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New interactive map helps Ypsilanti residents grow their own food

New interactive map helps Ypsilanti residents grow their own food

Whether you want to start growing your own food, join a community garden or find locally owned and grown food, an Ypsilanti-based nonprofit wants to help. The nonprofit Growing Hope recently launched an interactive map of community gardens, farms, locally owned grocery stores, food pantries and places to borrow or get free seeds, tools and other growing ...
mlive.com
New interactive map showcases publicly-owned land across Scotland

New interactive map showcases publicly-owned land across Scotland

A NEW interactive map highlighting information about publicly-owned land across Scotland has been created. The new resource – which can be found HERE – also allows people to see the land managed by the Scottish Crown Estate. Users can explore information on individual land parcels, including its ownership and size. The information has been brought together as ...
thenational.scot
Alberta, Canada publishes Atlas of deep geothermal energy potential

Alberta, Canada publishes Atlas of deep geothermal energy potential

The Alberta Geological Survey (AGS) has published the Geothermal Atlas of Albeta, a public, web-based geographic information system (GIS) application that provides geoscience data and information relevant to the assessment deep geothermal energy potential in Alberta, Canada. The Geothermal Atlas of Alberta can be accessed via this link. The tool is designed to support the exploration and development of geothermal ...
thinkgeoenergy.com
New Mapping Shows 80% Of Pacific Atolls Deforested By Coconut Palms

New Mapping Shows 80% Of Pacific Atolls Deforested By Coconut Palms

The Nature Conservancy and UC Santa Barbara release the first comprehensive maps of coconut agriculture, and the subsequent loss of native forests, on atolls throughout the tropical Pacific. Over the last 200 years, this pervasive land cover change has profoundly altered ecosystems and hydrologic resources, potentially affecting atoll communities’ resilience to climate change and other environmental ...
scoop.co.nz
High-resolution map details active faults in New Zealand

High-resolution map details active faults in New Zealand

An interactive high-resolution dataset has been released to the public, showing the active faults running through New Zealand. The data set, made available by GNS Science, shows the locations of faults that have broken or deformed the surface in the last 125,000 years. Scientists made the information available in a bid to help further research, hazard assessment, ...
stuff.co.nz
French Watchdog Publishes Map Of Beaches Where Swimmers Risk Illness

French Watchdog Publishes Map Of Beaches Where Swimmers Risk Illness

You can now consult a list of places to avoid or target as an environmental watchdog has published a map showing the water quality at 1,854 beaches in France. The map comes from environmental association Eau et Rivières de Bretagne (ERB), which recently published a study showing that one in five beaches in France was ...
connexionfrance.com
New Map Reveals Red Zones For Pedestrian Safety Risks

New Map Reveals Red Zones For Pedestrian Safety Risks

“Speed kills” is such a well-known mantra in transportation advocacy circles it’s at risk of becoming trite. So how can activists find new ways to communicate the crucial linkage between speeding drivers and the fatal crashes they cause? One answer to that question comes from a project by Portland Community College Student Jake Veto. Veto ...
bikeportland.org
New Map Shows The Highest Heat Risk Isn’t Always Where Temperatures Are Hottest

New Map Shows The Highest Heat Risk Isn’t Always Where Temperatures Are Hottest

An interactive map created by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention rates each ZIP code in the mainland U.S. to identify areas “most likely to experience negative health outcomes from heat.” But CDC’s Heat and Health Index shows that heat risk is about much more than temperatures. Heat vulnerability varies sharply within cities and ...
scientificamerican.com
Interactive Map Shows Future Climate Of Your City Based On Emissions Scenarios

Interactive Map Shows Future Climate Of Your City Based On Emissions Scenarios

The impacts of climate change are being felt all over the world, but how will it impact how your hometown feels? An interactive web application from the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science allows users to search 40,581 places and 5,323 metro areas around the globe to match the expected future climate in each ...
phys.org
Karte Zeigt Hitze-Hotspots Für FußgängerInnen In Salzburg

Karte Zeigt Hitze-Hotspots Für Fußgänger:Innen In Salzburg

Die hohen Temperaturen machen gemütliche Spaziergänge durch Salzburg zu einer Herausforderung. Die Sonne heizt Gehwege und Straßen extrem auf, und schattenspendende Bäume für Fußgängerinnen und Fußgänger sind vielerorts Mangelware. Der Verkehrsclub Österreich (VCÖ) ruft daher die Bevölkerung dazu auf, Hotspots in einer Online-Karte zu markieren. Die Hitze belastet nicht nur die Gemüter, sondern auch die ...
salzburg24.at
New GIS Tool Offers Maps Of Safest Bike Routes, City Capital Improvement Projects, More In Menlo Park

