Friday, December 28, 2018
Thursday, December 20, 2018
Custom URL for Google Sites
Not sure how long this has been a feature....but it's a feature I've been wanting since the new Google Sites were released! Merry Christmas to me I guess.
A couple Google articles explaining how to do this:
Here is the abbreviated run thru on how I was able to accomplish this. Please note, my domains are run thru "Google Domains" so perhaps that's why this was for the most part pretty painless.
1. Share the site you want to have a custom url to the Google account that manages your domains (if they aren't the same already).
2. Log into the account that manages your domain, click the configure DNS button for appropriate domain.
3. Scroll down to the Custom resource records, name = www, dropdown change to CNAME, keep the default 1H, and type ghs.googlehosted.com
4. Go back to you site, click the 3 vertical dots, choose custom url, and type on your domain. For all but two, it worked just fine and that's all I had to do.
5. For one, I had to add a txt verification following the onscreen prompts. This is added in the same location as the CNAME, just leave the @ sign for name, choose txt under dropdown, and paste the txt provided in the data section.
6. One domain is particularily difficult in verification (it is also the one I did experimenting on...so I just need to figure out what I screwed up).
A couple Google articles explaining how to do this:
Here is the abbreviated run thru on how I was able to accomplish this. Please note, my domains are run thru "Google Domains" so perhaps that's why this was for the most part pretty painless.
1. Share the site you want to have a custom url to the Google account that manages your domains (if they aren't the same already).
2. Log into the account that manages your domain, click the configure DNS button for appropriate domain.
3. Scroll down to the Custom resource records, name = www, dropdown change to CNAME, keep the default 1H, and type ghs.googlehosted.com
4. Go back to you site, click the 3 vertical dots, choose custom url, and type on your domain. For all but two, it worked just fine and that's all I had to do.
5. For one, I had to add a txt verification following the onscreen prompts. This is added in the same location as the CNAME, just leave the @ sign for name, choose txt under dropdown, and paste the txt provided in the data section.
6. One domain is particularily difficult in verification (it is also the one I did experimenting on...so I just need to figure out what I screwed up).
Friday, December 14, 2018
Thursday, December 13, 2018
Geography Emojis
https://emojipedia.org/world-map/
🗺️
https://emojipedia.org/globe-with-meridians/
🌐
https://emojipedia.org/earth-globe-americas/
🌎
https://emojipedia.org/waxing-gibbous-moon-symbol/
🌔
https://emojipedia.org/cheese-wedge/
🧀
https://emojipedia.org/vampire-light-skin-tone/
🧛🏻 🧛♂️
https://emojipedia.org/round-pushpin/
📍
Windows 10: Win+period
🗺🌎🌐🧛♂️🦇💿🧭🎅✨🎃🧀🛸🛰🌍🌏🗺🏞🏕❄⚡🔥🌓🌪🌩🌌🔰🌐🔷
🗺️
https://emojipedia.org/globe-with-meridians/
🌐
https://emojipedia.org/earth-globe-americas/
🌎
https://emojipedia.org/waxing-gibbous-moon-symbol/
🌔
https://emojipedia.org/cheese-wedge/
🧀
https://emojipedia.org/vampire-light-skin-tone/
🧛🏻 🧛♂️
https://emojipedia.org/round-pushpin/
📍
Windows 10: Win+period
🗺🌎🌐🧛♂️🦇💿🧭🎅✨🎃🧀🛸🛰🌍🌏🗺🏞🏕❄⚡🔥🌓🌪🌩🌌🔰🌐🔷
Friday, December 7, 2018
2018 Holiday Merchant Movies
Saturdays 11:00 am and 12:00 noon
Sunday 12:00 noon
Dec 8-9: The Greatest Showman
Dec 15-16: Small Foot
Marchants:
Asian BuffetBeadeaux
First Christian Church
Friends of the Oskaloosa Public Library
Mahaska Communication Group
Mahaska Drug Inc.
MidWestOne Insurance Services, Inc.
Oskaloosa Vision Center Inc.
Penn Central Eye Clinic
Penn Central Mall
Summers Car Credit
Wendy’s
http://www.fridleytheatres.com/page/3300/Merchant-Movies
Tuesday, November 6, 2018
Wednesday, October 24, 2018
Buncha Stuff
Came across a bunch of cool stuff today. Just putting it all in one place.
