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jamesmacdonald.bsky.social
The cartographic guy in DK travel guides, playing with maps for a living since the last millennium.
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Good morning, 25th January edition.

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Winter morning exercise in the park.

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Outside cafe in Esher collecting croissant crumbs in the pouring rain.

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Waiting for its Christmas gift of half an apple

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Wonderful Q&A at the BFI Southbank today for Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl

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Hello! The Atlas of Design shows off some of the world’s most beautiful and intriguing cartographic design. Every two years, we publish a new volume of full-color maps, selected from worldwide competition and judged by an expert panel. Happy to be part of Bluesky! #maps #cartography #books #design

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A quite monstrous Christmas map effort from @TfL. There's nothing redeeming about this whatsoever.

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Good morning

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#30DayMapChallenge Day 22: 2 colours I thought I'd make life difficult for myself with this one by being strict about only 2 colours. No grey scales; no 2 colours + background colour. Just 2. Halftone dots made up of mini moons to map a big moon: observablehq.com/@jwolondon/t...

submitted 95 days ago • 2 comments

Video showing the carpark of the Blue Lagoon in Iceland being eaten by lava.... Via: MBL on X

submitted 96 days ago • 25 comments

After 5 months the pond liner is down and the rain can do its thing to fill over the next few days

submitted 101 days ago • 1 comment

Pretty certain the neighbour’s cat hates me

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2025 is another not great year for the Severn Bore.

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If, like me, you're increasingly disinclined to pay Adobe's significant annual subs, here are two affordable lifetime-license alternative options I'm seriously looking at: (1) Affinity Designer (recently bought by Flourish-owner, Canva) - affinity.serif.com/en-gb/design... - has a 50% discount

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We're delighted to announce a new future for Ursula's home in Portland, Oregon. The Le Guin family will donate the house to Literary Arts as a site for the Ursula K. Le Guin Writers Residency. apnews.com/article/ursu...

submitted 260 days ago • 10 comments

The BFI Imax only has storage space for one more Christopher Nolan film.

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Goodyear Europa. Fairoaks Airfield, Surrey 1984

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Winter bee

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January sunrise

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January’s full (Wolf) moon over London last night.

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Paperback cover dropped! ADORING this vibe

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How do you like your pies? Here's a fresh serving of 'moonpies' - a new flavour of pie symbology with a downloadable style for ArcGIS Pro. Read about it in my blog 'Pie in the sky' www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/...

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After 11 days stuck sick at home I finally made it out for a walk this morning.

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outside the window of the HSBC

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“Santa Claus in the [first] Goodyear Blimp “Pilgrim”” (1925, via www.airships.net/blog/santa-r...)

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It’s always an omen when your phone wasn’t connected properly and didn’t charge overnight. 18% and falling.

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Finding the book you spent three years working on at the national theatre bookshop is a treat. A great Christmas gift etc etc etc

submitted 441 days ago • 0 comments

A wonderful intro to a film I regret not rewatching more. Thanks @chrishewitt.bsky.social, for hosting.

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Good morning

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All drama at office - power cut / fire combo

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Final prep now complete for this week's final episode recordings for Season 4 of 'Explore Explain'. Ep 8 features @denisedslu.bsky.social, as we explore her side-project visualising the variety and variability of tracks played by 'Pavement' on their reunion tour. www.deniselu.com/sandbox/pave...

submitted 457 days ago • 1 comment

Dinosaurs, consider yourselves avenged

submitted 463 days ago • 41 comments

We’ve had a guest all afternoon. Thanks police helicopter, drop by again anytime.

submitted 465 days ago • 0 comments

Back to exercising through autumn mornings in Home Park.

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www.ruv.is/frettir/innl... The town is cracking, good luck Grindavik

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Good morning 10/11/23

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Following the reports from Iceland with nervous fascination. I went to witness the volcanic eruption in 2021 and it was awe-inspiring. I hope this one is as isolated and calm as the last few.

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I've not mentioned it on here but you should all look at a book we put together this year. Huge amounts of research and fact finding went into this and really happy it's out there.

submitted 473 days ago • 1 comment

Anyone interested in the world of cartography should investigate this series. I’m assuming their misaligned spins are a delightful design detail

submitted 474 days ago • 0 comments

Walked to the cafe used in the A-ha video Take on Me the other day. Just around the corner from my new office. maps.app.goo.gl/qnAwDMyT1eMT....

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Today is Wu Tang day in NYC, They named the Paul’s Boutique crossroads after the Beastie Boys and Boston had a Riot Grrl day. London for all it’s ground breaking acts always feels like it’s missing celebrating its musical history.

submitted 474 days ago • 1 comment

Thankfully the garden bin is full.

submitted 475 days ago • 1 comment