New GIS Tool Offers Maps Of Safest Bike Routes, City Capital Improvement Projects, More In Menlo Park

Have you ever wondered who provides your sewer services, when your street is scheduled to be swept, what average daily traffic volumes are on streets near you or when the sidewalk in front of your house was last replaced? Menlo Park residents can now find the answer to these questions and more on Menlo Park’s ...
almanacnews.com
A New Google Maps Layer Shows Public Restrooms In NYC

A New Google Maps Layer Shows Public Restrooms In NYC

There’s no elegant way to say this: going to the bathroom in New York is a nightmare. Public restrooms in the city are hard to find and are often either out of order or require you to buy something at a store or café to be able to use. The problem is so bad that ...
theverge.com
New US Map Shows The Abandoned Farms That Could Help Fight Climate Change

New US Map Shows The Abandoned Farms That Could Help Fight Climate Change

Farmland is often a battleground in the fight against climate change. Solar panels and energy crops are pitted against food production, while well-intended policy choices can create incentives for farmers to till up new lands, releasing even more heat-trapping gas into the atmosphere. That’s why strategies for sustainable plant-based fuels focus on marginal lands — ...
technologynetworks.com
Mapa Interativo Mostra As Regiões Do Brasil Com Risco De Inundação

Mapa Interativo Mostra As Regiões Do Brasil Com Risco De Inundação

A Companhia de Pesquisa de Recursos Minerais (CPRM) lançou um mapa interativo que permite visualizar áreas com risco de desastre no Brasil. Nesse sistema, é possível localizar informações sobre áreas com alto e muito alto risco de deslizamentos de terra, inundações, enxurradas e queda de rochas em mais de 1.600 municípios brasileiros. A plataforma interativa ...
gizmodo.uol.com.br
CLCP Develops New Tools To Support Land Protection Decisions In Florida

CLCP Develops New Tools To Support Land Protection Decisions In Florida

The University of Florida’s Center for Landscape Conservation Planning (CLCP) and GeoPlan Center have developed two new tools to support land protection decisions in Florida – a web map viewer and web-based dashboard for the Florida Ecological Greenway Network (FEGN). The FEGN is a statewide database that identifies and prioritizes a functionally connected statewide ecological ...
dcp.ufl.edu
AWS Introduces CloudWatch Internet Weather Map

AWS Introduces CloudWatch Internet Weather Map

AWS recently announced the availability of the Internet Weather Map, a new feature of CloudWatch that displays a 24-hour global snapshot of internet latency and availability outages. This new map offers a worldwide perspective on Internet conditions, allowing users to zoom in and analyze performance and availability problems in specific cities or with particular service ...
infoq.com
Chornobyl Reserve Unveils New Online Mapping Portal Providing In-Depth Insights Into Exclusion Zone

Chornobyl Reserve Unveils New Online Mapping Portal Providing In-Depth Insights Into Exclusion Zone

The Chornobyl Radiation-Ecological Biosphere Reserve has launched a geoportal with information on 38 years of activity of various departments on the territory of the exclusion zone: from research and education to accounting for land, forest and water resources, reported the Chornobyl Reserve. “Here you will find a map of modern, anthropogenic landscapes of the territory, ...
life.liga.net

Esri Releases Latest Land Cover Map With Updated Sentinel-2 Satellite Data

Esri, the global leader in location intelligence, in its partnership with Impact Observatory, has released an updated global land-use/land-cover map of the world based on the most up-to-date 10-meter Sentinel-2 satellite data. In the update, the Sentinel-2 10m Land Use/Land Cover Time Series includes new data from 2023, expanding the series to include global coverage ...
businesswire.com
Los Puertos De Baleares Incorporan Tecnología Geoespacial Para Controlar El Alto Volumen De Escalas

Los Puertos De Baleares Incorporan Tecnología Geoespacial Para Controlar El Alto Volumen De Escalas

La Autoridad Portuaria de Baleares (APB) ha incorporado tecnología geoespacial para gestionar «de manera más eficiente» la información sobre sus infraestructuras y operaciones portuarias en en tiempo real. No en vano, las Islas lideran el ránking nacional de escalas con más de 50.000 entradas y salidas de ferries, barcos de mercancías y cruceros. A todo ...
menorca.info
Aerial Photos Of London And Surrounding Counties Give Glimpse Into City's History

Aerial Photos Of London And Surrounding Counties Give Glimpse Into City’s History

