#2832: climate, ukraine

Fri, 26 Jul 2024 by Raf

• More than 120 years of data to decipher how melting ice, shrinking groundwater and rising seas are shifting Earth's spin axis and lengthening days
  https://www.nasa.gov/science-research/earth-science/nasa-funded-studies-explain-how-climate-is-changing-earths-rotation/
• Preparing to visualize destruction in Ukraine with satellite data for a news special that eventually appeared in the June 22, 2024, print edition of The New York Times
  https://mhinfographics.com/2024/06/22/visualizing-the-destruction-in-ukraine-a-years-long-project-following-satellite-clues/

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#2831: 3d, nasa

Thu, 25 Jul 2024 by Raf

• The 3D geoinformation research group of the Urban Data Science Section of the Delft University of Technology has developed an online georeferencer of IFC files
  https://ifcgref.bk.tudelft.nl/templates/guid.html
• The CASEI catalog provides a searchable inventory of contextual metadata for the more than 50-year history of NASA's air and field activities
  https://developmentseed.org/blog/2024-06-19-airborne-visualization

Raf

#2830: high altitude, directions

Wed, 24 Jul 2024 by Raf

• High altitude mapping is not intended to reflect or interpret the territory, but to transfer to another type of map the relationship of effort between the climber and the climbable peaks
  https://nightingaledvs.com/high-altitude-cartography/
• Concise instructions, at least for the areas you know well, should be the next step in the natural evolution of guide services from commercial online map providers.
  https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2024/07/19/Short-Directions

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#2829: urbanheat, extinction

Tue, 23 Jul 2024 by Raf

• Visualization of the urban heat island effect (isothermal contours) in European urban centers of cities included in Eurostat's GISCO urban audit (2021)
  https://urbanheat.app/
• Humans have already driven more than one in nine bird species to extinction, with likely severe and potentially irreversible ecological and evolutionary consequences
  https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-43445-2

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#2828: restroom, map types

Mon, 22 Jul 2024 by Raf

• The New York City Open Data Portal has the public restroom dataset, including location, hours, level of accessibility, and other useful information
  https://data.cityofnewyork.us/City-Government/Public-Restrooms/i7jb-7jku/about_data
• 25 different types of maps, both to communicate data more effectively and to have, as a cartographer, a larger repertoire of display options
  https://gisgeography.com/map-types/

Raf

#2827: data, sea

Fri, 19 Jul 2024 by Raf

• Internet advertising industry data brokers sell location data unchecked, invading people's privacy and threatening national security
  https://netzpolitik.org/2024/data-broker-files-how-data-brokers-sell-our-location-data-and-jeopardise-national-security/#netzpolitik-pw
• Sea surface temperature in the Mediterranean and Black Sea region measured by satellite on 07/15/2024 reaches 31ºC, far too much for marine fauna [EL]
  https://climatebook.gr/ypsiles-times-tis-thermokrasias-tis-epifaneias-tis-thalassas-stin-mesogeio-sta-mesa-iouliou-2024/

Raf

#2826: handbook, garbage

Thu, 18 Jul 2024 by Raf

• The "Handbook of Qualitative and Visual Methods in Spatial Research" presents a wide interdisciplinary range of methods for studying different aspects of space (open access PDF)
  https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-6734-9/handbook-of-qualitative-and-visual-methods-in-spatial-research/?number=978-3-8394-6734-3
• The city of Guadalajara, Mexico, has an informative website where you can see the real-time positions of waste collection trucks, as well as routes and containers by type [ES]
  https://tequierolimpia.guadalajara.gob.mx/

Raf

#2825: search, cartography

Wed, 17 Jul 2024 by Raf

• A hands-on demonstration, with demonstration and examples, of how to perform text searches on an aerial image leveraging the use of vector metadata embeddings with Pinecone
  https://blog.rtwilson.com/searching-an-aerial-photo-with-text-queries-a-demo-and-how-it-works/
• Sensitive and participatory cartography can contribute to the resilience of a territory and be an incentive for territorial public action for the benefit of the territory and the material and immaterial common goods
  https://quentinlefevre.com/residence-de-cartographie-dans-la-vallee-de-la-roya/

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#2824: wildfires, forests

Tue, 16 Jul 2024 by Raf

• The forest fire danger maps of Catalonia created by the Department of Climate Action, Food and Rural Agenda are updated daily and can be downloaded georeferenced [CA]
  https://agricultura.gencat.cat/ca/ambits/medi-natural/incendis-forestals/perill-incendi-diari-informe-setmanal/mapa-perill-incendi/
• Combining old maps with remote sensing data to identify forests older than 150 years to protect natural ecosystems under the EU Biodiversity Strategy 2030
  https://conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/conl.13043

