Storm Tracker

Storm Tracker

Tropical Storm Isaac is currently affecting the northern Gulf Coast of the United States, including the western Florida Panhandle, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana. 

Lots of Layers of information and near real-time data feeds including:

Public Alerts
Active Shelters

New Orleans Levee System
MS Evacuation Routes
Current Traffic
Storm Surge Probabilities

US Radar (Precipitation)
Gulf of Mexico Sea Surface Temperature
US Flood Gauge Forecasts

http://google.org/crisismap/2012-tropical-system-isaac?hl=en&llbox=36.11%2C22.95%2C-71.31%2C-96.21&t=roadmap&layers=layer1%2Clayer2%2C1337617652397%2C2%2C1337716071386%2C11%2C123423512123449211%2C123423512123449212%2C123423512123449213%2C12342351212344921355%2C123423512123449214%2C12342351212344921433%2C123423512123449214331%2C123423512123449215%2C13%2C14%2C10%2Clayer3%2C4%2C1337907303704%3A100&promoted

Natural Earth v2.0.0 RC2 Data Release

Natural Earth v2.0.0 RC2 Data Release

Some nice work by Kelso’s Corner - nice data clean up and

2.0.0 release focuses on 6 major areas and is available to download as preview release candidate 2.

1. Economic geography: added global roads, railroads, ports, and airports to show how people are interconnected and routes goods move.
2. Remastered geometries: fixed topological errors at 1:10 to 1:1,000 scales in the basic coastline, ocean, land, admin-0, and admin-1 related themes. By removing self-intersections, sliver polygons, and adjusting offset polygons, Natural Earth will import into more GIS software (like PostGIS) and be easier to maintain. The coastline was also adjusted to better conform to ~1:3,000,000 satellite imagery. Because of all these changes, some raster themes were also updated.
3. New file name and field name schemas. Full adoption of ne_10m_theme_name.shp file names with `ne_` prefix to allow better import into GeoDB and PostGIS storage, lowercase field (column) names instead of MiXeD and UPPER cased names, and use of consistent `name` field (versus name1).
4. Address user submitted bug reports, ~20 since the 1.4 release.
5. Moved to Github for the backend versioned file management and coordination.
6. Adopt semantic versioning. Know, by theme, if new changes in Natural Earth affect your project.  

 See below for more information.

http://kelsocartography.com/blog/?p=4246

Team GB Medal Map

Team GB Medal Map

Here is an up-to-date Medal Map for Team GB using OpenSpace API from Ordnance Survey (an Openelayers based Mapping)

Select by Medal or by Sport - Users can also find local medal winners with a postcode search.

Medal Map

http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/demos/medal-map/