Nº939: landslides, housing, cartography, cities

Wed, 12 Sep 2018 by Raf

• Global landslides map: a database providing a global and regional view of landslide impact
  https://blogs.agu.org/landslideblog/2018/08/28/mapping-global-landslides/
• An interactive tool to explore how the UK real estate market has evolved since 2010 by postal code
  http://prices.axismaps.com
• Some quick thoughts about cartography and how current technology tools allow map makers and cartographers to connect with a practical discipline that provides value to our society
  http://blogs.bl.uk/magnificentmaps/2018/07/insights-from-a-mapmaker.html
• The top ten most liveable cities of the world, 2018 edition, showing their urban networks as corals
  https://vimeo.com/285061309

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Nº938: serverless, benchmark, considerations, forest fires

Tue, 11 Sep 2018 by Raf

• Unattended tile generation, both raster and vector using an Open Source serverless architecture with Amazon Lambda
  https://www.azavea.com/blog/2018/09/06/tilegarden-serverless-tile-rendering-with-aws-lambda/
• Open Source tool using Docker and Natural Earth Open Data to benchmark vector tiles generation
  https://github.com/pka/mvt-benchmark
• First of three episodes with several thoughts about visualizing, identifying, analyzing and processing geospatial information
  http://cartonumerique.blogspot.com/2018/09/dechiffrer-linformation-geographique1.html
• Spatiotemporal analysis of the worst California forest fires, because of climate change and population increase, with R code to produce graphs and a map
  https://buzzfeednews.github.io/2018-07-wildfire-trends/

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Nº937: kids, light, movies, education

Mon, 10 Sep 2018 by Raf

• Portal about France Metropolitan areas infant life conditions
  http://dataviz.drees.solidarites-sante.gouv.fr/conditions_de_vie_des_enfants/
• Earth Light pollution as an elevation model for a 3D visualization from night satellite imagery
  https://jwasilgeo.github.io/esri-experiments/earth-at-night/
• The top rated movie from each country according to IMDB data
  https://images.vouchercloud.com/image/upload/q_auto,f_auto,fl_strip_profile/Every_Countrys_Best_Movie
• Map and analysis of the USA education deserts, those places that are more than an hour from the closest university, and how geography can help to education access
  https://www.chronicle.com/interactives/education-deserts

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Nº936: madrid, unionism, volcanoes, antarctica

Fri, 07 Sep 2018 by Raf

• Using old maps and views on a storymap to explain the evolution of Madrid between XVII and XX centuries
  https://geogeeks.maps.arcgis.com/apps/Cascade/index.html?appid=8b231feca657437e91b1d4d944445996
• Map of violent incidents registered in Catalonia with political motivation about Spanish unionism since September 2017
  https://comunicats.cat/geolocalitzacio-dels-incidents-violents-a-catalunya-a-favor-de-la-unitat-despanya/
• How many people live close to active volcanoes in a cartogram, more than half billion people living in risk
  http://geographical.co.uk/places/mapping/item/2826-under-the-volcanoes
• The most precise map of Antarctica ever made with an 8m resolution using high-resolution satellite imagery
  https://twin-cities.umn.edu/news-events/researchers-release-most-accurate-map-antarctica-terrain

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Nº935: submetric, field, extraction, place names

Thu, 06 Sep 2018 by Raf

• Getting submetric precision on static positioning with Android phones: devices supported and tools to log and analyze GNSS raw data
  https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/sensors/gnss#logging_raw_measurements
• Free and Open Source Software for data collection on difficult environments using portable devices
  https://www.kobotoolbox.org/
• Getting data from OpenStreetMap with Python, using the Overpass API to easily extract data with custom filters
  https://towardsdatascience.com/loading-data-from-openstreetmap-with-python-and-the-overpass-api-513882a27fd0
• Silicon Valley influence on urban environments, or how Google Maps is judge and jury (and reference) on providing place names
  https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/02/technology/google-maps-neighborhood-names.html

