Ráfagas2024-03-18T09:39:44+00:00https://geoinquiets.github.io/rafagasRafagasxurxosanz@gmail.com #2244: water, mapping, cemeteries 2024-03-18T00:00:00+00:00https://geoinquiets.github.io/rafagas/2024/2244
#2244: water, mapping, cemeteries
Mon, 18 Mar 2024 by Raf
* The "Fes Fonts Fent Fonting" association collects a whole series of information on natural water sources, mainly in the "Serra de Collserola" and also in other places, with descriptions and maps and traces [CA]
https://fontscollserola.com/
* The easiest way to map from data in minutes and with no programming or GIS experience, with a free but limited version
https://iipmaps.com/
* The geography of Paris cemeteries is confusing given that the cemeteries are not attached to a religious monument as is usually the case and that there are 2 private ones [FR]
https://cartapaname.substack.com/p/letonnante-geographie-des-cimetieres
#2243: water, budapest, algae, drought, tracking, cannon 2024-03-15T00:00:00+00:00https://geoinquiets.github.io/rafagas/2024/2243
#2243: water, budapest, algae, drought, tracking, cannon
Fri, 15 Mar 2024 by Raf
* Aqueduct, created by the Water Risk Atlas, is a drought map that assesses water risks using open data to advance best practices in water resource management.
https://www.wri.org/applications/aqueduct/water-risk-atlas/
* One-third of Budapest's 8,598 streets and squares have been renamed at least once in its history. The renaming usually followed changes in political regime and resulted in collective memory loss
https://www.europeandatajournalism.eu/cp_data_news/poets-politicians-and-saints-budapests-changing-street-names/
* CyFi is an Open Source tool that uses machine learning and satellite imagery to identify areas in lakes and reservoirs that may contain harmful algal blooms (cyanobacteria)
https://www.earthdata.nasa.gov/learn/blog/cyanobacteria-finder
* Global warming, rather than El Niño, is the cause of record drought in the Amazon, which is affecting both food supply and energy production due to lack of water
https://www.climate.gov/news-features/event-tracker/preliminary-analysis-says-global-warming-more-blame-el-nino-amazons
* The content users provide on Google Maps can be used indirectly to follow people's movements and learn their timetables and habits
https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/01/17/google-maps-tracking-business-locations/
* Google Maps is used to locate an agricultural air cannon that distorts neighbors' sound in England, with measurements taken from three locations and just a few lines of code
https://www.twobraids.com/2024/01/air-cannon.html
#2242: desertification, leather, heights, barcelona, 3d, stones 2024-03-14T10:00:42+00:00https://geoinquiets.github.io/rafagas/2024/2242
#2242: desertification, leather, heights, barcelona, 3d, stones
Thu, 14 Mar 2024 by Raf
* Since the first map was made in 1977, mapping the planet's desertification has evolved and improved with new methods and a changing framework [ES]
https://theconversation.com/sabemos-realmente-que-zonas-del-planeta-se-estan-desertificando-220796
* Tactile Craftworks produces durable, beautiful, and satisfying mappy leather goods.
https://tactilecraftworks.com/collections/london-england
* From 1995 to 2020, the vertical motion of the Earth was probabilistically reconstructed to determine its regional and nonlinear impact on projections of relative sea level up to 2150
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-023-01357-2
* Lafede publishes a third collaborative map that explains the consequences generated by the agri-food model of the city of Barcelona to the global South and the North [CA]
https://www.lafede.cat/ca/com-salimenta-barcelona-nou-mapa-dels-impactes-del-model-agroalimentari-al-sud-global/
* An innovative experience in 3D visualization of architectural, urban, and territorial projects to facilitate the understanding of the different issues related to the transformation of our environments [FR]
https://studio-carto-urban-project.netlify.app/
* Primera Pedra is the geo-referenced and collaborative catalog of dry stone constructions in Andorra, with more than 1700 documented structures, with maps, routes and maps and a mobile app [CA]
https://www.primerapedra.com/construccions/
#2241: patterns, blender, languages, houthi, iwd, medellin 2024-03-13T07:44:13+00:00https://geoinquiets.github.io/rafagas/2024/2241
#2241: patterns, blender, languages, houthi, iwd, medellin
Wed, 13 Mar 2024 by Raf
* Promising results indicate the potential of using moving windows to analyze urban patterns and city land use evolution.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/tgis.13139
* Blosm for Blender has both free and paid versions, allowing you to easily import 3D cities from Google, OSM buildings, terrain models, GPS tracks, and more with the premium version.
