Nº1135: fire, barcelona, protected, geodesy

Tue, 16 Jul 2019 by Raf

• Using Google Earth Engine and Sentinel data to analyze the Cadalso de los Vidrios forest fire at Madrid, July 2019
  https://geovisualization.net/2019/07/11/google-earth-engine-y-los-incendios-de-verano-el-caso-de-cadalso-de-los-vidrios-julio-2019/
• Barcelona promotes a registry of emblematic grocery stores to keep the traditional identity of the city via @EOVeoBares
  https://ajuntament.barcelona.cat/premsa/2019/07/12/barcelona-promou-la-proteccio-de-les-bodegues-emblematiques/
• The Digital Observatory of Protected Areas Explorer displays different indicators for the status of those special areas
  https://dopa-explorer.jrc.ec.europa.eu/
• An Open Source JavaScript library to perform geodesy computations via @bolosig
  https://github.com/chrisveness/geodesy

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Nº1134: autonomous vehicles, athens, moons, grid

Mon, 15 Jul 2019 by Raf

• A report created by Zenzic and Ordnance Survey about the requirements for autonomous vehicles geodata
  https://zenzic.io/insights/geodata-report/
• Athens population doubled between 1959 and 1981, establishing vertical segregation in their apartment buildings
  https://www.athenssocialatlas.gr/en/article/vertical-segregation/
• The Atlas of Moons is a storytelling report about the different satellites of our solar system planets
  https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2019/07/the-atlas-of-moons/
• A grid between 32 and 200 kilometers of 2015 French demographic data published by Insee, the France institute for statistics and economic data
  https://insee.fr/fr/statistiques/4176281

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Nº1133: quakes, geopython, archaeology, machine learning

Fri, 12 Jul 2019 by Raf

• Quick InSAR image from NASA showing the surface displacement by the last 6.4 and 7.1 seismic movements in California
  https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=7448
• Personal recap of 2019 Geopython conference by Marc Compte via @UNIGISGirona
  https://www.unigis.es/geopython-2019/
• "Archaeology from Space: how the future shapes our past", a book by the archaeologist Sarah Parcak, recommended by @realivansanchez via @irreductible
  https://www.livescience.com/65868-archaeology-from-space-excerpt.html
• DBSCAN is a ML algorithm to detect groups and identify urban activity centers
  https://bitsandbricks.github.io/post/dbscan-machine-learning-para-detectar-centros-de-actividad-urbana/

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Nº1132: biodiversity, postgis, sustainability

Thu, 11 Jul 2019 by Raf

• Biodiversity threats, a map of France different nature challenges
  http://indicateurs-biodiversite.naturefrance.fr/cartographie-des-pressions
• Serving dynamic vector tiles with PostGIS, a simple example using included MVT functions by @pwramsey
  https://info.crunchydata.com/blog/dynamic-vector-tiles-from-postgis
• Visualizing commercial flows for a sustainable economy: origins, risks, and opportunities
  https://trase.earth/

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Nº1131: routing, cogs, burger, land

Wed, 10 Jul 2019 by Raf

• Five routing and isochrone computing tools for QGIS
  https://anitagraser.com/2019/07/07/five-qgis-network-analysis-toolboxes-for-routing-and-isochrones/
• A rasterio plugin to visualize Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF in browser
  https://github.com/developmentseed/rio-viz
• The 2019 average price of a hamburger per USA state
  https://www.simplethriftyliving.com/this-is-how-much-a-hamburger-costs-in-your-state/
• A quarter of planet territories are in indigenous hands, so they are essential for their conservation
  https://theconversation.com/indigenous-peoples-are-crucial-for-conservation-a-quarter-of-all-land-is-in-their-hands-99742

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Nº1130: ascii, raster, drones, tides

Tue, 09 Jul 2019 by Raf

• Run "telnet mapscii.me" and you will have access to 8 bit ASCII maps on your console
  https://github.com/rastapasta/mapscii
• ThRasE is a Thematic Raster Editor plugin of Qgis, it uses a recode pixel table to modify several classes at the same time using pixels, lines or polygons tools
  https://github.com/SMByC/ThRasE
• The future of drones in Spain, with views to 2030 and 2050, and on which sectors their usage will be relevant.
  https://yopilotodrones.com/futuro-drones-espana/
• Using 30 years of Landsat data to map the land between tides in Australia on a 3D model
  https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/145237/mapping-the-land-between-the-tides

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Nº1129: gps, pgis, autonomous cars, contours

