Read our periodic collection of news and interesting facts from the world of Geo.
Also feel free to share your findings in the comments!
Various things
Esri’s Open Vision
How Mapbox hires
Paving a path to Smart Communities
A travel service for following your DNA origins
Mapzen have created a bike overlay map and want us to take a poll on bike infrastructure around the globe.
The use of colour in maps
The border wall and one of the most imperiled wild regions in North America
A beautiful instagram with works by Aydın Büyüktaş
ALOS and SRTM DEM data comparison
The growth of the autonomous car market
Guess the city from the river
Enter any geographic location anywhere on Earth and watch the terrain form into a physical model
Microsoft puts 9.8M building footprints out as open data for Openstreetmap
Software
A few words about QGIS 3.0
NASA released free software and here’s some you should try
Esri’s new Landsat Explorer web app
AppStudio for ArcGIS version 1.4
Tangram Play – an interactive text editor for creating maps using Mapzen’s Tangram
Georeferencer v4 is an online tool for processing of scanned old maps
Semi-automatic classification plugin for QGIS 3
New map coloring algorithms in QGIS 3.0
Orfeo ToolBox 5.10
Tutorials
Choose the right chart type for your data
Getting started with hosted feature layer views
Mapbox Studio Manual
A review of how to plot baseball data on a map, or beer vs. wine
Gradient arrows in QGIS
Maps
Interactive map of Belarusian history
OSM then and now
PBDB: explore the Paleobiology Database through space, time, and taxonomy
Educational attainment in the US and a few words about the map
Where each country should be based on its time zone(s)
A set of Berlin historical maps
Literature map of the world, from Reddit user Backforward24
And a literature map of London
118 bird species migrate across a map of the western hemisphere
