#Cartography is an active hashtag on Bluesky. In the last 30 days, 69 people shared 220 posts with it — around 7 a day. Activity is up 6% versus the previous week, peaking on Jul 30 with 16 posts.

Posts with #Cartography

Admirable Women

@admirablewomen.bsky.social

8 days ago

Geologist & oceanographic cartographer Marie Tharp (born #OTD in 1920) mapped the N. Atlantic seafloor in 1957 & the entire global #ocean floor by 1977. Her work revealed the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and helped validate continental drift, transforming modern earth science. #WomenInSTEM #Cartography 1/2

A black-and-white split image of Marie Tharp (1920–2006), the pioneering American geologist and oceanographic cartographer whose work proved continental drift. The top panel features a formal portrait of Tharp in three-quarter view against a dark, dramatic background. Facing right with an analytical and serious expression, she wears a black turtleneck and glasses. She leans her head slightly against her left hand, which rests beneath her chin, projecting an aura of intense intellectual focus and determination. The bottom panel provides historical context, showing Tharp from behind in her workshop at Columbia University. Leaning over a large, cluttered desk, she meticulously drafts her revolutionary 1957 physiographic map of the North Atlantic Ocean floor. Roll-up maps, drawing tools, and large, hand-drawn topographic profiles of massive underwater mountains and deep rift valleys surround her under focused task lighting, documenting her work that reshaped modern earth sciences.

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Gregor Aisch

@driven-by-data.net

over 1 year ago

For the German election we wanted to use a cartogram of German election districts but didn't find anything good, so we created our own. Here's a little nerd thread how the final algorithm worked 🤓 🧵 #gis #cartogram #election #datavis #cartography

Cartogram of 299 German election districts

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Fernando Salvaterra

@salvaterra.bsky.social

over 1 year ago

It's #PortfolioDay 🎨! My name is Fernando Salvaterra, I'm a Brazilian illustrator making hand-drawn fantasy maps for novels and TTRPGs. I have a Patreon with lots of maps + stock art for indie RPGs. 💼 cara.app/salvaterra 🗺️ www.patreon.com/tomeofsal…. #cartography #ttrpg #art #fantasyart

Map of a kingdom crossed by a river that goes from a mountain range in the northwest to swamps in the southeast, with a long lake in the middle. a big forest just southwest of the lake with a mountain in the center. The map is titled "Fellmyr".

an RPG map depicting a peninsula ragged with many islands, some big forests siding a field of hills and a big mountain range up north.

a map depicting a walled city on a frozen land with weird-looking mountains and a floating island with a wizard's tower. there are lakes scattered around the landscapes, a ruined city, a galeon stuck in a magic storm, a field of sharp crystal shards and some walled camps here and there.

a map depicting the interior of a witch city inside vertical cliffs on a canyon, with round plazas, a market and a city hall. there are towers up the cliffs for witches to take flight in their flying brooms and a magic school hanging outside the vertical cliffs.

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Fernando Salvaterra

@salvaterra.bsky.social

over 1 year ago

Hi #PortfolioDay! 🎨 I'm a freelance illustrator from Brazil working on hand-drawn fantasy maps for novels and RPGs. I have a Patreon with lots of maps + stock art for indie RPGs. 💼 cara.app/salvaterra 🗺️ www.patreon.com/tomeofsal…. #cartography #ttrpg #art #fantasyart

map of a miniature town in an abandoned backyard with a stream running through it, some stone slabs, a tower inside a boot, a Halloween pumpkin, a water mill inside a barrel, another tower inside a hollow tree stump, etc.

a fantasy map depicting the Aldarin Empire, a land with several provinces with jagged coastlines, two big mountain ranges, many forests, plains, hills, rivers, lakes and islands.

a colour hand-drawn nameless map depicting an island crossed by a mountain range holding many valleys, rivers, lakes, forests, headlands and a few islets around it.

map illustration of a river going around through hills, pine forests, mountains, islands, cliffs, caves and harbour cities.

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Fernando Salvaterra

@salvaterra.bsky.social

25 days ago

Hi #portfolioday I do maps, apparently. #ttrpg #cartography

fantasy map illustration depicting a flat world floating in the void. it has a ruined city in the north, desolated plains in the northeast, a strange reality warping land in the northwest with a whilrpool of stars, broken lands just south of it, dangerous hills in the east, a stange juntle in the south surrounded by a vast mountain range. all this around a central chaotic area with war, warping terrain, a lake of acid, a cursed citadel, burning cities.

a fantasy map illustration titled "the divine empire of cirrhul" where a central lake surrounded by a circular mountain range sits in the middle of a land with hills, rivers and plains. another big mountain range to the north and a vast forest to the south. steppes to the northwest and a sea to the southeast. the border is decorated with statutes of the gods.

map or landscape illustration in a tarot card proportion, depicting a fragmented land with big stone slabs open up to a ravine below. It has a long stone stairway going down, a strange crystal palace, some trees and desert-like terrain, a giant anthill, a river cascading to the ravine and a pool on a floating islet, containing a giant, desperate eel that doesn't fit well in the pool.

fantasy map illustration of a devastated land crossed by roads. suburbs to the northwest, a quarry in the northeast, a forest being destroyed, industrial plant, a marsh, a trash dump terrain, mountains to the southwest, a farm at the bottom of the map.

