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Monday, November 20, 2017
The Cost of Going Outside
Apparently Americans have to pay an entrance fee to 'enter' the great outdoors. Some National Parks in the USA charge an entrance fee. And the National Parks Service wants to put those prices up.
Mapbox has therefore released the NPS Fee Explorer Map. This interactive map allows you to select a national park, a mode of entry (car, bike or on foot) and the number of visitors to find out how much your visit could cost after the proposed increases to entrance fees. It also explains how much more this would cost than it costs now to visit the same national park.
The proposed increases only affect 17 national parks. The national parks are highlighted on the map by using a different shade of green than for the surrounding natural areas on the map.
Forget the map though. My big take away from this is that Americans have to pay money to go outside.
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Mapping the Irish Rebellion
I've been experimenting a lot recently with the Leaflet-IIIF plug-in. The plug-in allows you to display IIIF manifests in Leaflet maps. This map of Van Gogh's Self-Portrait Dedicated to Gauguin shows how you can use the plug-in to pan & zoom around an IIIF manifest. While this Compendium of Victorian Map Games shows how you can load different manifest URLs into the same Leaflet map.
One of the main advantages of using Leaflet to display IIIF manifests is that you can switch between a map and an IIIF manifest with some ease. In other words Leaflet can be used to show the location of geo-tagged images and provide an interface in which you can pan & zoom around these very same images. You can get a better idea by looking at this demo map of Dublin 1916.
This map uses a number of postcards created after the 1916 Rising in Dublin. These postcards are held by the UCD Digital Library. The map shows the location depicted in each of the images. If you click on a marker then you can view the postcard selected and pan & zoom around the image.
Switching between a basemap map layer and an IIIF manifest is not as straightforward as you might think. The reason for this is that the map and the IIIF manifest use different map projections. Therefore you need to change the map projection every time you switch between a manifest and the map.
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Labels: Dublin, history maps, IIIF, Ireland
Who Else Owns England?
Who Owns England? has set itself the task of mapping who owns land in England. Earlier this year it released an interactive map showing all the land in England owned by the government, government bodies or charities. The map was partly an extension of earlier work done by Anna Powell-Smith for the satirical magazine Private Eye.
Back in 2015 Private Eye created an interactive map showing the amount of English & Welsh land that has been bought up by offshore companies. Selling England by the Offshore Pound uses Land Registry data to plot all land parcels registered in the name of an offshore company between 2005 and July 2014.
Who Owns England? has now created an interactive map of land owned by UK corporate bodies, councils, UK companies, housing associations and more. This new map uses Land Registry data, which for the first time ever shows who owns around 3.5 million land titles. According to Who Owns England? the data shows that "companies and the public sector own around a third of England and Wales". The majority of land is owned by Limited Companies. The second largest category of land owners are local authorities and county councils.
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Labels: real estate, UK
Saturday, November 18, 2017
Where can you travel without a visa?
Travelscope is an interactive visualization of all the countries in the world that you can travel to without a visa. The map also includes options to view the population and GDP of every country in the world.
I really like the animated transitions when you switch between Travelscope's two different map views. When you switch between the map and 3d globe view the map actually wraps itself into a sphere. The map also includes animated flow-lines, which are used to show all the countries that you van travel to from your selected country.
The visualization was created using d3.js and three.js and a number of other JavaScript libraries. You can find out more about how the visualization was created on the project's GitHub page. Travelscope is featured on Google's Chrome Experiments site. If you like interactive 3d globes you can find many more examples using the Chrome Experiments geographic tag.
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Friday, November 17, 2017
Mapping Earthquake Prone Buildings
The New Zealand Herald has created an interesting mapped tour of Wellington's Earthquake Prone Buildings. The map shows the location of the 95 Wellington buildings which have unreinforced masonry and the 699 buildings which are earthquake prone. The map also identifies hotspots where unsafe buildings are located in areas with large numbers of pedestrians.
The map effectively uses Mapbox GL to provide a bird's eye view of Wellington with 3d buildings (the earthquake prone buildings are colored red on the map). This 3d view of the city is combined with a story map format so that the Herald can take its readers on a tour of the city's vulnerable buildings and dangerous hotspots.
The map uses extrusions to display the 3d buildings. This is neatly combined with the story map format to give a real sense of flying over the city's buildings. This tour of the city is supported by the Herald's analysis of the city's earthquake prone buildings and the danger that they pose to the city. This analysis appears in the scrolling map side-panel.
In New Zealand all buildings need to be assessed by law to identify which buildings are earthquake prone. The New Zealand Herald were able to use this data to create their map of Wellington's earthquake prone buildings. In the United States the Oregonian had to take a different approach in mapping the Oregon buildings most prone to earthquake damage.
In 1974 Oregon enacted its first statewide building code. In 1993 western Oregon adopted its first seismic standards. Franz Rad, a professor of civil & environmental engineering at Portland State University, argues that these dates provide a "broad-brush look at the vulnerability of buildings".
Earthquakes: How Vulnerable are Portland's Buildings? uses Portland building age data to assess which buildings are most earthquake prone. Building footprints are colored on the map to show buildings constructed before 1974, those constructed between 1974 & 1993 and buildings erected after 1993. You can therefore use the map to assess the ('broad-brush') vulnerability of any Portland building to earthquake damage.
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Labels: New Zealand
Do you live near a gas pipeline?
Do you know how near you live to a gas pipeline? Well you can now find out using a new interactive map from the Sierra Club. Yesterday the environmental organization released an interactive map of gas pipelines in the USA. You can use the map to see how near your home, school or workplace is to a gas pipeline and if they are in a pipeline blast zone or evacuation zone.
The Sierra Club Gas Pipelines Map displays planned and already operating gas pipelines across the United States. If you zoom-in on the map you can also view the location of schools, hospitals, daycare centers and nursing homes. It can be a little difficult to select individual pipelines on the map. However if you do successfully click on a pipeline you can find out who it is owned by and whether it is in operation, planned or under construction.
Also See
Building the Dakota Access Pipeline
What Kinder Morgan's Pipeline will Mean for B.C.'s Coast
A Line in the Sand - mapping reactions to the proposed Northern Gateway Pipeline in Canada
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Thursday, November 16, 2017
The World's Most Dangerous Countries
This week I've seen a lot of reports recommending the International SOS Travel Risk Map. International SOS provide a very basic interactive map of the travel risks in each country of the world. Their Travel Risk Map provides an overview of the travel risks in each country for medical, security and road safety.
Countries are colored on the Travel Risk Map to show the International SOS assessment of the travel risks in these three categories. The map therefore does provide a very basic guide as to where it is safe to travel in the world. Unfortunately that is as far as the map goes. At the very least I would expect to be able to click on individual countries on the map to learn more about the travel risks in the selected country. If I'm travelling to a country I don't just want to know that there is a high security risk I want to know what those risks are.
Many governments provide useful advice for their citizens planning to travel abroad. For example the UK's Foreign and Commonwealth Office provides up-to-date Foreign Travel Advice. If you click on Zimbabwe on the Foreign and Commonwealth Office travel advice page you can see that the travel advice has been updated today and takes this week's military coup into account.
If you do use the Travel Risk Map please also check your government's latest travel advice as well.
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Building a Map of the Roman Empire
The Pelagios project is currently working on creating vector tile map layers to work with the Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire. A vector based Atlas of the Roman Empire will allow Pelagios to offer the user many more options. For example users could be given a choice to view place-name labels in Latin, ancient Greek or using the modern place-names. The vector based map will also have many more zoom levels which will allow Pelagios to actually map individual Roman Empire buildings.
Pelagios has been documenting the process of creating their vector tile map of the Roman Empire. You can read about how the vector tile map is being built on The Roman Empire Vector Map Project and Building the Roman Empire Vector Tile Map. A final post (yet to be published) will explore more the new possibilities that the vector tile map will provide for Pelagios and users of the Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.
This early demo version of the vector tiled map of the Roman Empire provides a drop-down menu that you can use to change the language of the map labels.
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Labels: history maps, Rome
Wednesday, November 15, 2017
The DC Transportation Model
Property developers in Washington DC must provide trip generation estimates in their project planning applications. In order to show how a project will impact on local traffic and public transit these reports include estimates of both morning and evening trips to and from the proposed development.
A new online mapping tool, developed by Stamen for transportation consultants Fehr & Peers and the District Department of Transportation (ddot), can now make these trip generation estimates for you. TripsDC is an interactive map tool "for estimating vehicle, walk, bike, and transit trips based on a proposed development's characteristics and its context".
