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Daniel Huffman
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An arboreal, poly, gender non-participant mapmaker.
• Portfolio & tutorials: somethingaboutmaps.com.
• Prints: https://somethingaboutmaps.com/Storefront
• You can support my art & teaching at http://patreon.com/pinakographos.
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Daniel Huffman @pinakographos.bsky.social · Nov 11
I arrive here having finished a major, multi-month project: creating a posters in a hachure style reminiscent of centuries past. Have a look: terrainlines.etsy.com.

There's a free ebook, too! somethingaboutmaps.wordpress.com/2024/10/31/a...

If you could share them around, I would be grateful!
A black and white sketch of Mount Hood, seen from a roughly ground level view. It is in a black frame, and on a blue background. Off to the left are a vertically stacked series of smaller images, too small to read. Each is different-looking, but all are black and white miniature versions of posters. The miniature version of the Mount Hood poster is highlighted in white. Sample images of three monochrome posters each prepared in a line drawing style. One shows Mount Rainier, another Katahdin, and the last one shows Devil's tower. The posters are stacked on top of each other and the Mount Rainier one is partially rolled up. A detailed zoom in of a hachured representation of the Presidential Range, with peaks labeled. A vertical-orientation poster titled "The Seven Summits" — it shows black and white sketches of seven different peaks, the highest on each continent. The peak sketches alternate between being positioned on the left and the right side of the poster. Next to each is a label naming the mountain and giving its location. The poster is framed on a blue background.
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pinakographos.bsky.social
Do you like #maps? The Independent Map Artists (mapartists.org) has hit a big milestone and now has 50(!) members, all interested in helping with your holiday shopping. Hundreds of maps & mappy goods, straight from small businesses.

Connecting creators & customers is hard; please consider sharing.
An oblique view of a couple of dozen thumbnail images of map products. An oblique view of a couple of dozen thumbnail images of map products. A contact sheet showing 144 thumbnail images from the mapartists.org website.
November 22, 2025 at 6:15 PM
pinakographos.bsky.social
Long version: somethingaboutmaps.wordpress.com/2011/03/02/o...

Short version: Maps gave me a mental escape from a life mired in deep depression, one brought on by the confluence of an abusive relationship, a move away from home, and a disastrous attempt to avoid adulthood by going back to school.
recursecenter.bsky.social Recurse Center @recursecenter.bsky.social · 13d
What’s the lore behind choosing your career path ?
November 23, 2025 at 12:44 AM
pinakographos.bsky.social
Do you like #maps? The Independent Map Artists (mapartists.org) has hit a big milestone and now has 50(!) members, all interested in helping with your holiday shopping. Hundreds of maps & mappy goods, straight from small businesses.

Connecting creators & customers is hard; please consider sharing.
An oblique view of a couple of dozen thumbnail images of map products. An oblique view of a couple of dozen thumbnail images of map products. A contact sheet showing 144 thumbnail images from the mapartists.org website.
November 22, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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mapcenter.com
By request, here's a thread of books that I think make excellent gifts this holiday season (obviously they're cartographically inclined, you know me)

1. Best anthology
"All Over the Map" by Betsy Mason and Greg Miller
A gorgeous, full color history of maps mind-bending maps from around the world.
November 21, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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tomake.bsky.social
WE :: There Is No Us or Them

Letterpress print using #blox modular type. Printed on #kozo and mounted #chine-collé in a small #LimitedEdition on Somerset Velvet.

#toMake press in #Missoula #aRealPlace #printmaking
November 21, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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tombolomapsdesign.bsky.social
For Day 11 of the #30DayMapChallenge's prompt "Minimal" we made a VERY quick map showing off one of @pinakographos.bsky.social's Project Linework handcrafted vector linework files: Geo-Metro. If you haven't found this resource yet, it's a fun one to find uses for (www.projectlinework.org)!
November 21, 2025 at 4:11 AM
pinakographos.bsky.social
Someone revive this projection, please.
pinakographos.bsky.social Daniel Huffman @pinakographos.bsky.social · 4d
Apparently it had its own custom projection! As far as I can tell, the Dudley Projection also faded into obscurity, as I find no other reference to it.
A page from the manual showing the Dudley projection, described as taking "advantage of the computer power available in today's PCs." It was developed for the program. It's an interrupted, multilobate projection.
November 21, 2025 at 12:17 AM
pinakographos.bsky.social
Reminiscing. When I started making maps as a hobby ca. 2005, I used Map Maker Gratis, a program that faded away long ago. Luckily the Internet Archive remembers (web.archive.org/web/20060424...). Alas, I can't find the maps I made with it, except one. I am still proud of figuring out how to make it.
A screenshot of a page from the mapmaker.com website in 2006. It describes the Map Maker Gratis program and its features. A page from the Map Maker manual, describing how to query data. It shows images of the program interface, including a dialog box and the main Map Maker interface with some data loaded in. A map of the Kalamazoo River and its tributaries, along with cities on those rivers. It's a very clunky map, but I am very proud of it.
November 20, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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pinakographos.bsky.social
I just obtained a (red!) shipping label printer. To celebrate & give me a reason to actually use it, I am discounting "Landforms of Michigan" by 25% for the next week (now only $18.77).

somethingaboutmaps.bigcartel.com/product/the-...

