Nº1337: cities, china, travelers

Wed, 03 Jun 2020 by Raf

• Morphocode allows city planners to evaluate existing conditions, measuring key urban indicators, and do geospatial research directly from the browser
  https://morphocode.com/morphocode-explorer-overview/
• The Ming Treasure voyages were a series of expeditions to show to the rest of the world the Chinese empire wealth
  https://gamermaper.tumblr.com/post/619289028929421312/the-ming-treasure-voyages-the-ming-treasure
• Ibn Battuta, Marco Polo, and Zhen He were three great explorers that traveled the world independently between 1325 and 1433
  https://content.time.com/time/interactive/0,31813,2084413,00.html

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Nº1336: weather, videos, meetup

Tue, 02 Jun 2020 by Raf

• Using #FOSS4G software for automatic processing of weather models for more accurate weather predictions
  https://medium.com/swlh/automated-weather-model-processing-with-foss4g-lessons-learned-8aaaeda1e3bc
• BnF and CNRS produce a series of old maps reviews called "Au cœur des cartes" all gathered on this Youtube channel [FR]
  https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-GL80g2OlE3HeD0u3CB80NKwP-CGrcjL
• Details and speakers of the upcoming online #geomob next June 10th at 8 pm CEST, and for 100 attendees (so maybe you should register quickly)
  https://thegeomob.com/post/june-10th-2020-geomob-details

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Nº1335: perception, projections, imola

Mon, 01 Jun 2020 by Raf

• "Bending Lines: Maps and Data from Distortion to Deception" is an online exhibition by the Leventhal Map & Education Center about the perception of reality through maps
  https://www.leventhalmap.org/digital-exhibitions/bending-lines/
• This visualization explains projection deformations showing how a square is distorted on a globe view
  https://mathigon.org/course/circles/spheres-cones-cylinders#sphere-maps
• The plan of Imola by DaVinci in 1502 is still accurate and was created using maths and measurements that transformed cartography forever [FR]
  https://www.nationalgeographic.fr/histoire/2020/05/comment-leonard-de-vinci-a-fait-de-lart-de-la-cartographie-une-science/

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Nº1334: gardens, proverbs, china

Fri, 29 May 2020 by Raf

• Evaluation of the roof potential of Rio de Janeiro to plant a garden studying their inclination using LIDAR
  http://siurb.rio/portal/apps/MapJournal/index.html?appid=9ab041271dc949848372e98eb6bb6cab
• The map of Spanish proverbs associated with places, including their reasoning [ES]
  https://www.traveler.es/experiencias/articulos/mapa-refranes-dichos-lugares-espana/17749
• Hu Line is an imaginary frontier line in China that splits the country into two very different economies and realities
  https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1000459/hu-line-chinas-forgotten-frontier

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Nº1333: war, billions, rivers, aws

Thu, 28 May 2020 by Raf

• Ordnance Survey has been censoring data for military purposes since its inception
  https://blog.library.wales/for-war-department-purposes-only-censorship-and-the-ordnance-survey/
• 2019 USA richest person per state
  https://i.redd.it/396f9lmf45151.png
• Meander is an automatic procedural system to generate historical maps of rivers that never existed, as a tribute to Harold Fisk 1944 Mississippi map
  http://roberthodgin.com/project/meander
• This cheat sheet covers all Amazon Web Services acronyms and names, group by thematic areas
  https://adayinthelifeof.nl/2020/05/20/aws.html

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Nº1332: time, model, workshop, wwii

Wed, 27 May 2020 by Raf

• This review covers the new QGIS 3.14 Temporal Controller, an easy way to animate folders full of GPS tracks.
  https://anitagraser.com/2020/05/24/movement-data-in-gis-30-synchronized-trajectory-animations-with-qgis-temporal-controller/
• The sea level rises affect north Cambridge infrastructures
  https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/1952f4b0e68a40d3b54def819aaa7b3f
• W3C/OGC "Maps for the Web" workshop has moved online and asynchronous, between September and October, to explore the potential of online maps.
  https://www.w3.org/2020/maps/
• A globe scrollymap to explain using maps the key moments that defined World War II
  https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2020/06/map-shows-nine-moments-that-defined-world-war-ii-feature/

