Nº1384: sea rise, wwii, render

Thu, 13 Aug 2020 by Raf

• According to data estimated from NASA ICESat project images, sea level has rised 14 millimeters between 2003 and 2019
  https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2020/04/29/science.aaz5845
• RAF pilots took these aerial images during Netherlands liberation between September 1944 and October 1945
  https://www.wur.nl/en/Library/About-the-Library/News/show/What-RAF-pilots-saw-during-the-liberation.htm
• Using GHS_POP European project data with QGIS and Aerialrod to generate population density 3D renders
  http://www.statsmapsnpix.com/2020/04/population-density-in-europe.html

Raf

Nº1383: health, osm, shades

Wed, 12 Aug 2020 by Raf

• This project wants to crowdsource the health facilities' locations and details worldwide
  https://healthsites.io/
• Interactive maps summarizing different metrics from OpenStreetMap activities
  https://resultmaps.neis-one.org/
• How to fastly create shaded relief maps using GDAL and 30 meters NASA ASTER elevation model
  https://blog.datawrapper.de/shaded-relief-with-gdal-python/

Raf

Nº1382: strasburg, age, cam

Tue, 11 Aug 2020 by Raf

• The Strasburg euro-metropolis atlas is a comprehensive document with all kinds of data, charts, and geostatistics (PDF) [FR]
  https://sig.strasbourg.eu/docs/ATLAS_EUROMETROPOLE_2020.pdf
• This comparison of population age structures of US counties versus European UTS3 regions uses a three-variable scheme to identify direction and strength of average deviation
  https://ikashnitsky.github.io/images/181203/compare-poster.png
• Earth's high-definition live streaming video from the ISS
  http://www.ustream.tv/channel/iss-hdev-payload

Raf

Nº1381: energy, antarctica, fashion

Mon, 10 Aug 2020 by Raf

• This map of global energy infrastructure was created with Gridfinder, an Open Source tool to predict the location of electricity network lines
  https://gridfinder.org/
• A compilation of free Antarctica maps: satellite imagery, physical, political, with and without the icecap, and different styles
  https://gisgeography.com/antarctica-map-satellite-image/
• The self-nominated European fashion map, made from search data results, shows the favorite brands, products, and colors, with some interesting results
  https://www.lyst.co.uk/european-fashion-map-2019/

Raf

Nº1380: humanities, tracking, toronto

Fri, 07 Aug 2020 by Raf

• "Humanités numériques" is a French journal devoted to digital technology usage in humanities and social sciences, and they are working on digital humanities with a geospatial component [FR]
  http://revue-humanites-numeriques.humanisti.ca/index.php/hn/announcement/view/4
• An Arduino home project tracks the Iridium constellation satellite signal strength
  https://nootropicdesign.com/projectlab/2019/12/27/iridium-signal-monitoring/
• The map of Toronto's wealth shows a city with clear economy borders and polarized neighborhoods, where your postal code is a clear indicator of your income
  http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2020/01/torontos-geography-of-wealth.html

Raf

Nº1379: stories, roadtrip, viral

Thu, 06 Aug 2020 by Raf

• Animating route data on interactive maps using Mapbox "scrollytelling" template and Turf.js library
  http://www.formerspatial.com/scrolly-drive
• A USA road trip project as an example of route planning crowdsourced art
  https://blog.mapbox.com/building-a-cross-country-road-trip-for-the-50-states-project-b0714befd418
• The #30DayMapChallenge idea came up, participation numbers, breakdown by tools, and links to a couple of galleries that collected all the maps produced
  https://www.gispo.fi/en/blog/the-power-of-community-30daymapchallenge/

Raf

Nº1378: topo, webmapping, mapzen

Wed, 05 Aug 2020 by Raf

• USGS topographic maps are now freely available and ready to print at home
  https://www.natgeomaps.com/trail-maps/pdf-quads
• Bright Rain is a company focused on web mapping and geospatial data visualization with a complete project gallery
  https://brightrain.com/
• The projects started by Mapzen moved to the Linux Foundation and are still in development and good health
  https://www.mapzen.com/blog/mapzen-project-updates-december-2019/tatsmapsnpix.com/2020/04/population-density-in-europe.html

