How it was made: tower sites from the Forest Fire Lookout Association, dates from NYS DEC’s fire tower brochure, towns from NYS ITS, terrain from AWS Terrain Tiles via elevatr. Hillshade and contours in terra, styled in ggplot2. Claude helped find the data and finish the code.
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@mel-likes-maps.bsky.social There were just too many slightly different directions to take this, and nothing really jumped out at me. Usually, I make the decision a little quicker.
@karaman.is I love the idea of using a single dataset for the whole challenge.