How to Create Locator Maps
Send an email from web map pop-ups (ArcGIS)
Adding and using photos and images in ArcGIS Online
Things you didn't know you could do with Story Maps
How to Create Locator Maps
Send an email from web map pop-ups (ArcGIS)
Adding and using photos and images in ArcGIS Online
Things you didn't know you could do with Story Maps
Monday, October 1, 2018
Tuesday, September 25, 2018
Local Election Sites Nov 2018
District 79
Samantah Keith
District 80
Scott J. Van Veldhuizen
House 79 Forum
Friday, September 21, 2018
Friday, September 14, 2018
Thursday, August 30, 2018
Wednesday, August 29, 2018
Tuesday, August 28, 2018
The Logan Abandoned Mine Land (AML) site
Was just reading about The Logan Abandoned Mine Land (AML) site.
Iowa Learning Farms will host a monarch butterfly conservation field day Thursday, September 7th from 10:00am-12:00 pm at the Logan Abandoned Mine Land Site near Bussey. The field day is free and open to the public and includes a complimentary meal. Please, RSVP to ensure adequate space and food. Contact Liz Juchems at 515-294-5429 or email ilf@iastate.edu.
The field day will be held at the Logan Abandoned Mine Land Site near Bussey. From Bussey, head east on Co Hwy G71/310th Street for 5.5 miles. Turn left to go north on Elba Avenue for 0.3 miles. The site is on the west side of the road and will be marked with field day signs.
41.209567, -92.775597
Article
Article
Iowa Learning Farms will host a monarch butterfly conservation field day Thursday, September 7th from 10:00am-12:00 pm at the Logan Abandoned Mine Land Site near Bussey. The field day is free and open to the public and includes a complimentary meal. Please, RSVP to ensure adequate space and food. Contact Liz Juchems at 515-294-5429 or email ilf@iastate.edu.
The field day will be held at the Logan Abandoned Mine Land Site near Bussey. From Bussey, head east on Co Hwy G71/310th Street for 5.5 miles. Turn left to go north on Elba Avenue for 0.3 miles. The site is on the west side of the road and will be marked with field day signs.
41.209567, -92.775597
Article
Article
Wednesday, August 8, 2018
Wednesday, August 1, 2018
Adding basemaps QGIS 3.2
One
of my favorite QGIS plugins has always been the 'Open Layers'. But
after installing QGIS 3.2, discovered it wasn't there. I am giving the
'QuickMapServices' plugin a try.
Here are some links discussing it:
Nextgis article 1
Nextgis article 2
Plugin repository
Manual
to add Google Maps and much more simply:
Here are some links discussing it:
Nextgis article 1
Nextgis article 2
Plugin repository
Manual
to add Google Maps and much more simply:
- Go to 'Web' menu in QGIS 3.2
- QuickMapServices
- Settings
- 'More services' tab
- click the 'Get contributed pack' button
Zillow
If I ever need to introduce GIS to someone that has never seen or heard of it...I mention Zillow.
Beyond being a great site and service, Zillow allows for the download of data.
https://www.zillow.com/research/data/
Beyond being a great site and service, Zillow allows for the download of data.
https://www.zillow.com/research/data/
Monday, July 30, 2018
Kepler.gl, geojson, census, QGIS, ArcGIS adventure day
I decided to take some time to try out Kepler.gl
As with almost any endeavor, it led to more discovery and re-discovery. Particularly how to deal with geojson files, calculating latitude/longitude, converting shapefiles, dealing with census data.
I began with this awesome article as an introduction. It had some datasets to download and try. I also recommend trying the sample data within Kepler.
I decided to try some of my own data and use a smaller, more manageable data set.
The sources I used were:
Next, I had to figure out how to convert a shapefile into a geojson (or json) file. I found I liked two options. Just have to zip of the shapefile if you use ogre.
One is to use ogre
Here is a fact sheet I found on using it
The other was to use QGIS 3.2 (right click the shapfle, choose 'Export', 'Save Feature As', and choose GeoJSON as the format. I pretty much stuck with EPSG:4326 - WGS84 all day.
Both methods of converting worked fine.
I was able to add the newly created geojson files into kepler. I played with the symbology and that type of thing.
Next, I wanted to try out the hexbins, heatmap, that sort of things. I figured I'd just try and use some census shapefiles and data. It seems like census data is always more difficult than it should be to find and use. I was finally able to download the correct data and got them joined.
