Nº1020: best, forests, connections, best

Fri, 18 Jan 2019 by Raf

The best maps from Canadian Geographic 2018 issues
https://www.canadiangeographic.ca/article/our-best-maps-2018
World forests displayed as a relief map made using Blender
https://i.redd.it/s9sf9mq28u521.jpg
The country boundaries are losing relevance in favor of big cities connectivity
https://blog.spatialnetworks.com/how-connectedness-is-revamping-the-world-map-d59a257b8aa0
Mapbox team top 18 inspiring maps
https://blog.mapbox.com/18-maps-that-inspired-us-this-year-c569de845432

Raf

Nº1019: bubble, colonies, murders, tourism

Mon, 14 Jan 2019 by Raf

Using ggplot to display the distribution of different livestock herds across Europe as bubble maps
http://www.maartenlambrechts.com/2018/07/31/beasts-of-europe.html
Ph.D. thesis about geographical knowledge between France and New France in the 17th and 18th centuries
https://papyrus.bib.umontreal.ca/xmlui/handle/1866/21137
Interactive Medieval London murder map to revive the violence of those days, by weapon, crime scene, victim gender, ward and year
https://www.vrc.crim.cam.ac.uk/vrcresearch/london-medieval-murder-map
"Morphologies of Tourism", showing with maps how Barcelona is being "touristified"
http://turismebcn.300000kms.net/

Raf

Nº1018: machine learning, maps, fair, migrants

Fri, 11 Jan 2019 by Raf

A nice series of interactive tutorials about Machine Learning via @xurxosanz
http://www.r2d3.us/
A personal map website with some interesting and not so common layers
http://maps.imagico.de/#map=3/63.800/5.500&lang=en&l=sat2&ui=0
Develop standards that will connect researchers, publishers, and data repositories in the Earth, space, and environmental sciences to enable FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable) data on a large scale
http://www.copdess.org/enabling-fair-data-project/
The ten years journey of two Afghan migrant teenagers, whose visa was refused to enter Europe
https://asile.ch/2018/12/23/cartographie-dix-ans-dans-la-vie-de-deux-enfants-sur-les-routes-de-lexil/

Raf

Nº1017: flags, christmas, bikes, bdtopo

Thu, 10 Jan 2019 by Raf

A map about British Columbia (Canada) flags, explained using emojis
https://burritojustice.github.io/bc-flags/
The typical image of White Christmas is actually very rare, as this map shows with snow probability around the world
https://www.vouchercloud.com/resources/white-christmas
A simple device for bicycles and motorbikes to navigate a route safely
https://beeline.co/
Creating a France that emulates the "BDTOPO-IGN" style using OpenStreetMap data
https://blog.data-wax.com/2018/11/21/creer-une-pseudo-bdtopo-ign-a-partir-des-donnees-openstreetmap-osm/

Raf

Nº1016: trees, stations, illustrators, isochrones

Wed, 09 Jan 2019 by Raf

Public trees from the city of Valdivia (Chile), with their detailed locations, species and classified by being native or exotic
http://rpubs.com/openmapchile/ArboladoUrbano
An open database of train stations locations from TrainLine EU
https://github.com/trainline-eu/stations
A small collection of map illustrators, artists between cartography and fine arts, hand picked by @alpoma
https://alpoma.net/carto/?p=7220
Extensive paper on how to design and analyze isochrone maps
http://cartonumerique.blogspot.com/2018/12/cartes-isochrones.html

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Nº1015: forest, wolves, 3d, spain

Tue, 08 Jan 2019 by Raf

Two singular projects of forest management for innovative municipalities that will make them safer and more environmentally aware
http://www.entrearbres.cat/new/?id=18
How territorial wolves are, a visualization of seven wolves wanderings via @sfggeogis
https://www.facebook.com/VoyageursWolfProject/posts/347276326097723?__tn__=-R
Meshroom is a free, open-source 3D Reconstruction Software based on the AliceVision Photogrammetric Computer Vision framework
https://github.com/alicevision/meshroom
"Spain in maps, a geographical synthesis" is a free downloadable book with more than 800 maps to understand Spanish history and geography
http://www.ign.es/web/publicaciones-boletines-y-libros-digitales#DA-Espana-en-mapas

