Let's Eat!

America’s Chain and Independent Restaurants maps out all restaurents across the USA coded by their degree of 'chainness' from the 310,000 or so single-location restaurants to the 24,333 Subways. Now if they only would make the underlying restauranr address data available!

More @ https://friendlycities.gatech.edu/data-interactive/

The Global Wind Atlas

Here are three new data layers & Esri Story Map (complete with a Suitabiliy Analysis) about wind around the world: https://arcg.is/uG9yC1

The Coldest Day of the Year

Nice ArcGIS Online Web App (by NOAA): Coldest day of the year across the United States

The spatial pattern is interesting:

• The western parts of the USA reaches its climatological coldest day in December (matching the seasonal cycle of insolation). because of the moderating influence of the Pacific Ocean (clouds, precipitation, etc.). 
• The eastern parts of the USA (especially New England) reaches its seasonal minimum in later January because of the influence of cold air masses from Canada and the presense of snow cover that reflects solar radiation.
• Noticeable 'cold pockets' in the Rockies, Casades, and Sierra Nevada represent locations in deeper valleys with frequent temperature inversions.

Climate Change Resources: Teaching & Learning

These teaching & learning resources frpm the Council on Foreign Relations are pretty impressive: https://education.cfr.org/climate-change-resources.

• Science
• Mitigation
• Adaptation
• Policy
• Energy
• Geoengineering
• Lesson Plans (highscholl & higher education)
• Simulations

The 15-Minute City

The 15 min City platform lets you explore how much worldwide cities are close to this ideal, by merging open data about venues within cities, population grids and routing algorithms. With 15 min City, you can check which activities or places are accessible to a neighbourhood on foot and by bike, and compare it to other urban areas. You can also check which city is the closest to the 15 minutes ideal looking at our city rankings in the map. In the following we address the main tools that are present in the platform.

Try it here: https://whatif.sonycsl.it/15mincity/15mincity.php

Camp Century Found (again!)

Cool story here about Camp Century & how it was 'found' again by-accident during GPR airborne survey: New View of the “City Under the Ice”

Passenger rail services in 1980 and 2024

Nice, simple, and clear: https://walkitect.maps.arcgis.com/apps/instant/media/index.html?appid=49cce9647b164c43aa5c373f05290c78