#3209: buildings, crete

Thu, 11 Jun 2026 by Raf

• The European real estate stock in an open database of 322 million individual buildings for urban sustainability studies or natural risk assessments
  https://eubucco.com/
• Geotour is a private initiative driven by the love for the cultural heritage and natural environment of Crete that allows you to discover the island in an immersive way.
  https://www.geotour.gr/

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#3208: library, archaeology

Wed, 10 Jun 2026 by Raf

• A JavaScript library to map geographic points to a grid using mixed integer programming (MIP) while preserving spatial relationships to obtain cartograms
  https://danylaksono.is-a.dev/gridmapper/demo/
• The Maptism project aims to create the most accurate public maps possible of all the archaeological cultures of Europe and Asia by crossing absolute and relative chronologies.
  https://maptism.org/

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#3207: app, tiles

Tue, 09 Jun 2026 by Raf

• Mapshifter is a map app, with routes and search and offline maps based on OpenStreetMap, MapLibre and OSRM, and with seven very different hand-made map styles
  https://mapshifter.com/
• Qtiler allows you to generate, inspect and publish Qgis 3 qgs/qgz projects on the web as WMTS and XYZ, as well as WMS and WFS-T and supports OGC workflows.
  https://github.com/MundoGIS/Qtiler

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#3206: rings, data

Mon, 08 Jun 2026 by Raf

• Great circle map generator on the globe for configurable display of distance rings
  https://www.mapspam.net/greatcircles-v5/index.html
• Representation of data in stereograms, or triagrams since it is not only two-dimensional, made with modern 3D visualization techniques
  https://www.chartography.net/p/bellissimi-data-graphics

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#3205: cars, rural, nyc, eclipses, tracks

Fri, 05 Jun 2026 by Raf

• The Car Dependence Index (CDI) quantifies how car-centric urban growth has transformed the automobile from a convenience to a necessity for accessing essential services.
  https://arxiv.org/html/2604.01019v1
• Environmental conditions drive spatial and temporal changes in the Spanish rural environment, according to a study with socioeconomic and land-use data from 6,168 municipalities.
  https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0143622826001062
• This interactive sound map is part of The Neighborhoods, an ongoing project to document all the neighborhoods of New York City with essays, photographs, and audio.
  https://cityofsound.nyc/
• The solar eclipse map shows the paths of total, partial, and hybrid eclipses with a selector for dates and types, and the specific characteristics of each eclipse.
  https://dojo.amcharts.com/solar-eclipses/
• GeoPulse converts raw GPS traces from various programs into a self-hosted, Google-style timeline, storing the location history in its own Postgres database.
  https://github.com/tess1o/geopulse

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#3204: manhattan, classrooms, crops, communities, population

Wed, 03 Jun 2026 by Raf

• The Last Arcadia of Manhattan: real estate plans from the Blackwell Survey of circa 1860, colored and embellished for the Index of American Design (1936) by various artists
  https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/manhattans-last-arcadia/
• Map of the precarious state of Catalonian education and facilities where students and teachers spend the day without insulation or climate control, exceeding the legal limit of RD 486/1997. [CA]
  https://aulesquecremen.cat/mapa
• The Global Fields of The World (FTW) dataset provides global mosaics and predictions of agricultural fields for 2024 and 2025.
  https://source.coop/ftw/global-data
• A journey through the Long Island Sound Watershed: its landscapes, its communities, and its people (desktop screen recommended)
  https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/1d4b55a254524c34a458ff7384de8028
• As Europe's total population grows, half of its municipalities are losing inhabitants, which puts growing pressure on the quality of life in rural areas.
  https://correctiv.org/en/europe/2026/04/21/half-of-europes-towns-and-villages-have-fewer-residents-than-60-years-ago/

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#3203: lod2, food

Fri, 29 May 2026 by Raf

• roofer reconstructs LoD2 buildings fully automatically from a point cloud and building roof footprint polygon
  https://github.com/3DBAG/roofer
• The Open Food Network is a global network of people and organizations working together to build a new food system, and producers to buy local food from
  https://app.katuma.org/map?locale=ca

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#3202: web gis, nyc

Thu, 28 May 2026 by Raf

• The US Census Bureau's On The Map tool provides a wealth of data and maps and enables spatial analysis using web GIS features
  https://onthemap.ces.census.gov/
• The five boroughs of New York City can be informally or formally divided into many different parts, and the R package "nycmaps" allows drawing hexagonal maps of them
  https://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2026/04/19/new-york-city-hexmaps/

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#3201: isochronous, european

