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02 April 2020
19:00
Corona Cruises
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Holland America's MS Zaandam is currently approaching Florida where it is now being allowed to dock. The ship has had four deaths on board and 200 passengers and crew are reported to have flu-like symptoms. A number of other cruise ships across the globe still remain at sea. The Covid-19 Cruise Tracker is tracking in real-time all the cruise liners currently stranded outside ports around the
17:00
The Divided & United Nations
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Joseph Ricafort has used a clustering algorithm to sort the countries of the world into groups based on their joint membership of international organizations. His Circle of Nations groupings maps the countries of the world based not on their geographical proximity but on their shared membership of over 200 international groups and organizations. Using his Circles of Nations visualization you
12:00
French Migration Winds
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French Winds is an interactive map of internal migration in France. The map shows the internal flow of people moving home within France in 2016. The map includes animated migration flows for a number of different sectors of the French population including, professionals, retirees and farmers. The use of animated flow lines on the map is very effective in visualizing the underlying patterns in
01 April 2020
17:00
Meandering Rivers
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The Guardian has assembled a collection of beautiful mapped visualizations which use elevation data to reveal some of the normally hidden details in river systems around the world. The maps show elevation values using color intensity to highlight rivers, their tributaries and to reveal their historical paths. Each of the rivers in the collection includes a slide control which allows you to
15:00
Mapping the Past
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The Hungarian Parliament Library has digitized tens of thousands images from the archives and collections of Hungarian libraries and museums. Where the images in these collections depict a recognizable location they have been added to the Hungaricana interactive map. The Hugaricana interactive map allows you to explore thousands of vintage photographs, paintings and drawings from all around
31 March 2020
19:00
Sounds of Life in the Bay
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The San Francisco Bay Area Sound Map is an interactive map which allows you to listen to over 150 different sound recordings captured in locations all around the San Francisco Bay Area. The original recordings on the map were captured by students from the Santa Clara University's Department of Music. In these days of lock-downs, empty streets and shuttered businesses the San Francisco Bay Area
17:00
Geography Treasure Hunts
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Esri's Geography Treasure Hunts is a collection of map based quizzes which require you to explore a map of the world in search of the answers to a number of geographical questions. The Treasure Hunts include games where you have to find the location of World Heritage Sites, Cities, Mountains,Places & Food etc. In each Treasure Hunt you are asked to solve a series of questions. Each of the
13:08
Mapping French Accents
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The Sound Atlas of the Regional Languages ??of France is an interactive map which allows you to listen to French accents and regional languages from the different areas of France and its dependent territories. The map itself is colored to show where the different language groups spoken in France (mainly grouped here into Romance and Occitan). If you click on a region on the map you can listen
30 March 2020
17:04
The Falling Air Pollution Map
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Gizmodo has created an interactive map which allows you to compare air pollution around the world from before and after the coronavirus outbreak. The Earther Time Series map uses a slide control to allow you to directly compare NO2 levels across the globe on four separate dates from 2019 to 20 March 2020. The map uses data captured by the European Space Agency’s Sentinel-5P satellite. The maps
11:59
At Home in Italy
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Italy has been under lock-down for three weeks now. Under the lock-down Italians are only allowed to leave their homes for work or health reasons. The lock-down has obviously had a huge impact on the distances that people are moving and traveling, compared to their normal pre-coronavirus activity. La Repubblica has used mobile phone data to map the intensity of movement by people in Italy
28 March 2020
17:00
Mapping the Coronavirus Family Tree
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Coronavirus, like all viruses, is a sub-microscopic scrap of genetic code wrapped in a protein and lipid (fat) overcoat. Viruses hijack the cells in our bodies and turn our cells into virus factories to crease more viruses. These new viruses then spread from person to person through human contact. As coronavirus replicates random mutations occur. This rapid evolution allows viruses to quickly
26 March 2020
17:30
Mapping a Virtual Village
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Welcome to Lower Upping, a small rural village, consisting of a handful of houses, a local pub, a small chapel and a village shop. Lots of people live in Lower Upping - they are just waiting for you to tell their stories. Lower Upping is a virtual village. Which means that you can help to tell the many stories of the village's exciting and wonderful inhabitants. If you click on any of the
15:23
The British Library's Digital Globes
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The British Library is busy digitizing its collection of globes and making them available as 3D interactive visualizations. The library's collection of around 150 globes dates from the 17th century up until to the present day. The globes are fragile objects and so are not generally open to the public. Which is partly why the library wants to make them accessible as virtual globes online. The
25 March 2020
19:00
More Traffic Free Cities
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On Monday, in Traffic Free Cities, we saw how Buzzfeed and the Los Angeles Times had mapped the fall in road traffic in cities around the world. Both Buzzfeed and The LA Times used Mapbox telemetry data to show the impact of Covid-19 on the traffic on our normally busy roads. Mapbox has now used the same data to create their own maps of Where and when local travel decreased from COVID-19 around
17:00
Bringing the Outside In
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Because of stay-at-home orders many of us are having to forgo the pleasures and joys of the outside world. One solution could be to bring the outdoors inside. For example you can listen to birdsong from home using the fantastic 50 Birds Species and the Songs they Make. This interactive visualization consists of pictures of 50 common backyard birds. If you click on a bird on the visualization
24 March 2020
19:00
Florence Nightingale's Covid-19 Map
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Kenneth Field has been channeling his inner Florence Nightingale to create a new coronavirus map. Kenneth's Corona Coxcombs map uses coxcomb charts to show the number of confirmed cases of Covid-19 in countries around the world. The coxcomb charts on Kenneth's map show the increase (and decrease) of confirmed cases of Covid-19 in a country over time. Each chart consists of 57 segments. Each
17:00
Bad for Airbnb, Good for Renters,
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Covid-19 is proving very bad news for Airbnb hosts. However Airbnb's loss may be good for renters. There are reports from around the world that Airbnb hosts are facing a huge hit to their incomes. Over recent years the number of Airbnb properties has been growing & growing in cities and tourist hot-spots around the world. Now, thanks to Covid-19 and the collapse in tourism, Airbnb hosts are
15:00
Supporting Mom & Pop Stores
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Small mom & pop stores are finding it harder than ever to survive in this economic climate. Because of ever increasing rents, the competition from internet shopping and now the threat of Covid-19 many stores are facing the threat of bankruptcy. wesurvived.nyc is a crowdsourced project to document store changes in New York City. The project is designed to support small businesses in New York and

14:01
Italian Baseball Stadiums in GeoJSON
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I’ve been working at cleaning up all the GeoJSON-Ballparks records this past month. While the MLB stadiums and many of the AAA minor league teams have been updated, the international and small market teams have not. Some were out of data by almost 5 years. Long tail baseball stadiums are what they are and I’m working on automating much of this moving forward. The last two leagues that I’m updating are the Italian Baseball League and the German Bundesliga League. I hope to finish Germany tonight but I did post Italy yesterday.
Ballparks of the Italian Baseball League in GeoJSON
While Italy can’t go out and enjoy baseball just yet, at least their top tier baseball league has been mapped. If you’re looking for some live baseball, check out streaming Korean KBO League league (I’ve been watching the Giants of course). The next live stream will be on March 25th at approximately 7:40pm PDT.

