Andrew Middleton
@mapcenter.com
'Peddler of Wheres,' job creator, Owner at The Map Center in Pawtucket RI- it's like a hip record store but for maps.
www.mapcenter.com
Cartographer, GIS specialist and educator
Linktr.ee/ecoandrewtrc
www.mapcenter.com
Cartographer, GIS specialist and educator
Linktr.ee/ecoandrewtrc
If you live in Pawtucket, you should check out Adam Greenman running for mayor. He has something very rare: a vision of things getting better.
No nostalgia.
No defeatism.
He's a sharp organizer with more energy and creativity than this town has seen.
www.adamgreenman.com
No nostalgia.
No defeatism.
He's a sharp organizer with more energy and creativity than this town has seen.
www.adamgreenman.com
Home | Adam Greenman for Pawtucket Mayor
Adam Greenman is a Democrat running for Mayor of Pawtucket, RI.
www.adamgreenman.com
January 10, 2026 at 1:50 AM
If you live in Pawtucket, you should check out Adam Greenman running for mayor. He has something very rare: a vision of things getting better.
No nostalgia.
No defeatism.
He's a sharp organizer with more energy and creativity than this town has seen.
www.adamgreenman.com
No nostalgia.
No defeatism.
He's a sharp organizer with more energy and creativity than this town has seen.
www.adamgreenman.com
Every day I have to explain to people that saying "I want a map of X" to me is like walking into a pizza place and declaring "I want a pizza!" What size? A slice to go or a whole pie? What toppings?
Maps have options to think about. "You know, just a basic map" is not a thing!
Maps have options to think about. "You know, just a basic map" is not a thing!
January 9, 2026 at 9:51 PM
Every day I have to explain to people that saying "I want a map of X" to me is like walking into a pizza place and declaring "I want a pizza!" What size? A slice to go or a whole pie? What toppings?
Maps have options to think about. "You know, just a basic map" is not a thing!
Maps have options to think about. "You know, just a basic map" is not a thing!
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“Even the current redistricting battle reveals the constant paradox: we draw firm lines around a fluctuating reality,” Adam Gopnik writes. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
What Will New York’s New Map Show Us?
Voters voted for it, even if they weren’t sure what it was. But maps are the ideal metaphor for our models of what the world might be.
www.newyorker.com
January 9, 2026 at 9:30 PM
“Even the current redistricting battle reveals the constant paradox: we draw firm lines around a fluctuating reality,” Adam Gopnik writes. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Bless book people
If you’re in Minneapolis and need a place to just BE right now, Big Hill Books and Birchbark Books & Native Arts are both open and ready to welcome you with open arms.
January 8, 2026 at 7:49 PM
Bless book people
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Map from my copy of an 1832 atlas by educator & cartographer Emma Willard (1787-1870). She argued for equality in women's education, noting women were equally capable of subjects like math & philosophy. In 1821 she opened the first school in the U.S. to offer women's higher education.
#WomenInSTEM
#WomenInSTEM
December 23, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Map from my copy of an 1832 atlas by educator & cartographer Emma Willard (1787-1870). She argued for equality in women's education, noting women were equally capable of subjects like math & philosophy. In 1821 she opened the first school in the U.S. to offer women's higher education.
#WomenInSTEM
#WomenInSTEM
I think the best way to revive when everything seems hopeless and stupid is to get breakfast with smart people who genuinely believe in a positive vision of the future. We can be so much more. This morning I will believe it for a moment.
January 8, 2026 at 2:00 PM
I think the best way to revive when everything seems hopeless and stupid is to get breakfast with smart people who genuinely believe in a positive vision of the future. We can be so much more. This morning I will believe it for a moment.
It's raining in the map center. There's a leak in a bathroom upstairs. This is going to be hundreds of dollars in damage. It's still coming down! I'm so done with Mills!
January 8, 2026 at 12:42 AM
It's raining in the map center. There's a leak in a bathroom upstairs. This is going to be hundreds of dollars in damage. It's still coming down! I'm so done with Mills!
Reposted by Andrew Middleton
Globus was a small rotating globe, approximately five inches wide, displaying the spacecraft's current and projected position above Earth. Instead of digital systems, it operated through a complex network of gears, cams, and mechanical differentials that converted orbital data into globe motion.
January 6, 2026 at 3:43 PM
Globus was a small rotating globe, approximately five inches wide, displaying the spacecraft's current and projected position above Earth. Instead of digital systems, it operated through a complex network of gears, cams, and mechanical differentials that converted orbital data into globe motion.
The "resource curse" is the connection between natural resource extraction dependent economies and autocracy.
A warlord can claim a mine or oil well and then reward/punish others with access. Think about Immortan Joe and his water in Fury Road.
It's hard to exert that control over a diverse economy.
A warlord can claim a mine or oil well and then reward/punish others with access. Think about Immortan Joe and his water in Fury Road.
