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Interactive COVID map by LSOA

Sun, 08 Nov 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Across the world, the COVID 19 pandemic has illustrated how important it is for governments to have the ability to gather, action, and disseminate new case data as close to real time as possible. Luckily in the UK, there is a reasonably good flow of information about new cases. The government has released an interactive map of cases, and they do keep it up to date. This map uses the Middle Super Output Area (MSOA) level of granularity (i.e. not SUUUUPER detailed, but a good place to start), and shows the total number of cases to date. This methodology is really excellent as a first step, but has two important drawbacks:

Locations for 75000 dams

Tue, 20 Oct 2015 20:30:39 +0000

The last task I performed for [[AQUASTAT]] was to try to find the best way to estimate the anthropogenic evaporation from dams. The paper can be found here, but here I provide one of the fun outputs, a map of 75000 dams!

Excel is how I do maps…

Wed, 08 Jul 2015 15:15:55 +0000

Following the footsteps of this cool post I saw by JohnNelsonIDV, I wanted to try to and make a map using Excel.

Fast forward 2 days and the opportunity came up. Lo and behold, a Map of Reference Evapotranspiration built in Excel!

kml maker for Excel -> Google Earth

Wed, 02 Jul 2014 12:36:43 +0000

I made a userform that quickly and easily allows you to make a kml file that’s readable by google earth based on some excel dataset that has coordinates.

Features:

Simple and advanced modes
userform for convenience
Icons change when highlighted
Allows html to be passed to popup contents, everything is customizable
Issue a default icon, and change icons for specific points
Change colours and opacity for points via easy dropdowns
Pass data from excel columns to the popup for each point

I’ve taken the liberty to make an excel file with the form, and some examples and showcasing the features so you know how to do it. Check it out and please provide comments!