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Intermittent wanderings exploring elements of geography and cartography. |
What happens to the natural and built environment when a nuclear disaster strikes? Visit this link for an exploration of the Fukushima Exclusion Zone. Here is another series of photos about the Exclusion Zone... and a third image series here.
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NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory published an interesting note about the current state of Earth's axis tilt. The planet tilts on its axis, relative to the plane of the ecliptic (plane between the central mass of the Sun and the central mass of the planet), such that the plane does not intersect with the Equator except on Equinox dates. The spin axis has increased in length over the last century or so. Click this link to read more and to see a simulation of axial tilting.
CityLab has a nice discussion of how maps can literally distort reality in a variety of ways, subject to choices made by the mapmaker. Click here to access this interesting article. For a more in-depth exploration of this general topic, the 3rd edition of How to Lie with Maps is available from the University of Chicago Press.
Here it comes... National Hurricane Center: Click Here ABC News Story: Click Here New York Times: Click Here WLOS Story: Click Here Simulation of Cat 4 Storm on East Coast: Click Here GOES East Full Disk Image: Click Here This is a pretty cool thing... producing modern maps in the style of The Lord of the Rings or The Hobbit... click here for more.
Click here to see an interesting breakdown of some predictions for outcomes of the 2018 midterm elections. I don't know how often it will be updated or what new/revised content will appear, but it currently has an interesting map visualization. The map converts congressional districts (I think) to hexagons for the continental United States, and depicts potential outcomes of political party dominance in each district.
This is an interesting visualization from NASA that highlights aerosols around the planet... airborne particulates or gases that are often considered atmospheric pollution of one kind or another. The color ramps selected for this visualization make a vivid map product. In another visualization, NASA provides a look at a smoky atmosphere across the Northwest region.
The ocean floor used to only be known via "sounding" or dropping a weighted line down into the water to get a depth reading. As technology improved and SONAR became more and more available, depth sounding became a little bit more efficient and a lot more accurate. This article discusses an effort to use multibeam SONAR to improve knowledge of an important fault line along the coast of Southeast Alaska.
These are a category of presenting spatial information that is combined with various forms of multimedia (in general). At its heart, the "story map" as seen across the Internet is really just a a web page with mapping presentations or functionality... but everything these days needs a brand name or catch-phrase, so there they are. Click here for an article on story maps in general, and then click here to explore ESRI's story maps. For a specific example of a story map, here is an interactive map of wildfires; view it by clicking here.
Another interesting aspect of the monolithic nature of "social media" and mass producers of geographic representation is the influence that a company like Google has with its so-called mapping products. Imagine that someone sitting in a cubicle somewhere decides to change the spelling of your neighborhood, or better yet, change its local name completely in a globally-accessed database that caters to all manner of folk... Click Here to read more.
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