The second half of the Oceania video is a visualization of the Pacific worldview called "Spheric Oceania" by artist Sean Connelly.

God this is my whole life

Das Map

I did this for the Yucatán peninsula from 1550 to 1690 in my PhD and even in the tiny number of documents that still exist the depredation of empire was just astonishing. It enrages me when I think of that playing out across a whole empire for centuries. It’s time we started collecting the receipts.

A complete dataset of all archival records detailing colonial Spanish taxation/appropriation/forced sale of goods/currency/labour from indigenous communities across the empire from 1500 to 1820. A full accounting of the wealth and work stolen by the colonial project with coordinates. #gischat

I've struggled to map exactly this multiple times - this projection is a beautiful and elegant solution. Well done!

Why didn’t anyone warn me that my dad was here too

Ooooh me! This looks great!

Not sure why it's showing up in lower res, but it looks good on my desktop - try that. If it doesn't work I'll root around for a less compressed version.

Yes! For maps from scratch: No labels smaller than 6pt, no lines thinner than .3pt, and at least 25% K values between shades of gray (so you really only have 3 shades to work between black and white). For conversion from color to grayscale: Start over 🤦🏻‍♂️