23 March 2020
20:25
America's Lockdown Map
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The American government has yet to issue a national lock-down order. However a number of states have issued 'shelter-in-place' orders. For example from midnight Thursday 19th March the residents of California were ordered to stay at home except to shop for groceries, collect prescriptions, get health care or to commute for jobs considered crucial. Covid Act Now has published an interactive map
17:00
How Covid-19 Went Global
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The New York Times has created an informative story map which explains how coronavirus has quickly spread around the world. In How the Virus Got Out the NYT uses an interactive map to show how Covid-19 spread from just one city in China to the rest of the world. The first known cluster of Covid-19 emerged around the Huanan seafood market in the city of Wuhan, China. Wuhan is a major
15:00
Traffic Free Cities
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One outcome of Coronavirus lock-downs around the world has been a fall in NO2 pollution. This fall in air pollution has been observed both in China and Italy. One of the major reasons for this drop in NO2 levels in the world's major cities has been the reduction in car and road traffic With people being forced to self-isolate and work from home the levels of traffic on city roads has plummeted
21 March 2020
15:00
Fun with Coloring Maps
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The Mapbox Coloring Book If you or your children are looking for fun and educational activities then you could try spending some time coloring in blank maps. The Mapbox Coloring Book (PDF) is a printable collection of blank maps from around the world. The book includes maps from Africa, Asia, Europe, Oceania and North & South America. All you need for this fun task is a printer and some
20 March 2020
15:00
America's Migration Corridors
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For at least 8,000 years pronghorns have migrated south for the winter. In the last 100 years those well-worn migration routes have become a lot more dangerous. Mainly because of highways and cars. The Washington Post has created an interactive map which follows the migration of one pronghorn, fitted with a GPS corridor, to visualize the dangers to migrating animals from humans in cars. As you

4:03
No More Boot
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So the doctor said my boot can come off my foot. Things are looking really good which I can’t tell you how happy that makes me.

So I’m not clomping around all over the place which should make my wife much happier.
No, this wasn’t me exactly, but imagine the sound and you’ve got it. Those hardwood floors I put have an amazing echo…
Well I’m not out of the woods yet, I still can’t do much beyond walk and even that still hurts. But at least I don’t wake the baby girl as I walk around the house. I see the doctor in 3 more weeks (assuming the world doesn’t come to an end) and then maybe I start therapy.

19 March 2020
17:00
Spring is Here!
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Today is the first day of spring in the USA But does it feel like spring? Does the sun bless you with the warmth of its rays or have the lingering frosts of winter outstayed their welcome and remained? Although today is the vernal equinox, the day when we have almost exactly an equal amount of daylight and nighttime, it doesn't necessarily mean we will have spring like weather conditions. In
18 March 2020
17:00
The Oldest Map of Britain
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Perhaps the very first reasonably geographically accurate depiction of the British Isles can be found in the Anglo-Saxon Mappa Mundi from the Cotton manuscript collection. The map was created sometime between 1025 and 1050, probably in Canterbury England. You can explore interactive digitized views of the Anglo Saxon Mappa Mundi on the Virtual Mappa Project or on the British Library website.
15:00
Worldwide Travel Restrictions
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Today five different people have contacted me about the Australian government's new travel advice map. The Australian government is advising that people "do not travel overseas at all at this time". Therefore all the other countries in the world are colored red on its World Travel Advice map. Of course travel advice is not the same as travel restrictions. While many countries around the world,

4:37
Bing Maps and COVID-19
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Update (03/23/2020): It looks like Microsoft has made some good changes. They now tell you when the data was updated and the news links work much better. I can see myself using this over other maps because it is so simple. Simple is quick.

There are no shortage of COVID-19 maps online. EVERYONE has one so why even bother posting one? Well I looked back on my blog posts and the last time I posted anything about a Microsoft map was back in 2006 and that was when it was called Virtual Earth. Well here it goes, the Bing COVID Tracker.
We finally Binged COVID-19
According to the info section, the data is from the CDC, WHO, ECDC and Wikipedia. It is a pretty bare map and if you didn’t see the Bing logo in the upper left or the Microsoft credits in the lower right, you might not even think it was a Microsoft product. There is no notification as to how often the data is updated but it appears that when I’m checking at the time of this post, it is current for the past hour. If you click on a state you get information about the cases and links to news articles about COVID-19 in that state. Pretty basic as you can see from the Arizona view below. COVID and Biden…

This feels more like a mashup than a multi billion dollar companies attempt to education the public to the threat of COVID-19. A real shame as events such as this usually bring out the best in technology, this attempt by Microsoft feels so very dated. At least I got to post my first Bing map….

17 March 2020
17:00
Women in Government
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The average percentage of women in national parliaments around the world is 24.3%. The United States is way below that average figure with a shocking 19.4% representation rate in the House of Representatives. Of the 435 members in the House only 84 are women. Florencia Mangini has created a choropleth map which shows the percentage of women in parliaments around the world. Her Proportion of
15:00
Equal Street Names
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Over 93% of the streets in Brussels named for people are named for men. Only 6.27% of those streets are named for women. EqualStreetNames.Brussels is an interactive map which colors the streets of the capital of Belgium based on whether they are named for men or women. The map is a very effective visualization of the shocking lack of recognition for women in Brussels. Streets named for women

15:00
Self-quarantine Blog Cleaning
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I’ve spent the last week cleaning up old blog posts. You won’t see them live just yet, I have a dev version of this blog that I’ve been playing around with. What I’ve done is search all posts for any links that don’t go 200">[HTTP_status_codes#2xx_Success">200] and then either attempt to find a corresponding version in the Way Back Machine or if a source doesn’t exist (using CSS) make a modification to the post indicating that the link is no longer valid.
Touching 2400 blog posts is dangerous stuff…
I’m also cleaning up the categories and tags which I think have little value anymore. I think at one point people subscribed to tags/categories in a blog, but search really has taken that over. So the complexity of tagging or categorizing posts really doesn’t make sense. I mean I like to think someone is coming to my blog and saying, “Hey look there, he’s got a category for Virtual Earth” but I seriously doubt it.

