glacier – twentyone – an «info century» blog

3 August 20174 August 2017

Reworked: “Gletscherschwund” by TagesAnzeiger

Today, Swiss daily TagesAnzeiger featured a great piece about climate change and shrinking Swiss glaciers. The article features: an animated GIF showing the overall area of glaciers that was lost to melting as compared to the area of the canton of Zurich. This is useful to give the audience a (more) relatable comparison. a small … Continue reading Reworked: “Gletscherschwund” by TagesAnzeiger

26 January 201627 January 2016

Visualising the last glacial maximum correctly

A few days ago, Swiss Geoportal (/the Swiss federal geodata infrastructure) tweeted a link to a visualisation of the largest ice extent over Switzerland – i.e. the last glacial maximum, LGM for short: They used a rather famous map of the LGM and draped it over an elevation service as a showcase for the newly-developed … Continue reading Visualising the last glacial maximum correctly