Happy Human Spirit Day!

Perhaps in 20 years we’ll be celebrating AI Spirit Day? Or the LLMs will be? Alas, until then, we have coffee.

Keep slamming coffee my friends. (Sorry, to any colleagues who don’t much like it. May tomorrow’s find will bring more joy.) It prevents dementia, cancer, and is loaded with prebiotics. Even better, recent research suggests 2-3 cups of coffee a day is good for your heart, including irregular heartbeats. Coffee prices are skyrocketing this year globally, but keep drinking, my friends. For humanity!

Original Prompt

Please come up with three different map themes, with readily accessible public data (doesn’t have to be spatial yet but needs to be able to joined to spatial data) regarding the theme “Smells Like Human Spirit.” I’m going to use one of these ideas to create an interactive web map for Human Spirit Day tomorrow. I will probably use Mapbox or Leaflet. 

Sadly, it didn’t go with my “Smells Like Human Spirit” theme.

I was originally going thinking of highlighting all the conflict and economic disparity in the world.

Alas, these damn LLMs are made by tech bros who seem to want to keep topics sugary sweet. And who am I to fight tech bros on a Monday evening? 🙂 So coffee we get!

Happy Recognize Singles Day!

Presumably this day is inclusive of those who were rejected on Valentine’s Day or just want to remain single. Regardless, it’s a day. And I thought I could celebrate it by mapping where in the US one can move to join other single people — presumably for singular solidarity or to increase one’s odds of not being single much longer? I don’t know; don’t overthink it, please. It’s just a map!

View Map Here

Original Prompt

Please come up with a map design idea, aesthetic, and motif for a tongue-in-cheek “Recognize Singles Day” map of the United States that will use the attached dataset of single-adult led households, etc., by state. The map should “Recognize Singles” and perhaps imply where to move if you’re single and want to meet other singles. As for style, I would love it if the map were in a conformal or equal area conic projection. Perhaps a MapBox globe bounded to the United States, Alaska, and Hawaii area — no panning outside of it? The title should be Masthead style. It needs to work on mobile. The interactivity should be minimal — if possible show total percent of singles by county, percent of all singles that are female, percent of all singles that are male, county name, etc. Once you’ve designed the two motifs, critique them — 300 words or less. Give a logical answer to which is best or if further ideation may be useful.

Happy Valentine’s Day!

Send a hopeful Valentine a poem in a variety of languages by clicking on your country of choice and entering their email. (Warning: carrier fees may apply…?)

View Map Here

Original Prompt

Hi. I want to create a map for Valentine’s Day that is pretty straightforward. When a user clicks on a country, I want it to open a “mailto:” link with the subject line of “Will you be my valentine?!” and a sweet poem in that country’s majority or official language. Please come up with the short but sweet poem here, in English, and we will use the same one (translated for all languages). The user will need to enter the email address. It will not fill it automatically. The map should be in the Bonne Projection (a heart-shaped map. Users should be able to zoom in far enough to click on whatever country they wish. The countries should be colored the same. The map should have Valentine like cherubs and arrows and hearts on it. Very Valentiney. Not too corny but also definitely not serious. It should work on mobile. When the user clicks on the country, a pop-up should appear that says: “Would you like to send a poem to your Valentine in {country name}?” “Yes” will open the default email app with the pre-populated text and info. This will require a countries dataset with the following fields: – geometry – Name – 3-Letter Country Abbreviation – Language If the user clicks yes, it should read the country’s language and populate that version of the poem in the email. The subject line should read: “Will you be my Valentine?” in that language as well. — Before we proceed: is this doable? Can you help me make this map? What more info or data do you require? I can provide country shapefiles (Natural Earth) if it helps. Thanks!

World Radio Day by the United Nations because… well… maybe because people were forgetting about the importance or radio for emergency communications, etc.? I’m not quite sure.

Personally, I love radio. Have ever since I saw Pump Up the Volume with Christian Slater (about a high school pirate radio station!) in the 1980s when I was an impressionable kid.

I decided to make a map that highlights some major moments in European and US radio broadcasting history. My goal was to try a narrative (okay, fine, story map) style. I used Dataset Doctor GPT to create the historic datasets (one for the technology development and one for the broadcast history. Then I asked Web Mapper GPT to come up with three styles or plans for the map. I chose the Cold War theme/vibe.

Here we are… Enjoy! And happy world radio day!

View the map (or click the image above)

Provenance File (The whole process is now stored and exported automatically in Web Mapper GPT with every map, including metadata for datasets, summary of every prompt, result, hash of final map, ethics overview, accessibility overview, etc. You can now reproduce it, by-and-large.)

Original Prompt

Happy Paul Bunyan Day!

Paul Bunyan is a Minnesota (and northwoods) legend. He carved the Grand Canyon with his glorious ax. And Babe the Blue Ox? Well…

Today’s map offers places named after Paul Bunyan that you can visit to celebrate this wonderful day! 😉View the Map Here.

Original prompt

Hi there. I’d like to make an interactive Paul Bunyan map to celebrate Paul Bunyan Day. I have created a Mapbox basemap in Cartogram and have the API token to use it. I would like to use that basemap. It’s a Lambert Conformal or Equal area projection. I forget, but it’s centered on the US.

I also have a geojson dataset of places named after Paul Bunyan or Babe the Blue Ox. I would like to make the map fun and somewhat folksy.

Please use a cool, folksy font that hovers over the map in the upper-left-hand part of the map.

Title Ideas: “Place to Celebrate Paul Bunyan Day!”

When a user clicks on one of these spots, please have a tool-tip pop up that gives the name of the place, the type of place (I forget which field this is but there is one), it’s city and state/province, and a little button that says: “Take me there.” When the user clicks this button, the default map application on a mobile device or computer should open (e.g., Apple Maps, Google Maps, etc.).

Do not have arrows connecting the tool-tip/info window to the point. Use rounded rectangles 4px max for all borders and windows, etc. Do not put any background rectangle behind the title. In the lower right have a hamburger menu button. When the user clicks it, please provide attribution for Mapbox (for tiles and design), Turbo-overpass.eu (for data), and Minnesota for being the Paul Bunyan state. Also, add a “Provenance Doc”, which will link to your provenance JSON when our conversation is done. You don’t have to produce that document until the final package is exported as a zip file.

Below is the cleaned dataset. If you can save it as a separate .geojson file in the export or just load it in the JS/HTML files directly, that would be awesome.