#1907: wind, water, learning

Mon, 26 Sep 2022 by Raf

• In some parts of Europe the wind speeds observed last year are the lowest recorded in the last 40 years, with negative consequences for energy supply and the wind industry, and they keep slowing down [FR]
  https://www.lesechos.fr/monde/europe/comment-la-baisse-des-vents-contrarie-leolien-1805514
• In the 1990s, Bangalore, India's answer to Silicon Valley, experienced an accelerated growth with little planning and the resulting rapid urbanization has negatively impacted the city's ability to absorb and divert water
  https://www.reuters.com/world/india/traffic-water-shortages-now-floods-slow-death-indias-tech-hub-2022-09-15/
• Machine learning is used in GIS for prediction, classification and clustering of massive data, and both AI and ML are still growing fields with new environments constantly developing
  https://gisgeography.com/deep-machine-learning-ml-artificial-intelligence-ai-gis/

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#1906: shadows, classification, army

Fri, 23 Sep 2022 by Raf

• The combination of Blender arrival and high-precision elevation data made possible a new terrain map style recognizable by their large and dramatic shadows and their pop-off and tactile appearance
  https://stamen.com/shadows-on-maps-are-getting-a-lot-more-exciting-and-heres-why/
• A brief introduction to satellite image classification with neural networks: what's image classification, which models to use, and how to start your first project
  https://robmarkcole.com/posts/2022-09-24-satellite-image-classification.html
• Joseph Wen created more than a year ago an interactive map collecting more than 1700 Chinese army facilities worldwide, using only information publicly available like Wikipedia or Google Maps [CN]
  https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=19Q8BraU1Nmnk23TzMb5rhXFuIAnOpTTq&hl=zh-TW&ll=45.20865615255995%2C59.245866267661626&z=3

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#1905: course, forests, trees

Thu, 22 Sep 2022 by Raf

• On November 8th the Barcelona Institute for Global Health will start an online course about GIS development for environmental research with Open Source software (QGIS, R, Python)
  https://www.isglobal.org/en/-/gis-for-exposure-assessment-in-environmental-health-research
• Climate change is rising Arctic temperatures faster than the world average, and wildfires are moving to the North pole burning boreal forests and tundra, liberating large amounts of greenhouse gases
  https://graphics.reuters.com/CLIMATE-CHANGE/WILDFIRE-EMISSIONS/zjvqkrwmnvx/index.html
• Green areas benefit health and well-being, so tree distribution in cities should improve to reduce heat islands, especially in the poorest communities
  https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/150351/the-inequitable-distribution-of-urban-trees

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#1904: flat, rural, redonda

Wed, 21 Sep 2022 by Raf

• Disinformation, conspiracy theories, tinfoil hats, freaks, attention seekers, half-truths, and many other weirdities on this flat earth magazine in Spanish. [ES]
  https://enprimeraplana.org/revista/
• This 2022 rural atlas (PDF) continues the extensive work edited in 2009 and 2015 to understand the rural landscape in Catalonia. [CA]
  https://www.desenvolupamentrural.cat/projectes/larca/atles-mon-rural-2022
• @AlvaroAnguix from gvSIG project has created a geoportal of the Kingdom of Redonda (a small Caribbean Island) in honor its last king, the writer Javier Marías, who passed away in September 2022 via @vehrka [ES]
  https://blog.gvsig.org/2022/09/16/geoportal-del-reino-de-redonda/

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#1903: exhibition, rocks, protests

Tue, 20 Sep 2022 by Raf

• "Aragón: cartography and geographic information" presents a selection of maps, some never exhibited before, between the 16th of September and 15th of December 2022 at Zaragoza's Aljafería palace [ES]
  https://expocartoaragon2022.es
• "Rock Identifier: Stone ID" is an Android and iOS app that can identify a rock from a picture and provide all its details, ideal for geological explorations
  https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.picturerock.rock
• The "Mass Mobilization in Autocracies Database" provides subnational data both against and in favor of regimes at the city level and with daily resolution
  https://mmadatabase.org

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#1902: living, birds, neighborhoods

Mon, 19 Sep 2022 by Raf

• Where Might I live? is a tool that will find your perfect county in the USA using a large set of criteria. via @vehrka
  https://wheremightilive.com/map
• The "Bird Migration Explorer" from the National Audubon Society is a beautifully illustrated bird catalog showing their migratory routes along with plenty of data
  https://explorer.audubon.org/home?threatOverlay=expand
• "Map Our Borders" is a Public and Participatory GIS (PPGIS) for a visual representation of patterns and relationships to satisfy the necessity of gathering subjective information at the local scale
  https://mapourborders.com/

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#1901: lidar, podcast, atlas

