The Scale of the Universe

 

The MBTA is bad! Why?

 

Editing in Map Viewer

 Good information here: 5 Tips for Editing Made Easy in Map Viewer.

• Update attributes & add features.
• Create different views for feature layers, for example a non-editable public view and an editable view for your team.
• Create forms to streamline editing - that way you don't edit directly in the attribute table, but rather using a form to ensure data quality & consistency.

The Tree Equity Score

The Tree Equity Score shoes the patterns that you would expect to see for cities across the USA: rich people get to live with trees, poor people do not. The underlying data is available state-by-state here: https://www.treeequityscore.org/methodology.

Cenozoic CO2 Changes

This is great: Toward a Cenozoic history of atmospheric CO2 (Science).

Animated Fly-To Map GIFs

Animated GIFs are great: simple & easy! This Fly To app looks like a great way to make animated map GIFs. Read more about it here: https://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2023/12/making-animated-map-gifs.html

Parking Laws

 

City planning, zoning, racism, and climate change

 

GEEDiT

GEEDiT is a tool built upon Google Earth Engine to "to allow users to rapidly access time series of full resolution satellite imagery from anywhere on the planet, and to manually digitise, review and export margin information." That's cool, but not all that unique these days.

Our Reddening Globe

Our Reddening Globe is pretty slick: you get a 3D rotating globe, two interactive global and regional time series, and an animation option to place 2023 into the context of 1880 to 2023. Here's the issue that I have: does something like that 'move-the-needle' at all? Sure, it's a cool data viz but it lacks something: a spark, a story - something that would turn this from just another data viz to something that could trigger an emotional response.

The Coastline Paradox

The Coastline Paradox is not really a paradox, but rather a pretty slick visualization of sea level rise overlaid on Google Street View images from around the world. Nothing new here, but a cool visualization. The one problem here is that this 'only' shows normal sea level rise and not what happens when you add high tide, rainfall, and maye a storm surge - that's when the greatest impacts will occur.