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The extent of the sea ice in the Arctic reached a record low for the month of August this year (2012) - with the ice reaching 4.72 million square kilometers. I thought it would be fun to prepare a map over that using the latest available data.

Dietary trends on food supply of animal and vegetable products, by country, presented in a bubble chart. The animated time series shows the trends 1961-2007 using the motion chart gadget from Google, as used by Gapminder. The data was retrieved from FAOSTATS.

Using an Adobe Illustrator Javascript to recreate map symbols of arrows with bearings in a cartography workflow to being GIS data from ESRI ArcGIS into Illustrator.

Some notes about using swatch libraries for cross-hatch fills or hachures in Adobe Illustrator.

Wouldn't it be great if one could just zoom up to the File menu in ArcMap and choose the Revert item, to reload the map document (mxd) that you are currently working on to a previously saved state? Vote for my idea at http://ideas.arcgis.com/ideaView?id=08730000000by4u

Just found the Indonesian NSDI Geoportal - great resource for working with maps over the area.

Simple little ArcGIS arcpy python script that creates a footprint shapefile from raster datasets.

So a website I have been working on in the past is up for a remake, and it is way overdue. I am assisting the new web developer in exporting the old database so that they can import it into their new publishing system.