Retired public servant (US National Park Service). Love making maps!
Joined January 2018
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2 Dec 2025
A gallery of my free-for-the-taking maps. You are invited to stop by and scroll around. shadedrelief.com/map-gallery…
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My latest map. Inspired by the classic 1977 ocean floor map by Heezen, Tharp, and Berann, it also depicts bottom features with 3D relief and even cast shadows. Available for free with or sans labels. shadedrelief.com/world-ocean…
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Jun 8
If your summer travel plans include the high arctic, here's a couple of maps to check out: shadedrelief.com/map-gallery…
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Jun 1
I am pleased to announce that the Equal Earth world map is now available in Macedonian, thanks to Daniel Evrosimoski, plus 18 other languages. You can download them for free here: equal-earth.com
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May 19
A map of Katmai National Park, Alaska, by Alex Fries. (I took this snapshot last month at the ICA Mountain Cartography Workshop in Czechia.)
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Mapping where I am right now (about where the "B" is in Baltic. Next stop: Tallinn.
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May 10
My wife has a part-time gig leading cruise ship tours. When accompanying her, I always bring a big map project to work on. Labeling this one should keep me busy.
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May 11
Map details: Natural Earth projection centered on 11E, created from merged GEBCO SWOT bathymetry data, rendered as plan oblique relief using Eduard and NSD 10.
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Embossing OSM data in Photoshop is a quick way to depict towns. Buildings up, roads down. Full map here: shadedrelief.com/adk-high-pe…
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May 2
Hiking in Parc Natural de la Península de Llevant, Mallorca. Where I am this week.
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Apr 29
Joe Milbrath brought this 3D map of Lake Clark NP, Alaska, to ICA Mountain Cartography Workshop in Czechia.
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Apr 25
Ink on paper: An alternative to Google Maps for hiking in Czechia.
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Apr 24
The team of Dušan Petrovič, Jim Meacham, Alex Fries, and Katharina Deflorian won mountain trivia last night at the ICA Mountain Cartography Workshop. They scored 18 out of 27 possible points. See if you can beat them: shadedrelief.com/trivia2026/
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Apr 14
Visiting Bozeman, Montana. If you live in the area, come by for my talk tonight. escicolloquium.weebly.com
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A new 3D map of my native Adirondacks built from 1-meter DEMs. Available for free: shadedrelief.com/adk-high-pe…
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Apr 3
Where I'll be later this month for the ICA Mountain Cartography Workshop. Or is it Czechia?
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Apr 2
I am preparing a hybrid bathymetric dataset from merged GEBCO and BathDNN25, which derives from NASA SWOT. It is super clean. Here's the Mariana Trench rendered as plan oblique relief—with cast shadows thrown in for good measure.
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Mar 28
Great news. Natural Scene Designer Pro 10, packed with a slew of new features including AI enhancement of 3D scenes, is available for Mac. Windows version coming soon. naturalgfx.com
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Mar 23
Today's project: Write fun questions for this upcoming event. Do you know your mountains? These are the questions (and answers) from the 2024 contest: shadedrelief.com/trivia2024/
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Version 1.0 of my latest map with over 3,400 place names. Please take a look. I will update it based on your feedback. Thanks! shadedrelief.com/europe/
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