If you're the type of person who loads up on bread and milk at the first hint of snowfall, then ArcGIS Online is your new best friend. Using ArcGIS Online you can create a map showing projected snowfall amounts for your area along with the locations of nearby supermarkets. The ArcGIS Online Gallery has free basemaps that you can use to create quick and easy mash-ups online, … [Read more...]
Mapping worlwide alcohol consumption
The World Health Organization's recently released Global Status Report on Alcohol and Health includes some interesting maps on worldwide alcohol consumption. Click here to download WHO data and here to read the full report. Below are a few of the maps included in the report - including some interesting maps on binge drinking patterns. … [Read more...]
USAID launches new online map app for disease-tracking
The NY Times recently featured a story on a new online map tool developed by USAID for tracking disease outbreaks that might jump from animals to humans. The online mapping tool, known as Predict "will monitor data from 50,000 Web sites with many types of information, including World Health Organization alerts, online discussions by experts, wildlife trade reports and local … [Read more...]
New National Land Cover Database (NLCD 2006) Available
The latest edition of the NLCD (2006) is now publicly available, providing updates on land cover change occurring between 2001 and 2006. I'm working on downloading the data to the GIS data folder on Xanthus so stay tuned for a post telling you when that's complete. If you can't wait, click here to download the data now from the Multi-Resolution Land Characteristics … [Read more...]
Bucknell campus buildings on Google Maps basemap
In other Google-related news, you can now see Bucknell's campus buildings on the Google Maps basemap. Thanks to Dan Mancusi and Lisa Veloz for their help with this! And to Google for finally getting around to adding it... Check it out here. You may notice... that the one building that's mis-labelled is Coleman Hall, the home of the Geography Department.... More evidence of … [Read more...]