[Ráfaga] Nº423 and Nº424 AKA summer specials #2 and #3

[Jorge Sanz]

* Reproducible cartography: tools and methods to improve cartography
production
  http://neocarto.hypotheses.org/2435

* Interactive globe about Google search trends by country
  http://neomam.com/interactive/trendmap/

* A GitHub for global data, by invite at this moment
  https://data.world/

* Alboran sea geoportal
  http://www.iucn-geoportalboran.org/es/proyecto

* Medina Azahara is being revealed again with LIDAR data
  http://cordopolis.es/2016/07/24/medina-azahara-aflora-de-nuevo/

* Ethnic neighborhoods NYC map
  http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/01/23/
nyregion/20110123-nyc-ethnic-neighborhoods-map.html?_r=0

* Connectograhpy, a book using maps to explain civilization future
  http://www.paragkhanna.com/connectography

* USA Midwest boundaries through a hundred different maps
  http://www.radicalcartography.net/index.html?midwest

* Paris at night, a picture from ISS
  http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/paris-at-night

* Invasion and expansion map of the Asian hornet in the Iberian peninsula
  http://blog.creaf.cat/en/noticies/invasion-asian-hornet/

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* Using JSON and JSONB in Postgres from Python
  https://www.compose.io/articles/using-json-extensions-in-postgresql-from-
python-2/

* Cavern jotting world map, with some shared sets
  https://www.newscientist.com/data/images/archive/2748/27481201.jpg

* Early maps from Lincolnshire, England
  http://www.caitlingreen.org/2015/11/some-early-maps-of-lincolnshire.html

* How to made your own vector tiles with Django
  http://makina-corpus.com/blog/metier/2016/generer-des-
tuiles-vectorielles-avec-django

* Another Elastic Terrain demo, shifting colors for relief maps
  http://elasticterrain.xyz/#map-indonesia

* Batch uploading of raster files into PostGIS
  https://diouck.wordpress.com/2016/07/07/monalisa2postgis-
importation-de-nombreux-raster-traitement-par-lots/

* Official figures for bovine species and camels in Africa
  http://geotheque.org/lafrique-la-passion-du-boeuf-et-du-chameau/

* Bullfighting French map, where it's allowed by law
  http://www.ladepeche.fr/article/2012/09/22/1446372-corrida-le-conseil-
constitutionnel-donne-raison-aux-aficionados.html

* Catalonia 2014 population map loaded into CARTO
  https://elperfildelaciutat.wordpress.com/2016/07/28/
poblacio-georeferenciada-gener-2014/

* The optimal route to visit all 47 USA national parks by car
  http://www.randalolson.com/2016/07/30/the-optimal-u-s-
national-parks-centennial-road-trip/

Raf

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Looking forward to getting back to "normal operations" soon :-)
Jorge
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