#2268: patterns, parking, places

Fri, 26 Apr 2024 by Raf

• Practical Design Patterns for Planning, Designing, and Building Better Map Experiences for Websites and Apps, Paperback Web Version
  https://www.mapuipatterns.com/
• The map of Brussels Parking with all payment information and rates for surface parking in city streets and underground car parks
  https://map.seety.co/
• Atlas of Intangibles is a data experience designed to highlight the rich and interconnected web of sensory information that makes up our relationship with places
  https://atlasofintangibles.com/

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#2267: mobility, golf, moon

Thu, 25 Apr 2024 by Raf

• A dashboard to view and query the reports of the mobility assessment studies generated by the Metropolitan Transport Authority [CAT]
  https://www.arcgis.com/apps/dashboards/282d1181d05241ca8048e98f3044398e
• Play golf with a data-driven caddy to reveal patterns and gain a greater understanding of every stroke, every hole and every match to set some benchmarks and measure improvements
  https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/844ff596472540a58100e6edeb792fef
• China releases world's first high-definition lunar geological atlas, 1:2.5 million scale with basic data and maps for future lunar research and exploration, in Chinese and English
  https://english.cas.cn/newsroom/cas_media/202404/t20240422_660730.shtml

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#2266: festival, silk, mobility

Wed, 24 Apr 2024 by Raf

• From 23 to 26 May 2024, the 5th edition of the "Printemps des cartes" festival will take place in Montmorillon, France, with lectures, debates, geocafés and round tables, workshops, films, shows and exhibitions [FR]
  https://www.printempsdescartes.fr/le-festival-de-cartographie/
• Kevin and Mary's personal project of exploring distant lands that has led to the creation of a website to recount their experiences following the Silk Roads
  https://www.intofarlands.com/the-silk-roads
• Quantifying the motorization of urban mobility to compare the proportion of trips to work across countries, regions, income groups and population sizes for 794 cities in 61 countries
  https://vis.csh.ac.at/citiesmoving/

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#2265: groundwater, coral, metro

Tue, 23 Apr 2024 by Raf

• GRUVO provides unified information on past, current and future groundwater levels across Germany with regular near-real-time updates
  https://gruvo.bgr.de/website/index.php?lang=en
• The world is experiencing another global coral bleaching, the fourth global event on record and the second in the last 10 years, due to heat stress in the sea
  https://www.noaa.gov/news-release/noaa-confirms-4th-global-coral-bleaching-event
• Color map of the seats on the platforms of Paris metro stations, in case you want to play with your creatures to guess and thus make the journey more entertaining [FR]
  https://cartapaname.substack.com/p/la-couleur-des-sieges-dans-le-metro

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#2264: agriculture, undersea, climbing

Mon, 22 Apr 2024 by Raf

• A report on the recovery of agricultural land in Catalonia identifies more than 55,000 hectares with potential for food production that are abandoned or disused [CAT]
  https://gisportal.diba.cat/BSR/T08_PotencialAgrari/Story/
• An ever-alert fleet of ships and a stack of professionals make repairs to the undersea cables that provide the world's internet and which have become critical infrastructure
  https://www.theverge.com/c/24070570/internet-cables-undersea-deep-repair-ships
• An open source resource for climbers: the open source, open license, donated rock climbing catalog of routes and locations of interesting walls to practice on
  https://openbeta.io/

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#2263: refugees, journalism, art

Fri, 19 Apr 2024 by Raf

• Detailed map shows how airstrikes and refugees reshaped Rafah, where more than 1 million displaced Palestinians have filled the southern Gaza Strip with tents
  https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-map-gaza-rafah-israel-hamas-war/
• A geojournalism platform documenting threats to biodiversity posed by mining licenses across the African continent as of November 2023
  https://eiforum.org/mine-alert-africa/
• Ghislaine Escande's atlases are 'portraits' and 'landscapes' of the world made by hand from real paper maps, meant to reflect on our relationship with the world and its representations [FR]
  https://www.escande.fr/cartographie-imaginaire

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#2262: rain, soil, typography

Thu, 18 Apr 2024 by Raf

• Assessing the performance of integrated multi-satellite retrievals for GPM to understand the factors affecting satellite estimates of extreme precipitation in the Mediterranean
  https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/16/3/457
• An online tool to make soil profiles in Argentina from the SSINTA database, at various depths and levels, and which can be exported in a KML file
  https://sites.google.com/view/soilprofileplotter/
• Amsterdam Typography is a project by Arno Verweij that contains 2160 photographs documenting typography in public and semi-public spaces in Amsterdam and is updated daily
  https://www.amsterdamtypography.nl/map

