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An interactive map has been created by South West Water showing sewage releases around the coast. The WaterFit Live map is designed to share information about the region’s bathing beaches, location and performance of storm overflows, as well as the company’s plans to improve water quality. The government is making it mandatory for all water ...

In California, extreme heat and drought conditions now occur at regular intervals, drying out grassland, pine needles and other foliage, adding to the century-old tinderbox that stokes these enormous fires. However, the state is now harnessing a powerful tool to dampen the effects of these fires, namely artificial intelligence, and specifically machine learning. The abundance ...

The National Geographic Society launched the World Water Map as part of its five-year World Freshwater Initiative to better understand developing freshwater shortages around the world and inspire sustainable action. The Map was created by the National Geographic Society in cooperation with Utrecht University and Esri to identify water availability hotspots, visualize global freshwater supply ...

The Thünen Institute now offers interactive forest maps through the Thünen Atlas (http://atlas.thuenen.de) that provide a nationwide overview of the stocked forest area—i.e., the area on which trees grow—and the dominant tree species. The digital maps have a resolution of 10m x 10m. The map of dominant tree species is based on data from the ...

Auf dem Geoportal des Bundes ist eine neue Karte aufrufbar. Die Karte stellt für jedes Schweizer Wohngebäude dar, wie viel CO2 unter Normbedingungen ausgestossen wird. Dies teilt das Bundesamt für Umwelt (Bafu) mit. Mit einem interaktiven CO2-Rechner kann demnach zudem simuliert werden, wie sich ein Heizungswechsel und energetische Sanierungen auf den CO2-Ausstoss auswirken. Die Karte ...

Last week, local authorities in Dresden, Germany, unveiled several new digital tools that would greatly help the city’s private residents adopt solar energy. Officials published two interactive maps of the city, one 3D and one flat, to give people an overview of the suitability of their houses for roof or façade photovoltaics. The maps were ...

The Association of Mental Health Providers (AMHP) has created the first ever complete picture of mental health service provision across England, via a freely available interactive map, working in partnership with Esri UK. By combining data from the AMHP’s members and other mental health service providers, alongside demographic data, the map helps users understand where ...

Le site Géolittoral s’enrichit d’une nouvelle rubrique qui donne accès à une cartographie et un tableau de bord des données sur les sites d’aquaculture et un visualiseur qui permet d’approfondir certaines thématiques. Elle a été développée à la demande de l’Etat par le Cerema, en collaboration avec les Centres techniques conchylicole (Capena, SMEL, Cepralmar, SMIDAP). ...

Localizar y vincular a cada personaje histórico con los acontecimientos que vivió, la época, el lugar y el motivo, o lo que es lo mismo, saber el «quién», el «cuándo», el «dónde» y el «qué» de cada pasaje de nuestro devenir, ese el objetivo del nuevo Portal Digital de Historia Hispánica presentado ayer por la ...

Sacha Fournier, who recently debuted an interactive map that tracks McDonald’s Big Mac prices throughout the United States in real time, has followed up on the viral success of “McCheapest” with a map that tracks something else we’ve all been keeping an eye on: the steep price of a dozen eggs at the grocery store. ...

El nuevo mapa de los minerales críticos existentes en el territorio de Andalucía, el primero de estas características en España, ofrece una fotografía actualizada de las materias primas que resultan fundamentales en el desarrollo de las nuevas tecnologías limpias. La herramienta identifica en suelo andaluz zonas susceptibles de aprovechamiento de 17 sustancias consideradas estratégicas en ...

Orbify is a SaaS platform that enables the creation of custom Earth Intelligence web applications, dashboards, or APIs. Platform users can combine three different components that allow for the easy creation of these applications: data, algorithms, and visual components necessary for a front-end web application that is presented to the end user. Everything is cloud-based, ...

O Instituto de Proteção Ambiental do Amazonas (Ipaam) lançou uma ferramenta de consulta que fortalecerá o licenciamento ambiental no Estado do Amazonas, o Geoportal. A ferramenta é um repositório de dados espaciais e não espaciais de agendas temáticas ligadas às atividades de licenciamento, fiscalização e monitoramento ambiental, que visa oferecer à sociedade maior facilidade no ...

TuneIn is adding a new way for users to discover the more than 100,000 radio stations available to stream on its service. This week, the company – in honor of World Radio Day, which fell on February 13th – began rolling out TuneIn Explorer (via Android Police). The feature plots everything TuneIn offers on an ...

Prague has an excellent public transit system, but there still are delays. An online map shows the exact location of all public transit vehicles in real time, so you can decide if it is worth waiting or making alternative plans. The function will likely soon be added to the PID Lítačka application. People in Prague ...

La Biblioteca Digital ‘memoriademadrid’ ha publicado un mapa virtual en el que se pueden visualizar 1.087 tarjetas postales históricas de Madrid, geolocalizadas y referenciadas, procedentes de la colección del Museo de Historia y de las aportadas por la ciudadanía en el marco del proyecto Memoria de los Barrios. Esta herramienta permite observar la evolución de ...

Afet Haritası, destek ve kurtarma çalışmaları için yerel yetkililer, STK’lar, şirketler ve gönüllüler gibi çeşitli aktörler arasında etkili iletişim ve koordinasyon sorunlarını çözmeye odaklanıyor. Destek sağlayan tüm aktörleri gerçek zamanlı olarak takip edebilen Afet Haritası, aynı zamanda Türkiye’nin afet bölgelerindeki ihtiyaçları belirlemek ve tedarik etmek için kullanıcıları hızlı bir şekilde harekete geçiriyor. Kısacası Afet Haritası, ...