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Nº934: differences, meals, vessels, algorithms

Wed, 05 Sep 2018 by Raf

• USA geographical division is not cities versus country lands, but based in the cultural differences during colonial times
  https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/30/opinion/urban-rural-united-states-regions-midterms.html
• What and where New Yorkers eat from 24 hours of Instagram activies, by neighborhood and allowing to filter by meal type
  https://www.crimsonhexagon.com/nyc-instagram-eats/
• Analyzing vessel AIS data to create United Kingdom maritime traffic maps by service type
  http://www.statsmapsnpix.com/2018/08/watching-ships-go-by-uk-marine-traffic.html
• "Cartography Playground" is a simple and interactive website to explain cartographic algorithms, problems and other topics via @realivansanchez
  http://129.187.45.33/CartographyPlayground/

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Nº933: temperature, inequality, globe, ocean

Tue, 04 Sep 2018 by Raf

• A website showing that, as the world warms because of climate change, days above 32º will get more frequent
  https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/08/30/climate/how-much-hotter-is-your-hometown.html
• Using drone urban imagery to display inequalities worldwide, especially in South Africa
  https://www.unequalscenes.com/
• About the digitalization of a couple of Mercator globes discovered in 2004 at Lausanne University
  http://wp.unil.ch/cinn/2018/08/les-globes-de-mercator-du-xvie-au-xxie-siecle
• The Ocean Atlas shows data and figures about the main threats of our marine ecosystems
  http://fr.boell.org/fr/2018/01/01/atlas-de-locean

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Nº932: heliocentrism, estonia, changes

Mon, 03 Sep 2018 by Raf

• Real-time visualization of the Sun above Earth, a relaxing and continuous visualization
  http://projects.truth-and-beauty.net/under-the-sun/
• An old Estonian located pictures portal created and open sourced during a hackathon
  https://ajapaik.ee/map/?mapType=OSM&lat=59&lng=26&zoom=8&limitToAlbum=1
• A mobile application that provides rewards for taking pictures located on a map to gather graphical prove of Europe land use change
  http://fotoquest-go.org/en/

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Nº931: sentinel-1, flow, globe, sahara, oil, drowned, summer, monsters

Fri, 31 Aug 2018 by Raf

• Experimental viewer of Sentinel-1 imagery that allows to adjust color bands display
  https://kristofvantricht.users.earthengine.app/view/sarworld
• Visualizing large amount of geospatial flows (population migration, object displacement) using WebGL
  https://github.com/teralytics/flowmap.gl
• A library to visualize 3D data made with Three.js via @bolosig
  http://giojs.org/
• Sahara sand traveled in June all the Atlantic ocean, arriving sand clouds to the Caribbean and even Texas
  https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=92358
• Around 61% of global oil transport is made via maritime traffic and there are some critical bottlenecks
  https://www.eia.gov/beta/international/regions-topics.php?RegionTopicID=WOTC
• Visualizing the extent of the migratory crisis in the Mediterranean sea showing the number of deaths
  http://santihpuig.com/map/missingmigrants_santihpuig.jpg
• The most beautiful cartographic productions from this summer semester students of TU Wien
  http://cartography.tuwien.ac.at/great-student-projects-summer-2018/
• 2013 book "Sea Monsters on Medieval and Renaissance Maps" catalog
  http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2013/08/map-monsters.html

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Nº930: radical, water, first nations, land value, stonehenge, polution, lego, hexgrid, islands, buildings

