Nº876: necks, ebola, rent, water

Thu, 24 May 2018 by Raf

• Feeding our world also means securing trade routes for goods distribution, 14 key bottlenecks for the global transportation network
  https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-food-trade-chokepoints/
• Most of current Ebola maps are wrong and it's not easy to update Congo's cartography
  https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2018/05/most-maps-of-the-new-ebola-outbreak-are-wrong/560777/
• Even being all incredibly expensive, average rents for flats near metro stations in New York are getting cheaper
  https://www.renthop.com/studies/nyc/is-new-york-city-finally-getting-cheaper
• Analyzing freshwater availability change over 14 years on 34 world regions using GRACE satellite imagery
  https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=92183&src=eorss-iotd

Nº875: mountains, changes, glacial, stroll

Wed, 23 May 2018 by Raf

• Using open source and data to compute the topographic prominence (relative or autonomous height, or primary factor) for all world mountains
  http://www.andrewkirmse.com/prominence
• A development tool to detect urban changes using satellite data and facilitate cartography updates
  https://developmentseed.org/blog/2018/05/15/sensing-urban-change/
• Britice is the glacial map that shows landscape shapes left in England by the last glacial era 27 thousand years ago
  https://maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=70dd45e769534ff08cb41c9571ec5258
• American Metrics provides an interactive atlas to study how walkable American cities are
  https://www.supernormal.io/projects/american-city-metrics/

Nº874: neighborhoods, bikes, pollution, cassini

Tue, 22 May 2018 by Raf

• Geodemographic classification map using presence and usage of the Internet to display neighborhoods typologies of Great Britain
  https://maps.cdrc.ac.uk/#/geodemographics/iuc18/default/BTTTFFT/12/-1.9500/52.4900/
• The bike share map shows station locations, statistics, and service overviews of 300 cities worldwide
  http://bikes.oobrien.com/barcelona/#zoom=13&lon=2.1664&lat=41.4039
• Barcelona urban pollution is mostly because of vehicles, including motorbikes via @oscarfonts
  http://sciencecorner.diba.cat/blogs/2018/05/10/contaminacion-urbana-ciencia-detecta-problema-de-todos-sistemas
• Vectorizing Cassini's map to get historical geodata about forests, rivers, populated places and transport network
  http://geohistoricaldata.org/

Nº873: folklore, fodar, lod2.2, datum

Mon, 21 May 2018 by Raf

• Interactive display of a 10 thousand kilometers trip during three months by South of the USA in 1939 to recap folk songs fo the LoC
  https://adityajain15.github.io/lomax/
• 3D model of Denali mountain with "fodar", an aerial high-resolution photogrammetric technique using small format cameras
  http://fairbanksfodar.com/the-first-fodar-map-of-denali-alaska
• A LOD2.2 3D model of Cambridge city, Massachusetts, USA (TU Delft)
  https://cambridgegis.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer3d/index.html?id=17f0df4e301a44dbb42fea1a63a0682b
• VDatum calculator translates geospatial data between 36 vertical reference systems
  https://vdatum.noaa.gov/vdatumweb/

Nº872: viral, house, redesign, cuckoos

Fri, 18 May 2018 by Raf

• Making maps is easier than ever, and social networks help their spread. This paper tries to explain which are the elements to make a map viral.
  https://www.researchgate.net/publication/325181270_Elements_of_Viral_Cartography
• How USA population map would look like if everyone went back to their family origins hometown
  https://flowingdata.com/2018/05/16/go-back-where-you-came-from/
• The cartographic and artistic process to redesign an airline routes map, explain through one of the last iterations
  https://somethingaboutmaps.wordpress.com/2018/05/15/on-airline-mapping
• Cuckoos population in England has been reduced to a half over 20 years; GPS tracking helps to understand some of the root causes of this global issue
  https://www.bto.org/science/migration/tracking-studies/cuckoo-tracking

Nº871: geocoders, palestine, uses, eurovision

Thu, 17 May 2018 by Raf

• A comparison table of geocoding services, with several filters to find the best solution
  https://stevage.github.io/which-geocoder/
• Finding basic facts about current and past municipalities of Palestine through old maps on an interactive web application
  https://palopenmaps.org/#/
• ESA land use map viewer, with layers per year, data extraction, downloads, snow, burn zones, vegetation, etc.
  http://maps.elie.ucl.ac.be/CCI/viewer/index.php
• Sofa geopolitics: public and jury voting flux map for 2018 Eurovision contest
  https://i.redd.it/8f5ztf0npmx01.png