I’m also playing around with AWS Lightsail. I’ve been using it for this dev version of the blog and I might try it with production. Linode seems to be cheaper, but I like having more of my things on AWS rather than a little bit all over the place.

I hope to push up the changes to the blog here this week. I really feel that given I have almost 2400 blog entries with over 400,000 words. Checking old blog posts has really shown me how much we’ve lost. So many people, blogs and information has been lost forever. This is a shame because I learned so much by reading what others had written. I hope that while not every one of those 400,000 words has value, the majority of this blog helps people and in turn, preserving what I’ve written will always be a priority.
I had to have written something at some point worth saving…

16 March 2020
19:00
Mapping the World's Trees
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Steve Bennett has created a global database and interactive map of open tree data from around the world. His OpenTrees.org map currently shows the location of nearly 14 million open data trees from 192 cities around the globe in 19 different countries. Many local and municipal governments keep a record of all the trees that they are responsible for maintaining. OpenTrees.org uses this data to
17:00
Official Government Coronavirus Maps
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There have been many hundreds of maps created which purport to show the spread of Covid-19 around the world. A large percentage of those maps aren't very good. However there are a few maps that you can trust. If you are interested in the global situation regarding Covid-19 then you can refer to: The Johns Hopkins Wuhan Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Global Cases Dashboard. The World Health
15:00
Super Self-Isolators
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Why be a self-isolator when you can be a super self-isolator? If, for what ever reason, you wish to avoid contact with other human beings then these maps can help you escape from the coughs and sneezes of outrageous fortune: A Spot of Solitude by Topi Tjukinov is a series of maps highlighting ten locations, dotted across Great Britain, which are as far from buildings as possible. These are
15 March 2020
16:17
Falling Air Pollution Around the World
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Yesterday I posted news of the European Space Agency's animation of falling nitrogen dioxide emissions over Europe from Jan 1st to March 11th. Cristina Vrinceanu has used the same ESA data, captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-5P satellite, to map NO2 emissions across the whole world from before and after the outbreak of Covid-19. Comparison of Mean Tropospheric NO2 Concentration is a Google

14 March 2020
22:49
Surreal Saturday
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It’s hard not to read about all the doom and gloom (rightly so) that is about to head down on this great country. I’m expecting next week to make last week look boring. I’m still stuck in the house with my foot but the weather finally cleared today and I’ve been sitting on the patio look at the golfers on the 9th green. Whatever madness is going on elsewhere, right here the world is normal and beautiful. Boy do I hope it stays that way.
9th green on the Arroyo Course at Gainey Ranch GC

15:00
Air Pollution Plummets in Italy
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Two weeks ago NASA showed how the huge reduction in air & road traffic and economic activity in China has also led to a huge drop in air pollution. Levels of NO2 plummeted in China after the introduction of coronavirus quarantines and the shut-down of factories. NASA visualized this drop with two side-by-side maps comparing NO2 over China during January and at the end of February. Airborne
13 March 2020
19:00
Real-Time Bart Trains Map
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If you are working from home in San Francisco and starting to miss your daily commute then you might want to play with the Track Live Bart Trains interactive map. Select a line from the drop-down menu and you can view the live real-time position of all the operating trains on that line. Select one of the moving train markers on the map and you can view its next scheduled stop, its final
17:00
Mapping & Finding Historical Markers
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The Historical Marker Database records the locations of permanent outdoor historical markers and commemorative plaques. The database allows you to explore the locations of markers and plaques around the world which are used to mark sites of historical importance. It can therefore be a great way to find nearby points of historical interest. If you go to the geographic lists section of the

17:00
Friday the 13th
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So what a week, am I right? I’m trying to put everything into perspective but I can’t. I just went down to the Safeway to get some beer and it was like end of days. Apparently I should be stocking up on beans and tuna fish by looking at the isles. Top it all off, we’ve had more rain in this past week than I can recall, thanks California.

Since there is nothing to do anymore and I probably don’t want to be around people right now, I think I’m going to work on cleaning up my old blog entries and fix deal Google links this weekend. I’ve moved this blog so many times and so many different blogging engines, that many entries go 404. I think I’m also going to try and relink dead links using Archive.org so the context of what I was linking to still works. This is a daunting task of course, I have almost 2400 blog posts to go through.

Stay safe everyone!

15:00
Flattening the Climate Heating Curve
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The UN's 2019 Emissions Gap Report warns that the world is "on the brink of missing the opportunity to limit global heating to 1.5°C". In other words the staggering inaction of governments around the world in the face of global heating is making it more and more likely that the world will suffer widespread and catastrophic environmental disaster. The report is also very clear that the actions
12 March 2020
17:00
The World of Music
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cXc Music is an interactive map which anyone can use to share their music with the world. It can also be used to explore the music of the world. Every circle on the cXc Music is a song. Click on a song's and you can listen to the song directly from the map. Using the map you can obviously browse and listen to music by location. You can also use the 'mood', 'format' and 'genre' menus to filter

15:28
Foot Surgery Self-quarantine
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I felt sorry for myself with my achilles surgery. That I couldn’t go out, see spring training games, have brunch in crowded restaurants with all the spring tourists.

No, I picked the best time to get my foot operated on. I’m able to give it the rest it needs because there is no where to go. I feel lucky that I was able to time this so perfectly for myself and my family.

Please, everyone. Stay safe!

15:00
Mapping the Death of Manufacturing Jobs
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In the last 30 years the USA has lost around 5 million manufacturing jobs. In 1990 around 17.7 million Americans were employed in manufacturing. In 2018 the sector employed 12.7 million. The CSIS iDeas Lab and the CSIS Trade Commission on Affirming American Leadership has created a story map which explores and explains where the decline of manufacturing jobs in the United States has hit

3:46
The Story Behind Earthgoogle
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If you search my blog you’ll find an interesting post titled earthgoogle. Well it really isn’t that interesting, it just has a link to download Google Earth and a link to my blog. So what is this thing and why does it have such a weird title?

