2022 year is the first time I tried #30DayMapChallenge, a daily map making challenge which is held on Social Network every year in november.
I get known about it after the end of 2021 challenge and as a map lover, I did my best to not miss 2022 one.
30+6 maps completed
Map making has been started once topics were published few weeks before, knowing doing maps the same day for one month is so hard with work and family matters.
As a first step, most of output has been done as simple and/or in a very short time according to a famous sentence "Done is better than perfect", and some of topics has been selected to take more time on.
30 maps has been done in early november, so remaining time has been used to improve it, and make additional stuffs for MIERUNE (a GIS solution company in Japan) who also did the challenge as a team.
Below is a summary of made maps with used tools
| Day | Topic | Output | Tool |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Points | A Webmap with my posts on Facebook | Maptiler / Maplibre |
| 2 | Lines | Mt-Fuji contour lines | QGIS + ElevationTile4JP Plugin |
| 3 | Polygons | An upside down border between Belgium and Netherlands | QGIS |
| 4 | Colour Friday: Green | Greenland | QGIS |
| 5 | Ukraine | An ukrainian color globe map | QGIS + Globe Builder plugin |
| 6 | Network | Tokyo railway network comes to Paris | QGIS / Maptiler |
| 7 | Raster | Spatiomap of Mongolia | QGIS / Maptiler |
| 8 | Data: OpenStreetMap | Mashiko living town map with IGN French style | QGIS + ElevationTile4JP Plugin |
| 9 | Space | Patagonia Star Map | Photoshop & Your sky |
| 10 | A bad map | Mercator & Default Color | QGIS |
| 11 | Colour Friday: Red | Japan cities with「赤」Red Kanji | QGIS |
| 12 | Scale | Europa and Middle East cities longitudely translated to Japan | QGIS / Maptiler |
| 13 | 5 minute map | Tokyo Marathon with 5 minutes checkpoint | QGIS / Maptiler |
| 14 | Hexagons | France, as known as L'Hexagone | Photoshop |
| 15 | Food/drink | The egg projection | Egg and Marker |
| 16 | Minimal | The minimal sized country | QGIS |
| 17 | A map without a computer | A clay of Antarctica | Clay |
| 18 | Colour Friday: Blue | Japan cities with「青」Blue Kanji | QGIS |
| 19 | Globe | A craft and paint made Globe | Watercolor |
| 20 | “My favourite…” | A lovely south pole | QGIS |
| 21 | Data: Kontur Population Dataset | Around Korea DMZ | QGIS |
| 22 | NULL | A globe clay waiting for data | Clay |
| 23 | Movement | Bus traffic around Mt. Fuji | QGIS + GTFS-GO plugin / Maptiler |
| 24 | Fantasy | Final Fantasy I~X worlds, 10 in 1 | Photoshop |
| 25 | Colour Friday: 2 colours | Japan cities with「緑」green and 「紫」purple kanji | QGIS |
| 26 | Island(s) | Lovely Amami island | QGIS + ElevationTile4JP Plugin |
| 27 | Music | Where Songs I listened to come from? | QGIS |
| 28 | 3D | One month of the run and trekking | Strava / QGIS + ElevationTile4JP + Qgis2threejs Plugin |
| 29 | “Out of my comfort zone” | Girondins de Bordeaux football teams opponents | Maptiler / Maplibre |
| 30 | Remix | A Webmap with my posts on Facebook, in Globe version | Mapbox |
Additional Maps for MIERUNE
| Day | Topic | Output | Tool |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | Ukraine | Hokkaido map in Ukrainian | Maptiler |
| 12 | Scale | Paris region railway network come to Tokyo | QGIS / Maptiler |
| 13 | 5 minute map | A 5 minutes run with a 5 shape | Strava / QGIS / Maptiler |
| 22 | NULL | Hokkaido clay waiting for data | Clay |
| 29 | “Out of my comfort zone” | A Japan map made with business cards | Business cards |
| 30 | Remix | Greater Tokyo Railway Network come to Greater Paris | QGIS / Maptiler |
Making maps with open tools
Regarding above summary, all maps has been made using open tools except Photoshop. Geographic tools are fully Open source.
| Tool | Output count | Type |
|---|---|---|
| QGIS | 23 | GIS |
| Maptiler | 11 | Basemap Style |
| Maplibre | 2 | Webmapping |
| Mapbox | 1 | Webmapping |
| Photoshop | 3 | non-GIS use |
| Yoursky | 1 | Sky map |
| Strava | 3 | Running app |
| Clay | 3 | Non-digital use |
| Egg | 1 | Non-digital use |
| Watercolour | 1 | Non-digital use |
| Business card | 1 | Non-digital use |
* Total is over than 36 due to the use of multi-tools for some maps
A great opportunity to do unusual maps
Making maps is usually for work or customer needs, but this challenge makes me try to map random thoughts, such as where is Japan latitude equivalent in Europe, or How Tokyo is big comparing to Paris
A great opportunity to try new tools
Challenge was a chance to try new tools I never had any opportunity to try before.
Below is a list of what I learned during this month:
- Mapping in 3D with QGIS (with Qgis2threejs plugin)
- Mapping a Globe with QGIS (with Globe builder plugin)
- Making a globe Webmap
- Getting Japan elevation data easily (with ElevationTile4JP)
- Making a starmap
- Making a map and a globe with clay
- Mapping with cards
Conclusion
More than 8000 maps has been released in one month.
Time was so short I could not take time to appreciate each map, and also nights became so short, but I think I never enjoy so much to make maps in ne month !
Looking forward for next year challenge !
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