Mon, 08 Jul 2019 by Raf

• A June 2019 report (PDF) about the economic benefits from the GPS values a possible outage in 1000M per day for the private sector
  https://www.rti.org/news/new-report-reveals-economic-benefits-private-sector-use-gps
• Results of research to understand the usability of Participatory GIS using a questionnaire and a new index, all available at Github
  https://aballatore.space/2019/07/03/assessing-the-usability-of-participatory-gis/
• A complete dataset with high-detailed maps to train autonomous vehicles to move around in complex environments
  https://github.com/argoai/argoverse-api
• Open Source tool coded in Python for ArcGIS to generate index, regular, and supplementary contour lines
  https://github.com/tsamsonov/supplementary-contours

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Nº1128: solar, ww2, germany, pirates

Fri, 05 Jul 2019 by Raf

• Deep learning of satellite imagery to determine the location and size of USA photovoltaic installations
  http://web.stanford.edu/group/deepsolar/map.html
• Hughenden' Second World War cartographic operations now have an open exhibition
  https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/hughenden/features/hughendens-second-world-war-story
• Black and White Germany is a visual analysis from OSM data of cities shape and planning
  https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/datenlese/deutschlands-stadtgeschichte-in-karten-und-schwarzplaenen-a-1273220.html
• "When pirates studied Euclid" is a report on how Maths allowed long-distance sailing around the world via @xurxosanz and @lekum
  https://aeon.co/essays/how-european-sailors-learned-celestial-navigation

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Nº1127: housing, validation

Thu, 04 Jul 2019 by Raf

• 2018 Wales and England housing prices and whole market value map, made only with Open Data
  https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/housing/bulletins/housepricestatisticsforsmallareas/yearendingdecember2018
• A 3D geometries validator by the ISO19107 standard, useful for CityGML and other standards
  http://geovalidation.bk.tudelft.nl/val3dity/

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Nº1126: rail, lighthouses, surveying, nottingham

Wed, 03 Jul 2019 by Raf

• The Rail Facilities Portal is a website devoted to all kinds of rail freight facilities across Europe
  https://railfacilitiesportal.eu/
• A world map of lighthouses using OSM data showing their light signature
  https://geodienst.github.io/lighthousemap/
• Input is a field surveying Android Open Source application integrated with QGIS
  https://www.lutraconsulting.co.uk/blog/2019/03/26/input-release/
• A 3D visualization of Nottingham Energy Performance certificates
  https://maptopixel.gitlab.io/3d/epc/

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Nº1125: deep learning, july 4th, heat, drones

Tue, 02 Jul 2019 by Raf

• Ludwig, a Code-Free Deep Learning Toolbox by Uber, helps to implement deep learning models without the need to write code
  https://uber.github.io/ludwig/
• If you live in the USA, you can visit this page that uses weather data between 1981 and 2010 to know if it will rain on your 4th of July parade
  https://www.climate.gov/news-features/blogs/beyond-data/will-it-rain-your-parade-where-climate-record-says-its-likely-rain
• Late June European heat wave registered by ESA Copernicus Sentinel satellites
  http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2019/06/The_heat_is_on
• QGIS Full Motion Video is an Open Source plugin to analyze, visualize and process military drones captured video, @fran_raga is looking for help to include also cheaper models
  https://github.com/All4Gis/QGISFMV

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Nº1124: traffic signs, search, cattle, lego

Mon, 01 Jul 2019 by Raf

• More than 100K traffic signs released as Open Data by Mapillary to help to generate Machine Learning models to improve their automatic recognition
  https://blog.mapillary.com/update/2019/06/27/mapillary-traffic-sign-dataset.html
• GeoSeer is a (still in development) Open Source geospatial search engine using OGC standards
  https://www.geoseer.net/
• An open report on a 20 months research about the spatial relationships between the Mongolian and South Siberian nomad cattle breeders and their environment
  https://visionscarto.net/nomad-s-land
• BGS innovates using Lego to generate geological profiles and a simple seismograph that is CreativeCommons licensed
  http://www.bgs.ac.uk/discoveringGeology/hazards/earthquakes/schoolSeismology/seismometers/lego.html

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Nº1123: glitch, foss4g, venezuela, migration

Fri, 28 Jun 2019 by Raf

• Maps with Me is a simple Open Source application from @javier to develop crowd-sourced maps just using Twitter and Glitch
  https://mapwithme.glitch.me/
• Registers of Scotland report on how they migrated to Open Source systems, with quite a lot of effort, but also savings
  https://insideros.blog/2019/06/25/how-our-gis-team-moved-to-open-source-systems/
• "Venezuela: A Mafia State?" is a 3 years investigation report, including maps, showing a worrying situation via @bolosig
  https://www.insightcrime.org/investigations/venezuela-mafia-state/
• The Atlas of Migration provides data and figures about migrants (PDF)
  https://www.rosalux.de/fileadmin/rls_uploads/pdfs/sonst_publikationen/atlasofmigration2019_web_190614__1_.pdf