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#2823: racing, yolo

Mon, 15 Jul 2024 by Raf

• "Famous Racing Meeting Place" is an online store selling t-shirts with designs of the motor racing sports, going from circuit silhouettes to classic cars through rally stages
  https://famousracingmeetingplace.com/
• How to train a ship detection model to work with Umbra High Resolution SAR (HRSID) images using ultralytics' YOLOv5
  https://tech.marksblogg.com/yolo-umbra-sar-satellites-ship-detection.html

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#2822: landcover, live

Fri, 12 Jul 2024 by Raf

• Comparison of three 10m global land use datasets: Google's Dynamic World (DW), ESA's World Cover (WC) and Esri Land Cover
  https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/14/16/4101
• The Leader Consortium for Rural Development of the Countryside is one of the 11 local action groups that cooperate to carry out social and economic dynamism projects and facilitates living in the rural world [CA]
  https://viurearural.cat/territoris-leader/gal-4-consorci-leader-de-desenvolupament-rural-del-camp/

Raf

#2821: ships, navigation

Wed, 10 Jul 2024 by Raf

• The increase in attacks on ships in the Red Sea has disrupted shipping routes, which were already affected by other conflicts and climate change, and will have repercussions everywhere
  https://www.straitstimes.com/multimedia/graphics/2024/06/marine-routes-disruption/index.html
• Avoiding "map-splaining" and providing clear and unambiguous instructions that, without being too detailed, still help to get to places, the challenge of navigation and guidance applications
  https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/07/google-maps-apple-glitches/678904/

Raf

#2820: votes, 3d

Wed, 10 Jul 2024 by Raf

• Represent in a different way the results of the federal elections of June 9 in Belgium following the mantra that it is not the territory that votes but the people [FR]
  https://www.rtbf.be/article/ce-ne-sont-pas-les-hectares-qui-votent-c-est-la-population-voici-une-autre-maniere-de-representer-les-resultats-des-elections-carte-interactive-11391568
• What is the "Institut Cartogràfic Valencian (ICV)" doing to obtain the most accurate and perfect 3D map of the territory of the Valencian Community [ES]
  https://www.lasprovincias.es/comunitat/busca-mapa-perfecto-20240531125821-nt.html

Raf

#2819: motorhome, gps

Tue, 09 Jul 2024 by Raf

• An online service with map search and mobile app to find and share nice places for motorhomes to stop, and a guide to the best places in nature
  https://park4night.com/en
• Detailed explanation of the development of Gypsum, a software GPS receiver written in Python from scratch, open source and without any dependencies. It only needs an external antenna
  https://axleos.com/building-a-gps-receiver-part-1-hearing-whispers/

Raf

#2818: food, ulysses

Mon, 08 Jul 2024 by Raf

• The California Migration Museum showcases San Francisco's food scene with 38 stories that explore how immigrants have shaped the city and fed its residents since 1849
  https://meltingspots.calmigration.org/
• Routes and locations from James Joyce's Ulysses book with main characters' routes color-coded by chapter and plotted by transport (walking, vehicle, dreaming or floating) all with time of day
  https://www.informationisbeautifulawards.com/showcase/193-an-animated-map-of-ulysses-dublin

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#2817: electricity, inequalities

Fri, 05 Jul 2024 by Raf

• This map illustrates that by installing solar panels in 2.4% of Barcelona province's low-impact territory, 90% of its electricity demand could be met [CA]
  https://gisportal.diba.cat/sitac/potfv/
• The fourth entry in a series about gentrification or embourgeoisement focuses on San Francisco Bay, with a summary of the explosion of socio-economic inequalities [FR]
  https://geotheque.org/gentrification-ou-embourgeoisement-episode-4-la-silicon-valley-la-segregation-socio-spatiale-dans-une-suburb-de-luxe-a-san-francisco-par-marine-berthelet/

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#2816: pollution, ecology, foss4ge2024

Thu, 04 Jul 2024 by Raf

• The dataset Le Monde used to publish its groundwater contamination map is available on the French open data portal [FR]
  https://www.data.gouv.fr/fr/datasets/300-contaminants-dans-nos-nappes-jeux-de-donnees-des-valeurs-seuils-et-mesures-2016-2023/#/resources
• This paper reviews thousands of articles on species distribution modeling to assess the selection of human predictors and understand current and future species distributions in the Anthropocene environment
  https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-024-02435-3
• Make sure to catch the live-streamed talks from the five tracks at FOSS4G Europe 2024 happening now in Tartu, Estonia!
  https://foss4ge.television.ee/