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#2261: tourism, mapping, water

Wed, 17 Apr 2024 by Raf

• This map shows the municipalities with the most tourist homes and the percentage they represent of the total number of homes surveyed [ES]
  https://mapasenaccion-comunidadsig.hub.arcgis.com/maps/969858fcf28a474b92ed5414e36ea957/explore?location=41.556381%2C1.945921%2C7.00
• A simple tool for creating custom interactive maps, with a template-based system, some AI assistance, and a free model for personal use
  https://www.pampam.world/
• Database of the surface of rivers and lakes (SARL), for the monitoring and research of hydrological cycles, ecosystem accounting and water management
  https://hess.copernicus.org/articles/28/1653/2024/

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#2260: water, oceans, climate

Tue, 16 Apr 2024 by Raf

• Study of the availability of water in the Bages region and the possible impact of climate change and the vulnerability of municipal supply systems (PDF) [CA]
  https://www.diba.cat/documents/553295/409530079/Presentacio_Estudi_disponibilitat_aigua_comarca_Bages.pdf
• The system of deep ocean currents that circulates cold waters of polar origin through all the oceans of the planet shows signs of instability that pose a significant risk to the climate
  https://tos.org/oceanography/article/is-the-atlantic-overturning-circulation-approaching-a-tipping-point
• With data from PACE, scientists can study microscopic life in the ocean and particles in the air, helping to monitor ocean health, pollution and the impacts of climate change
  https://www.nasa.gov/earth/nasas-pace-data-on-ocean-atmosphere-climate-now-available/

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#2259: perception, queries, nvdi

Mon, 15 Apr 2024 by Raf

• "Women's perception of public space in the "Old" neighborhood of Manresa" is a study that shows how women live, use and perceive space differently depending on how they use it [CA]
  https://ddd.uab.cat/record/264226
• A technology demonstration of how to aggregate and visualize massive amounts of air traffic data with custom SQL queries over 50 billion records
  https://github.com/ClickHouse/adsb.exposed/
• Step-by-step guide shows how to work with Landsat surface reflectance data in QGIS, calculating Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) and importing data from open maps
  https://medium.com/@robsimmon/working-with-landsat-surface-reflectance-data-in-qgis-13e44e68c217

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#2258: bodelian, drawing, industries

Fri, 12 Apr 2024 by Raf

• After extensive research into archives and documents, the author of one of the outstanding maps in the Bodleian Library has been identified, ending their two hundred and twenty-eight years of anonymity
  https://barronmaps.com/an-intriguing-late-18th-century-mystery-of-map-authorship-finally-solved-the-french-pimpernel-is-at-last-unveiled/
• Stephen Walter is a London artist who uses obsessive drawing techniques to capture landscapes filled with the signs and symbols of contemporary society
  https://stephenwalter.org/
• This portal compiles information on the industrial estates and businesses in Vallés Occidental (Catalonia), including available industrial spaces and business associations. [CA]
  https://directoripoligons.sompoligons.cat

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#2257: observable, rpg, cities

Thu, 11 Apr 2024 by Raf

• "How to Work with Observable as a Geographer" is an interactive notebook that outlines different concepts and techniques for visualizing data [FR]
  https://observablehq.com/collection/@neocartocnrs/observable-cest-quoi
• "Vagabondage" is a solo RPG set in the French countryside using IGN maps and aerial imagery for survival and encounters [FR]
  https://viglino.github.io/vagabondage/
• "Close" is an interactive map of a city's neighborhoods where you can bike or walk in quiet areas
  https://close.city/?x=-73.99627&y=40.72771&z=12.38694&r=0&l=11111

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#2256: rivers, changes, python, coast

Wed, 10 Apr 2024 by Raf

• The hydro-meteorological viewer displays real-time data on Catalonia's river and reservoir status [CA]
  https://aplicacions.aca.gencat.cat/aetr/vishid/#ara
• "Remontez le temps!" is a website from the French National Mapping Agency to observe the territory's evolution offering access to a library of about 4 million maps and aerial photographs [FR]
  https://remonterletemps.ign.fr/
• Madina ("city" in Arabic) is a Python package that simplifies the representation and analysis of urban networks and models pedestrian and bicycle travel
  https://github.com/City-Form-Lab/madina
• DeltaDTM is a public domain global coastal digital terrain model (DTM) with 30m spatial resolution and 0.45m vertical mean absolute error
  https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-024-03091-9#Sec1

