Save the children Italy maps

My attention was drawn this morning at the Esri Partner Conference to a series of interesting maps made by "save the children Italy". The maps are also shown in a full public map gallery. Below you can find an example. To view all map items of the organization, click here.


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Occurrence of Schmallenberg Virus in the UK

Another nice map of Will White...Schmallenberg Virus (SBV) is a new emerging livestock disease that has been detected in Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands and the UK. It was first identified in the UK in late January. It is similar to some other animal disease pathogens, such as Akabane and Shamonda viruses, which are transmitted by vectors, such as midges, mosquitoes and ticks.

Infection information has been gathered from The Animal Health and Veterinary Laboratories Agency (an executive agency of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs). SBV infection data is presented at Local Authority level. At present the virus appears most prevalent in Sheep. This map includes sheep population data for England also taken from Defra. This data can be found here. More information can be found on the Defra Website.


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Large Scale Base map Flanders can now be combined with Bing maps

AGIV (Flemish Agency for Geographic Information) publishes the large scale infrastructure map for Flanders (Grootschalig Referentiebestand Vlaanderen) as a WMS service. The service is covering already a large part of Flanders and maps all infrastructure in great detail. It can be combined with other base maps in Web Mercator projection as shown below.


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The true geography of the London Underground

Will White (Esri UK) mapped the true geographic route of the London underground:
The London Underground map, first developed by Harry Beck in 1931, is world famous as being an iconic schematic diagram, however as many know it isn't geographically accurate. This map shows the real route of the Tube and its stations.
At closer zoom scales you can also turn on 5 minute average walk times (please note, these are off by default) around each underground station. This distance is based on an average walking speed of 5 km/hr. These were calculated by generating geodesic buffers using ArcGIS for Desktop.


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Music on the map

Royal harmonic orchestra are in Belgium traditional music organisations which are more than 100 years old. There are quite a few of them in my region, the Hageland region Between Leuven, Diest and St Truiden. These bands have often more than 70 musicians with drum, brass and woodwind instruments. The symbols on the map show locations of these orchestra with links to their website and music. The popup also shows their logo, often the official shields from the time of their foundation.


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A Map of map services

The map below uses the arcgis server rest interface capability to make centroid points of map services automatically in KML format. Each of the map pins below represents one of the map services of the European Environmental Agency. Clicking on the pins shows the detailes of the map services.


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Maps on the map: footprints of historic maps

This map shows footprints of historic maps in the former Southern and Northern Netherlands. I'm still completing the collection. All the footprints have links to an explanatory page, the map itself and a thumbnail. I will be adding more maps when time is available. Zoom in and click on the footprints, in a lot of cases there is more than one footprint on the same place, click on the small triangle in top right corner of the popup to browse through the different footprints.


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