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Interactive maps are one of the most powerful tools available to travel bloggers today. Unfortunately, far too many travel bloggers today are either using interactive maps incorrectly or not using them to their full potential. As a GIS expert, data scientist, and travel blogger myself, it pains me greatly when […]
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Well, we’ve got another classic and textbook bomb cyclone that got its crosshairs firmly trained on southern New England. It’s expected to arrive sometime late Friday or early Saturday. The low will soon form off the coast of the Carolina. As it heads north, it will undergo bombogenesis as it […]
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Well, I managed to time my last COVID update so that it was published the day South Africa announced it had discovered the heavily mutated omicron variant. Does omicron change anything from that update? A little bit, sure. However, those end-of-the-world omicron outlooks you see online and in the media […]
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With such an unusual shape, there is no shortage of bizarre and unusual facts about Chile. It’s a country that nobody hears much about, yet you get the impression that it’s still largely misunderstood. It’s a land of wild extremes, not just in terms of geography, but also for climate […]
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As the COVID-19 pandemic grinds on towards its two-year anniversary, we’re all wondering when it will finally end. As vaccines fully rolled out to the general public last spring, the United States managed to get new case loads below 10,000 per day. But then the Delta Variant came along. Just […]
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On 27 October, 2021, a monster bomb cyclone hit southeast Massachusetts. The storm left an incredible path of downed trees and snapped power poles in its wake. Wind gusts on Cape Cod and the Islands very likely exceeded 100 mph. Provincetown recorded a peak gust of 97 mph before the […]
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Python Automation is one of the most powerful ways to improve your GIS workflow. In the past, many tasks in traditional GIS applications have had minimal support for writing your own code, and often required crude hacks to install obscure libraries. As Python has rapidly grown in both functionality and […]
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As a former storm chaser, weather and meteorology have greatly influenced my career, values, and philosophy. Nowhere is that more true than in my photography. Even though I was only a hobbyist photographer at the time, storm chasing was clearly the turning moment when I realized my photography skills were […]
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A little over a month ago, we examined the benefits of using region mapping in your TerriaJS applications. Region mapping allows you to reduce your GIS application’s data usage by over 99%, permitting you to display massive datasets on two and three-dimensional maps that load quickly and are highly responsive. […]
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Back in August, we made our official forecast for when the current Delta wave of COVID-19 will peak in the United States. Since we are now past the window in which we forecast the peak to occur, a lot of you are wondering if the current delta wave has actually […]
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In today’s media-rich internet, load times are critical to your web application’s success. There is no industry for which that rings true more than the online mapping and GIS community. In the past, even small to medium-sized datasets were notorious for crippling web-based GIS applications and crashing web browsers. Thankfully, […]
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Less than a week after Hurricane Henri hit southern New England, we now have Hurricane Ida training its crosshairs at the Gulf Coast of the United States. This is the time of the year that the Gulf of Mexico becomes very conducive to strong hurricanes. If you’re on the Gulf […]
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