Antonio Antoine

Happy #SummerSolstice! It is the longest day or days of the year! It is still hard to believe there are places on earth where the sun doesn't set AT LEAST a month from now. 🤯 Available as a print! antonioantoine.com/product/the-... #cartography

On Nov 5th (7pm), I'll be chatting about cartography with my former Hopkins professor, Cassie Hansen. The GIS After Dark series is free to the public; however, you need to register to attend. #gischat #cartography advanced.jhu.edu/event/gis-af...

I swear updating a website used to be easier than this. 😭

11 years ago I wrote a guide to bivariate maps. It took Photoshop, SQL, and an eyedropper. Now it takes minutes. What changed, what still holds up, and how to design better colors in Phosphor: www.joshuastevens.net/blog/still-b...

I have heard this song a million times and just now listened to the first verse. The vocals are slightly louder on this live recording and that made all the difference lol. Not once did I hear "placenta falls to the floor". Anyhoo, not about religion.

Testing the tabbed ribbons with #QGIS Studio Themes plugin v0.8's new icons Definitely a clean look (exceptions mostly due to icons from the ribbon plugin). Will have to test how long it takes me to get used to the new icons. Of course, new users won't have that issue 🥲

It's true.

Forgot to post Tracy and Michael's very cool Tennessee Tornado Path map that won the 2026 TNGIC East Fall Forum Viewer's Choice Award. #gischat

I was curious how Chattanooga's new GIS web app saves 17k a year from the old app but the article doesn't say.

The Knox Map makes a wild conference appearance. #TNGIC #cartography #gischat

And now, 100+ hours later, this is finally done. The client has given me permission to share this in a video (or more than one) breaking this map down layer-by-layer, so stay tuned! Not sure when that'll be. Meanwhile, off to bike to the UPS store so I can look at a print! #maps #sciart #alaska

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Next month is November, which means the #30DayMapChallenge 2026 themes are here! More information on the official website: 30daymapchallenge.com

I am normally not a neatline/border kinda guy, but I think with this USGS topo inspired map it works. #cartography #gis #gischat

+20M visits from Canada in the 2010s is pretty wild. Their population was like ~35M.

Knoxville "Topo" Map WIP I am a big fan of mid-century USGS Topo maps. This is a 48k scale 24x36 version of Knoxville. Still have many labels to edit. One day, I will stop making multiline labels in QGIS. They are a pain to edit in Illustrator/Affinity. #gis #cartography #gischat

Predicting the future one year in advance - I give you September's Map from the Geohipster Calendar #geohipster #calendar www.geohipster.com/2026/09/04/m...

Thanks for nothing. I think I prefer if it just crashed...

Geohipster 2027 Calendar Above is a map from the 2026 Geohipster Calendar by Antonio Smith - Noteworthy because it's East Tennessee. The 2027 Geohipster calendar is now accepting admissions. You may think "Well it's a bunch of open source weirdos over at Geohipster" and you could be right - but…

1,000 more hours and this should be a really nice product.

Every day, India's Met department publishes a forecast chart for ~1,200 stations. Their cloud-cover panel is drawn to look like a pixelated cloudy sky! I've been analyzing the charts to convert them to data, and map them daily in the same pixel art style. #dataviz diagramchasing.fun/2026/mapping...

Book launch ahead! Love #maps #railways #design? Know people who do? Search "Mapping Britain's Railways" & "Ovenden" for new #BritishLibrary title out 18/08/26. 1st with every #TrainOperatingCompany & newest #GreatBritishRailways maps, plus historical ones. #transit & #cartography lovers must-have!

I hate driving most new cars. They are big and isolated from the road, it is hard to tell how fast you are going without staring at the speedo. 25 mph feels the same as 50!

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Are there gatekeepers in cartography? I wrote a thing. I might be Andy Rooney now. tl;dr: if there are gatekeepers, how come nobody stopped me from making bad maps!

1902 newspaper ads be wildin'. Are you a pale lady? That's because you are clearly diseased!! Buy and drink our alcoholic concoction!

First rule of cartography: first we make ugly maps and then we make them pretty. This is a corollary to "write drunk, edit sober". #gischat do you have any rules or encouragement you tell yourself?

I have seen this gap in census primary road layer for years. I assumed it was a state highway that ended and became a residential street or something. Nope! It's I-275 and that's I-40 to the south. Le sigh

This map uses a graphic technique to argue that New York City was already a mostly socialist community by the end of the 19th century. It uses just two colors: red, the printing color, and the negative white space of the paper color.

A map showing the Scottish filming locations in Christopher Nolan's epic The Odyssey has been released, allowing fans to visit the stunning scenery shown in the movie. See it below 👇

Latitude and Longitude xkcd.com/3273/

New on the blog: "On Sin," in which I meditate on cartographic ethics, and invite discussion on a thorny problem: how we might decide if or when the inaccuracies embedded in a #map cause it to become unethical.

About halfway through, I stopped reading their positions and got most of them right. Trying to guess the "did not votes" tripped me up. Race, gender & age (mostly the first two) should get you a passing score.

I love my manual until I am in rush hour traffic in Knoxville. Then I wish I had a EV. I work from home these days so it's less of an issue.

I wrote about a similar thing a few months ago. My main issue was saying Lat/Lon (which correlates to Y/X) and then saying X/Y (which correlates with Lon/Lat). Inverting the pairs led to downstream confusion. I started saying: Lon-Lat-X-Y And it helped! 🥳 antonioantoine.com/2026/02/17/l...

Today in 2020, I photographed Comet Neowise from downtown Knoxville. With the pandemic raging, it was fascinating to see people all take pictures of it from around where they live instead of traveling to exotic locations.

Damn. I don't think Paul had a good time at the 1982 World's Fair. 😂

And now visualizing the June solstice from the polar regions... Animation looks downward at the North Pole (left; ☀️) and South Pole (right; 🌙) over a 24-hour period. Graphic from zacklabe.com/arctic-clima...

Why can't software install other software it needs to install or update? Why don't we (meaning you) use AI for that?

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