Nº870: escape, neighbors, urbanism, gossip

Wed, 16 May 2018 by Raf

• The Map Room Escape, a game interactive experience using GIS and Oculus Rift Virtual Reality to present geodata
  https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/blog/2018/01/virtual-escape-mapping/
• Dollar Street, a wealth comparison looking at adjusted families expenses for a better understanding of our planet through their neighbors
  https://www.gapminder.org/dollar-street/matrix
• The Experimental City tells the story of a revolutionary town in 1960: a completely new city from scratch with latest technologies of the time
  https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/how-10-billion-experimental-city-nearly-got-built-rural-minnesota-180968617/
• A complete information service about all city aspects based on a house address
  https://www.localize.city/

Nº869: snap, beer, bridges, grid

Tue, 15 May 2018 by Raf

• Short article about how to use SNAP (Sentinel Application Platform) to analyze ESA satellite imagery
  https://geoinnova.org/blog-territorio/gis-aplicacion-snap-imagenes-aereas/
• USA beer consumption map, state trends for last five years highlights this drink popularity
  http://www.visualcapitalist.com/united-states-of-beer/
• The conservation status of more than 16000 bridges in Norway is not looking good according to their roads department
  https://www.vg.no/spesial/2017/de-forsomte-broene/kart/index-eng.php#skade
• This service overlays a regular custom grid for easy location tasks on all kind of field work
  https://github.com/ccloquet/quickgrid

Nº868: boston, migrations, mobility, nukes

Mon, 14 May 2018 by Raf

• Boston 3D interactive map with all buildings and light control to see how shadows cast during the day
  http://boston.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer3d/index.html?id=cf3415dea19d480caa71eb5dbdce185f
• Story map of the full year journey of a young osprey from Detroit to Maracaibo
  https://nation.maps.arcgis.com/apps/Cascade/index.html?appid=a716e267eec14825ae9d5b4b4c4f63b7
• Using a survey from 2018 to build an interactive flow map of daily commuting trips at Tolouse metropolitan area
  http://public.cyril.romain.free.fr/M3T/toulouse_population-flux-emd_travail.html
• A combination of remote sensing and sysmology techniques prove the displacements of the North Korean mountain where underground nuclear tests are being carried out
  http://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2018/05/09/science.aar7230.full

Nº867: measles, projections, vices, sanfran

Fri, 11 May 2018 by Raf

• What geography explains about vaccines resistance at France #antivaccines
  http://cartonumerique.blogspot.com.es/2018/05/ce-que-la-geographie-de-la-rougeole.html
• 60 sheets 1587 Urbano Monte map is available as a single document and in 20 different cartographic projections
  https://visionscarto.net/urbano-monte
• How apparently bad environmentals like alcohol, tobacco, and fast-food cluster around deprived areas in Glasgow
  https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1353829217310778
• Sky-scrappers, earthquakes, and land liquefaction are a dangerous gamble for San Francisco
  https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/04/17/us/san-francisco-earthquake-seismic-gamble.html

Nº866: manhattan, clouds, water, belts

Thu, 10 May 2018 by Raf

• Interactive explorer of the dynamic population model of Manhattan, by block, hour and day of an end of spring typical week
  https://manpopex.us/
• The frequency of clouds for 2017 based on MODIS satellite measurement; redder means more clouds and punctual info when clicking
  https://cloudfrequency.appspot.com/
• "Water: an Atlas", the last project published by Guerrilla Cartography under Creative Commons license around water resources, as they did with the Food Atlas
  http://www.guerrillacartography.org/atlases/
• The USA zoned by twelve "belts" defined by industry, weather, religion, and even health
  http://businessinsider.tumblr.com/post/173671059738/the-us-is-split-into-more-than-a-dozen-belts

Nº865: minorities, distances, beers, mississippi

Wed, 09 May 2018 by Raf

• USA diversity is growing, but still population segregation by neighborhoods exists by a range of factors
  https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/national/segregation-us-cities/
• Lived spaces map tool; mapping two types of distances: geographical and travel time journeys
  https://github.com/aourednik/georecits
• Old style map of Bellingham breweries and near bike shops using city Open Data
  https://petrichor.studio/2018/04/04/happy-national-beer-day-bellingham-bike-shops-breweries-map/
• A three meters ribbon mapping the full Mississippi river, rolled inside a spool, used by steamboat river tourists around 1860
  https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/mississippi-river-ribbon-map