https://prochitecture.gumroad.com/l/blender-osm?layout=profile
* There over 3000 endangered languages in the world, which when its speakers start teaching and using a more dominant language to their children.
https://www.ethnologue.com/insights/how-many-languages-endangered/
* Behshad appears to be an ordinary Iranian grain vessel, but it is actually used for weapons and information exchange for attacks in Gulf of Aden to the Houthi (paywall)
https://www.ft.com/content/5fb8849c-b5b2-4f6f-908f-2c125159e3ce
* Issue number 52 of Mapas Milhaud's newsletter (in Spanish) highlights three important women cartographers for International Women's Day [ES]
https://newsletter.mapasmilhaud.com/p/mujeres-importantes-de-la-historia
* The Colombian city of Medellin has created "Green Corridors" - vegetation walkways that mimic natural forests - to help reduce urban temperatures by up to five degrees globally
https://reasonstobecheerful.world/green-corridors-medellin-colombia-urban-heat/
#2240: rivers, biodiversity, mariupol, dataset, classification, cities 2024-03-12T08:56:13+00:00https://geoinquiets.github.io/rafagas/2024/2240
#2240: rivers, biodiversity, mariupol, dataset, classification, cities
Tue, 12 Mar 2024 by Raf
* The AMBER project has a citizen app to help determine the magnitude of river system fragmentation by inventorying barriers in European rivers.
https://amber.international/european-barrier-atlas/
* The loss of Africa's ecological biodiversity may result in food insecurity, conflicts, and increased transmission of zoonotic diseases, which could lead to more pandemics.
https://africacenter.org/spotlight/african-biodiversity-loss-risk-human-security/
* Human Rights Watch, SITU Research, and Truth Hounds assess the destruction in Mariupol during the Russia-Ukraine war using an impressive interactive that combines maps, text, and video
https://www.hrw.org/feature/russia-ukraine-war-mariupol
* Major TOM is a framework to merge multiple sets of EO data from different sources. It is also a repository that provides access to 45 TB of data.
https://huggingface.co/Major-TOM
* A tutorial on performing multi-class classification using the Dzetsaka QGIS plugin for satellite imagery and raster sources
https://daveparr.com/2024/03/01/machine-learning-classification-in-qgis/
* This article proposes a standardized index based on the availability of urban functions for a 15-minute walking distance, using Bogotà, Colombia, as a case study
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264275124000969
#2239: elks, innovation, barcelona, radio, hosting, books 2024-03-11T10:30:29+00:00https://geoinquiets.github.io/rafagas/2024/2239
#2239: elks, innovation, barcelona, radio, hosting, books
Mon, 11 Mar 2024 by Raf
* Kentucky's elk population, reintroduced in 1997, is the largest in the US. Regulated hunting has generated over $3.5 million in economic impact
https://www.maps.com/elk-reintroduction-map-highlights-economic-impact-in-kentucky/
* The success of a city in innovative activities is heavily influenced by its position within the interurban network (PDF)
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5f9fd5c50da41f74e9a62d36/t/65e57fa221092e192afb2fc3/1709539248385/Intercity+connectivity.pdf
* Barcelona's digital and green transition and its impact on the Global South, where this transformation's crucial materials originate [CA]
https://odg.cat/publicacio/mapa-la-transicio-verda-i-digital-de-barcelona-i-els-seus-impactes-al-sud-global/
* Frequency 2156 is a fictional community Internet radio station that aims to connect all survivors of the Great War through popular protocols.
