Josh Ryan

This lasts a surprisingly long time

a colorful gouache painting of a female belted kingfisher with a colorful abstract starry background. There is a crescent moon behind it and its holding a star in its beak

Queenfisher 🪶
6x6" Gouache on Watercolor Paper
Art from my time up at the cabin in September, I really want to do more birds like this :)

Lovely map of French castles by Jean-Claude Golvin. Which one to visit first?

#KPopDemonHunters #PopVsSoda

Cincinnati in 50 Maps Edited by Nick Swartsell with cartography by Andy Woodruff Publication date: December 2, 2025   There are as many versions of Greater Cincinnati as there are residents of the region. That’s roughly tw...

Cincinnati in 50 Maps, by Nick Swartsell and me, is off to the printer, so you can get your pre-orders in now for the December launch! beltpublishing.com/products/cin...

Get this, folks: I counted and there are 125 individual maps. That's 75 extra maps for free!

Map of Europe during the most recent Ice Age (the last glacial maximum) - 20,000 years ago.

Made with ArcGIS, Photoshop, Illustrator & Blender. Raw image is roughly 12K in size. #geology #paleoart #sciart #GIS #maps ( #PrehistoricPlanet !!whoo)

Kingfisher hunting for fish in the water
Ohara Koson (1877-1945)

Plotting distributions. 16 different ways to visualize one data set.

The list is by no means exhaustive, HOPs, horizon charts and I'm sure other charts can be and have been used to show distributions. But attached is a handy one pager to summarize all the methods discussed here

YOOOO my talk at @nacis.bsky.social has been accepted and it looks like I'll be making 2025 a Triple Conference Year.

Folks are so curious about The Map Center and I honestly love telling the story over and over and over again. See you in Louisville!

Stained glass mosaic of a jellyfish with fish caught in a tentacle on an upcycled wood skim board.

Finished!

“Jellyfish”
20” x 41 1/2”
Stained glass all careful cut by hand and lovingly adhered to an upcycled wood skimboard. Ready to hang on a wall.
(Available for purchase.)

#mosaic #art #annemarieprice

The fun part is, the geography of the city is such that the national park is the only place with any elevation, so it's a one to one mapping of contours and park and nothing else

Thanks for the flag. Reposted

Typographic map of Chiang Mai, Thailand done in English and Thai

Finished a several year long project - a Axis Maps style typographic map of Chiang Mai, Thailand. Done in both English and Thai.

detail of map scraps sewn together in a radial star-shaped pattern

detail of a grid of collaged map scraps sewn together

Cutting apart old maps, discontinued currency, and flags, Faith XLVII sews them back together into patterned tapestries.

www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/06/fait...

The Wisconsin cartographer who mapped Tolkien’s fantasy world Rob Ferrett and Beatrice Lawrence from WPR's "Wisconsin Today" went to see Karen Wynn Fonstad’s original hand-drawn maps in-person.

Karen Wynn Fonstad, was a Wisconsin cartographer who created dozens of maps that went into "The Atlas of Middle-earth," the official geographic guide to the worlds of author J.R.R. Tolkien: "The Hobbit" and The Lord of the Rings."

A new quest: to digitize her original maps, and find an archive.

The 2025 NACIS Annual Meeting will be in Louisville, KY, Oct 15-18! We invite you to submit abstract proposals for presentations in the Main Conference or Practical Cartography Day or to organize specialty themed sessions, discussion panels, workshops and field trips. Submissions due May 15, 2025.

Wemby playing Chess in Washington Square Park

The Seventh Seal, directed by Ingmar Bergman, 1957, 📸 of @wemby by @johnhateclub

I randomly found it, but W.E.B. Du Bois once provided a pronunciation guide to his last name (per the Du Bois Freedom Center)

Image of the Black Mountains in North Carolina, cast in a gradient reminiscent of sunset hues: orange at the top to dark purple at the bottom. Summits are labeled with their names and elevations.

Image of Half Dome and its surroundings in Yosemite National Park, cast in a gradient of yellowish blue. Summits are labeled with their names and elevations.

Image of the Front Range in Rocky Mountain National Park, cast in a gradient of yellow to red. Summits are labeled with their names and elevations.

A favorite recent project: Peakscapes. I love the layered looks you get in the #mountains, and I always want to be able to name everything in view. These designs provide a cleaner, more idealized view of the landscape than a photo can.

Are they #maps? Or geographic art? I'm not sure.

#30DayMapChallenge Jour28/ Day28 - Planète bleue / Bonne journée de la Méditerranée

Map of the world in the Fuller projection. Made with black oceans, gray land, and gold projection borders and gold lat/long lines.

Day 26 of the #30DayMapChallenge - Projections

I made this for @pinakographos.bsky.social projections card set. Such a great project.

Independent Map Sellers A shopping guide offered by the Independent Map Artists

The Independent Map Artists now has a website: mapartists.org!

It's a hub for you to find all sorts of posters, shirts, and other gifts for the map nerds in your life.

Many of us sell in our own small shops, but we're stronger together. Spread the word!

NACIS.ORG The North American Cartographic Information Society (NACIS) is an enjoyable society of map enthusiasts. We have yearly meetings, an online discussion forum, and we work on a variety of projects and pu...

This is fun. I would love to see a whole series of these.

You might be interested in one of these which has a variation on it: nacis.org/product/map-...

A basketball that is also a globe, displayed on a shelf. The globe features political boundaries and labels, and a prominent blue ocean bathymetry.

Here’s a recent-ish thing that I didn’t post here at the time: I helped Kirk Goldsberry design this globe basketball, puzzling through map projections to get something close to matching each of the eight segments on the ball. A bit more about it here: andywoodruff.com/posts/2024/a...

I was given the nickname Kingfisher while working in Burma. I had been doing some life guarding on a white water river and the orange hair jumping into the river to grab people was an obvious inspiration. 😂

Wendy Shijia is wizarding again.

"Experimenting with the #DeepPaint addon in #Blender to 'paint' a landscape - coloring a 3D model of landscape generated from USGS lidar point cloud data."

www.linkedin.com/posts/wendys...

a basketball that is also a globe

This is art.

CP3 and Wemby

Marie-Thérèse, Face and Profile, by Pablo Picasso, 1931, 📸 by @reginaldthomas
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Reginald is one of my absolute favorite hoops photographers - truly embracing Sports & Art - and I strongly encourage you to check out his work (@reginaldthomas on instagram - link isn’t working for some reason)

A blackout poem made using the OSM Street map of the Tacoma area

#30DayMapChallenge | Day 5 | Journey

A poem I made for the @nacis.bsky.social map quilt.

A Journey Of Celebration
Mountain Maple
an Old Bonsai
Children
A Valley Sunrise
Gethseman
A Bent Tree
The Birch, Alder, & Juniper
a Common Truth