Mapsticulations: giving cartography the fingerThere’s a funny thing that happens when people want to tell you RIGHT NOW exactly where they’re from. When there’s no time for Google or an…Jul 24, 2022Jul 24, 2022
Using Serval to Fix RastersI’m making some more dive maps and this time I’m looking at the Channel Islands. In my bathymetry rasters I’m running into this weird…Apr 18, 2022Apr 18, 2022
YouTube as Remote SensingI’m starting to carve myself a fun niche in the cartographic community by making scuba diving maps and they’re getting attention. From my…Dec 11, 2021Dec 11, 2021
Manual Raster Manipulation or, How Making Sh*t Up is Good ActuallyI’ve been working on a project for a few years now and it feels like every few months I come up with a new way to make my maps a little…Dec 2, 2021Dec 2, 2021
Obituary for a RabbitWe don’t live with animals in the hope that they’ll do our bidding. We live with them so that they surprise us, and lick us, and worry us…Aug 27, 20212Aug 27, 20212
Making Grids for North Arrows and Scale BarsNo one gets tattoos of scale bars. They’re not nearly as pretty as a compass rose, you never see as much variation or style in them and I…May 12, 2021May 12, 2021
Go Fly A Kite“Go fly a kite” is very nearly a perfect metaphor for “fuck off and do nothing” and we have Mary Poppins (1964) to thank. A stuffy English…Nov 6, 20201Nov 6, 20201
Packing Your Digital Go-BagAt the beginning of fire season in 2019 I visited the Situation Room at PG&E’s downtown San Francisco headquarters and it was like walking…Sep 25, 2020Sep 25, 2020
Imagining Solitude with ‘Winter Road’A good college friend wheedled me into writing this all the way back in May so that I could submit it to an online magazine that was…Aug 16, 2020Aug 16, 2020
Oakland May 29, 2020There’s a lot that I don’t know about Friday night. As I understand it, riots are not often understood well but this one for me was…Jun 1, 2020Jun 1, 2020