Fri, 24 Aug 2018 by Raf

• The Radical Cartography Atlas is a collection of maps and essays around globalization social topics, inherently political, now available also as printed book
  http://www.an-atlas.com/
• 2015 data and maps about USA water consumption, by main sectors
  https://owi.usgs.gov/vizlab/water-use-15/#view=USA&category=total
• Map of Canadian First Nations
  http://fnpim-cippn.aandc-aadnc.gc.ca/index-eng.html
• 2018 report on Latinamerica land value is ready
  https://valorsueloamericalatina.org/
• Interactive map of all artifacts found around the Stonehenge location
  http://web.org.uk/barrowmap/
• Formaldehyde pollution over India makes their sky really different from imagery data
  https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-44550091
• A very simple recipe on how to create QGIS Lego-like maps
  https://blog.data-wax.com/2018/06/07/jouer-aux-lego-avec-qgis/
• Uber explains on a technical post their new open source hexagonal hierarchical grid system
  http://eng.uber.com/h3/
• All bigger than 5 km2 Great Britain islands reordered by area
  https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/blog/2018/06/britains-largest-islands/
• Microsoft open releases more than 124 million building footprints, produced using deep learning and artificial intelligence techniques
  https://blogs.bing.com/maps/2018-06/microsoft-releases-125-million-building-footprints-in-the-us-as-open-data/

Note from Jorge: Back from summer holidays, I’ll try to catch up with Raf’s issues as fast as I can, bear with me ^_^

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Nº929: hemisphere, malaria, distances, pesticides, leon, barcelona, bitcoin, flights, wrecks, painting

Fri, 17 Aug 2018 by Raf

• Almost all humans live in the same Earth Hemisphere
  https://www.cntraveler.com/story/almost-everyone-on-earth-lives-in-the-same-hemisphere
• The Malaria Atlas provides several tools to explore data about this disease
  https://map.ox.ac.uk/
• World Maps are not as you know them: they are really distorted and most of the shortest distances cross the poles
  http://www.partir.com/carte/des-cartes-pour-comprendre-le-monde.html
• A preservation project for future generations is also producing a map of France pesticide victims
  http://victimes-pesticides.fr/
• "León Emergente" is a digital crowd-sourced atlas of the León city in Nicaragua
  http://emergenteleon.org/
• "Barcelona + Sostenible" is a map of the contributions to make the city more sustainable, from small emerging initiatives to big sustained projects
  http://bcnsostenible.cat/
• A map of places where Bitcoin is accepted as currency, including also ATM locations
  http://coinmap.org/#/map/41.38320050/2.16433883/16
• How to gather and process flight data to create detailed trace maps
  http://mapsmith.net/2018/06/16/flight-data-visualization/
• The Irish wreck catalog
  https://dahg.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=89e50518e5f4437abfa6284ff39fd640
• An art project using phones to paint traces of the logged movements
  https://painted.earth/

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Nº928: graph, companies, lidar, jams, words, wind, hungarian, hiking, business, countries

Fri, 10 Aug 2018 by Raf

• USA road network seen as a graph with the optimal route from the geographic center to each county
  https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/7pwnub/optimal_routes_from_the_geographic_center_of_the/
• Dataset with all the establishments with 50 or more employees of Andalusia
  http://www.juntadeandalucia.es/institutodeestadisticaycartografia/direst/geolocalizacion.htm
• List of publishers of free LIDAR data
  https://www.geospatialworld.net/blogs/did-you-know-the-sources-for-free-lidar-data/
• Real-time transit information and detailed reports of cities around the world
  https://www.tomtom.com/en_gb/trafficindex/list?citySize=LARGE&continent=ALL&country=ALL
• World map with the most frequent word on each country Wikipedia page
  https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/2dj9xb/most_recurrent_words_on_wikipedia_oc_4500x2234/
• A recap in a single map of different layers animated using deck.gl via @sfggeogis
  https://philogb.github.io/page/wind/
• The Hungarian cultural heritage portal has a map room
  https://hungaricana.hu/en/
• A compilation of fun facts of creating a 3D hiking map
  https://www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/products/js-api-arcgis/mapping/creating-3d-hiking-map
• How relevant location is for all business processes
  https://www.geospatialworld.net/article/how-location-is-fundamental-to-all-business-processes/
• An illustrated selection of former Asian countries
  https://www.vividmaps.com/2018/07/former-states-asia-1860-2018.html