It's hard to exert that control over a diverse economy.
Unhook ourselves from oil and gas and we unhook ourselves from dependency on dictators, autocrats and expansionist regimes all over the planet.
Renewables and other low-carbon energy sources are not just good climate sense. They are also good political sense.
Renewables and other low-carbon energy sources are not just good climate sense. They are also good political sense.
January 6, 2026 at 5:38 PM
The "resource curse" is the connection between natural resource extraction dependent economies and autocracy.
A warlord can claim a mine or oil well and then reward/punish others with access. Think about Immortan Joe and his water in Fury Road.
It's hard to exert that control over a diverse economy.
A warlord can claim a mine or oil well and then reward/punish others with access. Think about Immortan Joe and his water in Fury Road.
It's hard to exert that control over a diverse economy.
Where does federal spending go? Where are people hurt the most from cuts?
I see it’s already answered. I was going to share this but not sure if the CPB data are even here. www.arcgis.com/apps/mapview...
Map Viewer
www.arcgis.com
January 6, 2026 at 5:16 PM
Where does federal spending go? Where are people hurt the most from cuts?
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Geography refresher needed at the State Department…
January 5, 2026 at 1:32 AM
Geography refresher needed at the State Department…
Enough complaining from me! Come see my talk 'How Maps Lie' at the Falmouth Public Library on January 13 at 6:30PM.
falmouthpubliclibrary.assabetinteractive.com/calendar/how...
falmouthpubliclibrary.assabetinteractive.com/calendar/how...
How Maps Lie with Andrew Middleton of the Map Center
Join Andrew Middleton of The Map Center in Pawtucket, RI for a fun and informative talk on how maps tell all sorts of stories. Learn how historical and contemporary maps are designed to convey informa...
falmouthpubliclibrary.assabetinteractive.com
January 5, 2026 at 9:22 PM
Enough complaining from me! Come see my talk 'How Maps Lie' at the Falmouth Public Library on January 13 at 6:30PM.
falmouthpubliclibrary.assabetinteractive.com/calendar/how...
falmouthpubliclibrary.assabetinteractive.com/calendar/how...
This storefront is next to BART and the SF Ferry Terminal.
1,189 square feet, $3,270 a month. www.loopnet.com/Listing/200-...
This one is 2,000sf, needs interior reno, is a block and a half from anything and is $4,200 a month. www.loopnet.com/Listing/20-W...
Providence. What are you doing.
1,189 square feet, $3,270 a month. www.loopnet.com/Listing/200-...
This one is 2,000sf, needs interior reno, is a block and a half from anything and is $4,200 a month. www.loopnet.com/Listing/20-W...
Providence. What are you doing.
www.loopnet.com
January 5, 2026 at 8:01 PM
This storefront is next to BART and the SF Ferry Terminal.
1,189 square feet, $3,270 a month. www.loopnet.com/Listing/200-...
This one is 2,000sf, needs interior reno, is a block and a half from anything and is $4,200 a month. www.loopnet.com/Listing/20-W...
Providence. What are you doing.
1,189 square feet, $3,270 a month. www.loopnet.com/Listing/200-...
This one is 2,000sf, needs interior reno, is a block and a half from anything and is $4,200 a month. www.loopnet.com/Listing/20-W...
Providence. What are you doing.
Reposted by Andrew Middleton
The track of IMO 9893046 Pacific Diamond is really sus'
January 4, 2026 at 6:54 PM
The track of IMO 9893046 Pacific Diamond is really sus'
I was frail and weak and only stayed a few hours but at least I got to see Chapter 40 in a full cast reading.
Update from 11 hours into the Moby Dick marathon:
The “quiet room” is starting to fill up with people bedding down for the night. Real “night at the museum” vibes.
The out-loud reading presses on in the museum auditorium downstairs, readers taking turns.
The “quiet room” is starting to fill up with people bedding down for the night. Real “night at the museum” vibes.
The out-loud reading presses on in the museum auditorium downstairs, readers taking turns.
January 4, 2026 at 2:31 PM
I was frail and weak and only stayed a few hours but at least I got to see Chapter 40 in a full cast reading.
I can't find a decent storefront in Providence so I started shopping in San Francisco. Pricier per square foot (obviously) and higher COL but with way higher foot traffic, better economy, corporate partners and city small business grants. Honestly, pretty good deals there.
January 3, 2026 at 3:34 PM
I can't find a decent storefront in Providence so I started shopping in San Francisco. Pricier per square foot (obviously) and higher COL but with way higher foot traffic, better economy, corporate partners and city small business grants. Honestly, pretty good deals there.
'John-The-Crazy-MAGA-Printer,' whose business is adjacent to The Map Center, used to print Trump bumper stickers about how he'd keep the US out of war. It was an absurd premise then and it's a stupid premise now.
Gonna try to continue not speaking to him rather than say what I'm really thinking.
