Interesting Stuff Online: February 2025

Wednesday, February 26, 2025

Rail Transit Access vs Population Density

Rail Transit & Population Density compares and ranks 250 cities around the world - the side-by-side map and table comparison is great!

Thursday, February 20, 2025

America's Drunkest and Driest Counties

Fun: America's Drunkest and Driest Counties - explain these spatial patterns!

The Milky Way Map

This is apparently the largest map of the Milky Way: https://archive.eso.org/scienceportal/home. Very cool, but I'm not sure what anyone can do with this...here's a little more beta from Joe Kerski.

Thursday, February 13, 2025

NetCDF in ArcGIS Pro

I always wanted to try this: Explore a NetCDF file

3D Print Your World

Great compilation of tools by Maps Mania: 3D Print Your World

Topography Explorer
DEM Net Elevation API
Tiel Exporter

NAIP 2023 Imagery

I always forget about the NAIP Imagery - a great source for free satellite data at pretty decent resolution (30 cm / 60 cm).

More here:

Esri Story Maps: Categorized Map Tours

This could be a useful template for Esri Story Maps: categorized map tours. Here's an example: https://arcg.is/0b8vi42. The process sounds a little 'campy' & seems to require to have/create a feature service first?

Here's how to create a map tour from actual ArcGIS Data: Create a data-driven map tour

Saturday, February 8, 2025

Godview AI

Godview is basically an AI with a map interface that allows you to perform 'classic' AI stuff, bur with geographic output & also to discover things based on clicking around.

Thursday, February 6, 2025

How To Digitize Fast!

Brilliant video tutorial on how to digitize complex geographic features (e.g. glacier margins) fast & precise:

Nuclear Energy, SRMs, Cost, and Fossil Fuels

Tuesday, February 4, 2025

The Street View Animator

The Street View Animator looks like great fun - more about it over @ Maps Mania.

My only concern is 'permanence' - these types of apps have a tendency to disappear after a while & then all your work disappears as well. This makes it a little risky to committ to it as a teaching tool.