Using the tool you can enter the address of a proposed development project. You then need to enter the number of residential units, the number of parking spaces and the retail square footage. That's all you need to do. With this information the tool can automatically produce your project's morning and evening trip generation estimates.
If you aren't planning any major development projects in DC you can still use the map to view the data behind the model. These include an interesting layer which shows the distance to the nearest Metro for every location in the capital.
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Labels: real estate, transit, USA, WashingtonDC
Lead Poisoning in New York
In 69 New York neighborhoods at least 10 percent of small children tested have elevated lead levels. The Reuters news agency has been examining childhood blood testing data in New York, at the census tract level, to determine where children are being exposed to high levels of lead.
You can view the results from the Reuters investigation on their Lead Poisoning interactive map. This choropleth map provides an overviews of the number of children who tested with elevated levels of lead. You can hover over each census tract on the map to view the exact percentage of children with elevated levels and the number of children tested in that census tract.
The interactive map provides quick links to view other cities where children have tested with worryingly high levels of lead. However the map can also be used to view lead testing results in locations throughout the United States.
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Labels: environment, New York, USA
The Density of Housing in London
The UK government has set a target of building a million new homes by 2020. This raises the question of where do you put a million new homes. In the past the government has wanted to relax laws which restrict new buildings on green field sites. However building on green field sites is usually very unpopular with voters. An alternative approach would be to build more densely in already built-up areas.
EMU Analytics and London YIMBY has teamed up to show that there may be many opportunities to build new homes in London. The London Housing Density map shows the number of homes in each Lower Layer Super Output Area (LSOA) in London. The map uses a 200x200m grid and clips around known non-residential areas (such as large parks) to give a reasonably accurate picture of the housing density in each LSOA.
The London Housing Density map also includes layers which show residential and non-residential building heights. These additional layers show where there might be more scope for increasing the number of homes by building taller apartment buildings.
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Labels: London, real estate, UK
Tuesday, November 14, 2017
Mapping Hate Crimes
The FBI has released its Hate Crime Statistics for 2016. The data shows that the number of hate crimes has risen for the second year running. As in previous years the highest number of hate crimes are race based crimes, with more than half of those crimes aimed at African-Americans. Alarmingly the number of religious based crimes against Muslims increased by 19 percent in just one year.
The Anti-Defamation League has updated its Hate Crime Map with the FBI's 2016 data. If you select the 'Hate Crime Data' tab on the map you can view which cities (with a population over 100,000) have reported hate crimes for any year since 2004. The blue dots indicate those cities which have reported hate crimes for the selected year.
Earlier this year the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) also reported a huge increase in hate crimes against Muslims in the United States. They reported that the number of anti-Muslim hate groups in America grew from 34 to 101.
According to the Southern Poverty Law Center the overall rise of hate groups is a direct result of the 'incendiary rhetoric' used by Donald Trump. In its annual census of extremist groups the SPLC claims that "Trump's run for office electrified the radical right, which saw in him a champion of the idea that America is fundamentally a white man's country".
The SPLC's interactive Hate Map tracks the growing number of hate groups operating in the United States. The map uses colored markers to indicate the category of each hate group shown on the map. If you select a marker on the map you can click-through to learn more about what this type of hate group believes and how they operate.
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Estimating Crowd Sizes with Maps
Estimating crowd sizes can be a very controversial subject. For example Donald Trump claimed there were a "million-and-a-half people" at his inauguration and said that the press were "going to pay a big price" for reporting figures way below his expert opinion.
One way to estimate the size of a crowd is to use maps to calculate the surface area of a crowd and then to multiply that surface area by the estimated density of the crowd. MapChecking is a very simple interactive map tool that can do this for you. It allows you to draw the surface area of your crowd, demonstration, march or gathering on a Google Map. It then allows you to enter an estimate for the number of people per square meter in your crowd. Once you have entered those two variables MapChecking automatically works out the crowd size.
Using a Reuters photo of Trump's inauguration with Map Checking gave me a figure of 357,143 people in the National Mall on January 20, 2017. If anything this might be being a bit generous as I haven't allowed for what look to be sizable gaps in the crowd in the Reuters photograph.
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Monday, November 13, 2017
The Mortgage Dot Map
An interactive view of the housing boom and bust is a dot map which shows the number of mortgages awarded in the United States for every year since 2001. As the animated map plays out you can see how the housing boom and bust has effected mortgage lending throughout the country.
Each dot on the map represents 10 mortgages. The color of the dots show the ethnicity of the mortgagees. A line graph below the map shows how the number of mortgages has risen & fallen over the same period. The timeline includes significant dates when economic events had a significant impact on the housing market.
The map includes a link to an article examining how restrictions to credit availability has disproportionately affected black and Hispanic households. The map includes filter controls which allow you to restrict the mortgages shown by ethnicity. You can therefore use the timeline with the filter controls to see for yourself how significant economic events have effected mortgage lending to different ethnic groups.
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Labels: economy, real estate, USA
Ai Weiwei in New York
The Chinese artist Ai Weiwei currently has a city wide art exhibition in New York City. 'Good Fences Make Good Neighbors' is inspired by Robert Frost's poem 'Mending Wall' and explores issues around immigration and the plight of refugees. Until February 11th 2018 you can view the artwork featured in Ai Weiwei's exhibition at locations throughout New York.
As part of the Good Fences Make Good Neighbors exhibition 200 banners have been hung around the city. These banners feature portraits of refugees (who featured in Ai Weiwei's documentary Human Flow). The exhibition also features a number of new site-specific works of art which are located in public-spaces throughout New York.
If you need help finding the over 300 works of art in the exhibition, as you navigate the city, then you might want to refer to the Good Fences Make Good Neighbors interactive map. The map uses categorized markers to show the locations of structures, bus shelters, lampposts and advertising spaces used in Ai Weiwei's exhibition. The map also allows you to access the exhibition notes for each of the featured art pieces.
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How Well Do you Know the World?
It's always good to start a new working week with a relaxing but educational map guessing game. Outline Maps is a Leaflet.js based series of map games which tests your geographical knowledge of the countries of the world and their capitals.
Outline Maps consists of two different types of game. The 'Find by name' games require you to point out named locations on a map of the world. The 'Find by feature' games highlight an area on the map and ask you to type in the identified location's name. Currently the game involves naming countries in either Africa, Europe, South American or the USA. There is also a game that requires you to know the capital cities of the world.
Outline Maps is available in GitHub. You can therefore fork the game and create your own map game. To create an Outline Maps game for another part of the world (e.g. the states of America) you just need to add a GeoJSON file of the geographical borders.
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Labels: game
Saturday, November 11, 2017
21 New World Heritage Sites
In July UNESCO announced that 21 new sites around the world have been given World Heritage status. The new sites include the first locations in Angola and Eritrea to be given World Heritage status and many other places of special cultural and natural significance across the globe.
You can explore all of these new locations on Esri's story map the 21 Newest UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Using the map you can view photos, fast facts and satellite imagery of each of the sites. The map also includes the UNESCO descriptions for each site.
You can view the location of all 1073 UNESCO World Heritage Sites on this UNESCO World Heritage List Interactive Map. The color of the markers on this map show which are cultural (yellow) & natural (green) sites and which sites are in danger (red).
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Friday, November 10, 2017
Americans With Honor
On Tuesday Syria agreed to sign the Paris climate agreement. When that happens every country in the world will have signed up to the Paris Accord. Unfortunately that world also includes Donald Trump.
Obviously the Paris Accord only has a chance of succeeding if all those countries honor what they signed up for. So does Donald Trump have any honor? Apparently not- as he is threatening to withdraw the United States from the agreement. Not every American is happy with that decision. For example the We Are Still In movement is a collection of U.S. states, cities, counties, businesses, universities and civil society organizations who have agreed to "stand by the Paris Agreement and are committed to meeting its goals".
Data-Driven Yale has released an interactive map of just some of those organizations that have pledged to honor the promise the USA made when it signed up to the Paris climate agreement. You can click on the markers displayed on the map to learn more about the individual organizations and any ecological commitments that they have made.
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How Green is Your Valley?
Under 6% of all the land in the UK is built on. Over half of the land is farmland and around a third of the land is natural.
The BBC has released a new map tool which can tell you how land is used in your Local Authority Area. Just enter a postcode into the BBC's How much of your area is built on? and you can view a map of your LEA which shows what land is built on, farmland, green urban (parks, gardens etc) and natural.
The maps use data from the Co-ordination of Information on the Environment (Corine) project, which uses satellite imagery and map data to determine land use in European countries.
