Brandon Plewe

Cartography professor at Brigham Young University

[Brandon Plewe @bplewe]

@ChrisCillizza Why can't the media recognize that this is the way a third party can emerge. Not swing states, but in the extreme states where the stakes are low, the minority party is dysfunctional, there is a large unsatisfied middle. See Murkowski and McMullins run in Utah.

[Brandon Plewe @bplewe]

@NACIS I will truly miss my best carto friend. Dennis was an inspiration; NACIS won't be the same without him.

[Brandon Plewe @bplewe]

@kelsosCorner I hope my comment on the article was not too harsh. A well done rediscovery, but not the right solution.

[Brandon Plewe @bplewe]

Oh, this is the other side. Air photo from St. George to Moab.

[Brandon Plewe @bplewe]

My giantest map ever is done! Welcome to BYU Geography. #purenaturalearth

[Brandon Plewe @bplewe]

@MtnMapper Tom, I don't know why the rest of us even try.

[Boney Fuller @boneyfuller]

imagine how awful this thing will smell

[Brandon Plewe @bplewe]

@MapperJess A mix. A few I had been planning for weeks. Most were ideas that came to me the day before. Some were last minute ideas with last minute execution.

[Brandon Plewe @bplewe]

#30DayMapChallenge Day 30: Remix. A map of my 30DMC maps. Apparently I'm provincial, but I suspect a lot of other participants are as well. This was a fun challenge, but there's no way I could do it every November.

[Brandon Plewe @bplewe]

@MapperJess A lot were an hour or less if I already had the data, some were maps I had already done recently, but some took quite a while, especially when I was learning a new technique (which is one of the main intents of the challenge).

[Brandon Plewe @bplewe]

@toronto_tom or 4 bugs...

[Brandon Plewe @bplewe]

#30DayMapChallenge Day 27: Music. Some guys played some music some where.

[Brandon Plewe @bplewe]

#30DayMapChallenge Day 29: Outside my comfort zone. Having seen a lot of maps made in Blender this month, thought I'd try it out with the mountain I'm looking at out my window. Not at all happy with it, but it's a start.

[Brandon Plewe @bplewe]

@MapperJess It was a fun map, I may try to sell it when I'm done documenting this season's construction.

[Brandon Plewe @bplewe]

#30DayMapChallenge Day 28: 3D. Not made today, but this year. My favorite trail, under construction for 30 years (and counting). Making a "useful" panorama is more work than you think; more info @ https://t.co/dOJFz6soev

[Brandon Plewe @bplewe]

#30DayMapChallenge Day 26: Island. Since the Great Salt Lake does not currently have any islands, here is another island that no longer exists, west of Ogden. Would have been covered in forest instead of scrubby junipers.

[Brandon Plewe @bplewe]

#30DayMapChallenge Day 25: Two Colors. Not a lot of time during the holiday to do a good map. But thanks Evan for a valiant attempt to make Utah politically interesting and relevant, and letting me make a map with a different 2nd color!

[Brandon Plewe @bplewe]

#30daymapchallenge Day 24: Fantasy. Based on Day 19, I imagined what North America would look like if people were living on it 200 million years ago. Dreaming of spending the holidays in the tropical paradise of Alaska!

[Brandon Plewe @bplewe]

#30DayMapChallenge Day 23: Movement. North American pro sports franchises have moved a lot. Many due to geographic trends, but most are just business decisions that make the pattern a jumble. How about those arrow icons?