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#2255: segmentation, health, subways, library, drones

Tue, 09 Apr 2024 by Raf

• DetectTree is a Python library that uses semantic segmentation to classify whether pixels in aerial images contain a tree. The library includes a pre-trained model via martibosch at X
  https://github.com/martibosch/detectree
• "The Map of Shame: Current Situation of the Supervision of Residents in the Emergency Services of the Community of Madrid" (PDF) reveals how the law is being broken in the emergency services. [ES]
  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rsoFvoth307jXstL4yriM12AuIaHV5mJ/view?pli=1
• A mini-quest to locate as many subway stations as possible within a set time in London, Lyon, NYC, and Paris
  https://www.metroguessr.com/
• The Spanish Ministry of Defense has published a Virtual Defense Library, which includes a significant collection of maps, documents, and other interesting resources [ES]
  https://bibliotecavirtual.defensa.gob.es/BVMDefensa
• Since September 2023, nearly 2,000 Shahed attack drones of Iranian origin have been used by Russia to strike cities in Ukraine far beyond the front line
  https://airwars.org/investigation/shahed-year-russia-ukraine-iran/

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#2254: open spaces, thermal, music

Fri, 05 Apr 2024 by Raf

• 'POP City: Pockets of Productivity' develops design guidelines and a strategic framework for gradually transforming open spaces in Gandhinagar, Gujarat (India)
  https://productiveurbanism.com/project/pop-city-pockets-of-productivity/
• Stanford Thermal Earth Model is a national thermal model of the contiguous territory of the USA of 0-7 km underground temperature made by spatial interpolation of data with the help of neural networks
  https://gdr.openei.org/submissions/1592
• The Map of Creators of the History of Music is an anthology of female composers from all over the world and framed from the 9th century to 2005 made to make visible the figure of women in music
  https://svmusicology.com/mapa?lang=es

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#2253: migrant, placenames, panoramax

Thu, 04 Apr 2024 by Raf

• The Migrant Deaths Database is an attempt to address the lack of comprehensive, transparent and publicly available data for New Mexico, El Paso and the entire border
  https://www.elpasomigrantdeathdatabase.org/
• The British Placename Mapper displays UK placenames that match certain search terms anywhere in the name, at the beginning, at the end, exactly, or with a regular expression
  https://placenames.rtwilson.com/
• Tutorial for creating a custom object detection model for street images from Panoramax, using YOLOv8 and Label Studio
  https://github.com/panoramax-project/DetectionTutorial

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#2252: geo night, transport, sea level

Wed, 03 Apr 2024 by Raf

• The international "Geography Night", promoted by EUGEO and IGU, will be held on April 5 and 12, 2024 and will have two activities in Catalonia
  https://www.geonight.net/geonight-2024-events/
• The Hermes project provides access to Spain's national transport system and collects data from various official sources [ES]
  https://mapas.fomento.gob.es/VisorHermes/
• The United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) studies the scientific literature and provides consensus projections of future sea levels worldwide
  https://sealevel.nasa.gov/ipcc-ar6-sea-level-projection-tool

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#2251: trenches, commercial, courses, panoramas

Tue, 02 Apr 2024 by Raf

• Satellite images show the trenches and barriers and fortifications that the Russians have built on the front line of the war in and around Ukraine
  https://read.bradyafrick.com/p/russian-field-fortifications-in-ukraine
• The Association of Merchants of Lloret commissioned a study to be able to economically develop areas that are outside the main commercial axes and promote specialization [CA]
  https://www.comerciantslloret.com/ca/actualitat/estudi-clusters-lloret
• OpenCourseWare for GIS offers in an open Moodle without registration 43 training courses on topics related to the Earth sciences in different languages
  https://courses.gisopencourseware.org/
• An interactive web interface that allows you to transform any Street View image by applying ML and a user-defined prompt to get a new, different view (now disabled due to generation costs)
  https://www.panoramai.xyz/

