Sea Level Rise Maps – Conspiracy of Cartographers

Petrofuture Belgium & Luxembourg

Post author:Jeffrey
Post published:January 11, 2026
Post category:Historical Maps Maps Petrofuture Sea Level Rise Maps

Drier than the Netherlands, this Petrofuture map of Belgium and Luxembourg was a little surprising. I didn't expect Luxembourg to be completely above water.I made this one, along with the…

Petrofuture Germany

Post author:Jeffrey
Post published:January 11, 2026
Post category:Historical Maps Maps Petrofuture Sea Level Rise Maps

The Petrofuture Germany map was challenging! Aligning the old road map with modern data took time.I made this one, along with the Netherlands and Belgium/Luxembourg, in a marathon weekend mapmaking…

Petrofuture London

Post author:Jeffrey
Post published:January 11, 2026
Post category:Historical Maps Maps Petrofuture Sea Level Rise Maps

I actually made this one about a year ago. I keep coming back to tweak details that very few people will ever notice.I'm finally going to call it done...for now.…

Petrofuture Netherlands

Post author:Jeffrey
Post published:January 11, 2026
Post category:Historical Maps Maps Petrofuture Sea Level Rise Maps

It took me a while to get to this one. Over the past year, I've been working on gallery installations, lectures, and the demands of the day job, with little…

Maps, Memory, and Video

Post author:Jeffrey
Post published:January 11, 2026
Post category:Historical Maps Maps Petrofuture Sea Level Rise Maps

As my work evolves, I find myself thinking about motivations and influences. This has led me to a new medium.I have created a video montage of advertisements, gas station maps…

Petrofuture at NACIS

Post author:Jeffrey
Post published:November 11, 2023
Post category:Historical Maps Maps retrofuture Sea Level Rise Maps

My presentation at NACIS 2023 has been uploaded to youTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-NJbU1vusUIn retrospect, I'd emphasize the contrast between the nostalgia invoked by the vintage maps, and the catastrophic climate consequences of our…

Petrofuture Oregon

Post author:Jeffrey
Post published:May 24, 2022
Post category:Historical Maps Maps retrofuture Sea Level Rise Maps

Petrofuture Oregon….Gas station road maps are one of my favorite bits of ephemeral Americana. As a kid, I would often spend hours tracing out imagined road trips, or reviewing trips…

The Retrofuture of Paris

Post author:Jeffrey
Post published:April 29, 2022
Post category:Historical Maps Maps retrofuture Sea Level Rise Maps

Paris and Île-de-France ... the Retrofuture map.Après moi, le déluge ... mixing up 66m of sea level rise with this 1740 map... Environs De Paris, from @david_rumsey_maps.If you can spend…

San Francisco Bay Petrofuture

Post author:Jeffrey
Post published:March 30, 2022
Post category:Historical Maps Maps retrofuture Sea Level Rise Maps

San Francisco Bay Petrofuture...the Chevron map.Chevron has a huge presence in and around the SF Bay, so it's a pleasure to base this on their 1953 road map of the…

California Petrofuture

Post author:Jeffrey
Post published:March 28, 2022
Post category:Historical Maps retrofuture Sea Level Rise Maps

California ... the Petrofuture map.At 218’ of sea level rise, California's Central Valley will become a vast inland bay.The Sea of Cortes will have inundated the Coachella and Imperial valleys.…