#3062: earth observation, universe, identifier, usaid

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 by Raf

• AlphaEarth Foundations is an AI model that works as a virtual satellite with petabytes of Earth observation data to generate a unified data representation
  https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/alphaearth-foundations-helps-map-our-planet-in-unprecedented-detail/
• Italy celebrates 400 years since the birth of Giovanni Domenico Cassini, the man who expanded the universe [ES]
  https://www.eldiario.es/sociedad/huella-suelo-giovanni-domenico-cassini-hombre-ensancho-universo_1_12409308.html
• GERS (Global Entity Reference System) provides a unique identifier for each geospatial entity, facilitating the creation of richer mapping solutions
  https://overturemaps.org/gers/
• Dismantling USAID will undermine Washington's soft power and threatens mechanisms to prevent hunger, especially putting Africa at risk [FR]
  https://www.lemonde.fr/afrique/article/2025/04/12/le-gel-de-l-aide-des-etats-unis-met-l-afrique-en-danger-nos-cartes-pour-comprendre_6594771_3212.html

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#3061: cycling, satellites, segmentation, vessels

Fri, 15 Aug 2025 by Raf

• Map of cycling routes in Spain with itinerary, location, difficulty, distance, and more data and photographs
  https://www.spainbybike.es/en
• Discover the impact of ESA's Earth Observation on our daily lives with these stories about how satellites help us make smarter decisions
  https://edukeo.esa.int/
• OmniCloudMask is a Python library for state-of-the-art segmentation of clouds and cloud shadows in high- to moderate-resolution satellite imagery
  https://github.com/DPIRD-DMA/OmniCloudMask
• The Baltic Sea and the Denmark Strait have become focal points of geopolitical tension between Russia and NATO, with a growing number of civilian ships suspected of engaging in sabotage
  https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5315978

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#3060: democracy, connectivity, scams, tiles

Fri, 08 Aug 2025 by Raf, last check: Mon, 18 Aug 2025

• In Spain, there is a regulation against symbols and remnants of non-democratic memory. This website features a database, a form to submit new locations, and a map for exploration [ES]
  https://www.deberiadesaparecer.com/
• A report that gathers data on the three dimensions of the digital breach, at both the regional and Catalan levels, to identify specific barriers to accessing basic digital services [CA]
  https://m4social.org/resources/desconnectades-index-catala-de-bretxa-digital/
• Analysis of satellite images and eyewitness accounts to reveal the extent and persistence of criminal centers dedicated to fraud established in eastern Myanmar
  https://asia.nikkei.com/static/vdata/infographics/myanmar-scam-centers/
• Tilegroxy provides a consistent, memory-efficient API for many geospatial webmapping protocols, useful when consuming data from multiple providers
  https://github.com/Michad/tilegroxy

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#3059: bathymetry, waves

Fri, 01 Aug 2025 by Raf

• Combining physical and artificial intelligence models to improve satellite-derived bathymetric (SDB) mapping in shallow areas compared to conventional methods
  https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1574954125003371
• The study of heat waves in the Barcelona Metropolitan Area over the last 30 years (1991-2020) indicates that temperatures could increase between 2.5°C and 4.2°C by the end of the century.
  https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2025JD043559

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#3058: vinyl, land

Thu, 31 Jul 2025 by Raf, last check: Mon, 18 Aug 2025

• "Maps on Vinyl: An Atlas of Album Cover Maps" is a book and at the same time a historical and cultural document that collects 415 album covers (records) reproduced with great care and accompanied by a text
  https://www.damiensaunder.com/portfolio/maps-on-vinyl/
• A multi-land degradation index shows that continental and arable agricultural lands in Europe are currently threatened by one, two and three degradation drivers
  https://idp.nature.com/transit?redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nature.com%2Farticles%2Fs41467-024-48252-x&code=e8c05cb9-42c3-440b-8c87-39d4a2c2fbce

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#3057: surveillance, 3d

Wed, 30 Jul 2025 by Raf

• Atlanta is the most monitored city in the United States with 124.14 cameras per 1,000 people, and the map only shows 4.2% of the total surveillance capacity due to a lack of open data.
  https://mappingatlanta.org/2025/06/09/city-of-cameras/
• FlatCityBuf facilitates the storage and retrieval of 3D city models by combining the semantic richness of CityJSON with the performance of FlatBuffers and spatial indexing.
  https://github.com/cityjson/flatcitybuf

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#3056: analysis, settlements

Tue, 29 Jul 2025 by Raf

• The power (and danger) of geodata generated daily and the digital footprint associated with patterns, inferences, and OSINT (open source intelligence) analysis [ES]
  https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/de-strava-al-%2525C3%2525ADndice-pizza-del-pent%2525C3%2525A1gono-cuando-los-se-emilio-1tbwf/
• A collective work that offers a critical vision of the transformations of rural settlements in Catalonia over the last 25 years, focusing on spatial changes and other indicators. [ES]
  https://upcommons.upc.edu/entities/publication/d9abb59b-ca36-4120-927d-45f15256fa7d