Raf

Nº1014: bim, senegal, sounds, web mapping

Fri, 04 Jan 2019 by Raf

Considerations about BIM and GIS after the last Barcelona TIG/SIG forum by two analysts from Girona University SIGTE department
https://www.unigis.es/que-es-el-bim-forum-tig-sig/
Tourist map of Senegal with a few points of interest to understand the country
https://map.data-wax.com/websig/lizmap/www/index.php/view/map/?repository=rep007&project=Senegal
How human sounds are harming the natural environment exposed as a website to explore more than 500 natural sounds by 250 artists and 55 countries
http://citiesandmemory.com/sounding-nature/
Slides on how to visualize geospatial data on the web, concepts, tools, and resources (PDF)
https://geoviz.sciencesconf.org/data/pages/Visualisation_de_donnees_spatiales_sur_le_Web.pdf

Raf

Nº1013: ski, quakes, languages, osm

Thu, 03 Jan 2019 by Raf

6205 Sentinel-2 and 593 Landsat images processed to compute the duration of the snow coverage for the Pyrenees and Alps during the 2016-2017 and 2017-2018 seasons
http://www.cesbio.ups-tlse.fr/multitemp/?p=14620
Two interactive maps along with documentation for the Global Earthquake Model (GEM) global hazard and risk models
https://www.globalquakemodel.org/gem
World map using labels grouped by the language origin
https://rozinavavetsi.crevado.com/gallery/4955-for-fun/35868
magOSM offers a WMS/WFS service to access OpenStreetMap data through OGC standards
https://magosm.magellium.com

Raf

Nº1012: mountains, land use, weather, demography

Wed, 02 Jan 2019 by Raf

PeakkFinder AR is an app that shows all your surrounding mountains as a 360 panoramic view, offline and worldwide available
https://www.peakfinder.org/mobile/
A paper about global assessment and mapping of European landscapes between 1992 and 2015 using land-use maps produced by ESA
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0303243418305841
Showing any location weather from OpenWeather API using Mapbox cartography and React
https://github.com/AdriSolid/Redux-Weather-App
Technology and citizen innovation for building historical social networks to understand the demographic past
http://dag.cvc.uab.es/xarxes/

Raf

Nº1011: trees, christmas, forests, solar

Mon, 31 Dec 2018 by Raf

Descartes Labs built a machine learning model to identify tree canopy using a combination of lidar, aerial imagery, and satellite imagery
https://medium.com/@tim.wallace_98924/descartes-labs-urban-trees-tree-canopy-mapping-3b6c85c5c9cc
This is a dot density map showing where classic Christmas dinner items are grown in England, using an open dataset from
https://locationinsights.co.uk/b/c3
The Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation, or GEDI aboard the ISS, using advanced laser technology will reveal the three-dimensional structure of forest ecosystems around the globe
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2018/gedi-to-measure-earths-forests
"We built a nearly complete solar installation database for the contiguous US utilizing a novel deep learning model applied to satellite imagery"
https://www.cell.com/joule/fulltext/S2542-4351(18)30570-1

Raf

Nº1010: visualization, new york, sql, cartograms

Fri, 28 Dec 2018 by Raf

A new platform to easy manage and visualize your Excel and text files creating charts and vector tiles maps
https://flourish.studio/
A modern NYC map to hang on your wall, the first of a future city maps series
https://futuremaps.com/city-wall-maps/new-york/new-york-street-map-with-cycle-routes-1
An interactive website to learn and improve your SQL competence to work with databases, unavoidable requirement to work on STEM environments
http://sqlzoo.net
"Cartogramas, ¿cómo crearlos?" is a post by @lluisvicens with some ideas on how to create cartograms with #QGIS3 or #GeoDa
https://www.unigis.es/crear-cartogramas-qgis/

Raf

Nº1009: costs, geotagging, rent, frozen

Thu, 27 Dec 2018 by Raf

A simulator of the environmental cost of transporting freight between two points
https://www.logicout.fr/couts/evaluation/resultats/
Mass tourism is harming spectacular spots because of picture geotagging
http://phototrend.fr/2018/12/video-geolocalisation-photo-environnement/
Housing rental in Spain is rocketing towards not being affordable for normal wage workers, even less for young people
https://magnet.xataka.com/preguntas-no-tan-frecuentes/dos-mapas-para-entender-indignacion-espanoles-precio-alquiler
Lowest temperature records at European countries, with even more focus in the Balkan countries
https://viborc.com/lowest-temperatures-records-for-every-european-country/

