Maps – MapTheClouds

Day 4: dNBR burn severity map, Bolivia-Paraguay-Brazil border fires August 2019 - #100DayMapChallenge

Day 4: When Maps Serve Decisions – Fire Burn Severity (2019)

Day 4: When maps serve decisions. 🔥 August 2019. Fires near the Bolivia-Paraguay-Brazil border consumed nearly one million acres in a month. Fire managers needed burn severity maps to prioritize recovery efforts, and I used Landsat 8 imagery from before…

Day 3: PDAL colorization pipeline, Yosemite Valley point cloud - #100DayMapChallenge

Day 3: Nearly 25 Million Points in a Single File – PDAL Yosemite

Day 3: Nearly 25 million points in a single file. Where do you even start? FOSS4G Bucharest, 2019. Connor Manning and Adam Steer showed what PDAL/Entwine could do with point clouds, and I was hooked. This was the tool I…

100daymapchallenge, maptheclouds, lidar, gis, arcgis, pdal, yosemite, climbing, terrain-analysis, flow-direction Featured image alt Day 2: Yosemite climbing walls from LiDAR slope analysis - #100DayMapChallenge

Day 2: Mapping Walls You Can’t See From Above – Yosemite LiDAR

Day 2: Mapping walls you can’t see from above. 🧗‍♂️ Yosemite Valley. Climbers need to understand vertical terrain, but most maps show the world from a bird’s perspective. I used airborne LiDAR at 0.5 meter resolution to create a Digital…

Day 1: Aiudului Gorges climbing routes map, Cheile Aiudului, Romania - #100DayMapChallenge

Day 1: The Map That Started Everything – Aiudului Gorges (2011)

The map that started everything. 🗺️ Aiudului Gorges, Romania. 2011. A place close to my heart. I still go there to hike and climb, and I know the terrain well. I was fascinated by the karst topography. The Trascău Mountains…

#100DayMapChallenge campaign announcement, MapTheClouds

Closing One Chapter, Opening Another: #100DayMapChallenge

It’s the end of an era, and the beginning of a new one. For over a decade I’ve been building interactive maps and data visualizations. From LiDAR point clouds and GIS workflows to WebGL terrain, network graphs, procedural experiments, and…

Styling elevation models in QGIS – Blue scale 🔷

#30DayMapChallenge Day 8. Blue Blue scale 🔷 In this post, I’ll talk a bit about styling elevation models in QGIS, giving as an example one of the maps I have made for the #30DayMapChallenge on Twitter in 2021. You can…

Autumn 🍂

#30DayMapChallenge Day 2. Lines Autumn – coloring streams by their flow order in QGIS 🍂 Here’s one of the maps I have made for the #30DayMapChallenge on Twitter in 2021. You can find out more about the challenge and my…

OSM buildings vector tiles in D3.js – City Tiles 🏙️

#30DayMapChallenge Day 3. Polygons City Tiles 🏙️ This is a OSM buildings vector tiles map made using D3.js and Nextzen, that I have prepared for #30DayMapChallenge on Twitter in 2021. You can find out more about the challenge and my…

3D globe map in D3.js – Populated Places on Earth 🌍

#30DayMapChallenge Day 1. Points Populated Places on Earth 🌍 This is a 3D globe map in D3.js and Canvas, that I have made for the #30DayMapChallenge on Twitter in 2021. You can find out more about the challenge and my…

My #30DayMapChallenge 2021

Here’s a story about my #30DayMapChallenge 2021. I have a special talent of delaying my favorite projects. I love making maps, and during all those years at work I have digitized miles and miles of roads, solved thousands of bugs,…

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