Wed, 27 May 2026 by Raf

• Fastreach determines the accessible area of ​​public transport given a starting station, a date and a maximum trip duration (isochronous) which is limited to 120 minutes
  https://fastreach.erik-schubert.de/
• Lokjo.com is a lightweight European replacement for Google Maps to finally have a modern European map service, while supporting local commerce
  https://www.lokjo.com/#m=14:50.84221:4.35814:s=008

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#3200: jazz, bottle

Tue, 26 May 2026 by Raf

• The soundtrack of New York City, free jazz format, played through the subway trains and the sound assigned to each different line (bass, piano, sax, etc.)
  https://www.trainjazz.com/
• A playful WebGL experiment where you throw a message in a bottle into the ocean and find out what other messages in bottles strangers leave behind
  https://unstoried.ink/?lat=40.5220&lon=12.5408&z=3

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#3199: gaussian, electricity

Mon, 25 May 2026 by Raf

• Lightweight urban modeling and rendering with proxy buildings and Gaussian residuals for efficient and high-quality urban scene recreation
  https://github.com/LiYukeee/CityGo
• The Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y la Competencia makes public the maps with the capacity available in the electricity grid, both for generation and for demand [CA]
  https://www.cnmc.es/ca/node/419407

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#3198: ai, gps, sar

Fri, 22 May 2026 by Raf

• Track Policy follows the status of AI and data center legislation around the world to find out what laws are being passed and see what impacts they will have
  https://trackpolicy.org/
• How geometry, chronometers, and Einstein's theories work together to make GPS possible
  https://perthirtysix.com/how-the-heck-does-gps-work
• ICEYE has an open S3 bucket with 3 TB of SAR images captured by 20 of its satellites between 2024 and March 1 of this year, ideal for experiments and testing
  https://iceye-open-data-catalog.s3.amazonaws.com/stac-items/summary/iceye-open-sar-data-thumbnails-map.html

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#3197: transportation, grassland, cities, bikes, weather

Thu, 21 May 2026 by Raf

• The map of the geography of transportation in the USA, printed on both sides, shows infrastructure on one side and a series of statistics on the other
  https://www.bts.gov/geography/geospatial-2/transportation-geography-united-states-2025
• Prairie dogs are the anonymous guardians of the ecosystem of large expanses of land covered in meadows or herbaceous communities in North America
  https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/01c17e62ab224a7d9ba1e5dc3b23438e
• Urban taxonomy is a classification of the built fabric that divides cities into regions with consistent patterns, connects them using a taxonomic tree, and encodes their differences
  https://urbantaxonomy.org/
• Interactive map with the bike lanes of Catalonia, with key figures and statistics, made with data from OpenStreetMap and municipal Open Data portals [CAT]
  https://carrilbici.opendata.cat/mapa
• iwfgara (in the Rarámuri language of Mexico "we are all one") is the 3D visualization platform for Gaia3D weather data
  https://www.iwfgara.com/

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#3196: livability, satellite

Mon, 18 May 2026 by Raf

• Strado scores each neighborhood in 50 European cities using real data from OpenStreetMap, with an analysis of 22 categories, to obtain a livability score based on your preferences
  https://strado.info/
• Ground Station is a full-featured open source software solution for satellite tracking and radio communication to monitor spacecraft
  https://github.com/sgoudelis/ground-station

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#3195: photographs, sausages

Fri, 15 May 2026 by Raf

• The collaborative project Geograph® Britain and Ireland aims to collect geographically representative photographs and information from every square kilometre of the territory
  https://www.geograph.org.uk/
• The World Atlas of Sausages, to discover regional varieties of sausages, get to know the best producers and find the best place to eat them
  https://planetwurst.com/

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#3194: geese, governance

Thu, 14 May 2026 by Raf

• A map to help students and staff navigate the University of Waterloo campus safely and avoid attacks from the aggressive geese that inhabit and nest there
  https://www.waddleloo.com/map
• The Civic Atlas is a physical governance exploration project that combines civic datasets to gain insight into a country and its governance scores.
  https://www.amos.design/the-civic-atlas

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#3193: flights, tolkien

Wed, 13 May 2026 by Raf

• Midway is a free tool to find destinations that can be reached by direct flight, and proposes a meeting point halfway.
  https://app.midway.travel/
• An interactive map of Tolkien's Middle-earth, with events from all over the legendary represented as markers, a book filter, and a distance meter
  https://middle-earth-interactive-map.web.app/