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Nº1331: kingdom, profile, network, sql

Tue, 26 May 2020 by Raf

• All the noble titles accumulated by the king of Spain and their relationship with the current boundaries [ES]
  https://elordenmundial.com/mapas/titulos-rey-espana/
• How to generate a 3D terrain profile using Inkscape and Google Earth [ES]
  https://geoinnova.org/blog-territorio/como-crear-una-seccion-transversal-3d-fotorrealista-con-inkscape/
• QNEAT3 is a new QGIS 3 plugin with advanced processing algorithms for network analysis: shortest path, isochrones, and OD matrix
  https://root676.github.io/
• A new board game to fight against wild hordes of orcs and learn SQL basics, all at once
  https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/garaizar/archers-of-nand/

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Nº1330: stanford, warming, charts

Fri, 22 May 2020 by Raf

• "Mapping the Global Imaginary, 1500-1900" is a Stanford University virtual exhibition of all the presented materials at the conference talks
  https://exhibits.stanford.edu/global-imaginary/browse
• 2020 April global temperature anomalies confirm the trend that makes this year one of the four warmest on record
  https://www.climate.gov/news-features/featured-images/april-2020-another-month-%E2%80%99s-second-warmest-record
• BnF has created an exhibition of the nautical charts golden age with an app for Apple devices
  http://expositions.bnf.fr/marine/index.htm

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Nº1329: parks, railways, barcelona

Thu, 21 May 2020 by Raf

• A virtual trip to USA National Parks with NYPL funds, armchair tourism for confinement times
  https://www.nypl.org/blog/2020/05/18/mental-travelers-using-map-divisions-resources-remotely
• How the Czech Republic train travel times from Prague have evolved between 1928 and 2020
  https://i.redd.it/lcrja1e2pdz41.png
• Barcelona city hall provides a photography catalog that is open, georeferenced, and with pictures in different resolutions
  https://www.barcelona.cat/imatges/ca/20/ciutat-vella/9048/platja-de-la-barceloneta/

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Nº1328: fires, geodesy, hydro

Wed, 20 May 2020 by Raf

• The long-term recording of world fires helps to analyze decade trends and understand how fire is used and its impact
  https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/145421/building-a-long-term-record-of-fire
• What is the datum in a nautical chart? This blog post is a brief explanation of geodetic concepts like geoid and ellipsoid and their relationship with cartography [ES]
  https://www.exponav.org/que-es-el-datum-en-una-carta-nautica/?lang=en
• EPANET is a public domain hydraulic analysis package for water supply networks, available to run in your browser and for major Operating Systems
  http://epanet.de/

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Nº1327: soils, routing, foss4g

Tue, 19 May 2020 by Raf

• Soilgrids is an information system for soils, with world coverage of soil profiles and environmental layers, produced by ISRIC
  https://soilgrids.org/
• Traveltime is a service to produce routing calculations, with a small free tier and a QGIS plugin via @xurxosanz
  https://traveltime.com/
• FOSS4G UK is taking place online next June 17th, just one day, and with work in progress schedule
  https://uk.osgeo.org/foss4gukonline2020/

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Nº1326: routing, syria, weather

Mon, 18 May 2020 by Raf

• Trailrouter computes routes on your selected distance prioritizing green zones and avoiding repetitions; they even provide a mobile app via @freyfogle
  https://trailrouter.com
• An analysis of changes in Syrian territory control offers a vision on future challenges to finish the conflict
  https://www.cartercenter.org/news/features/p/conflict_resolution/syria-mapping-shifts-in-territorial-control.html
• An overview of the top 8 weather API available with climate data by functionality and coverage via @bolosig
  https://www.climacell.co/blog/top-8-weather-apis-for-2020/