Take a tour: somethingaboutmaps.wordpress.com/2021/12/06/l...
A photo of a small red label printer, sitting on a faux-wood floor. A detailed image of a print of Landforms of Michigan, showing the northern end of Lake Michigan. An image of the whole Landforms of Michigan map, showing in various green tones, with shaded relief, the landforms and landcover of the state.
November 18, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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pinakographos.bsky.social
I am also celebrating by finally organizing my #cyanotype misprints and having another one of my irregularly-scheduled "pay what you want" sales. Please consider giving a home to one of these less-than-perfect hand-printed pieces. Some have scorch marks!

docs.google.com/document/d/1...
A detail image of two cyanotype maps of Lebanon. One is darker than the other and has some browning on the bottom. An image of a cyanotype of the Seven Summits. Some of the text is dark and blurred and difficult to read.
November 18, 2025 at 9:18 PM
pinakographos.bsky.social
This cat will be improving her data visualization skills in no time.
An adult cat, a silver spotted tabby, sniffs at the corner of a book. The book is "Info We Trust" by RJ Andrews.
November 20, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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mapcenter.com
You there, boy! What day is this?

Why sir, it's GIS Day!

My God, they did it all in one night! Say, boy! Do you know the Map Center in Pawtucket?

The one with the globe in the window that's as big as I am?

Sharp lad, that's the one! Here's my Venmo handle just like, charge me whatever it costs
November 19, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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mapcenter.com
I made a map of all the places in New England that I'm giving a talk at in the next 8 months. If I'm not coming to a town near you, ask your local library to reach out. felt.com/map/Library-...
Library Talks – Felt
The only cloud-native GIS platform.
felt.com
November 18, 2025 at 9:19 PM
pinakographos.bsky.social
I am also celebrating by finally organizing my #cyanotype misprints and having another one of my irregularly-scheduled "pay what you want" sales. Please consider giving a home to one of these less-than-perfect hand-printed pieces. Some have scorch marks!

docs.google.com/document/d/1...
A detail image of two cyanotype maps of Lebanon. One is darker than the other and has some browning on the bottom. An image of a cyanotype of the Seven Summits. Some of the text is dark and blurred and difficult to read.
November 18, 2025 at 9:18 PM
pinakographos.bsky.social
I just obtained a (red!) shipping label printer. To celebrate & give me a reason to actually use it, I am discounting "Landforms of Michigan" by 25% for the next week (now only $18.77).

somethingaboutmaps.bigcartel.com/product/the-...

Take a tour: somethingaboutmaps.wordpress.com/2021/12/06/l...
A photo of a small red label printer, sitting on a faux-wood floor. A detailed image of a print of Landforms of Michigan, showing the northern end of Lake Michigan. An image of the whole Landforms of Michigan map, showing in various green tones, with shaded relief, the landforms and landcover of the state.
November 18, 2025 at 9:14 PM
pinakographos.bsky.social
Spent a bit of time this evening perusing one of my favorites: The Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Fell in love with it at the campus library in college, and was lucky enough to find (and afford) a banged-up copy soon after graduation.
A photograph of a page from the atlas. It shows an area center on Amphipopolis. Hypsometric tinting is used to show elevations. Towns, roads, and other common reference map features are shown.
November 18, 2025 at 5:47 AM
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maproomblog.com
This week on The Map Room:

StateFace
www.maproomblog.com/2025/11/stat...

Mapping the 2025 (and 2021) Canadian Election Results
www.maproomblog.com/2025/11/mapp...

The Onion Doesn’t Miss
www.maproomblog.com/2025/11/the-...

300,000 Kilometres of Roman Roads
www.maproomblog.com/2025/11/3000...
November 14, 2025 at 8:23 PM
pinakographos.bsky.social
As a general reminder: if you see an item in my portfolio (somethingaboutmaps.com/Client-Work), and you want to know more about how I made it, I can usually send my Illustrator/Photoshop files to you for dissection.
November 13, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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mapesgeog.bsky.social
Another beautiful atlas saved from recycling. This one appears to be a guide for boating down a river in Belgium? Love the bridge illustrations.
La Meuse de die Maas is what the worn cover of this atlas says. Title page for this 1961 atlas with locator map of Belgium Diagram of a small river segment showing shoreline and drawing of a bridge Several drawings of bridges that span this segment of the river
November 13, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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mapcenter.com
My favorite maps are the ones that show me something new in a striking way. That takes science, data and math but also creativity and a certain visual charisma that is really hard to learn without playing a bit. Poetry is a great way to stretch out, take a fun break and return to work refreshed.
November 12, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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drandrewthaler.bsky.social
In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.

The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.

The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.

Why?

It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
November 11, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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moriartymaps.com
"And all that remains is the faces and the names of the wives and the sons and the daughters"

Beautiful cover of Fitzgerald by Ross Thorn, recorded this morning on the shores of Lake Superior.

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November 10, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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mapcenter.com
Do I know any Indigenous folks who make maps? Got a request for a paid design/cartography job and it'd be rad if I could connect you with them.
November 8, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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moriartymaps.com
Sign painting (or at least that aesthetic) rules because it implies a human hand was involved in it. Seeps intention, clever visual hierarchy, and charm.
November 5, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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chiaraphillips.bsky.social
#30DayMapChallenge Day 4: My Data

Today I built a mini dataset and recorded a demo of my new FOS web app called #Click2Vector!

Users can click on the interactive map to make a point dataset for export, or import lat/long from Google Sheets!

Check it out here: www.chiaraphillips.com#click2vector
November 4, 2025 at 9:06 PM