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I was finally able to see my NYC elevation visualisations in real life. The orthographic views were made in Blender with Google's 3D tiles.

Timeline titled "How Long Do Animals Live?". It displays various animals along a horizontal axis marked with years from 0 to 150, indicating their average lifespans. Insects are shown with a very short lifespan. Small mammals like rats and mice live around 3 years. Other animals shown with increasing lifespans include hares, toads, foxes, squirrels, eels, blackbirds (around 10 years), chickens, canaries, dogs, cats, woodpeckers, wolves, sheep, lions, reindeer, elk, crocodiles, ravens, herons, gulls, doves, ostriches, carp, horses, dromedary camels (around 30 years), hippopotamuses, cranes (around 40 years), owls, bears (around 50 years), swans, parrot geese, rhinoceroses (around 50 years), elephants (around 60 years), pearl mussels, whales (around 70 years), and giant tortoises with the longest lifespan, exceeding 150 years. The animals are represented by silhouettes, and a legend indicates the color-coding for different animal classes: red for mammals, black for birds, blue for other vertebrates, and yellow for invertebrates.

Classic isotype infographic from the 1940s

(note: some data is now considered inaccurate. So here's an updated 'modern' version from Encyclopedia Brittanica. infographic.tv/data-visuali...)

Love the casual roasting of shapefiles, by ChatGPT out of nowhere! #GIS #maps

Bathymetry visualisation. Work in progress #30DayMapChallenge - Water #b3d - late but many things in the pipeline :)

This 3D view puts that data on modern London, showing today's streets, buildings & scale.
Myth: The map stopped the outbreak. Reality: The outbreak was fading. The map was the crucial post-peak proof for Snow's waterborne theory!

1854 Cholera Outbreak in modern-day Soho, London. #30DayMapChallenge - Day 1 - Points.
You probably know Snow's foundational 2D map from GIS/Epidemiology class. Maybe you've walked past the landmark pump. I brought it back into present-day Soho.

The #30DayMapChallenge 2025 begins soon, the categories are out! Completing all 30 maps is not the objective, just create a few. Here is a selection from the ones I made last year!

3D map dream project alert!!

Downtown LA × Hollywood - Elevation visualization concept map. Experimental design. #b3d

London in 3D concept. #Day4 of sharing work-in-progress - Open access LiDAR DSM data, 50cm, 2017. #b3d

Jakarta in motion, design concept.
#Day3 of sharing work-in-progress. #3Dmap

Vessel Density Visualization (behind the scenes), #Day6 of sharing work-in-progress . Data from Emodnet December 2022⬇️. #b3d #gis

Orthographic City Design 0722 | Chicago OSM
#Day31 of sharing work-in-progress. 3D maps are cool :)

The Geology of the Moon. Still frames from my experimental animation. #b3d

fantastic project/data/idea!

Downtown LA × Hollywood - Elevation visualization concept map. Experimental design. #b3d

A mesmerizing time-lapse of the Sun in ultraviolet light, captured by the Solar Dynamics Observatory spacecraft over a month.

-Credits: NASA

Thanks!! I will make more of these for sure :) Is there any city you would like to see?

Orthographic City Design 0722 | Chicago OSM
#Day31 of sharing work-in-progress. 3D maps are cool :)

Do you know NYC Midtown's top 6 highest buildings and surroundings? Have a look, here is an experimental orthographic view I made! #gis #b3d

World population 1950-2100 visualisation BTS. #Day5 of sharing work-in-progress. Blender view, analysis in #Rstats | Experimental #dataviz animated cartogram - UN Population Prospects data portal ⬇️

“The Batmap” | An experiment with New York City data. #Day26 of sharing work-in-progress. A playful twist on “the bad map” that inspired this cinematic rendering, created in #Blender3D with Google 3D Map Tiles from late 2023. #batman

One of my favourite data discoveries this year: Google's mind-blowing ARCO-ERA5 dataset: hourly data for ~300 climate variables, available globally from 1940! 🤯

Loadable with a single line of Python code from a single cloud-friendly Zarr file! Below: a month of wind waves + swell: 🌊

Bridges to the City of London*, meshes and render. #Day7 of sharing work-in-progress. ⬇️ Experimental 3D map in #b3d

Two world maps and a chart from The Economist showing which countries share greater trade with the US or with China. In the first map, labelled 2000, most countries trade more with the US than with China; in the second map, labelled 2020, most countries trade more with China. The chart shows that China's comparative share of global trade has increased from less than 25% to nearly 75% in 20 years

Chart from The Economist showing the net favourability of the US and China in 100 countries. In 2022, China had net negative favourability while the US was positive; in 2025 their positions have reversed

Charts that will be studied by historians, an occasional series

Sea Surface Wind: January 10-12th 2025. Exploring innovative ways to display climate data of our beautiful planet. Globe & map visualisation made for @copernicusmarine.bsky.social #Day22 of sharing work in progress 🌍 🔊 #b3d

“The Batmap” | An experiment with New York City data. #Day26 of sharing work-in-progress. A playful twist on “the bad map” that inspired this cinematic rendering, created in #Blender3D with Google 3D Map Tiles from late 2023. #batman

This map shows the hour of sunrise globally through the year. It reveals time zones following national and, sometimes, regional boundaries, and slicing through the oceans.

This wonderful little map by @Julian_H0ffmann shows nothing but the lakes and rivers of Switzerland.

I remastered the survivor bias meme. Honestly, hoping this one does blow up. Make good use of it!