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alan

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Admin of subdued.social in #BellinghamWA. Lead Cartographer at https://vis.social/@stamen. Social media for https://social.ridetrans.it/@CascadiaRail. 15 minutes of fame: https://subdued.social/@pop_vs_soda

Was https://subdued.social/@mappingmashups on Twitter.
#cartography, #dataviz, #urbanism, #RankedChoiceVoting, #ElectoralReform, #ProportionalRepresentation, #HighSpeedRail, #OpenStreetMap, #TheExpanse

Don't want local content? Just mute the #BellinghamWA hashtag.

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Older posts: https://mastodon.social/@mappingmashups

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alan, to random
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Via @decolonialatlas "Each 8th of July, at 11:15 UTC, 99% of the world's population is experiencing daylight. This day should have a name, and it should be a holiday." Original source: https://www.timeanddate.com/news/astronomy/99-percent-sunlight

alan, to linguistics
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The epic linguistic map came up in conversation at work today, so today is one of those days to regularly to pause and spend some time admiring this map of North American English dialects by Rick Aschmann:

https://aschmann.net/AmEng/

alan, to voyager
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I must admit, this news about and has me shook:

"A fresh analysis of Voyager 2's images show both ice giants are in fact a similar shade of greenish blue, which is the 'most accurate representation yet' of the planets' colors, the new study finds."

https://www.space.com/uranus-neptune-similar-shades-of-blue-voyager-2-images

alan, to random
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For all of you making the “123123” jokes about todays date…

alan, to TwitterMigration
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Got my employer to fully remove the Twitter link on our company contact page and just use Mastodon. :)

alan, to random
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Via Mona Chalabi, a comparison of population density of bombed cities: https://www.instagram.com/p/C3iR068O5I0/

alan, (edited ) to random
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I hadn't visited @OpenInfraMap in a while: it's a pretty impressive custom rendering of power and telecommunication infrastructure in OpenStreetMap.

If you need something new to map in OpenStreetMap, looks like lots of neighborhoods still need to have their power poles mapped! 😳

https://openinframap.org

alan, to maps
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I'm greatly enjoying the latest version of the Old Maps Online website. It has a very smooth time scrubber where you can see political borders change through time, and then browse georeferenced historical maps from map libraries like the David Rumsey collection.

https://www.oldmapsonline.org/

And just the interactive map without the historical scans is available at TimeMap.org

h/t @friedrich

#OldMapsOnline #DavidRumsey #TimeMap #maps #cartography #history

alan, to Dragonlance
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A classic by Brian Brettschneider https://twitter.com/Climatologist49/status/1671245573444505601

alan, to random
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An important article from an old friend of mine from grad school.

"To Fight Antisemitism, We Need to Accurately Identify It. Too Often, We’re Failing." by Molly Kraft.

https://www.thegrindmag.ca/to-fight-antisemitism-need-to-accurately-identify-it-were-failing/

Anti-semitism is real, and it is growing. But criticism of the state of Israel is not inherently antisemitic no matter how many times supporters of Israel try to claim it is.

alan,
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"When criticism of Israel focuses on its colonialism, violence, displacement, torture, and murder of Palestinians, it is entirely legitimate — just as any other criticism of any other state.

This veers into antisemitism when it is assumed that the Jewish-Israeli settler state inherently possesses some kind of unique power globally. In fact Israel, and any unique power it does hold, has been bestowed by the most powerful and violent settler colonial states in the world."

alan, to pnw
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"Climate change is hastening the demise of Pacific Northwest forests: A drought-driven 'mortality event' is the largest ever recorded in the region".

https://columbiainsight.org/climate-change-is-hastening-the-demise-of-pacific-northwest-forests/

alan, to asianfood
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Neat maps of in the US from Pew Research Center:

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/05/23/71-of-asian-restaurants-in-the-u-s-serve-chinese-japanese-or-thai-food/

via FlowingData newsletter (Nathan Yau) and Pew study authors Sono Shah and Regina Widjaya (none of whom are on Mastodon)

alan, to AirBNB
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Ooh, here's a much better version of that Airbnb eclipse map that's been going around, by Alex Fitzpatrick and Erin Davis at Axios:

https://www.axios.com/2024/04/05/airbnb-bookings-eclipse-april-8-map

#airbnb #vrbo #axios #eclipse #eclipse2024 #maps #cartography #dataviz

alan, to random
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From Amnesty International: https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2024/02/israel-opt-new-evidence-of-unlawful-israeli-attacks-in-gaza-causing-mass-civilian-casualties-amid-real-risk-of-genocide/

