Andy Anderson 🗺

Geospatial Technology Specialist
Adjunct Assistant Professor; Ph.D.
30 years of research, teaching, using & supporting academic technology in higher education.

[Andy Anderson 🗺 @GeoObservatory]

For @theAAG #WisconsinRedistricting panel, I actually georeferenced the first #gerrymander. You’re welcome.

https://t.co/vU3tqmMNXG

[Andy Anderson 🗺 @GeoObservatory]

The Gulf of Mexico is what most of the world calls it, for the last 500 years. The US is now calling it the Gulf of America. Overlapping geographic names are common, e.g. “Persian Gulf” = “Arabian Gulf”. Using one over another is simply a point of view.

https://t.co/2hVfaksrv2

[Andy Anderson 🗺 @GeoObservatory]

@twatwasatwit @PippaN15 How about if we wait until he’s dead, like the naming of every other building and location in this country?

Then history will have had a chance to weigh in.

Otherwise, we look a lot more like North Korea.

[Andy Anderson 🗺 @GeoObservatory]

XKCD: zero declination map — where magnetic north is always “up”.

https://t.co/o6CSM7QlOZ

[Andy Anderson 🗺 @GeoObservatory]

«[A]t the Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education, at the University of Southern Maine in Portland.…[s]tudents can view maps and globes, both modern and some going back hundreds of years, from all over the world.»

https://t.co/ZvTtN1PUcr

[Andy Anderson 🗺 @GeoObservatory]

GIS Day @UMassAmherst
Nov. 19 2025

• Keynote “From Big Data to Big Evidence: Combining Ways of Knowing in Computer Cartography”
• Faculty Slam!
• Silly Map Competition
• HOT Mapathon
• Young Professionals Network
https://t.co/f3zFWKE1dt

Mappy Hour!
https://t.co/iS9vlGNzdo

[Andy Anderson 🗺 @GeoObservatory]

@re_sieber We would still need Jupiter to deflect a lot of debris away from the inner solar system. Nevertheless, a Dyson sphere would require frequent repair for the asteroid collisions. Better start with an L1 station, instead!

[Andy Anderson 🗺 @GeoObservatory]

The US produces a tiny amount of coffee in Hawaii and Puerto Rico, but nowhere else. A 15%–20% coffee tariff (tax) does nothing to expand coffee agriculture in the US. Bad to the last drop!

[Ro Khanna @RoKhanna]

I will be introducing bipartisan legislation to repeal tariffs on coffee. We produce less than 1%, and these tariffs on Brazil, Vietnam, Indonesia, & Columbia are a 15-20% tax on Americans at the start of their day. Anyone who has a coffee cup always in hand hates this tax!

[Andy Anderson 🗺 @GeoObservatory]

AG Pam Bondi now says no.

«[E]ducation-equity experts and legal scholars [had] suggested that increasing the geographic recruitment of low-income and historically underserved students could be another way to boost racial diversity in incoming classes.»

https://t.co/KRFFb5U7GJ

[Andy Anderson 🗺 @GeoObservatory]

At a time when 100-year floodplain maps are becoming 20-year floodplain maps, this is an egregious case of under-regulation.

[PBS News @NewsHour]

Federal regulators repeatedly granted appeals to remove Camp Mystic’s buildings from their 100-year flood map, loosening oversight as the camp operated and expanded in a dangerous flood plain in the years before rushing waters swept away children and counselors, a review by The Associated Press found.
https://t.co/YnxZ6eIwN4

[Andy Anderson 🗺 @GeoObservatory]

@MaxChesnes @mahoneysthename Darn! There goes DeSantis’ plan to statize Disney World!

[Andy Anderson 🗺 @GeoObservatory]

«If you’ve ever wanted to explore “The Hobbit” and “The Lord of the Rings,” the best place to start might be Wisconsin. There, a cartographer created the maps in “The Atlas of Middle-earth,” the official geographic guide to the world of J.R.R. Tolkien.»

https://t.co/0koL6aRZvJ

[Andy Anderson 🗺 @GeoObservatory]

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (#FEMA) has censored its climate change maps, including those documenting flood-prone areas, as well as current future risk assessments for hazards of all types.

Why? #Trump #ClimateDenial, of course.

https://t.co/aDXWn7B4hv

[USC Spatial Sciences @USC_SSI]

🚀 Last month, we celebrated John P. Wilson’s new book, Spatial Data Science, published by Esri Press! 📖✨

Dr. Wilson was joined by Dr. Lauren Bennett from @Esri for an insightful discussion. Thanks to everyone who attended! 👏

#SpatialDataScience #GIS

[Andy Anderson 🗺 @GeoObservatory]

#3/3. At most you should include a reference of some sort linking this new term to the standard term, e.g. as with the following for the “Arabian Gulf”, as the Persian Gulf is known on its western shores.

[Andy Anderson 🗺 @GeoObservatory]

The Library of Congress has published the latest lists of proposed new/changed subject headings, including the change of "Gulf of Mexico" to "Gulf of America" and "Mount Denali" to "Mount McKinley". The public comment period ends today!!!

https://t.co/x963TYOo7m

[Andy Anderson 🗺 @GeoObservatory]

#2/3. A complete substitution, as proposed by this change, is dramatically inconsistent with your responsibilities as a librarian to provide accurate and meaningful reference material to Americans and the rest of the world.

[Andy Anderson 🗺 @GeoObservatory]

«The Gulf of Mexico has carried that name for more than 400 years. The Associated Press will refer to it by its original name…. As a global news agency … the AP must ensure that place names and geography are easily recognizable to all audiences.»

https://t.co/l0Wu7HFF18

[Andy Anderson 🗺 @GeoObservatory]

NEW YORK (AP) — The White House blocked an Associated Press reporter from an event in the Oval Office on Tuesday after demanding the news agency alter its style on the Gulf of Mexico, which President Donald Trump has ordered renamed the Gulf of America.»

https://t.co/cqZBocOkJe

[Andy Anderson 🗺 @GeoObservatory]

@re_sieber Suggest #PAIRPS2025 instead.

[Andy Anderson 🗺 @GeoObservatory]

@re_sieber Careful — #PAIRS2025 is going to the “Pan Arab Interventional Radiology Society ” 😀

https://t.co/95VjaCoc46

[PAIRS @pairsmedia]

🚀 Deadline Extended! 🎉

Due to high demand, we’ve extended the PAIRS2025 abstract submission deadline to 🗓️ Feb 14, 2025!

Don't miss your chance to showcase your research!

📅 New Deadline: Feb 14, 2025
🔗 Submit now: https://t.co/tKb0RN9D9y

#PAIRS2025 #AbstractExtension