Raf

Nº1377: hawaii, canada, occupations

Tue, 04 Aug 2020 by Raf

• 1906 Honolulu Japanese restaurants mapped for the recent immigrants
  https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/hawaiian-japanese-food-history
• Climate change and especially global warming, is a rising concern for almost all Canada regions
  https://www.umontreal.ca/climat/engl/index.html
• The USA economy has radically changed over the last two decades; previously, manufacturing was the most common occupation; now, it is the health and social assistance
  https://i.redd.it/5gnqiv3j98241.png

Raf

Nº1376: accidents, geology, 360

Mon, 03 Aug 2020 by Raf

• This atlas of transit accidents in Germany shows aggregated events by road segment between 2016 and 2019 [DE]
  https://unfallatlas.statistikportal.de/
• ICGC publishes an Android & iOS free offline audioguide application to visit the Pyrenees Open Geological Museum located at Tremp [CA]
  https://icgc.cat/L-ICGC/Actualitat/Noticia-414-L-ICGC-ha-publicat-l-audioguia-del-PGOM
• Maine Forest Service publishes a collection of aerial and 360 panoramic view maps from their fire towers
  https://digitalmaine.com/arc_firetower/

Raf

Nº1375: housing, noise, epidemic

Fri, 31 Jul 2020 by Raf

• Over 40% of US renters are now at risk of eviction due to the pandemic if government aid shuts down
  https://www.statista.com/chart/22398/renter-households-facing-a-rental-shortfall-and-potential-eviction/
• USA transit and aviation acoustic pollution map
  https://maps.bts.dot.gov/arcgis/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=a303ff5924c9474790464cc0e9d5c9fb
• Leprosy is still one of India's biggest plagues, where there are no plans to eradicate it until 2030
  https://public.tableau.com/profile/anjushreebv#!/vizhome/IronViz-LEPROSYIndiashiddenplague/LEPROSYIndiashiddenplague

Raf

Nº1374: commute, bicycles, dataviz

Thu, 30 Jul 2020 by Raf

• This map links cities by the similarity of their subway network's acoustic signals, made from a particular Youtube channel
  https://medium.com/@DeniseDSLu/transit-chimes-tk-67d4543a52b5
• How some European cities expand their bike lanes network during the pandemic: Barcelona 10km, but Paris is almost 70km
  https://app.developer.here.com/covid19-bike-lanes-uk-europe/
• "UX Patterns for Maps" gathers different techniques to visualize and present content on maps via @ThomasG77
  https://ux-patterns.webgeodatavore.com/

Raf

Nº1373: shades, point clouds, malta, rivers

Wed, 29 Jul 2020 by Raf

• Terrain shading is a QGIS plugin to project natural lighting on digital terrain elevation models
  http://www.zoran-cuckovic.from.hr/QGIS-terrain-shading/
• The future of 3D photorealistic models is a combination of several sources: LIDAR, aerial imagery, and phone pictures contributed by users
  https://medium.com/@pixel8earth/a-perpetually-updating-3d-reference-point-cloud-616eaa843251
• The Malta Virtual Underwater Museum has galleries of images, videos, and 3D models of half a dozen exciting locations, impossible to observe otherwise
  https://underwatermalta.org/
• With a few design updates to improve readability, this nice North America river system schematic map by @pinakographos is available for sale
  https://somethingaboutmaps.wordpress.com/2020/07/27/back-to-the-rivers/

Raf

Nº1372: pyrenees, buildings, imagery, lleidan

Tue, 28 Jul 2020 by Raf

• Road Trip CCI PirineusMed is an app to discover natural, cultural, gastronomic, and leisure resources in the cross-border region between Andorra, Girona, Lleida, and the Oriental Pyrenees [CA]
  https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ccipirineusmed&hl=en_US
• Levels of Detail (LOD) for buildings are explained clearly in this article
  https://medium.com/@3dbuildings/how-building-data-works-level-of-detail-e9bad0b61baa
• Felicette is an Open Source Software to gather satellite imagery from the command line in JPG format, just passing a pair of coordinates or a place name
  https://github.com/plant99/felicette
• Catalog and map viewer of information related to Lleida Economic Activity parks [CA]
  https://www.lleidasol.com/content/en/mapa.php

