Getting to Know Web GIS, fourth edition

Getting to Know Web GIS, fourth edition is out today. This is a good book, really. And I like books. And I think tutorial books are very useful. But - still - actually printing a book like that for something like as dynamic as Web GIS feels a little too-retro perhaps in 2020.

The Wayback Machine and Internet Archive

This is old and that's a good thing: The Wayback Machine and Internet Archive. Plus now they added the National Emergency Library.

The JPEG

Yep, the JPEG: Read Unraveling the JPEG and you will learn more than you ever wanted about this image file format - excellent!

Firefox Send

Firefox Send is a simple and easy way to share files that are too large for Email attachments. I really would like to use Firefox...but Google Drive/Docs works so much better in Google and my Outlook for Web works so much better in IE.

A Domain of One’s Own

Great essay by Alan Jacobs Tending the Digital Commons: A Small Ethics toward the Future highlighting the importance of owning (and thus controlling) your digital work and identity.

Here's an oldie!

Cutting-edge (in 1999): the website for my dissertation, complete with pictures. Note: those are all scans off 35 mm slides.

Peasy

Peasy is an open-source web publishing tool for making simple websites - presumably a simpler option of WordPress or Drupal. Read more about it here.

The Smithsonian Learning Lab

The Smithsonian Learning Lab looks like an excellent resource to gain entry into the vast collection of, well, the Smithsonian. They provide a well-written Help, Getting Started, and For Teachers section.

Octoparse

Octoparse is a web data scraping tool.

The World Mapped As Domains

More here. And here if you are wondering about the .tk domains.

Web Scraper and Data Scraper

Two Chrome extensions / apps to 'scrape' data off websites: Web Scraper and Data Scraper.

Cyber Attacks

I have no idea how trustworthy this is, but it looks damn cool and scary: The Norse Real-Time Cyber Attack Map. (seen on FlowingData)

Science 360

Science 360 (by the National Science Foundation) is a great source for science news in a variety of useful formats: web posts, videos, radio programs, etc.

Canva

Canva is a simple cloud-based (and mostly) free design / layout program. It provides layouts, templates, text options, frames, backgrounds and you can upload your own images - pretty much all you need for simple design projects. You can download your work as PNGs or PDFs. However, some of their premium content such as images cost $1 each, but you can always upload your own.

• Canva for iOS
• Reviews by  PCWorld and FastCompany

Google Street View Hyperlapse

This has been around for a while now, but Hyperlapse somehow merges Google Street View frames into cool mini movies. The web version has some limitations, but the source code is available on Gitub.

Time-Lapse Mining

The concept is simple: let's crowd-source pictures of popular landmarks and stitch them together in-time to create a time-lapse video. The details are of course much more complex and explained in Time-lapse Mining from Internet Photos by Ricardo Martin-Brualla and others.

Atlas by Quartz

Atlas is billed as a new platform for sharing and discovering great charts. You can search or explore different categories and then share the chart you found. Plus, usually, you can download the underlying data.

NASA Vital Signs of the Planet

NASA Vital Signs of the Planet is a nice and concise website around the facts of climate change: evidence, cause, effects, consensus, vital signs, and FAQ.

Data.gov

Data.gov is the home of the U.S. Governments' open data and pretty cool. For example, consider the Aquifers dataset with all the download options and excellent metadata. You can even open the data directly into Plotly and CartoDB.

Make your own font!

Metaflop is fun = an online playground where you can create your own font! Read more about it over on Co.DESIGN.