Nº1101: toponomy, 21ºc, geocoding, bird watching

Fri, 24 May 2019 by Raf

• A conference evening about place names with the philologist Núria Garcia Quera, organized by the ICGC
  http://www.icgc.cat/L-ICGC/Agenda2/Jornada-Toponimia-els-noms-dels-llocs-.-A-Tremp
• A North America full-year trip following the isothermal line of 21ºC (70ºF)
  https://www.citylab.com/environment/2015/10/a-13235-mile-road-trip-for-70-degree-weather-every-day/411406/
• Interview to @freygole at the last @MapScaping podcast episode to discuss geocoding
  https://mapscaping.com/blogs/the-mapscaping-podcast/geocoding-translating-between-machines-and-humans
• A guide to watching birds, designed for all family members and including an app to keep the birds counting via @xurxosanz
  https://www.treemusketeers.net/birdwatching-guide/

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Nº1100: ai, cities, youtubers, machine learning

Thu, 23 May 2019 by Raf

• Artificial Intelligence applied to Geology for mineral deposits exploitation
  http://www.orefox.com/index.php/about-ai
• Ranking of the best cities to live, with Vienna as the first by 10 consecutive years via @xurxosanz
  https://mobilityexchange.mercer.com/Insights/quality-of-living-rankings
• A couple of English Geography passionate humorists have a Youtube channel where they comment strange and funny maps
  https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfxy4_sBQdxy3A2lvl-y3qWTeJEbC_QCp
• How to generate a dataset of images and labels from OSM to train a machine learning system
  https://medium.com/@shay.strong/openstreetmap-data-to-ml-training-labels-for-object-detection-ce0a3ccdb907

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Nº1099: properties, gnss, tourism, award

Wed, 22 May 2019 by Raf

• Visualizing France DVF (property valuation requests) for all French properties trades for the last five years
  https://app.dvf.etalab.gouv.fr/
• Kickstarter campaign for MEDEA GNSS receiver, promising centimetric accuracy with data postprocessing
  https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/rokubun/medea-gnss-navigation-receiver
• How maps can provide a partial view of the land, this is a case about Alsacian tourism maps
  http://www.etourisme.info/quand-la-carte-fait-debat-au-lieu-de-linverse/
• The European Commission awards @300000kms Barcelona Ciutat Vella land-use plan with the 2019 S+T+ARTS prize for fostering the alliance between technology and art
  https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/starts-prize19-awarded-ciutat-vella-land-use-plan-santamaria-varas/

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Nº1098: pollution, place names, symbiosis, diseases

Tue, 21 May 2019 by Raf

• NO2 concentration is serious pollution affecting mostly urban areas
  http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Observing_the_Earth/Copernicus/Sentinel-5P/The_air_we_breathe2
• A paper about measuring place relationships strength based in the "toponym co-occurrences"
  https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/12265934.2018.1497526
• Standford researchers map worldwide symbiotic relationships between microbes and trees
  https://news.stanford.edu/2019/05/15/mapping-microbial-symbioses-forests/
• "Cartographies of disease" is a book about the human battle against diseases through history from a mapping point of view
  https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1589484673/

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Nº1097: land use, goldfield, inverted, converter

Mon, 20 May 2019 by Raf

• Spatio-Temporal Deep Learning, an application to Land Cover Classification, poster by @DPeressutti and @LubejMatic
  https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D6leOyVXsAI2VS1.jpg:large
• The chaotic old map of Goldfield, a city that appeared with the gold fever, and that has 268 inhabitants nowadays compared with the 20K it was when it was Nevada's most significant town
  https://mapoftheweek.blogspot.com/2019/05/goldfield.html
• Inverted relief map, swapping land and oceans, updated without place names and that is available for sale to hang on your wall
  http://www.3develop.nl/blog/inverted-world-map-blue-marble/
• SLYR is a converter from ArcGIS MXD/LYR format into QGIS styles; it will be Open Sourced when they get enough sponsors
  https://north-road.com/slyr/

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Nº1096: beasts, spanish, uber, runways