However, in order for things to work well, you must have a latitude/longitude associated with the feature in its table. I used the lat/long of centroids. You don't need to create a new point feature, just need to have lat/long within the table of the polygon feature you are using.
I was able to add the geojson file to kepler and was able to do some really cool graphic visuals.
The next task was to try out the arcs. This took a little thinking/viewing of existing data to figure out how to make them work correctly. Essentially, you need a point layer that contains lat long for starting point and destination. For example, if you wanted an arc to draw on kepler showing the front door of where you work to McDonalds you would have a csv that would have a latitude field for your work, longitude for your work, latitude for McDonalds, Latitude for Mcdonalds. All this in one row. I had the best luck using/creating a CSV. If you wanted to add an arc from your work to your home, you would need another row containing the latitude for your work, longitude for your work, latitude for home, Latitude for home.
I think if you had field names like origin_Latitude, origin_Longitude, desination_Latitude, destination_Longitude it would work fine.
Of course, this led to revisiting how to calculate geometry (find lat/long) of shapefiles. ArcGIS was fairly easy to remember. Just open the table, add new fields (Double seemed to work). Right click on the new fields and choose 'Calculate Geometry'. This worked for points and calculating the lat/long of the centroid of a polygon.
The QGIS method took a bit of memory digging. I am using 3.2. Basically, you add your point layer into QGIS. Go to the 'Vector' menu, 'Geometry Tools', 'Add Geometry Attributes'. This will create a new layer with the same data, but with additional attributes for showing geometric measurements (lat long).
Thats my quick summation of my first experiences using kepler.
As with almost any endeavor, it led to more discovery and re-discovery. Particularly how to deal with geojson files, calculating latitude/longitude, converting shapefiles, dealing with census data.
I began with this awesome article as an introduction. It had some datasets to download and try. I also recommend trying the sample data within Kepler.
I decided to try some of my own data and use a smaller, more manageable data set.
The sources I used were:
- Natural Earth
- Census data
- Created my own data using local restaurants, attractions, and personal trips.
Next, I had to figure out how to convert a shapefile into a geojson (or json) file. I found I liked two options. Just have to zip of the shapefile if you use ogre.
One is to use ogre
Here is a fact sheet I found on using it
The other was to use QGIS 3.2 (right click the shapfle, choose 'Export', 'Save Feature As', and choose GeoJSON as the format. I pretty much stuck with EPSG:4326 - WGS84 all day.
Both methods of converting worked fine.
I was able to add the newly created geojson files into kepler. I played with the symbology and that type of thing.
Next, I wanted to try out the hexbins, heatmap, that sort of things. I figured I'd just try and use some census shapefiles and data. It seems like census data is always more difficult than it should be to find and use. I was finally able to download the correct data and got them joined.
However, in order for things to work well, you must have a latitude/longitude associated with the feature in its table. I used the lat/long of centroids. You don't need to create a new point feature, just need to have lat/long within the table of the polygon feature you are using.
I was able to add the geojson file to kepler and was able to do some really cool graphic visuals.
The next task was to try out the arcs. This took a little thinking/viewing of existing data to figure out how to make them work correctly. Essentially, you need a point layer that contains lat long for starting point and destination. For example, if you wanted an arc to draw on kepler showing the front door of where you work to McDonalds you would have a csv that would have a latitude field for your work, longitude for your work, latitude for McDonalds, Latitude for Mcdonalds. All this in one row. I had the best luck using/creating a CSV. If you wanted to add an arc from your work to your home, you would need another row containing the latitude for your work, longitude for your work, latitude for home, Latitude for home.
I think if you had field names like origin_Latitude, origin_Longitude, desination_Latitude, destination_Longitude it would work fine.
Of course, this led to revisiting how to calculate geometry (find lat/long) of shapefiles. ArcGIS was fairly easy to remember. Just open the table, add new fields (Double seemed to work). Right click on the new fields and choose 'Calculate Geometry'. This worked for points and calculating the lat/long of the centroid of a polygon.
The QGIS method took a bit of memory digging. I am using 3.2. Basically, you add your point layer into QGIS. Go to the 'Vector' menu, 'Geometry Tools', 'Add Geometry Attributes'. This will create a new layer with the same data, but with additional attributes for showing geometric measurements (lat long).
Thats my quick summation of my first experiences using kepler.