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Fernando Salvaterra

@salvaterra.bsky.social

10 months ago

Hi #PortfolioDay! 🎨 I'm a fantasy cartographer from Brazil working on hand-drawn maps for novels and RPGs. I have a Patreon with maps + stock art for indie RPGs. 💼 cara.app/salvaterra 🗺️ www.patreon.com/tomeofsal…. +🔗 fernandosalvaterra.carrd.co #cartography #ttrpg

fantasy map illustration depicting a landscape full of ragged mountains up and down, crossed by crooked roads, some on giant stone structures. There is a valley with hills and woods to the south, a desert with wretched lands just east of it, wetlands to the west and east with flooded cities and temples, snowy plains to the northeast with a giant skeleton and tree and an impossibly tall mountain in the northwest whose peak is obscured by dark clouds.

a fantasy map illustration depicting a continent with a bigger mainland and a large island to the west of it. the biomes go from snowy mountains, a vast wetland, grasslands with many hills. the prevalent features here is that it is crossed by many rivers in all directions and it is surrounded by a the shades of a vast submarine landscape that where part of this land before a big flood catastrophe.

colourful drawing of an island crossed by a mountain range, rivers and forests scattered around.

a planar map in the shape of a compass rose. The direction arrows are the four classical elemental planes with the material plane in the centre and several layers of other planes of existence around it.

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Fernando Salvaterra

@salvaterra.bsky.social

about 1 year ago

Hi #PortfolioDay! 🎨 I'm a freelance illustrator from Brazil working on hand-drawn fantasy maps for novels and RPGs. I have a Patreon with maps + stock art for indie RPGs. 💼 cara.app/salvaterra 🗺️ www.patreon.com/tomeofsal…. +🔗 fernandosalvaterra.carrd.co #cartography #ttrpg #art #fantasyart

a fantasy map depicting a hell. from the top to the bottom: there's a submarine city of strange towers and glass domes connected to a giant computer in the midst of reefs. a river and a lake goes south from this city in the midst of some ruins, ending on a big dam from where a timid river flows through a desert canyon. beyond the desert, there's another stretch of sea separating it from another city at the end of the map. there are planets hovering above this landscape: the remains of mars and a primeval earth covered in lava, fumes, guns and forts.

a map depicting a valley surrounded by two rivers, one red, the other of crystal waters, both flowing from a big lake fed by a large river coming from the mountains. the mountains look almost magical as there are four main peaks: a volcano, a snowy range, a forest-covered mountain and a colourful rocky mineral mountain. there is a city near the lake, called Alma, a meadow of giant butterflies, roads following the rivers, woods everywhere, ruins to the southeast.

map of a village on a hill with autumn colours, surrounded by crop fields and an old wooden wall. the houses have thatched roofs. on the top of the hill, there's a colourful market with tents around a central bonfire with a big statue of a jackalope.

illustration depicting six different worlds in cut-out stretches of land: one is a post-apocalyptic scenario, the second is an epic fantasy land, the third is a sci-fi landscape, the fourth is a city-noir landscape, the fifth is a fairy tale world and the final one is an submarine landscape with monsters and cities. All these are being drawn to the center of the artwork where a "world under construction" is cut to show its magic demon melting core full of hellfire, circled by a magic dust ring, orbited by dragons, whitchy houses, flying wooden ships and spacecraft, surrounded by scafolding and attached to strange machinery and gigantic pipes and hoses at its bottom.

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Francesca Baerald

@francescabaerald.com

about 1 month ago

A very unique map I had the pleasure of drawing for #DrawSteel #RPG (MCDM) - Orden and the Timescape My heavy metal background was of great help in getting the right vibes for this map 🤘 --- #cartography #fantasymap #scifi #worldmap #spacemap #gameart #fantasy #maps

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Ripley 🏳️‍⚧️

@queerwizard.co.uk

8 months ago

Really happy with how this turned out - I was trying some new things with this commission and I think it looks cool as a result 👀 #dnd #ttrpg #dndart #cartography #fantasymaps #maps

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Francisco Lemos

@lemosfran.bsky.social

almost 2 years ago

The map from The Crypt of Crimson Ice lemos.itch.io/the-crypt-of... #cartography #ttrpg #dungeon

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Fernando Salvaterra

@salvaterra.bsky.social

over 2 years ago

Hi #PortfolioDay My name is Fernando Salvaterra, I'm a freelance illustrator from Brasil making hand-drawn fantasy maps for novels and TTRPGs. I love to make highly detailed isometric and hex maps and I'm looking for work in February and on. #art #ttrpg #cartography