Urban Engines: Public Transit app
In a civilized urban cities, it is always challenging task to optimize our time to travel with in the city. However, visualization of reliable...
Learn Cartography for Free
Cartographic design is something I see being overlooked quite often. Maps contain so much information; they can tell us a story, understand the world...
What’s your Geographical Centre of Gravity?
Geographical Centre of Gravity?! Isn't that the same as the centre of gravity? Were the first questions that popped up when I came across...
The Hidden Meanings of Maps – Why Scale Matters
Projection is one first step. Then comes the scale choice of what will be the limits of what matters in the trend or phenomena you want to show. More...
Why we should learn how to use the magnetic compass?
A circular instrument with a magnetic needle. Simple, and yet, in many ways, quite revolutionary. Ordinary in looks, and yet, something very important for...
The most detailed ecological map of the World
ESRI and the US Geological Survey (USGS) and Esri developed the most detailed global ecological land units map in the world. The map shows...
Weather duopoly. America divided by temperature anomalies.
Truly amazing weather anomalies are happening this winter season in the US. While the East part of the country experiences temperatures on average 10-15˚F colder, the...
3D map of Flinders Reefs
In relation to our series upon the coral reef mapping in Australia we can report one further achievement. A new 3D map shows the...
Top 5 Satellite Images of Rivers
An art that flows
Rivers were the source of civilisation that gave life along the path it flowed. Over time, few rivers have changed their path,...
The human fingerprint in dramatic freshwater depletion around the world
“Holy cow, this is garbage!” That’s the reaction scientists gave back in 2002, when they first saw the data being sent by NASA’s just-launched...
This video shows what the Earth would look like if all the ice melted
Today is the last day of 2015 UN Climate Change Conference in Paris. Leaders from all around the world where discussing policies that could reduce...
The Arctic could be ice-free by 2040. You’ve been warned.
The Arctic’s climate is dramatically shifting to a new state – a warmer, wetter state where the summer ocean could be largely free of...
How giving away empty addresses is helping fight homelessness
How can an empty address help fight homelessness? By definition, a homeless person is someone without a permanent residence, unable to acquire and maintain regular,...
260 years of global carbon emissions on a single map
Global warming is the most significant environmental problem facing us today, as we experience more and more weather anomalies every year. In long-term perspective...
What is earth’s capacity and how many people can it support?
It took 150,000 years for humans to touch the 1-billion population mark. Today, there are over 7.5 billion of us on this planet. Of...
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