Fri, 17 May 2019 by Raf

• A 1673 facsimile map of North America showing real and fantastic beasts
  https://uploads.knightlab.com/storymapjs/1a785295a92458a9c978f0b64d0380c8/americas-wild-beasts/index.html
• Web survey that helps to locate your particular Spanish dialect on a map
  https://www.dialectosdelespanol.org/quiz
• Uber website presenting aggregated streets vehicles historical speed data for several cities
  https://movement.uber.com/explore/seattle/speeds/
• An interactive map showing the orientation of airport runways, mostly following the South-North axis
  https://trailsofwind.figures.cc/

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Nº1095: watch, airlines, zurich, books

Thu, 16 May 2019 by Raf

• A wristwatch with a world map and a plane flying on it, one of the many #cartifact watches designs
  https://m.es.aliexpress.com/item/32884377469.html
• How traveling changed with the rise and evolution of airlines route maps
  https://statesider.us/history-of-airline-route-maps/
• Zurich skyline on this 3D visualization rendering +25m high buildings by year of construction
  https://hochhaeuser.stadt-zuerich.ch/
• A frequently updated page with the new releases for 2019 cartography books
  https://www.maproomblog.com/map-books-of-2019/

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Nº1094: paint, metadata, cog, election

Wed, 15 May 2019 by Raf

• "Paint the Town" is an artistic and collaborative project for anyone to select a zone of NYC and paint the city blocks
  https://paintthetown.chriswhong.com/nyc
• SpatioTemporal Asset Catalog is an initiative to expose geospatial datasets with time attribution for search and retrieval
  https://github.com/radiantearth/stac-spec
• A COG Open Source demonstration viewer to render optimized GeoTIFFs
  https://www.cogeo.org/map/
• Map of georeferenced proposals for Valencia from the PSOE Spanish party for the next week municipal elections
  http://valenciasenselimits.com/

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Nº1093: productivity, spheres, landscape, aquifers

Tue, 14 May 2019 by Raf

• Choropleth map of European productivity by country understood as the economic performance per worker
  https://www.cer.eu/publications/archive/policy-brief/2019/big-european-sort-diverging-fortunes-europes-regions
• The world in spheres, 2500 years of Earth and Universe representation history on an online visualization of the BNF exhibition
  http://expositions.bnf.fr/monde-en-spheres/
• "Terra Forma, a manual for potential cartographies" is an experimental work on the crossover between landscape and strategy
  http://s-o-c.fr/index.php/object/terraforma/
• Precise area and location 2D map of 2003 main USA aquifers, now integrated with the National Atlas
  https://water.usgs.gov//ogw/aquifer/map.html

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Nº1092: streets, relief, contours, ads

Mon, 13 May 2019 by Raf

• The UK Ordnance Survey is working in collaboration with other agencies to map the high streets, as singular landmarks to identify not only commercial opportunities
  https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/blog/2019/03/where-are-all-our-high-streets/
• "Relief Visualization Toolbox" is a set of Windows tools to work with terrain elevation models
  https://iaps.zrc-sazu.si/en/rvt#v
• PDF article about how to add supplementary contour lines to highlight special terrain remarks
  https://www.researchgate.net/publication/332963490_Automated_placement_of_supplementary_contour_lines
• More than 30 years on Fortune Magazine of curated cartography advertisements
  https://medium.com/@tim.wallace_98924/a-gratuitous-rundown-of-more-than-three-decades-of-gratuitously-cartographic-advertisements-in-e42673d1d5a6

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Nº1091: internet, energy, lidar, airports, migrations, trees

Fri, 10 May 2019 by Raf

• Article about how important is the geographical aspect to understand how the Internet works
  https://fronterasblog.com/2019/04/22/el-mapa-de-internet/amp/
• Article about Texas energy production, and how it's leading solar, wind, and oil sectors, and understanding it using deep learning on satellite imagery
  https://medium.com/descarteslabs-team/texas-reigns-supreme-in-u-s-energy-production-and-mccamey-shows-us-how-72fac43b599e
• Working together, UK Ordnance Survey and Environment Agency have produced a 1 meter LIDAR Open Dataset along with a very informative website
  https://environment.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapJournal/index.html?appid=c6cef6cc642a48838d38e722ea8ccfee
• Contracartographies takes an airport as the iconic object of modern marketing and globalization, dissecting it to analyze it visually
  http://www.ct-escoladacidade.org/contracondutas/intervencoes/gru111/
• Millionaires migration fluxes around the world: massively moving from China and Russia to Australia
  https://www.visualcapitalist.com/global-migration-of-millionaires/
• Trees species distribution model for the USA New York state (PDF)
  https://www.nrs.fs.fed.us/pubs/56946

