Earth Winds  is a fascinating map showing the movement of air around the world.

As of March 23, 2016, these are the Democratic & Republican Primary Results in the race for delegates.  These maps are shown at the county level,   If shown at a state level, there would be fewer colors on the map.  Both National Conventions will be held in July 2016.

ESRI and the USGS have combined to produce  EcoExplorer (centered on Columbus) for armchair ecologists.

The Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera  (EPIC)  located on The Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) will be providing daily sunlit views of the Earth.

DSCOVR:EPIC

Courtesy of NASA, NOAA & the U.S. Air Force

It’s almost Fall and time for Football.  It’s also time for the OSU Marching Band to perform Script Ohio.

Some Buckeye Fans decided to do a little walking and mapped out Ohio on Google Maps.

If All The Ice Melted

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2013/09/rising-seas/if-ice-melted-map

The 550,000 Miles Of Undersea

Cabling That Powers The Internet

Each year, a telecom market research firm called TeleGeography releases a map of the underwater cables that connect the global Internet. Past years’ maps have been merely fascinating. This year’s is flat-out gorgeous.
The lines trace the paths that the world’s data take every day as packets of information zip between the continents. They don’t precisely track the cables’ actual underwater routes—that would look like “a big mess of spaghetti,” TeleGeography research director Alan Mauldin says. And they don’t convey how much traffic flows through each one. But they do accurately show the land-based taking-off points for this massive underwater series of tubes.
Submarine Cable Map
The map is available for free online in large and interactive formats.

Isarithmic map of presidential election data from every election between 1920 and 2008. Created by David B. Sparks, a PhD candidate in political science at Duke.
Sparks explains on his blog, “Isarithmic maps are essentially topographic or contour maps, wherein a third variable is represented in two dimensions by color, or by contour lines, indicating gradations.” In this case, the third variable is partisan intensity, represented by shading.
http://ecopolitology.org/2010/11/23/stunning-animated-time-lapse-map-of-red-blue-america-1920-2008/

The USGS is currently working on efforts to utilize volunteers to collect and update USGS geographic data. Similar to how OpenStreetMap allows anyone to collect, edit, and use geographic data through an online map editor, the USGS has developed an OpenStreetMap-like online editor catering to our data collection needs in order to allow volunteers to contribute data to The National Map and The National Structures Dataset .

We are looking for people like you to work with us to collect 20 USGS Structures . The data you collect during this project will be loaded into The National Map . If you have access to the Internet and are willing to dedicate some time to editing map data we hope you will consider participating!  For more information go to the National Map Corps page

The federal government and its geospatial partners today unveiled www.geoplatform.gov, a prototype Geospatial Platform website providing an initial view of the future of user-friendly, integrated, federal data collections on common geographic maps.

This prototype version of the Geospatial Platform combines map-based data and tools with the latest internet technologies to deliver geospatial information in a simple, understandable package. Users—including the public, federal agencies and their partners—can easily find federally-maintained geospatial data, services and applications, as well as access data from our partners across State, Tribal, Regional and local governments.
Through the website, users can create their own maps by combining their data with public domain data and can collaborate in public and private groups with others who share their interests. Maps assembled through the Geospatial Platform can be shared with others through web browsers and mobile technologies. All of this is possible without requiring users to install software on their own computers.