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Labels: environment, UK
Thursday, November 09, 2017
The OS Mapping Toolkit
The UK's Ordnance Survey has a released a GeoDataViz Toolkit designed to help map makers 'communicate data effectively'. It includes colour palettes, map symbols and visual deconstructions. It also includes lot of advice for creating effective visualizations and many links to other helpful resources.
The Basemaps section of the toolkit will probably be of most interest to users of the OS Maps API. However the Colours, Symbols and Visual Deconstructions sections have more cross-platform appeal and should be of interest to all online map makers, whatever your preferred mapping platform.
The different sections of the toolkit are full of useful guidelines and recommendations for visualizing data with maps. Each section also includes lots of links to other useful resources. You can learn more about the GeoDataViz Toolkit and how it is used internally within the Ordnance Survey on the Ordnance Survey Blog.
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Beyond Cartogram Elections
Yesterday we looked at some of the visualization methods used by the New York Times to map the election results in the Virginia governor's race. These methods included using scaled markers, directional arrows and color intensity. The Washington Post has also been experimenting with new visualization techniques for mapping the Virginia election results.
In How Virginia went from blue to red and back again the Post uses scaled pyramids to show the number of votes cast in each electoral precinct and the margin of victory. These pyramids are colored to show the winner in each district. The height of the pyramid represents the size of the winning margin, while the width of the pyramid represents the size of the vote.
These scaled pyramid markers work quite well visually. They accurately portray how the Republicans continued to do well in the less densely populated rural areas while the Democrats dominated the race by winning in urban areas where more voters live.
If you want to know more about how the New York Times created their different views of the Virginia election results then you should read Mapbox's report New York Times live-mapping Virginia election. This blog post explains how the Times used Mapbox GL JS expressions in order to create their different views of the election data.
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From Africa to Europe - Refugee Journeys
More than 5,000 refugees died last year trying to get to Europe across the Mediterranean Sea. Crossing the Mediterranean Sea by Boat - Mapping and Documenting Migratory Journeys and Experiences is an international research project, led by the University of Warwick, which carried out 257 in-depth qualitative interviews with people who have made this journey.
The project has released an interactive story map which allows you to view some of these migratory journeys on a map, while also learning about the individual experiences of the people who actually made the journeys.
Each of these individual journeys are mapped to show each stage of the person's migration from Africa to Europe. 'Back' and 'Next' buttons allow the user to follow each stage of the journey made by the interviewed refugees. As the map updates the map side-panel also updates to provide information about the journey. This information includes the first-hand experiences of the individual refugee and more general information about the conditions that refugees experience at the mapped locations.
15 Years: Fortress Europe is an animated map of migrant and refugee deaths in Europe over the last fifteen years. The map uses data from the Migrant Files to show where and when migrants have died in trying to get to Europe, or in trying to move around the continent.
As the map plays through the fifteen years of data red markers are added to the map to show the location of each migrant death. The map sidebar continually updates to show details about each migrant death and you can click on individual markers on the map to read more details about each of these deaths.
Since 2013 the Migrant Files has been maintaining a database of migrants who have died in Europe or on their way to Europe. The database lists more than 30,000 people who have died trying to get to Europe since the year 2000.
An interactive map on the Migrant Files website shows that a large proportion of these deaths occur in the Mediterranean, particularly among migrants trying to cross from Libya & Tunisia to Italy.
The Silk team has also created an interactive map from the Migrants' Files data examining the number of migrant deaths in the Mediterranean. Their map allows you to query the information about migrant deaths by year, location and cause of death.
If you click on a map marker on the Fatal Migration Incidents in the Mediterranean map you can read details about the mapped incident, including the number of casualties and the date of the incident.
The Migrant Map 2000-2015 is another interactive map of the Migrant Files data, visualizing the number of dead or missing migrants across Europe and Africa. The map presents a truly shocking picture of the scale of this human tragedy.
You can select markers on the map to learn more about the individual cases reported and about the source of the information. The map also includes an animated heat-map layer which helps to highlight some of the hot-spots for migrant deaths over the last six years.
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Wednesday, November 08, 2017
US Election Results
The New York Times has mapped out the results of yesterday's elections in Virginia, New York and New Jersey. For these election results the newspaper has used the Mapbox GL mapping platform and provided users with a variety of different visualizations of each result.
The default view on the mapped results provides a simple choropleth view of the results in each county. This default view of the vote share allows readers to see the vote share of each candidate in each electoral precinct.
This 'vote share' view suffers from a common problem of electoral mapping, where larger rural precincts with less voters dominate the map at the expense of smaller urban precincts (where a majority of voters actually live). You can see in the screenshot above that in this 'vote share' view, for Virginia, the Republican Ed Gillespie actually appears to have won in most of Virginia, despite having lost the election.
To overcome this slightly misleading picture the NYT's electoral map also includes a 'vote density' view. In this mapped view the hue of the color used in each precinct is based on the density of voters. As you can see in the map above this helps to address some of the problems with the 'vote share' view. The muted red no longer visually dominates over the stronger hued blue on the map.
A third 'vote lead' view uses scaled circular markers in each precinct. The size of these markers reflects the size of the lead of the winning candidate in each precinct. Again this map presents a more accurate picture of the actual result of the election. Another 'shift from 2016' view uses colored arrows to show the swing in votes in each precinct since the last election. This view provides a great visual picture of the huge swing in Virginia from the Republicans to the Democrats.
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Tuesday, November 07, 2017
California Air Quality
In June of this year Google and the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) released an interactive map of air quality in Oakland, California. The map was the result of a collaboration between EDF and Google.
For this collaboration Google's Street View cars were equipped with sensors to measure nitric oxide, nitrogen dioxide and black carbon as they drove the streets, while also capturing the panoramic Street View imagery used on Google Maps. Google has now completed air quality tests for the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, and California's Central Valley.
So far no interactive maps have been released of this data. However the Google Blog has a few videos looking at the mapped results of these air quality measurements. The Aclima Blog has also published a number of data stories exploring the data. In addition Google says that air quality scientists can also request access to the data itself.
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Controlling the Weather
Geoengineers never watch disaster movies. If they did then they obviously wouldn't keep trying to change the climate and weather. From seeding clouds with silver iodide (in order to increase precipitation) to using algae to consume CO2 many scientists seem keen to control the environment. What could possibly go wrong?
The Geoengineering Monitor is attempting to track and monitor attempts to geoengineer the climate around the world. It has mapped the location of over 800 geoengineering projects. The Geoengineering Map provides information on Carbon Capture, Solar Radiation Management and Weather Modification projects.
These three different types of geoengineering are shown on the map using color-coded map markers. If you click on a marker you can view details on the selected project. These details include information on the companies involved and a brief explanation of the science being used to try and control the climate or weather.
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Labels: environment
What People Think of Donald Trump
Lots of people think Donald Trump is an idiot. Here's where over 13,000 of those people live.
Perhaps someone who works at the White House will frame this map and hang it somewhere prominent in the Oval Office.
Of course not everyone thinks that Trump is an idiot. Some people think he is a genios (sic). Here's where those 40 people live.
These two maps come from Trump in One Word, a website which asks you to describe Donald Trump in (you get guessed it) just one word. After you have described Donald Trump you can view the results from all the other people who have visited Trump in One Word. Just click on any of the words that have been used to describe Trump and you can see an interactive map of where all the people who submitted that word live (exact addresses not used).
Perhaps someone who works at the White House will frame this map and hang it somewhere prominent in the Oval Office.
Of course not everyone thinks that Trump is an idiot. Some people think he is a genios (sic). Here's where those 40 people live.
These two maps come from Trump in One Word, a website which asks you to describe Donald Trump in (you get guessed it) just one word. After you have described Donald Trump you can view the results from all the other people who have visited Trump in One Word. Just click on any of the words that have been used to describe Trump and you can see an interactive map of where all the people who submitted that word live (exact addresses not used).
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Labels: USA
Toronto's Caffeine Gang Wars
Toronto's caffeine gang wars are tearing the city apart. As rival coffee gangs fight for territory local residents can do next to nothing to stop the relentless spread of caffeine. Innocent residents can only sit back and watch in horror as their neighborhoods are overrun by blank-eyed caffeine addicts.
Neoformix is more informed than most. They have been busy mapping the spread of coffee shops throughout Toronto and its surrounding suburbs. They have even managed to map out out how the rival coffee gangs have carved out the city between them.
