There’s been some recent chatter about a NASA video that uses Landsat imagery to depict Vegas sprawl since 1975.
Here’s the Landsat imagery composite showing the change in vegetation across Greater Kansas City from 1975 to 2005. Purple areas lost vegetation. Green areas gained vegetation. This map was generated using Esri’s “ChangeMatters” viewer.
Source: Environmental Systems Research Institute (esri)
Kill time by looking at the various web viewers local counties use to share parcel data and other geographic information.
Cass–http://beacon.schneidercorp.com/Application.aspx?AppID=128&LayerID=1529&PageTypeID=1&PageID=917
Clay–http://gisweb.claycogov.com/maps/
Jackson–http://maps.jacksongov.org/parcelviewer/
Johnson–http://maps.jocogov.org/ims/
Leavenworth–https://leavenworth.integritygis.com/
Platte–http://maps.co.platte.mo.us/platteco/frames.htm?origin=main
Wyandotte–http://www2.wycokck.org/dotmaps/pviewer/viewer.htm
NOAA's Storm Report Map for 2/28/2012.
Seemed too early to hear my house windows rattle the way they did last night.
The Weather Channel’s map of incidents and tornado signatures on the radar map.
Dr. Jeff Masters on WunderBlog: “Tornadoes rip Midwest, Killing 9”.
Anyone interested in the Turner and Rosedale neighborhoods in Kansas City, Kansas will find this master plan for the Southwest Boulevard – Merriam Lane corridor interesting. Plus it’s loaded with analysis, demographics, history, and maps.
Kansas geographer given top kudos by state.
Kansas geographer spotlighted by Fast Company for developing a methodology to help predict the location of meth labs.
Kansas City’s historic map business spotlighted in recent Star article.
Based on temperature data from 1976-2005, the USDA has bumped up KC—and most of the USA—by five degrees in their recent update to the Plant Hardiness Zone Map. (It’s the map on the back of most seed packs that’s used to schedule spring plantings.)
Greater Kansas City lied in zones 5b and 6a in the old map, on the new map it’s in zones 6a and 6b.
KC’s 1990 USDA Plant Hardiness Zones:
KC’s 2012 USDA Plant Hardiness Zones:
A notable quote about maps from Seth Stevenson‘s recent Slate article about David Imus’s award winning map “The Essential Geography of the United States of America”
“There’s also a certain flavor of geographic comprehension that comes with taking in a map all at once in a large format. Imus argues that you can’t truly understand a place if you only use zoomed-in maps on teensy screens. (Evidence for this notion: Although we probably look at maps now more than at any other time in history—thanks to their digital ubiquity—our knowledge of geography hasn’t improved at all. Studies show that our kids continue to live in geographic ignorance, in some cases worse than it was 15 years ago.) Looking at Imus’ big, richly detailed map offers a holistic sense of what America looks like—how cities spread out along rivers, forests give way to plains, and mountains zigzag next to valleys. In Imus’ exuberant view, a map like this might inspire enough geographic curiosity to guide the next generation of students back on course.”
The short article is worth the read, and the map, of course, is well worth the look.
ArcGIS Online experiment 1: City Council Districts, Kansas City Missouri.
MSDIS reports the Missouri Office of Administration, has again released the redistricting data.
The Missouri Office of Administration, Redistricting Office has re-released to MSDIS updated datasets depicting, house and senate district boundaries in Missouri. > These updated data can be found here:
ftp://msdis.missouri.edu/pub/state/MO_2011_House_Districts.zip > ftp://msdis.missouri.edu/pub/state/MO_2011_Senate_Districts.zip >
The US Census Bureau released the 2011 Q-3 tax figures yesterday, which makes good content for simple 3-D maps. See below for how Kansas and Missouri compare to each other and to the other states in the lower 48. Wondering what’s up with North Dakota? Think taxes on mining and mineral extraction.
KC MAPPING & GIS 