Nº1227: 30daymapchallenge, libraries, usa, location intellence

Thu, 12 Dec 2019 by Raf

• @dakvid did a great effort to collect most of the 30 day Map Challenge submissions in a single gallery, searchable and filtrable
  https://david.frigge.nz/30DayMapChallenge/index.html
• t@themappyisthour podcast talks about spatial and cartography librarians via @lluisanglada and @noraes
  http://ds.lib.ucdavis.edu/2019/09/24/mappyist-hour-podcast-highlights-datalabs-michele-tobias-and-spatial-experts-working-in-libraries/
• "The 2100 Project: An Atlas for the Green New Deal" wants to set up the key aspects to revolutionize the way we produce and transform how and where do we live
  https://mcharg.upenn.edu/2100-project-atlas-green-new-deal
• How @Jeff_App startup map department works to expand their business and improve their franchise effectivity
  https://medium.com/@jeffapp.com/mapping-and-visualizing-jeffs-revolution-75a1293ec671

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Nº1226: machine learning, place names, geocoding, python

Wed, 11 Dec 2019 by Raf

• Radiant MLHub is a cloud-based open library for geospatial training data to advance machine learning applications on Earth Observations
  https://mlhub.earth/index.html
• This research project on the distribution of the wolf and brown bear in Italy demonstrates how place names reflect the previous spread of animal species
  https://natureconservation.pensoft.net/article/38279/
• This handy geocoder specifically aimed for journalists shows the results of the process directly on a web map to check them before copying them back
  https://geocode.localfocus.nl/
• EarthPy builds upon the functionality developed for raster data (rasterio) and vector data (geopandas) in Python and simplifies the code needed to manipulate spatial data
  https://github.com/earthlab/earthpy

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Nº1225: christmas, mobility, germany, heating

Tue, 10 Dec 2019 by Raf

• Print, cut, and fold these dymaxion globe maps for your Christmas geonerd tree
  https://adventuresinmapping.com/2019/12/06/dymaxion-globe-christmas-ornament-thing/
• Personal mobility data can help urban planners to reveal hidden city patterns
  https://openyourcity.com/2019/12/how-urban-data-reveals-the-hidden-life-behind-cities/
• Analyzing the German real estate market based and how it affects low-income families [DE]
  https://www.zeit.de/wirtschaft/2019-12/mietbelastung-mietpreise-einkommen-wohnen-deutschland
• There's still 2% of households in the USA that burn wood or coal for heating
  https://metricmaps.files.wordpress.com/2019/12/firewood-coal-burning-for-heat.png

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Nº1224: music, postgis, nyc, catdrons2019

Mon, 09 Dec 2019 by Raf

• "In many ways #cartography is to a landscape what music notation is to sound" PYP Look and listen to @ewan_a_campbell's musical map here
  https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/blog/2018/05/mapping-music-glynde/
• An on-line training website by @crunchydata with practical lessons to learn at your own pace about @PostgreSQL and @PostGIS
  https://learn.crunchydata.com/postgis
• A map of all languages spoken in New York City, the most language-diverse metropolitan area of the world
  http://elalliance.org/programs/maps/
• All the slides from the Catalonia Smart Drones conference in a single place
  https://onedrive.live.com/?authkey=%21AKNDnkxHG4837vQ&cid=ED3F6C016B48C8FA&id=ED3F6C016B48C8FA%2121775&parId=ED3F6C016B48C8FA%2120508&o=OneUp

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Nº1223: gas, fires, 30daymapchallenge

Thu, 05 Dec 2019 by Raf

• This open API that returns as JSON climate-changing gas emission data processed from Sentinel-5P satellite via @sfggeogis
  https://emissions-api.org/
• The worldwide catalog of fire detections by MODIS and VIIRS satellites is available on this online map, almost in real-time
  https://firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/map/
• @maartenzam reviews all the maps he has generated for this November challenge of map making
  http://www.maartenlambrechts.com/2019/11/01/my-30daymapchallenge.html

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Nº1222: tokyo, disasters, glaziers