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#3192: silk, ice

Tue, 12 May 2026 by Raf

• Interactive map to explore the Silk Roads, discover new routes, learn what resources and goods are exchanged or find a city. Map can be purchased printed on silk
  https://www.intofarlands.com/silk-roads-map
• 3D ICE is an interactive cryosphere explorer designed to turn state-of-the-art datasets from Antarctica and Greenland into an intuitive experience.
  https://3d-ice.com/

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#3191: temperature, rural

Mon, 11 May 2026 by Raf

• Using street-level imagery to assess outdoor thermal comfort in urban environments and map the PET (Physiological Equivalent Temperature) in Milan
  https://transformtransport.org/research/seeing-the-heat-using-street-level-imagery-to-assess-outdoor-thermal-comfort-in-urban-environments/
• Rural residents in the US are older, have poorer health and less access to health care than their urban counterparts, and rural hospitals are closing.
  https://www.reuters.com/graphics/USA-HEALTH/RURAL-HOSPITALS/zgpolkmdbvd/

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#3190: food, industries, railways, traveling, pyrenees

Fri, 08 May 2026 by Raf

• Guyana, officially known as the Co-operative Republic of Guyana, is the only country in the world capable of feeding its entire population through domestic production, without relying on imports
  https://www.nature.com/articles/s43016-025-01173-4
• The Industrial Land Viewer for the Valencian Community helps locate all developed industrial areas in Castellón, Valencia, and Alicante, using data from the Urban Land Inventory [CA]
  https://icv.gva.es/auto/aplicaciones/visors_tematics/actividad_economica/VAL/
• The map of LTVs (temporal speed limitations) on the Spanish railway network, roughly geolocated
  https://limitacions.vatard.com/en/map
• Passage is a photo app available on Android and iOS that overlays flight information and route maps onto photos taken while traveling by plane, bullet train, or other means, utilizing EXIF data
  https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.flightphoto.passage
• "Projecte 4 Estacions" offers weather information for the Pyrenees, including forecasts, live cameras, timelapses, and a social media presence [CA]
  https://app.projecte4estacions.com/mapa

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#3189: energy, community, dataviz, maplibre, pesticides

Wed, 06 May 2026 by Raf

• The complete electrical infrastructure of the world on an interactive map, featuring generation, distribution, and facilities, with filters to combine all elements
  https://opengridworks.com/
• The Third Place Index (TPI) highlights community gathering spaces throughout the United States, "third places" where individuals come together for social interaction outside of home and work
  https://thirdplaceindex.org/map-app/address-map
• The Geospatial Atlas is a tool that offers interactive visualizations for large datasets of points, featuring cross-filters and metadata search options
  https://github.com/do-me/geospatial-atlas
• A Maplibre GL JS plugin for better organizing polygon labels in tile-based vector layers
  https://github.com/AbelVM/maplibre-properlabels
• High-resolution modeling of pesticide-related cancer risk using comprehensive cancer registry data to map cancer groups linked to pesticides in Peru
  https://www.nature.com/articles/s44360-026-00087-0

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#3188: china, population

Fri, 01 May 2026 by Raf

• How the world is seen from China after the renaissance of geopolitics through maps, and specifically with the cartographic representations of the new empire [FR]
  https://legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2026/03/28/xi-cartes-geopolitique/
• Human population within a given radius, from anywhere in the world, calculated using the 2025 Global Human Settlement Layer population grid data and OSM layers
  https://www.tomforth.co.uk/circlepopulations/

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#3187: swiss, scenic

Thu, 30 Apr 2026 by Raf

• The Swiss Territorial Project shows what the country could look like in the future considering that they will need enough space to live well and to remain economically strong [FR]
  https://projet-de-territoire-suisse.ch/
• Eight scenic US road trips presented with minimalist maps
  https://thegatewithbriancohen.com/8-iconic-road-trips-as-minimalist-maps-in-the-united-states/

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#3186: music, earthquakes

Wed, 29 Apr 2026 by Raf

• Irish traditional music atlas made with data from The Session website allows filtering by site, tune and melody type and specific searches
  https://cartoguophy.com/irish-trad-music/
• The environmental cost of earthquakes in Europe presented in a seismic risk map of embodied carbon associated with damage to buildings (about 14 billion tons of CO2)
  https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-68120-6

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#3185: places, intelligence

Tue, 28 Apr 2026 by Raf, last check: Thu, 07 May 2026

• A technique for creating scale classifications for cities based on the calculation of relative population density (RPD) to show places on the map that would otherwise not be seen
  https://somethingaboutmaps.wordpress.com/2026/03/23/urban-relativity/
• Your personal intelligence agent that watches the world from multiple data sources and alerts you when something changes, with centralized command, open source and cloudless
  https://github.com/calesthio/Crucix

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