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Oh man still hiding the center 200km of the south pole.

http://www.maps.arcgis.com/app...

Looks like those hidden military bases are still safe.

Why is every other planet so much more clearly imaged to death to each pole in detail, but EARTH, the south pole is HIDDEN once again. And the usual excuses are 100% bullshit, as they mapped the moon and mars pretty well.

This is a neat presentation of data.

With most cities you can read off features of their history and topography from the histogram.

Los Angeles you see the small disk of streets that represent hill neighborhoods on top of a simple grid.

"Ancient" cities (developed gradually over centuries), only found in Colonial America in the U.S., are large disks due to the incorporation of many unplanned, or separately planned, nuclei. Or you see rapid modern growth from an ancient core. Delhi is a good example, and but this same pattern with different scales for the central disk is found with many cities.

It looks like Charlotte started with a typical colonial city core - multiple city centers that fused together, then the city expanded in the modern era by building highways radiating out from the center, with developments built in grids along these highways, using them as the orientation axis.

> (A) "... The Civil and Environmental industries will never ever flip to Linux or anything else. ... (B) have old people in the industry that refuse to learn anything new at all"
Hmmm ... 'never'? I wonder why ESRI, the dominant player with ArcGIS decided to start releasing a Linux version? http://desktop.arcgis.com/en/a...
(B) Demographics - attrition will take care of most of the problem, competition, outsourcing the rest. See http://www.economicmodeling.co... . I heard this same pissing and moaning when aerospace moved from 2D to 3D Solid Modeling, and the transition happened in a relative eye blink.
(A) Nobody actually trying to get work done wants to deal with any OS. The need for model integration, remote teams, ,etc. practically dictate cloud based going forward. The size of GIS models and nano detail make for mammoth datasets. And guess what, nobody wants to deal with MS BS when building those systems or as an end user: Jon Hirschtick of OnShape ( https://www.onshape.com/ ):
"We have observed that most large-scale web successes rely on generic Linux-based computers—and lots of them. ... We chose a clean-sheet, full-cloud architecture because those other technologies, running desktop CAD on remote desktop servers, don’t solve the big problems that users have. They just move the problems and inefficiencies of desktop CAD software and file-copy workflows to a different computer. They don’t deliver the true big benefits of cloud. We’re not alone with this belief, by the way. Full-cloud has won over semi-cloud in many other industries, including Salesforce versus Siebel, Workday versus Oracle, etc."

Yeah, that's right! I mean, there are only five fault lines within 3 miles of Hawthorne, and as EVERYONE in the Los Angeles region KNOWS, when an earthquake is more than a mile away, you can't feel it, it does nothing at all.

Unfortunatly in my part of town, AT&T has really jumped the gun on Google (see map): http://overlandpark.maps.arcgi... They are rolling along with fiber installation way ahead of Google.

You. Fail. At. Internet. Forever.

FOR. EVER.