Gonna try to continue not speaking to him rather than say what I'm really thinking.
January 3, 2026 at 1:57 PM
'John-The-Crazy-MAGA-Printer,' whose business is adjacent to The Map Center, used to print Trump bumper stickers about how he'd keep the US out of war. It was an absurd premise then and it's a stupid premise now.
Gonna try to continue not speaking to him rather than say what I'm really thinking.
Gonna try to continue not speaking to him rather than say what I'm really thinking.
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🗺️ “ A map can be like a giant selfie with a very fun filter. It's a picture of your community through a particular lens,” says Andrew Middleton, owner of The Map Center. Here are some of the maps *you* shared with us: buff.ly/UujCTdW
January 3, 2026 at 12:41 AM
🗺️ “ A map can be like a giant selfie with a very fun filter. It's a picture of your community through a particular lens,” says Andrew Middleton, owner of The Map Center. Here are some of the maps *you* shared with us: buff.ly/UujCTdW
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If we’re renaming bodies of water based on petty grievances, I propose that this be renamed the Kendrick Lamar passage.
February 12, 2025 at 10:06 AM
If we’re renaming bodies of water based on petty grievances, I propose that this be renamed the Kendrick Lamar passage.
Love it when a geospatial professional comes in to the store so I can show them the deep cuts, talk a bit of shop, do some insufferable name dropping and then ask if they know anyone hiring.
January 2, 2026 at 5:20 PM
Love it when a geospatial professional comes in to the store so I can show them the deep cuts, talk a bit of shop, do some insufferable name dropping and then ask if they know anyone hiring.
The Map Center has given my life a lot of meaning but it's come at the expense of a lot of things that bring me joy.
In 2026 I'm seeking balance, curiosity and exploration.
Step 1. Get outside and finally visit the famous Potato Sheds monument in Boston
In 2026 I'm seeking balance, curiosity and exploration.
Step 1. Get outside and finally visit the famous Potato Sheds monument in Boston
January 2, 2026 at 2:38 PM
The Map Center has given my life a lot of meaning but it's come at the expense of a lot of things that bring me joy.
In 2026 I'm seeking balance, curiosity and exploration.
Step 1. Get outside and finally visit the famous Potato Sheds monument in Boston
In 2026 I'm seeking balance, curiosity and exploration.
Step 1. Get outside and finally visit the famous Potato Sheds monument in Boston
Reposted by Andrew Middleton
Why are the pubs I never go to closing? Why is that useful-looking shop I never buy anything from closed down?
January 1, 2026 at 2:57 PM
Why are the pubs I never go to closing? Why is that useful-looking shop I never buy anything from closed down?
In many ways, running a retail store is like stock picking.
I buy new products, betting that I can make my money back plus the wholesale discounts when they sell. If I can sell an item within 2 years, typically, I win.
You can't predict what does well but you can manage a diverse portfolio.
I buy new products, betting that I can make my money back plus the wholesale discounts when they sell. If I can sell an item within 2 years, typically, I win.
You can't predict what does well but you can manage a diverse portfolio.
December 31, 2025 at 5:02 PM
In many ways, running a retail store is like stock picking.
I buy new products, betting that I can make my money back plus the wholesale discounts when they sell. If I can sell an item within 2 years, typically, I win.
You can't predict what does well but you can manage a diverse portfolio.
I buy new products, betting that I can make my money back plus the wholesale discounts when they sell. If I can sell an item within 2 years, typically, I win.
You can't predict what does well but you can manage a diverse portfolio.
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As vaccination has become a political hot potato, the already patchwork of counties & schools meeting herd immunity standards has fallen further.
Maps + an interactive to lookup your local schools in this blockbuster w/ @laurenweberhp.bsky.social & @caitlingilbert.bsky.social
wapo.st/49zDc43
Maps + an interactive to lookup your local schools in this blockbuster w/ @laurenweberhp.bsky.social & @caitlingilbert.bsky.social
wapo.st/49zDc43
December 31, 2025 at 3:24 PM
As vaccination has become a political hot potato, the already patchwork of counties & schools meeting herd immunity standards has fallen further.
Maps + an interactive to lookup your local schools in this blockbuster w/ @laurenweberhp.bsky.social & @caitlingilbert.bsky.social
wapo.st/49zDc43
Maps + an interactive to lookup your local schools in this blockbuster w/ @laurenweberhp.bsky.social & @caitlingilbert.bsky.social
wapo.st/49zDc43
I love my photosynthesizing business nextdoor neighbors.
Turn your bus ride into begonias! 🌺 Do you ride @ripta.com, carpool, walk, bike, or take the train on your way to work or school? Win a $50 gift card to Jordan's Jungle in #PawtucketRI just by logging your green trips in the Drive Less RI app. Get started at DriveLessRI.com.
December 30, 2025 at 1:28 PM
I love my photosynthesizing business nextdoor neighbors.