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Nº1325: got, mercator, 3d

Fri, 15 May 2020 by Raf

• Challenge your knowledge about Game of Thrones on this map trivia via @xurxosanz
  https://game-of-thrones.cartocdn.com/index.html
• The first episode of Ptolemy brochures is dedicated to Gérard Mercator: a comic in French dedicated to the popular cartographic projection [FR]
  https://www.lessavoirsambulants.fr/#5dd529ed03066
• How to reference 3D models for Cesium, coding coordinates from the real world into its glFT (GL Transmission Format)
  https://medium.com/terria/georeferencing-3d-models-for-cesium-7ccf609ee2ef

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Nº1324: sensors, smoothing, 5g

Thu, 14 May 2020 by Raf

• This report covers all sensors used by Google Street View cars, not just taking pictures, briefly mentioning Ceres Solver
  https://www.trekview.org/blog/2019/google-street-view-cameras-more-than-meets-the-eye/
• CartoLineGen is a QGIS plugin for lines and polygons generalization
  https://github.com/geof-osgl/cartolinegen
• This website provides maps of 5G coverage worldwide, crowdsourced using dedicated mobile apps
  https://www.nperf.com/en/map/5g

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Nº1323: cities, homophobia, tiles

Wed, 13 May 2020 by Raf

• Mercè is an urban citizenship science project to understand how a friendly living city is thanks to the participation of citizens and IA algorithms. [CA]
  http://merce.300000.eu/#1
• ILGA World publishes every year an updated report about state-sponsored homophobia around the world
  https://ilga.org/maps-sexual-orientation-laws
• This complete tutorial guides through the configuration of an OSM raster tiles server on Ubuntu 20.04
  https://switch2osm.org/serving-tiles/manually-building-a-tile-server-20-04-lts/

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Nº1322: models, boundaries, gps

Tue, 12 May 2020 by Raf

• AliceVision is a photogrammetry Open Source software to generate 3D environments from a collection of pictures from any device
  https://alicevision.org/#meshroom
• European Gerrymandering, or how changes in administrative boundaries help to get more funds
  https://pudding.cool/2019/04/eu-regions/
• Easy tutorial on adding OSM, DEM, and topo data into Garmin GPS receivers via @bolosig [ES]
  https://arribarribatrekking.sport.blog/2020/03/20/tutorial-de-instalacion-en-basecamp-pc-y-gps-garmin-de-los-mapas-open-street-map-base-con-dem-digital-elevation-model-y-open-street-map-topografico/amp/

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Nº1321: north, origami, board games

Mon, 11 May 2020 by Raf

• This website allows you to generate different models of North arrows, and download the result as a 4K PNG file
  https://watabou.itch.io/compass-rose-generator
• With time and patience, this step by step guide will help you build a 1400 origami world globe
  https://www.instructables.com/id/Amazing-Origami-Globe/
• Geography related board games to play on these confinement days: trees, territories, animals
  http://geographical.co.uk/people/item/3683-curbing-boredom-geographical-s-top-board-games-for-geographers

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Nº1320: streets, etl, conference

Fri, 08 May 2020 by Raf

• Nine eyes is a Tumblr account that collects interesting or shocking Streetview pictures
  https://9-eyes.com/
• "Working with big spatial data workflows (or, what would John Snow do?)" @delawen writes a short introduction on open tools for geospatial data workflows
  https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2020/05/05/working-with-big-spatial-data-workflows-or-what-would-john-snow-do/
• Culture Mapping 2020 recordings have been published; this is an academic conference about History and Urban Culture research
  https://newyorkscapes.org/event/culturemapping2020/

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Nº1319: madrid, agriculture

Thu, 07 May 2020 by Raf

• "Confinement cartographies: Madrid" is a study about the impact of the pandemic in the most vulnerable neighborhoods of the Spanish capital
  https://www.paisajetransversal.org/2020/05/cartografias-del-confinamiento-madrid-COVID-19-Coronavirus-mapas-urbanismo-ciudad.html
• Drones, multispectral sensors, and data processing on the field are crucial for the improvement of digital agriculture
  https://pix4d-com-website-3274646288.gtsb.io/blog/from-crop-data-to-farm-insights

