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Geographer + accidental cartographer. Posting about geography, maps & more. https://geoviews.net/
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Hawaii observatory to be evicted amid federal cuts www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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The UK’s academic recession is in full swing www.ft.com/content/0ec7...

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Snowy with a chance of meatbags: An upbeat weather forecast by my favourite weather app Carrot (give it a go: www.meetcarrot.com)

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Biocubes: a visual story of the living and the built biocubes.net

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Defense Against Dishonest Charts flowingdata.com/projects/dis...

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Deutschland 25

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RIP Peter Haggett I vividly remember the first geography book I purchased as a first-year undergraduate in 1998. It made me realise how much more geography really is beyond what I had learnt at school.

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Mapping Favourite Colours - An Interactive ArcGIS Story Map storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/d51f...

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GIS for Kids www.geographyrealm.com/gis-for-kids/

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Nusantara Atlas - From Rice Fields to Beach Clubs, and Sprawling Cities: 60 years of Change in Southern Bali map.nusantara-atlas.org

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Community estimate of global glacier mass changes from 2000 to 2023 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Heart-shaped maps www.geographyrealm.com/heart-shaped...

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Gulf of ______? Google (first map) quickly falling in line with the US administration's guidance that was adopted by the US Geographic Names Information System (GNIS), while Apple (second map) still being reluctant. blog.google/products/map...

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Well done - not even a week in Iceland and already leading the way :-)

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Disappearing landscapes: The Arctic at +2.7°C global warming www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Visionscarto’s World Atlas: Natural Earth data revisited to reflect the UN's position on the integrity of Ukraine & the non-self-governing territory of Western Sahara as well as 3 self-governing entities with an undecided UN status: Somaliland, Taiwan, and Kosovo observablehq.com/@visionscart...

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Natural Earth is an amazing effort and valuable dataset. But I absolutely disagree with their 2022 decision to have Crimea connected to Russia as a default in their countries baselayer. Many users will adopt this in their maps without even noticing. Should this not at least be a separate polygon?

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Lightning in Iceland - a rare sight. Lightning striking Hallgrímskirkja in Reykjavík - what are the odds? (video via www.visir.is/g/2025268495...)

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How do place names evolve? Örnefni, an ancient Icelandic term, highlights how human interactions and landscape changes shape place names english.hi.is/news/how-do-...

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Mercator extreme: Build the much beloved Mercator projection by substituting any point on earth as the "pole" mrgris.com/projects/mer...

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Working with Colours in R nrennie.rbind.io/blog/colours...

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'Anything that can be built can be taken down': The largest dam removal in US history is complete www.bbc.com/future/artic...

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Regional and institutional trends in assessment for academic promotion www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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We are deeply saddened by the passing of Yves Cabannes, a visionary urban planner and advocate for habitat-related human rights who supported our Coalition since its founding. His dedication to equitable development will continue to inspire us🌍 www.hic-net.org/honoring-the... #YvesCabannes

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Playing for the Planet? A Serious Game Approach to Land Use Planning with Students in Rural Iceland www.mdpi.com/2075-4698/15...

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End of the year! ✨🎄🎇 So here we've got a special Data Vis Dispatch for you: it comes from the whole Datawrapper team. We're sharing our favorite visualizations of 2024. Take a look here 🎁  https://blog.datawrapper.de/data-vis-dispatch-december-17-2024/ and tell us: what were your favorites?

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Dear Santa…

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Remote Communities in Transition: Join us in the Westfjords of Iceland for the 2025 Summer School in the Islands as Laboratories for Sustainability series. Apply now! tinyurl.com/islas2025

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Lights in the North (Reykjavík, Iceland, 29 August 2024)

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Don’t forget to also follow @worldmapper.bsky.social

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In Focus: Mapping Disillusionment: The 2024 US Presidential Election journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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NASA Earth Observatory: Lava near the Blue Lagoon earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/15363...

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3D Model of the volcanic eruption site on the Reykjanes Peninsula in Iceland (updated 28 Nov 2024) sketchfab.com/3d-models/su...

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Lego maps made with #RStats Tutorial posted on R Graph Gallery: r-graph-gallery.com/web-chorople...

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Winter afternoon

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#30DayMapChallenge: Day 22: Two Colours A simple map of Sheffield city with a nice pink/grey combo, again using OSM. Not much else to say about it other than that.

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Love Bradfield, used to live there just between High and Low many moons ago :-)

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William Hague.

submitted 124 days ago • 1 comment

The Great German-Icelandic Bake Off: Presenting the Kartenkeks (Map Cookie). What took me so long to get a map shaped cookie cutter into my collection (courtesy of the German Embassy in Reykjavík)? A gap in the kitchen drawer that needs to be filled quickly!

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Reykjanes Peninsula from above: Photographer Hörður Kristleifsson captured a 360 degree panorama from the area of the latest volcanic eruption in the Southwest Icelandic, providing some great geographic context. Explore it interactively at kuula.co/share/hLKLf?...

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An animated hachure #terrain doodle I made last night/today, varying the line density parameter in my script across 30 frames.

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