https://frequency2156.com/
* Desert Atlas is an OSM application for Sandstorm, an open-source project for easily self-hosting web applications. It allows users to collaborate privately on a map to develop exciting addresses.
https://sandstorm.org/news/2023-12-05-osm-on-sandstorm
* The map displays all locations with public_bookcase labels on OSM for free libraries or book exchanges in France.
https://www.boites-a-livres.fr/carte-de-france
#2238: bocage, 3d, colorado 2024-03-08T00:00:00+00:00https://geoinquiets.github.io/rafagas/2024/2238
#2238: bocage, 3d, colorado
Fri, 08 Mar 2024 by Raf
* The landscape of closed fields (bocage), a valuable ally in the face of climate change and the collapse of biodiversity with trees that provide multiple environmental services, is disappearing in French Brittany [FR]
https://splann.org/enquete/bocage/
* 3dviewer.net is a website to open various 3D file formats (3dm, 3ds, 3mf, amf, bim, brep, dae, fbx, fcstd, gltf, ifc, iges, step, stl, obj, off, ply, wrl) and view them directly in your browser
https://3dviewer.net/index.html
* The Colorado River Basin viewed from multiple perspectives (cultural, scientific and legal) as an example of water challenges around the world
https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/5f447701b0234eec9ca0bab050141513
#2237: periferiasdibujadas, qfieldcloud, toponymy 2024-03-07T00:00:00+00:00https://geoinquiets.github.io/rafagas/2024/2237
#2237: periferiasdibujadas, qfieldcloud, toponymy
Thu, 07 Mar 2024 by Raf
* periferiasdibujadas is a project that works in collaboration with other groups to create spaces for children from different places in Europe to investigate, narrate and intervene in their urban contexts
https://padlet.com/periferiasdibujadas/how-children-visualise-cities-of-today-and-tomorrow-vjw8kyzgxbka5io0
* How to set up a custom QFieldCloud server, which will allow you to synchronize your data between QGIS, thanks to the QFieldSync plugin, and the QField application for field work [FR]
https://geotribu.fr/articles/2024/2024-02-06_mise_en_place_serveur_qfieldcloud/
* TopoMine is a web tool for exploring French toponymy using searchable IGN databases throughout the French territory, thus forming a mine of data to mine [FR]
https://www.rfgenealogie.com/infos/topomine-mis-a-jour-avec-de-nouvelles-cartes
#2236: history, montreal, glaciers 2024-03-06T00:00:00+00:00https://geoinquiets.github.io/rafagas/2024/2236
#2236: history, montreal, glaciers
Wed, 06 Mar 2024 by Raf
* Code repository for the article "Synthetic Map Generation to Provide Unlimited Training Data for Historical Map Text Detection" to generate old map-looking OSM tiles
https://github.com/zekun-li/generate_synthetic_historical_maps
* Obstacles and traffic interruptions in progress in the city of Montréal based on work permits authorized by the City Council, its partners (Hydro-Québec, Énergir, Bell), real estate developers, private contractors and individuals. [FR]
https://services.montreal.ca/cartes/entraves/
* Using remote sensing data and satellite imagery to track changes in glacier size, shape and movement to map ice loss in western Canada
https://www.geographyrealm.com/glacier-loss-western-canada/
#2235: golf, age, emotions 2024-03-05T00:00:00+00:00https://geoinquiets.github.io/rafagas/2024/2235
#2235: golf, age, emotions
Tue, 05 Mar 2024 by Raf
* There are 16,000 golf courses and 13,000 McDonald's in the US, with the hamburger joints mostly concentrated in urban areas and the golf courses in the spaces between urban areas
https://flowingdata.com/2024/02/28/mcdonalds-locations-vs-golf-courses/
* The average age in European countries has been steadily increasing over the past few decades, largely due to factors such as improved healthcare and declining birth rates
https://landgeist.com/2023/08/19/median-age-in-europe/
* Ana Lucía González Paz showed off a delightful flip book at London's Geomob that explores the emotional power of maps and how we all have a map within us
https://a-map-inside.webflow.io/