New Year’s Eve has always been a time for looking back to the past, and more importantly, forward to the coming year. It’s a time to reflect on who we are and where we want to be. Most of people will make a New Year’s resolution – maybe to*lose weight,*quit smoking or drink less. But GeoGeeks are not ordinary people and our resolutions are a bit different… Here is my list:
1. USE LESS MERCATOR PROJECTION
As we all know Mercator projection is not the best way to represent the surface of the Earth *for everything besides marine navigation. Nevertheless most people use it for small scale maps of the whole world. Our role as GeoGeeks is to bring enlightenment to ordinary people… I want to start from myself and stop using Mercator projection out of pure laziness.
2. LEARN HOW TO CODE
Imagine all these amazing maps you could do in CartoDB or Mapbox if you could code even a little bit. Every year the same resolution but in 2016 it must became a truth. Which language? I’m still not sure but this overview might be helpful*to make this choice.
3. QUIT YOUR GPS ADDICTION
Location-based apps*are great but using GPS to find your way too often decreases your spatial orientation abilities. My goal for 2016 is to use less navigation, memorize my routes and minimise my GPS dependency.
4. LEARN HOW TO USE COMPASS
If there is one thing that everything GeoGeek should be good at, it’s using a compass. There was never a good time to do that but in 2016 I want to master it.
5. READ THAT BOOK
So many map-related books on my shelf but no time to read it. My goal for 2016 is to read this ten map books you see below in ten months.
What are your*New Year’s resolutions?
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