The Toronto Coffee Shop Territory Map shows you which parts of Toronto belong to which coffee shop gang. Using a Voronoi map Neoformix has divided Toronto into a patchwork quilt of new neighborhoods based on the nearest coffee shop chain.
In the center of the city you can see how Tim Hortons (red) and Starbucks (green) have conquered lots of small territories. However smaller independent coffee shops still manage to thrive in some places. If you zoom-out on the map you will discover that outside of the city Tim Hortons has carved out a lot of territory. As the population gets less dense there is more of a chance that your nearest fix of caffeine will come from a Tim Hortons.
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Labels: Canada, restaurants, Toronto
Monday, November 06, 2017
Explore the Seafloor
Have you ever wondered what lies beneath the ocean waves off the coast of America? If you have scuba diving experience you could always explore the seafloor for yourself. Or you could just let the U.S. Geological Survey do all the diving for you.
As part of the Coastal & Marine Geology Program Seafloor Mapping Project the USGS has been busy collecting video and photography of the seafloor off of the U.S. coast. You can explore the seafloor videos and photos for yourself using the USGS's Video and Photograph Portal. From the portal you can access interactive maps of California, Pacific Islands, Pacific NW, Alaska, New England and the Mid Atlantic.
All these interactive maps include seafloor video and photo imagery which you can explore directly from the map. Locations where video imagery is available are marked red on the map. The photo imagery is colored blue. Just click on these blue & red dots to view the seafloor imagery.
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Fantasy Map Generators
Oskar Stalberg's City Generator is a fun little application which can automatically create a map of a fictional town, complete with buildings, roads and trees.
Just click on the empty canvas to start generating a city map. You can then watch as urban sprawl starts to spread out from the location where you first clicked. If you don't like any of the gaps in your map you can click on the canvas again to add more buildings and roads to your randomly generated map.
The Medieval Fantasy City Generator is another fun tool. This one creates random fictional maps of medieval towns. Just choose your size of town or city and the Wizard of Maps will magically create your very own fantasy medieval map.
All the maps created by the Medieval Fantasy City Generator include a number of similar features. Each town or city is centered around a central market place. Each town is surrounded by a city wall. The city wall has up to four gates, where up to four roads enter the city. All of these roads end at the central market. A castle is also placed somewhere along each city's wall.
The Fantasy Map Generator is a d3.js based wizard for creating fantasy maps of fictional lands. The generator creates a fictional world complete with coast lines, regional borders and map labels. The generator also includes a number of customization options which allow you to change the color of the map and the number of features generated.
The Fantasy Map Generator is very much a work in progress and the author has lots of new developments in the pipeline. Details about these developments are covered in his blog Fantasy Maps for Fun and Glory.
If you enjoy fantasy worlds and maps then you should follow Uncharted Atlas on Twitter. This Twitter bot publishes random fantasy maps created by a fantasy map generator.
The details on how these maps are created can be viewed on Generating Fantasy Maps and Generating Placenames. The code for the generator is also available on GitHub.
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1850's Geneva in 3D
In the nineteenth century Swiss architect Auguste Magnin created an amazing 3d model of the walled city of Geneva. You can visit the model at the Maison Tavel in Geneva. If you can't get to Geneva then you will need to visit Geneve 1850 instead.
Geneve 1850 is an epic online interactive model of 1850's Geneva. The map allows you to immerse yourself in and explore Geneva as it looked in the mid-nineteenth century. To create this digital model of historic Geneva engineers scanned Magnin's original model in high definition. They were then able to recreate the 2,000 buildings (and their 40,000 windows and 8,000 skylights) in this digital model of the original.
The result is truly impressive. You can explore the city at street level, wandering around old Geneva on the ground. Alternatively you can take a bird's eye view tour of the city, flying a few feet above the city's rooftops. A menu provides a long list of important landmarks in the city which allows you to quickly navigate to different places in the city. Information points on the map also allow you to read about the history of the city's most iconic buildings.
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Saturday, November 04, 2017
How Opioids Kill Neighborhoods
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has just published an amazing investigation into the harm that the opioid epidemic has had on one Pittsburgh neighborhood. Journalists from the newspaper spent months in Carrick, Pittsburgh talking to addicts, the police, health care workers and ordinary residents. The result is Riding OD Road, an in-depth special report into how Carrick became the opioid capital of the region.
This remarkable piece of long-form journalism is partly illustrated by a number of Leaflet powered interactive maps. The maps are used to show the devastating effect the opioid epidemic is having on the people living in Carrick. They visualize the number and locations of heroin/opioid-related charges made by police in the area and the number of drug related police actions undertaken in Carrick. Another interactive map is also used to show how overseas and absentee landlords are exploiting the situation in Carrick by buying up cheap housing and then renting to addicts.
The maps in Riding OD Road are simple illustrations used to help convey the scale of the opioid crisis in the neighborhood. The heart of Riding OD Road is the remarkable interviews with the people who live and work in Carrick and their first-hand testimonies of living in a community being destroyed by opioids,
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Friday, November 03, 2017
Mapping a Rohingya Refugee Camp
Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims, fleeing religious persecution in Myanmar, are now living in government-run refugee camps in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. As more and more desperate refugees arrive from Myanmar the Kutupalong refugee camp grows in size everyday. The AFP news agency reports that it is set to house 800,000 people, which would make it the largest refugee camp in the world.
The AFP has interviewed a number of refugees who now live in the Kutupalong refugee camp. You can read their stories on the KFP's Kutupalong: Rohingyas Hit Dead End interactive map. The map uses a recent satellite image of the camp as the base-map for these refugee stories. The use of a satellite image is very effective in conveying the sheer size of the Kutpalong camp. The numbered markers on the map provide access to the refugees interviewed by the KFP. You can read these stories simply by selecting the markers on the map.
Also See
Refugee Republic - an interactive map exploring life in the Domiz Refugee Camp in Iraqi Kurdistan
Hockey & Baseball Refugees - an online documentary exploring five Greek refugee camps
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Mapping Changes to Journey Times
Isochrone maps can be useful. They can be particularly useful if you need to show the effect on passenger travel times when you move the location of a train station.
The German rail company Deutsche Bahn wants to move a train station in Hamburg from Altona to Diebsteich. Spiegel Online and Motion Intelligence have carried out their own traffic analysis to show the impact of this move on train passengers. They have visualized the results on an interactive map. Brauchen Sie Bald Langer zum Zug? shows which areas of Hamburg are within 30 minutes of an intercity railway station.
If you switch between 'Altona' and 'Diebsteich' you can see the effect that moving the train station will have on passengers. Some passengers will have shorter journeys to their nearest innercity station. Others will lose out and will face a longer journey. The colored isochrone layer on the map shows the travel times for passengers in 5 minute increments.
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Thursday, November 02, 2017
The Earthquake Ring of Fire
Esri's John Nelson does make some beautiful maps. His latest Seismic Illumination is a case in point. This map uses historical earthquake data going back to 1898 to show how earthquake activity can reveal the Earth's tectonic plates.
Seismic Illumination visualizes historical earthquake activity, particularly around the Pacific Ocean. By concentrating on the Pacific Ring of Fire the map is able to show how continental drift causes seismic activity where the Earth's tectonic plates meet & grind beneath each other.
You can see in the screenshot above two of the design flourishes which make this such a striking map. The luminescence effect really helps the earthquake activity stand out on the dark base map. The warped map labels look like they could have been carved out of the tectonic plates on which they sit. If you like these effects then you will be happy that John Nelson has explained how they were created in two tutorials: Luminescence Hack and Envelope-Transformed Label Shadows.
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Exercise Data is Beautiful
Strava's Global Heatmap is a beautiful visualization of Strava user activity across the globe. The map uses 13 trillion rasterized pixels to display 1 billion activities. The result is in an amazing map showing where Stava users love to cycle and run.
According to Strava the Global Heatmap is now hotter than ever before. In a blog post, The Global Heatmap, Now 6x Hotter Strava have explained how they manage to assemble and visualize this much data so seamlessly on an interactive map. The map also now uses Mapbox GL. This change means that users of the map can rotate and tilt the map to get a different angle on all those energetic journeys.
Activity tracking application Human has also created a global interactive map showing where people love to bike and run. One Day on Human provides a snapshot of just one day's walking, running and, cycling activity from March of last year.
One Day on Human provides an interesting visualization of where the Human app is being used around the world. A lot of people actually seem to be using the app not only as a fitness tracking app but to record their general movements. For example, people have been using the app to track themselves on ferry journeys around New York and on London's M25 orbital motorway.
The Nike+ Places map also provides an informative heat map layer visualizing the most popular running routes for owners of Nike's running app and tracking devices.
