William B. Davis

How Trump Sees the World: It’s Personal (Gift Article) Historical relationships play little if any role in the second-term worldview of the president, who holds himself as the constant center of global events.

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 🎁
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Weeknotes, 2026W04: Boundary Issues I recently nerd-sniped myself into thinking about political points of view on maps, and wondering whether it’d be possible to create…

I recently nerd-sniped myself into thinking about political points of view on maps, and wondering whether it’d 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...)

Washington Post Begins Laying Off More Than 300 Journalists

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 Async-GeoTIFF - async-geotiff A fast, async GeoTIFF and Cloud-Optimized GeoTIFF (COG) reader for Python.

Introducing 𝐀𝐬𝐲𝐧𝐜-𝐆𝐞𝐨𝐓𝐈𝐅𝐅, 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

#mapping #cartography #datajournalism #visualjournalism | Lauren Tierney 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: Data Visualization Journalist at The Seatt...

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, 4–6 Nov 2026 for Visualising Climate — 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

Why It’s Hard to Run Venezuela Venezuela sprawls over terrain twice the size of California, with vast tracts of treacherous jungles, steep mountains and cities filled with guns.

From NYT World:
(Gif link)

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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 🙃 (with a big assist from
@willbdavis.bsky.social )

Follow along our “slow blog” as Ray and Chang join a team of scientists traveling to Antarctica:
🎁🔗 www.nytimes.com/live/2025/cl...

The Complex Deportation Network Behind Trump’s Immigration Crackdown (Gift Article) An analysis of data on every ICE arrest, detention stay and deportation reveals the complexity and reach of President Trump’s immigration crackdown.

From NYT National:

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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? 🎁 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. (Gift Article) Melting ice from the Himalayas is creating thousands of unstable lakes, a growing menace to towns and cities below.

A Dead Glacier Is a Loss. A Dying One Is a Threat. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Reminded me of this: labs.mapbox.com/bites/00375/

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/...

New York Is Going to Flood. Here’s What the City Can Do to Survive. Adaptation is a matter of survival, and the city may have to throw every solution available at a worsening situation.

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. 🛰️🗺️

Intensification of hurricane #melissa overnight www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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How China Raced Ahead of the U.S. on Nuclear Power The United States was once the undisputed leader in atomic energy. Now it is trying to catch up.

From NYT Climate, via @harrystevens.bsky.social and @bradplumer.bsky.social

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I've always manually built colortables in qgis. Would be nice to see an example of one being generated with python

I've started processing NOAA's MRMS data to show near real-time storm impacts. Here's the latest from storm Imelda: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...