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08. Map of the Day – Observe the Earth changing from your armchair

2017-12-13
By: TheMole19
On: December 13, 2017
In: Map of the Day
Tagged: disaster, earth observation, environment, geography, geospatial, gis, mapbox, mapping, maps, Motd, remote sensing, satellite, web development
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Earth Observation for Everyone As 2017 starts to draw to a close, we return to one of our earlier (and all too neglected) features, Map of the Day. However, our latest entry isn’t just a map for one day, but one where you can observe changes over time, using satellite imagery and earth observation data at Canadian start up – Remote Pixel. We are in a fortunate position currently where satellite data from such sources as LANDSAT is much more readily available for public consumption. Remote Pixel is one of many to take advantage of this new environment, using the flexibility of Mapbox and LeafletRead More →

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06. Map of The Day – The Shape of Slavery

2017-03-16
By: TheMole19
On: March 16, 2017
In: gis, Map of the Day, maps, Uncategorized
Tagged: culture, gis, mapping, maps, Motd, politics, Population, racism, usa, web development
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It’s been a while since I’ve added to this feature for various reasons, but thanks to the ‘The Pudding‘, a superb infographics and ‘visual essay’ based site, there is a excellent and important entry for Map of the Day. The Shape of Slavery evidences historical and modern day racism, by providing geographical representations of the areas of United States of America where proportion of African-Americans have been over time, the numbers of slaves up until it was outlawed, and the number of (black) incarcerations per state. This is a well designed and thought out web map, which utlises topojson.js and other Javascript libraries, to tie inRead More →

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5. Map of the Day: Knock on Wood

2017-02-15
By: TheMole19
On: February 15, 2017
In: Map of the Day, maps, Uncategorized
Tagged: anthropology, canada, cartography, culture, geography, greenland, greenlandic, history, inuit, maps, Motd, old maps
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How would you define a map? A type in a popular search engine beginning with ‘G’, has a familiar definition, “a diagrammatic representation of an area of land or sea showing physical features, cities, roads, etc.”, and indeed the word map derives from the word ‘mappa’ meaning sheet/napkin. However, ironically though ‘map’ isn’t restricted to this two dimensional version we can fold up; as we all know, we live a digital age where you navigate the world around you with your laptop or smartphone too. But what happens if you live somewhere with little to no mobile internet signal and sub-zero temperatures most of theRead More →

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Some great old maps from Canada

2017-02-08
By: TheMole19
On: February 8, 2017
In: Map of the Day, maps, Uncategorized
Tagged: canada, geography, history, maps, Motd, old maps
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I recently came across a copy of an old school book, “Picture Map Geography of Canada and Alaska” by Vernon Quinn, that includes charming woodcut picture maps by Bruno da Osimo, a then noted Italian illustrator, for each of the Canadian provinces (other than Nunavut, which was then part of the Northwest Territories). Originally published in 1944 […] via Vintage Picture Map Geography of Canada — O’ CanadaRead More →

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3. Map of the Day – Map powered cars (ZAP MAP)

2017-02-08
By: TheMole19
On: February 8, 2017
In: gis, Map of the Day, maps, Uncategorized
Tagged: cars, green, mapping, Motd, web development
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Whether you drive an electric car, a ‘normal’ car, or don’t drive at all, this web and mobile (Android and iOS) application from ZapMap is well worth taking a look at. Powered by Google Maps API, this mapping tool provides the locations of electric car chargers, providing pop up boxes with the latest status of these charging points, types and directions on how to get there. Although the shading of the vector tiles is a bit gaudy, with an ability to log in, map and comment on charging points, there is potential for up-to-date community empowered mapping to provide latest running statuses and charging locations.Read More →

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2. Map of the Day: How much does your vote count?

2017-02-03
By: TheMole19
On: February 3, 2017
In: Map of the Day, maps, Uncategorized
Tagged: democracy, geography, mapping, maps, Motd, politics, web development
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Today’s map of the day touches on the thorny issue of…politics, though I’m not going to get into a political discussion; if you want to, please got the usual channels, i.e. YouTube comments section. This map from the Economist Intelligent Unit’s (EIU) Democracy Index is a simple, clear, but informative map (click here for full interactive version here).Read 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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