Andrew MiddletonMapsticulations: 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…3 min read·Jul 24, 2022----
Andrew MiddletonUsing 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…3 min read·Apr 18, 2022----
Andrew MiddletonYouTube 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…6 min read·Dec 11, 2021----
Andrew MiddletonManual 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…11 min read·Dec 2, 2021----
Andrew MiddletonObituary 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…3 min read·Aug 27, 2021--2--2
Andrew MiddletonMaking 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…6 min read·May 12, 2021----
Andrew MiddletonGo 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…14 min read·Nov 6, 2020--1--1
Andrew MiddletonPacking 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…20 min read·Sep 25, 2020----
Andrew MiddletonImagining 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…2 min read·Aug 16, 2020----
Andrew MiddletonOakland 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…9 min read·Jun 1, 2020----