{"id":1788630,"date":"2020-04-06T13:00:43","date_gmt":"2020-04-06T17:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1788630"},"modified":"2020-04-05T21:34:58","modified_gmt":"2020-04-06T01:34:58","slug":"landforms-of-michigan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2020\/04\/landforms-of-michigan\/","title":{"rendered":"Landforms of Michigan"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Daniel Huffman, \u201cLandforms of Michigan\u201d (2020).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Daniel Huffman finally finished a map<\/a> he\u2019d been working on, off and on (though mostly off), for years. Landforms of Michigan<\/em> appeared in draft form on this 2016 blog post<\/a> about mapping terrain using Photoshop layers; last week, Daniel says, \u201cI finally overcame my inertia enough to finish it.\u201d It\u2019s available as a large poster<\/a> on Zazzle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Daniel Huffman finally finished a map he\u2019d been working on, off and on (though mostly off), for years. Landforms of Michigan appeared in draft form on this 2016 blog post about mapping terrain using Photoshop… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[355,105,391],"class_list":["post-1788630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-cartography","tag-michigan","tag-posters","tag-terrain","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1788744,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2020\/04\/daniel-huffmans-atlas-of-north-american-rivers\/","url_meta":{"origin":1788630,"position":0},"title":"Daniel Huffman’s Atlas of North American Rivers","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"15 April 2020","format":"link","excerpt":"Add An Atlas of North American Rivers to the list of Daniel Huffman\u2019s long-unfinished projects that suddenly got finished lately. 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