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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

The Mapper Capturing Decades of Earth’s History Through 1,000+ Maps Discover how mapper Harry Stranger "SpaceFromSpace" has uploaded over 1,000 maps to Soar, including rare satellite imagery from the 1960s. Explore how his passion helps preserve Earth’s history for ev...

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-...

Sam Altman on X: "Peter Steinberger is joining OpenAI to drive the next generation of personal agents. He is a genius with a lot of amazing ideas about the future of very smart agents interacting with each other to do very useful things for people. We expect this will quickly become core to our" / X Peter Steinberger is joining OpenAI to drive the next generation of personal agents. He is a genius with a lot of amazing ideas about the future of very smart agents interacting with each other to do very useful things for people. We expect this will quickly become core to our

OpenAI hired the openclaw guy.

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

Do maps distort our view of the world? William Rankin’s ‘Radical Cartography’ makes a powerful case against mainstream mapmaking’s creation of an orderly, objective reality

Good review of what seems to be a very interesting book that I must pick up: www.ft.com/content/06db...

Very nice!

¿De dónde son tus vecinos? El mapa calle a calle de los extranjeros Uno de cada cinco habitantes de España nació en otro país. EL PAÍS visualiza sus orígenes sobre un mapa extremadamente detallado, desde los europeos en la costa a los americanos en las grandes ciudade...

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!

Sentinel-2 explores night vision After more than 10 years in orbit, the first Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellite, Sentinel-2A, is still finding new ways to contribute to Earth observation. With its younger siblings, Sentinel-2B and Sent...

More info 👇 www.esa.int/Applications...

Really cool maps, I must buy that magazine!

The dimming of fireflies Some maps I create for fun in a collection I call Funtography

I just uploaded some new stuff to Funtography: mhinfographics.github.io/funtography/18
Visit my maps blog to learn more about the story behind this new series of maps I worked on in 2025.

Carte : L’heure vraie en France 🇫🇷
Quand il est 12 heures à Saumur, il est 12h29 à Nice et seulement 11h58 à Bordeaux. Et entre Brest et Nice c'est presque 1 heure. #ManuelGeographie de Pernet aux Éditions Hachette - 1956 #HeureVraie #LeCartographe #France #Carte

A preview of four articles from Nexo Jornal, including data visualization. These snippets are from a portfolio published by Nexo Jornal featuring all of their visual work from 2025.

A compilation of the most clicked maps on maps.com. Shown is a selection of three, including a map about the aurora and one about shipwrecks. Published by maps.com.

This is a compilation of charts published by McKinsey & Company, each explaining an important topic related to the year 2025, such as electric vehicles or the usage of AI.

Three visualizations that won or received an honorable mention in the 2025 Swiss Viz Award. The topics they cover include women in labor and biodiversity. Published by Swiss Viz.

Happy New Year! 🎉 While the Data Vis Dispatch is still on holiday break, we’ve rounded up the best-of-2025 lists celebrating data journalism, visualizations, and the people behind them. See something we missed? Send it our way, and we’ll happily include it!

www.datawrapper.de/blog/data-vi...

🚀 The QGIS Timelapse Plugin v0.2.0 has been released! 🎉 You can now overlay vector datasets (like administrative boundaries and roads) on your satellite imagery. 🌍✨