For those that might not remember, 2005 was a crazy time for GIS blogs. Katrina brought satellite imagery to everyone and people searched the internet for ways to find out more. Google Earth was probably the easiest and best way for the average person to learn more about satellite imagery and get some really helpful tools to mark up the area.
This was about as amazing as anything anyone had seen outside of our industry.
About this time in September 2005, I noticed a lot of people arriving to my blog due to the search term “earthgoogle”. So as most people who blogged back then, I loved to talk about blogging. I created a simple blog post asking what was this all about.

To all those reaching this site using MSN search with the term “earthgoogle” hello. You’ve been filling up my server logs with this request. I’m curious why you’ve typed this in to only MSN search and not Google/Yahoo/other search engines.

So obvious, right? MSN users, not typing a URL correctly? Anyway, what this blog post of mine actually did was make this page the number one result in Google for the search term “earthgoogle”. I got so much traffic by being the way most people, who didn’t understand how URLs work, find Google Earth. Eventually I changed the page to what you see now.

I put Google AdSense on that page too. I mean everywhere (really wished I took a screen shot because it was so tacky). The result from that tacky was that I was making over $1,000 a month in ad revenue from that blog post alone. People who wanted to find “earthgoogle” apparently also like to click on ads.

Eventually the page died down, people stopped being directed to my blog via search for “earthgoogle”. I probably pulled ads off the blog in 2006 and couldn’t care less. But the page remains, a reminder of how crazy Google Earth was back in 2005.

11 March 2020
19:00
Trump's Fake News Network
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In the last Presidential election Trump ran a hugely successful Facebook ad campaign. By micro-targeting vulnerable Facebook users with fake news and disinformation the Trump team were able to reach and influence millions of voters. Towards the end of last year Mark Zuckerberg announced that he would allow the Trump campaign to again run fake ads in this year's Presidential election. Trump's
17:00
The Gay Guides of America
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Starting in the 1960's a businessman called Bob Damron started publishing the Damron Address Book travel guides. The book published the names and addresses of all the gay bars Bob Damron knew from his travels across the country. Now Mapping the Gay Guides has undertaken the task of mapping the queer geographies of all the Damron Address Books. The first stage of Mapping the Gay Guides
15:00
Animated Coronavirus Timeline Maps
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Animated maps showing the spread of an epidemic over time can help us to learn more about how a virus is transmitted and how it spreads. For example HealthMap's Novel Coronavirus Covid-19 interactive map shows how Covid-19 quickly spread from Wuhan to the rest of China, through Asia and out to the rest of the world. The map shows the number of reported Covid-19 cases in locations around the

6:22
Software That Changed Your Life – 2020 Edition
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Way back in 2006, I wrote a blog post called Software that Changed Your Life.

Well that might be a big title for this post, but I was talking with some folks over the weekend about software you’ve used or software that has really influenced your life. I think many people say Google Earth has changed how they view data, but for me it really wasn’t that impressive since Google Earth is more of a validation of what we’ve done over the years than a life changer

I thought it would be fun to look at how things have changed since then. My job is very different, I can’t remember the last time I created a map or changed cartography in a mapping product. I think one can look at that 2006 list as how I got to the point that I lived the rest of my life. So here is the updated list:
1. HyperCard – I just can’t stress enough how much this changed my life. The concept of a database and visualization. The scripting language on the backend, and everything that eventually become the web (buttons, forms, etc) on the front. I’d like to think that I would have learned to program a different way, but teaching myself Hypercard is exactly how I go to where I am today.
2. BBEdit – to this day I still use BBEdit. I think I purchased my first copy back in about 1994 and I’ve used it probably every day since then. I’m sure I’ve used every text editor. Today I use BBEdit, VS Code and of course Nano, yet I find myself in BBEdit more than anything else. I taught myself Grep using BBEdit and probably after a hypertext markup language, Grep has done more for me than just about anything. From JSON to Python, from CSS to GeoJSON, from JavaScript to Perl, I write it all right here.
3. Perl – I was going to put JavaScript here. I probably should have put JavaScript here. But I have to be honest, the scripting language that got me thinking about scripting was Perl. I rarely use it anymore, other than pulling some script out of a folder and running it one off. I use Python more for my scripting or JavaScript. But from the time I bought the first edition of Programming Perl I was hooked.
4. PostGIS – So another one I thought about. Elastic? MS Access? DBF? SQL Server? I mean what database should be the one that changed my life. It has to be PostGIS. Without it I would probably have put MySQL right here. But no, it’s PostGIS. The reason this blog was created was to learn more about PostGIS and how to get that damn thing installed on Windows Server. Some day on my newsletter I’ll write about the impact of Simple Features for SQL. From the moment in 2005 when I got PostGIS working until today, I’ve always had PostGIS running somewhere near me.
5. Safe FME – Sadly I don’t use FME anymore. But let me be crystal clear here. There is no better tool out there to help you manage data. I probably should find myself a copy of it and run it again. At WeoGeo we used it for everything. I’ve used it while at Architecture firms, Engineering firms, startups and in between. Data is agnostic and using a tool that is helps keep the integrity of data. Before FME I spent so much time trying to keep all the data in one format and in one projection (I was young, let me be), but when I was able to drag a reader on to a workspace, throw up a transformer and then connect that to a writer, I was hooked. FME should be standard issue for any true Geospatial data user.
Some other software that didn’t make the list but could have and I didn’t mention above? GDAL/OGR, Tippecanoe, ArcGIS, Excel, Google Earth and Photoshop. Such a personal list and one I think changes over time. I think the core of what makes me who I am is up there, but it is also up in that 2006 list too. For fun you can look at the Way Back Machine and see the comments on that blog post. I see Sean Gillies, Morten Nielsen, Brian Timoney, Steve Pousty, Bill Dollins, and others in that list.

