@infobeautiful The Iran map is using a Mercator projection, which preserves angles but distorts area. A projection that preserves area would communicate better (more beautifully)

Your source shows a relatively accurate size comparison (projection on a projection). Presentng it in Mercator makes it more dramatic, but inescapably misleads the viewer as to relative area within the map. eg. this Florida - Florida map from your source.

#map #size #comparison #USA #Canada #Florida #Iran

Get REAL.

No F$&!ing AI. All human made.

DnD, 5e, OSR, Dragonbane, Maps, Poetry.

Laidback DM.

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/publisher/13989/laidback-dm

#5e #map #Pathfinder2 #Dragonbane #osr #shadowdark #DungeonsAndDragons #maps #dnd #oldschool #Poetry #OldSchoolEssentials #poems #Dragon #DnD5e

Get REAL.

No F$&!ing AI. All human made.

DnD, 5e, OSR, Dragonbane, Maps, Poetry.

Laidback DM.

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/publisher/13989/laidback-dm

#5e #map #Pathfinder2 #Dragonbane #osr #shadowdark #DungeonsAndDragons #maps #dnd #oldschool #Poetry #OldSchoolEssentials #poems #Dragon #DnD5e

isometric.nyc – giant isometric pixel art map of NYC

https://cannoneyed.com/isometric-nyc/

#HackerNews #isometricart #pixelart #NYC #map #digitalart

Crazy idea for a browser extension: Every mention of a street name is detected and linked to that place in your map tool of choice. "street name x street name" gets detected and is linked to that intersection.

Would be gold for politicians and other people working on urbanization and regulations. And just engaged citizens reading news articles with no freaking map for some effing reason!

#tool #BrowserExtension #StealThisIdea #map #OpenStreetMap

@TheBreadmonkey Here's the link to the full text journal article:

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ady2532

#science #antarctica #map

Open Infrastructure Map

Open Infrastructure Map is a view of the world's infrastructure mapped in the OpenStreetMap database. This data isn't exposed on the default OSM map, so there built Open Infrastructure Map to visualise it.

🌎 https://openinframap.org
@OpenInfraMap

#openstreetmap #infrastructure #map #osm #worldwide #power #data #web #followfriday #followerpower #fediverse #opensource #openinframap

Statue of David Bowie, sculpture in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue_of_David_Bowie

#statue #history #map

@urlyman coincidentally I just came back on line motivated by wondering if there exist repositories of #satellite #map tiles of the planet going back 10 or so years, that are not pay-walled.

but your 2nd post here reminds me of the "good? old days" of google ... when web-pages were becoming all adverts with animated gifs and every page looked like driving into a US town. then google came along and suddenly there were just these little one-liners of pertinent info to click, kindly labelled "_ad_". dumb name by a non-dumb corp. playing a non-dumb game.

Open Infrastructure Map

Open Infrastructure Map is a view of the world's infrastructure mapped in the OpenStreetMap database. This data isn't exposed on the default OSM map, so there built Open Infrastructure Map to visualise it.

🌎 https://openinframap.org
@OpenInfraMap

#openstreetmap #infrastructure #map #osm #worldwide #power #data #web #followfriday #followerpower #fediverse #opensource #openinframap

Iran Protest Map

https://pouyaii.github.io/Iran/

#HackerNews #Iran #Protest #Map #IranProtests #SocialMedia #Activism #MappingTools #HumanRights

Open Infrastructure Map

https://openinframap.org

#HackerNews #OpenInfrastructure #Map #OpenSourceInfrastructure #MappingTools #CommunityDrivenInfrastructure

Dr. Shannon Walker Neighborhood Library, library in Westbury, Houston, Texas, USA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Shannon_Walker_Library

#libraries #books #map

Map: Operator[] Should Be Nodiscard

https://quuxplusone.github.io/blog/2025/12/18/nodiscard-operator-bracket/

#HackerNews #Map #Operator #Nodiscard #C++ #Programming #HackerNews

Le plan de Paris et de ses faubourgs en 1732
Carte dressée par Nicolas de Fer, téléversée sur Gallica/BnF le 7 décembre 2025
https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b525271802/
Note : Place des conquêtes = Place Vendôme aujourd’hui
#BnF #Gallica #France #Paris #carte #map #cartographie #cartography

I'm still obsessed with the idea of finding a #map designed for humans instead of cars.

Take these screenshots from Brussels: in the default #openstreetmap view, the highway is big and red.
If you remove it, as I tried with MapTiler, the area is simply grey: not for humans, not for bikes, so there is no need for it to be clearly visible. The result has less clutter and it's more pleasant.

Are there any map services designed for humans, where car infrastructure is simply hidden?

Argh I can’t remember the exact name of that geoquest/geochallenge website with super awesome inputs that people upload, based on going to places guided by a geolocation algorithm… What is it? I can only find enshittified websites, not the original one grrrr

#GeoQuest #map #game #help

World Map from Monsters, Inc. (2001) https://www.byteseu.com/1636622/ #Map #MapPorn #MapPorn #Maps

Moved the Critical Signals server to Vogelmorn, a bowling-green turned solar-powered community center. It'll host the 2026 edition's site next year, & a bunch of other sites & services for locals.

So, when you visit https://criticalsignals.nz you are visiting a site served from a virtual machine running on a server made from e-waste, running entirely on a free & open source GNU/Linux stack, in a cupboard full of mixing desks, cables & amps, at this location: https://www.openstreetmap.org/?#map=19/-41.314895/174.764447&layers=N

#selfhosting