Nº640: isochrones, vision, globes, french

28 Jun 2017 by Raf

• Isochrones calculation with three different options for distance and transport method via @ibesora
  https://www.mapbox.com/bites/00156/#8.65/41.8149/1.8954
• LIDAR and Radar, computer vision will make autonomous vehicles safer
  http://www.electronicdesign.com/automotive/autonomous-cars-now-you-see-it-now-you-don-t
• A Kickstarter campaign to get a basic kit for aerial photography using a globe
  https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/publiclab/kickstarter-gold-balloon-mapping-kits
• Listening to the same tale in the many different languages of France via @quimmonzo
  https://atlas.limsi.fr/

Nº639: transport, clouds, world map, landslides

27 Jun 2017 by Raf

• Public transport networks explorer using open data and standard exchange formats
  https://mapzen.com/mobility/explorer
• Point clouds viewer with gallery and free hosting
  https://www.pointbox.xyz
• Design and generation of world maps that go beyond geometries and usual conventions
  http://www.worldmapgenerator.com/
• Landslides risk world map made by NASA with data between 2000 and 2013
  https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=89937

Nº638: blog, literature, citizens, drones

26 Jun 2017 by Raf

• A French blog on cartography research and experimentation
  https://visionscarto.net/
• Literary maps of Barcelona and Madrid for sale
  http://www.prodigiosovolcan.com/pv/mapas/
• Crowdsourced project to take pictures of all England
  http://www.geograph.org.uk/
• AirPano project gallery of high-resolution aerial images
  http://www.airpano.com/Photogallery.php?gallery=234

Nº637: svg, lego, print

23 Jun 2017 by Raf

• On-line SVG map editor for screen and print
  https://editor.lokaler.de/
• Legoifier, an amusing experiment to make maps look like Lego blocks
  https://adventuresinmapping.github.io/lego-map/
• Style and aesthetics, a slides deck about old map making techniques
  https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6ADBah3ubHsQjhSajVScnBRMjQ/view

Nº636: london, travels, temperature

22 Jun 2017 by Raf

• Walking around London following the air cleanest and less polluted routes
  https://crossriverpartnership.org/projects/clean-air-walking-routes/
• An application to store your next trips in your phone offline
  https://esplor.io/
• How the world will look like with a 4ºC temperature rise
  http://bigthink.com/strange-maps/what-the-world-will-look-like-4degc-warmer

Nº635: clouds, historical, genetics, athena

21 Jun 2017 by Raf

• 13 years of clouds in one single map, showing the sunny places
  http://www.climatecentral.org/news/13-years-clouds-nasa-map-18985
• Four historical maps that show the evolution in data visualization
  https://carto.com/blog/powerful-historical-maps-every-data-analyst-should-know
• Genetic Atlas of the Iberian peninsula made from 150 different people
  http://www.iberiandna.com/
• Using Amazon Athena to query OSM data using SQL at a reasonable price
  https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/big-data/querying-openstreetmap-with-amazon-athena/

Nº634: gps, hamburg, belgium, esri

20 Jun 2017 by Raf

• Who invented GPS? Three people whom contribution was key
  http://geoawesomeness.com/who-invented-the-gps/
• Real time map of Hamburg all public transport vehicles
  https://hvv.live/
• On-line viewer of raster and vector cartography from the National Mapping Agency of Belgium
  http://www.ngi.be/topomapviewer/public?lang=fr&
• Esri vector basemaps data and styles updated
  https://blogs.esri.com/esri/arcgis/2017/06/15/80263/

Nº633: navarra, animations, accessibility, ceramics

19 Jun 2017 by Raf

• Navarra SDI 3D viewer
  http://blog-idee.blogspot.com.es/2017/06/ya-esta-disponible-el-visualizador.html
• Color cloying technique to animate a big amount of data from small images
  http://dwtkns.com/posts/2017-06-13-flowing-ice.html
• Accessibility map of Tetuan neighborhood in Madrid with all the barriers found
  http://adappgeo.net/mapa/diagnosticotetuan/
• Web Atlas of ceramic kilns in ancient Greece covering 5000 years
  http://atlasgreekkilns.arizona.edu/?_ga=2.184019232.748892322.1497351598-411556366.1490266615

Nº632: autonomous, bus, bias, excel

17 Jun 2017 by Raf

• Highly accurate maps are a must for self-driving cars
  http://money.cnn.com/2017/06/07/technology/business/maps-wars-self-driving-cars/index.html
• The new radial public transport map of Baltimore
  https://ggwash.org/view/63391/the-map-for-baltimores-new-bus-system-is-positively-radiant
• Ideological bias of USA congressmen from their affinities
  http://www.maproomblog.com/2017/06/a-map-of-the-ideological-leanings-of-u-s-congressmen/
• Two-way converter between Excel and KML to create maps and edit geodata
  https://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2017/06/excel-kml-two-way-converter.html

