Nº913: diaries, review, software

Mon, 16 Jul 2018 by Raf

• GeoBlob is a new interactive way to visualize First World War diaries from the UK national archive
  https://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/blog/data-visualisation-first-world-war-diaries/
• ReTer is a Rome crowdsourced critical cartography project using a shared, independent, and non-profit environment
  http://www.reter.org/#zoom=11&lat=5145052.81019&lon=1391536.09974&layers=B00FFT
• New release of Ortelius, an OSX-only software for digital map making
  https://www.mapdiva.com/ortelius/

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Nº912: network, roofs, cordoba

Fri, 13 Jul 2018 by Raf

• Studying the orthogonality of city street networks around the World using polar coordinate systems diagrams
  http://geoffboeing.com/2018/07/city-street-orientations-world/
• Aerial imagery and deep learning to classify UK roof types via @ibesora
  https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/uktechnet/2018/04/18/classifying-the-uks-roofs-from-aerial-imagery-using-deep-learning-with-cntk/
• Visualize Córdoba city growth between 1891 and 2017 with Cadastre data
  https://catastro-eugvqccadd.now.sh/

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Nº911: wales, adirondack, nyc

Thu, 12 Jul 2018 by Raf

• A strong heat wave and drought in Wales fields are showing ancient remains from the Iron Age
  https://earther.com/scorching-heat-wave-reveals-signs-of-ancient-civilizati-1827482705
• The Adirondack Atlas is a complete information system for the park with an open API to query any data
  https://adirondackatlas.org/
• Using several geospatial parameters to find the best location for NYC food trucks
  https://carto.com/blog/optimizing-food-truck-locations/

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Nº910: dublin, welfare, geoint

Wed, 11 Jul 2018 by Raf

• Dublin Housing Observatory groups open data in four key groups around accessible housing
  https://airomaps.geohive.ie/DHO/
• The distressed communities index (DCI) combines seven complementary metrics on the economic USA community well-being
  http://eig.org/dci
• Connected crisis: crisis mapping community has been transformed by geospatial intelligence, making the USA way more aware about natural disasters
  http://trajectorymagazine.com/connected-crisis/

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Nº909: neuronal, gnss, thefts

Tue, 10 Jul 2018 by Raf

• Step by step guide using RoboSat to create a dataset, train a segmentation model and extract buildings from aerial images
  https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/daniel-j-h/diary/44321
• A collaborative GNSS stations network to provide RTK correction open and low-cost signal to obtain centimeter precision
  https://github.com/jancelin/centipede
• The first analysis of bicycle thefts in Italy, using the most interesting urban areas on alternative and sustainable mobility
  https://thesubmarine.it/2017/12/03/come-si-contrastano-i-furti-di-biciclette-in-tutta-italia/

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Nº908: buildings, edmonton, relief

Mon, 09 Jul 2018 by Raf

• All USA building footprints were published recently by Microsoft, but without any quality at all, it's just a quantitative glance
  https://kannes.github.io/usbuildings/
• Edmonton city growth year after year on an animated map
  http://housing.dha.io/
• Comparing a Digital Elevation Model of Switzerland with a surface model obtained using LIDAR data
  https://map.geo.admin.ch/?lang=de&layers=ch.bafu.landesforstinventar-vegetationshoehenmodell_relief,ch.swisstopo.swissalti3d-reliefschattierung&topic=ech&bgLayer=ch.swisstopo.pixelkarte-farbe&E=2690616.62&N=1191124.95&zoom=7&swipe_ratio=0.53

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Nº907: zanzibar, georadar, climbing

Fri, 06 Jul 2018 by Raf

• Zanzibar government is working on country Open Data cartography using twelve drones not just to gather data but also to be prepared for natural disasters
  https://opendri.org/project/zanzibar/
• An Iberian city has been discovered at Banyeres del Penedès using Georadar, as a video displays at the end of the report
  http://www.ub.edu/web/ub/ca/menu_eines/noticies/2018/07/011.html
• 3D climbing maps with routes and descriptions created using photogrammetric techniques for their better description and even new findings
  https://rockandice.com/climbing-news/the-climbing-topos-of-the-future-3d-climbing-maps-with-climb-assist/

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Nº906: footprint, railroads, celebration

Thu, 05 Jul 2018 by Raf

• Human footprint on Earth through an interactive Story Map and a series of infographics about different activities
  http://cooper-thomas.com/portfolio/the-human-reach-atlas/
• The Spanish Railways Foundation has a section in Google Arts & Culture with an extensive archive of rail-related resources, including a map collection
  https://artsandculture.google.com/partner/fundacion-de-los-ferrocarriles-espanoles
• Once the geography was covered, cartographers started to have fun on maps playing with ambiguity; this collection renders love, festivity, and marriage
  https://publicdomainreview.org/collections/allegorical-maps-of-love-courtship-and-matrimony/

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Nº905: geopolitics, parks, excavations

