[Ráfaga] Nº171: contest, card game, fantastic, clouds, NYC, tables, population, infography, georef, cooperatives, fines, energy

[Jorge Sanz]

* Omnidirectional video camera with 9Mpx and automatic people count
  http://www.diginfo.tv/v/pd-1072-en.php

* USA average raining with an isometric view for clarity
  http://metricmaps.org/2015/07/27/avg-daily-precip-by-us-county/

* CartoDB maps contest, open until August 31, with prizes
  http://go.cartodb.com/insight-competition

* A card game to learn USA geography
  http://ubique.americangeo.org/non-profit-spotlight/geoplunge-by-learningplunge-inc-a-thrilling-way-to-learn-u-s-geography/

* "Picture perfect days": map of the USE according to the number of
days with good weather conditions
http://us-climate.blogspot.com.es/2015/03/picture-perfect-weather-days.html

* 2012 cloud frequency map measured with the MODIS satellite
  https://cloudfrequency.appspot.com/

* Hand drawn anonymous map with New York at the centre of the World
and fitting the whole country
  http://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~274078~90047809:New-York-City?sort=Pub_List_No_InitialSort%2CPub_Date%2CPub_List_No%2CSeries_No&qvq=w4s:/where/New+York+City;sort:Pub_List_No_InitialSort%2CPub_Date%2CPub_List_No%2CSeries_No;lc:RUMSEY~8~1&mi=24&trs=31#

* Tabula, a tool to free tables locked on PDF files
  http://tabula.technology/

* Detailed explanation of how the Europe population change was mapped
  http://blog.webkid.io/how-we-created-a-map-with-100k-interactive-areas/

* Infography to overview the different career options for GIS students
  http://gis.usc.edu/msp-resources/infographics/career-paths-2/

* Using an old map as a basemap for a temporal visualization project
  https://movingbodiesmovingculture.wordpress.com/2015/07/28/historical-basemaps/

* Slides and report: "Mapping agro-food consumption groups in the city
of Barcelona"
  http://ict4rd.net/mapping-agro-food-consumption-groups-in-the-city-of-barcelona/

* Map of the 177.974 fines reported in Madrid at February 2015,
summing 17.525.900€
  https://team.cartodb.com/u/piensaenpixel/viz/72a358fe-0894-11e5-9e8a-0e018d66dc29/public_map

* Interactive map of the global connections between geopolitics,
energy and natural resources
  http://worldpowermap.com/

Raf