This is so obvious - yet we all still do it. Here is an excellent infographic bringing together all the reasons for staying away from bottled water. If you have 8 minutes I suggest watching The Story of Bottled Water by Annie Leonard.
Tuesday, February 4, 2014
Mapping Wikipedia
Map Wikipedia is a nice idea! Probably not all that useful and a bit slow, but a nice way to put the 'geo' into Wikipedia. Here's an example showing the Wikipedia category State Parks in Massachusetts.
Monday, February 3, 2014
Stateminder
Stateminder is Gapminder's little brother with excellent data and visualizations for the USA.
Sunday, February 2, 2014
Go France!
So, apparently the French government will make older SPOT satellite images available (for free) for scientific use (per All Points Blog). That's about time that happened...the French had been charging top $$$ for their SPOT data, but that approach has become unrealistic with Landsat and ASTER available for free and much higher-resolution images available commercially. Still, the 1986 and onward data should be quite interesting as it offers better spatial resolution than Landsat.
Build LEGO
This is great fun! Build fun stuff with LEGO and share with the rest of the world, all inside Chrome!
Comparing Map Projections
Comparing Map Projections is a nice demonstration of map projections and their associated distortions. Plus, it is cool as it uses d3, GitHub, and all kinds of other hip(ster) technology.
MODIS Today
Nothing fancy here, but MODIS Today is a quick way to see and download a MODIS mosaic of the U.S.
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