Category: Maps
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Google Earth timelapse of Fort McMurray
Google just announced what they're calling Google Earth’s biggest update in years. With Timelapse in Google Earth, 24 million satellite photos from the past 37 years have been compiled into an interactive 4D experience. Now anyone can watch time unfold and witness nearly four decades of planetary change. It's pretty neat! A number of years…
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A map of the most spoken languages in every Canadian Province or Territory besides English and/or French
I saw this post on BoingBoing earlier today: A fascinating map of the most spoken languages in every US state besides English and Spanish and wondered what an equivalent map for Canada might look like. So I made one. Data was pulled from the 2016 Canadian Census, looking at the variable "Language spoken most often…
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Witchcraft and OpenRefine
Last September I learned about a fabulous resource called Places of Residence for Accused Witches. Map of Scots women accused of witchcraft published for first time https://t.co/vOxIlv6g24 ht @ResearchBuzz Fascinating stuff! #GIS #witches #witchcraft #mapping pic.twitter.com/nOWNHiUlw4 (@ppival) September 26, 2019 At that time I didn't realize how much work had been done using OpenRefine, one…
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Archives in the news
I've recently become more involved in a project to digitize historical maps held at the U of Calgary, so this article really spoke to me (thanks @achurrell!) Yukon geologists raid the archives to aid ongoing search for gold. And because it seems so often news reports like this don't seem to include a link to…
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Search Google Maps via shortcuts
Lifehacker has a post describing how to Map Anything From the Chrome Address Bar. Sounds great, except I recently switched back to Firefox after many years away, so found that there are a pair of extensions for FF that allow you to do pretty much the same thing. Map with Google Maps takes care of…
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Shape file and .KML for First People’s Language Map of British Columbia
I spent a couple hours today helping a student look for a shape file of the First People’s Language Map of B. C. (or anything even close to it). No luck, but feel free to chime in if you know of something we missed! Finally while Inspecting and Viewing Source, I tripped across an embedded (or…
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Before and After – Calgary and Ft. McMurray
The other day Google Earth released updated historical imagery, so I thought it’d be neat to take a peek at two spots I know have grown a lot since 1985, the date of the earliest imagery. I also wanted a quick and dirty way to make a before/after image slider, as shown on the above…