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Data General GIS Map Apps Slideshow

Forecasting snow and finding supermarkets

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, stream directly into your ArcGIS map project, or (in many cases) download the raw data to use in whatever way you want. The basemaps shown below for snowfall forecasts and supermarket access are just two of the dozens of basemaps you can choose from in the ArcGIS Online Gallery.

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Read more about this on the ESRI ArcGIS Online blog.

ArcGIS Online Basemaps

Snowfall forecast map

Supermarket access in Lewisburg

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General GIS GIS in Public Health Slideshow

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.

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General GIS

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 news.” Click here to check it out.

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Bucknell/Local Interest Data Environment General GIS

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 Consortium website.

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Bucknell/Local Interest General GIS

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 Google’s infamous sense of humor? Your guess is as good as mine – but we are working on the problem.