Popbuilder

Thanks to Brendan Conway for the tipoff to this site, which provides population estimates and structure for specific small areas in the UK.

🆕 What's the population of your area? Instant #demographic profiles for #LSOAs (Eng+Wales) #DataZones (Scot) mid-2020 using 'Population Builder' by brilliant @olihawkins #demography #COP26 #population #GIS @GIS4Schools @Dav1dM0rgan @Glasgow_Live @madewulf https://t.co/a2TFgZVj3J pic.twitter.com/DFHkV0ZZXj

— BC (@mildthing99) October 31, 2021

Popbulder is a web-app that lets you build a population estimate for a set of small areas in Great Britain. The estimates are for the population in mid-2020.

1. The boundaries appear automatically when the map is zoomed in.

2. Click or tap the areas of interest: the estimated population is shown in the top right.

3. Click or tap “Get data” to see the age-distribution.

4. Turn the boundaries on and off manually using the boundary control in the bottom right.

Created by Oli Hawkins.

Here's the pyramid for my particular part of mid-Norfolk - as you can see it's quite a top heavy population distribution.

Adding layers into Google Earth

Seems like this is back again: Andy Funnell has shared some ideas.

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The new ESRI UK Education Team resources for teaching about the Climate Emergency have now been released and are ready for use. They explore climate change in the UK, and were produced in partnership with the Met Office.

They include Teaching Resources for different key stages including Primary.

They also include a Teacher Knowledge section.

This includes the useful resource on COP26 below.

A typically stylish and useful set of resources generously shared.

The Human Reach Atlas

This is a collection of ESRI StoryMaps which has been published ahead of World GIS Day.

It's called the Human Reach Atlas.

La Palma Eruption StoryMap Collection

 

Excellent work by Alistair Hamill and others, which has been shared by Jason Sawle and the ESRI team.

Living Atlas

Remember to use the ArcGIS Living Atlas.

ESRI StoryMap

A new guide to using and creating ArcGIS StoryMaps from ESRI has been made available. It's been updated and is very clear.