01Complete
NOVEMBER 01 · Points
Gorillaz — The Mountain Tour Atlas
Follow Gorillaz across 23 US and Canada venues, explore each concert’s setlist, and play the songs through Spotify or YouTube.
✦ NOVEMBER 01—30, 2026 / #30DAYMAPCHALLENGE
A month of maps.
A world of ideas.
Thirty daily themes. Thirty chances to look at the world a little differently. A collection of maps, small experiments, and the notes behind them.
30 daily themes3 map complete27 still to explore
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FIRST STOP / DAY 01POINTS · INTERACTIVE MAP
23 nights. One mountain.
Gorillaz across the US & Canada.
THE NOVEMBER COLLECTION
One day, one new perspective.
Each entry includes its page, source code,
and the story behind the map.
02Complete
NOVEMBER 02 · Lines
Seattle, a City of Climbs
Explore Seattle’s steep street segments in 3D, rank recorded grades, and inspect interactive terrain elevation profiles.
03Complete
NOVEMBER 03 · Polygons
Election Night Atlas
Follow 2026 US House, Senate and governor races with congressional district and state polygons, candidate returns, filters and source timestamps.
04Planned
NOVEMBER 04 · Clusters
Clusters
Look for concentrations, shared patterns, or groups that emerge when locations are seen together.
Map concept to be selected.
05Planned
NOVEMBER 05 · Senses: Sight
Sight
Explore what can be seen from a place, or how vision changes our experience of a landscape.
Map concept to be selected.
06Planned
NOVEMBER 06 · Vintage
Vintage
Experiment with historical cartographic styles, older geography, or a visual language borrowed from another era.
Map concept to be selected.
07Planned
NOVEMBER 07 · 10 minute map
10 minute map
Create a complete map within ten minutes and record the decisions made under that constraint.
Map concept to be selected.
08Planned
NOVEMBER 08 · Utopia
Utopia
Imagine a possible place or a different future, and use a map to give that vision form.
Map concept to be selected.
09Planned
NOVEMBER 09 · Urban-rural
Urban-rural
Explore the relationships, differences, and transitions between cities, countryside, and the places in between.
Map concept to be selected.
10Planned
NOVEMBER 10 · Prompting only
Prompting only
Produce a map through prompts in a chat or command-line workflow, documenting the process and its limits.
Map concept to be selected.
11Planned
NOVEMBER 11 · Senses: Sound
Sound
Map a soundscape, a pattern of noise, or the ways a place is heard.
Map concept to be selected.
12Planned
NOVEMBER 12 · Power
Power
Explore energy, influence, or physical force through a geographic interpretation of power.
Map concept to be selected.
13Planned
NOVEMBER 13 · Interactions
Interactions
Show how places and systems affect one another, or invite the viewer to interact with the map.
Map concept to be selected.
14Planned
NOVEMBER 14 · Borgesian map
Borgesian map
Explore the boundary between a place and its representation, inspired by the idea of a map at impossible detail.
Map concept to be selected.
15Planned
NOVEMBER 15 · Inside out
Inside out
Reverse a familiar perspective, reveal an interior, or turn a conventional map’s logic inside out.
Map concept to be selected.
16Planned
NOVEMBER 16 · Collaborative map
Collaborative map
Make a map with another person and document how the shared decisions shaped the result.
Map concept to be selected.
17Planned
NOVEMBER 17 · Light & dark
Light & dark
Use illumination, shadows, or contrasting tones to reveal a geographic story.
Map concept to be selected.
18Planned
NOVEMBER 18 · NULL
NULL
Interpret absence, missing values, or an intentionally open theme through a map.
Map concept to be selected.
19Planned
NOVEMBER 19 · Senses: Smell
Smell
Consider how scents, their sources, and the experience of smell can be represented geographically.
Map concept to be selected.
20Planned
NOVEMBER 20 · Hexagons
Hexagons
Use hexagonal shapes or grids to organize locations, compare values, or explore a spatial pattern.
Map concept to be selected.
21Planned
NOVEMBER 21 · OpenStreetMap
OpenStreetMap
Build from OpenStreetMap data or contribute to the shared geographic record through mapping.
Map concept to be selected.
22Planned
NOVEMBER 22 · Projections
Projections
Explore how representing a globe on a flat surface changes shape, distance, direction, or perspective.
Map concept to be selected.
23Planned
NOVEMBER 23 · Senses: Taste
Taste
Explore food, drink, ingredients, or the places and experiences connected with taste.
Map concept to be selected.
24Planned
NOVEMBER 24 · Network
Network
Map the connections that link places, people, routes, or other parts of a system.
Map concept to be selected.
25Planned
NOVEMBER 25 · Is this a map?
Is this a map?
Test the edges of cartography with an experiment that blends geographic thinking, art, and visualization.
Map concept to be selected.
26Planned
NOVEMBER 26 · Water
Water
Explore water’s places, movement, boundaries, or role in shaping the landscape.
Map concept to be selected.
27Planned
NOVEMBER 27 · New tool
New tool
Try an unfamiliar tool in the mapmaking process and document what the experiment teaches.
Map concept to be selected.
28Planned
NOVEMBER 28 · Senses: Feeling
Feeling
Translate an emotion, atmosphere, or felt experience of place into a geographic expression.
Map concept to be selected.
29Planned
NOVEMBER 29 · Raster
Raster
Build a geographic story with pixels, imagery, or another continuous gridded surface.
Map concept to be selected.
30Planned
NOVEMBER 30 · Pen & paper
Pen & paper
Make an analog map by hand, then photograph or scan the finished work for the collection.
Map concept to be selected.
No maps match that search. Try another theme or clear the filter.
Completed entries open maps; planned entries open placeholder pages. Choose Source for the code and Notes for the process and credits.
ABOUT THIS COLLECTION
Practice, curiosity, and a little cartographic play.
This is Paul Gibbs’s contribution to #30DayMapChallenge 2026. The daily themes set the starting point; the medium, tools, data, and visual direction can change from one day to the next.
Open a day’s project notes for sources, credits, methods, limitations, and reflections. Source links lead to that day’s folder in the shared GitHub repository.