Antonio Antoine

@aasmith

I make maps about the United States. #Cartography | #GIS | #Maps

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Antonio Antoine@aasmith· 5d

1902 newspaper ads be wildin'. Are you a pale lady? That's because you are clearly diseased!! Buy and drink our alcoholic concoction!

1902 Knoxville Sentinel newspaper ad that reads:

ARE YOU PALE

Bloodless Faces in Women Denote Sickness

Vinol Makes Rosey Cheeks.

There is no surer indication of a diseased condition than a pale face.

Antonio Antoine@aasmith· 12d

I have seen this gap in census primary road layer for years. I assumed it was a state highway that ended and became a residential street or something. Nope! It's I-275 and that's I-40 to the south. Le sigh

Antonio Antoine@aasmith· 19d

It's about 4 hours of driving. I usually skip the foothills because of tourist traffic. I never got into motorcycles either. Most of the time, I was in this jalopy.

Antonio Antoine@aasmith· 23d

About halfway through, I stopped reading their positions and got most of them right. Trying to guess the "did not votes" tripped me up. Race, gender & age (mostly the first two) should get you a passing score.

Antonio Antoine@aasmith· 23d

I am rearranging my home office, a process that will probably take 10 yrs or so, and I was thinking about getting a MercatorHater poster for my freshly painted walls. I didn't find anything, so I will probably have to make it myself. But Google did send me this Medium post from @mapcenter.com.

Antonio Antoine@aasmith· 27d

I wrote about a similar thing a few months ago. My main issue was saying Lat/Lon (which correlates to Y/X) and then saying X/Y (which correlates with Lon/Lat). Inverting the pairs led to downstream confusion. I started saying: Lon-Lat-X-Y And it helped! 🥳 antonioantoine.com/2026/02/17/l...

Antonio Antoine@aasmith· Jul 6

Damn. I don't think Paul had a good time at the 1982 World's Fair. 😂

Antonio Antoine@aasmith· Jun 21

Happy #SummerSolstice! It is the longest day or days of the year! It is still hard to believe there are places on earth where the sun doesn't set AT LEAST a month from now. 🤯 Available as a print! antonioantoine.com/product/the-... #cartography

A map showing the duration of the summer solstice in North America.

Antonio Antoine@aasmith· Jun 16

To be clear, most minority or marginalized groups are overestimated. Somehow, Native Americans are 27%, Asians are 29%, Latinos 39%, Black 41%, and White 59%. That's like 200%!! I guess people really hate math. Link to the YouGov survey: yougov.com/en-us/articl...

Antonio Antoine@aasmith· Jun 16

A couple of months ago, I made a map of the American Black Belt. This was prompted by a YouGov survey I read in 2022, where Americans thought black people were 40% of the population! I almost fell out of my chair. Link to the map: antonioantoine.com/2026/06/16/t...

Antonio Antoine@aasmith· May 29

Going through the Knoxville Library archives, looking for photographs of a building or two, and I came across this guy. I can't get over how insane it is to fly a plane like this. No cockpit, windshield, or anything. Just flying a canoe in the air. lol

A black and white photograph of a man flying an early 19th-century prop biplane with an open cab.

Antonio Antoine@aasmith· May 27

This chart scaling is... a choice. It's like reverse mercator for every ten latitudes or something.

A 1927 historical black and white chart showing population growth for Knoxville, TN from 1820 to 1980.

Antonio Antoine@aasmith· May 5

I made a map of 1.5°C sea level rise (about 3 ft or 1 m) in coastal Louisiana for a cartography class that I have since thought might be too pessimistic. Even though the data says otherwise.

A map showing a 3-foot sea level rise in Southern Louisiana.

Antonio Antoine@aasmith· Apr 27

Appalachian Trail Forest Map (WIP). I finally created a hillshade in Blender. S/o to @pinakographos.bsky.social for the great tutorial. It took me a few tries (over several months). I am impatient when it comes to Blender. I am changing the format to an oversized map. Wish my computer luck. 🫡

Antonio Antoine@aasmith· Apr 22

The map in question (wip). I wasn't planning on using a dark background, but this may have changed my mind. 🤔

A screenshot of a map showing forests along the Appalachian Trail.

Antonio Antoine@aasmith· Apr 20

Rhode Island Shipwrecks Map 🗺️ As someone who lives in or near the mountains, shipwrecks are like barn finds, except the barn is a dungeon, and the monsters are not too thrilled about you taking their treasure. More deets: antonioantoine.com/2026/04/19/r... #gischat #cartography

A cool map showing the locations where bad things happened in waters around Rhode Island.

