Fun map showing what we already know to be true. Florida is flat. And not in a @CarlsbadNole kind of way.
Any other map nerds in the LR?
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I can spend hours looking at maps. Especially love old ones and seeing where current names evolved from older ones...
When I was young, I had a globe with all the elevations on land and ocean raised. I would run my fingers over the surface until the paint came off. I found all the striations amazing. Why the patterns, how'd they get there,..... Then the concept of continents was introduced. Mind blown.
If you have never been to Rome, they have these huge placards around the Colosseum. They show the expansion of the Empire over time from central Italy across the known world. After walking back and forth for an hour looking at the changes, people I was with were like "What the hell are you still doing? Its not that interesting!" I ended up taking pictures of a bunch of them just because I thought they were so cool.
Anyone else ever go on Youtube for ride-along type videos?? I subscribe to Freewayjim's channel, for instance. Very entertaining...Great music and lots of info. It's like traveling from home.
Interesting. I've never seen that. I usually get stuck in a never ending loop of supercar crash compilation or best of Whose Line is it Anyway clips when I go to YouTube.
Being the geek I am, I'll open Google Maps in another tab and follow Jim's driving path.
I've always been fascinated with maps. I have an undergraduate degree from FSU in Geography.
I'm building a GIS-based land use model for Hillsborough County as we speak.
I'm building a GIS-based land use model for Hillsborough County as we speak.
I minored in geography - they were my favorite courses.
I did a lot of GIS work in the late aughts in my previous job but haven’t used it in six years so don’t remember anything. I’m at the point of just using CalTopo for hiking purposes.
We enjoy heading down to the TB area for pleasure trips, and I'm always searching for new quicker/easier routes there and back.
Very cool Florida Image! Check it out -
The internet is fabulous for map freaks its the golden age, for random fun -
http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/
The geographies of old world history -
http://www.worldology.com/Interactive_Maps/index.htm
And I save this one for late at night, the interactive map links to census data which can be very revealing -
http://www.city-data.com/city/Tallahassee-Florida.html
Btw me too on the FSU Geography degree!
The internet is fabulous for map freaks its the golden age, for random fun -
http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/
The geographies of old world history -
http://www.worldology.com/Interactive_Maps/index.htm
And I save this one for late at night, the interactive map links to census data which can be very revealing -
http://www.city-data.com/city/Tallahassee-Florida.html
Btw me too on the FSU Geography degree!
I'm a big fan of maps... especially checking out St. Johns County on the NOAA app right now when we're forecast to be at 14° Monday morning in North Texas and the lows out there are higher than our forecast highs for a few days.
It says "university of Arizona" right on the map. Try harder.
It's more of a visioning tool than a predictive model. It's designed to test the outcomes of different policy scenarios based on the amount of vacant and redevelopable land and assigned placetypes that prescribe density, intensity, land use mix, etc.
One scenario may continue current development and policy trends into the future. Another might look at higher intensity nodes along high capacity transit lines, etc.
The model can provide information on the impacts of each scenario. In this case, we'll look at impacts to school enrollment, agricultural land consumption, jobs-housing balance, transit access and walk/bike potential and population in high hazard coastal areas, among other things.
Did anyone else back in the day take blank pieces of paper and trace of the outline of the United States and fill in roadways and cities? Or was that some weird thing that only I did as a kid?
A little...Especially when doodling in school.
Starting around age 4-5 I used to get fold- up maps, spread them out on the floor, and wear them out/eventually tear them along the seams from looking at them. When riding in the car with my older sisters, my mom knew to ask me for directions. I'd always be studying atlases and almanacs and memorizing stats, capitals, etc. that I still remember to this day better than what I ate last week.
Yeah I just remember in elementary school getting a workbook sized atlas. And for some reason I was fascinated with it. I studied the hell outta that thing. As a 4th grader I could rattle off different highways that ran through whatever states, capitals, lakes, etc.
It makes me cringe sometimes at how many people can't locate states on a map or just the general knowledge of the United States.
I was in meteorology 100 or whatever it was called during my second freshman year. On day 1 or 2 the teacher handed out a letter sized map of the US without state names and asked folks to fill in all the ones they knew.
I’ll never forget seeing the map the girl next to me handed in - she only filled in two, Florida and Georgia. At least she put them in the right places. It boggled my mind that someone couldn’t get CA or TX or... well, any other state.
I’ll never forget seeing the map the girl next to me handed in - she only filled in two, Florida and Georgia. At least she put them in the right places. It boggled my mind that someone couldn’t get CA or TX or... well, any other state.
One summer term at FSU, I had three consecutive 1:20 classes...pretty grueling. The middle one was an elective intro Geography course. I only went the first day and for exams and got an A (no roll taken...big class). I already knew it all from years of studying.
You could've gone blind from all that rubbing.
Another map reader here. Plus I was always lookin' out the cockpit windows at interesting stuff on the ground.
I have at least 6 maps framed and hanging at my place and an old world globe from my grandfather that he picked up when he flew internationally for TWA. I am an unabashed map nerd and study google maps at least once a day, probably more. As a surfer, I love looking at all the knooks, crannies, points, inlets, and bays around the world that could get potential surf that noone would ever think about. And I still have a US road atlas and the GOAT road map of all time, the FL Gazetteer.
There is an awesome google maps game that I routinely score in the upper %, where you are placed street level at random points in the world and you have to guess where you are, you are then graded by how far off you are.
https://geoguessr.com
There is an awesome google maps game that I routinely score in the upper %, where you are placed street level at random points in the world and you have to guess where you are, you are then graded by how far off you are.
https://geoguessr.com
Thanks, sounds interesting. What are you building it in? ArcServer running some custom models/tools for the predictive outputs? Or something more open source?
I've moved over to work with my wife full time. It's all urban and environmental planning GIS. We're planning to start selling services to really small municipalities who can't afford a GIS person/dept of their own. There are a ton out here. Focus will be all online services via ArcGIS Online.
The tool I'm using for this project is a proprietary ArcGIS extension called CommunityViz. It's a pretty standard tool for scenario planning.
Good luck in your new venture. We have offices in Oakland and LA. I'll keep my eyes open for possible teaming opportunities.
Ah, I've seen that - back when the firm I worked with did actual planning. My last company just collected money for churning out reports that didn't say anything.
A few companies back we were putting together something similar from scratch - this was about the time CV released their first product. Owner at the time decided that if we didn't have a path to package and market ours then we were wasting time. Short sighted as staff from that company now sit in planning offices up and down CA. Could have had something if he was willing to spend a little time/money. We had a working framework.
A few companies back we were putting together something similar from scratch - this was about the time CV released their first product. Owner at the time decided that if we didn't have a path to package and market ours then we were wasting time. Short sighted as staff from that company now sit in planning offices up and down CA. Could have had something if he was willing to spend a little time/money. We had a working framework.
There are a few tools coming out of your neck of the woods. Envision Tomorrow is developed by Fregonese Associates. It's open source (at least it used to be).
I am a geologist and map nerd. That is a cool map... I enjoyed the snow capped Alps of West Gadsden County.
What see is the great Central Florida Faultline going up the center of the state and the great Lake City Mountain Range. That fault will rupture and bury us all.
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I heard or read once that if one had the proper boat/equipment, he/she could traverse Florida from the Georgia line to the southern tip without leaving water.
Are there any models that don't conclude there's gonna be a hell of a lot of people and no place to put them?
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