Wed, 04 Jul 2018 by Raf

• Silk Road geopolitical representations: cartography and remote satellite imagery analysis
  https://journals.openedition.org/espacepolitique/4663
• High resolution and downloadable panoramic illustrations of USA National Parks by Heinrich Berann
  https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/06/berann-national-parks-illustration-maps-culture/
• Amsterdam subway excavations allowed to access old Amstel River layers, recovering more than 700.000 objects of all kinds, ages, and origins
  https://belowthesurface.amsterdam/en/pagina/de-opgravingen-index

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Nº904: future, underground, geolocate

Tue, 03 Jul 2018 by Raf

• The future of maps: 21st-century cartography, or the intersection between science, technology, and art for personal geographies
  https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/cartography-in-the-21st-century/index.html
• Iceberg Project between Ordnance Survey (OS), British Geological Survey (BGS, and Future Cities Catapult (FCC) to explore, capture and share underground data
  https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/business-and-government/smart/underground-assets-project-iceberg.html
• GeoSetter is a freeware tool for Windows to display and edit geospatial picture metadata
  https://www.geosetter.de/en/main-en/

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Nº903: green, housing, lava

Mon, 02 Jul 2018 by Raf

• A project to transform the vegetation islands in Moscow into a giant urban park
  http://dvorulitsa.moscow/eng/
• Buying or renting: a map showing the distribution of owners and renters in the USA, using 2010 data
  https://hackernoon.com/renters-and-owners-visualizing-every-person-in-the-us-ba97d3c49c02
• 3D model from different point clouds and other sources of the Kilauea volcano and the cracks where lava sprouts out
  http://kilauealidar.com/

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Nº902: irrigation, hand drawn, flights

Fri, 29 Jun 2018 by Raf

• Almería (Spain) historical irrigation lands crowdsourced map, showing also the communities that take care of them
  http://regadiohistorico.es/espacios-de-regadio
• A selection of hand-drawn New York maps, open for display at the NY Public Library until July 16th via @mattknutzen
  https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/06/14/illustrated-maps-of-new-york-through-the-ages/
• Using FlightRadar24, aerial routes to Rome, Tokyo and New York in 2 and 3 dimensions
  https://flightstorome.moovellab.com/

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Nº901: roads, oblique, digital

Thu, 28 Jun 2018 by Raf

• Using two different methods to evaluate OSM road network coverage: more than 40% of world countries are fully covered, in total OSM covers 83% of the world roads
  http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0180698
• An online archive of UK oblique aerial imagery with more than 1.2 million of pictures between 1919 and 2006 showing evolution of the territory over the XXI century
  https://britainfromabove.org.uk/
• Open Source code in France are reusable administrative documents, and they have a report with their public contributions to the Digital Commons
  https://twitter.com/_DINSIC/status/996347181505437697?s=19

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Nº900: archaeolandscapes, hip-hop, desertification, london

Wed, 27 Jun 2018 by Raf

• An archaeologic analysis of the medieval landscape of Bruges region displayed on a Pieter Pourbus map made in 1561
  http://www.mappingpourbus.ugent.be/index.html
• An open to contributions world hip-hop map showing 323 songs from 191 cities and 77 countries
  http://goumprod.com/global-hiphop/
• Desertification World Atlas helps to understand Earth degradation and sustainable management of our environment
  https://wad.jrc.ec.europa.eu/
• Layers of London is an ongoing project to show stories and heritage of the city on a map
  http://alpha.layersoflondon.org/

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Nº899: nuke, hydraulic, plastic

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 by Raf

• An infographic highlights the effect of Nagasaki nuclear bomb explosion in other world cities
  https://i.redditmedia.com/asaWLyALP6Yyy8upKFIqoBsJSAvmmc3zSTRaZmI07_k.png?s=0b158d2e9cd1263c3d0627e519896890
• Madrid region hydraulic heritage, a representative sample of some remaining examples after an intense process of urbanization, industrialization and modernization of the irrigation landscapes during XX and XXI centuries
  http://geomatica.imdea-agua.org/Webmappings/index.html
• Five countries and ten rivers are responsible for 80% of ocean pollution and five thousand million tons of plastic thrown into our seas
  https://labs.letemps.ch/interactive/2018/longread-homo-plasticus/

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Nº898: migrating, gulag, linguistics

Mon, 25 Jun 2018 by Raf

• Puerto Rico forced migration after Maria Hurricane can be analyzed using Mobile phones data
  https://www.citylab.com/environment/2018/05/watch-puerto-ricos-hurricane-migration-via-mobile-phone-data/559889/
• Gulag Cartography: working camps that run between 1930 and 1950 at the old Russia state, divided into three categories by purpose
  http://gulagmap.ru/
• An interactive version of Gough map, one of the first Great Britain maps, as a linguistic map
  http://www.goughmap.org/

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Nº897: england, summits, porks

Fri, 22 Jun 2018 by Raf

• Storymap with the complete works and legacy of Humphrey Llwyd, the visionary of a unified Britain
  https://www.arcgis.com/apps/MapJournal/index.html?appid=72d6135a90ce440e98e550e71da8876e
• 3D interactive map with the 10 highest mountains of the Earth regions
  http://www.arcgis.com/apps/Cascade/index.html?appid=a18b50e55c7c43f2b21752fe4b691f12
• 2014 European Pork Sector report showing the concentration of pig farms
  http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php/Pig_farming_sector_-_statistical_portrait_2014

