{"id":1805410,"date":"2021-11-14T18:34:56","date_gmt":"2021-11-14T23:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1805410"},"modified":"2021-11-16T19:17:01","modified_gmt":"2021-11-17T00:17:01","slug":"thirty-day-map-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2021\/11\/thirty-day-map-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Thirty Day Map Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Thirty Day Map Challenge<\/a> is taking place right now on Twitter: see the #30DayMapChallenge<\/a> hashtag. For the second year in a row, mapmakers are challenged to make a map based on the day\u2019s theme. (Today\u2019s, for example, was to map with a new tool.) It\u2019s open to everyone; for more information and resources see the challenge\u2019s GitHub page<\/a>. Here\u2019s the page for the 2020 challenge<\/a>, which saw 7,000 maps from 1,000 contributors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Thirty Day Map Challenge is taking place right now on Twitter: see the #30DayMapChallenge hashtag. For the second year in a row, mapmakers are challenged to make a map based on the day\u2019s theme.… 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":[29,28],"tags":[284,349],"class_list":["post-1805410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-cartography","category-gis","tag-mapmaking","tag-social-media","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1819341,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2023\/10\/bad-maps-kindness-and-empathy\/","url_meta":{"origin":1805410,"position":0},"title":"Bad Maps, Kindness and Empathy","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"18 October 2023","format":"link","excerpt":"The 2023 iteration of the 30 Day Map Challenge is coming up, and Daniel Huffman has some thoughts about the day four prompt (\u201ca bad map\u201d) and making room for kindness in the mapmaking community. 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