Raf

Nº1008: gps, mashup, round, peri-urban

Wed, 26 Dec 2018 by Raf

Location-based services are critical and vulnerable; the GPS wars are already here via @ibesora
https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/12/17/the-gps-wars-are-here
Fictional maps based on the creative combination of existing geometries and features of similar countries
https://sashat.me/2018/12/18/mashup-maps-reflections/
"Figuregrounder" is a simple tool to generate rounded posters of anywhere in the World using OSM data
http://hanshack.com/figuregrounder/
Map of the big peri-urban areas in France, those rings enclosing big urban poles, or the revenge of the space by the Marxist geographer David Harvey
https://www.causecommune-larevue.fr/david_harvey_la_revanche_de_l_espace

Raf

Nº1007: censorship, place names, anatomy, rome

Tue, 25 Dec 2018 by Raf

Yandex censorship system allowed to identify secret infrastructures from Israel and Turkey military
https://qz.com/1491883/military-bases-in-israel-and-turkey-exposed-by-yandex-the-russian-mapping-service/
11 millions of place names analyzed using PostGIS and QGIS
https://medium.com/@tjukanov/places-and-their-names-observations-from-11-million-place-names-8ea34cf61da4
Explaining human anatomy as a subway map, also available at Etsy
https://i.redd.it/pvic1vxwmly11.png
How the "Flights to Rome" 3D map was crafted in this detailed guide by one of the designers
https://lab.moovel.com/blog/making-of-flights-to-rome

Raf

Nº1006: planets, meteo, carpet, 3d print

Mon, 24 Dec 2018 by Raf

All The Land In Our Solar System
https://brilliantmaps.com/solar-system-surface/
The SatPy package is an Open Source Python library for reading and manipulating meteorological remote sensing data and writing it to various image and data file formats
https://github.com/pytroll/satpy
You can bring your neighborhood to your kids with this store that allows you to design your own carpet based on OSM data and Laura Bednarski designed elements
https://kinderkiez.net/en/
New tools for Archaeology: 3D printing to reconstruct the Colombian Pumapunku temple at Tiwanaku (AD 500-950)
https://heritagesciencejournal.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s40494-018-0231-0

Raf

Nº1005: migrations, privacy, permafrost, passing

Fri, 21 Dec 2018 by Raf

Easing access to migratory flows since 2016 in Europe with an interactive map
http://migration.iom.int/europe?type=arrivals
Report about location privacy issues with mobile phone applications
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/12/10/business/location-data-privacy-apps.html
Arctic infrastructures are at mid-term risk with the degradation of the permafrost thanks to climate change
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-07557-4
Maps visualizing the distribution of how Americans name passing through the mountains: gap, pass, notch and saddle
https://adventuresinmapping.com/2018/11/27/what-would-you-name-a-way-through-mountains/

Raf

Nº1004: origami, geopython, collection, qgis

Thu, 20 Dec 2018 by Raf

モンド (mondo) is an Open Source tool to generate Origami figures from PostGIS geodata
https://github.com/allyoucanmap/mondo
Basel will host between 24 and 26 of June a conference about all things geo and python
http://2019.geopython.net/
Article about the criteria used to create a digital maps collection
http://cartographicperspectives.org/index.php/journal/article/view/cp90-cc/1650
New 3D features added to QGIS 3.4 including isometric model printing
https://www.lutraconsulting.co.uk/blog/2018/10/17/qgis3d-new-features-qgis3-4/

Raf

Nº1003: favs, plan b, prey, blockhead

Wed, 19 Dec 2018 by Raf

@kennethfield 2018 favorite maps
http://cartonerd.blogspot.com/2018/12/favourite-maps-from-2018.html
Plan B for GIS specialists that will be willing to pivot to better industries
https://bancroft.io/blog/gis-plan-b/
Project to track birds of prey in Montana via @sfggeogis
https://raptortracker.mpgranch.com/#/golden-eagles
Climate change is removing blockheads from Catalonia, according to actual models by the end of XXI century cork production will have to move to the Pyrenees
https://cambioinvisible.vozpopuli.com/cambio-climatico-bosque/