Fri, 16 Sep 2022 by Raf

• The Schneefleckhöhle, a 160-meter marble cave in the Zillertal mountains in Austria, has been scanned and mapped in 3D with the Lidar of an iPhone 12 Pro and Polycam, using lights and the phone mounted on a Benro pole
  https://planetskier.blogspot.com/2022/08/schneefleckhohle.html
• Opencage have bought exclusive sponsorship of four episodes of the Mapscaping podcast and are giving away this space to small OpenStreetMap projects as a way to raise awareness and help them get off the ground via @freyfogle
  https://blog.opencagedata.com/post/partnering-with-mapscaping-to-promote-openstreetmap-projects
• Volume 6 of the 'Atlas of Design', a publication dedicated to showcasing some of the world's most beautiful and intriguing cartographic designs, is out in October and is available for pre-order now
  https://atlasofdesign.org/order/

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#1900: tippecanoe, real time, heritage

Thu, 15 Sep 2022 by Raf

• Among the latest news presented by Felt is a notable one: they will keep the Tippecanoe project, to create vector tiles, with its author Erica Fischer at the head, thanks @ibesora
  https://felt.com/blog/erica-fischer-tippecanoe-at-felt
• A dynamic and very intuitive geoportal that positions mobile or fixed elements on a map in real time, presenting identifying data for each located element and offering a global view of its trajectory, location or activity
  https://www.localizatodo.com/
• "Silent Erasure" is a satellite investigation of the destruction of Armenian cultural heritage in Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan, showing the destruction of 108 medieval and modern monasteries, churches and cemeteries between 1997 and 2011
  https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/48703f664f2f467b8f4f42008d8c75da

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#1899: soil, pedestrians, ml

Wed, 14 Sep 2022 by Raf

• The LUCAS 2018 dataset, the largest soil dataset in Europe, contains 19,000 samples analyzed for OC, pH, NPK, EC, Fe, Al, texture and other physical properties, in both CSV and SHP
  https://esdac.jrc.ec.europa.eu/content/lucas-2018-topsoil-data
• US-19, with eight lanes for cars, is the road with the most pedestrians hit in the USA due to both the design of the roads and the increase in traffic and the lack of empathy of vehicle drivers
  https://www.vox.com/23178764/florida-us19-deadliest-pedestrian-fatality-crisis
• Apple machine learning researchers propose a self-supervised method for learning geographic location representations from unlabeled GPS trajectories
  https://www.marktechpost.com/2022/08/09/apple-ml-researchers-propose-a-self-supervised-method-for-learning-representations-of-geographic-locations-from-unlabeled-gps-trajectories-to-solve-downstream-geospatial-computer-vision-tasks/

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#1898: watch, marine, women

Tue, 13 Sep 2022 by Raf

• The Greubel Forsey GMT Balancier Convexe is a watch where the Earth, which moves in a constant 24-hour rotation, is the aesthetic and conceptual center of a high-precision mechanism with 24 time zones
  https://www.greubelforsey.com/en/watches/gmt-balancier-convexe
• "Oceánicas: pioneras de la oceanografía" is a book by Antónia Calafat and Pablo Lozano, downloadable in epub, which explains the life and work of 20 illustrious marine scientists, some of them forgotten by history [ES]
  http://libros.csic.es/product_info.php?products_id=1632
• "Les dones i la notabilitat a la Viquipèdia" analyzes the gender bias in the data of Laouenan et al. in Scientific Data to map notable women in Catalonia [CA]
  https://wikimedia.cat/2022/09/03/les-dones-i-la-notabilitat-a-la-viquipedia/

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#1897: osm editor, book, ai

Mon, 12 Sep 2022 by Raf

• Every Door is a mobile editor, Android and iOS, for OpenStreetMap designed to confirm the existence of shops, edit buildings and add door numbers, and micromap benches, streetlights and manholes
  https://every-door.app/
• The book "Les cartes murales de Vidal-Lablache" by Jacques Scheibling and Caroline Leclerc will be released this October published by the publisher Armand Colin [FR]
  https://www.dunod.com/histoire-geographie-et-sciences-politiques/cartes-murales-vidal-lablache
• Testing phrases to create maps with Disco Diffusion, Google Colab's freely reusable notebook for generating images from text using a set of algorithmic techniques
  https://reticular.hypotheses.org/2261

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#1896: deep, game, slavery

Fri, 09 Sep 2022 by Raf

• Interactive 3D exploration of the 5 deepest points in the Earth's oceans
  https://geoxc-apps4.bd.esri.com/five-deeps/
• Hike It! (due October) is a strategy board game that offers solo, competitive and team options where you determine your route and your own gear to challenge the elements and Mother Nature
  https://www.thehikeitgame.com/
• "Last Seen: Finding Family After Slavery" aims to identify, digitize and transcribe advertisements placed in U.S. newspapers by formerly enslaved people seeking family and loved ones after emancipation
  https://informationwanted.org/geolocation/map/filters