Using the heat map layer you can search for the most popular running routes in any location around the world. In truth the popular routes revealed by the heat map layer aren't a great surprise. Parks and off-road routes seem to be very popular with joggers. For example in London the major parks and canal tow paths seem to have a strong appeal to a lot of Nike+ users.
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Wednesday, November 01, 2017
The Visual Language of Maps
Geraldine Sarmiento of Mapzen has been exploring how cartographers communicate information about the world to map readers through drawings on a two dimensional surface. She examines how cartographers use simple lines to convey movement, texture and form.
In Explore the World of Form with Morphology Geraldine illustrates her thesis with examples taken from interactive maps. These examples include specific forms used in maps, such as airports (eight of the busiest airports in the world can be seen in the image above), bridges, buildings and roads.
When these forms are examined in isolation from the rest of the map we may begin to better understand the visual language used to communicate meaning to the map user. Geraldine has therefore developed a tool which allows you to isolate specific forms on an interactive map. Morphology is an interactive map which allows you to study forms in cartography by isolating specific forms on the map. You can use the drop-down menu to filter the map to show only isolated forms. For example, if you select 'airports' from the menu then all the other map features will be removed and only airports will be shown on the map.
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The UK Construction Map
Disruption caused by builders can be a huge pain. A new interactive map hopes to keep you better informed about any construction projects taking place near people's homes in the UK and Ireland. The map shows you the location of nearby building projects and allows you to find out who is responsible for the construction project, the name of the building contractor and the planned dates of construction.
Construction Map is an initiative by the Considerate Constructors Scheme, who hope it will provide a single point of reference about construction work being carried out in the UK and Ireland. The map provides details about construction sites, companies, suppliers and partners registered with the Considerate Constructors Scheme.
If you type in your post-code or address into the Construction Map you can view an interactive map of construction projects taking place around your home. The red markers show the active construction sires, while the other colored markers show the locations of construction companies, suppliers etc. If you select a construction site on the map you can discover the name of the contractor, the name of the client and the length of the construction project. If the site has already been visited by the Considerate Constructors Scheme then you can also view their rating for the construction site.
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- Our recommended itinerary
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(A must = the Tuamotus)
Stopover 2 or 3 days
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Tahiti, Moorea one day roundtrip
Bora-Bora or Moorea,
Tuamotus, Bora-Bora, Raiatea, Tahiti.
Tuamotus (2 islands), Bora-Bora, Raiatea, Huahine, Tahiti.
Polynesia is a diver's paradise. The very great diversity of the islands, atolls and lagoons, offers unforgettable experiences to a diver: ballets of manta rays, colorful fishes, sharks. You can see everything you might dream of in a magic scenery: coral roses, undersea plants.
Water is always warm all year round (between 26 and 29 degrees C), There is little difference in temperature between the surface and a depth of 60 meters. Underwater exploration can be done until advanced age, as long as you know your own limts, are a good swimmer, and follow the safety rules recommended by many diving centers.
Each type of diving lets you encounter different fishes:
- in the lagoon, the diver can admire a wonderful spectacle; with a simple mask and snorkel. He will discover thousands of harmless small colorful fishes swimming around the coral, sea anemonas and sea weeds
on the ocean side, outside of the reef, diving is done with special equipment and diving guides; ihiding in the coral, you can discover fishes and crustaceans: dolphins, tunas, sword fishes, grey sharks, giant turtles
in the pass opeing the lagoon to the ocean, between the coral walls, the tide filling or draining the lagoon like a basin, brings thousands of fishes in and out: tiny zebra skinned fishes, tunas, bonitos, groopers, barracudas, manta rays, parrot fishes, small sharks, etc.
Where can we see?
- sharks (grey, white tips, black tips, lemon), leopard rays, napoleon fishes: Moorea
- manta rays, pastenague rays, leopard rays, sharks, barracudas: in Bora-Bora,in Maupiti
- napoleon fishes, rays, sharks, morray eels, sea turtles, barracudas: in Raiatea, in Tahaa
- jack fish, sharks, morray eels, tunas, barracudas: in Huahine
- grey sharks ( count on it!), manta rays, eagle rays, jack fishes, napoleon fishes: in Rangiroa
- tunas, barracudas, turtles, white tip sharks, eagle rays, manta rays, napoleon fishes, groupers (especially in July): in Manihi, in Tikehau, in Fakarava
- hammerhead sharks, manta rays, Electre dolphins, horned morray eels: in Nuku-Hiva and Hiva-Oa
- shipwrecks: in Tahitiand in Raiatea
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[ANNOUNCEMENT] ROCKJJ + PRINCEJJ + Jaejoong Addiction: Supporting goods distribution at JYJ's South America Tour
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Lam YinYeeFebruary 3, 2012
So Proud of all of you (ROCKJJ+PrinceJJ+Jaejoong Addiction) , you're really awesome done the preparation of aid very well & successful just in shortly !
Our Jaejoong must feel happiness & feel all the loves are filling in every corner of the world around him , this time you really show ubiquitous love to Jaejoong ^^
I feel thankful to all of you as I hope to see Jaejoong's happy smile again & again !!
I hope Jaejoong & JYJ have all successful in both concert of Chile & Peru !!
reloaded ★ (@artilujita)February 3, 2012
buuuuuu I want it ..I mean, I'm a die hard fan of Jae xD and Im from Peru
but I dont have Super VIP ticket T___T I have VIP ticket :/
anyway Hwaiting!!! ;_;
goodies are precious
BeeFebruary 4, 2012
I am a Japanese (a little, a little elder aged) JJ&JYJ fan (live in JP)!
I i'll go to chile and peru concert both!(but not super VIP)
I 've been to Berlin and got that banners from cChinese baidu jj bar fan!
We were very happy at that time.
If you need I may help you anything!
Annie Linh (@JJ_Haneul)February 4, 2012
u gals are Daebak…thank you
JJ_4everFebruary 4, 2012
Thanks so much for your unconditional love to JJ
livFebruary 14, 2012
I want one banner ç_ç I'm going to Chile, and I'm VIP can I get one? =P
SolyndaFebruary 25, 2012
Wow. Impressive. Please keep up the good works, as we continue to support JJ and JYJ.
I am so happy to be part of this fandom.
fairladyFebruary 25, 2012
Good job… JJ International fans club…
Thanks so much for loving n caring for JJ
CeceFebruary 29, 2012
Hey girls, I'll be attending to the Chile concert, I'll fly from Argentina =) Let me know how can I help you =) ♥
shuheiloveMarch 1, 2012
I'm traveling to Lima for the concert with my daughter and both of us have SVIP tickets. ¿What do I have to do to participate in this wonderful project?
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text: RVA Super-producer NameBrand (Purple Republic/AGM) has released the first single from of his upcoming debut beat tape PRAYDREAMS. The single "3Summers" is an introduction to the highly anticipated project, set for a July 2015 release. NameBrand has also unveiled a new website www.namebrandmusic.com and cover art for the project. NameBrand has powered tracks for Michael Millions, Millz, Nickelus F, Radio B and more. PRAYDREAMS will be a more personal venture into his world. Let me know what you think of "3Summers" in the comments. #WESEEIT


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Pinnacol created these webinars to address some of the topics most requested by policyholders. Topics such as Cost Containment Certification, Slips, Trips and Falls Prevention, Accident Investigation and Introduction to Subrogation. You will also find brief videos called Pinnacol Pointers, which address risk management topics like ladder safety, hazcom updates and new hire safety. Pinnacol created webinars to address some of the topics most requested. Please ensure that the Safety Group Approved logo (below) appears next to the seminar title as only these seminars will count towards the requirement.
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UPCOMING SAFETY SEMINARS – Open to all Chamber Members
June 7th 12:30-1:30 – Lunch provided
Unscrambling the Claims Puzzle
Understanding your rights and responsibilities after an employee is injured is a key component to managing claims costs. This course provides information about workers' compensation benefits and rules while connecting the pieces involved in handling claims. After completing this course, you will be equipped to play an active role in the claims management process.
