Dan Runfola

Clicking "New Blank Document" Results in "Open With" Portal

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Thanks for the wonderful and simple snap - real lifesaver working with my word-inclined colleagues. Essentially - this works for all cases except when I click on the "New blank...

http://www.icr.ethz.ch/data/geoepr This will be an expensive one, as there are hundreds of different polygons defining the regions, and multiple overlapping groups within each polygon.

MODIS land cover for urban areas does a good job capturing the physical footprint of urban areas (i.e., big buildings), but not suburbs (where GRUMP shines).

GRUMP urban extents provide a very conservative estimate of urban areas (inc. suburbs), and are generally best to understand maximum impact areas.

Agriculture - EarthStat

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Use the EarthStat database to disentangle land by crop type: http://www.earthstat.org/ Should be able to get fruit, wheat, etc. Lots of nuance. Overall cropland area should also be feasible.

ICEWS (Integrated Crisis Early Warning System) Conflict Data

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Potential to be the first global vector we do, other than AidData. Global Conflict Measurements, available at: https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/icews This will be a very heavy lift, as it's unclear what attributes...

We already have travel time, add in euclidean distance for other possible analyses (i.e., pollution). GRUMP Populated Places from CIESIN would be optimal for this. Bonus points: create multiple versions...

Distance to Borders

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Calculate distance to nearest country border for each location

I'm almost positive we've already done this for the 7.0 release, but @Sarangaban could you confirm? Inquiry came through the HDX portal. If this fix isn't already in it would...