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Nº1122: accessibility, vector tiles, green, spectre

Thu, 27 Jun 2019 by Raf

• A crowd-sourced map of wheelchair accessibility based on OSM data via @fran_raga
  https://wheelmap.org/
• Converting COG images into vector tiles for browser rendering, especially useful for LIDAR data via @sfggeogis
  https://medium.com/devseed/cog-talk-part-3-vector-tiles-4a37bf6d865f
• Quantifying urban vegetation presence measured from satellite imagery as a city green index
  https://greendex.es/
• A tool to select the most appropriate color bands from eleven different satellites imagery based on what you want to detect
  https://landsat.usgs.gov/spectral-characteristics-viewer

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Nº1121: usa, art, winter, clouds

Wed, 26 Jun 2019 by Raf

• A map fo the cultural regions and subdivisions of the USA
  https://i.redd.it/syobxzx74jl21.png
• Cultural artworks, mostly paintings, that are heavily related to Geography
  https://www.geografiainfinita.com/2019/01/obras-de-arte-en-las-que-la-geografia-es-protagonista/
• The coldest day of the year in the USA, depending on the location between December and February
  https://www.climatecentral.org/gallery/maps/the-coldest-days-of-winter-in-one-map
• Average cloudiness across the globe according to 2019 Soumi VIIRS satellite imagery
  https://hannes.enjoys.it/blog/2019/01/average-earth-from-space-2018/

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Nº1120: r, refugees, geology, music, computer vision, fragility

Tue, 25 Jun 2019 by Raf

• A simple example of how to render all city lights of Utrecht using R
  https://gist.github.com/vankesteren/838249095f181f0b70c277a8b2673ec0
• Map of African refugee camps, some of them as big as some European cities
  https://www.infomigrants.net/fr/post/14664/carte-interactive-ou-sont-les-plus-grands-camps-de-refugies-en-afrique
• More than 200 geological maps from many different scales and sources, all using a homogeneous database
  https://macrostrat.org/map/#/z=10.1/x=2.3043/y=41.3933/bedrock/lines/fossils/
• Researching Music and Place-Making through Engaged Practice: Becoming a Musicking-Geographer
  https://ubique.americangeo.org/article-preview/geographical-review-preview-researching-music-and-place-making-through-engaged-practice-becoming-a-musicking-geographer/
• Raster Vision is an open source Python framework for building computer vision models on satellite, aerial, and other large imagery sets
  https://github.com/azavea/raster-vision
• A 2019 map of countries fragility, highlighting the stability of 178 countries
  https://fragilestatesindex.org/

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Nº1119: california, mining, sustainability

Thu, 20 Jun 2019 by Raf

• A scrollymap of the last century of forests fires in California, focusing on the last two decades
  https://www.huffpost.com/entry/california-wildfire-maps_n_5c23aeafe4b05c88b6fd04c1?guccounter=2
• The manual "Using QGIS v3 in Mineral Exploration" has been updated in June 2019 (PDF)
  https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/4d930e_92174776bd854cb9be19579250c330e2.pdf
• Questioning the sustainability of the American Ideal house: detached and with a yard in its front
  https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/06/18/upshot/cities-across-america-question-single-family-zoning.html

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Nº1118: greenland, palestina

Wed, 19 Jun 2019 by Raf

• A new BAS Greenland map reveals a fast-changing environment that needs precise monitoring
  https://www.bas.ac.uk/media-post/new-arctic-map/
• Palestinian oral map, a place to navigate through the POHA collection with more than a thousand hours of interviews to the Nakba protagonists
  https://libraries.aub.edu.lb/poha-viewer/map/

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Nº1117: soviet, clouds, vgi, shades

Tue, 18 Jun 2019 by Raf

• A website that offers an online map (also for mobile devices) to get direct access to the worldwide collection of maps made by the Soviet army
  http://loadmap.net/en
• A sea of clouds is a visualization about which time of the year is cloudiest across the oceans
  https://www.flickr.com/photos/cchurchili/48062898853/
• Methodologies, advice, tips, feedback, and resources to understand territory using crowdsourced maps
  http://cartographie-collaborative.eu/?CartoCollab
• A gallery of shaded reliefs maps made with a methodology linked in the second paragraph
  https://adventuresinmapping.com/2019/06/14/throwing-shade-gallery/

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Nº1116: boundaries, cheatsheet, airbnb, deforestation

