Best of the Blogs 24 November 2015

By on 24 November, 2015

Landmark map indigenous

 

Nearly 65 percent of the world’s land is held by Indigenous Peoples and communities, yet only 10 percent is legally recognised as belonging to them. LandMark is the first online, interactive global platform to provide maps and other critical information on lands that are held and used by Indigenous Peoples and communities.

 

National Geographic have been mapping the world’s largest active volcano, the Tamu Massif found deep under the Pacific. In their recent expedition they filmed the sharks that actually live inside the ash filled waters of the volcano.

 

On a clear night you might be lucky enough to spot a satellite flying overhead like a lazy shooting star. Now, with the Line of Sights map you can know exactly when and where to look,

 

Gizmodo Australia celebrated International GIS Day on Wednesday with a collection of some of Australia’s greatest land transformations such as Barrangaroo and White Bay, captured by Nearmap imagery and turned into animated GIFs

 

NASA’s extensive post “A Breathing Planet, Off Balance” uses videos, graphics and some fascinating links between the oceans, forests, carbon and the climate to ask the gloomy question, ‘how long this delicate balancing act can go on’?

 

The Guardian ran an interesting feature on how with satellites such as ESA’s Gaia star-mapper is makjing astronomy so accessible that everybody with a computer, including children will be the first to discover the far corners of space.

 

I Know Where Your Cat Lives is part art project, part cat memes and part mapping initiative to raise awareness of privacy issues. The project showed just how easy it is to use social media pictures of cats to ascertain a cat’s home (and therefore its owner’s).

 

This video from Science Alert shows that if you were to stretch Earth’s history into a line spanning from Los Angeles to New York City, the entirety of human history would occur within a single city block.

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