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Nº1090: ridges, osm, holidays, retailers, gps, biodiveristy

Thu, 09 May 2019 by Raf

• Get into Joy Division mood with this library to generate ridge maps
  https://github.com/ColCarroll/ridge_map
• Mapillary is experimenting on helping on improving OSM editing through automatic object detection
  https://www.openstreetmap.us/2019/04/mapillary-guest-blog/
• A world map of the top tourism destination by country
  https://www.travelsupermarket.com/en-gb/travel-insurance/where-the-world-wants-to-go-on-holiday/
• Retail analysts using satellite imagery to correlate car counts with sales
  https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/05/stock-value-satellite-images-investing/586009/
• NATO, UK and Russia army exercises in the Arctic are jamming GPS signal and giving trouble to some northern airports
  https://aerospace.csis.org/data/gps-jamming-in-the-arctic-circle/
• The Map Of Life provides indicators for biodiversity, species count, natural environment index, animals distribution, and much more
  https://mol.org/regions/?region=Spain&regionid=e2e74a82-e7e4-49d3-94c1-d92fe6315328&bounds=-18.1604175567626,27.6384716033935,4.32819509506226,43.7915267944336

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Nº1089: 3d, bridges, vector tiles, offline, driving, migrations

Wed, 08 May 2019 by Raf

• 3D maps with centimeter precision to make GPS obsolete via real objects recognition via DGomez
  https://www.technologyreview.es/s/11100/estos-mapas-3d-con-precision-centimetrica-dejaran-obsoleto-al-gps
• Adding shadows to bridges and intersections on vector tiles cartography to improve their readability
  https://www.jonahadkins.com/esri/cartography/2019/05/04/shadowplay
• Vector tiles, data models, basemaps, SQL queries, and everything behind Geofable, a website to create maps and tell stories
  https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1XpNTH6baQsSqoLW8oZ9dQtixyxsOMNHk8SzBf3KQkfw/edit?usp=drivesdk
• A simple recipe to create and serve offline custom style maps with Open Source tileserver-gl
  https://yasoob.me/posts/custom-map-with-tileserver-gl/
• Human Driving Association is fighting for the right to drive cars without any automation or helpers that could be applied to other fields
  https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-inquiry/the-fight-for-the-right-to-drive
• A powerful scrollymap to explain the German demographic crisis generated by the East-West migration of millions of people
  https://www.zeit.de/politik/deutschland/2019-05/ost-west-wanderung-abwanderung-ostdeutschland-umzug

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Nº1088: walk, investment, ai, measles, africa, brindisi

Tue, 07 May 2019 by Raf

• A real estate portal in the USA that focuses on scoring places by their walk score
  https://www.walkscore.com/
• A World cartogram showing countries by their direct abroad investment
  https://howmuch.net/articles/countries-receiving-most-investment-from-abroad
• Cartography in the age of Artificial Intelligence: can we leave maps in robots hands?
  https://medium.com/descarteslabs-team/mapmaking-in-the-age-of-artificial-intelligence-da9e71be21d3
• Measles cases reported so far this year in the USA, already outbalancing 2014 which was the worst so far
  https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/04/30/health/measles-outbreak-by-state-map.html
• The presence of the USA in Africa has always been described as minor, but is not
  https://geopoliticalfutures.com/us-military-african-front/
• The Brindisi webgis portal has more than 120 past and present information layers for land management
  https://www.brindisiwebgis.it/

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Nº1087: pollution, vector tiles, geotiff, cog, wines, trip

Mon, 06 May 2019 by Raf

• Almost one from every five cases of child asthma comes from car air pollution
  https://www.citylab.com/environment/2019/04/mapping-where-traffic-air-pollution-hurts-children-most/587170/
• Martin is a PostGIS vector tiles server aimed to big datasets and written in Rust
  https://github.com/urbica/martin
• Terracotta is a simple Open Source raster tiles server written with Flask and Rasterio to serve GeoTIFF as quick as possible
  https://terracotta-python.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
• A Django application to convert regular GeoTIFFs into Cloud Optimized GeoTIFFs (COG) for easy publishing
  https://github.com/geobeyond/cog
• A world map of all the wine-producing regions and their different denominations
  https://biarritz.io/map/
• The 20.000km route that connects all the contiguous USA state capitals
  https://metricmaps.org/2019/01/13/12477-mile-trip-to-each-contiguous-us-state-capital/