Nº864: electricity, parking, #mapfail, ice

Tue, 08 May 2018 by Raf

• European map of the electrical power distribution over 220kV, with all power plants producing over 100MW
  https://www.entsoe.eu/data/map/
• Studying parking space availability and weather in Paris: rainy days have fewer cars around
  https://gitlab.com/agenis/parcmetres/blob/master/README.md
• Avoiding a #mapfail: a table to get the appropriate visual variable for different indicators depending on its spatial distribution
  https://neocarto.hypotheses.org/3940
• Images and charts on how by the end of 2018 April, the extent of the Bering sea ice was way smaller than on average for that season
  https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=92084

Nº863: arctic, cresques, demography, expansion

Mon, 07 May 2018 by Raf

• Russian Arctic 10 years development plan explained with an article and a couple maps
  https://legrandcontinent.eu/2018/01/25/larctique-en-deux-cartes/ https://i.redd.it/tlhpfagkf8u01.jpg
• Gallica publishes a high-resolution scan of the Catalan Atlas by Abraham Cresques in 1375 and offered to Charles V
  http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b52509636n/f1.planchecontact
• Populations Past: an atlas of Victorian and Edwardian demographics and socioeconomic variables between 1851 and 1911
  http://populationspast.org
• Atlas of Urban Expansion: a multiple phase research effort to control qualitative and quantitative aspects of global urban development
  http://www.atlasofurbanexpansion.org/

Nº862: flight, independence, cartographers, changes

Fri, 04 May 2018 by Raf

• A free web flight simulator made with Cesium and 10m satellite imagery, with an improved imagery paid version
  https://www.geo-fs.com/
• The unrecognized states of Africa: all independence declarations since 1920 without international recognition
  https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/969/41685177642_6ba35fd2d6_k.jpg
• Are cartographers still relevant? What they do, their salaries and which skills are required nowadays
  https://gisgeography.com/cartographer-job-salary/
• NASA satellite imagery between 1984 and 2016 for different thematic animations on Earth transformation, environmental change, and human impact
  https://earthtime.org

Nº861: heights, areas, apartments, metropolitan

Thu, 03 May 2018 by Raf

• Copernicus Atlas now includes UE28 and AELC countries capitals urban building heights from IRS-P5 stereoscopic imagery
  https://land.copernicus.eu/news/digital-height-model-dhm-now-available-within-urban-atlas
• A methodology to obtain urban areas in Spain based on the home-work mobility variable
  https://journals.openedition.org/cybergeo/29101
• Complete study on Barcelona tourists apartments from @DataHippo project data, made by @PaulinoVallejo
  https://paulinovallejo.com/2018/04/apartamentos-turisticos-en-barcelona/
• The USA changing metropolitan areas: how they are growing or shrinking based on 2010 census data
  https://i.imgur.com/JFhP2MZ.jpg

Nº860: viewshed, drawing, laser disc, soap

Wed, 02 May 2018 by Raf

• A geodetically correct method to produce visual sheds using Turf.js and Mapbox.gl
  http://www.formerspatial.com/viewshed
• The portfolio of several maps by Jean-Louis Rheault, cartographic design specialist, from Montreal and by assignment
  http://jlrmaps.com/portfolio.html
• BBC made an interactive map in laser disc in 1985, 20 years before Google Maps, it was not as successful as expected
  https://www.bbc.com/ideas/videos/the-interactive-map-that-was-way-ahead-of-its-time/p063z2t2
• Map of soap makers in France that sell to the public
  http://www.couleur-savon.com/carte/france

Nº859: details, walking, meals, buildings

Tue, 01 May 2018 by Raf

• The relevance of details and units on generating and generalizing maps
  https://blog.datawrapper.de/weekly-chart-europegrowth/
• Walking territories: where strolls are less than 3km long. For example Île-de-France region where 39% of daily trips are made by walking
  https://www.iau-idf.fr/savoir-faire/nos-travaux/edition/les-territoires-de-la-marche-en-ile-de-france.html
• Worldwide taste atlas, showing where local products are produced and eaten
  https://tasteatlas.com/italy
• Using open NYC data to produce an artistic visualization of Manhattan buildings
  https://tbaldw.in/nyc-buildings/

Nº858: roads, contours, servers, choropleth

Mon, 30 Apr 2018 by Raf

• RoadTracer, a computer vision system to draw roads from aerial images that are 45% more precise and cheaper than current systems
  http://news.mit.edu/2018/new-way-to-automatically-build-road-maps-with-aerial-images-0417
• A tool to draw contour lines from everywhere, with basic styling and allowing to download them with usual formats for web and GIS
  https://www.axismaps.com/blog/2018/04/contours-in-browser/
• GeoPoppy is a portable Raspberry Pi GIS that connected to a table allows data capture and advanced features
  http://blog.cartong.org/2017/12/21/geopoppy/
• A guide with some good advice on how to make simple but understandable choropleth maps
  https://blog.datawrapper.de/choroplethmaps/

