I want to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. As usual, you should check out the Christmas Map as well as The Physics of Santa Claus.
And if you are looking for something to do with the family, head on over to the new Santa’s Village in Skyforest. -mike
For decades the CIA relied on geographers and cartographers for planning and executing operations around the world. During the 1940’s in support of the military’s efforts in WWII, cartographers pioneered many map production and thematic design techniques, including the construction of 3D map models. To celebrate 75 years of serious cartography, the Central Intelligence Agency has declassified and put decades of once secret maps online. Check it out!
You can read more about it here too.
Check out this story about James Niehues, the person that hand paints all those ski resort maps that you probably have used or seen before.
Check out these webinar mini-conferences on drones and geospatial technology. They will help you understand the updates to FAA drone regulations, the legal issues surrounding drones, and what equipment and software you need for your drone mission.
Check out this study that was done to identify megaregions in the US by using commuter data.
Thinking about developing your skills in digital mapping? Then check out University of Kentucky’s New Maps Plus program.
New Maps Plus is a completely online program consisting of three courses (MAP671, MAP672, and MAP673) that focus on online and open source mapping solutions (like QGIS), JavaScript programming, and cartographic design for the web. Students completing the program will earn a Graduate Certificate in Digital Mapping from the UK Geography Department and the College of Arts & Sciences. The courses are taught during 10-week terms that are offered four times a year (see schedule). The next term will be starting January 23rd, with an application deadline of January 8th.
The 2016-17 academic year cost per credit hour is $639.50, plus a $10 per credit hour distance learning fee. Thus the MAP 671 course (3 credits) costs $1948.50 and the MAP 672/673 courses (4 credits) cost $2598 each.
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Want to learn programming with Python in ArcGIS but don’t know where to start? This guide tells you what to do to become a confident ArcGIS Python scripter and programmer. Check it out!
You also might want to check out the book Python Scripting for ArcGIS.
Today is Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day. On this date 75 years ago, Pearl Harbor was attacked by Japanese forces, leaving over 3,400 casualties and pushing the U.S. to join the Allies in World War II.
National Geographic has an interesting site with an audio/visual timeline tour showing what went down during that day through attack maps. Check it out!
San Diego map collector, William Speidel, would like to donate his map collection of about 1,000 maps to a library, geography or geology department in the United States. The collection is current with maps dating from the 1960s to the 2000s. While the collection would be a donation, the accepting library would need to pay for the mailing of materials. Included in the donation are the following types of maps: * Nautical charts (Alaska, Australia, China, Japan, US Gulf of Mexico, US Pacific, US Atlantic, Thailand, Vietnam, Western Mediterranean); * Bathymetric charts (Australia, US Atlantic, California, China, Gulf of California, Thailand); * USGS topographic maps (1:24k, 1:62.5K) (California, Arizona, Texas, Mississippi, etc.); * Other maps including miscellaneous geologic maps, Gebco Charts, soil charts, sediment distribution. Excel spreadsheets are available detailing the full collection.
Mr. Speidel is interested in the whole collection going to one library rather than breaking it up into pieces. If you are interested, please contact Julie Sweetkind-Singer (sweetkind@stanford.edu) and she will pass along his contact information and the spreadsheets to you directly.
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