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#1895: multimaps, turkey, london

Thu, 08 Sep 2022 by Raf

• A tool to choose from many maps (topographic, photo, road) and see two at once transparently, add layers or load data via @xurxosanz
  https://javier.jimenezshaw.com/mapas/
• Turkey's growing presence in Africa, to take advantage of vast untapped resources, rising demographics, rapid urbanization and the accompanying growth of the middle class
  https://www.cats-network.eu/topics/visualizing-turkeys-activism-in-africa
• Helping to understand the local areas and boroughs of London and providing as much information as possible about them before making the decision to move or buy a home there
  https://crystalroof.co.uk/

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#1894: water, armed, rockets

Wed, 07 Sep 2022 by Raf

• Best practices and recommendations from the Water Initiative of the Center for Geospatial Solutions at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy for sharing geospatial data in vector format in the context of water
  https://internetofwater.org/blog/geospatial-vector-data/
• The Armed Group Dataset (AGD) provides an overview of militant organizations that operated worldwide between 1970 and 2012, ready for quantitative analysis
  https://armedgroupdataset.org/
• European Launch Map 2022 shows each rocket manufacturer's offices and launch facilities with a 4-color ranking system via @AndrewParsonson
  https://europeanspaceflight.com/download/2022-european-launch-map/

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#1893: gps, decor, geology

Tue, 06 Sep 2022 by Raf

• High seas illegalities committed by ships of all types falsifying GPS positions to conduct shady commercial operations in conflict countries and areas
  https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/03/world/americas/ships-gps-international-law.html
• A wooden world map in pieces to assemble and of giant sizes to decorate walls, with various accessories and customizable with different configurations
  https://www.etsy.com/es/listing/747224423/wood-world-map-wall-art-wall-decor-5th
• Geological map of South America in relief at 1:5M scale made with Blender and the 90 meter resolution SRTM model
  https://www2.sgc.gov.co/MGC/Paginas/grmsa5M2022.aspx

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#1892: tornadoes, palestine, datasets

Mon, 05 Sep 2022 by Raf

• Tornado Archive is a website made by meteorologists, storm chasers and weather enthusiasts with a taste for data visualization, dedicated to tornado history and data preservation
  https://tornadoarchive.com/
• De-Colonizer is a research and art lab to experiment and create tools aimed at enabling those who live/want to live in Palestine/Israel to share it
  https://www.de-colonizer.org/
• Data Basin is a science-based mapping and analysis platform that supports learning, research and sustainable environmental management
  https://databasin.org/

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#1891: weather, qgis, ukraine

Fri, 02 Sep 2022 by Raf

• The European Severe Storms Laboratory (ESSL) has a web page with experimental automated forecasts based on three NWP models showing the likelihood of large hail and lightning storms
  https://weather.essl.org/storm/
• Modern versions of QGIS include a command-line utility called qgis_process that is very useful for process automation as it allows running algorithms without launching the full gui software
  https://spatialthoughts.com/2022/07/30/qgis_process_command_line/
• Using data derived from satellite imagery as well as reports from the field and other commercial data sources this article shows key moments in the road to the current impasse in the war in Ukraine
  https://graphics.reuters.com/UKRAINE-CRISIS/CONTROL/gdpzygorxvw/

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#1890: classification, gangs, gtfs

Thu, 01 Sep 2022 by Raf

• "Rhythm of the streets: a street classification framework based on street activity patterns" proposes a framework for classifying streets based on their temporal patterns of activity
  https://epjdatascience.springeropen.com/articles/10.1140/epjds/s13688-022-00355-5
• Mapping Chicago's criminal gangs through analysis of two old maps, 1923 and 1931, from the LoC collection via @vehrka
  https://blogs.loc.gov/maps/2022/07/mapping-the-gangs-of-chicago/?s=35
• A Qgis plugin that allows you to analyze files in GTFS format and shows both the routes and stops and also the frequencies of the sections in GeoJSON
  https://github.com/MIERUNE/GTFS-GO

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#1889: pools, foss, climate

Wed, 31 Aug 2022 by Raf

• The municipal map of Catalonia with the number of swimming pools per 100 inhabitants, which varies from 5000 inhabitants per swimming pool in l'Hospitalet de Llobregat to a swimming pool for every two inhabitants in Begur [CA]
  https://www.elcritic.cat/dades/el-mapa-de-la-catalunya-de-les-piscines-136404
• A practical guide to financial support for open source projects that provides a comprehensive list of all the ways people are paid to work for the community
  https://github.com/nayafia/lemonade-stand
• Impact of climate change on Arctic sea ice, represented by two parameters: sea ice extent and seawater ice concentration at the end of the summer period in September, developed by @Romainsologne [FR]
  https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fa52HOwXEAEWgly?format=jpg&name=4096x4096

