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Tadaaa! I added a changelog. I’ve been thinking about doing that for a while now. Now it’s done. Woohoo :)

Some notes on the last couple of weeks:

I was experimenting with Simplify in QGIS the other day and I wanted to get an idea of how many vertices were being removed from my geometries when I adjusted the Simplify settings.

I woke up thinking about a fragment of a map the other day, and it occurred to me that what I was picturing could probably be made using geometry generators in QGIS. I was picturing something like this:

So I thought I’d have a whack at making it.

Things from the last couple of weeks:

Another short’n’sweet update:

A short’n’sweet update this week:

Things I got up to in the last week:

• published blog post: systems, processes, and tools
• read an essay on systems design: https://apenwarr.ca/log/20201227 (via this tweet)
• phone link dump, all the way down to zero tabs open…
• got stuck into Observable Getting Started guides and the like and…
• started playing with my own dataset on powerplants
• did more of the Esri Cartography MOOC (running a bit behind, need to catch up!)
• discovered, fixed an issue with, and blogged about QGIS MapSwipe Tool Plugin
• published blog post: Spilhaus World Ocean Map
• started drafting up a new About page for my website (I’ve just had placeholder text there for a few years now…)
• started shopping for proper storage for my atlases and maps collection
• signed up for OpenStreetMap!

And some more words about a few of those…

As part of the Esri Cartography MOOC I’m doing just now, I made this Spilhaus World Ocean Map in one of the exercises.

I’ve been using ArcGIS for the first time in the last couple of weeks and I’ve come across the Swipe tool. My immediate thought was “oh that’s awesome” which was swiftly followed by “I wonder if QGIS has this as well?”