Mon, 17 Jun 2019 by Raf

• Enclaves & Exclaves, a story map about complicated boundaries
  https://storymaps.esri.com/stories/2017/enclaves-exclaves/index.html
• A repository that collects many cheatsheets for Data Science
  https://github.com/abhat222/Data-Science--Cheat-Sheet
• An exploratory analysis of Airbnb data to understand the rental landscape in Peru
  https://app.powerbi.com/view?r=eyJrIjoiNGJjYjY0YzktNjBlMC00MDg5LWIyZjYtOTQzZmM0NzA5ZGVlIiwidCI6Ijc1ZTcxMGJjLTU3NjktNGFiZi05YjI3LTRhMWJmMjAwNzg1NSJ9
• A report about the deforestation of the Colombian Amazon, 56300 hectares over 2019
  https://maaproject.org/2019/chiribiquete_2019/

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Nº1115: radar, portal, command line, r

Fri, 14 Jun 2019 by Raf

• Detection and Monitoring of Tunneling Induced Ground Movements Using Sentinel-1 SAR Interferometry
  https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/11/6/639/htm
• A demonstration of the interface for the Open European Geographic Data Services map portal
  https://thinkwhere.com/thinkwhere-map-portal-for-open-european-geographic-data-services-launched/
• The second issue of the Cartography from the Command Line series, this time featuring MapShaper
  https://moriartynaps.org/command-carto-part-two/
• Free ebook (PDF) on using R as a GIS
  http://eujournal.org/files/journals/1/books/JeanFrancoisMas.pdf

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Nº1114: navigation, course, mapathon, human footprint

Thu, 13 Jun 2019 by Raf

• A flight trip planner with navigation specialized cartography and tools
  https://skyvector.com/
• A summer course in Pamplona (Spain) about GIS and Open Data, with Antonio Rodríguez, Miguel Sevilla-Callejo, Víctor Olaya, and others via @xurxosanz
  http://www.cursosveranoupna.com/curso/sistemas-de-informacion-geografica-y-datos-abiertos/
• How to organize a mapathon or a collaborative cartography session at a classroom cc. @xtec
  http://geoconfluences.ens-lyon.fr/programmes/outils/mapathon-carto
• Understanding city behaviors through the human footprint measurements and a very understandable visualization
  https://medium.com/urbandataanalytics/measuring-urban-footprint-to-understand-city-behavior-42d45384442c

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Nº1113: delivery, hacking, air quality, contours

Wed, 12 Jun 2019 by Raf

• A series of maps showing the most attractive delivery food types in Spain by province, and those that are growing faster
  https://www.businessinsider.es/comida-domicilio-pide-cada-provincia-espanola-425699
• A human-induced degradation of the GPS signal is canceling flights, as it avoids precise positioning
  https://hackaday.com/2019/06/09/gps-and-ads-b-problems-cause-cancelled-flights/
• Windy is adding an air quality layer, provided by Copernicus
  https://www.windy.com/articles/global-air-quality-data-and-forecasts-from-the-copernicus-atmosphere-monitoring-service-cams-are-now-accessible-on-windy-8577?camsEu,pm2p5,49.923,-12.832,4
• A monochrome contour map of Zurich surrounding hills
  https://ralucanicola.github.io/JSAPI_demos/zurich-hills/

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Nº1112: analysis, rivers, biking, trivariate

Tue, 11 Jun 2019 by Raf

• Geospatial analysis as a service: the evolution of two companies, EagleView, and Orbital Insight
  http://apogeospatial.com/companies-evolve-and-specialize/
• A website to plan inland navigation tourism across France rivers
  http://www.vnf.fr/calculitinerairefluvial/app/Main.html
• A CartoCSS style for OSM data aiming biking infrastructure and users
  https://github.com/cyclosm/cyclosm-cartocss-style
• An annotated population map of the USA using a trivariate choropleth symbology
  https://www.vividmaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Age-distribution.jpg

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Nº1111: airbnb, netherlands, flaneuse, precision, paris

Mon, 10 Jun 2019 by Raf

• A Twitter thread discusses how Airbnb data can be used to understand social segregation
  https://twitter.com/danidlsa/status/1137018203694129153
• New book release: "The history of the Netherlands in 100 old maps", covering between 1307 and 1953 via @MapStorms
  https://www.lannoo.be/nl/de-geschiedenis-van-nederland-100-oude-kaarten
• The mapping-art hybrid production of a flaneuse, a woman stroller at Des Moines city
  https://aris.papatheodorou.net/une-flaneuse-a-la-derive
• A discussion about planimetric and more relevantly altimetric errors of drone measurements for photogrammetric surveys
  https://sig-geek.blogspot.com/2019/06/error-en-xy-y-z-las-alturas-de-los.html
• A selection of Paris old maps, for download or buying, coming from Île-de-France IAU map room
  https://www.iau-idf.fr/cartes-anciennes.html

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