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10 March 2020
17:10
Where Could Coronavirus Hit?
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Covid-19 is a virus which has a far more devastating impact on the old than it does on the young. The chances of dying from Covid-19 appear to be around ten times higher for someone over the age of 70 than for someone aged under 60. And the younger you are then the far less likely you are to die from Covid-19. It is possible for governments and health authorities to use this age related
15:00
Mapping the World's Empty Airports
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One result of the spread of Coranavirus Covid-19 around the world has been a large reduction in people traveling by air. A few weeks ago, in 13,000 Missing Flights, the NYT visualized the scale of the reduction in air traffic in China by mapping air flights before and after the outbreak. The reason why this slowdown in air traffic was so visible in China was because the Chinese government
13:00
Aerial Imagery from the Second World War
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If you live in London it is now possible to view aerial imagery of your neighborhood which was captured nearly 75 years ago, from just after the Second World War. After World War II the Royal Air Force methodically flew over the whole of Britain to photograph the country from the air. This resulted in 24,000 photographs of London - aerial photographs which you can now explore on the Layers of

3:18
Back in the Day
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This is probably 80% of what I remember about ArcView 3.x. I also remember VTab and FTab.
At least we could open the APR in Notepad….

09 March 2020
17:00
Sunken Ships of World War I & II
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Sunken Ships of the Second World War is an interactive map showing the locations of 13,000 ships which were sunken during the Second World War. The map shows Allied and Axis ships which were sunk in action and does not include ships which were sunk as a result of natural disasters or accidents. The blue markers on the map show the locations of sunken ships belonging to the Allies and the red
15:00
Responsible Maps of Covid-19
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Since the beginning of the Covid-19 outbreak there have been over 110,000 confirmed cases around the globe and there have been 3,841 deaths. When I first posted a link to the Johns Hopkins Covid-19 Dashboard, on January 23rd, there had been 555 confirmed cases and 17 deaths. In just over six weeks the disease has had a truly devastating global impact. The Johns Hopkins map was the first
13:00
Italy Quarantine Zone Map
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Italy has become the first country in Europe to impose quarantine zones. Italy has seen the highest number of Covid-19 cases behind China and South Korea. In response the Italian government yesterday imposed a quarantine on the region of Lombardy and fourteen neighboring provinces in Piedmont, Veneto, Emilia-Romagna, and Marche. Italian provinces with restrictions as for 8 March The control

08 March 2020
20:50
PHXGeo
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I started the PHXGeo Meetup group way back in March 2013. It actually wasn’t the first version of PHXGeo, that was started in November 2010 and that group actually put on the first and only WhereCampPHX. You can see what it looked like back, then. When I left WeoGeo in 2013, I decided to move from that WordPress site to Meetup to better help run the group. Eventually I turned over management of PHXGeo to Ryan Arp sometime in 2016 and set off to the land of CAD and BIM. He’s done a great job keeping it running along with the help of some great volunteers which warms my heart.

There was a meetup last week, but alas with my foot I was going no where. But I am excited to engage the local geography group again and hopefully help them continue to grow it. If you live in the Phoenix metro area, make sure you join the meetup group so you can learn more about what they are up to and when the next meetup will be. Don’t forget, State of the Map US 2020 is in Tucson this year so there is more reason to get excited about Geo in Phoenix.

I still control the PHXGeo twitter account and domain, so if you aren’t a meetup kind of person, look at those and they’ll be updated with the meetups.
07 March 2020
21:07
Walking Boot
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So the good news is I’m walking after my surgery. The doctor said things are looking good but I’m still very sore. He bent my Achilles forward to see strength and it hurt so bad I almost passed out. I remembered my g-force training and… Well I didn’t remember anything because whatever he told me to do I forgot by the time I got home and had to call him back.

Anyway, I’m klunking around in a boot. And I finally got to take a real shower. Small victories I suppose. Maybe this was perfect timing for my surgery, I’m like in my own quarantine since I can’t drive and I can’t walk more than 100 yards without getting sore.

Spring training continues without me…

17:00
Interactive Medieval Maps
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The Virtual Mappa Project allows you to browse and search a collection of interactive annotated medieval maps. There are currently 13 maps in the collection including the Hereford Map, the Cotton World Map, the Psalter Maps, the Sawley Map, the Higden Maps, the Mission T & O Maps and the Tournai Map of Asia. Each of the medieval maps in the Virtual Mappa Project includes a descriptive

0:40
The Esri 2020 Dev Summit Has Gone Virtual
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Let’s be honest, there is a bit of love for the Dev Summit. Those who attended the first one, we look each other in the eye and do that subtle nod knowing we were part of something amazing.

Now the funny thing about the Dev Summit. I don’t think I’ve been back since 2009. I ended up going a different direction with my career after WeoGeo and while I don’t miss the Web ADF, I do miss the Dev Summit. Well the 2020 Dev Summit has been canceled.

Due to the continuously evolving circumstances surrounding the coronavirus, the Developer Summit will be a virtual event and not a live, in-person conference this year. This was a difficult decision, made after careful consideration for all registered attendees and Esri staff.

Makes total sense. The Business Partner Conference is still going to happen and they are going to take into consideration things:

The events team is working directly with all of our venues to provide readily available hand-sanitizing stations. Alcohol wipes will also be distributed at various locations throughout the event.?The custodial personnel will be regularly disinfecting all common surfaces. Information regarding basic health practices will be displayed on signage that recommends how to avoid the flu and other illnesses.

Boy I can’t imagine going given the BPC is going to be such a small thing but maybe that is what makes it manageable. I know a couple people who have told me they aren’t going to attend the BPC this year, even before the cancelation of the Dev Summit because of COVID-19.

But let’s not focus on the bad, let’s focus on the great outcome of this. They are still going to do a livestream of the plenary as usual and make the sessions virtual. I’m still waiting to see what this looks like but it really could be useful. I’m not saying that conferences don’t have a part in today’s workplace, but having the virtual option helps immensely for those who just can’t break away to learn the latest technology from Esri.

06 March 2020
19:00
The California Primaries
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Nationwide maps of the Super Tuesday primary results are great for visualizing how the main Democratic presidential hopefuls performed across the the United States. However more detailed maps can help pick out some of the more local trends and inform you about how your local neighborhoods voted. Here are two interactive maps which can tell you how neighborhoods voted in California. Chris Arvin
17:00
The World in Quarantine
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Tiananmen Square before & after the coronavirus outbreak As the daily rate of reported new cases of Covid-19 continues to drop in China the World Health Organization has praised the country's containment efforts. WHO reports that, "China has rolled out perhaps the most ambitious, agile and aggressive disease containment effort in history. ... Fundamental to these measures is extremely
15:00
How Wealthy is Your Town?
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A new interactive map from the Office of National Statistics reveals where the richest and poorest neighbourhoods are in every town in England & Wales. The map reveals that London and south-east England have the highest proportion of wealthy areas (41 of the 50 highest earning areas are in London). In contrast the North Wast of England has the highest proportion of local areas in the bottom 10%

5:09
Microsoft Geo
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I still see projects now and them that are spatial. I think of the US Building Footprints project and how they had to give away the data and couldn’t monetize such a project. Bing Maps went through so many name changes that we can’t even recall them all. Heck Microsoft bought Nokia but only the phones. They didn’t buy HERE (Navteq) which could have been a great coup for them.
Visual Studio Code… Someone needs to check some files into Git.
I have to admit, I’ve been a user of BBEdit since about 1994, but I’ve found myself using Visual Studio Code much more. If I search my blog posts over the years, there are posts littered with Visual Studio hate. But now I find VS Code to be my go to code editor and not only for programming but also editing GeoJSON files.

