An open access digital Atlas of the Salish Sea Bioregion.
Salish Sea Maps for Week 2 of 2024’s #30DayMapChallenge
Salish Sea Maps for Week 2 of 2024’s #30DayMapChallenge
hashtag#30daymapchallenge Day 14’s prompt is “A world map”. I wanted to focus on the 70% of the world made up of oceans and I wanted to try some new fun cartography tricks, so here is a map of global ocean currents shown using the ocean-centric Spilhaus projection. Once again, thanks to John Nelson for making this so much faster to create with his Spilhaus template and bathymetry vector tiles. Ocean currents are from maps.com .
The prompt for Day 12 of the hashtag#30daymapchallenge is “Time and Space”. This is a map from my forthcoming Salish Sea Climate Change Assessment showing the 1901-2022 linear trends in average annual temperature at climate stations with long, continuous records in the Salish Sea Bioregion. All climate stations show a warming trend, with temperature increasing by 0.12 to 2.48° C (0.21 to 4.47° F).
The prompt for Day 9 of hashtag#30daymapchallenge is to use AI to make your map. I asked ChatGPT to use DALL-E to make a map of the Salish Sea with real placenames. What it created was entirely inaccurate, but eerily adjacent to reality. Sort of the geographic equivalent of the uncanny valley effect. It brings to mind dreams I have about a remembered place in which the place doesn’t look right, but it somehow feels like the place I remember. This map is also evocative of a future with flooded coastlines or an alternate past in which plate tectonics played out slightly differently. I find myself surprisingly haunted by this dreamlike visualization.
