Irma and Maria

Here are two crowd-sourced photo story maps:

• Hurricane Irma Photo Story Map
• Hurricane Maria Photo Story Map

This is all just a part of a natural cycle, right?

Renewable energy is way too expensive, right?

Disappearing Gaciers

Here are two nice Esri story maps of disappearing glaciers:

1. Alaska Ice
2. Glaciers in Alaska's National Parks: Monitoring Change
3. Disappearing Glaciers

Climate Ready Boston Map Explorer

Climate Ready Boston Map Explorer is a new way to look at the same data - here using the Esri ArcGIS Online platform. Coastlines of Boston is a nice supplement! (found on Maps Mania)

Alternatives to Google Docs

Here are two alternatives to Google Docs.

• Slack
• Sandstorm

I'm not sure any of those fundamentally address the issues and concerns that one might have with Google Docs.

Timemap

Timemap is a new take on network analysis and simplifies the visual display as a series of concentric circles as a function of time from your location (turn-by-turn directions are still available).

Nukemap and Misslemap

Here are two interactive web maps: Nukemap and Misslemap. I have no idea how accurate these simulations are, but sobering nevertheless.

StorylineJS

StorylineJS looks great - a simple way to create an annotated and interactive chart (just point to your data in Google Sheets).

Kilauea: Fountains of Fire

Kilauea: Fountains of Fire is a pretty neat Esri Story Map and the creator explains the process of making here at The Making of Kilauea: Fountains of Fire. Here's a pretty cool animated GIF:

https://blogs.esri.com/esri/arcgis/2017/09/13/the-making-of-kilauea-fountains-of-fire/

Rising Seas

Here we have a web map with the actual sea level measurement station data: Rising Seas. This shows the actual measured values, not predicted ones say for the 21st century.

Sparklines as Fonts

This looks really interesting: a font that creates sparklines called AtF Spark.

Landsat Viewer

New from Esri: Landsat Viewer. This looks promising and useful.

Irma and the Islands

Pretty impressive images of the Caribbean Islands before and after Irma:

https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=90952&src=iotdrss

Finally: a clear and calm Irma forecast!

ArduPilot Autopilot Suite

The ArduPilot Autopilot Suite is everything and more you need for any kind of autonomous vehicle. More also here.

Harvey Sediment Plume

Source: NASA

Harvey Before and After

This is a great use of the Swipe Story Map: Hurricane Harvey Post Event Imagery - Houston.

Sentinel-2 Cloudless Earth

Pretty cool @ https://s2maps.eu/ and more information here.

The Last Glacier of Venezuela

Matthew Wills actually read the paper and wrote a nice summary for JSTOR Daily (29 August 2017): The Last Glacier of Venezuela.

Why Do India And China Have So Many People?

Pipeline Spills

Here's an interesting interactive map showing pipelines, pipeline operators, and spills. That's about it. The map is not very professional, for example: use aliases for the field names and include a link to the data. This would have been better in Tableau in my opinion.