Cartonaut

Ohh wow, feel better soon, glad that whatever is going on has only momentarily slowed you down and your good attitude snd gratitude is intact.

Older folks are constantly complaining to me about how young people don't use maps.
Of course, I tell them. What would a kid need a map for? We don't let them go anywhere.

If you love maps, exploring and childhoods that are full of adventure, independence and curiosity, we must protect mobility.

a baby elephant is running down a dirt road in front of a safari vehicle . ALT: a baby elephant is running down a dirt road in front of a safari vehicle .

Wow, late to the party for Elephant Gym, but so glad to working out my ears with their zippy flow.

CASE 580EV Electrified Backhoe Loader | CASE Construction Equipment The CASE 580EV electric backhoe delivers hydraulic breakout forces equal to diesel-powered machines, all with the added benefits and business opportunities of a battery-powered electric machine.

Rabbit hole of the day:
Case 580EV electric backhoe/frontloader.
www.casece.com/en-us/northa...

Red Shouldered Hawk on nest. March 2026

Red Shouldered Hawk pair are back and nesting outside of office again.

Just a reminder that Minneapolis map artist Faye Passow still has a wonderful Etsy shop.
How can you live without a hot dish of Minnesota tea towel map?
www.etsy.com/shop/KeepThe...

Cover art for “Beetle Moses: a Comics Menagerie”, the debut comic collection from beetle moses.

My debut book of comics is officially LIVE for PREORDER!

I don't think our better days will change that, the threat is transnational and supernational.
We will need to be worthy of being trusted team mates again and then score some goals together against anti humanists.

As a USAian, many are sympathetic & empathetic.
Sympathetic because it is villainous & will cost lives for pettiness and greedy oligarchs.
Empathetic because many USA folks (Mexico & Canada can speak to their part of continent) are literally being attacked & killed for rejecting the administration

I thought it was just me, but there are a few bigger than average beauties in the Tomales-Bodega Bay complex.

The best version of Spam Masubi is done this way.

A powerful Wine Country family is trying to kill the SMART train with a book This book makes the case that taxpayer support should end for a 48-mile long passenger rail system connecting the Bay Area’s fifth largest city with small cities and towns across two counties.

Wealthy elites paid for a 167-page screed attacking public transit because, "The train will never pay for itself."

Wait until they hear about "free" parking!

Daily step totals and average for month of February. Over 10k every day 12k per day average, about 5+3/4 miles. Maximum was 17,500 steps in a day. Compared to when I walked about 10 miles each day for job or commuted 12 miles each way by bike, this is not much. But it is a good restart.

Keeping the streak.
Over 10k steps every day,
this month's average is ~12k per day.

Fish Doorbell – It's almost here! — The Fish Doorbell Zie je een vis? Druk op de Visdeurbel dan opent onze sluiswachter de sluis en kunnen de vissen doorzwemmen.

FISH DOORBELL IS BACK ON MARCH 2!!!
visdeurbel.nl/en/

Cool paper alert. Was trying to model the thermal performance curves of several farmed seaweed species and ran across this awesome, theoretical unifying paper: “A universal thermal performance curve arises in biology and ecology” www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Concrete sidewalk service access cover marked Ground Rod

Ground rod access cover

#birds

the party that wants to require ID to vote abruptly invalidating a thousand people’s IDs overnight seems like a pretty giant flashing red light

Beautiful map of the Hawaiian islands with inset globe showing their relative location in the Pacific Ocean

Make your (story) maps move.

🌋Lava creeps, smoke billows, and rifts glow in this Kīlauea story refresh — all thanks to new animated symbols in Map Viewer.
Give them a try: ow.ly/oUMA50YmC1M

#gischat ⚒️ #geogsky #geogchat

Always wondered if there was landscape sized human geography terms version...dike, terrace, polder, alm, canal, dam, reservoir, paddy, road cut, jetty, fish trap, etc.

.e00 file hunt

If you cross paths with them, personally thank them and the others for me.
It was eagerly shared by our accessibility team.
Some nerdy governance fanboys/girls tipping their hats in appreciation.

Building accessible web maps with Esri’s Experience Builder

Some guidance and examples for improving web map accessibility from our brothers and sisters in government GIS in Minnesota.

regional transit connections map, lots of transit on it across the whole Bay

The Bay Area's new transit map is out and it comes with one incredibly exciting change: parks accessible by transit services!

Let's talk regional wayfinding to parks and destinations 🧵

Screenshot of the week's page on our class website: we see a historical map of NYC overlain with a Marshall Islands stick chart; plus the week's theme: "Week 2: Exploration’s Cartographic Genealogies"

Tmrw in Search & Discovery, we explore exploration itself through the historical collection of the Argosy Maps Gallery. We'll also consider the map trade + alternative genealogies of exploration through the work of Tavares Strachan + Thandi Loewenson

crossreference.wordsinspace.net/spring2026/w...

This map image popped up in my Pinterest feed yesterday, from an old Medium article on Gyres apparently. Neat for it's total lack of any other feature besides currents and yet it still draws a pretty legible map of most of the world. #gischat

GIS is rabbithole speak for
"Go In Silly"

Iterative degradation feels.
That's exactly how encountered it.

Is it just me or has the abstraction of this logo gone a bit past being recognizable?
Because for a moment I mentally reversed the figure ground and now I can't unsee a muppet gobbling an invisible cookie.

Or, you could take the easier method and just tag it all and be more accurate than most models.