^^ Note, these are some examples of bombings in that happened in the last couple of months while Rafah was still a safe zone, before the new wave of intense bombing that began yesterday. Most civilian casualties in will never get this level of detailed analysis by a respected, impartial international organization like Amnesty International. Whether you think they are the exception or the norm, they're still war crimes.

nyrath, to random
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https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20240403-dark-star-at-50-how-a-micro-budget-student-film-changed-sci-fi-forever

alan,
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@nyrath I haven’t seen this movie in decades, but I still remember most of it vividly. I have to thank my parents (who were also big fans) for turning me on to it at a very young age. This was certainly my first understanding of what a “cult movie” was. Highly recommended.

alan, to movies
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"What is ranked choice voting and how does it work at the Oscars?"

https://apnews.com/live/2024-Oscars-updates-winners#0000018e-263a-d7d8-a7ee-bebe8b890000

alan, (edited ) to cascadia
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Interesting news-ish article about #HighSpeedRail in the #SeattleTimes sponsored by Microsoft.

https://www.seattletimes.com/sponsored/a-look-at-high-speed-rail-convenience-jobs-housing-and-cleaner-air/

I can't quibble with the content (it all holds water) and it's a good promotional summary of the topic.

The whole sponsored thing is a bit "ick", but whatever, newspapers aren't what they once were! And it's a nice counter to the regressive, anti-HSR editorials recently published in the Seattle Times.

#Cascadia #Seattle #HSR #CascadiaRail #CascadiaHSR @CascadiaRail

alan, to random
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Saw this going around on Tiktok: some interesting maps of baby name similarity between US states over time:

More maps and animations in the published research paper from the University of Rome: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1507143112

Via this tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@cirruslyyesterday/video/7350814314753821983

alan, to maine
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"Maine votes to join multi-state agreement to elect the president by popular vote"

It's not passed into law yet, but seems likely at this point.

This map shows a credible path to achieving 270 votes before the 2028 election. If you're in one of the blue states on this map, please write to your state legislators and governor!

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/3/13/2228016/-Maine-votes-to-join-multi-state-agreement-to-elect-the-president-by-popular-vote

alan, to Astro
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A reminder that there is no inherent reason that the apparent size of the moon happens to be the same as the sun creating perfectly aligned solar eclipses (except when it isn't, in the case of annular eclipses).

But how much of a coincidence is it? According to some random person's calculations on Quora:

"Given all the assumptions made let us say the probability of earth having a moon that would cause a total eclipse is between 1% and 4%."

https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/548841/how-big-a-coincidence-is-the-sun-and-moon-having-almost-equal-apparent-sizes/806645

alan, to maps
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Cool map showing the date of the most recent total eclipse for every point in Indiana. Made by the Holcomb Observatory & Planetarium at Butler University.

Great concept, and I'm wondering if anyone has seen a similar map for a larger area, ideally an interactive map for the entire world where you can see the year of the last eclipse wherever you are. The data is available, so surely someone has made such a map?

#eclipse #maps #cartography #gischat

alan, (edited ) to maps
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I was interviewed in @WillametteWeek about the @pop_vs_soda map I made a million years ago: https://www.wweek.com/drink/2024/04/18/do-you-say-pop-or-soda/

I guess it's about time to create a Mastodon account for that project...

#PopVsSoda #LinguisticGeography #LinguisticCartography #dialectology #maps #cartography #PNW #PDX

alan, to random
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"Here’s a Clever Way to Uncover America’s Voting Deserts:
Mathematicians are using topological abstractions to find places poorly served by polling stations."

https://www.wired.com/story/voting-deserts-maths-topology/

Sure, this is clever. But you know what's even more clever? Eliminating polling places entirely and switching to 100% vote-by-mail like in Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Vermont, and Hawaii.

(With some in-person polling places as needed for accessibilty reasons)

alan, to random
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In the early years of Twitter there were so many cool apps built on geotagged tweets for use cases like disaster mapping. Also many beautiful maps of spatial patterns of social media from creative coders like Erica Fischer.

Gradually, though, people stopped using geotags in Twitter and nothing quite took its place.

But now with @Edent's work to implement "Foursquare on Mastodon" maybe a new geosocial age is dawning?

Feature request for geotag display in Mastodon: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/29002

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