Map Projections

Nothing new, but worth watching: map projections, choosing the right map, etc.

Google Suggest Mode

I did not know this: Suggest edits in a document

Computers vs. Jupiter

Out-Of-State Students

Every college and university loves out-of-state students - they pay much more in tuition and fees and are thus aggressively recruited. The NYT has mapped and analysed these student migration patterns across the country.

Map for Environment

Map for Environment uses OpenStreetMap and citizen activism to monitor environmental destruction 'hidden' from view, for example deforestation, road construction, etc. This is similar to the HOT Team and their mapping efforts in response to natural disasters or political crisis.

Here's an example: Logging Roads in the Congo.

The Iceflows Game

This for all of you who always wanted to be a glacier modeler: The Iceflows Game!

Income and Educational Attainment

How Your School District Compares (The Upshot, NYT) is a simple scatter plot of all US school districts: parents' income on the x-axis and the educational attainment on the y-axis. The conclusion is obvious. Search for your school district and compare yourself to the rest of the country.

Energy Flow Charts

These Energy Flow Charts by the LLNL are great (and depressing): we are essentially wasting just under 60 percent of all our energy. Explore them yourself for different years, states, and countries.

Coastlines of Boston

Coastlines of Boston compares 1788, 1898, and 2016 in a simple and clean web map.

Mount Tom Wild

Explain this to me!

Can you explain something (for example that the ozone hole does not cause global warming) using only the 1,000 most used words in the English language? Try it using Up-Goer Five Text Editor.

Warm Regards

Warm Regards is a nice podcast series about climate and climate change - great for listening in the car or in the gym. Examples:

• Climate forensics: How scientists reconstruct the past to understand change today?
• How do you take the planet's temperature?
• Where Earth's future is headed

Better Maps, Tables, and Charts

This is great: animated GIFs and slide decks showing you step-by-step how to make maps, charts, tables look better.

• Better maps
• Better pie charts
• Better bar charts
• Better tables

Finding the next Earth

The Search for Earth Proxima from Speculative Films on Vimeo.

Noticing and Wondering

She is a bit full of herself, but her message can be applied across many topics and disciplines.

Urban Planning

Plaza Del Ejecutivo in Mexico City, Mexico

July 2016

More here from NASA.

The Nprthwest Passage

Looks pretty much ice-free as of 9 August 2016!

Mapping Patterns Across Space

UX Patterns for Maps presents a series of examples on how to map spatial patters using maps - very useful and instructive!

Mapping Migrations

Migrations In Motion maps-out how species will (probably) have to migrate due to climate change.

The Wikiverse

Here's another attempt to 'ma' Wikipedia: The Wikiverse.

Stamen Terrain (Beta)

Check it out.

Where our food crops come from

Where our food crops come from is a nice interactive map and flow diagram depicting the geographic origins of our food crops.

Cesium

Cesium is an open-source JavaScript library for world-class 3D globes and maps and New York 3D Tiles is a cool demo of its capabilities.

Zugspitze 360

The technology behind Zugspitze 360 is not new, but it is still cool, especially when you know the climb!

1880 to 2015

Five-Year Global Temperature Anomalies from 1880 to 2015

Climate Games

Or (better): role-play simulations about climate change adaptation. The New England Climate Adaptation Project (NECAP) offers science-based role-play simulation for each of their four partner municipalities: Barnstable, Massachusetts; Dover, New Hampshire; Wells, Maine; and Cranston, Rhode Island at https://necap.mit.edu/role-play-simulations.

Climate Inaction Figures

DrawMyData

DrawMyData is great - try it!

Exporting Graphs from Excel

Sure, copy/paste works great, but what about if you need higher resolution for printing? Exporting Graphs from Excel by Stephanie Evergreen has the answers!

Mapping the GIS in 3D

Indoor Mapping: The Met

Indoor mapping is pretty cutting-edge today and The Met Navigator is a nice example. Now all we need to add is a) indoor location tracking and b) augmented reality for a truly immersive experience.

CalTopo and PDF Quads

Sometimes you just need a PDF or JPG of a topographic map so CalTopo or PDF Quads could come-in handy. More at Maps Mania.

More Scrollytelling

Want to do some scrollytelling? Here are three options:

1. Esri Story Map Cascade
2. Mapbox GL
3. Leaflet (example)

The Geography of Geography Programs

AAG Guide to Geography Programs in the Americas

Scrollytelling

Scrollytelling is a way to narrate stories (online). Take, for example, the new Esri Story Map Cascade template. Sure, you can include maps, but this template is really less about maps than about other (cool) embedded media. How To Scroll offers some useful tips for effective scrollytelling.

Robert Kosara is not a fan and explain why in The Scrollytelling Scourge. Instead he favors 'The Stepper' layout (example).

This is EPIC!

1 full year of EPIC images in a great video animation:

All World Maps Lie

Okay, we know that All World Maps Lie. So Which One Should We Use? The article offers three choices: Winkel Tripel, Gall-Peters, and Dymaxion (see below).