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Wind Speed Interactive Map
Check out this interactive map of wind speed showing the hurricane on the east coast right now:
You can click on the map to get the current wind speed. Thanks goes to Tom Lutgen at Burbank Water and Power for pointing this out.
Harness The Value of Imagery
Register for this webinar today to see how you can use your imagery to gain location insight, use machine learning tools in your applications, and explore advanced object detection from your imagery. The webinar is today from 10-11am.
How America Uses Its Land
You may enjoy this interesting series of interactive data visualizations showing land use in the continental United States based on different categorizations used by the US Department of Agriculture. I found it interesting when you organize all the categories together that pasture and rangeland would take up most of the Western US and all of the country’s cities and towns would fit in the Northeast. Check it out!
Orange County Open Data Portal
Orange County has a new Open Data Portal. You can explore by categories, like boundaries, cadaster, environment, health, infrastructure, etc., or just type a search, like “parcels” or “street centerlines”. There are also links to feature apps and paper maps too. Check it out!
ArcGIS Online Update
For those of you that use ESRI’s ArcGIS Online product, they just announced that they plan on updating it on September 18. Here are four capabilities you can check out once the update happens: Continue reading
Mapping Global Debt
Check out this interactive map that visualizes the debt of 51 different countries around the world. The map provides a choropleth view of how much debt is held by each country since 2000 and how that debt has progressed since the global financial crisis of 2008. You can also visualize household debt, which includes things like mortgages, student loans, and consumer credit.
2018 ESRI Conference Technical Workshops
Did you miss a few technical workshops at the 2018 ESRI User Conference? Good news, there are many to watch now on ESRI’s youtube site. Check it out!
Tech Behind Wildfire Story Map
If you have been keeping track of all the active wildfires in the US lately, you have probably been using the Wildfire Story Map. Check out this article about the data and technology behind ESRI’s Wildfire Story Map.
Pay for Google Street View?
Like many of you, you might be using the Google API in your Geocortex apps so you have access to the Google Street View tool. Well, for us it stopped working recently:
We found out that Google changed their API terms of use this summer. They have stopped supporting keyless usage. That means you cannot access Google Street View through your apps without a billing account and an API key. Keyless calls to the Maps JavaScript API and Street View API will return low-resolution images watermarked with “for development purposes only.” You do not have to worry about this if you use the Google Maps website and Street View there. This is only through API interfaces.
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