But this really has me thinking. Microsoft and Geo really has died. I’m not saying that SQL Server isn’t used for spatial queries. Or that occasionally I see Bing Maps used in apps. But really they have become such an also ran that I really couldn’t even recall the last time I used Bing">[https:] Maps API, let along SQL Server (I actually do recall and it was SQL Azure back in 2016). For a company that really has reinvented itself, they have fumbled what little they had in spatial away.
I’m sure I have a screenshot of Bing Maps, but I didn’t search for very long.
While at Cityzenith, we dealt with CityNext, which had much sway in the Smart City space, but so like depth. I think it was just an excuse to get their name on Smart City conferences.

I have to tip my hat to Microsoft for many things, but in our space, they really have become at best a follower, at worst an also ran.
At least old Gil is trying…

05 March 2020
17:00
Is America Ready for Coronavirus?
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Last week Donald Trump proudly held up a map from the Global Health Security Index and proclaimed that the United States is the most prepared country in the world for fighting Covid-19. The Global Health Security Index assesses the abilities of countries around the world to prevent, detect, and respond to infectious disease threats. The good news for Americans is that Donald Trump is right.
15:00
Don't Lose Your Right of Way
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The English & Welsh are set to lose thousands of miles of rights of way. The Countryside and Rights of Way Act will come into force in 2026. This new law states that if a right of way is not already in the legal record it cannot be added based on historical records. This means that any historical footpath that is not in the definitive legal record on 1st January 2026 could be lost forever. In

4:58
The Newsletter is Back
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As I announced on SpatialTau, the newsletter is back. Before I go on, click and subscribe.

So as I mentioned on that first edition (well I guess it is the 3rd first edition of the newsletter), I’m going to do my long form writing on the newsletter. It will come out every week on Wednesday. The blog isn’t going away. As you’ve seen, I’ve started blogging again. Think of Spatially Adjusted as my relief valve. The place where I let go the thoughts without spell check or figuring out if the Simpsons GIF makes any sense. I’ve been blogging daily, but I suspect it will devolve into couple times a week.

The newsletter is where I want to talk about the industry more. Getting at the why. I look at it as the book I never will write. I hope to get more into the why rather than the how. I figure there are so many more people these days who do the how better than I, I’ll leave that for them. I know that’s not always what you see here on this blog, but that’s what I want to write. Maybe someone will print some PDFS and throw it in a 3-ring binder one day.

I won’t be linking to the newsletter much here so if you want to follow along, please subscribe. I’ll be cleaning up the format a little bit this month and hope to settle into a nice rhythm. So I think I’ve got my bases covered, this blog, a podcast and a newsletter. I’m just a Renaissance man….

04 March 2020
17:00
Super Tuesday Democratic Results
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Super Tuesday has been super indeed for Joe Biden. Biden has won nine of the fourteen states which voted yesterday. His main challenger, Bernie Sanders, has won three states and will probably win the biggest prize of them all - California. Elizabeth Warren didn't even win her home state of Massachusetts. The New York Times' Super Tuesday: Live Primary Election Results includes an interactive
15:00
Out of Africa - The Story of Human Migration
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In Africa, between 200,000 and 100,000 years ago, archaic Homo sapiens evolved into anatomically modern humans. Around 60,000 years ago humans started to spread to the rest of the world, possibly by crossing the Red Sea into the Arabian Peninsula. You can follow that journey for yourself on the Human Odyssey Map. The California Academy of Science's Human Odyssey Map plots the possible paths

0:39
Toolkits
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Bill and I have a podcast that we do almost once a month. Podcasts are a lot of fun because you can talk about things easier than writing about them. There is a free flow of ideas (or maybe garbage) out of your head and on to a mp3. One topic we talked about months ago was GIS clients. We talked about tools we use but I just happened to be listening to it last night and I realized maybe I wasn’t as honest with myself as I should have been.
GIS users, if you need a friend, get a dog.
I’m not a GIS user…

Fair point though, what is a GIS user? I think of it as someone who uses GIS software. But even that it is somewhat of a mess because one person’s GIS software is another person’s toolkit. Ignoring that issue for a second, what do I use for GIS?
1. GDAL/OGR
2. Turf.js
3. Elastic
4. PostGIS
I think that pretty much covers it. I mean there is some Shapely and some other libraries, but that short list is all I use anymore. That of course has a lot to do with my job, if I was GIS Manager at the City of Townsville I might need other tools, but that list above is pretty much it. I can’t help but think of these things as Toolkits rather than GIS software. They are all part of a deeper workflow that I use when I need to use it. The end result is never QGIS, ArcGIS, uDIG or whatever madness you use in your daily life. It is either GeoJSON or “database” (where database could mean a lot of things).
God made men. Men made proprietary software systems
This blog is about to have it’s 15th year anniversary and I can’t think of a better example of how things have changed since that moment. I also think GIS lends itself for this workflow orientated environment anyway. Ignoring the crazy ArcGIS Desktop years with wizard based GIS, mostly GIS has been scripting workflows to accomplish your needs. Fortran, AML, Python, you name it. We use these methods to not only get results but document them. In the end I think all the tools we use for GIS are Toolkits and not software. Yes, one must put a name on something, but GIS has always been about toolkits, even in proprietary workflows, and will always be this. Maybe when we check in right before I retire in 2035 we can see how we are doing with this.