Raf

Nº1002: gifts, advent, calendar, winners

Tue, 18 Dec 2018 by Raf

2018 Christmas gift list compiled as every year by @alpoma
https://alpoma.net/carto/?p=7254
@northroadgeo folks are collecting 24 not so well-known QGIS tips on a twitter thread as an advent calendar using the #24daysofQGIS hashtag
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1068802970827993088.html?refreshed=yes
2018 GeoHipster calendar is on sale, less than 10€, with the best 13 maps selected from the best submissions from all over the world
http://www.lulu.com/shop/geohipster-llc/2019-geohipster-calendar/calendar/product-23896353.html#productDetails
2018 "Information is Beautiful" award winners include a maps special section
https://www.informationisbeautifulawards.com/news/323-information-is-beautiful-awards-2018-the-winners

Raf

Nº1001: geolinks, floods, birds, mobility

Mon, 17 Dec 2018 by Raf

@geolinks tweets (new channel for @fakeraf random geospatial links) are also on Telegram
https://t.me/geolinks
The University of Gronigen has released an interactive map which shows which areas of Friesland are vulnerable to storm water flooding
http://geodienst.xyz/wolkfryslan/
Citizen science helps to understand four key aspects of 107 North American bird species
https://ebird.org/news/a-new-era-of-ebird-science-status-and-trends
The Barcelona Mobility Index is an analysis of several transit and public transport related factors, from HERE and also available for other cities
https://urbanmobilityindex.here.com/city/barcelona/

Raf

Nº1000: bye

Thu, 06 Dec 2018 by Raf

Fins aquí. Moltes gràcies a tot els qui hi heu contribuït, els qui m'heu ajudat i els qui ho heu agraït. I'm done. Thank you very much to all contributors, to all those who helped me, and all those who appreciated this work.
https://geoinquiets.github.io/rafagas/

Note from Jorge: a group of geoinquiets is working on keeping these mails, maybe not at a daily pace but don’t unsubscribe from the mailing list or RSS, there’s more to come and we will ask for your help :)

Raf

Nº999: squatters

Wed, 05 Dec 2018 by Raf

The squatter movement in Berlin on a map with locations and metadata about squatted houses
http://berlin-besetzt.de/#!

Raf

Nº998: transmission, impact

Tue, 04 Dec 2018 by Raf

Satellite imagery from any constellation can be published in 55 seconds using a new Amazon data service
https://aws.amazon.com/ground-station/
The human impact on the planet represented as cumulative exposition to the climate change through different years and scenarios
https://maps.esri.com/MoraLab/CumulativeChange/index.html

Raf

Nº997: visibility, printing, development

Mon, 03 Dec 2018 by Raf

Documentation about ST_ISOVist, a function for H2 database that computes visibility obstructions
http://www.h2gis.org/docs/dev/ST_ISOVist/
A semi-manual process using D3JS, SVG, and some HTML/CSS/JS knowledge to print web maps
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/16X_WxWAcOAlezGT_55jtVlTJqkLs0ddf41fFsoUk_bs/edit#slide=id.p
A report estimates that 84% of rapid development world cities are at high risk because of climate change
http://cartonumerique.blogspot.com/2018/11/les-villes-face-au-changement-climatique.html

Raf

Nº996: poverty, wine, opioids, speed

Fri, 30 Nov 2018 by Raf

A detailed USA map showing the effect of neighborhoods to children, linking them with poverty and how hard it is to escape from misery
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/01/upshot/maps-neighborhoods-shape-child-poverty.html
How wine is rising at the USA: map of the wineries at the state level and employees numbers
https://www.caliper.com/featured-maps/maptitude-winery-map.html
Overdose is the main cause of death in the USA for older than 50, as you can see on this map showing America's opiates epidemic
http://www.visualcapitalist.com/americas-opioid-epidemic/
How speed limit at the heart of London city has been reduced gradually from 30mph to 20mph on many areas as you can see on this annually updated map
http://mappinglondon.co.uk/2017/speed-limit-map/

Raf