water stress, soil degradation, and deforestation – alongside accumulated climate events from the past several years – including floods, wildfires, long-term sea level rise, and droughts. The map combines these eight impacts via small pie charts, that when combined represent the intensity of climate-change risks.
Eight small maps of Canada arranged in a grid showing climate change vulnerabilities – biodiversity loss, water stress, soil degradation, and deforestation – alongside accumulated climate events from the past several years – including floods, wildfires, long-term sea level rise, and droughts
couple interesting maps of climate change vulnerability across Canada by Isabeaux Graham on our team
check out more here: schoolofcities.utoronto.ca/layers-of-cl...
#maps #gis #canada #climateChange
That is really cool!
That is really cool!
