Happy Groundhog Day!
I’ve never been that into Punxsutawney Phil’s special day. I always doubt his wisdom. So I thought I would go to iNaturalist and download every sighting of a groundhog in Pennsylvania since January 1, 2021, so we can ask them what they think. The best part… the pop-ups have pictures. They really are cute rodents — even if they are crap at predicting weather patterns. 🙂
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Web Mapper GPT Prompt
Hi, I need to make one more map today. I’d like to make a map for Goundhog Day.
I have an iNaturalist dataset of ground hog observations in the US and Canada. Can you, using an Esri or other open topographic or natural landcover base map create a cute little map with every one of these sightings?
There are a lot, so I’m not sure if it’s best if this is loaded as a CSV or a geojson or what? If it’s not possible to load this data easily, perhaps I can create a similar map that is only the state of Pennsylvania (just 2800 or so sightings). I have a separate dataset for this if that is better.
The map should be funky, like the groundhog day event!
Please come up with three witty titles regarding how… if Puxatawny Phil its own shadow, well, we can always ask another one. Or Best of Seven…? etc. Something witty.
Please design the map to have similar fonts (feel free to use Google fonts) as the website here: https://www.groundhog.org/. Same color scheme too for accenting, etc. (It’s not exactly color blind friendly, so don’t use thse colors to differentiate values).
Finally, please create a little groundhog silhoutte icon, SVG for leaflet, or PNG for stacks, that is green or blue. A little drop shadow, very light, would help.
Thanks! If you use clustering, and I assume you will need to, please use a larger version of the silhouette as the cluster symbol.
Finally, don’t let the user zoom out to show more than 5 degrees in any direction past the the range of data. Also, in a hamburger menu, please add a year filter, with each year listed and an “All Years” reset button. Also add a sources button please. The sources Modal should begin closed no matter what and close when someone clicks outside of it.
Sources:
– Dataset: [iNaturalist](https://www.inaturalist.org). Ueda K (2026). iNaturalist Research-grade Observations. iNaturalist.org. DOI: 10.15468/ab3s5x)
– Map creation: Web Mapper GPT
– Attribution: {add all required and relevant stack attribution here}
