Sunday, February 28, 2021

QGreenland

QGreenland is a free mapping tool to support interdisciplinary Greenland-focused research, teaching, decision making, and collaboration and combines key datasets into a unified, all-in-one GIS analysis and visualization environment for offline and online use.

Friday, February 26, 2021

NADIR or Oblique?

Earth at a Cute Angle (by Robert Simmon) includes some great examples of oblique satellite images and how they can be more useful (at-times) than the standard flat (or nadir) imagery.

Monday, February 8, 2021

Commute Time Map

This one is pretty cool: public transport, car, bike, and walk for travel times up to 60 minutes and it computes pretty quickly: https://commutetimemap.com/map

Saturday, February 6, 2021

ArcGIS Field Maps

ArcGIS Field Maps is the new mobile data collection app from Esri - basically replacing the old Collector app. It all seems to work just fine as one would expect, but unfortunately my iPhone is too old to run the app. Here are some resources:

Friday, February 5, 2021

The World Imagery Wayback App

The World Imagery Wayback App is not new, but a fun way to explore satellite images from around the world and the Swipe Mode is great for quick comparisons.

Thursday, February 4, 2021

Desirable Streets

Desirable Streets is a cool project and data viz from the folks at the MIT Senseable City Lab: why and how do people walk longer distances as opposed to the most-direct routes?