MapDork Blog

A Quarto blog that provides “under the hood” technical details on maps published on the Substack page. Posts show the R code and interactive maps behind each Substack post.

Author: Andrew J. Van Leuven

Creating a New Post

  1. Create a new directory under posts/ named after the post topic (e.g., posts/my-new-map/)
  2. Create posts/my-new-map/index.qmd with this frontmatter:
---
title: "Post Title"
author: "Andrew J. Van Leuven"
date: "YYYY-MM-DD"
categories: [map]
format:
  html:
    theme: cosmo
    embed-resources: false
---
  1. Add any data files the post needs into that same directory
  2. Render and preview: quarto preview or quarto render
  3. The posts/_metadata.yml applies to all posts automatically: freeze is enabled and title blocks use banner style

Rules

  • When I ask for your help in writing, I don’t ever want standalone em dashes. I only like em dashes when there is a complete pair of them, and they are in the middle of a sentence. Also, do not surround em dashes with spaces. Let them touch the text directly.