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Nº1318: horror vacui, mapstuff, water

Wed, 06 May 2020 by Raf

• Chet Van Duzer talk on how old cartographers feared blank spaces
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dg5UUGzossI&feature=youtu.be
• A playlist with almost all recordings from the "How to Do Map Stuff" online conference
  https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLF-xwVTEFobPaLdmE41iPMX8rQVW8TF1e
• This online platform provides updated and high-resolution data about worldwide freshwater ecosystems
  https://map.sdg661.app/#

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Nº1317: renting, tech debt, fonts, roads

Tue, 05 May 2020 by Raf

• An investigation report on the California housing crisis and the accumulation of dwellings by a single landlord
  https://laist.com/projects/2020/pama/
• The main osm2pgsql developer reports about technical debt in this crucial piece of software that moves data from OSM into Postgres
  https://blog.jochentopf.com/2020-04-30-paying-off-technical-debt-in-osm2pgsql.html
• This map shows 220 typefaces named after USA places
  https://statesider.us/us-font-map/
• Mashnet is a new Open Source library to conflate road networks coming from OSM pbf or GeoJSON format
  https://medium.com/sharedstreets/introducing-mashnet-126b1ba33f68

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Nº1316: islamists, views, moon, docker

Mon, 04 May 2020 by Raf

• This map shows the location and type of 2018 African militant Islamist Groups' activities
  https://africacenter.org/spotlight/progress-and-setbacks-in-the-fight-against-african-militant-islamist-groups-in-2018/
• "Your Maps of Life Under Lockdown" is a City Lab article collecting maps and personal views of their readers during this confinement weeks
  https://www.citylab.com/life/2020/04/neighborhood-maps-coronavirus-lockdown-stay-at-home-art/610018/
• USGS releases a 1:5M unified moon geology map via Stephanie Schober
  https://astrogeology.usgs.gov/search/map/Moon/Geology/Unified_Geologic_Map_of_the_Moon_GIS
• Quick and easy Docker instructions to spin up Postgres 12 and pgAdmin 4, with detailed instructions
  https://info.crunchydata.com/blog/easy-postgresql-12-and-pgadmin-4-setup-with-docker

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Nº1315: confinement, migration, noise

Thu, 30 Apr 2020 by Raf

• Wake Me There is an Android geofencing alarm that can also give you a ring if you get more than 1km away from your home
  https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mapfactor.wakemethere
• This R & Shiny application allows exploring world migration data per country
  https://analytics.huma-num.fr/Nicolas.Lambert/migrexplorer/
• Noise-Planet is an open crowdsourced research project to measure and analyze environmental noise with scientific tools and a capturing Android application
  http://noise-planet.org/index.html

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Nº1314: covid19, poetry, blender

Wed, 29 Apr 2020 by Raf

• A spatio-temporal analysis of the environmental correlates of COVID-19 incidence in Spain
  https://github.com/paezha/covid19-environmental-correlates/blob/master/README.md
• The link between current poets and territory is reflected in their verses, as you can see on this Catalan poetry map [CA]
  https://www.ara.cat/cultura/Mapa-poetic-paisos-catalans-poesia-catalana-versos-geografia_0_2440556068.html
• This videotutorial shows how to create maps and landscapes using Blender and GIS data
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeVUWTSkAlk&feature=youtu.be

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Nº1313: palestine, roads, locusts

Tue, 28 Apr 2020 by Raf

• The Palestine Open Maps portal provides access to old and new charts, and it is updated continuously
  https://palopenmaps.org/view
• Viator-E is a research project in open development that collects all the Occidental Roman Empire roads
  http://viatore.icac.cat/es/elementor-767/
• This D3 scrollymap displays the severe and global issue of locusts swarms that are affecting Africa and Asia since December via ggosse
  http://gg31400.pythonanywhere.com/locusts/

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