Earth Transit - Major World Passenger Rails

Earth Transit - Major World Passenger Rails is awsome: just a giant map as JPG or PDF.

The McCheapest

Cool map (and spatial pattern): https://pantryandlarder.com/mccheapest. Even better: share the data set with us - that would be great for teaching!

Coldest day of the year across the United States

The Coldest day of the year across the United States shows a really interesting east-to-west pattern!

Ful-screen app here.

Octopus ==> Ice Sheet History ==> Climate

Very cool: Genetic insight on ice sheet history

Nothing fundamentally new, but a great new independent line of evidence that supports what Mercer already told us 50+ years ago: The West Antarctic Ice Sheet collapsed during the last Interglacial (~129,000 to ~116,000 years ago) and sea levels rose by 5 m.

GPX to 3D Storymap

This is pretty fun: Creating a 3D Race Report with ArcGIS StoryMaps

Couple of comments:

• No sure why it is not possible to add a GPX file directly to ArcGIS Online - that used to work just fine with the 'classic' Map Viewer.
• Maybe there's a way to do it, but when I import a GPX file into ArcGIS Pro I get the thousands of indiviudal points, not a nice polyline. Sure, I can convert that, but that's another step.
• Seems like you really should edit the GPX points first to remove any weird ones - that's tedious.

Chatter Marks

 

Climate Tipping Points

Not all that interested: Climate Tipping Points (by the ESA).

Dollar Street

See how families around the world live, sorted by monthy income: Dollar Street. Anna Rosling Rönnlund explains the project in her TED Talk embedded below.

A Virtual World With Self-Driving Cars

Seen on Maps Mania: A Virtual World With Self-Driving Cars, created from scratch. Create your own by taking this YouTube course. Here's an example: https://radufromfinland.com/projects/virtualworld/