Best Coffee Shops!

Seen on Co.DESIGN: let's map the best coffee shops in vicinity of subway stops!

• New York City: map and app
• London: map

Where Did Earth's Water Come From?

Pleasant Weather

The Pleasant Places To Live map by Kelly Norton is excellent: a nice clean and simple design that tells a simple story.

Urban Network Analysis

Urban Network Analysis is a project from the City Form Lab at MIT - a toolbox for ArcGIS.

Plate Tectonics in a Pop-Up Book!

This does remind me of about 2:10 minutes into this video!

The Internet of Things

Here is a nice 3-part series about the future - the internet of things with gizmos that surround us that can both sense and respond. Location-aware invisible buttons that trigger something based on something else when you 'enter' them, hyper-precise indoor GPS such as iBeacon, anticipatory computing based on your digital life and history such as Google Now, and data mining with sensor fusion to map your reality (both digital and physical). Intrigued? Have a read!

• 2014 is the year of the internet of things—no, seriously, we mean it this time
• How the "internet of things" will replace the web
• Here’s the one thing someone needs to invent before the internet of things can take off

GEOPLATFORM.gov

GEOPLATFORM.gov falls under the category of TMI...but a nice realization of geo-based and web-based data sharing and visualization platform using ArcGIS Online.

• Map Gallery
• FEMA GeoPlatform