More Than Maps

08/03/2023

Yep

Nellie can relate, I've called her "Nellie Belly" and "Nellie Belles" for years.

07/23/2020

Received some good news today on a story map I helped create. A bill was passed to end driver's license suspension for unpaid fines and fees in NY. This will help people get to work to make the money to pay the fees, rather than lose a job because they can't drive to work due to a suspended license.
https://www.drivenbyjustice.org/

https://www.syracuse.com/politics/2019/09/nys-hard-core-traffic-fines-hit-the-poor-hardest-syracuse-lawmaker-says.html

How New York’s Traffic Debt suspension laws disproportionately harm low-income communities and communities of color

11/23/2019

Ran across this today Interesting way to collect fun information - how about sharing your special place?

Honor our incredible planet by sharing your special place.

07/21/2019

Here's a story map I'm making for the Florida Trash Talkers. We are still cleaning up from Hurricane Irma! Track our progress as we pull literally tons of plastics and other debris from the mangroves. https://arcg.is/zLH55

01/30/2019

Missing the Esri Federal GIS Conference this year unfortunately, but one of the Florida maps I worked on was published in the Mapping the Nation book! I worked with Alison on this and here she is with Esri's Salim Sawaya. Suzanne Wade

11/10/2018

https://www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/products/arcgis-living-atlas/mapping/introducing-dark-hillshade/?adumkts=social&utm_source=social&aduc=social&adum=external&aduSF=linkedin&aduca=social_technical&aduco=arcgis_introducing_dark_hillshade&aduat=blog&adbsc=social_branding_20181107_2601401&adbid=6465966518575468544&adbpl=li&adbpr=5311
This one looks pretty cool...

A few years ago, we introduced Multi-Directional Hillshade as a server raster function on World Elevation Services and later as a tiled basemap layer to use as a backdrop for topographical, soil, mining, and other outdoor recreational maps. These layers are part of ever growing authoritative content...

06/27/2018

Another fabulous and informative Story Map highlighting, of course, migratory birds! Having studied migratory birds and their feeding mudflats for so long, I can't help myself

How does your longest round-trip journey compare to a whimbrel's?

Whimbrels are large shorebirds that nest in the Arctic across North America and Eurasia and winter on the coasts of six continents. Follow the journey of T6, a whimbrel tracked by USGS and featured in the “Whimbrels on the Wing” story map highlighting its 9,160-mile migration from the breeding grounds on the Colville River Delta in northern Alaska to an urban beach just outside of Santiago, Chile.

In one year, T6 flew nearly 18,640 miles round trip.

Check out T6's journey here: https://arcg.is/1uXLi5.


Photo of a Whimbrel from the northern Alaska site where T6 was from. Photo taken by Dan Ruthrauff (USGS).

05/11/2018

Here's great Story Map about an Osprey tagged with a GPS. It is amazing the area she covered during her flights. http://esriurl.com/JuliesFlight. Really worth a look!
Lynnea Nilson Thibodaux, you'll like this one!

The journey of a young osprey from Michigan to Venezuela, and the reintroduction and management programs that led to this unlikely migration.

04/20/2018

For the first time, scientists at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology have documented migratory movements of bird populations spanning the entire year for 118 species throughout the Western Hemisphere. The study finds broad similarity in the routes used by specific groups of species—vividly demonstrate...

03/30/2018

On the drive to the conference in DC I was using ArcMap to complete some projects. Decided to try on the 1200 mile trip back, and once I figured out where everything was.....kinda like it for some things. Fast processing of data and it doesn't freeze the rest of the project while processing!

03/20/2018

At the Conference in DC

02/14/2018

Projections seem to be the root of about 75% of any data problem I encounter. But just to get into the spirit of the day, here is a post about heart-shaped projections for your reading pleasure.

Heart shaped map projections are known as cordiform map projections which is derived from the Latin "cor" for heart and form for shape.