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These are a collection of data sources that I wanted to dedicate a post to.  The scale is truly global. OpenTopography facilitates efficient access to topography data, tools, and resources to advance our understanding of the Earth’s surface, vegetation, and built environment. https://opentopography.org/ Ocean Networks Canada (ONC) is a world-leading ocean observing facility hosted and owned by the University of Victoria (UVic), and managed and operated by the ONC Society, a not-for-profit established in 2007. ONC delivers ocean data from…

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In an earlier post I covered a project that tracked position, https://www.cloudacm.com/?p=4728.  The data is stored as a CSV file.  This format is easier to work with in a spreadsheet but lacks visual map details.  This post will cover basic steps on how I import the tracks in Viking and QGIS. The first step is merging data files if they span a given trip.  I append the data files sequentially in a spreadsheet.  I’ve noticed that some rows contain garbage,…

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This post will cover equirectangular projection using the Pannellum toolset.  Details about Pannellum can be found here, https://pannellum.org/documentation/overview/.  I have included two types of images as examples, cube and spherical.  Both of them give a spatial sense to the observer viewing out from inside a box or ball. The example patterns represent a rudimentary reticle for measurement that can be applied to a physical environment.