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text: Yesterday, 4/28/04, my best friend, his dd, and I went to AK for a day trip. At the end of the day, as the park closed, we had problem deciding what to do for dinner. As we all know AK has only one table service restaurant. The Rain Forest Cafe. We have eaten there several times, together and separately. I have nothing against the place. Good food and service. Been there, done that. You know? I have to admit that I really don't understand Disney's thinking on this. When you think about EPCOT having 14 full service restaraunts and AK only having one it doesn't make sense. But that's another thread. Sorry, I'm just making a short story long! Anyway, it was 5:30 or so (the park closed at 5p.m.) and RFC was packed so we decided to eat else where. I recommended the Maya Grill at nearby CSR. My friend was against this because he felt he'd feel out of place coming fresh from the park. We were all dressed in T-shirts and shorts. Our usual park garb. It wasn't like I wanted to go to Victoria & Albert's. We ended up eating offsite before we drove home. Does anyone think we would have been made to feel uncomfortable eating at one of the resort restaurants dressed this casually? Personally I don't think so, especially at such an early hour. I even offered to buy dinner for the three of us, but to no avail. So what do you think? (I ended up paying anyway, just at Red Lobster!) P.S. We had lunch at Tusker House Restaurant and Bakery. There's not much to review but if anyone wants one I'll write it up.


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Classical Music | Music for Flute
Domenico Cimarosa
Concerto for Two Flutes in G MajorPlay
|Mathieu Dufour
|Alex Klein
|Czech National Symphony
|Paul Freeman
Recorded on 06/12/2003, uploaded on 03/23/2009
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Flutist Mathieu Dufour and oboist Alex Klein -- current and former principal players of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra -- shine as soloists in a CD of neglected gems from the early Romantic era. Charming virtuosic showpieces by Mendelssohn contemporaries Wilhelm Bernhard Molique and Ignaz Moscheles astound with their fresh melodies -- and with the jaw-dropping technique and expressive range they elicit from the wind soloists. Opening the program is a jewel of the high Classical period: Domenico Cimarosa's beloved Concerto for Two Flutes (played on flute and oboe).
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Oh god, how I missed Classical Music.
Love the cadenza in the third movement. Its just so beautiful. Just wondering who wrote this cadenza and if it is published and can be purchased ?


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About the safety requirements for people of reduced mobility on domestic passenger ships.
MSN 1789 (M) Directive 2003/24/EC: safety requirements for persons of reduced mobility on domestic passenger ships
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By Patrick Haond
Last Updated: 01/01/70 1:00am
Gallardo faces two months on the sidelines, although the Monaco medical staff are still awaiting the outcome of an MRI scan to determine the full extent of the damage.
But Monaco assistant coach Jean Petit was scathing of match official Pascal Garibian's display and believes Gallardo and team-mate Ludovic Giuly were nominated for harsh treatment by their opponents.
"Against Marseille on Saturday, Mr Garibian's behaviour was a concern for me," said Petit.
"He probably couldn't see the tackle from Meite that should be sanctioned.
"Last year he said stop to the malingerer and the agitator but I think on Saturday he had a pre-conceived idea towards Marcelo.
"When he was lying on the ground, he told him: 'Stand up, it is nothing.' And he didn't let the trainers come on.
"Two years ago, there was a contract out on Marcelo (when he was hit in the Stade Velodrome tunnel) and I am starting to think there was a contract out on Ludovic and Marcelo on Saturday."


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La Princesa University Hospital
La Princesa University Hospital
Rubio-Perez I.,Hospital Universitario La Paz |
Martin-Perez E.,Upper GI Unit |
Domingo-Garcia D.,La Princesa University Hospital |
Garcia-Olmo D.,Fundacion Jimenez Diaz Hospital
Surgical Infections | Year: 2017
Background: The incidence of gram-negative multi-drug-resistant (MDR) infections is increasing worldwide. This study sought to determine the incidence, clinical profiles, risk factors, and mortality of these infections in general surgery patients. Patients and Methods: All general surgery patients with a clinical infection by gram-negative MDR bacteria were studied prospectively for a period of five years (2007-2011). Clinical, surgical, and microbiologic parameters were recorded, with a focus on the identification of risk factors for MDR infection and mortality. Results: Incidence of MDR infections increased (5.6% to 15.2%) during the study period; 106 patients were included, 69.8% presented nosocomial infections. Mean age was 65 ± 15 years, 61% male. Extended-spectrum β-lactamases (ESBL) Escherichia coli was the most frequent MDR bacteria. Surgical site infections and abscesses were the most common culture locations. The patients presented multiple pre-admission risk factors and invasive measures during hospitalization. Mortality was 15%, and related to older age (odds ratio [OR] 1.07), malnutrition (OR 13.5), chronic digestive conditions (OR 4.7), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (OR 3.9), and surgical re-intervention (OR 9.2). Conclusion: Multi-drug resistant infections in the surgical population are increasing. The most common clinical profile is a 65-year-old male, with previous comorbidities, who has undergone a surgical intervention, intensive care unit (ICU) admission, and invasive procedures and who has acquired the MDR infection in the nosocomial setting. © 2017, Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.
Prieto R.,University of San Carlos |
Pascual J.M.,La Princesa University Hospital |
Subhi-Issa I.,University of San Carlos |
Jorquera M.,University of San Carlos |
And 2 more authors.
World Neurosurgery | Year: 2013
Background: Recurrence of craniopharyngiomas (CPs) represents a frequent and unpredictable incident. Rapid tumor recurrence within a few months after surgery has been rarely reported. Nondefinitive predictive factors for rapid CP recurrence have been identified to date. We have systematically analyzed the tumor factors that presumably influence in CP recurrence. Methods: We present the histologic and immunohistochemical analysis of an infundibulo-tuberal CP that was operated twice within a 3-month interval due to rapid recurrence. We investigated the differential characteristics of the subgroup of CPs that recurred in large surgical series published in the literature, along with cases reporting rapid tumor recurrence after surgery. Results: Specimens of our patient showed an adamantinomatous CP with whorl-like arrays and thick peritumoral gliosis. Ki-67 labeling index in primary and recurrent samples was 20% and 15%, respectively. p53 labeling index was 18% and 15%, respectively. The thorough analysis of literature showed that presence of tumor remnants and missing radiotherapy treatment after subtotal removal are strong predictors of tumor recurrence. Third ventricle involvement, large tumor size, tight adherence to surrounding structures, and presence of whorl-like arrays might also foster recurrence. High Ki-67 levels, p53 expression, and an intense reactive gliosis might point to rapid tumor growth. Conclusions: Reliable tumor markers that predict CP recurrence are still lacking. The CP features presumably related to a higher risk of its recurrence are thought to be a larger tumor size, a tight adherence to the hypothalamus, the presence of whorl-like arrays, and high Ki-67 and p53 levels. © 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Alfonso F.,University of San Carlos |
Perez-Vizcayno M.J.,University of San Carlos |
Dutary J.,University of San Carlos |
Zueco J.,Santander University |
And 12 more authors.
JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions | Year: 2012
Objectives: This study sought to assess the effectiveness of a strategy of using drug-eluting stents (DES) with a different drug (switch) in patients with DES in-stent restenosis (ISR). Background: Treatment of patients with DES ISR remains a challenge. Methods: The RIBS-III (Restenosis Intra-Stent: Balloon Angioplasty Versus Drug-Eluting Stent) study was a prospective, multicenter study that aimed to assess results of coronary interventions in patients with DES ISR. The use of a different DES was the recommended strategy. The main angiographic endpoint was minimal lumen diameter at 9-month follow-up. The main clinical outcome measure was a composite of cardiac death, myocardial infarction, and target lesion revascularization. Results: This study included 363 consecutive patients with DES ISR from 12 Spanish sites. The different-DES strategy was used in 274 patients (75%) and alternative therapeutic modalities (no switch) in 89 patients (25%). Baseline characteristics were similar in the 2 groups, although lesion length was longer in the switch group. At late angiographic follow-up (77% of eligible patients, median: 278 days) minimal lumen diameter was larger (1.86 ± 0.7 mm vs. 1.40 ± 0.8 mm, p = 0.003) and recurrent restenosis rate lower (22% vs. 40%, p = 0.008) in the different-DES group. At the last clinical follow-up (99% of patients, median: 771 days), the combined clinical endpoint occurred less frequently (23% vs. 35%, p = 0.039) in the different-DES group. After adjustment using propensity score analyses, restenosis rate (relative risk: 0.41, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.21 to 0.80, p = 0.01), minimal lumen diameter (difference: 0.41 mm, 95% CI: 0.19 to 0.62, p = 0.001), and the event-free survival (hazard ratio: 0.56, 95% CI: 0.33 to 0.96, p = 0.038) remained significantly improved in the switch group. Conclusions: In patients with DES ISR, the implantation of a different DES provides superior late clinical and angiographic results than do alternative interventional modalities. © 2012 by the American College of Cardiology Foundation.
