Are you a weather fanatic? If you don’t know about Weather Spark, you should check it out. It is a wonderful website that offers detailed summaries of typical weather anywhere on Earth. From the home page, you are invited to enter a location in the search bar or to choose among major cities, and you can also search via an interactive map (linked below the city list) or view a randomly selected place. Each location in Weather Spark’s database has a vast amount of information concisely presented through colorful graphics and text descriptions, including average temperatures, humidity, solar energy, and much more, with reports available for a yearly, monthly, or daily time frame. You can also compare the average weather for multiple locations simultaneously. Check it out!
Category Archives: Maps/Apps/Charts/Data
Smart Mapping Capabilities for Time
The date field in ArcGIS Online can be used to visualize data over time, change styling to display temporal differences, track edits, and display a feature’s date and time in a pop-up. The following article provides excellent tips for working effectively with date and time in ArcGIS Online.
Other articles about using time:
Creating Your First Dashboard
Cartographic Puzzles
Interesting article about the resurgence of jigsaw puzzles and how puzzles from centuries ago were mostly made out of maps. You can even try digital map puzzles online! Check it out.
USGS College Resources for Teachers
USGS First Complete Geologic Map of the Moon
The USGS has released the first unified geologic map of the moon. This new work represents a seamless, globally consistent, 1:5,000,000-scale geologic map derived from the six digitally renovated geologic maps. The goal of this project was to create a digital resource for science research and analysis, future geologic mapping efforts, be it local-, regional-, or global-scale products, and as a resource for the educators and the public interested in lunar geology. Click below to check it out!
The Computer Algorithm That Detected Coronavirus
Crowd-sourced Grocery Store Reporting Tool
The is a crowd-sourced grocery store reporting tool that you can use. Check out the post about it on the LA County Enterprise GIS site here.
ESRI MOOC: Cartography
Security Issue in ArcGIS Server
ESRI has discovered a critical vulnerability in the ArcGIS Server component of ArcGIS Enterprise resulting in a Server Side Request Forgery (SSRF) issue when special steps are taken by someone with network access to the deployment. This can result in access to and control over other infrastructure resources by unauthenticated persons.
This security issue affects all supported versions prior to ArcGIS Server 10.8 on both Windows and Linux. Click here for more info and how to fix.