Antonio Antoine@aasmith· Apr 8

Fixed!! Also, these Census carto boundaries are a PITA to find. I had them bookmarked but they changed the link. www.census.gov/geographies/...

Antonio Antoine@aasmith· Apr 7

One day, I will remember that CT changed their counties to county equivalents before nearly wrapping up a map. 😭 #gischat

Antonio Antoine@aasmith· Mar 31

Next Joy Plot Map is Ohio. Lots of people, very flat. #gis #gischat #cartography

A Joy Plot Map of elevation and population for Ohio. Each line shows the rising and falling value of either population or surface elevation.

Antonio Antoine@aasmith· Mar 27

Colorado Pop x Elev Joy Plot We can see a pretty good relationship between elevation and population density in CO. Even though the Rockies and high plains cover some of the small cities and towns. I may add an offset or extra VE point for the population layer. #gis #gischat #cartography

A Joy Plot Map of elevation and population for Colorado. Each line shows the rising and falling value of either population or surface elevation.

Antonio Antoine@aasmith· Mar 26

Thanks, I hate it! Side note: I was born on the 10 year anniversary of the moon landing in the Rocket City. More reminders of mortality at profmusgrave.github.io/anotherday

The release of Windows 95 is now closer to the Moon landing than to today.

Antonio Antoine@aasmith· Mar 23

Now that I have a working model in QGIS for my Joy Plot workflow, I can focus on refining the maps. I have been interested in mapping elevation and populations for a long time, but I have struggled to find a method that shows both variables evenly. Joy Plots look promising. #gischat #cartography

A map showing the population and elevations of North Carolina using the Joy Plot style.

Antonio Antoine@aasmith· Mar 15

I am finally wrapping up this Rhode Island Shipwreck map (at least enough to print out a draft), and I am low key digging this inset map more than the main map. 😅😂 #gis #cartography #maps

Antonio Antoine@aasmith· Mar 7

I was just thinking about my earlier work a couple of days ago. These are from my Associates in GIS program 2017-18. I can still see the influence from my environmental consulting days.

Antonio Antoine@aasmith· Feb 11

Median Generations by County (2023) Another version of my previous map. I used the #QGIS 2.5D symbology with a standard choropleth. It is a little confusing to use, but I think I get the gist of it now. The counties are extruded by population. #gischat #gis #cartography #maps

A map showing the median generation (age) by county level in the United States. Millennials are the most dominant group, followed by Gen X, Gen Z, and then Boomers.

Antonio Antoine@aasmith· Feb 11

This is pretty cool. I am near the middle of the Geospatial Professionals.

Antonio Antoine@aasmith· Jan 31

I made a Median Generations map of the US for a contest, but I missed the deadline. 😅 The generations are based on the median age of census tracts in 2023. The urban areas are tract centroids, and the rural areas were dasymetrically binned to a 10km grid. #gis #cartography #gischat

A map showing the spatial distribution of median generations across the contiguous US. The four main generations are: Boomers (1946-64), Gen X (1965-80), Millennials (1981-96), and Gen Z (1997-2012).

Antonio Antoine@aasmith· Jan 15

This simple label took me over day to make. I am still learning expression builder in #QGIS. I needed the highest value for each feature from over one hundred attribute columns AND the name of the field name. The worst part is I don't know if I will use this info. lol

A screenshot of QGIS showing the labeling of Great Smoky Mountain National Park feature. The label shows the name of the park, the field name and value of the largest forest type.

Screenshot of QGIS showing the expression to find the highest value from a range of fields. The code reads as:

concat( "PARKNAME", '/',map_akeys(attributes())[array_find(map_avals(attributes()), array_max(array_slice(map_avals(attributes()), 10, 148)))], '/' , array_max(array_slice(map_avals(attributes()), 10, 148)))

Antonio Antoine@aasmith· Jan 9

A work-in-progress map of the Forests in the lower US. I haven't decided if I am going to display and label the National Parks and/or Forests yet. Things get pretty busy on the West Coast. The legend is going to be a nightmare and I am not looking forward to it. 😂 #gis #gischat #cartography #map

A map showing the forest types and elevation in the lower 48 United States. The forests are shown in various shades of green, yellow, and red.

Antonio Antoine@aasmith· Jan 2

This is an earlier version where the gradient was applied to the whole feature layer. I liked it, but the Grand Canyon didn't look so grand.