Matthew Chwastyk

Senior Manager of Cartography, National Geographic Magazine | UMBC | Mapping space | Archaeology and history

[British Cartographic Society @bcsmaps]

Fantastic to see @StanfordsTravel have the 2024 BCS Stanfords Award winner “Heavens” available on their website so you can buy your own.
It is November’s map of the month too!

X @NatGeo @NatGeoMaps

More from Stanfords on the map https://t.co/9pRKagIbjg https://t.co/cHRJvH7ibh

[Brilliant Maps @BrilliantMaps]

Star Trek Map Of The Alpha & Beta Quadrants

https://t.co/HqoTv7e9uj

[mark belan | science illustrator + info designer @markabelan]

The Botanical Classification of Fruit

#art #fruit #infographic #carpology #botany #garden #gardening #science #food #illustration

[Society for News Design @SND]

🥇 A #SND45 Print gold medal in Staff Portfolio: Information Graphics goes to @NatGeoMag for its cartographic portfoilio.

[National Geographic @NatGeo]

Excavations of an ancient mortuary complex in Egypt are shedding light on how the craft was once a booming business—and not just for pharaohs
https://t.co/0YjcJBJTsy

[Eric Blom @ejblom]

How do elephants survive in rain forests, savanna and deserts? We've got you covered https://t.co/e67i4DoE8z

A little preview of the awesome graphics and videos here

[NatGeoMaps @NatGeoMaps]

Europe's fate hung in the balance 80 years ago during one of the fiercest sea battles in modern history: the Battle of the Atlantic. See how Nazi U-boats nearly won WWII in these striking maps animated from 1939 to 1944. https://t.co/RhXUFsO6Bg #wwii #ww2 #worldwar2 #uboats

[NatGeoMaps @NatGeoMaps]

Modern colonialism began in the 15th century and reached its height in 1914, when Europeans ruled a majority of the world’s countries. See the animated map of imperial territories in 1914 in @NatGeoMag at https://t.co/Ccp7KEO7Rn

#colonialism #imperialism #empires #colonies

[-- -- --------- @i_ameztoy]

Have you ever seen a "Port eating" ships? Look at how these disappear!

This is Aliağa Ship Facility in #Turkey where large ships are dismantled & recycled. 100 @CopernicusEU #Sentinel2 🛰️ images presented in this mesmerizing timelapse: December 2020 to December 2022 #EO

[NatGeoMaps @NatGeoMaps]

The United States conducted 1,054 atomic tests—costing more than $100 billion and taking an incalculable toll on humans and the environment. NatGeo subscribers can read the full story at https://t.co/FGcsDHSGIf

#history #atomic #nuclearweapons #nucleartests

[Manuel Canales @canalesgraphics]

Tumbling, leftover rubble reveals the chaotic birth of our solar system. This is our latest graphic from the #SolarSystem project. 👉https://t.co/Uzeda9hjqJ Graphic by: @canalesgraphics @ajsteg @antoine_vfx @PiroUnify @ChanYoungPark @kennelliott

[British Cartographic Society @bcsmaps]

*Avenza Award* Winner!

Atlas of the Moons by @NatGeoMaps is our Winner in the Avenza Award 2021 for electronic mapping.

https://t.co/vPNanSWi0b

Congratulations! @NatGeo

[Manuel Canales @canalesgraphics]

The leftover fragments of planetary building blocks, where they are, and how different @NatGeo #Sept2021 Graphic by @canalesgraphics P. Healy @ajsteg @antoine_vfx @matthew_twombly #Infographic #asteroids #mattepainting #solarsystem

[Alberto Lucas López @aLucasLopez]

Wow! 🎆 It is always a challenge to search for new angles of history. Complicated but a lot of fun! For the curious who want to know more about the project: https://t.co/mv5fufVpWm
By @aLucasLopez, @mapchwastyk & Kaya L. Berne

[National Geographic @NatGeo]

The majority of the seafloor remains largely unexplored: More than 80 percent of it has yet to be fully mapped #WorldOceansDay https://t.co/LLyoLMb3zd

[Matthew Chwastyk @mapchwastyk]

There’s a new ocean now—can you name all 5? https://t.co/bk1pGTznF3 via @NatGeo

[National Geographic @NatGeo]

Courage in the face of fear. The trauma of war. Remember the events of WWII through the stories of people who were there #MemorialDay https://t.co/J0TnQ3hNMI

[Benjamin Hennig @geoviews.wsocial.eu @geoviews]

#Legomapper

[National Geographic @NatGeo]

Chinese immigrants helped achieve ‘one of the greatest engineering feats in U.S. history.’ But their sacrifices are seldom remembered https://t.co/UAtYEv33rp

[Alberto Lucas López @aLucasLopez]

So proud of this team! Webby Winner, Last Voices of World War 2 https://t.co/ChZ6eFrkaN via @TheWebbyAwards