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Nº927: nyc, globes, colors

Fri, 03 Aug 2018 by Raf

• Using maps to explain how the street grid of New York City was created, and how it integrated the previous ones
  https://medium.com/@chazhutton/how-manhattans-grid-created-the-pettiest-mosaic-ever-made-f0b2f3bda54c
• A step by step guide on how to make a JavaScript ArcGIS API application that displays the main cities of the world in a globe
  https://github.com/RalucaNicola/JSAPI_demos/tree/master/cities-globe#worlds-biggest-cities---a-how-to-guide
• An updated color guide, with advice and several tools on how to use them to visualize data
  https://blog.datawrapper.de/colorguide/

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Nº926: point cloud, land-use, metropolitan

Thu, 02 Aug 2018 by Raf

• A city in two billion points: analyzing the surroundings of Sagrada Familia temple at the Barcelona Eixample neighborhood
  http://voxxlr.blogspot.com/2018/07/a-city-in-2-billion-points.html
• USA land use explained with a series of well-prepared maps made from agriculture department statistical data
  https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-us-land-use/
• Interactive web to compare size and the population density of main metropolitan areas of the world
  http://wabimaps.com/cities/?a=1590841&b=1590894

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Nº925: training, shape, outbreaks

Wed, 01 Aug 2018 by Raf

• Small course in three sessions on how to work with PostGIS from Leaflet.js or any other web mapping client library
  http://millermountain.com/geospatialblog/2018/06/26/postgis-data-in-leaflet/
• How the world shape has evolved with cartography development thanks to science and technology improvements from Ptolemy to Stieler
  https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/859/43680084872_96cd0cc9b9_o.png
• The International Society for Infectious Diseases reports on new outbreaks, additionally using a word cloud map
  https://www.isid.org/promed-report-map-q2/

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Nº924: religions, animations, caves

Tue, 31 Jul 2018 by Raf

• A map of the greater London area, including city and the 32 municipalities around it, showing religions distribution
  https://i.redd.it/v0nd2k449qc11.jpg
• Open Source code to show how to use R and rayshader to create maps and animations that display interactions with shaded reliefs
  http://www.tylermw.com/making-beautiful-maps/
• Using old archaeological expeditions data to develop three-dimensional cave maps helped on the Thailand rescue via @pacoguillem
  https://retina.elpais.com/retina/2018/07/20/innovacion/1532099566_297656.amp.html

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Nº923: iot, moisture, sovereignty

Mon, 30 Jul 2018 by Raf

• A new way do cartography: a platform to analyze hundreds of data IoT sources to automatically generate maps
  https://www.mapfit.com/
• 3D building moisture maps using microwave meters for monumental heritage projects
  https://blog.engineshed.scot/2017/12/29/3d-moisture-mapping/
• French report about geospatial data sovereignty: a relevant challenge to develop public policies and innovation promotion
  http://www.afigeo.asso.fr/2092

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Nº922: paris, gardening, yachts

Fri, 27 Jul 2018 by Raf

• Average salaries, taxes paid, unemployment taxes and many other social and economic data of the Parisian people, by metro station
  http://vincentgarreau.com/dataparis/#
• A gardening on-demand service using high-resolution imagery to let their users draw their garden and get immediate costs to estimate from a number of services
  https://lawnguru.co/
• A full year of data from the biggest yachts from the richest people on an interactive map of routes and destinations
  https://www.forbes.com/feature/yacht-map/#4b563ea4bfad

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Nº921: harvest, great britain, divide

Thu, 26 Jul 2018 by Raf

• A greyscale map engraved on a granite rock is the central piece for a commemorative table at the "Grand Pré" UNESCO heritage landmark in Nova Scotia
  https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/lost-art-greyscale-cartography-morin-asct-dipl-cartography-gisp/
• Commented analysis of Ordnance Survey Open Zoomstack, a vector basemap displaying cartography from Great Britain from national to street level detail
  http://www.statsmapsnpix.com/2018/07/a-review-of-os-open-zoomstack.html
• The GB broadband map reveals a new digital division: more than rural versus urban, it's city downtowns that stay back
  https://ig.ft.com/gb-broadband-speed-map/