Thursday, July 26, 2018
Wednesday, July 25, 2018
Wednesday, July 11, 2018
Monday, July 9, 2018
Quick Notes - ESRI UC
JD Irving company
Living Atlas:
Density Based Clustering
Forest based (decision trees)
Web app builder
Appstation
ArcGIS Solutions (configurations)
ionsights apps
Loading textures - 3d buildings
ArcGIS indoors
Living Atlas:
- World Imagery Wayback
- Sentinel 2 (bands)
- Open Streetmap vector
- Charted Territory
- Earth systems Monitor
Density Based Clustering
Forest based (decision trees)
Web app builder
Appstation
ArcGIS Solutions (configurations)
ionsights apps
Loading textures - 3d buildings
ArcGIS indoors
Monday, July 2, 2018
Wednesday, June 20, 2018
Mid-Century Modern in Oskaloosa
Mid Century Modern tour in Oskaloosa (April 28, 2018)
- Osky News Article
- Mid Mod Madness Facebook
- Mid Mod Madness site
- Iowa Architectural Center
- Funky Finds
- Funky Finds Facebook
Tuesday, June 19, 2018
ArcGIS Online basemaps
There are some fun basemaps you can add in ArcGIS online using The Living Atlas. ESRI produces several, as does National Geographic, David Rumsey Maps
Some favorites I've seen:
Some favorites I've seen:
- Newspaper
- Mid-Century
- Modern Antique
- Colored Pencil
Monday, June 11, 2018
Tuesday, May 22, 2018
Wednesday, May 16, 2018
Copying ArcGIS online maps and apps from public to organization account
Option 1:
Blog post (not all that helpful, but does give good link )
ArcGIS online assistant
This is what seemed to easily copy maps and apps from one account to another.
I was able to copy a map and app in my public account and put it in an organizational account. It seemed pretty straight forward. You will just have to log in and know passwords for public account(s) and org account.
Option 2:
You can also log into the organization account, search for the map, and do a save as to make a copy of the map in your account. It doesn't seem to work for story maps, however.
Blog post (not all that helpful, but does give good link )
ArcGIS online assistant
This is what seemed to easily copy maps and apps from one account to another.
I was able to copy a map and app in my public account and put it in an organizational account. It seemed pretty straight forward. You will just have to log in and know passwords for public account(s) and org account.
Option 2:
You can also log into the organization account, search for the map, and do a save as to make a copy of the map in your account. It doesn't seem to work for story maps, however.
Monday, May 14, 2018
Friday, May 11, 2018
National Geographic Maps
Introducing @NatGeo
magazine's archive of 6,000+ maps! Nat Geo has digitally compiled every
map ever published in the magazine, including this one from issue #1 in
1888. See more archive maps here http://bit.ly/2rBxEAU & see the Map of the Day from the archive @NatGeoMaps
via @mapdragons
via @mapdragons
Monday, May 7, 2018
Thursday, May 3, 2018
Thursday, April 19, 2018
Wednesday, April 18, 2018
Tuesday, April 17, 2018
Friday, April 13, 2018
Wednesday, April 11, 2018
Monday, April 9, 2018
Local Election sites
Samantah Keith
District 80
https://www.facebook.com/Susan-McDanel-for-Iowa-House
Facebook
Steve Parker
Henry Van Weelden
Steven Wanders
Supervisor
Paul DeGeestSteve Parker
Henry Van Weelden
Steven Wanders
The confluence of the Arve and Rhône Rivers
Inspired by the Bing Wallpaper for April 7, 2018....tried to find the latitude and longitude for the confluence of the Arve and Rhone Rivers.
46.201313, 6.122064
Wednesday, March 14, 2018
Monday, March 12, 2018
Monday, March 5, 2018
The White House Map Room
- https://fdrlibrary.org/map-room
- https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/history/whtour/map.html
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map_Room_(White_House)
- http://www.whitehousemuseum.org/floor0/map-room.htm
- https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/take-rare-look-inside-fdrs-wwi-information-center-map-room-180961900/
Friday, March 2, 2018
Weather, Maps, and GIS
NOAA:
- GIS Portal
- Iowa Tornadoes 2016 (kml)
- KML download page
- NOAA Rest Services
- NOAA Shapefiles
- Electronic Naviagtion Charts
Misc. Weather:
My Maps:
Friday, February 23, 2018
Wednesday, February 21, 2018
Tuesday, February 6, 2018
Tuesday, January 16, 2018
Wednesday, January 3, 2018
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