Category: General
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#30DayMapChallenge 2025
This October, when the prompts came out for the annual #30DayMapChallenge, I happened to have some extra time on my hands to finally attempt creating 30 maps in 30 days. Although it made for a somewhat exhausting month, it was incredibly satisfying to rise to the challenge after years on the sideline. Below are some…
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Base Layers (or How this Blog Came To Be)
Welcome to the Alaska Mapplications website! So often, Alaska is an afterthought for the average U.S. cartographer, relegated to a box in the map marginalia (nobody puts Alaska in a corner!). Alternatively, when cartographers from Outside do focus on Alaska, their lack of local knowledge is glaringly obvious (or perhaps, to be more fair, it…
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