A new app featuring more than 10,000 aerial photos from London and surrounding counties shows what the region looked like from the air in the last 100 years. Developed by Eunice Chu, a fourth-year geographic information systems (GIS) student who works as a student library assistant at the Map and Data Centre at Western University’s ...
cbc.ca

Geospatial Mapping And AI To Help Tackle Energy Gap In Africa

Energy modellers and researchers have developed a geospatial mapping model they say can help address the electricity access gap in Africa. The model has been developed by the International Energy Agency (IEA), researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Massachusetts Amherst and Electricity Growth and Use In Developing Economies. By mapping which buildings are ...
esi-africa.com
Romania’s Energy Ministry Makes Map Of EV Charging Points Available

Romania’s Energy Ministry Makes Map Of EV Charging Points Available

A map with charging points for electric cars was recently unveiled by Romania’s Energy Ministry. The map is featured on the website of the institution, and was made in partnership with local authorities across the country. Romanian energy minister Sebastian Burduja said that the map is part of the EU-wide project of reaching 75 million ...
romania-insider.com
New 'Digital Twin' Earth Technology Could Help Predict Water-Based Natural Disasters Before They Strike

New ‘Digital Twin’ Earth Technology Could Help Predict Water-Based Natural Disasters Before They Strike

The water cycle looks simple in theory—but human impacts, climate change, and complicated geography mean that in practice, floods and droughts remain hard to predict. To model water on Earth, you need incredibly high-resolution data across an immense expanse, and you need modeling sophisticated enough to account for everything from snowcaps on mountains to soil ...
phys.org
Climate Heat Map Of Australia

Climate Heat Map Of Australia

The Climate Council’s Heat Map of Australia is an interactive tool that shows how cutting climate pollution will limit extreme heat in our neighbourhoods. It projects the average number of hot and very hot days, as well as very hot nights, for each suburb by 2050 and 2090, and across three scenarios: no action, continuing ...
climatecouncil.org.au
Access Over 181,000 USGS Historical Topographic Maps

Access Over 181,000 USGS Historical Topographic Maps

In collaboration with the US Geological Survey (USGS), we recently updated Esri’s online USGS historical topographic map collection with over 1,745 new maps, bringing the total number of maps in our collection to over 181,000 (181,008 to be exact). We also corrected a number of maps that our users reported as having georeferencing or other ...
esri.com
Online Mapping Tool Offers Land Use Information

Online Mapping Tool Offers Land Use Information

A new online tool allows users to examine agricultural land use across the country. Developed by ALCES for the Canadian Agri-Food Policy Institute, the Agriculture Web Mapping Application Tool offers maps and datasets about land use, management practices and agri-environmental indicators. Census, crop production and land use data can be viewed individually or overlaid. Tyler ...
producer.com
Binghamton Graduate Student Creates Public Safety Maps To Help Campus Community

Binghamton Graduate Student Creates Public Safety Maps To Help Campus Community

In dire situations, it is important to know where safety resources like blue lights, police stations and automated external defibrillators (AEDs) are located across Binghamton University’s multiple campuses. Thanks to the work of Ryan Kinsella, this kind of information is easier to access than ever before. A graduate student in the Geography Department, Kinsella has ...
binghamton.edu
Mom Makes Map For Vancouver Baby Changing Tables 'You're Flying Blind When You're A Parent'

Mom Makes Map For Vancouver Baby Changing Tables: ‘You’re Flying Blind When You’re A Parent’

Michelle Cyca has had to change too many diapers on bathroom floors. The mother of two (her youngest is in his peak diaper phase right now), says she finally had enough after having to change her child’s diaper on the concrete floor of an Oak Street deli. So she decided to do something about it. ...
vancouverisawesome.com
Esri Releases New Landsat Satellite Data App To View And Analyze Land Changes

Esri Releases New Landsat Satellite Data App To View And Analyze Land Changes

Esri, the global leader in mapping and location intelligence, announces the launch of Landsat Explorer, a groundbreaking online app that makes it easier than ever for organizations to access and analyze multispectral imagery from Landsat satellite missions. The new app from Esri’s ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World provides unprecedented ease of use and accessibility ...
businesswire.com
Municipality Maps Commercial Buildings That Could Have Distressed, Potentially Dangerous Roofs

Municipality Maps Commercial Buildings That Could Have Distressed, Potentially Dangerous Roofs

Municipal engineers released a new online resource on Thursday meant for commercial building owners to identify if their building in the Anchorage area contains a roof type that has been blamed for numerous snow-induced collapses. The resource comes as the municipality says the snow load on buildings is approaching 90% of the 40 pounds per ...
alaskasnewssource.com