#930: radical, water, first nations, land value, stonehenge, polution, lego, hexgrid, islands, buildings

Fri, 24 Aug 2018

• The Radical Cartography Atlas is a collection of maps and essays around globalization social topics, inherently political, now available also as printed book
  http://www.an-atlas.com/
• 2015 data and maps about USA water consumption, by main sectors
  https://owi.usgs.gov/vizlab/water-use-15/#view=USA&category=total
• Map of Canadian First Nations
  http://fnpim-cippn.aandc-aadnc.gc.ca/index-eng.html
• 2018 report on Latinamerica land value is ready
  https://valorsueloamericalatina.org/
• Interactive map of all artifacts found around the Stonehenge location
  http://web.org.uk/barrowmap/
• Formaldehyde pollution over India makes their sky really different from imagery data
  https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-44550091
• A very simple recipe on how to create QGIS Lego-like maps
  https://blog.data-wax.com/2018/06/07/jouer-aux-lego-avec-qgis/
• Uber explains on a technical post their new open source hexagonal hierarchical grid system
  http://eng.uber.com/h3/
• All bigger than 5 km2 Great Britain islands reordered by area
  https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/blog/2018/06/britains-largest-islands/
• Microsoft open releases more than 124 million building footprints, produced using deep learning and artificial intelligence techniques
  https://blogs.bing.com/maps/2018-06/microsoft-releases-125-million-building-footprints-in-the-us-as-open-data/

Note from Jorge: Back from summer holidays, I’ll try to catch up with Raf’s issues as fast as I can, bear with me ^_^

Raf