Nº1492: hiking, archeology, coasts

Fri, 15 Jan 2021 by Raf

• Map of hiking trails in the Aosta Valley made with Qgis and finished with Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. Data comes from DEM 2m and other sources of local information
  https://www.flickr.com/photos/191583192@N04/50775189961/in/pool-qgis/
• Archeo3D offers services of 3D reconstruction, 3D digitization, point clouds and cartography and GIS for archeology. This website includes explanations and videos and tutorials of the processes [FR]
  http://www.archeo3d.net/
• CoastSnap is a citizen science project to capture shoreline changes with pictures taken with a mobile app
  https://www.coastsnap.com/

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Nº1491: vandalism, airquality, interactive

Thu, 14 Jan 2021 by Raf

• "Cartographic Vandalism in the Era of Location-Based Games - The Case of OpenStreetMap and Pokémon GO" is a paper that analyzes vandalism in #OSM and how to face it. via @olea
  https://www.researchgate.net/publication/340233654_Cartographic_Vandalism_in_the_Era_of_Location-Based_Games_-_The_Case_of_OpenStreetMap_and_Pokemon_GO
• The AMB’s Aire Metropolità web application shows air quality in real time and at the same time has a calculator of healthy #routes for walking or cycling around the city. [CA]
  https://blogs.amb.cat/bicicleta/ca/2020/12/18/nou-visor-de-rutes-saludables/
• Mapping Maps in the Wild shows on an interactive map all the mapping sightings in real world situations, collected and welcomed by @mapsinthewild
  https://mappery.org/mapping-maps-in-the-wild/

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Nº1490: hawaii, chronolocation, forestfire

Wed, 13 Jan 2021 by Raf

• Hawaii's #beaches are slowly disappearing, and the main cause of this coastal erosion are the dikes built to protect homes.
  https://projects.propublica.org/hawaii-beach-loss/
• Suncalc, a tool that allows the chronolocation of videos and images. It is also useful for approximate geolocation using the position of the sun and the length and orientation of the shadows as explained.
  https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/2020/12/03/using-the-sun-and-the-shadows-for-geolocation/
• The control dashboard with the "ACTIONS" Information of the DIBA (Barcelona region) Forest Fire Information and Surveillance Plan. [CA]
  https://diba.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/7e41ea8c732d451e9117907e750b0a25

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Nº1489: snow, openstreetmap, mercè

Tue, 12 Jan 2021 by Raf

• Snow statistics in #Finland for the last 40 years summarized in 6 comparative maps per decade. They show the gradual change in snowfall.
  https://i.redd.it/30mrl469w5961.jpg
• An experiment with OSM Overpass and Svelte to make an open source PWA for mobile. It shows the nearest bars (and more) along with its orientation. via @rveciana
  https://geoexamples.com/svelte/2021/01/10/svelte-overpass.html
• Now available the results and map of Mercè. Mercè is a citizen science experiment consisting in training algorithms to make cities more livable. [CA]
  http://merce.300000.eu/#1

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Nº1488: archaeology, sidewalks, bot

Mon, 11 Jan 2021 by Raf

• Archaeology embraces "digital humanities" with the creation of large online databases that combine satellite, aerial and UAV data with historical information extracted traditionally with a pick and shovel. via @srieramora
  https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/01/archaeology-is-going-digital-to-harness-the-power-of-big-data/
• sidewalkwidths is an open source project located on Github to make visible the widths of the sidewalks of any city. This website brings together those who have been done so far
  http://www.sidewalkwidths.com/
• Munibot is a bot for Twitter that automatically sends images of municipalities. It is made by @amercader and available on Github just in case you want to adapt it for other boundaries
  https://amercader.net/blog/munibot-the-friendly-geo-twitter-bot/

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Nº1487: icons, dem, bbqsauce

Fri, 08 Jan 2021 by Raf

• Two icon packs to download as SVG material design from the ones at https://iconify.design/, with Open source License, one specifically to put on the maps (look for the zips that says svg)
  https://github.com/klakar/geosupportsystem
• "Generating graceful contour lines from high resolution DEMs" shows a method for generating contour lines from a 2-meter MET for a large-scale topographic map (1:12,500)
  https://hkartor.se/anteckningar/generating_graceful_contour_lines_from_high_resolution_DEMs.html
• The state of South Carolina is divided into 4 major regions depending on which is the preferred barbecue sauce, as established by Kovacik and Winberry in the 1987 book "South Carolina: A Geography", but it seems that this is also changing
  https://www.southernliving.com/bbq/south-carolina-barbecue-regions