Wed, 04 Dec 2019 by Raf

• This website is the visual counterpart to the book "Tokyo, Portraits & Fictions” to present the ideas of this book in a place-based, visual form [JA]
  https://www.tokyofictions.com/
• Avoiding what is known as "second disaster" for relief management using Machine Learning
  https://www.azavea.com/blog/2019/11/25/ethical-machine-learning-for-disaster-relief-avoiding-the-second-disaster/
• Using new and old pictures to understand how Alps glaziers are dramatically retreating
  https://www.reuters.com/article/us-climate-change-swiss/new-photos-vs-old-comparisons-show-dramatic-swiss-glacier-retreat-idUSKBN1XZ0UB

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Nº1221: surnames, quality, google

Tue, 03 Dec 2019 by Raf

• Surnames by country world map extracted from analyzing a genealogy portal and other uncited sources
  https://www.netcredit.com/blog/most-common-name-country/
• This paper rigorously assesses the accuracy and quality of a ULS system with comparisons to terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) data, total station (TS) measurements, and Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) check points
  https://www.mdpi.com/2220-9964/8/12/532
• This is a script that generates an interactive geo heatmap from your Google location history data using Python, Folium and OpenStreetMap
  https://github.com/luka1199/geo-heatmap

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Nº1220: familiies, flow, hydro

Mon, 02 Dec 2019 by Raf

• Household changes in France over the last 60 years have an impact on the territory, and understanding it is vital for better public policies [FR]
  https://www.observatoire-des-territoires.gouv.fr/observatoire-des-territoires/fr/g-ographie-des-m-nages
• Arabesque is a web application to generate comprehensive thematic flow mapping visualizations
  http://arabesque.ifsttar.fr/
• TUFLOW is a hydraulic modeling engine to generate 1D/2D flood models that now is accessible as a QGIS plugin
  https://wiki.tuflow.com/index.php?title=TUFLOW_QGIS_Plugin

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Nº1219: military, forests, floods

Fri, 29 Nov 2019 by Raf

• A world map of military spending comparing NATO versus the rest of the world using 2018 data
  https://i.redd.it/wjm7i6pe1n041.png
• A paid service to get forestry inventory from a few Spanish provinces, including reports by species
  https://forestmap.es/
• Sentinel 2 imagery to display the results of mudslides coming to the sea in recent floods at Attica, Greece
  https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2019/11/Attica_floods

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Nº1218: underwater, expats, pricing

Thu, 28 Nov 2019 by Raf

• Sea-Thru is a new method to remove water from submarine pictures to get a better image of the objects portrayed (PDF)
  http://openaccess.thecvf.com/content_CVPR_2019/papers/Akkaynak_Sea-Thru_A_Method_for_Removing_Water_From_Underwater_Images_CVPR_2019_paper.pdf
• A map of the current emigrated Spaniards according to the INE CERA registry [ES]
  https://irenedelatorre.github.io/30DayMapChallenge/30-day-map-challenge-yellow/
• A crowdsourced map of the land price in Latin America [ES]
  http://valorsueloamericalatina.giscloud.com/

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Nº1217: food security, scher, mobile, compare

Wed, 27 Nov 2019 by Raf

• OCHA PDF report about the growing and worrying food security situation in Southern Africa, especially with the ramping droughts
  https://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/ROSEA_20191113_SA_Humanitarian_Snapshot_Nov2019.pdf
• The obsessive maps of Paula Scher, hand-drawn, and including topics like demographics, weather, housing prices, etc
  https://www.curbed.com/2016/2/22/11094204/paula-scher-maps-us-new
• Groundsman is an Android application allowing you to capture GPS traces and hand-drawn geometries directly from the field
  https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.Groundsman.GeoApp&hl=en_US
• @Matarocat city hall reuses @ICGCGeostarters WMS comparator, Open Source, and available at Github
  https://github.com/gencat/ICGC-comparador-gificador

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Nº1216: genetics, amazon, bsas

Tue, 26 Nov 2019 by Raf

• DNA and location: using geospatial science to genetic students allow mapping species variations and predict their distribution
  https://www.gislounge.com/dna-science-and-gis/#click=https://t.co/frHVSBYxe4
• Continuous tracking and analysis of forest fires using satellite imagery reveal the origin of this summer devastating forest fires in the Amazon
  https://maaproject.org/2019/brazil-amazon-fires/
• An R package to reference and visualize data from urban and social programs in Buenos Aires is helping to evaluate their objectives and scope [ES]
  https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/presentando-gpe-georreferenciación-y-visualización-de-vazquez-brust/

