Shoals

An occasional blog about mapping, history, art, and technology

Atlas Miscellaneous - July 2025

Earth observation is always political

Posted on July 6, 2025

Kilimanjaro, Tanzania [Read More]
Tibor G. Tóth

Posted on June 4, 2025

Indulge me on a brief tangent: My parents are braggarts. [Read More]
Atlas Miscellaneous - May 2025

Light it up, up, up, light it up, up, up . . .

Posted on May 31, 2025

Shoyna, Russia [Read More]
Beautiful Capital

Posted on May 9, 2025

Last fall I visited the Morgan Museum and Library with my family in New York City. We took in the special exhibition of famed librarian Belle da Costa Greene, and even my children were able to grasp the significance of the original Gutenberg Bible. Something in the collection that we... [Read More]
Atlas Miscellaneous - April 2025

Victorian Ghosts in the water

Posted on April 21, 2025

Brighton, UK [Read More]
Atlas Miscellaneous - 2025-03-15

Coconuts and Ruins.

Posted on March 15, 2025

Lunuwila, Sri Lanka [Read More]
Atlas Miscellaneous - 2025-02-12

Another batch of places that caught my eye from above . . .

Posted on February 15, 2025

Amsterdam Centraal [Read More]
School diversity in the Northeastern U.S.

Posted on January 25, 2025

With all that’s underway (waves hands around, wildly), I’m narrowing the focus to my interior sphere of attention, to look at local stats on education. [Read More]