A fond farewell to two old friends

[Update: read here my  new occupation inspired by these six months later]

Over seven years after starting to post on arcgis.com and almost five years after posting mega-datasets on GeoCloud2 via AWS, I have to seriously reconsider my investment in web data. I already mentioned my new direction two posts ago, and now stood down my AWS instance - thanks @mhoegh for his help on Mapcentia - and I will let my arcgis.com account lapse next May, five years after it was created (I already rationalised my Esri accounts, hence the two year gap with opener). Do not despair however...

I have posted data-sets on Dropbox - they're all CC BY-SA 3.0 - and posted animations on YouTube as follows.

Dropbox name	Corresponding blog
CLIWOC  ...................................................	Ant/Arctic polar maps
2018PPDMmap  .........................................	COTS petrodata mapping
2014PPDMopen  ........................................	FOSS petrodata mapping
MedFenWGS84  .........................................	Medieval Fenlands GIS
2016beehive  ...............................................	Hexagon bin maps
2008GISmodelling  ....................................	Model Builder classes
YouTube name	Corresponding blog
Beechey Island Google Earth  ....................	Imagery & topography
Gulf of Mexico Salt Dome Field  ...............	Esri 3D conflation
Gulf of Mexico Wells Causeway  ...............	Hexagon bin maps
Hurricane Harvey  ......................................	Flood mapping
Kuwait Oilspill Response Model  ..............	GIS for oil spill modelling
Kuwaiti oil spill model  ..............................	GIS for oil spill modelling
Where in the World is Andrew  ..................	Time lapse animation
XYcliwoc_.avi  ...........................................	Historic tall ships sailings
Cambs. Surf. Geol. Time.avi  .....................	East Anglia historic geology

Let me leave you with my GeoHipster Calendar gallery for inaugural 2015, 2016 and 2018 - click on images to enlarge - thank y'all for the exposure:

2018 Live WebScene 

2016 ‘Hexagon binning, US Gulf of Mexico oilwells’

2015 ‘CLIWOC ships captains logs for 1750-1774 time slice’

And to complete the smorgasbord, here are my previous recaps:   

• 2015 Around the world in 30 maps 
• 2012 Roundup of web projects 
• as well as the blog header links (right below the banner on desktop browsers)