Using Narrative to Tell the Blackout Story – Nieman Foundation
Reporting from inside a power plant helped to tell the dramatic story of decision-making when the lights went out.
Trail
Talk about today turning into a rather dreary day
Talk about today turning into a rather dreary day. 🌧
Usually, Thursday is my day to go to store at lunchtime and then down to the library to work, but I don’t think that will be the plan for today — much too chilly and wet today. We need the rain, and it will help kill off more of the remaining snow, and get us out of rain/snow deficit we’ve had lately this winter, but it doesn’t make for nice looking out my window today at work. Kind of miss the basement office when things look like this. Been trying to get my CDTA navigator card updated — they’re having computer backend issues at CDTA but they say they are working on it.
Vermont Farm Data
A county-by-county overlay that when you click on the layers will show information about the number of farms, acreage and cattle raised per county by year.
One thing that often annoys me is the over-formality and over-professionalization of the GIS community on the Internet
One thing that often annoys me is the over-formality and over-professionalization of the GIS community on the Internet. There isn’t a lot out there for mapping hobbyists, most things and services are directed towards professional planners and scientists. Too much is devoted to expensive commercial tools and experts, and not enough towards open source and hobbyists.
While data has become much widely available on the internet and ESRI should be commended for it’s adoption of open formats like ArcMap REST/Services, WMS, ESRI Shapefiles, and Geopackages, the expansion of data access hasn’t come with a lot of good podcasts or blogs for the hobbyist interested in open technology. There are a wealth of QGIS tutorials and information on GRASS and GDAL but it seems like most of the podcasts and websites on GIS still a very much aimed at the high-brow, professional class rather then the curious hobbyist looking to make maps for his or her own use.
Buskirk | New York State Covered Bridge Society
According to the NYSDOT, the Buskirk Covered bridge is the busiest in the state with an average of 835 cars per day using it. Built 1857, half a century before the first automobile crossed it, these days it sees 311,345 automobiles and trucks up to 12 tons cross it yearly.