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In the United States there is a clear pattern of human settlement where to the East, there is more than 30 inches of rainfall and so crops can be grown without irrigation, and to the West, irrigation is required. This post is an exploration of population density, precipitation rates, and the National Hydrography Dataset (NHD)...
If you have interest in alternative and decentralized social media, be sure to check out our Mastodon community! My profile: https://mapstodon.space/@guidorice
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I recommend the new book The Power of Where, by Jack Dangermond and Esri (2024). Here's my short review of this new book...
In November 2023 I was the #6 finalist in the ModCon23 contest for the new programming language, Mojo馃敟. Calculating an envelope is a fundamental part of spatial analysis. The envelope (aka: bounds, bbox, mbr) is usually defined by an xmin, ymin, xmax, and ymax representing the minimum and maximum x (longitude) and y (latitude) coordinates that encompass the bounded feature(s)...
My first hello world post included the famous "earthrise" Apollo 8 photo. Just for fun here's an interactive 3D globe in the browser. Compliments of Mapbox, using their free tier. This demo uses a React .tsx component in a docusaurus .mdx page...