Raf

#2815: wildfires, piracy, energy

Wed, 03 Jul 2024 by Raf

• NASA's "Wildfire Digital Twin," which will use new AI models and data transmission techniques for fire and smoke forecasting, will enhance the control and prediction of forest fires
  https://science.nasa.gov/science-research/science-enabling-technology/nasa-wildfire-digital-twin-pioneers-new-ai-models-and-streaming-data-techniques-for-forecasting-fire-and-smoke/
• Live map displaying 2024 maritime piracy and armed robbery incidents reported to the IMB's Piracy Information Center
  https://www.icc-ccs.org/piracy-reporting-centre/live-piracy-map
• Although global access to electricity has increased, 1180 million people in remote areas still lack access to electricity.
  https://blogs.worldbank.org/en/opendata/1-18-billion-around-the-world-are-unable-to-use-electricity

Raf

#2814: wildfires, sar, pollution

Tue, 02 Jul 2024 by Raf

• Forest fires exceeding 500 hectares in Europe are increasingly frequent, significant, devastating, and uncontrollable
  https://especiales.eldiario.es/incendios/
• A challenging daily geo-game: finding the location of the SAR image in 3 attempts with help from adjusting brightness and contrast
  https://eoguesser.com/
• The Watershed Pollution Map combines data from various sources to illustrate the impact on UK rivers, lakes, groundwater, and seawater
  https://watershedinvestigations.com/home/find-out-whats-polluting-your-local-rivers-lakes-and-coast/

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#2813: wildfires, brittany, lidar

Mon, 01 Jul 2024 by Raf

• A study of forest fire patterns in Catalonia from 1986 to 2023 suggests that the area of burned land in Catalonia will continue to expand
  https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/44543553d55744729059e77bcbda6675
• A modern portolan map of the Breton coast, created by Perrin Remonté, serves as a cartographic guide for sailors seeking essential information for navigating Brittany. [FR]
  https://www.perrinremonte.com/portulan
• This module is the third in a series of seven from the Landscape Ecology Lab at the Jones Center At Ichauway Labs, and it covers forest mapping using LIDAR data.
  https://lab.jonesctr.org/module-3-mapping-trees-from-aerial-lidar-data/

Raf

#2812: snickelway, coordinates

Fri, 28 Jun 2024 by Raf

• In York, England, a "snickelway" is a narrow alley known as a "snicket", "gimmel" or "alleyway" (the word is a combination of all three) and Mark Jones has written a guide to it with a map and route
  http://snickelways.co.uk/index.html
• Online conversion between geographic coordinates (in decimal degrees, degrees minutes seconds), standard UTM, and UTM NATO, with an Excel to make mass conversions and an app for Android [ES]
  https://franzpc.com/apps/conversor-coordenadas-geograficas-utm.html

Raf

#2811: climate, flight

Thu, 27 Jun 2024 by Raf

• Climate change, which directly affects humans, also forces adaptation to animals and their associated diseases that are now moving to other territories
  https://grist.org/climate-connections-diseases-pathogens
• Four decades of US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and US Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) aircraft flight data analyzed and visualized with HEAVY.AI
  https://tech.marksblogg.com/heavyiq-faa-ai-llm-gpu-database.html

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#2810: place classification, rural

Wed, 26 Jun 2024 by Raf

• A proposed national system to functionally classify populated places in OSM more systematically and deterministically to balance the needs of urban and rural parts of the US
  https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/toward-a-national-system-for-functionally-classifying-populated-places/113674
• The Rural Indexing Project (RIP) photographically documents the visual trends (historical, architectural and social) of rural communities in the USA
  https://www.ruralindexingproject.com/

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#2809: drinks, temperatures

Tue, 25 Jun 2024 by Raf

• Map of the price of drinks served in all Wetherspoon pubs in the UK, in case you're in the mood (a pint of Carling varies from £2.29 to £5.99)
  https://pantryandlarder.com/spoons-map/
• Extreme temperatures contribute significantly to global mortality, especially stroke, according to a multinational case study applying a unified analysis protocol
  https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/STROKEAHA.123.045751

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#2808: weather, globes

Mon, 24 Jun 2024 by Raf

• Prithvi-weather-climate is a new AI model trained between NASA and IBM on 40 years of weather and climate data that will be made openly available for research and applications
  https://www.earthdata.nasa.gov/learn/blog/nasa-ibm-weather-climate-foundation-model
• OpenGlobus is an open source JavaScript/TypeScript library based on Pure WebGL and with a simple API for viewing high-precision virtual globes combined with various data sources
  https://openglobus.org/

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