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Nº1215: osm, etl, landslides

Mon, 25 Nov 2019 by Raf

• RapiD is an online OSM editor IA assisted, predicting the road network of any zone, also available for Maproulette and the HOT Tasking Manager
  https://medium.com/@michalmigurski/mapping-remote-roads-with-openstreetmap-rapid-and-qgis-bfee74f14ae0
• An Esri Open Source proxy server to convert different providers (geojson, socrata, csv, carto, etc) into vector tiles or OGC API features via @xurxosanz
  https://koopjs.github.io/
• USA landslides collected on a centralized inventory
  https://usgs.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=ae120962f459434b8c904b456c82669d

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Nº1214: terrain, buildings, apple

Fri, 22 Nov 2019 by Raf

• New conflict landscapes demand worldwide 3D virtual training scenes (including cities), and the USA army is working on having one
  https://trajectorymagazine.com/fighting-on-new-frontiers/
• Finding the most remote buildings of Great Britain: a challenge solved using PostGIS, QGIS, and Open Data
  https://medium.com/@SRW/finding-the-most-remote-buildings-in-britain-8437cf29717d
• A detailed analysis of the 6th expansion of Apple Maps to track its evolution and significant changes
  https://www.justinobeirne.com/new-apple-maps-midwest-west

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Nº1213: colonialism, soups, divide

Thu, 21 Nov 2019 by Raf

• A collection of online maps that question cartography objectivity about colonialism and our relationship with the territory
  https://decolonialatlas.wordpress.com/
• With winter arriving at the Northern Hemisphere, find and enjoy this Europe (and Aruba) soup recipes map via Marc de la Tempesta
  https://www.tasteatlas.com/europe/soups
• With PostGIS, using ST_Subdivide will very likely speed up your Point in Polygon aggregations, just be careful when rendering your split polygons
  http://blog.cleverelephant.ca/2019/11/subdivide.html

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Nº1212: bbox, gps, companies

Wed, 20 Nov 2019 by Raf

• BBoxDB is a key-value store enhanced including a bounding box, aimed to work with multi-dimensional big data
  https://bboxdb.org/
• Shanghai harbor is experiencing a significant amount of GPS spoofing cases, and the reasons are not clear
  https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614689/ghost-ships-crop-circles-and-soft-gold-a-gps-mystery-in-shanghai/
• A ranking of the most relevant Spanish companies by province [ES]
  https://www.datacentric.es/ranking-empresas-espana/

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Nº1211: construction, streets, shade

Tue, 19 Nov 2019 by Raf

• VigiBati is an online map to access all construction permits from France, taken from the national Sitadel database [FR]
  https://vigibati.fr/
• The old paths, property limits, railways, and other features shape the current street network of our cities, even they changed their use forever [ES]
  https://www.eldiario.es/economia/Trazados-fantasma-misteriosas-actividad-economica_0_963804264.html
• CoolWalks is an experimental route calculator for Barcelona that takes into account building shades to prevent heat shocks
  http://www2.bcnregional.com/

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Nº1210: geohipster, hiking, commute

Mon, 18 Nov 2019 by Raf

• 2020 GeoHipster calendar is available for sale. with an astounding selection of contributed maps
  http://geohipster.com/2019/11/14/on-postgis-day-we-reveal-the-map-authors-for-our-2020-calendar/
• The best 15 hikes around Switzerland; with maps and GPX traces available for download, and a range of difficulty
  https://www.nzz.ch/gesellschaft/reise/hiking-in-switzerland-the-most-beautiful-hikes-ld.1408315
• A 2016 map of France mobility showing trips between home and workplaces [FR]
  https://visualizemap.github.io/visualizefrance/mapbox/communes-mobilites-pro.html

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Nº1209: web, arctic, inequality

