30 Days Map Challenge
by Mia Spencer
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Sound on , search anything ,
open any map that catches your eye 
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Day 1 - Points
Nuclear Power Plants
Some nuclear plants sit a short drive from millions of people. Find out who's living next door to a reactor, and where the uranium is hiding underground.
Day 2 - Lines
Formula 1
Watch races in 3D and see who got 'box, box' on the radio. Every Grand Prix, driver and engine, and every champion since 1950.
Day 3 - Polygons
Continental Drift
India hit Asia hard enough to push up the Himalayas, and Africa and South America used to be a couple. Watch the continents meet, split up and drift apart.
Day 4 - Clusters
Clusters
Clusters of something. Hotspots, groups, things that gather together.
Day 5
Senses: Sight
How do you see something? Maybe map a viewshed?
Day 6 - Vintage
World History
Did Nero really fiddle while Rome burned? Who went broke in the South Sea Bubble? History's juiciest stories, pinned to the spot where they happened.
Day 7 - 10 minute map
Map Styles
Every cartographer has a favourite basemap and a secret one. Try ours on a 3D globe, steal the style link and use it in your own map.
Day 8 - Utopia
Living on Mars?
Elon wants a million people on Mars. So far it's robots only, and not all of them stuck the landing. See who crashed and where Starship wants to land.
Day 9 - Urban-rural
Map x Meta
Urban or rural. Cities and countryside.
Day 10
Prompting only
For this map, make AI work for its money and produce something from start to finish in a chat window or on the command line.
Day 11
Senses: Sound
How do you hear something? How do you map a soundscape? Noise pollution mapped?
Day 12
Power
Power as in nuclear power? Or physical power or influence? Power grid on a map? Read this the way you want, like every other prompt.
Day 13
Interactions
Interactions between things, or maybe the result would be an interactive map?
Day 14
Borgesian map
A map so detailed it becomes the territory. Inspired by Borges' On Exactitude in Science.
Day 15
Inside out
Inside out, upside down. Something on this map is not quite right.
Day 16
Collaborative map
Do a map with a friend, colleague or a stranger. AI doesn't count as a friend :)
Day 17
Light & dark
Play with visual effects. What can you map with just light and shadows?
Day 18
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Day 19
Senses: Smell
How do you map things which your nose can sense? What does a smelly map look like?
Day 20
Hexagons
Hexagons, the good old bestagons.
Day 21
OpenStreetMap
The awesome data source for mapping. You can also use this day to edit OSM.
Day 22
Projections
The different ways of representing a globe on a flat surface. What does your favourite map projection say about you?
Day 23
Senses: Taste
Food, drink or something else which you can taste.
Day 24 - Network
Submarine Cables
Your message to London takes the scenic route, along the sea floor. See the cables carrying the internet, who owns them (hi, Google) and where they land.
Day 25
Is this a map?
Stretch the limits of maps and blend your map with an artwork or some creative data visualization. When does something become a map and when does it stop being one?
Day 26
Water
About 71% of the Earth's surface. That wet thing, you know?
Day 27
New tool
The challenge has always been about learning things. Try out a new tool in your mapmaking workflow.
Day 28
Senses: Feeling
The most abstract of the senses series. How would you map a feeling?
Day 29
Raster
Do something cool with pixels.
Day 30
Pen & paper
Time to wrap up the challenge by closing your laptop for a while and going back to basics. Do an analogue map with pen and paper.