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World

Economic Geography

Popular Engineering

From Cory Doctorow comes a good article on the engieering and recyle chains needed for a circular system of battery self-sufficiency.

UK

Even the Financial Times is getting into story maps (non-ESRI). Here’s an example from the recent far-right riots in the UK.

Canada

Chilcotin Landslide

I had a post last time about the river-blocking Chilcotin Landslide in Canada. Here a video shows it is being breached.

US

Debby Does What?

Hurricane Debby's impact on the US East Coast. Hard times ahead.

Ag Census Geography

New 2022 Agricultural Census Data in ArcGIS Living Atlas.

US Election/Poll Result Maps

Kenneth Field. Creative Commons license.

Once again we’re in the season of seeing the misleading choropleth maps showing US election results or poll results. All I can do is sigh. We know there are better ways. Even main-stream-media knows it. But the simplicity of execution for a choropleth always seems to win out. Sigh. As to the caveat that the NYT uses for my favorite, the dasymetric, dot density maps: This map from 2004 seeks to solve the population problem by removing uninhabited areas. But if you are looking for the result in a sparsely populated place, it can be hard to decipher. And it is still difficult to tell who won each state. Why not color code the border by the winner of each state? Sure, there’s some geometry finagling to do to draw an interior line so the colors don’t overlap but it seems a simple way to make the winner of the state clear. I want precinct level dasymetric dot density result maps.