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January 2019 – Geography Quiz

2019-01-30
By: TheMole19
On: January 30, 2019
In: Uncategorized
Tagged: climate, culture, geography, geospatial, gis, mapping, maps
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January 2019 – Quiz Time! Firstly, a very belated happy new year! It’s still January as I write this, so think I can just about get away with it. I don’t know about you, but I’ve had a very busy start to the year, so thought I’d take a moment to slow down with this geography quiz. Turns out that both out of this world and on it, it’s been also been a busy month in geographical news. How much have you been paying attention to it? Find out with this short quiz below.   Happy Mapping, David  Read More →

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Global Chocolate Consumption per Capita (2018)

Chocolate Maps? Sweet! – Geography of Chocolate

2018-04-02
By: TheMole19
On: April 2, 2018
In: maps, My Maps
Tagged: africa, agriculture, chocolate, climate, cote d'ivoire, economics, environment, europe, geography, ghana, gis, indonesia, map, mapping, mexico, OriginalContent, politics, swizterland, UK, world
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I Should Cocoa… Ugh. I’ve had too much chocolate. I’m writing this on Easter Sunday, surrounded by temptation in the form of several variations and combinations of chocolate, as is customary in the Western world at this time of year. It turns out you can have too much of a good thing – real ‘first world problems’. Talking of #firstworldproblems, chocolate addiction really is an issue for the developed world, where chocolate consumption is at its highest in this part of world – maps bear this out. So given this time of  year, I thought it would be fitting to look into the geographical patternsRead More →

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1. Map of the Day: Ventusky – fantastic, whatever the weather

2017-02-02
By: TheMole19
On: February 2, 2017
In: gis, Map of the Day, maps, Uncategorized
Tagged: climate, gis, maps, meteorology, Motd, weather, web development
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In what I hope will be a regular feature, I will share my passion for all things geographic and cartographic with my ‘Map of the Day’ feature. Some may be simple maps, but interesting insight; others may be great examples of interactivity and web map development, or both. Kicking this feature of is one of my favourite maps, Ventusky (https://www.ventusky.com), a meteorological web application developed by Czech company InMeteo in collaboration with Marek Mojzik and Martin Prantl. This web application has been around for some time now, with the recent addition ‘wave height simulation’, and provides weather prediction (and archive) animation based on weather models fromRead More →

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