#338: aster, intro, fracking, osm, syria, switzerland

Tue, 12 Apr 2016

• More than 3 million of ASTER images available for free
  http://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/nasa-japan-make-aster-earth-data-available-at-no-cost
• Materials from an introductory course about maps for scholars in humanities
  http://lincolnmullen.com/projects/spatial-workshop/
• Study demonstrates drinking water contamination by fracking at Wyoming
  http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.est.5b04970
• OSM, a simple map that became a global movement
  http://www.directionsmag.com/entry/osm-the-simple-map-that-became-a-global-movement/466280
• Amateur cartographers make the most accurate Syrian conflict maps
  http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/04/160408-online-mapmakers-chart-syrian-conflict/
• Comparing old and new Switzerland digital maps
  http://storymaps.geo.admin.ch/storymaps/storymap13/?lang=en

Raf