#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

• "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://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-48252-x

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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

Raf

#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

• MobiLiteNet enables real-time, scalable and accurate roadside problem detection for mobile deployment on smartphones and mixed reality systems
  https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-59516-5
• 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

Raf

#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/

Raf

#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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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#3047: jews, nerdy

Wed, 16 Jul 2025 by Raf

• "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

• 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://parasites.streamlit.app/
• 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

• 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
• 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

• Google DeepMind and Google Research have launched an interactive website that shares AI-driven meteorological models for improved cyclone prediction
  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

• 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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#3037: traveling, coverage, gentrification, mobile

Tue, 01 Jul 2025 by Raf, last check: Tue, 01 Jul 2025

• Neil Goweer is a graphic artist and cartographer specializing in travel imagery, working with a variety of styles and media
  https://www.neilgower.com/Maps-Map-Art
• Updated interactive map of 5G mobile coverage in Spain, including current carriers and estimated download speeds, which may not always cover inhabited areas. [ES]
  https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/8f319e778b924f2ab790e9e1f7b0c76d/page/5G
• "Displaced by Design" is an interactive map published by the NCRC that illustrates gentrification and displacement in American cities from 1970 to 2020
  https://ncrc.org/gd/
• For NZZ, the way we display maps on phones is broken and they are working on improving readability and user experience
  https://www.jonasoesch.ch/articles/thematic-worldmaps-on-mobile/

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#3036: palma, sea ice, migration, transport, megacities

Fri, 27 Jun 2025 by Raf

• Viewer of orthophotos of Palma, from the American flight series B of 1956 to the color flight of 2023 with 6 cm pixels, which allows them to be compared side by side [CA]
  https://cartografia.palma.es/visorortofotos/
• Geomorphons are classes of topographic features determined using a neighborhood approach, useful for identifying deformations in sea ice
  https://www.spatialised.net/identifying-deformed-sea-ice-using-geomorphons/
• A permanent migration record to and from 181 countries based on a single consistent information source, for each month from the beginning of 2019 to the end of 2022
  https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/04/17/opinion/global-migration-facebook-data.html?unlocked_article_code=1.AU8.ZvK-.RZuvu1ogrWSd
• Lars, a transport planner in Switzerland, edits and publishes unofficial transport maps that can be downloaded and used with attribution.
  https://larstransportmaps.com/
• The OpenspaceGlobal product is a 1.19 m resolution UOS (urban open space) map of 169 megacities to improve understanding of artificial spatial surfaces
  https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-025-04924-x

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#3035: rescues, neighborhoods, curiosities, accessibility, deaths

Fri, 20 Jun 2025 by Raf

• Social media and mapping apps are to blame for record increase in mountain rescue calls in England and Wales
  https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/16/record-high-british-mountain-rescue-callouts-social-media-map-apps
• Wikibarrio allows interactive exploration of Spanish sociodemographic data from 2022 at the neighborhood level, with many different indicators
  https://www.wikibarrio.es/
• "Darren's Geospatial Curiosities" collects a series of small personal projects around geoinformation in various fields and different technologies
  https://darrens-geospatial-curiosities.netlify.app/ink-golf
• A tool to visualize accessibility indicators using the gridviz library, such as the travel time by car to the nearest town (more than 5000 inhabitants)
  https://nlambert.gitpages.huma-num.fr/granular-gridviz/
• Evolution over time of the number of occupational deaths by European country, where France led with 16% of the total between 2010 and 2022 [FR]
  https://www.humanite.fr/en-debat/regard-de-cartographe/la-carte-interactive-qui-recense-les-morts-au-travail-en-europe

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