Klimawandel in Afrika is a nice 'scrolly map' with embedded interactive maps and 3D globes by the German newspaper Der Tagesspiegel. Unfortunately, it is in German and therefore not all that accessible - how about an English translation? (happy to help with that!)
Monday, January 31, 2022
Common Sense Education
Common Sense Education is a large non-profit 'dedicated to improving the lives of all kids and families by providing the trustworthy information, education, and independent voice they need to thrive in the 21st century.'
There are lot's of players in that space directly or indirectly promoting some kind of agenda, so be careful! That being said, they seem to offer good educational materials related to digital citizenship and Edtech.
Friday, January 28, 2022
EO Toolkit for Sustainable Cities and Human Settlements
The EO Toolkit for Sustainable Cities and Human Settlements aims to support local communities, cities and countries in understanding the value and usefulness of Earth observations for SDG 11 and the New Urban Agenda and to provide practical guidance and examples of EO data, tools, and use cases in support of sustainable urbanization and resilience.
This looks great, but may fall under the category: too much...TMI.
Mapping Textbooks / Libraries
These two 'maps' are pretty cool:
- Open Syllabus Galaxy: This interactive 'map' shows the 1,138,841 most frequently assigned texts in the Open Syllabus corpus, a database of 7,292,573 college course syllabi.
- HathiTrust Digital Library
Tuesday, January 25, 2022
How big was the Tonga eruption?
By now we all have seen the eruption, but what's missing in all these cool animations is a scale - how big was this eruption? Well, have a look at How big was the Tonga eruption? to see the eruption superimposed on different parts of the world (e.g. Florida, Egypt, Iberian Peninsula, etc.). One thing: Reuters, please, make these animations available as GIFs - that way we could actually use them for teaching. Thanks.
Friday, January 21, 2022
Thursday, January 20, 2022
Wednesday, January 19, 2022
Tuesday, January 18, 2022
Sunday, January 16, 2022
Saturday, January 15, 2022
The Mendenhall Couloir
Nice video of a route we climbed/hiked/scrambled last summer: https://youtu.be/xlGJFqfKu98. The techical crux @ ~5.2 is right down at the start & certainly a little spicey when wearing trail running shoes. The rest of the route never felt sketchy: mainly 3rd class with some short 5th sections here & there. We traversed right onto a ridge rather than slogging through the scree to the top - that probably is the better way to finish the route.
Wednesday, January 12, 2022
Tuesday, January 11, 2022
Monday, January 10, 2022
Population Forecasts with ArcGIS Pro
Here's nice tutorial introducing some of the time-series forecasting cools combined with space-time cubes using NetCDF data: Looking to the future: Using GIS to model and predict population. This example uses county-based population data, could be used just as well for grid-based climate model outputs or other gridded data.
Sunday, January 9, 2022
Saturday, January 8, 2022
Friday, January 7, 2022
Mapping Power Plants and Transmission Lines
Here are two great web maps showing the locations of power pants and the transmission lines (electricity, natural gas, oil, etc.) across the USA - interesting spatial patterns!
Sunday, January 2, 2022
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