#30DayMapChallenge: My Data
See how mappers turned their lives into art. Explore the most personal takes on Day 4's #30DayMapChallenge theme.
When the data comes from your own life, maps become personal diaries. Day 4 showed everything from tracked adventures to creative parenting journeys. Here are my top 5 picks counting down to number one:
5. Jonathan Gray – Camping & Holiday Tracking
Years of personal travel logged through Fieldmaps, creating a geography of memories.
4. Chaney Swiney – County Tracking Project
A lifelong cartographic quest to map every US county visited - currently at 40% completion.
3. Tim Tensen – Mouse Tracking Visualisation
The most meta map yet - capturing his own cursor movements while creating maps.
2. Anna Riling – Grand Canyon Packrafting Expedition
Field-collected waypoints from a remote 5-day adventure, complete with "bidirectional packraft travel" notes.
1. Gernot Nikolaus – UK Cycling Expedition
My top pick - an epic solo cycling journey through the UK covering 4,695 km with 32,578 m of ascent, all captured in personal GPX tracks that tell a story of endurance and adventure.
Special Mention:
Wanmei Liang
For creating a beautiful miniature globe from historical data, demonstrating how personal craftsmanship brings old maps to new life.
Jules Grandin – Parental Fears Map
Mapping imaginary anxieties around "The Great Lake of Anxieties" from documenting his daughter's first year.
Which personal story told through maps stood out to you?
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