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#3055: spices, octopus

Mon, 28 Jul 2025 by Raf

• Second version of the BioTIME database, which compiles records of species abundance estimates in sampling events of ecological assemblages over time
  https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/geb.70003
• Analysis of examples with ancient maps to determine how octopus maps function as visual arguments and contribute to specific negative or conspiratorial interpretations
  https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3706598.3713583

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#3054: roads, qgis stylesheets

Fri, 25 Jul 2025 by Raf, last check: Fri, 22 Aug 2025

• MobiLiteNet enables real-time, scalable and accurate roadside problem detection for mobile deployment on smartphones and mixed reality systems
  https://idp.nature.com/authorize?response_type=cookie&client_id=grover&redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nature.com%2Farticles%2Fs41467-025-59516-5
• A repository with QGIS stylesheets (QML) for use with Geofabrik's OpenStreetMap (OSM) data in ESRI Shapefile format
  https://github.com/charleyglynn/OSM-Shapefile-QGIS-stylesheets?tab=readme-ov-file

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#3053: population, collapse

Thu, 24 Jul 2025 by Raf

• The population crisis in Europe, where almost all countries will have negative growth from now until 2100, can only be solved with immigration
  https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2025/feb/18/europes-population-crisis-see-how-your-country-compares-visualised
• 3D reconstruction of the collapse of the Birch glacier over the village of Blatter in Switzerland, with open geodata obtained in a rapid mapping campaign 3 days after the collapse
  https://spatialists.ch/posts/2025/06-01-3d-reconstruction-of-birch-glacier-collapse/

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#3052: schools, building

Wed, 23 Jul 2025 by Raf

• Giga is a UNICEF-ITU initiative to connect all schools to the Internet and all young people to information, opportunities and choices, providing a map and APIs for data
  https://maps.giga.global/map
• GlobalBuildingAtlas is a dataset that provides global and comprehensive coverage of building polygons, heights and 3D LoD1 building models (PDF with links)
  https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.04106

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#3051: draw, vulnerability

Tue, 22 Jul 2025 by Raf, last check: Fri, 22 Aug 2025

• A plugin to add controls to Maplibre to use the power of the Terra Draw library to draw on screen
  https://github.com/watergis/maplibre-gl-terradraw
• Interactive climate vulnerability map of Catalonia with 21 risks (forest fires, loss of comfort, water shortages, coastal erosion, etc.) classified as low, medium or high risk [CA]
  https://diba.maps.arcgis.com/apps/dashboards/87ef24cc9ed742f09e2356658f48bd6f

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#3050: offline, raspberry

Mon, 21 Jul 2025 by Raf, last check: Fri, 22 Aug 2025

• The Internet-in-a-Box (IIAB) project has a specific version that packages vector maps and satellite images on a server to be consumed offline and without advertising.
  https://github.com/iiab/iiab/wiki/IIAB-Maps
• A Raspberry Pi, wood, and RGB LEDs to make a coffee table that is Cincinnati's real-time traffic map from 48 integrated data sources
  https://www.xda-developers.com/raspberry-pi-coffee-table-traffic-map-cincinnati/

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#3049: basemap, climbing

Fri, 18 Jul 2025 by Raf, last check: Wed, 06 Aug 2025

• basemap.world web vector map service for web and mobile devices, developed by the federal and state governments and provided by the Federal Office for Cartography and Geodesy (BKG) of Germany
  https://basemap.de/produkte-und-dienste/web-vektor-world/
• Climbing routes visualized in 3D in Unaweep Canyon, Colorado USA, based on photographing the scene with a drone, generating the model and using GIS to draw the routes
  https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/77b2ace255e9476c8246a4bc4cce923f

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#3048: lidar, parks

Thu, 17 Jul 2025 by Raf, last check: Mon, 18 Aug 2025

• Interactive, mobile-friendly online map to improve accessibility to LiDAR data from the high-precision digital elevation model provided by Swisstopo
  https://github.com/r-follador/delta-relief
• How to develop green infrastructure (parks) capable of providing vital ecosystem services to shape a more integrated, livable and resilient metropolitan region in Barcelona
  https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/7/1432 | archive.org

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#3047: jews, nerdy

Wed, 16 Jul 2025 by Raf, last check: Fri, 22 Aug 2025

• "Visualizing Lubartworld" is the story of Jews in a small Polish town from the 1930s to the 1950s, caught between migration and persecution
  https://visualizing-lubartworld.org/
• "Nerdy Day Trips" is a collaborative map of fascinating places to visit around the world: science museums, observatories, makerspaces, research centers, and other places for the curious
  https://nerdydaytrips.org/

