Borchert Map Library -- Maps in the News

Mapping March Madness

Maps related to the likelihood of attending or watching college basketball games...

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The United States of Starbucks

Maps of Starbucks-owned locations connected using a Delaunay triangulation and a Voronoi diagram.

The latter shows that the furthest possible distance you can be from a Starbucks in the continental U.S. is 170 miles. Also, further analysis shows that more than 80% of the U.S. population lives within 20 miles of a Starbucks...

Posted by Ryan Mattke at 1:37 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Colorado Wildfires User Map Gallery

from the site:

This gallery showcases web maps and applications created by Esri users. It features a combination of user-generated information, authoritative live feeds, and social media used to create compelling, visually-rich content using ArcGIS Online.

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Flickr has made their shapefile data available under the Creative Commons Zero Waiver....placing them within the public domain so that researchers, developers and others can use them without worry.

Additional information about the shape files is available on their site.

Posted by Kristi Jensen at 12:46 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)