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Nº896: exploitation, hydrography, exile

Thu, 21 Jun 2018 by Raf

• Analyzing the overlay of where refugees are located and big urban areas in developing countries, about job opportunities and multinational corporations participation
  https://www.cgdev.org/publication/are-refugees-located-near-urban-job-opportunities
• RiverGIS is a QGIS plugin to study hydrography creating geometries from HEC-RAS flux model and geospatial data
  http://rivergis.com/
• A crowdsourced map of Spaniards exiled in Mexico, to geo-visualize exile historical memory
  https://www.exiliomexico.escoitar.org/

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Nº895: tour, comparison, cup

Wed, 20 Jun 2018 by Raf

• Interactive map made with ESRI components about the Tour of France 2018 with maps, filters, and 2D/3D stages
  https://github.com/ialixandroae/letour2018
• Different ways to compare data using maps but as always, you need to be careful with legends
  https://beta.observablehq.com/@mbostock/methods-of-comparison-compared
• The World Map Cup begins, open to everyone, over four weeks different challenges around maps will be used to select the winners
  https://www.mapbox.com/world-map-cup/

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Nº894: vienna, italy, admiral

Tue, 19 Jun 2018 by Raf

• Vienna street names map showing the unbalance on urban planning from a gender perspective, as everywhere
  http://genderatlas.at/articles/strassennamen.html
• Ancient Italian road network displayed as a modern metro map, also available for sale as a high-quality PDF for print
  https://sashat.me/2018/05/27/roman-roads-of-italy/
• The old nautical charts research project started by a Portugues admiral to pursue a Ph.D. in History of Cartography
  https://erc.europa.eu/projects-figures/stories/sailing-mysteries-old-maps

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Nº893: oil, philippines, refugees

Mon, 18 Jun 2018 by Raf

• Oil makes a community wealthier but also increases cancer mortality: a study at the Shushufindi oil deposit in Ecuador
  http://www.giustiziambientale.org/ecuador-il-petrolio-migliora-la-tua-comunita-ma-la-gente-muore-di-cancro/
• A topography and seafloor map of the Philippines, with a high-resolution version in preparation via @mapmakerdavid
  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yZ1zz3WFOGmqO8njfa6vyYSyOGEx04rL/view
• Lecturing cartography to refugees so they can map their camps and facilities
  https://theconversation.com/i-teach-refugees-to-map-their-world-94160

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Nº892: relief, research, air

Fri, 15 Jun 2018 by Raf

• Two relief legend palettes explained: the difference between decorative and perceptive legends
  https://clustergis.wordpress.com/2015/04/04/hipsometria-e-hipsografia-v/
• "Navigae" is a platform for cartography research, allowing to compare maps from different ages
  https://www.navigae.fr
• Animated globe to display atmospheric pollution modeled after a network of more than ten thousand sensors
  https://www.airvisual.com/earth

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Nº891: pandas, slam, nola

Thu, 14 Jun 2018 by Raf

• GeoPandas is an easy way to work with geospatial data and Python, even on Jupyter notebooks
  http://www.acgeospatial.co.uk/geopandas-shapefiles-jupyter/
• SLAM (Simultaneously Localize And Map) technique allows drones to combine all pictures to generate a 3D model while flying
  https://www.lockheedmartin.com/en-us/products/cdl-systems/hydra-fusion-tools.html
• Using GIS and Maps New Orleans is getting ready for an unpredictable future where its neighborhoods are adapting to an array of different weather possible events
  https://datasmart.ash.harvard.edu/news/article/map-monday-climate-smart-cities-new-orleans

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Nº890: dinosaurs, extraction, carbon

Wed, 13 Jun 2018 by Raf

• Using a free online tool to create dinosaurs and geological ages timeline map
  https://mappimundi.com/viewer/mappimundi/dinosaurs
• RoboSat, Open Source to automatically extract features from aerial and satellite imagery, like buildings, parking lots, roads and vehicles via @ibesora
  https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/daniel-j-h/diary/44145
• Using Scope 3 emissions to compute absolute and per capita carbon footprints on a global gridded model for 189 countries with CC-BY-NC text and image
  http://citycarbonfootprints.info/

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Nº889: isolation, rats, django

Tue, 12 Jun 2018 by Raf

• Glasgow, Montana, is the most isolated but inhabited place in the USA with 3363 people and 4.5 hours from the closest metropolitan area
  https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2018/02/20/using-the-best-data-possible-we-set-out-to-find-the-middle-of-nowhere/
• A New York rats population interactive map, showing chronical issues with these little animals
  https://geobi-lab.com/nyc_rats-1.html
• A simple tutorial on how to add maps powered by Mapbox to Django web applications
  https://www.fullstackpython.com/blog/maps-django-web-applications-projects-mapbox.html

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