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#3046: ai, flatgeobuf

Tue, 15 Jul 2025 by Raf

• Mundi.ai is an open source web GIS with AI for hosting, exploring and analyzing spatial data, which can be deployed in your own environment or rented in the cloud
  https://github.com/BuntingLabs/mundi.ai
• Interactive viewing of FlatGeobuf files in the web browser, to inspect the files and see the properties of the geometries and metadata of the file
  https://do-me.github.io/flatgeobuf-viewer/

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#3045: airbnb, gtfs

Mon, 14 Jul 2025 by Raf, last check: Fri, 08 Aug 2025

• In certain neighborhoods of Barcelona, the percentage of housing dedicated entirely to Airbnb is close to 20%, while it increases to 30% if we include those rented out as rooms.
  https://share.streamlit.io/-/auth/app?redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fparasites.streamlit.app%2F
• Interactive visualization of travel time on public transport in Switzerland between two points, with several options, made with Minotor and official GTFS data
  https://www.isochrone.ch/?origin=Parent8504100

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#3044: wfs, land

Fri, 11 Jul 2025 by Raf

• WFSExplorer, also known as WFS-Wizard, visualizes, analyzes, and exports WFS data directly to the browser from a valid URL of a WFS data server.
  https://wfsexplorer.odis-berlin.de/
• FRAx4 is a dataset of old maps of France adapted to analyze the evolution of LULC (land use and cover classes) in the long term and train three segmentation baselines
  https://github.com/Archiel19/FRAx4

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#3043: flow, obsolete

Thu, 10 Jul 2025 by Raf

• Arabesque provides a comprehensive set of tools to explore, filter, and geovisualize source-destination matrices and represent flow datasets.
  https://gflowiz.github.io/arabesque2-doc/
• Collaborative map of obsolete mountain facilities, mainly for tourism but also for industrial, agricultural and military purposes, that could be dismantled [FR]
  https://www.installationsobsoletes.org/#/map

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#3042: miocene, ping-pong

Wed, 09 Jul 2025 by Raf, last check: Wed, 06 Aug 2025

• The Betic Range experienced a kilometer-long topographic uplift since the Upper Miocene as a result of an epirogenic uplift driven by the tearing of the slabs.
  https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169555X25003010 | archive.org
• A collaborative map of ping pong tables around the world, featuring over 2,800 locations as of 2024.
  https://pingpongmap.net/

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#3041: whales, yolo

Tue, 08 Jul 2025 by Raf

• The Blue Corridors Initiative is a global collaboration dedicated to safeguarding whale migration routes through open data and innovative visualizations.
  https://bluecorridors.org/explore/species
• How to count all the yurts (ger in Mongolian) in Mongolia with machine learning by training a small model with open source tools, satellite imagery and Yolo, explained with code and examples
  https://monroeclinton.com/counting-all-yurts-in-mongolia/

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#3040: satellite, maintenance

Mon, 07 Jul 2025 by Raf

• Space internet (satellite internet) is reshaping Earth's orbit and fueling a gold rush that threatens to collapse LEO
  https://restofworld.org/2025/satellites-space-based-internet/
• Updated visualization of the Comprehensive Maintenance Plan interventions that exist throughout the city of Barcelona in an interactive viewer of the "Tidy up Plan" [CA]
  https://geo.bcn.cat/plamanteniment/visor/ca?pos=4583510.9573,428947.2882&zoom=7.5000&map=1&estat=1,2,3&dw=0&dwC=0&isDwB=0

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#3039: cyclones, photogrametry, ai

Fri, 04 Jul 2025 by Raf, last check: Fri, 08 Aug 2025

• Google DeepMind and Google Research have launched an interactive website that shares AI-driven meteorological models for improved cyclone prediction
  https://accounts.google.com/ServiceLogin?passive=1209600&continue=https://deepmind.google.com/science/weatherlab&followup=https://deepmind.google.com/science/weatherlab
• The Digital Photo Library of Aragon, created using CKAN, enables users to view and download over 50,000 georeferenced aerial images spanning from 1927 to the present [ES]
  https://icearagon.aragon.es/fototeca/home
• Only 32 countries, primarily in the northern hemisphere, have specialized AI data centers, creating a significant gap in the AI race compared to the rest of the world
  https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/06/23/technology/ai-computing-global-divide.html

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#3038: radioactive, selfhosting, qgis

Thu, 03 Jul 2025 by Raf, last check: Wed, 06 Aug 2025

• From 1949 to 1982, large quantities of radioactive waste were dumped into the sea in metal barrels, left at depths greater than 4,000 meters
  https://almacennuclear.wordpress.com/2018/08/31/los-residuos-radiactivos-olvidados-de-la-fosa-atlantica/
• Wanderer is a self-hosted, decentralized database for GPS routes with various metadata, allowing users to create a searchable catalog
  https://wanderer.to/
• A QGIS connector for automatically counting olive trees from Spanish orthoimagery and a plot shapefile using a one-click workflow
  https://github.com/cristianq5/olive_canopy_segmenter

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