Lewis R.B.,American Institute for Radiologic Pathology |
Lewis R.B.,Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences |
Mehrotra A.K.,The Joint Pathology Center |
Rodriguez P.,La Princesa University Hospital |
And 3 more authors.
Radiographics | Year: 2014
Gastrointestinal (GI) lymphoma encompasses a heterogeneous group of neoplasms that have a common lymphoid origin but variable pathologic and imaging features. Extranodal marginal zone B-cell lymphoma (ENMZL) and diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) are the most common. ENMZL usually occurs in the stomach, where it is associated with chronic infection by Helicobacter pylori, and is typically a superficial spreading lesion that causes mucosal nodularity or ulceration and mild wall thickening. DLBCL may arise de novo or from transformation of ENMZL or other low-grade lymphomas. This form of lymphoma produces extensive wall thickening or a bulky mass, but obstruction is uncommon. Mantle cell lymphoma is the classic cause of lymphomatous polyposis, but multiple polyps or nodules can also be seen with ENMZL and follicular lymphoma. Burkitt lymphoma is usually characterized by an ileocecal mass or wall thickening in the terminal ileum in young children, often in the setting of widespread disease. Primary GI Hodgkin lymphoma, which is rare, may be manifested by a variety of findings, though stenosis is more common than with non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Enteropathy-associated T-cell lymphoma is frequently associated with celiac disease and is characterized by wall thickening, ulceration, and even perforation of the jejunum. Accurate radiologic diagnosis of GI lymphoma requires a multifactorial approach based on the clinical findings, site of involvement, imaging findings, and associated complications. © RSNA, 2014.
Castro-Dufourny I.,Sureste University Hospital |
Carrasco R.,Ramon y Cajal University Hospital |
Prieto R.,Puerta Of Hierro University Hospital |
Barrios L.,Computing Center |
Pascual J.M.,La Princesa University Hospital
Pituitary | Year: 2015
Purpose: Infundibulo-tuberal syndrome groups endocrine, metabolic and behavioral disturbances caused by lesions involving the upper neurohypophysis (median eminence) and adjacent basal hypothalamus (tuber cinereum). It was originally described by Henri Claude and Jean Lhermitte in 1917, in a patient with a craniopharyngioma. This study investigates the clinical, pathological and surgical evidence verifying the infundibulo-tuberal syndrome caused by craniopharyngiomas (CPs). Methods: A systematic retrospective review of craniopharyngiomas reported in French literature between 1705 and 1973 was conducted. A total of 128 well described reports providing a comprehensive clinical and pathological description of the tumors were selected. This series represents the historical French cohort of CPs reported in the pre-CT/MRI era. Results: Three major syndromes caused by CPs were categorized: pituitary syndrome (35 %), infundibulo-tuberal syndrome (52 %) and hypothalamic syndrome (49 %). CP topography was significantly related to the type of syndrome described (p < 0.001). Infundibulo-tuberal syndrome occurred in CPs which replaced or invaded the third ventricle floor. In contrast, the majority of sellar/suprasellar CPs growing below the third ventricle showed a pituitary syndrome (82 %). Cases with hypothalamic syndrome were characterized by anatomical integrity of the pituitary gland and stalk (p = 0.033) and occurred predominantly in adults older than 41 years old (p < 0.005). Among infundibulo-tuberal symptoms, abnormal somnolence was not related with the presence of hydrocephalus. All squamous-papillary CPs presented psychiatric disturbances (p < 0.001). Conclusion: This historical CP cohort evidences a clinical-topographical correlation between the patient's type of syndrome and the anatomical structures involved by the tumor along the hypophysial-hypothalamic axis. © 2014, Springer Science+Business Media New York.
Prieto R.,Puerta Of Hierro University Hospital |
Pascual J.M.,La Princesa University Hospital |
Barrios L.,Computing Technical Center
World Neurosurgery | Year: 2015
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the anatomic distortions of the optic chiasm caused by craniopharyngiomas (CPs) and their influence on preoperative and postoperative visual status. -METHODS: We conducted a retrospective investigation of 150 CPs including preoperative and postoperative magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) studies and the preoperative visual status and visual outcome after surgery. Morphologic distortions of the optic chiasm were analyzed on midsagittal MRI and correlated with preoperative vision, visual outcome, and features and topography of the CP. -RESULTS: Vision loss before operation was present in 68.7% of the patients. The type of chiasm distortion caused by the CP was the major predictive factor of preoperative visual impairment (P < 0.001). There were 6 patterns of chiasm distortion identified: Nondistorted or normal (11.3%), compressed downward (18%), compressed forward (23.3%), stretched forward (18%), stretched upward (16.7%), and stretched backward (4.7%). Reduced vision was present in >80% of compressed forward and stretched chiasms. Overall, the mechanical stretching deformation of the chiasm caused a more severe visual deficit than its compression. Postoperative chiasm morphology was the major predictive factor for visual outcome (P < 0.001). There were 6 different chiasm morphologies identified after surgery: Normal (52.7%), thinned (9.4%), thickened (16.7%), displaced forward (6%), displaced upward (4%), and displaced backward (2.7%). Thinned and displaced upward chiasms were associated with the highest rate of no visual improvement. A multivariate model including preoperative and postoperative chiasm distortions predicted the visual outcome in 91.3% of patients. -CONCLUSIONS: The type of chiasm distortion represents a valuable neuroradiologic finding to ascertain the preoperative and postoperative visual status.
Pascual J.M.,La Princesa University Hospital |
Prieto R.,La Princesa University Hospital |
Castro-Dufourny I.,La Princesa University Hospital |
Carrasco R.,La Princesa University Hospital |
And 2 more authors.
Neurosurgical focus | Year: 2014
OBJECT: The development of surgical procedures for the removal of craniopharyngiomas (CPs) was greatly influenced by the enormous topographical and morphological heterogeneity displayed by these lesions. In this study the authors reviewed the intracranial approaches designed to treat CPs during the early historical period (1891-1938) with the aim of finding the CP topographical and pathological features that influence patient outcomes.METHODS: The authors conducted a systematic retrospective review of well-described cases of surgically treated CPs in publications from the period 1891-1938. Valuable information regarding the diagnosis of the lesion, type of craniotomy performed, CP topography, and outcome was selected from 418 reports included in medical publications from this period. The type of surgical procedure used, degree of tumor removal, CP position and histological variety, and clinical evidence of postoperative hypothalamic injury were the variables analyzed with the aim of defining their influence on the final patient outcome.RESULTS: A collection of 160 cases was eligible for analysis. Craniopharyngioma topography was significantly related to the existence of postoperative hypothalamic damage and the degree of tumor removal achieved (p < 0.001). The infundibulo-tuberal, or not strictly intraventricular, topography was associated with the highest rate of hypothalamic injury (84%) and impossibility of tumor removal (51%). This topography also showed the worst prognosis (p = 0.001). Additional variables correlated with patient outcome were the presence of hypothalamic damage, type of surgical approach used, and degree of tumor removal. Patients having a poor outcome, suffering from permanent coma, or dying after surgery presented with symptoms of hypothalamic injury in 40% of cases (p < 0.001). The surgical approach associated with the best outcome was the transsphenoidal (58%), followed by the subfrontal (45%) and the transcallosal (45%). Subtotal resection of the lesion yielded the best postoperative results, with only 17% of patients dying or suffering from a poor outcome, in contrast to the 39% reported for gross-total removal of the lesion (p = 0.001).CONCLUSIONS: Two major variables influenced the results of early surgical experience with CPs for the period from 1891 to 1938: 1) the inaccuracy in defining CP topography with the diagnostic methods available at that time; and 2) the ignorance about the risks associated with the dissection of lesions showing tenacious adherence to the hypothalamus. The degree of functional and morphological disturbance of the hypothalamus caused by a CP remains a fundamental variable helping the surgeon to predict the risks associated with the radical excision of the tumor and patient outcome.