My guess? Still using toolkits.
Toolkits are a “real genius” move…

03 March 2020
21:00
Mapping Prisons
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Convict Landscapes is an interactive map which allows you to explore plans of the former penal settlement of Port Arthur in Tasmania. From 1833 until 1853 the Port Arthur penal colony was the destination for the most hardened British criminals. British convicts who had re-offended after transportation and after their arrival in Australia were sent to Port Arthur. Because of the nature of the
15:00
The Cost of Living in German Cities
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If you've ever wondered where you can afford to live in Germany then a new interactive map can help you decide. Lebenshaltungskosten (cost of living) is an amazing tool which allows you to compare how much it costs to live in different German cities. The tool looks at a range of living costs to help show which German cities you can afford to live in and which cities you can not afford. Enter

1:00
A Calendar is the Last Great Frontier
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Workflow wise, I’m pretty set on many things. I love the Studio Neat Panobook and Totebook for note taking. Both are amazing and I can’t see myself ever leaving them. Task management wise, I used to live in Things and then Todoist and then Things again. But that process taught me one thing about todo lists. They are the worst way to measure your life. They create anxiety and unrealistic goals because they are islands on to themselves. The fix for me was creating a daily goal list the night before and put that in my Panobook. Then I can check those off with a pen and life feels wonderful. For those reminders that need a little reminding, I just use Apple’s Reminders app which does all I need.

Email is awful, but there is no help in sight (maybe Hey will solve this). I suppose Slack owns the chat space. But Calendar is what just fails me every time. I’ve tried all the products. Fantastical, Google Calendar, Timepage, you name it. The simple fact that I can’t list more than a couple here really shows what the problem is. There is nothing to innovate.

I feel like I use a calendar in a couple ways; I put events up such as “Meeting with Bill” or “Connor’s Lacrosse Game”. I put up blocks of time, “Work on proposal for the Queen”. I put up out of office notifications, “Vacation in Hawaii”. The problem with calendars as they are used today, is they all treat those three ways of measuring something the same. Start time, end time, notification. Then we throw up some blocks like a Kanban board and try and find time to get it all done.

I feel like an optimal calendar would be the opposite. Rather than have a blank board to put things on, you should be carving out time to work on things that matter to you. My best work is done in the white space of a calendar and rarely gets recorded (unless I’m charging time to a client).

I probably don’t need a new app to do this. I could obviously start putting time in the calendar to capture these moments of focus. I wonder if the dynamic of thinking of a digital calendar as an old fashioned paper calendar is where we should be. As I said, shame this space hasn’t been explored as well as todo and email apps.

02 March 2020
19:00
Sub Francisco
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Today I've been creating a number of visualizations which show how U.S. cities might look after 20 meters of sea level rise. All of my maps were created with the impressive City Roads map. City Roads is an online tool which can be used to create a road map for any city in the world. Enter a city name into City Roads and it will generate a map of the city using only the city's road network
17:00
Interactive Drawing Maps
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Gribrouillon is a new tool for drawing on an interactive map. It is a tool which is designed not for the professional cartographer but for those who simply want to scribble something quickly on a map and share the map with their friends. Gribrouillon includes a limited set of drawing tools. There are just four sizes of paint brush. But using these paint brushes you can paint anything you want,
15:00
All Quiet in the Quarantine Zone
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China is rolling out a new mobile phone application, called Alipay Health Code, which is being used to enforce quarantine measures. The app indicates whether the owner of the phone should be quarantined or not and is being used to determine whether people can use public transit, or be allowed into malls and other public spaces. The app uses a color coded system to indicate an individual's

15:00
Spring Cleaning During Spring Training
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GeoJSON-Ballparks is my favorite data project I’ve been part of. Probably because not only is it the best sport ever, but it is great keeping track of all the changes at ballparks through the years. MLB teams have mostly stopped building new ball parks so the changes are generally just updates to their names. This year the only new name was Truist Park. Oakland Coliseum reverted back from RingCentral which it never was able to become because of shenanigans. We do bring on a new ballpark in Arlington which is named almost the same as the old ballpark (Globe Life Field vs the old Globe Life Park in Arlington). Apparently the old stadium has been renovated to XFL standards so we should probably not call it a ballpark anymore. I just removed the old one since it is no longer a baseball stadium. I did the same thing with Turner Field.

I plan to review all the Spring Training Facilities of the Cactus League and the Grapefruit League and then review the AAA stadiums. We’ll have to see what happens with the MLB/MiLB negotiations. While it doesn’t affect the actual stadium points (at least in the short term, some of the fields could go away because of lack of support), the alignment of teams in leagues could be changed. So stay tuned and if you want to help out with the AAA stadiums, just create a pull request, would be greatly appreciated!
01 March 2020
19:50
Where I Have my First Surgery…
sur James Fee GIS Blog

So Friday I had my first operation ever. I had never even had an IV put in me. But eventually life catches up with you. I’m going to be 48 this year which is still young but of that age when things start breaking. All those years spraining my ankles playing sports resulted in bone spurs in my ankle that caused me to not only not be able to do may daily running, but stop bowling and even walking without pain. The lucky part was that this was caught early enough that they were able to try some less invasive surgery called Right Gastrocnemius Recession. My non-doctoral explanation is that elongate the tendons on the back of my calf which in turn lesson pressure on my Achilles which should stop rubbing against the bone which would then mean I can run again.
At least I can “step” outside and enjoy the weather.
We’ll have to see if this is actually going to happen, I really hope so because the other surgery (the one what removes the bone) is very intensive and recovery is long. I’m just hopeful that I can start running again, and get back into shape. There are many reasons in 2020 that I need to get back on track.

