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Alan McConchie

Last week I wrote a blog post for @stamen about the history of Null Island, the imaginary place where 0ΒΊ latitude and 0ΒΊ longitude meet. It has now come to my attention that the NOAA weather station moored at that spot, nicknamed by geographers as the "Null Island Buoy", apparently no longer exists!

Check out the update at the end of my blog post for more details of the buoy's untimely demise. Thanks to @ajnn for the tip!

stamen.com/the-many-lives-of-n

#NullIsland #NullIslandBuoy

Last week I wrote a blog post for @stamen about the history of Null Island, the imaginary place where 0ΒΊ latitude and 0ΒΊ longitude meet. It has now come to my attention that the NOAA weather station moored at that spot, nicknamed by geographers as the "Null Island Buoy", apparently no longer exists!

A drawing of the "Null Island Buoy" on a tombstone floating in the ocean. The text on the tombstone says "R. I. P. Null Island Buoy 1998-2021"
1 August at 18:13 | Open on subdued.social
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Alan McConchie

In my research into Null Island, I learned that there is a five nautical mile exclusion zone around the point in order to protect the weather buoy located there.

stamen.com/the-many-lives-of-n

But the only reference I can find doesn't seem authoritative:

thegreenwichmeridian.org/tgm/l

Can any cartography people or maritime navigation experts confirm this exclusion zone, and ideally share a navigation chart that shows it? Thanks!

#cartography #sailing #navigation #maps #charts #NullIsland #gischat

In my research into Null Island, I learned that there is a five nautical mile exclusion zone around the point in order to protect the weather buoy located there.

stamen.com/the-many-lives-of-n

But the only reference I can find doesn't seem authoritative:

thegreenwichmeridian.org/tgm/l

23 July at 23:23 | Open on subdued.social
Alan McConchie

I wrote a blog post for @stamen about my favorite (fictional) place(s):

"The Many Lives of Null Island"

stamen.com/the-many-lives-of-n

#NullIsland #cartography #maps

23 July at 19:48 | Open on subdued.social
Scott Francis

@alan @stamen @burritojustice I *love* that the island shape is a callout to Myst <3

24 July at 1:03 | Open on infosec.exchange
Alan McConchie

Getting ready to head to Salt Lake City for a conference, checking What3Words before I go so I don't get lost:

what3words.com/salt.lake.city

#w3w #what3words #SaltLakeCity #maps #cartography #gis #SOTMUS #SOTM #SOTMUS2024 #OpenStreetMap #geospatial

A screenshot from the search menu on the website &quot;what3words.com&quot;. I typed in the search query &quot;salt.lake.city&quot; and there are three results (all misleading): * salt.lake.city near East Saint Louis, Illinois * salts.lake.city near Carnarvon, Western Australia * salt.lakes.city near Brunswick, Ohio
4 June at 16:53 | Open on subdued.social
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Alan McConchie

I hadn't visited @OpenInfraMap in a while: it's a pretty impressive custom rendering of power and telecommunication infrastructure in OpenStreetMap.

If you need something new to map in OpenStreetMap, looks like lots of neighborhoods still need to have their power poles mapped! 😳

openinframap.org

#OpenStreetMap #OpenInfraMap #OpenInfrastructureMap #OpenData #OSM #Infrastructure #cartography

A screenshot of Open Infrastructure Map showing the complex power generation facility at the Grand Coulee Dam in Washington State
A screenshot of Open Infrastructure Map zoomed in on the Potrero Hill neighborhood in San Francisco showing detailed (but incomplete) mapping of power poles and local power distribution lines along neighborhood streets
26 April at 16:18 | Open on subdued.social
Michal Migurski πŸ‰

@alan @OpenInfraMap Wow, never seen this before! If it had raster tiles they could be included as a map layer on OSM.org

26 April at 16:28 | Open on mastodon.social
Jan-Philipp

@alan @OpenInfraMap Wow, that's cool! Just learned that apparently there is a 110kV line just 10m from my couch. πŸ˜…

26 April at 17:44 | Open on norden.social
ollibaba

@alan @OpenInfraMap Also, if you switch on the "Telecoms" layer in the layer selector (in the toolbar on the right, last icon) you can see some submarine cables and many telecoms towers. Looks like this kind of equipment is very under-mapped as well, though.

26 April at 19:05 | Open on chaos.social
Alan McConchie

The epic linguistic map came up in conversation at work today, so today is one of those days to regularly to pause and spend some time admiring this map of North American English dialects by Rick Aschmann:

aschmann.net/AmEng/

#linguistics #LinguisticGeography #cartography #OutsiderArt #NorthAmerica #maps #dialect #dialectology

And extremely detailed, colorful, and chaotic map of North American English dialects, covered with overlapping textures, tiny text annotations, and clashing colors. It is a thing of beauty and a cartographic monstrosity at the same time.
7 February at 22:10 | Open on subdued.social
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Doctor LURK

@alan it's impressive, but woefully incomplete IMHO - I can think of at least five different dialects just along the I-5 corridor alone, from Chicano English and the modified Valleyspeak (which I mentally call the "skater's dialect") of Humboldt County and the Emerald Triangle to the Portland dialect's fronted vowels and the flat, country radio-informed pseudo-twang of lumber town natives. It's silly to paint everything west of Denver as one huge blob of homogeneity with a few small enclaves!

8 February at 1:06 | Open on mastodon.social
weird herm

@alan I love that New Orleans gets a large inset πŸ’›

8 February at 1:45 | Open on toot.cat
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@alan
Never seen this before, nice.

Irony: The only place west of Ontario that has a French speaking population is #Falher in redneck anti-French Alberta.

#Canadiana #FrenchCanadians #CanadiensSurlaPrairies

Snip of western Canada from a Linguistic map of N Am showing Falher Alberta as a French speaking community (true)
8 February at 4:03 | Open on mstdn.ca
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