Carrasco R.,Ramon y Cajal University Hospital |
Pascual J.M.,La Princesa University Hospital |
Medina-Lopez D.,Ramon y Cajal University Hospital |
Burdaspal-Moratilla A.,Ramon y Cajal University Hospital
Surgical Neurology International | Year: 2012
Background: Acute neurological deterioration and death in a patient harboring a colloid cyst of the third ventricle remains a poorly understood phenomenon. Sudden neurological derangement caused by spontaneous bleeding within a colloid cyst is a rare and potentially fatal event, usually requiring immediate diagnosis and emergency surgical treatment. Case Description: A 47-year-old male presented with acute right-sided hemiparesis and speech impediment, followed by rapid deterioration of consciousness. Neuroimaging studies showed a rounded mass at the roof of the anterior third ventricle, causing biventricular hydrocephalus along with a left-sided basal ganglia hematoma. The lesion showed scattered foci of a recent hemorrhage which extended into the left lateral ventricle. Surgical treatment involved emergency external ventricular drainage followed by the prompt elective total resection of the lesion via a transcallosal route. Pathological findings confirmed the diagnosis of a colloid cyst with focal areas of vascular congestion and blood extravasation within its wall. Conclusions: Spontaneous bleeding into a colloid cyst of the third ventricle may cause acute obstructive hydrocephalus and intracranial hypertension due to rapid enlargement of the lesion. This event may account for the sudden neurological deterioration and/or death observed in a previously asymptomatic patient. The diagnosis of hemorrhagic phenomena within a colloid cyst represents a challenge due to the variable signal usually displayed by these lesions on computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Emergency ventricular drainage followed by elective tumoral removal constitutes a valid and safe treatment strategy. Copyright © 2012 Carrasco R.
Pascual J.M.,La Princesa University Hospital |
Prieto R.,Puerta Of Hierro University Hospital
Neurosurgical Focus | Year: 2016
From the very beginning of his career, Harvey Williams Cushing (1869-1939) harbored a deep interest in a complex group of neoplasms that usually developed at the infundibulum. These were initially known as "interpeduncular" or "suprasellar" cysts. Cushing introduced the term "craniopharyngioma" for these lesions, which he believed represented one of the most baffling problems faced by neurosurgeons. The patient who most influenced Cushing's thinking was a 16-year-old seamstress named "Mary D.," whom he attended in December 1901, exactly the same month that Alfred Fröhlich published his seminal article describing an adiposogenital syndrome in a young boy with a pituitary cyst. Both Cushing's and Fröhlich's patients showed similar symptoms caused by the same type of tumor. Notably, Cushing and Fröhlich had met one another and became good friends in Liverpool the summer before these events took place. Their fortunate relationship led Cushing to realize that Fröhlich's syndrome represented a state of hypopituitarism and provided a useful method of diagnosing interpeduncular cysts. It is noteworthy that Cushing's very first neurosurgical procedure on a pituitary tumor was performed in the case of Mary D.'s "interpeduncular cyst," on February 21, 1902. Cushing failed to remove this lesion, which was later found during the patient's autopsy. This case was documented as Pituitary Case Number 3 in Cushing's masterpiece, The Pituitary Body and Its Disorders, published in 1912. This tumor was considered "a teratoma"; however, multiple sources of evidence suggest that this lesion actually corresponded to an adamantinomatous craniopharyngioma. Unfortunately, the pathological specimens of this lesion were misplaced, and this prompted Cushing's decision to retain all specimens and documents of the cases he would operate on throughout his career. Accordingly, Mary D.'s case crystallized the genesis of the Cushing Brain Tumor Registry, one of Cushing's major legacies to neurosurgery. In this paper the authors analyze the case of Mary D. and the great influence it had on Cushing's conceptions of the pituitary gland and its afflictions, and on the history of pituitary surgery.
Prieto R.,University of San Carlos |
Pascual J.M.,La Princesa University Hospital |
Yus M.,University of San Carlos |
Jorquera M.,University of San Carlos
Surgical Neurology International | Year: 2012
Background: Trigeminal neuralgia is most commonly caused by vascular compression at the trigeminal nerve (TN) root entry zone. Microvascular decompression (MVD) has been established as a useful treatment. Outcome depends on the correct identification of the compression site and its adequate decompression at surgery. Preoperative identification of neurovascular compression might predict which patients will benefit from MVD. Management of persistent or recurrent trigeminal neuralgia after an MVD is a baffling problem for neurosurgeons. An accurate neuroradiological evaluation of the TN padding following a failed MVD might help identify the underlying cause and plan further treatment. Case description: A 68-year-old female presented with a right-sided trigeminal neuralgia (V3) refractory to medical therapy. A high-resolution three-dimensional magnetic resonance imaging (3D MRI) study included fast imaging employing steady-state acquisition (FIESTA) and time of flight multiple overlapping thin slab acquisition (TOF MOTSA) sequences to evaluate the neurovascular anatomy in the cerebellopontine angle. An unambiguous compression of the right TN at the rostral-medial site by the superior cerebellar artery (SCA) was identified. The SCA loop compressing the TN was identical in location and configuration to that predicted in the preoperative study. After the MVD, the patient was relieved from her pain and a postoperative high-resolution 3D MRI study confirmed the appropriate placement of the Teflon implant between the TN and SCA. Conclusion: To our knowledge, this is the first report that characterizes the proper TN padding by high-resolution 3D MRI after trigeminal MVD. The present case also emphasizes the importance of performing a 3D MRI in patients with trigeminal neuralgia to anticipate the surgeon's view and predict the outcome after MVD. Copyright © 2012 Prieto R.


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A Vista magnet middle school will not merge with the district's newest high school, the Vista Unified School District Board of Trustees said late Thursday night.
The board's decision followed a raucous two-hour session in which parents, teachers and students from Mission Vista High School, which opened in August, implored district officials to not go through with the plan. The standing-room only crowd erupted in applause after the board voted 4-0-1 to shelve the merger. Board President Steve Lilly abstained.
The proposal called for the joining of Vista Magnet Middle School in downtown with Mission Vista, located in the district's eastern boundary on Melrose Drive and Highway 76 in Oceanside. The magnet high school currently houses around 500 9th and 10th grade students, and is expected to add juniors and seniors in subsequent school years.
Under the plan, the newly formed Grade 6-12 campus would implement an International Baccalaureate curriculum, eliminating Mission Vista's popular but costly block scheduling program, popularly known as the "4x4".
School superintendent Joyce Bales said the district was seeking a way to boost enrollment at the fledgling campus and to pare down the district's $14 million budget gap. Eliminating block scheduling would save the district around $500,000.
Supporters of the school criticized the plan as hastily devised, and said that eliminating the block scheduling would take away what sets the school apart from the district's other high schools, Vista and Rancho Buena Vista.
Most students said they chose to attend the school because of the scheduling, which condenses four yearlong classes into a semester, allowing them to take more elective courses at the magnet high school, which specializes in arts and communication and science and technology. Others expressed concerns about the safety of younger students on a high school campus.
"It was the right decision to make," Sean Cunneen, whose daughter, Morgan, is a freshman at the school. "I think the board heard the message loud and clear."
The board, in making its decision, agreed that they were asked to make a rushed decision without fully analyzing the ramifications. Prior to the public comment, Trustee Elizabeth Jaka said she would not vote for the merger.
"We were in a situation last year... where I felt we had not gone through the proper process, and I feel we are in the same position," Jaka said. "I'm not ready to vote on this."
One by one, parents, students and educators made their case for Mission Vista's block scheduling and criticized the district for not including them in the decision-making process. Words like "ramrodded," "hijacked," and "blindsided" were used to describe how they perceived the district's actions.
"The word that comes to mind is 'impulsivity,'" said Robert Hutchison, a parent. "If you make an impulsive vote before you have time to process all the details, we will all surely suffer from a lack of planning."
Students flanked each other at the podium as one would speak. Several students prepared a video of their peers voicing their feelings about the proposal. Several said they would transfer if the schools were merged.
"One thing I want to say is that to all of the students, the 4x4 is the most important thing to them," said J.P. Mears, a ninth grade student. "If you take that away, you are robbing them of their education."
Other parents urged the district to hold workshops and engage parents and teachers in the process, which they said could potentially lead to a more amenable decision.
"Let us help you find the $14 million," one parent said. "You might end up doing the same thing, but at least you will have ... our support."
By tabling the decision, Mission Vista and Vista Magnet will remain separate for the 2011-12 school year because the district would not be able to revisit the plan before a state-mandated March 15 deadline to issue preliminary layoff notices to teachers and employees if layoffs are needed to close the budget gap.
Board members warned that a committee, which will be formed at a future board meeting to explore the issue, might return with a similar verdict. They also foreshadowed that other cuts would be needed to retain the block scheduling for the school year.
"It may not be what you want to hear," Jaka said. "But we are committed to working with you in good faith."
Lilly, who abstained, said he had "real problems" with committing another freshman class to a curriculum that could very well be eliminated if the budget situation worsens in future years.
"I have real worries that we won't be able to maintain the 4x4," he said. "Just remember that we are not taking it away, the state of California is taking it away."