A gallery of my free-for-the-taking maps. You are invited to stop by and scroll around. shadedrelief.com/map-gallery…

A little map I made this morning for a friend writing a book. It uses the Mercator projection—a valid choice for this region straddling the equator.

I am pleased to announce that Equal Earth is now available in Northern Sámi thanks to Lemet Máhtte Eira Sara. You can download it for free here: equal-earth.com

The Equal Earth world map is now available in Marathi—thank you Rohit Sonawane! With this latest translation, the language tally now stands at 21. All Equal Earth maps are available for free: equal-earth.com

I had a virtual meeting with my colleagues the creators of the Equal Earth Map projection -Mr. Tom Patterson, Cartographer, U.S. National Park Service • Prof. Bernhard Jenny, Monash University (Australia) • Dr. Bojan Šavrič, Esri (USA) My sincere gratitude to the three visionary geographers who developed the Equal Earth projection and helped open the way for the Correct the Map movement. Your scientific work has contributed to a more accurate and equitable representation of our world—and helped inspire a global conversation about how Africa and another region in the world are portrayed on the map. Thank you for helping make Correct the Map possible. The journey continues.@MtnMapper @ProjectionWizz @mappingbernie #CorrectTheMap #EqualEarth #MapAfricaRight #AfricaTrueSize #FairMapFairWorld #CartographyForEquality #GeographyForEquality #OneWorldFairMap #AfricaOnTheMap

The latest update to Natural Earth v. 6 (a free geo-spatial dataset) includes US National Parks and US National Trails. Available here: shadedrelief.com/ne-draft/

1/3 #EqualEarth for web maps! The @UN is adopting the Equal Earth map to reflect Africa’s true size. MapTiler is developing a quick, easy way to switch your #webmaps to Equal Earth. Try the demo: buff.ly/amXJGTk

Following the UN vote on #EqualEarth I built a light #D3 app with sliders for central meridian/reference parallel. I like using 45° instead of the equator; balances distortion, brings the Arctic Circle into view, shows northern landmasses clearly. Try it: codepen.io/editor/staridas-g…

Wow. When we (@ProjectionWizz @mappingbernie) created the Equal Earth projection in 2018, we never imagined this: theguardian.com/world/2026/s…

Need something to do while flying? I suggest reading this story in the Hawaiian Airlines inflight magazine. hawaiianairlines.com/content…

Bavaria's official maps now use shadings created with Eduard. German: ldbv.bayern.de/aktuell/archi… English: www-ldbv-bayern-de.translate… #shadedWithEduard

The latest update to Natural Earth v. 6.0 includes disputed areas, maritime indicator lines, Antarctic claims, China 9-dash line, and Pacific island groupings. shadedrelief.com/ne-draft/

Natural Earth v. 6.0 now includes preliminary US counties. The polygons are fitted to state shapes, coasts, lakes, and rivers. shadedrelief.com/ne-draft/

the Spilhaus "one world ocean" coordinate system with Natural Earth base.

Latest Natural Earth 6.0 data release: - 40,000+ populated places (lots of attributes) - Graticules (1, 5, 10, 15, 20, & 30 degrees) - Tropic lines, polar lines, & Int. Dateline - Geographic regions (physical names) shadedrelief.com/ne-draft/

English translation: www-designtagebuch-de.transl…

Macaronesia: An archipelago that I had never heard of before. It seems a bit of a stretch. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macaro…

Open Topography has released new 30m terrain models. Trees and buildings filtered out. Global and South America coverages. opentopography.org/news/new-…

Mapshaper.org, the online vector generalization tool, now has advanced smoothing functionality—it knows not to smooth straight line segments. This example shows polygons before (red) and after (black) smoothing. mapshaper.org/docs/guides/sm…

Introducing the new Natural Earth plugin for GeoLibre! World Base Map draft (Natural Earth 6.0) (shadedrelief.com/ne-draft) by Tom Patterson (@MtnMapper) and Nathaniel Vaughn Kelso was recently released in shapefile format . I converted the datasets to GeoJSON, GeoParquet, and PMTiles formats and make them available on @source_coop (source.coop/opengeos/natural…). To make these datasets easy to explore and use, I also built a Natural Earth plugin for GeoLibre. Open Plugins > Web Services > Natural Earth and you can: - Add any of 35 layers instantly: land, ocean, coastlines, admin boundaries, rivers, lakes, glaciers, wetlands, urban areas, bathymetry, coral reefs, airports, railroads, and more. Click Add and it lands on the map. - Pick the format that fits your work: every layer is published four ways. PMTiles for instant vector-tile rendering, GeoParquet for analysis, GeoJSON for portability, and zipped Shapefiles for the tools that still want them. - Browse the real bucket: the file list is the live listing from Source Cooperative, not a catalog baked into the app, so what you see is always what is actually there. - Take it with you: download any layer, or copy its URL straight into DuckDB, QGIS, or a notebook. Try it out - Launch GeoLibre Web: web.geolibre.app - GitHub: github.com/opengeos/GeoLibre - Documentation: geolibre.app - Data: source.coop/opengeos/natural… Many thanks to Tom Patterson and Nathaniel Vaughn Kelso for their decades of work on Natural Earth, and to Source Cooperative and AWS for making open geospatial data more accessible to everyone. #GIS #Geospatial #OpenSource #NaturalEarth #MapLibre #GeoLibre #OpenData

I made an AI-enhanced map of Yosemite Valley just for the fun of it. You will find it here: shadedrelief.com/yosemite/