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99 bookmarks by garrettc
"What is the economic composition of my city? How does my city compare to cities around the globe? Which cities look most like mine? What are the technological capabilities that underpin my city’s current economy? Which growth and diversification paths does that suggest for the future?"
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"The MAGIC website provides geographic information about the natural environment from across government. The information covers rural, urban, coastal and marine environments across Great Britain. It is presented in an interactive map which can be explored using various mapping tools that are included."
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"Infrastructure is all around us. Some we can see, like roads, and some we can't, like radio waves. Big Glass Microphone looks at the intersection between these two kinds of infrastructure by visualizing the vibrations in a five kilometer long fiber optic cable buried a meter or two underneath the campus of Stanford University. "
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"This site is a front-end to thousands of datatasets. It allows you to 'see' the data as it should be seen: through colours and shapes. With over 12 million data points spanning 100 categories, find a dataset that interests you and explore it using a suite of interactive maps and charts."
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Human population within a distance, from any point in the world.
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“Free route planner - plan, measure and discover new routes, with choice of maps, directions and elevation profiles. “
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Mapus is a tool to explore and annotate collaboratively on a map. You can draw, add markers, lines, areas, find places to go, observe other users, and much more.
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Mindat.org is the world's largest open database of minerals, rocks, meteorites and the localities they come from.
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"Keeping in mind the Pythonic principle that “simple is better than complex” we’ll see how to create a web map with the Python based web framework Django using its GeoDjango module, storing geographic data in your PostgreSQL database on which to run geospatial queries with PostGIS."
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"The city can be thought of as an archeological site - all the historical layers are there, you just have to know how to access them. Computer scientists and cartographers have now associated thousands of street names with corresponding Wikipedia pages and have data mined these pages to investigate cultural phenomena reflected in naming streets after historical figures."
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Side-by-side view of old maps and current Open Street Map, from th e National Library of Scotland
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Convert longitude-latitude pairs to ISO 3166-1 codes quickly and locally
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A gazetteer or big list of places, each with a stable identifier and some number of descriptive properties about that location.
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Why should the Suez Canal have all the fun? From the comfort of home you can get the Ever Given stuck wherever you want it. Drag and zoom the map to move this big old boat somewhere else.
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"Although not the most common type of imagery from orbit, these oblique views (also known as off-nadir views) connect our own lifetime of experiences with the unfamiliar view from space."
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An interactive playground to explore the extreme distortions of the Mercator projection. Set any point on Earth as the new North Pole. Warp the map in real-time. See the world in a whole new way.
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See how the Earth is slowly build up from each of the 600,000 satellite images taken by Planet's satellites in a single day
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The OpenAddresses.io website notes that "Address data is essential infrastructure". Geography underpins so much of the data we collect and is collected about us, making address registers important parts of national data infrastructure. In the UK we've been wrestling with the fact that our address register is not open for many years. After the decision to sell…
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"GeoMesa is an open source suite of tools that enables large-scale geospatial querying and analytics on distributed computing systems. GeoMesa provides spatio-temporal indexing on top of the Accumulo, HBase, Google Bigtable and Cassandra databases for massive storage of point, line, and polygon data. GeoMesa also provides near real time stream processing of spatio-temporal data by layering spatial semantics on top of Apache Kafka. Through GeoServer, GeoMesa facilitates integration with a wide range of existing mapping clients over standard OGC (Open Geospatial Consortium) APIs and protocols such as WFS and WMS. GeoMesa supports Apache Spark for custom distributed geospatial analytics."
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Kepler.gl is a data agnostic, WebGL empowered, high-performance web application for geospatial analytic visualizations.
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Created by Uber's Visualization team, kepler.gl is an open source data agnostic, high-performance web-based application for large-scale geospatial visualizations.
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UIS.Stat enables users to search for and extract data from across UIS’s many databases.
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"Get monthly, daily, and hourly graphical reports of the average weather: daily highs and lows, rain, clouds, wind, etc."
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represents a commitment by Oxfordshire Partners to develop efficient and effective use of data and technology for the benefit of its citizens
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Draw an area on the map and it will return an estimation of the population of that area.
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"The Morgan Map of 1682 was the first to show the whole of the City of London after the fire. Produced by William Morgan and his dedicated team of Surveyors and Cartographers it took 6 years to produce, and displayed a brighter perspective on city life for a population still mourning their loved ones, possessions, and homes."
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Interactive world light pollution map. The map uses NOAA/EOG VIIRS/DMSP (2010, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017), World Atlas 2015 overlays and SQM overlay managed by users.
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"This database provides the first-ever compilation of the world’s river basins developed specifically for corporate disclosure. It features a comprehensive list of river basins worldwide, including their names, boundaries, and other helpful information."
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Mapped at http://map.whoownsengland.org, by @guyshrubsole @darkgreener
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The Google Public Data Explorer makes large datasets easy to explore, visualize and communicate. As the charts and maps animate over time, the changes in the world become easier to understand. You don't have to be a data expert to navigate between different views, make your own comparisons, and share your findings.
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"Coming almost 450 years after the world's first Atlas, this Atlas for the End of the World audits the status of land use and urbanization in the most critically endangered bioregions on Earth. It does so, firstly, by measuring the quantity of protected area across the world's 36 biodiversity hotspots in comparison to United Nation's 2020 targets; and secondly, by identifying where future urban growth in these territories is on a collision course with endangered species. By bringing urbanization and conservation together in the same study, the essays, maps, data, and artwork in this Atlas lay essential groundwork for the future planning and design of hotspot cities and regions as interdependent ecological and economic systems."
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"The NYC Space/Time Directory will make urban history accessible through a set of resources including: a searchable atlas of New York past, an historical location directory and geocoder, a set of APIs and data sets, and a discovery tool linking NYPL collections together in an historical and geographic context."
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