5/4/21 by NPR
Ecologist Suzanne Simard says trees are “social creatures” that communicate with each other in remarkable ways — including warning each other of danger and sharing nutrients at critical times. Her book is ‘Finding the Mother Tree.’
This is the kind of thing that used to start wars, but we highly doubt that this incident will come to that. A farmer who was annoyed by a historic stone marker that was in his tractor’s path moved the object 7.5 feet — unofficially making his own country of Belgium slightly bigger and neighboring France slightly smaller.
Farmers are notoriously protective of their land rights; sovereign nations tend to be, too. As you can imagine, the incident has raised some eyebrows.
First reported by the BBC, the news outlet said that the border between France and what is now Belgium was formally established under the Treaty of Kortrijk, signed in 1820 after Napoleon’s defeat at Waterloo five years earlier. The stone, which is between the Belgian town of Erquelinnes and the French town of Bousignies-sur-Roc, dates back to 1819, when the border was first marked out.
OpenStreetMap (OSM) is perhaps one of the largest geospatial collaborative projects in the world, where over 1.5 million contributors have helped to edit over 1 billion features.[1]?The project effectively tries to map the world using a crowdsourcing, collaborative method.??In this MapScaping Podcast episode,?Jennings Anderson, who researches OSM, discusses the benefits of the project.
New York is a tiny state area wise compared to Texas.
Texas = 261,231 sq mi (land)
New York = 47,126 sq mi (land)
You can put 5.5 NY in landmass of TX.
3/24/21 by MapScaping
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The Open Geospatial Consortium ( OGC ) is connecting people, communities, and technology to solve global challenges and address everyday needs. check out episode 43 – The Evolution of geospatial file formats and data exchange – with Dale Lutz ( Co-Founder of SafeSoftware ) You might also enjoy this episode about data formats 🙂 Remember to Subscribe 🙂 Share this podcast with a friend! Join the email list https://mapscaping.com/podcast Happy to connect with you on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielodonohue/
This webinar will provide data-driven answers to why open access to GIS tax parcels is important in New York State. We will also discuss how the GIS community and the public can advocate in Counties across the State to create more access to standardized, statewide GIS tax parcel data.
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.