Nº663: madrid, subway, puerto rico, http, europe, brain, france, publications, anthropomorphic, open data, geodata, ads, trail, toronto, plains
by Raf
- Madrid public transport compared between Google and Apple maps
https://medium.com/@lalalalia/apple-maps-vs-google-maps-el-caso-de-madrid-8cddbc4b997c - Subway maps of cities around the world simplified and shrunken into a single page
http://pdovak.com/mini-metro-maps - Tsunami risk map of Puerto Rico
http://redsismica.uprm.edu/English/tsunami/maps.php - A testing environment to debug APIs and HTTP calls
https://github.com/asciimoo/wuzz - Weird map of USA as European countries and Morocco, by equal GDP
http://i.imgur.com/DaEAGM4.png - Topographic map based on a brain image, even with place names
http://www.unitseven.co.nz/ - French geospatial database available to download
http://professionnels.ign.fr/bdtopo - Energy, land and society publications from the Barcelona University GURB research group
https://gurbuab.com/publicacions/ - A music disc cover as an anthropomorphic map was awarded in 2016
https://spacefiction.wordpress.com/2017/01/19/the-absolute-truth-lawrence-arabia/ - Crowd sourced map and listings for open data portals
http://dataportals.org/ - Global geodata of administrative boundaries available as GeoJSON
http://geojson.xyz - Maps used by advertisers to sell products using our confidence in cartography
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/05/maps-cartography-propaganda-advertising-history-persuasive/ - How to make a printed map of hiking paths for a resort in Costa Rica
http://www.letsgetspatial.com/the-preserve-at-los-altos-trail-map/ - Ravines are shown perfectly at this 1 meter DEM map of Toronto you can buy as a poster
http://www.mapto.ca/maps/toronto-elevation-at-1m-countours - Rural plains in Argentina appear unsettled at day, but full of life at night
https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=90265
