For #Spacetober prompt historic figures, the one & only Mary Fairfax Somerville (1780-1872). As a young widow she made a name for herself when she won a silver medal in 1811 from the Military College at Marlow math journal. Wallace suggested she read Laplace & finding she understood it as well as her tutor her confidence increased, & she expanded her studies to #astronomy, chemistry, #geography, microscopy, electricity & magnetism. 🧵1/n

#printmaking #womeninstemm #linocut #sciart #MastoArt

This is bananas.

#geography #geolocation #maps
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Null Island Is a Fake Island Where the Prime Meridian and Equator Meet - Atlas Obscura

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/strange-maps-null-island

Why British cities make no sense - MapMen

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=Whqs8v1svyo

#vulgarisation #geography #uk

I spent waaay too much time on this 🙈:

A curated list of Mastodon accounts to follow if you're interested in #cartography, #maps, #geoviz'ualisation, visual aspects of #GIS and #geography etc. – 172 active accounts as of today!

Maybe a good way to get your feed going if you are #newhere…

https://cartolab.at/cartography-on-mastodon/

Let me know if you want to be included/removed or feel misrepresented. #gischat

Scrolling through #foss4g #foss4g2023 papers:

ADAPTATION OF #QGIS TOOLS IN #HIGHSCHOOL #GEOGRAPHY #EDUCATION by
V. Pivarníková and J. Trojan

https://isprs-archives.copernicus.org/articles/XLVIII-4-W7-2023/161/2023/

Full list: https://isprs-archives.copernicus.org/articles/XLVIII-4-W7-2023/

#gischat #gis #geospatial #maps