Tempura Today… Gone Tomorrow? is the seventh prompt map this year. I thought after yesterday’s dramatic and serious theme, I would lighten it up a bit by focusing on unsustainable fishing. 🙂

Actually, I did lighten it up a bit by adding optional music in the spirit of my children’s favorite graphic art forms right now, Kawaii. So there is a fun element here, just a serious undertone.

Again, if I wasn’t cranking one of these out every day, outside of my day job, I would have done more with this map. But … it’s a wrap! 😉

View the map here. (Or click on image.)

Dataset forged with Web Map GPT: Conversation.

Map created with Web Map GPT: Conversation.

Original Prompt

Now, using the attached dataset, which you just helped me create, I would like to design another tongue-in-cheek map for National Tempura Day.

We are going to look at fishing sustainability and create a map that says something like… “Happy Tempura Day! Enjoy it while you still can!” Please come up with a short witty name, similar to the straw map you created for me a little while ago.

For whatever reason, I’m envisioning a map with an animated sushi train crossing the bottom, full of tempura dishes in a Kawaii style. The plates should start full of tempura fish things and then as they stroll by, right-to-left, become less and less dense, and then just a series of empty plates for some time before starting anew.

For each ocean area, perhaps we can use small kawaii symbols to make a representation broken down into 5% chunks. A small tapas plate with tempura kawaii on it (symbol 1) for every 5% sustainable in the district, and empty plate for every 5% unsustainable. In each zone, the two plate symbols will be shown as an array, four across and five high. Aligned. First tempura plates, then empty ones.

The base map should be colored like tempura but not jaundiced. Perhaps give it a texture like tempura has too… almost old papery vibe. Make sure the map mask doesn’t look like old paper, though, but fried tempura, perhaps with some minor grease splotches on the texture?

If possible and accessible, the map should use the ArcGIS tileset found here:
https://tiles.arcgis.com/tiles/nGt4QxSblgDfeJn9/arcgis/rest/services/EqualEarthBasemap/VectorTileServer

If logins are needed, etc., please just use the famous watercolor tileset by Stamen. (You should be able to find it on the web, I believe.) If that’s not available, please go with Carto Positron gray.)

The map should be happy. Happy Tempuras dot the screen. The meaning is gathered by looking at the map and the animation of sushi plates with tempura slowly becoming less full and then going to nothing.

Keep the tone light. It’s not the end of the world. Just of massive seafood consumption. Yay! 😉

First things first, though: can you come up with a JSON schema that becomes canon for this map and incorporates all of the above design wishes – where they work?

Can you please ask any follow-up questions that you have before continuing?

Can you please lay out a step-by-step workflow for us to follow, so I can prompt step-by-step and pause where needed during this process?

Thank you. I’m excited to explore the seas and create tempora Mawaii with you! 🙂