Fox News Fail

COVID-19 Bar Chart Race

Wild stuff @ https://twitter.com/i/status/1244317961201930241

Toilet Paper Calculator

Now for something actually useful: the Toilet Paper Calculator by Nathan Yau. Fun.

Teaching with Zoom

Not entirely sure why, but Zoom is the hip thing right now, but there are plenty of good and maybe better alternatives (e.g. Google Hangouts). Still - here are some useful resources for teaching with Zoom.

• How to teach online with Zoom: Complete Introduction @ https://youtu.be/lvndgRlOH1w

Calculate Crop Production with Living Atlas Layers in ArcGIS Pro

Calculate Crop Production with Living Atlas Layers in ArcGIS Pro is a fun and quick tutorial:

• Enrich vector data (parcels) with raster data (crop production).
• The tutorial itself is an Esri Story Map (embedded below).

Mapillary

Mapillary is a nice open-source / crowd-source alternative to Google Street View. Get yourself the app and start contributing your own views of the world. Of course, you could stay inside Google and just use their Photo Sphere app.

Joe Kerski shares some idea on how to use Mapillary in Citizen science street level imagery and mapping with Mapillary and here's a nice tutorial on how to embed Mapillary in Esri Story Maps: Taking the Tour: Mapillary in Esri Story Maps.

I played around with the Mapillary app and collected a couple of sequence:

• Sachem Head
• Highland Pond

Not surprising this seems to work much better on flat and easy ground such as roads or dirt roads as opposed to the rocky ridge line of Sachem Head. Maybe a gimbal would work. The sequence export via geojson is pretty lame as you only get the location of the points, but not the associated photographs. Best to view your sequence inside Mapillary.

Is this useful? Sure! You can quickly and easily collect photographs of your research area and share them in a cool way with the rest of the world. If that's something that you want to do. It's also easy to compile sequences into an Esri Story map. It also makes for a fun activity with students - as long as they have a smartphone (and can download the app, create a Mapillary account, and there's Wifi available to upload the photographs).

Mapping Corona / COVID-19

Too much stuff out there - here are a few reliable maps and data sets:

Maps.

• COVID-19 Cases map (USA) - simple ArcGIS Online map that you can use and modify.
• Johns Hopkins Coronavirus COVID-19 cases (global) - more sophisticated ArcGIS Online map at different geographic levels (county, state, country, etc.). Also show types of cases (total, active, deaths, etc.).
• NYT Times maps (USA, county)

Data.

• NYT Times data (CSV files for the USA, on GitHub)
• Johns Hopkins data (as ArcGIS Online feature layer)
• Corona Virus / COVID-19 data (ArcGIS Living Atlas)

Want to make your own map? Here's a great tutorial (presented as a Story Map): Improve Your COVID-19 Cases Map.

What About the Ozone Hole

100 People

100 People: A World Portrait has a lot of great content for teaching and learning - their simple 100 People statistics are a good start.

The Wayback Machine and Internet Archive

This is old and that's a good thing: The Wayback Machine and Internet Archive. Plus now they added the National Emergency Library.

Climate activities for at-home learning

These look fun: Climate activities for at-home learning. Plus can be extended to K-12.

QGIS & GIS Cloud

QGIS is great and now has a plug-in to publish maps to GIS Cloud. That's great. But...also highlights one of the issues with QGIS: you need to pay a commercial business to host your web maps (unless you are willing and able to run your own GIS web servers).

COVID-19 Data and Dashboard

This is great data viz:

• Coronavirus COVID-19 Global Cases
• Data

Corona Coxomb Charts

Cool stuff from Ken Field: Corona Coxombs

The COVID-19 Simulator

This is pretty neat:

• Lesson plans and description
• The COVID-19 Simulator

Size!

Silly, but Fun!

Social Distancing

OpenTrees.org

Cool: OpenTrees.org

Emissions Gap Report 2019

The Emissions Gap Report 2019 from the UNEP is, as expected, a downer. It's also an example of a terrible 'scrolly' story map.

Flattening the curve

Cattening the curve

saw on the Internet somewhere

Meanwhile - in the White House...

https://xkcd.com/2278/

The Largest Solar Power Plant in Europe (For Now)

The Largest Solar Power Plant in Europe (For Now) (from NASA)

The GND

Scribbling

Here are two fun and simple tools that allow you 'scribble' (= annotate) maps (seen on Maps Mania):

• Scribble Maps
• Gribrouillon

Fun and maybe useful in the context of the Digital Humanities.

Lake Effect Snow

Nice example from NASA: A Burst of Lake Effect Snow