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Nº1486: euroroads, population, migrants, glaciers

Thu, 07 Jan 2021 by Raf

• Updated diagram of the European road network in metro map style, with a thorough explanation of the sources and the process and work
  https://www.transitmap.net/e-road-network-2020-cameron-booth/
• Population density maps made in 3D with Aerialod, some Qgis and Worldpop data from a few countries in the world and with enough explanations to reproduce the process with your data [FR]
  https://aurelienchaumet.github.io/realisations/spikes_map_fr/
• Borders kill: the attempt to reach Schengen territory has been the cause of death of 53,292 migrants between 1993 and 2020
  https://analytics.huma-num.fr/Nicolas.Lambert/theborderkills/
• In Greenland, the steep slopes of the bedrock under the ice form stabilizing zones that prevent the thinning of glaciers on the coast from reaching the interior.
  https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-find-knickpoints-in-greenland-that-can-stop-spread-of-glacial-thinning/

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Nº1485: mapillary, 3d, oldmaps, sentinel6

Wed, 06 Jan 2021 by Raf

• A simple hack allows you to turn a Tesla into a georeferenced image recorder to upload to Mapillary and improve and update the OSM map
  https://blog.mapillary.com/update/2020/12/09/map-with-your-tesla.html
• Interactive and 3D old map, with some annotations, of San Francisco in 1857 when the gold rush transformed a village of 500 people into a city of 150,000 between 1847 and 1870
  http://tapestry.media/san-francisco-1857/
• Map of the Viking settlements in Greenland between they settled there in 985 BC and left around 1500 AD, which have become about 500 sets of Nordic ruins
  https://amp.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/7wzun7/viking_ruins_in_greenland_oc_1820_x_2925/
• First data sent by the Copernicus Sentinel-6 satellite Michael Freilich equipped with a high-resolution SAR accurately measures sea level rise and its constant rise
  https://www.esa.int/Space_in_Member_States/Spain/Los_primeros_resultados_del_satelite_de_vigilancia_del_nivel_del_mar_superan_las_expectativas

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Nº1484: geocoding, geopython, co2, carpet

Tue, 05 Jan 2021 by Raf

• BuscaCalles is an application made with React by @sigdeletras to consult streets, place names and towns using the CartoCiudad API
  http://sigdeletras.com/2020/buscacalles-aplicacion-react-para-la-consulta-de-datos-de-cartociudad/
• First part of a quick guide to learning how to create Python maps with Django using the GeoDjango modules and the Spatialite and Leaflet spatial extensions and the SQLite database
  https://www.paulox.net/2020/12/08/maps-with-django-part-1-geodjango-spatialite-and-leaflet/
• CO2 emissions from burning fossil fuels on the Korean peninsula show differences in industrialization and consumption in both countries
  https://i.redd.it/qcwiqn8p5r261.png
• Florian Pucher is a designer who has been inspired by landscapes seen from the air to create the series of wool rugs called Landcarpet with different designs and colors
  http://www.florianpucher.com/

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Nº1483: 3d, 30daymapchallenge, 30daymapchallenge, videogames

Mon, 04 Jan 2021 by Raf

• A practical guide with code and examples of how to integrate 3D elements in the field using the TR3.js API
  https://geopois.com/blog/tr3/tr3-3d
• The gallery of contributions to the #30daymapchallenge made by @valen_ibiza
  https://valentinmaps.org/
• The map gallery that Owen Powell (@owenjpowell) made for the #30DayMapChallenge with a very different and modern style and aesthetic
  https://owenpowell.wordpress.com/30-day-map-challenge-2020/
• MapRunner is a fansite that gathers all the maps of the missions and other data of the driving game SnowRunner (if you want to make a coop let me know ...)
  https://www.maprunner.info/es

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Nº1482: postgresql, sustainability, streetcomplete

Wed, 30 Dec 2020 by Raf

• The Art of PostgreSQL is a book that aims to teach SQL to developers and thus replace thousands of lines of code with simple queries.
  https://theartofpostgresql.com/
• Country comparator to see environmental sustainability and social performance in relation to the "safe and fair space" framework with any other countries, and also with the G20 and EU28 aggregates
  https://goodlife.leeds.ac.uk/countries/#EU-28
• StreetComplete is an Android app to enrich and edit the OSM map through gameplay with tasks that can be completed by answering simple questions
  https://github.com/streetcomplete/StreetComplete

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Nº1481: iss, puzzle, spanish

