Is the American Dream Still Affordable?

Nice Esri Story Map: Is the American Dream Still Affordable?

Harvey does Texas

More here: Hurricane Harvey Approaches Texas

Drone Training

https://xkcd.com/1881/

Every Road in North America

https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/6vpnkp/all_the_roads_and_nothing_but_the_roads_oc/

Estimating economic damage from climate change in the United States

Or: How Much Climate Change Will Cost Each U.S. County. Now you can see the numbers in a few ways:

1. Read the scientific paper and get the data directly from Science.
2. Read a summary by Paul Voosen in Science with a large non-interactive map.
3. Read a longer article about the study in The Atlantic.
4. Explore this interactive map.

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/06/here-s-how-much-climate-change-going-cost-your-county

6 Charts to Understand U.S. State Greenhouse Gas Emissions

6 Charts to Understand U.S. State Greenhouse Gas Emissions

C’est la vis: Visualization Literacy at Elementary School

C’est la vis: Visualization Literacy at Elementary School is super-cute an online platform to teach and learn data viz in grades K and 2. The video explains it nicely.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/cest-la-vis-visualization-literacy-elementary-school/

AMOS

Need a webcam images? AMOS, the Archive of Many Outdoor Scenes, can help with that. AMOS is a collection of long-term time lapse imagery from publicly accessible outdoor webcams around the world. Images like that are increasingly used, in combination with AI/machine learning, to derive quantitative data.

Tiles for Zoom Levels

MapTiler includes a nice demo to give you the coordinates, tile bounds, and IDs for all tiles for all zoom levels. Nice.

Smart Mapping

Or is it Artificial Intelligence? First Draft GIS creates a draft map for you - all you need to do is provide the data. That does not sound all that impressive, but it can map from news articles, Word Documents, PDFs, Excel Spreadsheets, or any type of webpage - just copy/paste the URL. Try this data set for example.

NYC in 1609, Today, and Tomorrow

This has been around for a while, but the reconstruction of Mannahatta (Manhattan in 1609) is always worth exploring. Visionmaker nyc lets you now go into the future and create quantitative visions for a sustainable city.

Mars over the last 3.8 Billion Years

Rewind the Red Planet (by National Geographic) is a great scrollable story map of the history of Mars over the last 3.8 billion years. If you are really interested have a read at How We Made “Rewind the Red Planet”.

Planet.com

Planet.com offers a bunch of high-resolution satellite data from several satellite constellations that they own. I'm not sure what the free account actually gets you, but their Education/Research Programs seems quite generous. Certainly much higher-resolution than Landsat/ASTER and more accessible than the other commercial products.

OpenAerialMap

OpenAerialMap is an open service to provide access to a commons of openly licensed imagery and map layer services. Download or contribute imagery to the growing commons of openly licensed imagery.

Seems like the available imagery is either standard satellite images that you could get from many sites or UAV images for specific places around the world.

The Choropleth Sandbox

The Choropleth Sandbox is pretty useful to 'test' how various classification settings have a big impact on the story that your map is telling.

Correlation CAN imply Causation

Good stuff as usual from Minute Physics:


Also look at the short footnotes video.

Between Two Cities

Between Two Cities sounds like a fun and useful game to learn about urban planning.

Dams!

Big Dams: Boon or Bane? is a richly-illustrated Esri Story Map.