About

I’m Alex Egoshin, a GIS specialist and ecologist at a national park. I research invasive plant species—how and where they’re spreading, and how climate change will affect their spread.

Maps are my other obsession. I create visualizations that challenge assumptions about geography and how we organize our world.

In 2016, my TrumpLand and the Clinton Archipelago map went viral. It turned US election results into topography—Trump’s territory as massive continent, Clinton’s as coastal islands.

Since then I’ve mapped human climate preferences over 6,000 years, redrawn the world’s borders around river basins, built a tool matching urban trees to local climates, and got interviewed about religious belief patterns across the United States.

Vivid Maps isn’t just my work though. I also share maps from other cartographers when they reveal something worth seeing—anything that helps make sense of our complicated world.

Questions? Ideas? Email me: [email protected]