Tue, 29 Dec 2020 by Raf

• The map of Earth images taken by the ISS Exp 51 mission and some of the 50 (Nov 2016 - Jun 2017) georeferenced by volunteers
  https://www.arcgis.com/apps/View/index.html?appid=2898ec5c97394417a1c5930cb203ceaa
• The Infinite Map puzzle is based on an unfolded icosahedron and has over 2.6 million possible solutions, another interesting @bothness project
  https://ahmadbarclay.com/project/product-design/wooden-icosahedron-map-puzzle/
• "Spanish historical presence, claimed territories, points of interest and expeditions in the territories of the modern United States, Canada and Mexico" is a map of Wikipedia that summarizes the conquest of North America
  https://es.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archivo:Spanish_North_America.png

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Nº1480: shipwrecks, romans, buildings

Mon, 28 Dec 2020 by Raf

• Interactive map with ancient aspect of all the shipwrecks of the Outer Banks on the coast of North Carolina at the USA
  https://gis.darecountync.gov/gisday/2020/
• Map of all the Roman settlements that reached to exist, with the borders of the empire of the 117 AC, made with the data of the project DARMC of the Harvard University
  https://i.redd.it/s3qoqewbj8v51.jpg
• Map of the oldest building in each state of the USA according to the National Registry of Historic Places, all quite recent except for the settlements of the original inhabitants of the continent before the arrival of the Europeans
  https://i.redd.it/xw058b8d1pz51.png

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Nº1479: chocolate

Sat, 26 Dec 2020 by Raf

• Mmmmmm..... @MapsintheWild
  https://twitter.com/nicolatavernier/status/1342240929575546885

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Nº1478: globes, satellites, water

Fri, 25 Dec 2020 by Raf

• New interactive 3D globes in high resolution have been added to the David Rumsey online collection: 9 terrestrial, 3 celestial and 6 planetary
  https://www.davidrumsey.com/blog/2020/12/21/18-interactive-globes-added-to-the-collection
• The 800 starlink satellites spatial coverage seen from a geographical perspective
  https://satellitemap.space/
• The water color as a metric to set its quality. Data collected from satellite imagery and aggregated to a health map of the rivers in the USA from 1984 and 2018
  https://cuahsi.shinyapps.io/RiverColor/

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Nº1477: bestoftheyear, segregation, energy

Thu, 24 Dec 2020 by Raf

• A "Best of the Year" selection made by @kennethfield with lots of COVID-19 maps, obviously...
  http://cartonerd.blogspot.com/2020/12/favourite-maps-from-2020.html
• Large scale information merging human mobility, social networks connections and socio-economic wealth to provide a better understanding of spatio-temporal segregation dynamics in cities
  https://senseable.mit.edu/singapore-calling/
• Renewable energy Catalonia map allows to query a cartographic database with wind power farms in operation and wind and solar energy projects
  http://mediambient.gencat.cat/ca/05_ambits_dactuacio/avaluacio_ambiental/energia_eolica/visor/index.html

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Nº1476: book, snow, iceland

Wed, 23 Dec 2020 by Raf

• "Time in Maps. From the Age of Discovery to Our Digital Era" is a book that shows us how time is treated in maps from all the world over the last 500 years
  https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/T/bo52781741.html
• The Trunk Road Gritter Tracker website is an interactive map of the snow plow trucks location in Scotland. All plowers have witty names
  https://scotgov.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=2de764a9303848ffb9a4cac0bd0b1aab
• Map of the Icelandic sagas, the literature of the colonization of X and XI centuries. It has all texts and parchments geo-referenced
  http://sagamap.hi.is/is/

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Nº1475: font, 3dmap, manhattanhenge

Tue, 22 Dec 2020 by Raf

• Humanitarian Font is a pictographic font type useful for web related humanitarian actions. It is published under the SIL Open Font License (OFL)
  https://unhcr.github.io/Humanitarian-Font/
• 3D Stereoscopic Anaglyph and Crossview Map (reb/blue) that, seen with glasses, allow us to se the relief. It also has an option to add GPX files to place routes over the map via @steveattewell
  https://steveattewell.com/stereomap/
• A complete list of all the cities in the world that have solstice streets (winter or summer). To revive the spirit of both the Stonehenge and the Manhattanhenge via @jatorre
  http://sztanko.github.io/solsticestreets/

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Nº1474: imaginery, france, videogames