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Nº920: population, subsoil, vector

Wed, 25 Jul 2018 by Raf

• Using three color coding mapping to show aging diversity at European regional structures
  https://github.com/ikashnitsky/the-lancet-2018
• The Dutch subsoil open data registry gathers geotechnical reports, groundwater wells, and soil drill samples profiles
  https://www.basisregistratieondergrond.nl/
• Generating vector tiles directly from PostGIS database using ST_AsMVT() new function
  https://medium.com/nycplanninglabs/using-the-new-mvt-function-in-postgis-75f8addc1d68

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Nº919: cloudless, point clouds, accidents

Tue, 24 Jul 2018 by Raf

• An almost cloud-free Sentinel-2 coverage, with data between May 2016 and April 2017, and made available as Open Data
  https://s2maps.eu/
• Open Source and a stable community of developers converting picture sequences into point clouds ready for 3D reconstruction
  https://doxel.org/
• Massive accident and weather data analysis with machine learning techniques to predict transit accident locations
  https://medium.com/geoai/using-machine-learning-to-predict-car-accident-risk-4d92c91a7d57

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Nº918: emma, margaret, estra

Mon, 23 Jul 2018 by Raf

• Emma Willard was the first female mapmaker of the USA, she published the first USA history atlas where she made twelve maps as infographics
  https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/06/18/americas-first-female-mapmaker/
• Margaret Whiting Spilhaus, decorative cartographer and geography and history teacher, demonstrated how maps can be used as a pedagogic tool at primary schools
  http://www.barronmaps.com/margaret-whiting-spilhaus-1889-1981-doorstep-baby-to-decorative-cartographer/
• Estra Clark, British pictorial cartographer, pioneer, truly independent, artist, teacher, born at York, her cartography legacy are five exquisite designed maps
  http://www.barronmaps.com/estra-clark-1904-1993-york-artist-and-pictorial-cartographer/

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Nº917: trash, chill, pools

Fri, 20 Jul 2018 by Raf

• Trash Track visualizes the footprint of different trash objects to help to understand the waste elimination chain
  http://senseable.mit.edu/trashtrack/visualizations.php?id=2
• Fresh urban refuges in Paris to combat extreme heat waves
  https://www.paris.fr/actualites/episodes-de-chaleur-des-endroits-frais-pour-se-rafraichir-dans-la-capitale-5941
• Detection and classification of urban pools using satellite imagery and deep learning
  https://medium.com/geoai/swimming-pool-detection-and-classification-using-deep-learning-aaf4a3a5e652

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Nº916: grants, color, orthogonality

Thu, 19 Jul 2018 by Raf

• Distribution by municipalities of the basic agricultural grants received from European funds
  https://www.agrodigital.com/2018/06/29/geografia-del-pago-basico-en-espana-2/
• Up to $15K award for an algorithm to colorize panchromatic gray-scale imagery presented before 9th of September
  https://www.innocentive.com/ar/challenge/9933931
• An instant wind rose of urban network orientation for anywhere on your browser, using just 80 lines of Open Source code and a couple of libraries by @mourner
  https://blog.mapbox.com/visualizing-street-orientations-on-an-interactive-map-1eefa6002afc

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Nº915: tobacco, profile, metrics

Wed, 18 Jul 2018 by Raf

• GIS study to analyze Madrid local regulations on tobacco retail sales
  https://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/early/2018/07/10/tobaccocontrol-2018-054269
• Transversal profiles: unique dissections handmade and individualy dessigned to reveal and explain all kind of artifacts and constructions
  http://www.johngrimwade.com/blog/2018/07/16/deconstructed/
• Metrics to improve Uber maps quality: how they ensure their maps precision using several quality indicators
  https://eng.uber.com/maps-metrics-computation/

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