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Nº1086: usa, relief, depopulation, africa, litter, 3d

Fri, 03 May 2019 by Raf

• Visualizing and understanding USA critical issues like employment, education, and industries
  https://datausa.io/
• Using the Mapbox SDK and Unity to develop a relief visualization website
  http://barankahyaoglu.com/map/
• Spanish depopulation: how it affects to infrastructures, investments, and essential services
  https://ethic.es/2019/04/el-mapa-de-la-espana-vacia/
• Facebook did the most detailed population map of Africa using deep learning, available for download by country
  https://data.humdata.org/organization/facebook
• An open crowdsourced project to encourage plastic litter recycling, reporting about street litter, and giving away "littercoins" (valueless blockchain)
  https://openlittermap.com/en
• An application built using Python, CesiumJS and Google Maps API to present estimated travel times and directions using a 3D map
  https://github.com/willgeary/Wayfinder3D

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Nº1085: europe, bike, brussels, dataviz, qgis, micromobility

Thu, 02 May 2019 by Raf

• "European Prehistoric and Historic Atlas" is a project to generate base cartography from different ages
  http://epha.zbsa.eu/
• All cities should have a "Bike Major" to coordinate between bikers, government, and non-profits
  https://www.fastcompany.com/90336191/if-your-city-doesnt-have-a-bike-mayor-it-could-soon
• Scroll visualization and maps about Brussels, where foreigners are a majority
  http://brussels-diversity.jetpack.ai/
• How BBC is using Ordnance Survey vector tiles to produce data journalism assets and visualizations
  https://medium.com/bbc-visual-and-data-journalism/how-we-mapped-rent-affordability-using-the-ordnance-surveys-open-zoomstack-map-tiles-6ae0e92d468b
• Free 16 hours course in Barcelona "Cibernàrium" about using Python inside QGIS
  https://cibernarium.barcelonactiva.cat/ficha-actividad?activityId=898084
• Micromobility is the solution for public transport penetration at big cities to remove cars, but users privacy needs to be ensured
  https://blog.mapbox.com/protecting-rider-privacy-in-micromobility-data-81f6c93c868e

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Nº1084: dem, cartography, maps, happiness, bees

Fri, 26 Apr 2019 by Raf

• A simple interface to download SRTM 30m elevation data via @xurxosanz
  https://dwtkns.com/srtm30m/
• Open Source Cartography: a workshop using QGIS and Inkscape to produce your next maps easily
  https://github.com/MicheleTobias/OpenSourceCartography
• The first article about new projects using data and maps to solve local and global environmental problems
  https://blog.mapbox.com/maps-for-a-changing-planet-part-1-639f93f76907
• Visualizing the happiest and saddest country on every continent from the 2019 World Happiness Report
  https://www.visualcapitalist.com/visualizing-the-happiest-country-on-every-continent/
• A smart system to evaluate locations to place bee nests using COG images and land use data
  https://app.beescape.org/

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Nº1083: funding, trees, geothermal, hackathon, protected

Thu, 25 Apr 2019 by Raf

• European countries are changing their internal boundaries to get more funding for less developed regions
  https://pudding.cool/2019/04/eu-regions/
• GLOBE Observer is an app for you to help to validate ICESat-2 satellite altimeter by measuring your surrounding trees via @xurxosanz
  https://observer.globe.gov/about/get-the-app
• The Hotlime project studies the deep carbonate rocks via @Marimuntanya77
  http://geoera.eu/projects/hotlime/
• Barcelona is hosting a Copernicus Hackathon between 11th and 12th of May
  https://kimglobal.com/es/evento/cophack/
• European Commission Digital Observatory for Protected Areas Explorer
  https://dopa-explorer.jrc.ec.europa.eu/dopa_explorer

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Nº1082: commuting, relief, course, refugees

