Animated Fly-To Map GIFs

Animated GIFs are great: simple & easy! This Fly To app looks like a great way to make animated map GIFs. Read more about it here: https://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2023/12/making-animated-map-gifs.html

Your Own Wind Farm

This is pretty fun to play around with: Visualizing wind turbines in 3D using threebox

Mapping Power Plants and Transmission Lines

Here are two great web maps showing the locations of power pants and the transmission lines (electricity, natural gas, oil, etc.) across the USA - interesting spatial patterns!

• U.S. Power Plants, 2020
• Map: Energy, Environment, and Policy in the US (vNov2021)

Mapping Climate Proxy Records

This is great: Mapped: How ‘proxy’ data reveals the climate of the Earth’s distant past. The interactive map is great, but also the background information. Obviously, this type of research is extremely important, after all: the past is the key to the future. That being said, nobody is really interested in this - people want to learn about the climate change impacts on their own lives. I used to include paleoclimatology as a significant part of my Climate Change course, but dropped it in-favor of exploring solutions in more depth.

OpenTrees.org

Cool: OpenTrees.org

Street Orientation

This is not all that new, but interesting: Road Orientations Map. Read more about it here: Visualizing street orientations on an interactive map. I always find these 'gridded' cities a little weird (being from Europe), especially those 'forcing' the grid over significant topography (e.g. San Francisco).

Remote Pixel

Remote Pixel lets you view Landsat and Sentinel-2 images, perform basic analysis, and download the raw tif files. All that in a simple interface!

Educational Attainment in America

Educational Attainment in America is a nice dot map. I find these maps a little tricky to interpret due to the uneven distribution of population across the country. This one, however, has a nice feature in that you can generate a simple bar chart for the current view.

The Distressed Communities Index

 Read more about it here: From Great Recession to Great Reshuffling and explore the interactive map. Now overlay that on the 2016 election map and tell me what you see (Elizabeth Warren!).

2016 Election at the the precinct level

States - Counties - and now we can explore the 2016 election results down to the precinct level with An Extremely Detailed Map of the 2016 Election by the NYT. Well-done!

The Power of Ten using Census Data

That sounds weird, but works very well - zooming-out from a census block to the country and you can pick your starting location: A map "dealing with the relative size of things" in the American Census

Strava Global Heatmap

Very cool and useful for finding new trails: Strava Global Heatmap

Minard and Napoleon

Here's a great interactive overlay of Minard's map combined with a matching interactive chart: Minard and Napoleon

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)

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).

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.

Mapping Extreme Weather

The folks at Carbon Brief created a nice interactive web map attributing weather extremes to climate change - here's their conclusion: "Carbon Brief's analysis suggests 63% of all extreme weather events studied to date were made more likely or more severe by human-caused climate change. Heatwaves account for nearly half of such events (46%), droughts make up 21% and heavy rainfall or floods account for 14%."

Mapping Snowfall in 3D

This is interesting: The past day in snowfall, mapped is a snowfall map in 3D for the USA. This could be improved and made more interesting, for example by adding a search function and being able to specify time periods.

Mapbox Terra

Mapbox Terra is just cool - a 3D world map in your browser. More at Maps Mania. It would be nice to add a Search Tool and a way to save/share views.

Maps 3D

Now this is fun and cool: Maps 3D. Read more about it on Maps Mania. Here's an example: Mount Tom (MA) in 3D.