Raf

Nº1371: europe, brooklyn, geology, glaciers

Mon, 27 Jul 2020 by Raf

• On this directory of Eurogeographics members (national authorities in Cartography, Cadastre, and land registries), you can find products and services from each country
  https://eurogeographics.org/our-members/
• The Brooklyn Historical Society keeps more than 1500 maps, depicting the transformation over 200 years of this farming land into a city
  https://mapcollections.brooklynhistory.org/
• GeoERA is formed by 45 national and regional organizations from 32 countries and wants to offer a Paneuropean Geological service and a new way to understand this science
  https://geoera.eu/blog/a-brand-new-way-to-visualize-the-geology/
• An inventory of 1899 northern Norway glaciers has been produced with GIS techniques from old maps, revealing 47% of their ice coverage has been lost over the last century
  https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-glaciology/article/an-1899-glacier-inventory-for-nordland-northern-norway-produced-from-historical-maps/8CB64A9ECBE51B8645A0D8F395D17F49/core-reader

Raf

Nº1370: amg, agriculture, islands

Thu, 23 Jul 2020 by Raf

• A new device can map up to 12 meters underground using AM radio signals
  https://www.kci.com/resources-insights/innovator/am-gradiometer-uncovering-utilities/
• This study from Florence University links the pandemic with civic agriculture (as opposed to intensive model), reducing infection rates by up to 60% [IT]
  https://valori.it/agricoltura-civica-coronavirus/
• Global Islands Explorer catalogs 340.691 islands with their name, size, shoreline length, and associated tectonic plate
  https://rmgsc.cr.usgs.gov/gie/gie.shtml

Raf

Nº1369: water, stroller, geology

Wed, 22 Jul 2020 by Raf

• Fontanelle is a crowdsourced project to catalog drinking fountains
  https://www.fontanelle.org/Mappa-Fontanelle-Barcelona-Catalunya.aspx
• A worldwide map with of than 600 video walks, to get out virtually during your confinement
  https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1JIZyQ5c26D0VwCHHwGKvnQ2w6_uUzqDv&ll=20.744607053836326%2C10.338950708405612&z=2
• 3DHIP-Calculator allows the evaluation of profound geothermal potential and accessible energy using 3D geological models and a probability model [CA]
  https://www.icgc.cat/ca/Administracio-i-empresa/Serveis/Geotermia/Avaluacio-del-potencial-geotermic-profund-3DHIP-Calculator

Raf

Nº1368: summer, photogrammetry, foss

Tue, 21 Jul 2020 by Raf

• A straightforward application to inform real-time about the status and capacity of the Valencian Community 350 beaches [ES]
  https://bany.gva.es/
• A three-episode series by the British Library covers the history of maps and photography
  https://blogs.bl.uk/magnificentmaps/2020/06/maps-and-photography-a-brief-history-part-1.html
• The use of privative software in the humanitarian aid sector is perpetuating racial injustice in developing countries
  https://ivangayton.net/2020/07/03/use-of-proprietary-software-in-the-aid-sector-perpetuates-racial-injustice/

Raf

Nº1367: neighbors, water, gis

Mon, 20 Jul 2020 by Raf

• This interactive world map by @tjukanov shows the closest country for every land location; the source code and data are available for you to improve if you can
  https://tjukanovt.github.io/neighbors/#7/41.360/3.098
• GRACE mission provided data to study the future availability of freshwater, a rapidly changing resource
  https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/trend/archive/spring-2019/a-map-of-the-future-of-water
• The third edition of "Sistemas de Información Geográfica" by @volayaf is a hardcover, full color, 642 pages book available for 40 euros, and all the benefits go to Spanish QGIS association @qgises [ES]
  https://www.lulu.com/es/es/shop/victor-olaya-ferrero/sistemas-de-informaci%C3%B3n-geogr%C3%A1fica/hardcover/product-76em9n.html