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#2250: interference, tgv

Fri, 29 Mar 2024 by Raf

• Flightradar now publishes a 6-hour and 24-hour map of areas of blocking and interference with GPS navigation systems by calculating the NIC (Navigation integrity category) of ADS-B messages
  https://www.flightradar24.com/blog/gps-jamming-map/
• High-speed rail France map updated to 2024 with frequencies of passage, minor changes following the merger of Eurostar and Thalys and some other improvements
  https://larstransportmaps.com/2024/03/11/high-speed-rail-in-france-2024/

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#2249: languages, outages, bloom

Wed, 27 Mar 2024 by Raf

• "Languages of New York City" is a free, interactive digital map of the world's most linguistically diverse metropolitan area where indigenous, minority and endangered languages can still be found
  https://languagemap.nyc/Explore/Language
• A website that collects, records and aggregates live power outage data from utilities across the United States
  https://poweroutage.us/
• Code, data and procedure to create a map of cherry blossoms in the Washington area near an address in order to see the show without much crowding
  https://github.com/hrecht/cherry-blossoms-analysis

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#2248: heatmap, shrinking, climate

Fri, 22 Mar 2024 by Raf

• The Strava heat map is updated monthly, is visible to all users, and shows the activity and type recorded by the app (which can be turned off in the privacy options)
  https://www.strava.com/maps/global-heatmap?style=dark&terrain=false&sport=All&gColor=blue&gOpacity=100&labels=true&poi=true#6.74/41.385/1.458
• Salton Lake is an endorheic saline lake in California that reappeared in 1905 due to a flood of the Colorado River, and that has been losing surface as shown by traces of the shoreline
  https://shrinkingsaltonsea.com/
• Andorra will finally have a beach: a small app allows you to play with the sea level to see how far the waters will reach as climate change takes the ice ahead
  https://aws-terrain-flood.netlify.app/#8.87/41.8318/1.7281

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#2247: detection, art, virtuality

Thu, 21 Mar 2024 by Raf

• SARDet-100K is a diverse and large-scale benchmark dataset for research purposes to test an open-source method for large-scale SAR object detection
  https://github.com/zcablii/SARDet_100K
• The Walk is a map walking machine, an art installation that, from a file of coordinates, determines a destination and follows a route calculated with the Gmaps API to get there without moving [ES]
  https://bandini.medium.com/the-walk-la-m%C3%A1quina-de-caminar-mapas-4cd75a607f29
• V-IRL is a scalable, open-source platform that allows virtual agents to interact with a virtual facsimile of the real world by leveraging mapping, geospatial, and streetscape APIs
  https://virl-platform.github.io/

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#2246: dengue, platform, sensing

Wed, 20 Mar 2024 by Raf

• Leveraging the effectiveness of high-resolution satellite imagery as a non-traditional and easily accessible data source to make dengue predictions by epidemiologic week
  https://arxiv.org/html/2401.11114v2
• Apache Superset™ is a modern, open source, fast, lightweight, intuitive and feature-rich data visualization and exploration platform for geospatial visualization and analysis
  https://superset.apache.org/
• Animals can be a main component of Earth observation if equipped with sensors to collect locally and with great granularity data that is difficult to capture
  https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/152542/animals-as-earth-system-observers

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#2245: housing, contours, gis

Tue, 19 Mar 2024 by Raf

• According to the rental price reference system published by the Ministry of Housing, designed to control the market, the estimated average correction in the current situation should be 60% [ES]
  https://www.elconfidencial.com/inmobiliario/2024-03-14/alquiler-idealista-precios-gobierno_3848013/
• maplibre-contour is a plugin for drawing contours on the fly in MapLibre GL JS from the same source of raw elevation data that Maplibre uses to render shading designed to save storage and bandwidth
  https://github.com/onthegomap/maplibre-contour
• "An introduction to GIS" by Benjamin Nowak, teacher and researcher focused on remote sensing, soil science and biogeochemical cycles (mainly carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus), open access online and with interesting maps
  https://bjnnowak.github.io/gis/

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#2244: water, mapping, cemeteries

Mon, 18 Mar 2024 by Raf

• The "Fes Fonts Fent Fonting" association collects a whole series of information on natural water sources, mainly in the "Serra de Collserola" and also in other places, with descriptions and maps and traces [CA]
  https://fontscollserola.com/
• The easiest way to map from data in minutes and with no programming or GIS experience, with a free but limited version
  https://iipmaps.com/
• The geography of Paris cemeteries is confusing given that the cemeteries are not attached to a religious monument as is usually the case and that there are 2 private ones [FR]
  https://cartapaname.substack.com/p/letonnante-geographie-des-cimetieres

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