Fri, 15 Nov 2019 by Raf

• Materials from the #NACIS2019 talk by @awoodruff: "Desktop-style cartography with web graphics" via @xurxosanz
  https://www.axismaps.com/nacis2019
• Assuming the worst prediction for Global Warming (RCP8.5), the Arctic would lose all the ice, and its temperature would rise 7.5C by 2060
  https://i.redd.it/lv86fq5neay31.jpg
• The World Inequality Database provides key indicators by country ready for filtering and downloading
  https://wid.world/world/#sptinc_p99p100_z/US;FR;DE;CN;ZA;GB;WO/last/eu/k/p/yearly/s/false/5.487/30/curve/false/region

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Nº1208: belgium, toxic, bikes

Thu, 14 Nov 2019 by Raf

• A detailed explanation, including code snippets, on how the 1971 - 2018 Belgium orthophoto compared map was developed
  http://www.maartenlambrechts.com/2019/10/28/look-through-history-map-making-of.html
• A story map describes the section of the Mississippi River between Baton Rouge and New Orleans, known as Cancer Alley; this is the most toxic area of the USA
  https://projects.propublica.org/louisiana-toxic-air/
• This report describes with data and charts Guadalajara city (Mexico) sharing bike service [ES]
  http://hasselfallas.com/2019/10/29/guadalajara-en-bici-mibici/

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Nº1207: seagrass, lego, dorling

Wed, 13 Nov 2019 by Raf

• Mapping Mediterranean seagrass forests with a combination of remote sensing, GIS, and sonar data
  https://www.gislounge.com/mapping-the-subsea-forests-of-the-mediterranean/
• How to convert a GeoTIFF DEM image into a Lego map using just JavaScript
  https://observablehq.com/@rveciana/lego-map-with-javascript
• This Dorling Cartogram shows the results of the last presidential Spanish elections by municipality and population
  https://observablehq.com/@adrianblanco/dorling-cartogram-of-the-spanish-presidential-election

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Nº1206: parks, tracing

Tue, 12 Nov 2019 by Raf

• This route connects all the USA national parks in a 14184-mile road trip
  https://metricmaps.org/2019/10/26/contiguous-us-national-parks-14184-mile-road-trip/
• This Windows software allows rendering height maps with advanced lighting settings
  http://ephtracy.github.io/index.html?page=aerialod

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Nº1205: traditions, collaboration

Mon, 11 Nov 2019 by Raf

• Terrastories is a geo-storytelling application built to enable local communities to locate and map their own oral traditions, Open Source
  https://github.com/Terrastories/terrastories
• Social Map is a tool to collect georeferenced data for all kinds of crowdsourced projects
  https://the-hive.com.au/blog/future-collaborative-mapping-here

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Nº1204: floods, open data, amsterdam

Fri, 08 Nov 2019 by Raf

• This coastal risk screening tool predicts which lands will be below the see by 2050, via gontxatorre@mastodon.eus
  https://coastal.climatecentral.org/map/10/0.6525/40.7717/?theme=sea_level_rise&map_type=coastal_dem_comparison&elevation_model=coastal_dem&fore=&forecast_year=2050&pathway=rcp45&percentile=p50&return_level=return_level_1&slr_model=kopp_2014
• The collaboration between Google and CARTO enables BigQuery public geospatial datasets
  https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/new-geospatial-data-comes-to-bigquery-public-datasets-with-carto-collaboration
• The iterative process to visualize Amsterdam's daily collected data ends up in a hypnotic video of the city heartbeat
  https://medium.com/@craig.taylor_72813/tomtom-visualising-amsterdams-heartbeat-7939e9b60d66

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Nº1203: git, terrain, vgi

Thu, 07 Nov 2019 by Raf

• How to add your location to your git commits from a Mac computer, thanks @OpenCageData
  https://github.com/OpenCageData/opencagedata-misc-docs/tree/master/add-location-to-git-commit
• Open Source software to convert Mapbox terrain tiles to PNG encoded files, ready to use on some popular games
  https://github.com/colkassad/terrain-rgb-height
• "The National Map Corps" is an online volunteering crowdsourced cartography project dedicated to improving USA official cartography
  https://www.usgs.gov/core-science-systems/ngp/tnm-corps

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