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Aqueduct : global water risk mapping tool

"Aqueduct's global water risk mapping tool helps companies, investors, governments, and other users understand where and how water risks and opportunities are emerging worldwide."
via aqueduct.wri.org


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Groundwater in Movement

Groundwater in movement from Roxana Torre on Vimeo.

"This visualization shows how water mass is constantly changing around the world. 
Each circle shows water height anomaly for that location compared to its long-term average. White circles represent water gain while empty circles represent water loss, the bigger the circle, the higher the gain or loss."
via visual.ly
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Snake River, Wyoming

via photography.nationalgeographic.com

 


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USDA Interactive Plant Hardiness Zone Map

The 2012 USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map is the standard by which gardeners and growers can determine which plants are most likely to thrive at a location. The map is based on the average annual minimum winter temperature, divided into 10-degree F zones.

For the first time, the map is available as an interactive GIS-based map. 
Users may also simply type in a ZIP Code and find the hardiness zone for that area.

via planthardiness.ars.usda.gov

 

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Map of the Square and Stationary Earth, 1893

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via retronaut.co

 

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Map Online Communities

via xkcd.com

 

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The White Elephant of Rucheni


The Desceliers map of 1550

 

"On a Renaissance map of the world known as Desceliers' World Map, 1550 , there is a small white elephant standing near the Arctic coast of Russia. How it got there is a mystery. Is it a mammoth, or does it symbolize something else? The solution is like a jigsaw puzzle. We have many pieces of evidence, in different colors and shapes. But it’s not clear that all of the pieces belong to the same puzzle and, in any case, too few pieces have survived for us to be able to construct a clear image of the thinking that led the artist to place that elephant in the frozen north. Perhaps the most important clue that we have to work with is that the elephant occupies a position that mapmakers had previously reserved for a monster that we now call the walrus."
via blogs.scientificamerican.com

 

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New High Resolution Global Topographic Map of Moon

LRO Camera Team Releases High Resolution Global Topographic Map of Moon

"The science team that oversees the imaging system on board NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has released the highest resolution near-global topographic map of the moon ever created.  

This new topographic map, from Arizona State University in Tempe, shows the surface shape and features over nearly the entire moon with a pixel scale close to 100 meters (328 feet). A single measure of elevation (one pixel) is about the size of two football fields placed side-by-side."

via nasa.gov

 

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The Opte Project : a Fractal Dandelion

In 2004 Barrett Lyon’s friends bet him $50 that he couldn’t map the entire Internet in a day. Within two weeks the self-described technologist and entrepreneur had created a program that could output a detailed visualization of Internet connectivity in a few hours. Seven years and billions more Internet-connected devices later, Lyon is still at it. This cosmic-looking image, one of his newest creations, traces the millions of routes along which data can travel and pinpoints the hubs receiving the most traffic.

 

Internet giants such as AT&T and Google manage the most heavily used networks, which appear here as glowing yellow orbs; they tend to concentrate in the center of the sphere. The less popular local networks (red) sit on the periphery. Although Lyon’s visualizations have appeared in computing textbooks and at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, he says he has yet to collect on his bet.

 

via opte.org

 

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Ganymede : Geologic Map of the Uruk Sulcus Region

"This geologic map of the Uruk Sulcus region of Jupiter's moon, Gaymede, were created using images from the Voyager mission. The creators of the map looked at albedo, surface morphology and texture, and crater densities on the images to distinguish one geologic unit from another."
via astrogeology.usgs.gov

 

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