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Landed @ MKE
When one says that they are a librarian, almost inevitably, > 90% of the time, people will express admiration that I can spend so much time reading. Not only is that silly false, most librarians rarely get the chance to deeply explore a collection other than their own (if they have one–most librarians don’t have…
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Solar from space
I was more than a little surprised to see a logo carved into a solar panel farm outside Kashgar. This has already become sort of a cover image for the project. Kashgar itself is an ancient oasis on the silk road. The increasingly rare Chinese city with an overwhelmingly non-Chinese population. 85% Uighur. While I…
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A week out
A week from today I will be sitting down to the first morning of work in Milwaukee. So far I have configured this, half configured an Omeka S installation (darned if I can get the Universal Viewer to show stuff), and organized a pre-Reform and Opening set of Russian topographic maps and 2025-26 satellite mosaics…
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snowy
Gemini and I made a bookmark file today that lets me jump quickly from city to city. Doing so reminded me that some of my cities are very snowy. Doing so at an initial scale of 1:250k taught me that my cities range in screen size from 1:25,000 up to about 1:500,000. Maybe even 750k.…
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Image Classification
The project has 2 foundational datasets: 2025 satellite imagery and 1977 Soviet topographic maps. Quick categorization of patterns does not seem possible. What should be possible is to use Esri’s Image Classification tools to divide the main land use patterns that are visible on the maps: Highways, roads, rivers, and streams round out the linear…
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Wuhan 1938 and trains
I found a stunning set of maps of Wuhan scanned at Stanford. This came shortly after I started to use AllMaps and ArcGIS Pro to keep track of iiif maps that I find of my cities. The technique works nicely, except that there seems to be a lag between editing the georeferencing on AllMaps and…
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Initial thoughts
The Chinese social media / consumer review app Dazhong Dianping numbers the largest 200 metropolitan areas in China, perhaps not exactly by population, but the rankings match rather closely. Excluding Beijing, Shanghai, and other top super-cities, we have assembled a randomized list of 36 cities to examine.