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#1888: where?, dem, styles

Tue, 30 Aug 2022 by Raf

• Movemap is a tool to find out where to live in the USA based on your preferences and tastes, which allows you to filter by multiple parameters such as cost of living, territory, climate, demographics, services or natural risks
  https://www.movemap.io/explore/us
• Easily download the digital elevation models (DEM) made by the spanish National Geographic Institute from LIDAR data in resolutions of 2m, 5m, 25m and 200 meters in ASCII Grid format, open source developed by @martgnz [ES]
  https://martingonzalez.net/ign-dem-grabber/
• Chartographer, made by @stamen, is a visualization tool that breaks down the different stylesheet properties of vector tiles by layer and zoom level for easier analysis and debugging
  https://stamen.com/visualize-a-cross-section-of-your-map-with-chartographer/

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#1887: gps, population, surveillance

Mon, 29 Aug 2022 by Raf

• Maps of possible GPS interference, based on aircraft reporting on the accuracy of their navigation system, using data provided by "ADS-B Exchange". Created by @lemonodor
  https://gpsjam.org/?lat=45.00000&lon=35.00000&z=3.0&date=2022-07-24
• The Global Human Settlement Layer (GHSL) project provides free and open tools for assessing human presence on the planet and allows for free downloads of the population mesh data
  https://ghsl.jrc.ec.europa.eu/download.php?ds=pop
• US agencies integrated within Homeland Security acquired from all sorts of providers information and data of people's movements based on phone records for unauthorized tracking and surveillance
  https://www.politico.com/news/2022/07/18/dhs-location-data-aclu-00046208

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#1886: delaunay, airstrips, images

Fri, 26 Aug 2022 by Raf

• How to calculate the Delaunay diagram, in great detail via @xurxosanz
  https://ianthehenry.com/posts/delaunay/
• The New York Times has identified hundreds of illegal airstrips that supply criminal mining operations in the most remote corners of the indigenous lands of the Amazon in Brazil
  https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/08/02/world/americas/brazil-airstrips-illegal-mining.html
• A collection of resources for performing deep learning on satellite imagery, as well as classical machine learning and classical image processing techniques, compiled by @robmarkcole
  https://github.com/robmarkcole/satellite-image-deep-learning

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#1885: issues, trains, football

Thu, 25 Aug 2022 by Raf

• All the issues of Mappemonde (http://mappemonde.mgm.fr, a quarterly magazine of the geographical image and the forms of the territory) from 1986 to 2003, collected and available on the Persée portal [FR]
  https://www.persee.fr/collection/mappe
• Interactive isochron map showing how far you can travel by train from each station in Europe in less than 5 hours made by @_benjamintd
  https://www.chronotrains.com/
• Geographic map of Argentine football made by @RiccardoDAgnese available for pre-sale on Ebay with all Argentine teams (about 350), from "Primera División" to "Primera C Metropolitana" and "Torneo Federal B", other countries are also available [IT]
  https://www.ebay.it/usr/riky991

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#1884: rights, javascript, domes

Wed, 24 Aug 2022 by Raf

• Digital Democracy supports communities working to defend their human and environmental rights by providing basic digital tools to collect, share and manage information of all kinds of violations and abuses
  https://www.digital-democracy.org/storymap/
• Bertin.js is a JavaScript library for geospatial data visualization and thematic mapping for the web, in development
  https://github.com/neocarto/bertin
• DIY Geodesic Dome Garden Kits, with all boards and instructions but without the cover and poles, and in different sizes and prices
  https://shop.buildwithhubs.co.uk/

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#1883: birds, geoportal, wildfires

Tue, 23 Aug 2022 by Raf

• The eBird Science team uses state-of-the-art statistical models and machine learning to create visualizations and tools to better understand migration, abundance patterns, range limits, and other data about the world's birds
  https://science.ebird.org/en/status-and-trends
• Malgrat de Mar City Council has a Geoportal with visors, historical maps, thematic maps and vertical, oblique and panoramic aerial photography and also parcels served as TMS for Qgis and Leaflet via @marcollergarcia [CA]
  https://sites.google.com/site/srvmapes/
• In France they have the "BDIFF", the database of forest fires, in charge of centralizing all the data on forest fires since 2006 with an interactive query application [FR]
  https://bdiff.agriculture.gouv.fr/incendies

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