Circular route generator, whether for walking, running or cycling, that shows the type of pavement and has a few additional payment options
https://routeshuffle.com/planner
A long-distance route calculation application made for a very specific case that supports structured and unstructured information to iterate on possible routes and end up generating a travel diary
https://jakelazaroff.com/words/a-local-first-case-study/
The salt front, which moves upstream from the river mouth when the water flow is reduced, is the point at which a river becomes too salty to be safe for drinking water.
https://www.nj.gov/drbc/programs/flow/salt-front.html
A little geography game to guess the countries you need to cross to connect the starting and ending countries in a travel plan in 11 attempts.
https://travle.earth/
A set of data layers of different types allows you to select multiple criteria to combine them in a perfect search to find the ideal place to live in the USA
https://www.exoroad.com/
A small script that allows you to generate a visualization of 15-minute isochrones for any area from OSM data and a little Python
https://github.com/Zverik/15minute
Rocco Buttliere, a graduate in architecture and passionate about building with small plastic parts, is dedicated to reconstructing landscapes and buildings with precision, detail and realism
https://www.roccobuttliere.com/portfolio/landmarks
The winners of the first edition of the competition promoted by the Cartographic Workshop of IGN France for professionals, students and enthusiasts around the BD TOPO®
[FR]
https://www.ign.fr/concours-carto-2024
Mapping the accumulation of protective layers on the approximately 15,000 islands (small and large) in the Mediterranean, recognized for the richness of their biodiversity, to assess their effectiveness
[FR]
https://www.visionscarto.net/cartographier-l-empilement
Niantic is using data generated by Pokémon Go players to create a LGM (Large Geospatial Model) that will allow computers to perceive and understand physical spaces to interact with them autonomously.
https://nianticlabs.com/news/largegeospatialmodel
Offline motion detection based on the signature of vibration frequencies allows for precise positioning in underground transportation where GPS does not reach
https://blog.transitapp.com/go-underground/
More than 84,000 delimitation landmarks (terms) located and mapped in the IGN France campaign to recover this heritage, which dates back several centuries.
[FR]
https://macarte.ign.fr/carte/H9R6EZ/Ensemble
If you wish to drive in incognito mode, here is a collaborative map showing the locations of automatic number plate readers (ALPR) and their equipment owners
https://deflock.me/#map=12/37.875190/-122.279819
Tutorial on accessing data and images from the PhenoCam network, which consists of over 700 digital cameras that periodically capture photographs (approximately every 30 minutes) of ecosystem canopies worldwide.
https://earthlab.colorado.edu/blog/explore-phenocam-data
Roofer performs automatic LoD2 building reconstruction using a point cloud and polygon footprint, and it is currently utilized for the Netherlands' 3DBAG dataset
https://innovation.3dbag.nl/roofer/
MoltaMuntanya is a textile company founded in 2020 by two mountain enthusiasts who specialize in creating clothing with relief prints using a handmade silk-screen printing technique
https://moltamuntanya.com/
Private aviation, primarily based in the USA, which holds 68% of aircraft, has seen a 46% increase in CO2 emissions from 2019 to 2023 due to 18 million flights for leisure, cultural, and political events.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-024-01775-z
MeteoAlarm is an early warning dissemination system that aggregates, visualizes and provides accessible awareness information from 38 European national meteorological and hydrological services
https://meteoalarm.org/en/live/
"Waves of Interest" compares certain Google searches between 2020 and 2024 to capture the interest they arouse in US election years, and shows them both in trend and in a heat map
https://waves-of-interest.truth-and-beauty.net/topics/
Accurate topographic representation of Colombo, constructed with detailed land uses and zoning based on official city development plans and data centered around 2020
https://github.com/team-watchdog/colombo-skylines
"Catalunya in data" is an initiative, collaborative and open to everyone and with prizes, to reimagine the visualization of open data from the Catalan administration using the Observable Framework
https://catalunya-en-dades.fndvit.org/
The Louvre has just produced an interactive map of the traveling works they have throughout France, thanks to the active policy of deposits that the museum has carried out since its creation in 1793
[FR]
https://www.louvre.fr/decouvrir/c-est-accroche-pres-de-chez-vous
In Spain there are 48 sites recognized as World Heritage by Unesco, and what makes this collection of sites truly unique is the mix of cultures
[ES]
http://www.somospatrimonio.es/patrimonio/
A little daily fun made with OSM data, but this time in hexagons, where you have to rearrange the pieces to get the city map
https://tripgeo.com/scrambledhexmaps
TerrainLines is a shop that sells sketches of notable peaks, and accepts commissions of other mountains, made from DEMs and with new hatching techniques that you also want to reproduce as blueprints
https://www.etsy.com/shop/terrainlines/