VirtualTam's bookmarks

1. Educational Technology Clearinghouse - Resources 2024-11-10

   tags: education, geography, image, map, presentation

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   • Clipart ETC - Illustrations
   • Clippix - Photos and pictures
   • Maps - Historic maps spanning many different time periods
   • Presentations - Backgrounds, templates, letters, frames, and buttons
2. How to use PostgreSQL for (military) geoanalytics tasks 2024-03-31

   tags: country/russia, country/ukraine, database/postgresql, geography/gis, map, nasa/earthdata, war

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   • From Map to Reality: Using PostGIS in Warfare (PDF)
   • NASA Earthdata - Full and open access to NASA’s collection of Earth science data for understanding and protecting our home planet
   • Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) Active Fire detection
   • PostgreSQL - GiST - Generalized Search Tree
   • PostgreSQL - SP-GiST - Space-partitioned GiST
   • H3 - Hexagonal hierarchical geospatial indexing system
   • zachasme/h3-pg - PostgreSQL bindings for H3
3. ArcGIS Dashboards Gallery 2024-03-31

   tags: earth, geography, geography/gis, map, science, visualization

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   • Active Fires and Hotspots
   • Coronavirus COVID-19 Dashboard
   • Ocean Health Index
   • Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks - Soundscape Library
   • Sunken Ships of the Second World War
4. The Spilhaus World Ocean Map in a Square 2023-07-25

   tags: earth, geography, graphics/2d, map, ocean

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   • Cartogaphie Numérique - Des usages de la projection Spilhaus et de notre vision du monde
   • Steal this Spilhaus project for ArcGIS Pro please
5. prettymaps: A small set of Python functions to draw pretty maps from OpenStreetMap data. Based on osmnx, matplotlib and shapely libraries. 2022-02-24

   tags: geography, openstreetmap, programming/python, visualization, visualization/matplotlib

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6. xkcd: Map Age Guide 2019-01-03

   tags: flowchart, geography, history, map, world, xkcd

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7. All Over the Map 2017-02-18

   tags: geography, map, personal-knowledge/blog, visualization

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8. Map Lab | WIRED 2017-02-18

   tags: data, geography, map, visualization

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9. Maps | Vaguely Rude Places 2014-08-06

   tags: map, pun, vulgar, world

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   Vulgar Display of Geography

10. National Geographic Found 2013-06-25

    tags: earth, geography, national-geographic, photo, world

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