14:03
The Place Names of Scotland & England
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Gaelic was once the main language of Scotland. One of its major legacies in Scotland can be seen on the country's maps, in the Gaelic place-names which can be found across the whole of Scotland. The Map of Common Gaelic Placenames is an interactive map which explains the meanings behind some of Scotland's many Gaelic place-names. On the map locations with Gaelic place-names have been shown
29 February 2020
17:00
Mapping Cars in Bike Lanes
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A few years ago Nathan Rosenquist released Cars in Bike Lanes, a mapping library which could be used by anyone to photograph traffic violations and add them to an interactive map. The mapping library was primarily used for reporting and photographing cars illegally blocking bike lanes but it can also be used for recording other types of traffic violation. Nathan's code was used to create Cars
28 February 2020
17:00
How to Make Interactive Map Jigsaws
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Did you know that you can make and play online map jigsaws on the Jigsaw Explorer website. Jigsaw Explorer allows you to create interactive online jigsaws from any image - including images of maps. If you want to dive straight in and try to complete a map jigsaw then you can try this jigsaw I created of a 17th Century Map of Oxfordshire. If you want to create your own map jigsaws then just
27 February 2020
17:00
The Map of American Food
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You might not be surprised to learn that people in New Mexico like Latin American food. According to photo sharing site Trover people in New Mexico share photos of Latin American food more than people in any other state. To find out what types of food are popular in different parts of America travel photo sharing website Trover has analysed a quarter of a million images of food and drinks,
26 February 2020
17:00
Here is Crowdsourced Texas
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Yesterday I asked people to draw Texas on an interactive map of the United States (if you haven't drawn Texas yet then you can still do so on this Where is Texas? survey map). So far over 300 people have taken the time to complete my geographical survey by drawing the outline of Texas - or at least where they think it is. You can view all the polygons drawn so far on this Here's Texas? map.
25 February 2020
19:00
Where is Texas?
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Texas is the second biggest state in the United States. But do you know where it is? Let's find out. I want you to draw the outline of Texas on this Where is Texas interactive map. The Where is Texas map is the latest in my series of easy to clone & copy map surveying tools. Earlier this month I created a little map survey tool which can be used to gather data on whether people can point
17:00
Mapping the Rise of the Ku Klux Klan
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Between the First and Second World Wars the second Ku Klux Klan managed to open chapters in every state in the United States and become prominent in many major cities. The second KKK preached "One Hundred Percent Americanism" and opposed Jews, blacks, Catholics and immigrants. At its peak the organization claimed that about 15% of all white adult males in the USA were members of the KKK. The
15:00
Coronavirus Maps in South Korea
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South Korea has witnessed the most number of reported cases of Covid-19 outside of China. The total number of cases is 977 and there have been 10 deaths. In response to the huge increase of reported cases of Covid-19 in South Korea a number of interactive maps have been started which are trying to track the spread of the virus within the country. In recent days many of the maps have been
24 February 2020
19:00
The Origin of Crops
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Despite his very many achievements and exploits Sir Walter Raleigh is perhaps most celebrated in the UK for introducing the potato to Europe. This celebration owes much to the British love of fried potatoes and perhaps to the poor standard of geography teaching (it is now believed that Raleigh never visited any locations where he could have discovered the potato). According to the Origin of
17:00
Burnt Australia
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Australia's ABC has used historical and recent satellite imagery to explore the causes, the extent and the damage caused by this summer's bushfires, particularly in south-east Australia. How Heat and Drought Created a Tinderbox uses the scrollytelling format and satellite imagery to explore the huge effect of this season's wildfires on Australia's eastern seaboard. ABC's account of the recent
15:00
A Bad Day for the Right in Hamburg
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Germany's center-left Social Democratic party (SPD) and the Green party both had a good day in yesterday's state election in Hamburg. It was a very bad day for Angela Merkel's Christian Democrat party (CDU), who plummeted into third place with little more than 11% of the vote. It was also a very bad day for the extreme far-right AfD party, who only just managed to get over 5% of the vote. You
23 February 2020
15:00
Covid-19 Maps
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One month ago, on 23 January 2020, the John Hopkins' Wuhan Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Global Cases interactive map was reporting 17 deaths from Covid-19 and 555 total known cases. One month later the John Hopkins map is reporting 2,462 deaths and 78,823 total known cases. This week there appears to be the first major outbreak of Covid-19 outside of Asia. In the last few days more than 100 cases of
22 February 2020
17:00
Airlines Hit in the Pocket by Coronavirus
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The New York Times has created an impressive side-by-side animated map comparison which visualizes the huge drop in both domestic and international flights over China since the outbreak of coronavirus. In response to last month's outbreak of the virus airlines have canceled more than 200,000 flights - both domestically, within the country, and internationally, to & from China. In 13,000
15:00
Wales Is Smaller Than You Think It Is
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In the UK the country of Wales is often used as a unit of measurement. According to the BBC Wales has been used to describe things as varied as :- the area an asteroid could wipe out how much damage a nuclear bomb could destroy the levels of deforestation in the Amazon Using Wales as a unit of measurement isn't new. According to Google Book's Ngram Viewer the phrase something is the '....
21 February 2020
17:00
Get Me Geodata!
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Hans Hack is on a bit of a creative blitz. In the last couple of weeks he has released the impressive How Big size comparison map tool and the equally impressive shape comparison tool, Reprojector. Both of these tools can be used to get the GeoJSON data needed to compare different locations or sized objects on top of an interactive map. Now Hans has released yet another interactive mapping
15:00
Where's the Border?
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Earlier this month I created a little map survey tool which can be used to gather data on whether people can point to a named location on a map. That survey tool is intended to be used to collect geographical knowledge for stories such as Morning Consult's Can You Locate Iran? story. You can see the application in action on my Where's Null Island map on Glitch. This map asks you to point to
20 February 2020
17:00
The Migratory Patterns of Birds
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The Cornell Lab of Ornithology is running the largest citizen science project in the world. For fifteen years bird watchers across the globe have been reporting their observations to eBird. The result is a huge database of over 750 million observations, recording dated sightings of thousands of species of birds. The eBird Science team has used the observations made in North America to create
19 February 2020
19:00
The Arctic is Melting
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The rate of global warming in the Arctic is about twice as fast as the global average. You can see how this global heating is affecting sea ice extent on this impressive map visualization from Aftenposten. The article accompanying the map is in Norwegian but you don't need to speak Norwegian to appreciate the impressive interactive map. As you scroll through The Arctic is Melting a map of
17:00
Where in the World - Map Games
sur Google Maps Mania

Map games can be a lot of fun to play. They can also be a lot of fun to make. The following three interactive map games are all fun to play. They are also all on GitHub. This means that each of these games is easy to clone and adapt if you want to create your own map based geography game. Quizzity Play the Game & Clone the GitHub In this simple map game you are given six different cities to
18 February 2020
17:00
Mapping Urban Sprawl
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Urban planning around the world seems to have become obsessed with the idea of creating gated communities and disconnected street networks. This is extremely bad news for people who like to walk and for the environment. Urban sprawl and disconnected streets create barriers to and discourage walking. Cul de sacs and gated communities make it very difficult to make journeys without a car. They
15:00
Where are New York's Hoods?
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Back in 2015 DNAInfo asked New Yorkers to draw their neighborhood boundaries on an interactive map. More than 12,000 people drew outlines where they thought their neighborhood's borders existed. Unfortunately the map which DNAInfo created from the results no longer seems to exist. Luckily Adam Pearce appears to have access to the data and has created his own map of New York Neighborhoods Drawn

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