Nº631: astronauts, rent, video, satirical

15 Jun 2017 by Raf

• Mechanical globe used to show the position of Soviet spatial capsules
  https://wilwheaton.tumblr.com/post/161498399624/oldschoolsciencefiction-say-hello-to-the-voskhod
• Block map to show 2015 average rent per state in the US
  http://overflow.solutions/demographic-data/national-data/state-level-analysis/what-is-the-average-rent-in-each-state/
• Footage of New York on a split screen between 1930 and 2017
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hh5PSp51UGA
• British Library satirical maps commented collection via @portolanchart01
  http://www.bl.uk/maps/articles/satirical-maps

Nº630: sensors, laser, trucks, seascape

14 Jun 2017 by Raf

• Short summary of a couple of multispectral sensors for drones and such
  http://tycgis.com/parrot-sequoia-vs-rededge-micasense/
• Fast access to satellite imagery after their capture thanks to laser links
  http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Observing_the_Earth/Copernicus/Sentinel-2/First_Sentinel-2B_images_delivered_by_laser
• Road transport at the USA depends on an old and congested network
  http://storymaps.esri.com/stories/2017/transportation/companion/
• New York seascape and ocean life in a couple of maps
  https://nyaquarium.com/updates/explore-the-new-york-seascape

Nº629: vancouver, bigmac, rentals, excel

13 Jun 2017 by Raf

• Real estate market in Vancouver is out of control
  http://yvr-assess.dha.io/
• World map of how much time you need to work with your minimum wage to buy a Big Mac
  http://www.wageindicator.org/main/salary/minimum-wage/minutes-of-minimum-wage-work-to-buy-a-big-mac
• How rental prices are evolving in Catalonia and in Barcelona neighborhoods
  http://interactius.ara.cat/lloguers/indicadors/barcelona
• Excel plugin to easily create choropleth admin boundaries and heatmaps
  https://store.office.com/en-us/app.aspx?assetid=WA103304320&ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US&appredirect=false

Nº628: peaks, digital, crisis, geodata

12 Jun 2017 by Raf

• All Aragon +3000 meters high peaks recover their names (PDF map) via @bolosig
  http://aragonhoy.aragon.es/index.php/mod.noticias/mem.detalle/id.199625
• The digital cartography cake has many rivals
  http://www.economist.com/news/business/21723173-not-all-roads-lead-google-maps-battle-territory-digital-cartography
• The future of crisis mapping and Facebook collaboration
  https://irevolutions.org/2017/06/07/crisis-mapping-future/
• An easy tool to create maps from geodata via @marc_torres_
  http://www.mapyourlist.com/

Nº627: sea, sheds, camping, apple

09 Jun 2017 by Raf

• 2017 sailing world cup sea conditions in Santander
  http://sailing.ihcantabria.com/
• A map with all 450 kilometers of sidewalk sheds in New York
  http://www1.nyc.gov/site/buildings/about/sidewalk-shed-map.page
• Crowd sourced map of allowed places in Spain to camp
  http://conalforjas.com/acampada-libre-espana/
• Apple will pay to collaborators to improve their maps with local knowledge
  https://www.igen.fr/ios/2017/06/apple-plans-le-dessous-des-cartes-100029

Nº626: cadastre, beaches, views, accidents

08 Jun 2017 by Raf

• The cadastre disaster or the start of Catalonia spoliation, a storymap from @sapienscat journal via VPA
  http://www.sapiens.cat/ca/notices/2017/06/el-mapa-interactiu-del-cadastre-borbonic-7465.php
• All Spanish beaches with the European quality Blue Flag
  http://elviajero.elpais.com/elviajero/2017/06/02/actualidad/1496418899_601036.html
• How to work with materialized views and PostGIS to improve database performance
  http://blog.geomusings.com/2017/06/06/working-with-materialized-views-in-postgis/
• All transit USA accidents between 2001 and 2015, with related data and 360 view
  http://thedataface.com/traffic-fatalities/

Nº625: solar, romans, air, archeology

07 Jun 2017 by Raf

• Map of Barcelona buildings solar energy potential
  http://publicsolar.cat
• Subway style map of the 125AD Roman roads network (temporarily down)
  http://sashat.me/2017/06/03/roman-roads/
• Mapping air pollution using Google Street View cars equipped with new sensors
  https://www.edf.org/airqualitymap
• Map of archaeological endangered projects in North Africa
  http://eamenadatabase.arch.ox.ac.uk/map

Nº624: sanctions, population, climate, errors

06 Jun 2017 by Raf

• Map of economic sanctions imposed by the USA since 1994 in different parts of the world
  https://labs.enigma.com/sanctions-tracker/
• United Kingdom map of places where nobody lives
  https://medium.com/@georgiacorr/nobody-lives-here-united-kingdom-e2f6afdd05c9
• World map of cities with a similar climate
  http://www.vividmaps.com/p/cities-with-similar-climates.html
• Sea level rise will flood New Orleans and many other cities
  https://coast.noaa.gov/slr/#/layer/slr

