Here are the Pretty Maps I made for the #30DayMapChallenge 2021 event! Thankfully, I managed to produce a map for every single day of November, which, frankly, was tough. This was very rapid mapping and it did was a contest. A contest with time, with loads of client work and with me myself. Would I do it again? Definitely yes, starting tomorrow, December 1st, for one more monthly round!
I really learnt so many new things during the process. Ways to work faster, new tools and commands, new datasets, typefaces, styles, but the most important was to see all the work from the other participants around the World. So much creativity, so much inspirational work, accessible by scrolling Twitter every morning before starting my day.
This is the magic of the internet. Getting in touch with people with which I share common feelings about maps and map making, who live in all impossible places, speak different languages and come from other cultures. I love you all. Somehow this is a parallel universe I live in, invisible to anybody else who don’t understand mapping.
So anyway. Here is my contribution:
Day 29 – NULL
Day 28 – The Earth is not flat
Day 27 – Heatmap
Day 26 – Choropleth map
Day 25 – Interactive map
Day 24 – Historical map
Day 23 – Data challenge 3: GHSL Global Human Settlement Layer
Day 22 – Boundaries
Day 21 – Elevation
Day 20 – Movement
Day 19 – Island(s)
Day 18 – Water
Day 17 – Land
Day 16 – Urban/Rural
Day 15 – Map made without using a computer
Day 14 – Map with a new tool
Day 13 – Data challenge 2: Natural Earth
Day 12 – Population
Day 11 – 3D
Day 10 – Raster
Day 9 – Monochrome
Day 8 – Blue
Day 7 – Green
Day 6 – Red
Day 5 – Data challenge 1: OpenStreetMap
Day 4 – Hexagons
Day 3 – Polygons
Day 2 – Lines
Day 1 – Points
The maps for the Days 25 and 28 are living on the internet and you may see them here:
- Day 25 – Interactive map – Earthquakes on Crete 2021
- Day 28 – The Earth is not flat – World Heritage List
So, until next year!
Kindest regards from Crete, Greece!
Spiros