Mon, 21 Dec 2020 by Raf

• Exploring long-term urban changes: a reproducible notebook to acquire, process and analyse satellite imagery
  https://twitter.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=db4aef4e26dc192947f9cdf10&id=ed4ebf060e&e=0e31ba204a
• France: Rural or Urban? An interesting land analysis made from the same datasets with two different points of view that leads to two different maps [FR]
  https://www.telos-eu.com/fr/deux-cartes-pour-regarder-le-pays-au-fond-des-yeux.html
• As video games become more and more sophisticated their virtual worlds cartography become more complex and realistic
  https://www.canadiangeographic.ca/article/inside-intricate-world-video-game-cartography

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Nº1473: amazon, spain, basketball

Fri, 18 Dec 2020 by Raf

• Amazon Location Service wants to make it easier and more cost-effective to add maps, location knowledge, and other location-based features to all kinds of web and mobile apps
  https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-location-add-maps-and-location-awareness-to-your-applications/
• The Humanitarian Topographic Atlas is the set of detailed, up-to-date, high-quality topographic maps created to support the field operations of the UN World Food Program (WFP)
  https://hta.gis.wfp.org/
• Naismith International Park is a topographic map illustration created by Kirk Goldsberry that features statistical information, decades of basketball hoop history, and legends for lovers of the sport.
  https://www.thegoldenhexagon.com/products/naismith-international-park-map?variant=37317523112086

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Nº1472: poverty, spain, styles

Thu, 17 Dec 2020 by Raf

• "Not Even Past: Social Vulnerability and the Legacy of Redlining" visualizes the original maps of segregation and the current situation of poverty and marginalization in many US cities
  https://dsl.richmond.edu/socialvulnerability/map/#loc=11/42.38/-83.13&city=detroit-mi
• Two new base layers in the Spain's government GeoPortal: the indexes of environmental sensitivity for wind energy and photovoltaics, via PCRV
  https://sig.mapama.gob.es/geoportal/
• GeoStyler is an open source React library to style maps with the help of a GUI that allows conversions between different standards (SLD, OpenLayers, QML, Mapbox, GeoJSON, ...)
  https://geostyler.org/

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Nº1471: 3d, open data, walkability

Wed, 16 Dec 2020 by Raf

• 3DStreet allows you to convert to 3D views the 2D street designs you can make with http://streetmix.net
  https://github.com/kfarr/3dstreet
• OpenICGC is a collection of tiles, vector tile styles, terrain models, reuse and code examples, all openly hosted on GitHub to make maps to your liking
  https://openicgc.github.io/
• Example of how to calculate the walkability (suitability of roads for walking in cities) with python using the open data of the pedestrian network of the city of Toronto
  https://medium.com/@toarches/calculating-walk-scores-with-python-7cea11813d4d

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Nº1470: trees, fantasy, paralleluniverses

Tue, 15 Dec 2020 by Raf

• An international team of scientists has used artificial intelligence and commercial satellites to identify an unexpected number of trees spread across arid and semi-arid areas, via @xurxosanz
  https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/147612/counting-trees-in-africas-drylands
• Monsoon is an open source fantastic map generator that uses numpy with the code in sight and explained on a notebook, via @vehrka
  https://fangzhangmnm.itch.io/moonsoon
• If the results of the main elections, wars and other events had been different we would have maps that represent alternative worlds to ours, such as those in this collection
  https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20201104-the-intriguing-maps-that-reveal-alternate-histories

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Nº1469: infrastructures, chiangmai, mcdonalds

Mon, 14 Dec 2020 by Raf

• Open Infrastructure Map makes the infrastructures of the world collected in OpenStreetMap, which generally do not appear prominently in the maps, visible
  https://openinframap.org/#2/26/12
• Where did the inspiration come from and how was the map “My Parallel Communities of Chiang Mai” conceived and made?
  https://www.guerrillacartography.org/blog/myopia-observing-communities-in-chiang-mai-thailand
• Making an order each minute at each McDonald's in the USA via the API lets you know if the ice cream machine at each store in the franchise still works
  https://mcbroken.com/

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Nº1468: pollution, wwii, counter-cartography

Fri, 11 Dec 2020 by Raf

• The observatory of industrial violence collects on a map of France all those environmental catastrophes that have an impact on people and the environment [FR]
  https://observatoiredesviolencesindustrielles.gogocarto.fr/annuaire#/carte/@47.17,-1.63,6z?cat=all
• The horror of air warfare: the extent to which German cities were affected by Allied bombing during WWII
  https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/air-war-germany-map
• "Cartography is dead, long live counter-cartography!" is a brief review of "This Is Not an Atlas: A Global Collection of Counter-Cartographies" published in 2018 by the Orangotango collective [FR]
  https://mastergeonum.org/2020/10/07/la-cartographie-est-morte-vive-la-contre-cartographie/

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