Covering posts from 0800 ET September 25 to 0800 ET September 26. Sources: 166 geospatial feeds.
Weekend volume across the tracked feeds was thin, with only a handful of substantive posts landing in this window once the jobs roundups, event promos, and product changelogs are cleared out. Here are the highlights.
1. NOAA flood inundation prediction maps now in ArcGIS Living Atlas — ArcGIS Blog Dan Pisut's post flags NOAA flood inundation prediction data landing in ArcGIS Living Atlas, giving analysts a ready-made public safety layer to pull into existing ArcGIS workflows. It's a real infrastructure addition rather than a feature demo, even though Esri's own feed strips out the body copy. → Read it
2. Does Gallatin County Montana Really Have the Nation's Highest Percentage of Excessive Drinkers? If So, Does It Matter? — GeoCurrents The post picks apart a viral county-level drinking map, questioning why Wisconsin reads as such a dramatic outlier next to its neighbors and promising a closer look at the underlying data. It's the kind of methodological skepticism about a popular map that this ecosystem rarely bothers with. → Read it
3. The United Nations, Mercator and Equal Earth: Another Follow-Up — The Map Room The Map Room keeps tracking the fallout from the UN's resolution nudging institutions away from Mercator toward Equal Earth, this time pointing to a pair of Guardian pieces that move past pure projection mechanics. It's a running thread worth following for anyone watching how cartographic standards get set at the institutional level. → Read it
4. Visualize Vegetation Change Through Time Using EVI and Living Atlas Imagery — ArcGIS Blog Jeff Swain's post walks through using Enhanced Vegetation Index imagery in Living Atlas to track vegetation change over time, a workflow that touches agricultural and land cover monitoring, one of the commercial verticals this feed set otherwise covers thinly. → Read it
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