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Doug Greenfield

@douggreenfield.bsky.social

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Cartographer. Map of the Week - https://mapoftheweek.substack.com . Fake singer songwriter (now on Spotify, Apple, Amazon and others) https://doug-greenfield.pixpa.com

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Doug Greenfield @douggreenfield.bsky.social · 23h

Banned books map for banned books week #MapoftheWeek mapoftheweek.substack.com/p/banned-boo...

Banned Books Map

Happy Banned Books Week. As book burning fever persists across the land the Little Free Library organization is fighting back with a map showing book bans across the USA.

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Doug Greenfield @douggreenfield.bsky.social · 7d

It’s so low that we need to send troops to our cities to bring it back up again.

Doug Greenfield @douggreenfield.bsky.social · 7d

African migration myths. #MapoftheWeek mapoftheweek.substack.com

Doug Greenfield @douggreenfield.bsky.social · 10d

East Coast Greenway, Biddeford, Maine

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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 14d

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Doug Greenfield @douggreenfield.bsky.social · 14d

Cool-thanks!

Doug Greenfield @douggreenfield.bsky.social · 14d

Selling the dream of Southern California #MapoftheWeek mapoftheweek.substack.com/p/selling-th...

Selling the Dream of Southern California

Southern California may have lost some of its sparkle in recent decades but in the early to mid-20th Century it was largely seen as the perfect American dream location.

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Terrible Maps @terriblemapshq.bsky.social · 20d

No one trolls with street names quite like Prague.

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Doug Greenfield @douggreenfield.bsky.social · 19d

Never forget #badmaps

Doug Greenfield @douggreenfield.bsky.social · 22d

A lovely ocean tides map using the Spilhaus projection for some Wednesday mappy goodness #MapoftheWeek mapoftheweek.substack.com/p/a-world-of...

A World of Tides

The most recent issue of ArcUser, a magazine for Esri GIS software users spotlights cartographer Dave Taylor’s striking Oceanic Oscillations map.

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Doug Greenfield @douggreenfield.bsky.social · 28d

The Oxford Drinking Map, because it's back to school time. #MapoftheWeek mapoftheweek.substack.com/p/the-oxford...

The Oxford Drinking Map

With a new college year begun, students need a good map of their local watering holes.

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Doug Greenfield @douggreenfield.bsky.social · Sep 7

Hand carved map on wood of Poland, Maine made by a neighbor of the place I’m staying #whereIam #MapsintheWild

Doug Greenfield @douggreenfield.bsky.social · Sep 3

Today's blog post features a bonus video from @mapcenter.com on running one of the last surviving map stores in the uSA mapoftheweek.substack.com/p/the-bog-de...

The Bog Defense

A recent article in Politico details how eastern Europe’s bogs could be used as a defensive wall against Russian aggression.

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Doug Greenfield @douggreenfield.bsky.social · Sep 3

The Bog Defense #MapoftheWeek mapoftheweek.substack.com/p/the-bog-de...

The Bog Defense

A recent article in Politico details how eastern Europe’s bogs could be used as a defensive wall against Russian aggression.

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Doug Greenfield @douggreenfield.bsky.social · Sep 1

I regret to inform you that you will not be able to use the internet anymore because it's been broken - by a casserole.

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Doug Greenfield @douggreenfield.bsky.social · Aug 20

For years we've been paying $12-13,000 for annual Esri software maintenance. This year it's over $17,000. Next year if we keep our current numbers it will be close to $21K, ramping up to almost $29,000 in 2029. I guess Jack must be struggling to pay his bills? We certainly will be. #gischat