Raf

Nº1366: maps, holocaust, himalaya

Fri, 17 Jul 2020 by Raf

• "Anecdotes from a Map Librarian" this entry in the Spanish National Library blog covers the work of the map library manager briefly [ES]
  http://blog.bne.es/blog/anecdotas-de-un-bibliotecario-cartotecario/
• The enormous work to map the French Jews' deportation to explain the Shoah dimension will be released soon as an interactive map [FR]
  https://sms.hypotheses.org/25271
• War games on scaled land reproductions are used to practice military operations and explain incidents between China and the neighboring countries they are slowly invading
  https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-07-10/high-stakes-in-china-india-himalayan-border-hotspot/12417248?nw=0

Raf

Nº1365: surveillance, atlas

Thu, 16 Jul 2020 by Raf

• "Atlas of Surveillance" is a project from the Electronic Frontier Foundation that explores more 5300 points in the USA where surveillance technology has been used on citizens
  https://atlasofsurveillance.org/
• Ruminating out loud about the essence of atlases, and what makes them unique
  https://www.directionsmag.com/article/9908

Raf

Nº1364: esriuc, mexico, wwii

Wed, 15 Jul 2020 by Raf

• This virtual tour by Esri cartographers presents the map gallery curated for their 2020 Users Conference
  https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/3e35dfbb0eea46528121c42925f79665
• Understanding the evolution of Mexico City with a Twitter thread via @xruiztru
  https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1281951587846557701.html
• The "Map Deck" was a deck produced by Bicycle, an American manufacturer, that hide inside the cards top-secret escape routes for WWII prisoners
  https://bicyclecards.com/article/a-map-inside-the-cards/

Raf

Nº1363: deportations, windows, magnets

Tue, 14 Jul 2020 by Raf

• This journalist research reveals how detention and deportation of USA immigrants helped to extend COVID19 globally
  https://www.themarshallproject.org/2020/07/10/how-ice-exported-the-coronavirus
• An open window to the world, literally, so you can travel while confined; you can even contribute your window!
  https://window-swap.com/
• Lithuania is promoting national tourism with a map with magnets for every municipality, but you can only collect them by visiting them [LT]
  https://welovelithuania.com/issukis-surink-lietuva-skatins-keliauti-po-lietuva/

Raf

Nº1362: biking, spain, 3d

Mon, 13 Jul 2020 by Raf

• This map shows Madrid biking routes, as an alternative to the subway to move around [ES]
  http://madridciclista.org/todo-madrid-al-alcance-de-tu-bici/
• A map with the names of the different Spanish coast zones
  https://www.instagram.com/p/CCYL_OyJJtp/
• glTF-Transform supports reading, editing, and writing 3D models in glTF 2.0 format
  https://gltf-transform.donmccurdy.com/

Raf

Nº1361: brazil, twitter, urbanplanning

Fri, 10 Jul 2020 by Raf

• This map displays the gender of most of Brazilian street names via @ibesora
  https://medium.com/@medidasp/genero-ruas-brasil-mapa-618c7f61e082
• Space-temporal analysis of events from Twitter data: the 2017 Madrid World Pride case [ES]
  http://estudiosgeograficos.revistas.csic.es/index.php/estudiosgeograficos/article/view/770/900
• "GIS Revolution. Territory management, urban planning, and landscape", a book coordinated by Rafael R Temes Cordovez and published by Síntesis [ES]
  https://www.sintesis.com/geograf%C3%ADa%20y%20urbanismo-233/sig%20revolution-ebook-2821.html

Raf

Nº1360: georadar, maps, meetup

Thu, 09 Jul 2020 by Raf

• This virtual model of a Roman village at Sant Valentí de les Cabanyes was developed using georadar surveying [CA]
  https://didcticadelpatrimonicultural.blogspot.com/2020/04/una-vila-romana-important-del-baix.html
• Qwant Maps is an Open Source application that respects your privacy and promotes OSM and vector tiles via @sfggeogis
  https://github.com/QwantResearch/QwantMaps
• On July 15th a new edition of #geomob online will be held at 8 pm CEST with five talks about innovative geospatial projects
  https://thegeomob.com/post/july-15th-2020-geomob-details

Raf