Monthly Maps: July 2013
I planned to highlight ten maps each in month in this *Monthly Maps* series. The month of July, however, saw quite a few fabulous maps, and left me struggling to choose between them. Perhaps I will...
View ArticleUsing data from the Landsat 8 TIRS instrument to estimate surface* temperature
The Thermal InfraRed Sensor (TIRS) is a new instrument carried onboard the Landsat 8 satellite that is dedicated to capturing temperature-specific information. Using radiation information from the two...
View ArticleMonthly Maps: August 2013
As two South Asian countries celebrate their independence days in August, I decided to focus on ‘political maps’ in this *Monthly Maps* post. This means that some of the exciting maps and map news we...
View ArticleMap Tiles and What they Mean to You
Web and mobile applications account for most of the maps usage today. We recently read that about 54% of smartphone users have Google Maps running on their phone making it the most popular application...
View ArticleLeaflet Layer Opacity Control Using HTML5 Slider
This tutorial is a proof of concept to use an HTML5 slider to control the opacity of a Leaflet map layer. If you want more information about setting up Leaflet and adding different layers, read the...
View ArticleMonthly Maps: September & October 2013
Note: Much apologies for skipping the September issue of Monthly Maps. To compensate, here’s a double issue filled with fantastic cartographies. Guernica Magazine has published an excerpt of an...
View ArticleSpatial Data Formats 101
We often find ourselves choosing between various data formats while dealing with spatial data. Consider this (not-so) hypothetical example: your data collection department passed on a bunch of KML...
View ArticleS696, Maps and Atlases: The Cambridge Map Room
I’ve re-entered the academic world as a student at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, and one of the benefits I’m enjoying the most is near-unlimited access to one of the world’s...
View ArticleDataLore – 6PM, Nov 20, 2013, Bangalore.
As a run-up to the Do-Din event in Hyderabad, geohackers.in is co-hosting an event called DataLore about putting data to good use, and how statistics and visualisations sometimes twist data to tell...
View ArticleOptimising Spatial Data for the Web.
Our tutorials so far have been focused on several aspects of cartography, from data structures to their analysis and representation. Not surprisingly, most of them are aligned to web technologies, and...
View ArticleMonthly Maps: November & December 2013
Here is another double issue of Monthly Maps to begin the new year. The end of the year saw several great “best maps of 2013″ posts. We will go to them soon but first let’s look at the map that got the...
View ArticleMaps Mayhem.
Every project I have been involved thus far, I have helped people to ask the question – ‘Are maps really the right tool for us to tell this story?’ And I must say, there are not many people who are...
View ArticleMonthly Maps: January & February 2014
So the *Monthly Maps* series is almost on the verge of becoming a *Bi-Monthly Maps* series! Hopefully this will be the only double month issue of the year 2014. Let us begin with a map that is not...
View ArticleFrom the Space Shuttle to a block of wood
I’ve had Nanda Devi and the Sanctuary surrounding her in my thoughts for a very long time, and she seemed like a fitting first attempt to bring spatial data out of the digital world and into reality....
View ArticleA general update, and a few planned posts
For a change, this is not a subject-specific post, but a more general catchup on things mappy and not-so-mappy that we’ve been doing. In brief, the three of us who run this blog are all now wearing...
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