Nathan Shephard

I *may* have gotten a little carried away explaining how the Santa Ana winds work to my daughter... @ArcGISPro #Animation

@kennethfield Fair! I support this decision. And if **Australia** are playing in the semifinals… you will probably find me playing the piano at a speakeasy up the street on my 15th straight Dirty Shirley.

For those who like to plan ahead the #WorldCup semi finals will be midday on the Tuesday and Wednesday of #EsriUC next July. If any of my tech workshops are scheduled 12-3pm, and England are involved, consider them cancelled due to a "scheduling conflict out of my control" 😉

@kennethfield I appreciate the great circle approximation for the plane travel. 😂 Travel safe!

#30DayMapChallenge Day 26: Transport Today's journey.

Day 26 – Transport #30DayMapChallenge In 1937, long before we casually flew across continents, Amelia Earhart attempted to circumnavigate the globe. Most know the tragic ending... ...but few realize how close she came. @ArcGISPro

First order of business for any group presentation is to morph profile pics, highlighting everyone's strengths. For example: @John_M_Nelson's strong chin. @kennethfield's piercing gaze. @NathanCShephard's sea-otter hairstyle.

What if you project a projection? 🤔🌎Created in #ArcGISPro using picture markers and a creative twist on the View Dome tool, @nathancshephard’s animation “pushes” each map projection out from the place it was invented. #30DayMapChallenge day 19: ow.ly/CUjr50Xua5g

Moving sunset... now calculated daily. A table of sunset dates drives the time slider... which drives map time... which drives sun position... @ArcGISPro

Was randomly thinking about where the sun goes down. Yes, it's "to the west"... but... it's actually "west-ish". It actually moves quite a bit. Here's Jan-Dec sunset points from a random hilltop in SoCal.

It’s @John_M_Nelson and @kennethfield ‘s map, we just live in it. 😁

For years our audience has asked us to be given a bigger boat. This year it happened. Join @NathanCShephard, @John_M_Nelson and I for Map Wizardry in the plenary Hall F Thursday morning 8:30am for mappy fun and shenanigans #EsriUC2025

@kennethfield @John_M_Nelson Ha! 😂 No, that’s for a TECHNICAL workshop, not the “oooh, what is THAT pretty thing?” goal of Map Wizardry. 😎😁

@NathanCShephard If that's for Map Wizardry @John_M_Nelson and I don't need to turn up cus it looks like you've got the hour covered. Thanks! 👍

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far, away… some dude at Esri suddenly realized he has a LOT of steps in his Tech Workshop. 😂 #EsriUC2025

@J_adelphia Nothing quite like a 5 day dinner. 😱

@NathanCShephard that final kill must have been a doozy

If you're reading this in August, chances are you're in Canada at #ICC2025 and you've scanned a QR code for Part-2 of my Tiger Territory entry in the "you don't see many maps like this" section. 🥳 It shows 25 days of tiger movement, with red-disks for "feasting on dinner".

Warning: the 4th sign of the apocalypse ("A 3D guy makes and submits a 2D map to a cartographic conference") has just occurred. #ICC2025 @ICC2025VanCity

If you're reading this in August, chances are you're in Canada at #ICC2025 and you've scanned a QR code for Part-1 of my Tiger Territory entry in the "you don't see many maps like this" section. 🥳 It shows 20+ weeks of tiger movement, with 'stripes' added for border visits.

@inertcatnip The universe will do anything to protect the world’s chocolate supply from me 🤔

@NathanCShephard Sorry Nathan, Chocolate Mountain is an aerial bombing range (north of algodunes ohv area)

So...after living in SoCal for two decades... I was today years old when I noticed what must surely be the GREATEST weekend destinations of all time. Looking forward to a gold-covered chocolate Sunday.

@DaveAtCOGS 😂😁🥳

@NathanCShephard What wonderful destinations. Enjoy your weekend!

@deepseadawn Still a rockstar, getting an honorary PhD 👀🥳 Congrats!!

@NathanCShephard You got a much better speech than what I could EVER give! What a day and congratulations!! (I spoke to CEOAS yesterday)😇

Ooh, we get to see @deepseadawn give a speech at my daughter’s graduation at #osu 🎉😁 Good luck Dawn!