Links I Like
A place to save things to return to and share
aka “things I’ve slacked myself”
Misc Neat Things
- The True Size
- SVG Repo Open-licensed SVG Vector and Icons
- John Nelson’s Earth Peel Orange peel projection simulator
- Feminist Spatial Practices “an online platform and community that highlights, shares, and nurtures feminist practices in art, design, architecture and activism.”
- Data Quality Literacy Project
- World Historical Gazetteer
- Outline maps for the construction of a model of the world, based on the Lambert conformal conic projection by US Coast and Geodetic Survey, 1944
Open Calls and Opportunities
- The Impossible Things Workshop Deadline Jan 26, 2025
Imaginary Places
- Lake Chimay
- Lake Chiamay; Asia’s mythical mother of rivers by Michael Pearson
Missing Places
Tutorials and How-Tos
- Intro to QGIS / Georeferencing in QGIS by David Medeiros at Stanford Geospatial Center
- Cartographic creations in ArcGIS Pro: Map artic sea ice decline with symbology, labeling, and layout techniques by ESRI
- How to Research a San Francisco Building at the San Francisco History Center
- Teaching with Special Collections Beineke Rare Book & Manuscript Library
- A Gentle Introductino to GDAL by Robert Simmon
- Travel and Trade in Later Medeival Africa American Historical Association Classroom Resource
- How to Make Your First Interactive Map in R by Helen McKensie on Helen Makes Maps
- Finding Places in Text with the World Historical Gazetteer by Susan Grunewald and Andrew Janco on the Programming Historian
- Working with Named Places: How and Why to Build a Gazetteer by Susan Grunewald and Ruth Mostern on The Programming Historian
- Introducing our QGIS AI Map Tracing Plugin (January 2024) by Michael Egan for Bunting Labs
- Georeferencing Topo Sheets and Scanned Maps (QGIS3) by Ujaval Gandi for QGIS Tutorials.com
Other People’s Lists
- Librarians / Library Voices on Substack: Exploring New Frontiers in Scholarly Communication by Anita Coleman
- David Medeiros’ GIS Cartography Website
Essays
- “For the Sake of the Prospect”; Experiencing the World from Above in the Late 18th Century, Lily Ford 2016
- 5 Ways GIS Users Can Expand Their Geospatial Skills from Caitlin Dempsey at Geography Realm
- Where is Snowpack Receding by Roddy Deming at Maps.com
- The Black Panther Party Made Maps attributed to Alameda County Food Bank
- A Map That Visualizes Walkable Neighborhoods Across the US by Laura Bliss on Bloomberg.com
- Inside Iron Mountain: It’s Time to Talk About Hard Drives by Steve Harvey on MIX
- The Lawrence Captive Airship Over San Francisco in 1906 and 1908 by Simon Baker in Kite Lines magazine. About on historic aerial kite photrography
- Studying the Benefits of Virtual Art Engagement Interview with James Pawelski and Katherine Cotter at UPenn
Articles
- A Case for Objects: Material Culture in the History Classroom, Sarah Jones Weicksel in The American Historical Review, Volume 129, Issue 3, September 2024, Pages 1129–1153
- National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2024. Constructing Valid Geospatial Tools for Environmental Justice. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/27317.
- Maps at an Exhibition: Minding the Material Gap by Martin Bruckner in Imago Mundi
Videos
- Mapping and Monitoring in Indigenous Territories from LifeMosaic
- Colonial counter-mappings: Learning from indigenous cartography in eighteenth-century America Bodlean Library
- Radical Cartography: Videual Argument in the Age of Data by Bill Rankin, published by University of Southern Maine
- Who Killed Jane Stanford? Stanford Historical Society
- GAIL Conference 2024 Generative AI in Libraries 2024 conference talk playlist
- Making Research Data Publicly Accessible: Estimates of Institutional & Researcher Expenses by Taylor, Moore, Carlson, and Mohr at Coalition for Networked Information, 2024
Allmaps URLs
- John Snow’s Cholera Map: https://allmaps.xyz/maps/0d38d81b9bd044d3/%7Bz%7D/%7Bx%7D/%7By%7D.png
- Coleccion “Billiken” - Mapa ilustrado de la Provincia de Santiago del Estero https://allmaps.xyz/maps/c9e44dea848e0f58/{z}/{x}/{y}.png
