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A detailed map of block-by-block energy use has been created by the Columbia University Engineering School with data from the Mayor’s Office of Long-Term Planning and Sustainability. The interactive map demonstrates the energy used to heat and cool buildings, which accounts for two-thirds of the energy used in the city. The research built a statistical [...]
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Bernie Szukalski, product strategist and technical evangelist at Esri, spoke today at the GeoDesign Summit about ArcGIS Online initiatives and coming capabilities. Web mapping has morphed from sharing maps and geospatial information to a geospatial content management system that supports collaboration. The new iteration allows for the publication and sharing with others, as well as [...]
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David Imus of Imus Geographics produced the Cartography and Geographic Information Society’s “Best of Show” award for the best map of the year. This independent cartographer obsessed over this map to the tune of two years of work, seven days a week, for a total of nearly 6,000 hours of effort. The quality of his [...]
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A detailed study of snow and glacier melt in Asia’s Hindu Kush-Mimalayan region were released in Durban yesterday as part of Mountain Day of the UN climate talks. There were three reports published by ICIMOD with up-to-date details regarding the number and extend of glaciers, as well as snowfall patterns. Using remote sensing studies, the [...]
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The new interactive mapping website MappingForRights.org provides a new understanding of local communities living in the rainforest of the Congo River basin, with their location, how and where they are using forest resources, and how they are threatened by logging, mining, industrial plantations and sometimes strict nature protection. The site is a project of the [...]
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The USO and the White House have teamed to set up a map-based interface for citizens to share their thanks for the service of military personnel this Thanksgiving. The Thanks from Everywhere online site allows you to write a quick note to troops and veterans that will be added to a map with messages from [...]
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