Massive Autonomous Vehicle Sensor Data – What Does It Mean?
It was reported by Ford that connected car sensors generate 25 gigabytes of data per hour, and then by the WSJ that a typical autonomous vehicle generates 4 terabytes of data in 90 minutes, and then by...
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What’s Powering Your Phone Battery in Different Parts of the Country?
U.S. Power Plants By Primary Generation Type Because I worked for an electric utility company during an era of dramatic change in the industry, I was interested in understanding how the generation mix...
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Revenge of the Nerds from L.A. to London
May the 4th Tweets Across Planet Earth Sometime in the last ten years nerd culture became pop culture. Parks and Recreation’s Donna Meagle is perhaps the perfect social barometer who went from mocking...
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Serving Spatial Realness à la RuPaul: Season 9 Finale Edition
Pride month may be over but I’m still reminiscing on the highs, lows, sashays, and death drops. In the past, I always looked forward to the marches as a way to experience the diversity, vibrancy, and...
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Because you cannot play the Game of Thrones without maps
Maps are hypnotic. They have magical powers. They explain the genetics of our natural world in a way that words cannot. Maps take us back in time. Maps shove us into the future. They kindle our...
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Mapping cities using Airbnb ratings
How would your city look like, if you mapped the perceptions of tourists about different parts of the city using data from Airbnb? Beñat Arregi, an architect and data visualisation enthusiast, has...
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Trade deficits and protectionism are making headlines across the globe but how exactly does the flow of international trade look like? The global market for imported goods was $15300 billion in 2015...
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HERE maps for drones and advanced robotics?
It is no secret that HERE has been focusing on HD maps for autonomous cars but what about drones and advanced robotics? In an interesting comment on the sidelines of the International Motor Show (IAA),...
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This map shows the bloody history of Australia’s frontier wars
Australian historian Lyndall Ryan was in her mid-twenties when she discovered the glaring gaps and inaccuracies in the documented history of her country’s Aboriginal people. At 38, she published her...
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Map shows how much sooner you’ll die because of air pollution
Air pollution is bad for your health. But you already knew that. What you probably didn’t know is that there’s a map out there which will tell you how many years of your life you are losing to high...
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Why 19th-century mathematicians were obsessed with coloring maps
Have you read Mark Twain’s Tom Sawyer Abroad? There’s this part where Tom says: “Suppose there’s a brown calf and a big brown dog, and an artist is making a picture of them. What is the MAIN thing that...
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Mapping the maps of 2018: Industry insiders share their vision
As GIS becomes all-pervasive with millions across the world using maps every day, the year ahead looks super exciting for the geospatial industry. While advancements in autonomous driving technologies,...
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Fascinating 3D map shows what lies beneath Greenland
The colorful visualization you see above is what Greenland would look like if it were to lose its ice cover. Produced by researchers at British Antarctic Survey (BAS), University of Bristol and...
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Lost a loved one to opioids? This map is for you
10 years ago, Jeremiah Lindemann, a solution engineer at Esri, lost his little brother to an opioid called OxyContin. For the first few years, he spoke very little of the topic, even with family and...
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New Zealand is super peeved about being left off world maps
You probably didn’t even notice it till we brought it to your attention, but the problem is real, y’all. People just keep forgetting to put New Zealand on the world map. The Smithsonian Natural...
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Meet Living Map – the startup that is bridging the information gap between...
The blue dot has completely transformed the way we navigate. More often than not, we tend to rely on our smartphones to navigate indoors as well. How often have you checked the map in a shopping mall...
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Expanding Mapping Capabilities with Deep Learning
Last year I wrote about how computer vision is helping us harness the power of machines to understand the world, and how for updating maps this process is faster and more accurate than what we could...
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Mapping pirate attacks around the world
Another great map from one of my favourite contemporary cartographers John Nelson. This time John took data from Anti-shipping Activity Messages database published by the National...
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Top maps and charts that explain the terrifying 2019-20 Australian bushfires
Australia battles bushfires every year, but the current fire season is decisively one of the worst. The wildfires that originated in the state of New South Wales in September 2019 have rapidly spread...
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5 new books for people who love geography and maps
Ask any map addict or geography buff, there is nothing quite like curling up with an educational and entertaining book about maps. Below, you will find five new, intriguing books about geography and...
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