Nº623: trekking, geography, subway, oceans

05 Jun 2017 by Raf

• Making videos out of GPS traces to reproduce your excursions via @ibesora
  https://www.relive.cc/
• Geography as a subject should be more relevant in education via @xurxosanz
  https://socialescepcor.wordpress.com/2017/05/23/por-que-la-geografia-deberia-importar-mas-que-nunca/
• Animated subway maps to compare between schematic and geographic
  http://twistedsifter.com/2017/05/subway-maps-compared-to-their-actual-geography/
• Interactive animated map to see what's on the other side of the ocean
  http://andywoodruff.com/blog/beyond-the-sea-flowing-and-exploding-edition/lea

Nº622: games, orienteering, green, hysterical

02 Jun 2017 by Raf

• How to make a virtual open world for a massive player survival game
  http://www.playbattlegrounds.com/
• Map of Finland for orienteering races, made using 100 multiprocessor computers with LIDAR and surveying data
  http://www.mapant.fi/
• New tool to evaluate how cities connect with their green infrastructures
  http://www.eea.europa.eu/themes/sustainability-transitions/urban-environment/urban-green-infrastructure/urban-green-infrastructure-1
• Hysterical maps: fun cartographic style between 1933 and 1955
  http://www.barronmaps.com/the-hysterical-maps-of-the-lindgren-brothers-of-spokane-washington/

Nº621: lakes, collision, collaboration, whiskey

01 Jun 2017 by Raf

• All New Zealand lakes at scale and ordered by their size
  https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/6d0wg8/lakes_of_new_zealand_osoc2486x3129/
• All Seatle transit accident figures
  http://seattlecollisions.timganter.io/collisions/sd/2017-01-01/ed/2017-05-31/m/0/nelat/47.77532914630374/nelng/-122.22839355468751/swlat/47.41507892620101/swlng/-122.43576049804689
• A collaboration between Japan and Switzerland specialists to make a hiking map for the Daisetsuzan national park
  http://www.geckomaps.com/en/products/japan/asahi-dake-hiking-map-detail
• A South USA map and all related information to plan your whiskey route
  http://www.americanwhiskeytrail.com/map

Nº620: researchers, game, light, running

31 May 2017 by Raf

• Negative result: the migration of the research community from Spain, via RA
  http://www.elperiodico.com/es/noticias/ciencia/registros-investigadores-orcid-researchgate-reflejan-fuga-cientificos-espana-crisis-6064929
• A gamified Open Source application to improve OpenStreetMap
  http://www.kort.ch/index_en.html
• A new coloring style to visualize the change in lighting on our planet between 2012 and 2016
  https://adventuresinmapping.com/2017/05/26/brighter-dimmer/
• Worldwide collection of tracks for running, shared by the athletes
  https://images.athletedataviz.com/static/explorer/adv-explorer.html#11.69/41.4097/2.1324

Nº619: projections, webgl, updates, projections

30 May 2017 by Raf

• Projections wars: an easy explanation of the difference between 4326 and 3857
  http://lyzidiamond.com/posts/4326-vs-3857
• How to draw and animate 100K points using webgl and regl, with code examples
  http://peterbeshai.com/beautifully-animate-points-with-webgl-and-regl.html
• Comparing a full year of updates on Apple and Google Maps
  https://www.justinobeirne.com/a-year-of-google-maps-and-apple-maps
• Playing with projections to transform a 3D sphere into a 2D map
  http://mjmdavis.com/showing/2017/05/16/how-to-read-maps.html

Nº618: empire, trains, octopus, objects

29 May 2017 by Raf

• A WWII Japanese map to show the imperial efforts via @realivansanchez
  https://www.historytoday.com/kate-wiles/east-west-1942
• Railway basins: areas served by the London's major stations via @realivansanchez
  https://imgur.com/MiKpeDU?
• Octopus is the representation of evil on old propaganda maps via @realivansanchez
  https://hyperallergic.com/375900/the-map-octopus-a-propaganda-motif-of-spreading-evil/
• An online shop for all kinds of customizable objects based on maps
  https://ilikemaps.com/collections

Nº617: live, bathymetric, beer, glazier

26 May 2017 by Raf

• Watching satellite imagery from home in almost real time
  https://earthnow.usgs.gov/observer/?opts=ignoreversion
• High precision bathymetry of the Mexican Gulf made using a 3D seismic survey
  https://www.boem.gov/Gulf-of-Mexico-Deepwater-Bathymetry/
• Finding the best location to live in Helsinki based on your beer taste
  http://helsinki.wanhala.net/
• Mapping 50 years of melting ice in Glacier National Park
  https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/05/24/climate/100000005121854.mobile.html

Nº616: walking, penguin, boundary, property

25 May 2017 by Raf

• 5 thinks that make neighborhoods more walkable
  http://wearemodeshift.org/5-things-that-make-walkable-neighborhoods-walkable
• The antarctic projection to see the world as a penguin
  http://www.3develop.nl/blog/antarctic-projection-penguins-world-map/
• Differential urban areas growth on border cities between Mexico and the USA
  https://www.citylab.com/equity/2016/12/the-urban-density-differential-us-mexico-border-map/511709/
• Who owns England, a map showing the results of an investigation on who are the owners of the land, thanks VPA
  http://map.whoownsengland.org/