Wed, 24 Apr 2019 by Raf

• Daily commuting movements displayed for some French cities over 24 hours
  https://mobiliscope.parisgeo.cnrs.fr/fr
• An empirical assessment of the impact of the light direction on the relief inversion effect in shaded relief maps: NNW is better than NW
  http://www.geo.uzh.ch/~arzu/publications/biland-coltekin2016.pdf
• Get Started With GIS in Open Source Python - Geopandas, Rasterio & Matplotlib via @xurxosanz
  https://www.earthdatascience.org/workshops/gis-open-source-python/
• A simulator to compute the fair share of refugees applications at European countries
  https://public.tableau.com/profile/nccr.on.the.move#!/vizhome/FairShare_0/Symbolic

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Nº1081: ecosystems, water, quakes, linked

Tue, 23 Apr 2019 by Raf

• A crowdsourced map of world ecosystems to help on their conservation via @bolosig
  https://remap-app.org/
• World water scarcity that can go from none to too much pretty quickly
  https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/03/world-water-day-water-crisis-explained/?sf209806049=1
• USA earthquakes risk, both naturals and induced affect 140 million people
  https://public.tableau.com/shared/2BSSHC3M7?:display_count=yes&:showVizHome=no
• Introduction to principles of Linked Open Data, structured information for machines
  https://programminghistorian.org/en/lessons/intro-to-linked-data

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Nº1080: geomatics, r, thesis, cog

Mon, 22 Apr 2019 by Raf

• Madrid is hosting the second conference for geomatics engineering (CIGEO) between 26th and 27th of June via @xurxosanz
  http://www.topografia.upm.es/?id=cea6f413625a9610VgnVCM10000009c7648a____&prefmt=articulo&fmt=detail
• Materials from the Spatial Data Analysis Workshop using R
  https://nowosad.github.io/BioGIS_19/workshop/#1
• Cartographic storytelling thesis maps by a TU Wien student
  https://cartography.tuwien.ac.at/bachelor-thesis-presentation/
• Serving Cloud Optimized GeoTiffs for sub-second performance queries
  https://blog.addresscloud.com/serverless-flood/

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Nº1079: pictures, depopulation, barcelona, tracking

Sat, 20 Apr 2019 by Raf

• Interactive map to explore UCSB 400 thousand old aerial pictures collection, available for download without restrictions
  http://mil.library.ucsb.edu/ap_indexes/FrameFinder/
• Despite the general growth, 176 municipalities in Catalonia have lost more than 10% of their population over the last decade via @sfggeogis
  https://www.naciodigital.cat/noticia/175971/mapa/176/municipis/perdut/mes/10/poblacio/decada
• Updated on-line Barcelona Historical Chart with more contents, better maps (vector tiles) and available for download
  http://ajuntament.barcelona.cat/museuhistoria/cartahistorica/#map=14/242185/5070759/2010//0/0/0/0
• Small working OpenLayers code to track users interaction on a web map application, useful for UX experiments
  https://gitlab.com/Hannes42/OpenLayersViewTracker/

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Nº1078: birds, birds, iditarod, agile

Thu, 18 Apr 2019 by Raf

• Ensuring USA bird species survival through natural spaces planning, fed with data from crowd-sourcing eBird project
  https://www.theoutdoorwire.com/releases/8481585e-090e-420b-bbf2-a30b428cbd9c
• "Coneix el riu" is a fantastic website to learn about Mediterranean river birds, their migrations and tits
  http://coneixelriu.museudelter.cat/ocells.php
• Using high-resolution satellite imagery and many other data to recreate Iditarod trail sled dog race
  https://benmatheson.github.io/blog/iditarodzoom/
• Swisstopo is considering to apply agile methodologies for geospatial information project management
  https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/agile-portfolio-management-sustainable-geoinformation-st%C3%A9phane-bovet/

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Nº1077: design, sar, grids, raster

Wed, 17 Apr 2019 by Raf

• Detailed explanation around redesign concepts of the new Berlin subway map
  https://berlintransitmap.de/
• Deep learning and radar applications, a short review of advances and challenges for Earth Observation
  https://towardsdatascience.com/deep-learning-and-sar-applications-81ba1a319def
• Mapping the electric grid using deep learning and small human review, https://developmentseed.org/ml-grid-docs/
  https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1UFQeHyPOAC-uRb7XrrIl6-DCwvLR1c2I-BpOrZnEWLI/edit#slide=id.p
• First release candidate for the Open Source deep learning imagery software Raster Vision 0.9, now also consuming vector tiles
  https://www.azavea.com/blog/2019/04/15/raster-vision-0-9-release-candidate/

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