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.

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.

A New Map Of The World

Cool, but useless: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/24/science/new-world-map.html

Northampton Main Street

Here's the link: https://arcg.is/1THTWm

It's Cold In Texas

 Here's Katharine Hayhoe: https://twitter.com/i/status/1363649141218271232 

Climate Change and Cold Air Outbreaks

Perserverance

Nice work NASA! You can track Perseverance's Location, explore the Jezero Crater, and of course look at https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/.

Fun!

An interactive 3D spinning Earth with a time-lapse of the seasons: https://apps.sentinel-hub.com/digital_twin_sandbox/

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

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:

• Try data collection in ArcGIS Field Maps (the full workflow)
• Create a map for data collection in Field Maps (this is a little tedious using feature layers)
• Configure maps for the field (this should be obvious: offline mapping and downloadable map areas)
• Take Your Web Maps Offline with ArcGIS Field Maps (detailed PDF)
• Introducing smart forms in ArcGIS Field Maps (seems cool)

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.

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?

Deaths from Nukes

An Extremely Detailed Map of the 2020 Election

An Extremely Detailed Map of the 2020 Election by the NYT shows the 2020 election results down to the precinct level - good to know who your neighbors voted for!