Nº857: geocoder, data, ndvi, invisible

Fri, 27 Apr 2018 by Raf

• A worldwide massive and fast geocoder, with candidates control and Excel or Drive export with decimal delimiter settings
  https://geocode.localfocus.nl/
• Using the Falles 2018 mobile app to gather location data in a gamified environment, results, and metrics
  https://playgoxp.com/blog/game-data-un-ejemplo-real/
• Interactive service to draw and describe farm areas to get free NDVI images of the last days to track crop performance evolution
  https://maps.datafarming.com.au
• The last invisible rout that was available at Anvers at June 2017, where you could walk avoiding all private and public surveillance cameras
  http://www.maarteninghels.be/post/165107752239/the-invisible-route

Nº856: landslides, income, cities, housing

Thu, 26 Apr 2018 by Raf

• Worldwide landslide threats in near real-time using satellite data and a new data model developed by NASA via @ibesora
  http://go.nasa.gov/2px0zoI
• 15 years ago Americans arrived at their best mean income, have been poorer since then
  https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-stat/graphics/business/income/index.html
• An urban world: countries and territories with 2050 cities with more than 100.000 inhabitants, with their evolution between 1950 and 2010 and forecast until 2050
  https://www.unicef.org/sowc2012/urbanmap/?lan=en
• Real Estate market in Norway, a portal with historical housing prices and other metrics
  https://siste.eiendomspriser.no/

Nº855: temperatures, geology, pigeons, cartograms

Wed, 25 Apr 2018 by Raf

• Temperature anomalies: a 3D Earth globe made using deck.gl to display temperature changes of the first years of the last decades via @sfggeogis
  http://philogb.github.io/page/temperature-anomalies/
• Earth geological map, integrating several official cartographies on top of relief or imagery data via @ibesora
  https://macrostrat.org/map/#13/41.6803/2.6481
• Early XX century aerial pictures taken by pigeons with tiny cameras
  https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/the-turn-of-the-century-pigeons-that-photographed-earth-from-above
• A big cartograms collection made from several variables and organized by category
  https://worldmapper.org/

Nº854: cartoheritage, women, pints, trajectories

Tue, 24 Apr 2018 by Raf

• Complete Twitter thread following 13th ICA #DACH conference in Madrid at April 20th, 2018 made by @e2molin #cartoheritage
  https://twitter.com/e2molin/status/986533285366042625
• How the female streets names project was made by @GeochicasOSM on an article and how-to made by @jsenag
  https://medium.com/@jessisena/lascallesdelasmujeres-thestreetsofwomen-meets-mapbox-mapmadness18-9a606c0fa3b6
• Pints in the sun: a locator for pubs in England to find where to have sunny beers at a given time of the day
  http://pintsinthesun.co.uk/
• A good explanation of the differences between orthodromic and loxodromic trajectories when moving around the globe
  https://www.geografiainfinita.com/2018/04/loxodromia-y-ortodromia/

Nº853: salinity, deformation, wine, dialects

Mon, 23 Apr 2018 by Raf

• Six years of Mediterranean and North Atlantic seas salinity available for download
  http://bec.icm.csic.es/six-years-of-the-new-smos-sss-maps-in-the-mediterranean-sea-now-available/
• Using Sentinel imagery between 2015 and 2017 to display the relative land deformation in millimeters per year
  https://mangomap.com/geomatic-ventures-limited/maps/72883/united-kingdom-relative-deformation-map?preview=true#
• French AOC region wine parcels map showcases information from 289 wine areas
  https://www.geoportail.gouv.fr/actualites/parcellaire-aoc-viticoles-sur-le-geoportail
• Map of the languages and dialects from Italy
  http://i.imgur.com/a8gHFYe.png

Nº852: changes, money, junctions, land

Fri, 20 Apr 2018 by Raf

• Using NDVI index to understand how vegetation has changed in Barcelona using a massive archive of satellite imagery
  http://changematters.esri.com/compare
• Budget at the end of the year: a map that explains the price of the American Dream showing where working class cannot afford anymore to live
  https://howmuch.net/articles/where-the-working-class-can-afford-to-live
• Posters for sale displaying Seatle and other North American cities junctions
  https://www.etsy.com/listing/540156360/intersections-of-seattle?ref=listing-shop-header-2
• Map of Native Lands, always evolving thanks to community contributions, aims to start a discussion about a non-colonial view of land distribution
  https://native-land.ca/