Evan Applegate
@youwillmakemaps
Vocational cartographer • http://evanapplegate.com • The best maps lie ahead, and you’re going to make them
The Best Maps Lie Ahead I want my favorite material culture to live. I want people in 2130 to cherish a map made in 2030. I want to see another Turgot-level map produced before I die (pic related). In 1910 you could buy a 5-cent rail route pamphlet that looks better than nearly…
The day before our first date, my now-fiancee and I were driving to fetch my grandma from the salon (longer story) when a tree collapsed on our car, javelining a wrist-thick branch into her dash. Breezeless sunny day, no other cars affected, total freak accident. No real…
Share a piece of dating lore about yourself.
9x12x2” Lake Tahoe backlit map 12 tiled USFS topos + my bathymetric contours, a sheet of glass separating each isobath gives it a neat depth and parallax. Ten panes of glass bring this piece to 18 pounds; a desk companion rather than wall art for ah, safety reasons.
California in a dry and wet winter, Dec. 2020 vs. Dec. 2022 as seen in 250m VIIRS "true color" images. L.A.’s San Gabriels become skiable, the Sierras get buried, and the central valley (a giant bowl of farm-evapotranspiration) has dense cloud cover when it’s cool enough.
I'd walk in the easement to take map blanket pics under one of the transmission towers These POD cotton blankets were not warm at all but they did look nice and stood up to machine washings Unprofitable but I had a good time passing them over a folding table at craft fairs
Good morning to California only
Good morning to California only
5 hour flight so Stef asked me to explain github “It allows decentralized collaboration and version control, and even has a little forum where people can submit bugs. Here’s some danish guy lighting me up for submitting a report on an unsupported version of QGIS”