Nº1059: electricity, partisan, last mile, women, lidar, lidar

Fri, 22 Mar 2019 by Raf

• Animated map of the last 17 years of electric power generation in the USA, moving from coal to gas, wind and solar
  https://electricitytransition.com/#3.8/41.72/-96.5
• The geography of partisan prejudice shows the USA counties by political prejudice
  https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/03/us-counties-vary-their-degree-partisan-prejudice/583072/
• A study of the impact of the last mile logistics in Barcelona, proposing a new model to reduce urban congestion
  https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/last-mile-en-bcn-pablo-martinez-diez/
• A project to archive and highlight the contribution of women to the Cartography world
  https://othercartographies.com/
• The RIEGL miniVUX-1UAV is an extremely lightweight airborne laser scanner, designed for integration with UAS/UAV/RPAS
  http://www.riegl.com/products/unmanned-scanning/riegl-minivux-1uav/
• USGS point clouds in a single page with direct access through Entwine to render them using Potree or Plasio
  https://usgs.entwine.io/

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Nº1058: place names, r, journal, timeline, segmentation, public transport

Thu, 21 Mar 2019 by Raf

• Neotoponimy is a blog devoted to political toponymy studies, that is, about how new place names are created
  https://neotopo.hypotheses.org/
• Free online course: "Introduction to GIS: Manipulating and Mapping Geospatial Data in R"
  https://socialcops.com/courses/introduction-to-gis-r/
• "L’âme des Lieux" is a French quarterly journal about traveling and worldwide issues where maps play a relevant role
  https://lamedeslieux.fr/
• Timeliner is a personal data aggregation utility to help preserve personal and family history by storing it in your computer
  https://github.com/mholt/timeliner
• Open Source Deep Learning building extraction software powered by semantic segmentation
  https://github.com/datapink/robosat.pink
• A guide on how to add public transport routes to OpenStreetMap
  https://osmand.net/blog/guideline-pt

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Nº1057: drawings, geostatistics, acoustics, trash, sugar free, maps

Wed, 20 Mar 2019 by Raf

• A historical GIS by the Russian Academy of Sciences geolocating geographic drawings via @maplibrarian
  http://rgada.info/geos2/
• A new book "Model-based Geostatistics for Global Public Health: Methods and Applications" on using Open Source for public health research
  https://www.crcpress.com/Model-based-Geostatistics-for-Global-Public-Health-Methods-and-Applications/Diggle-Giorgi/p/book/9781138732353
• Using GIS tools to understand acoustics for missing communities, the case for Pueblo Bonito (New Mexico)
  https://www.mdpi.com/2624-599X/1/1/7/htm
• Urban mining in Málaga (Spain), getting profit from electronic trash
  https://cartometrics.com/urbanMine.html
• A crowdsourced map of pharmacies that avoid selling homeopathy products in Spain
  https://sugarfree.io/
• A portal to extract maps from sites like Reddit and Wikipedia, ordered by users popularity and inbound traffic
  https://www.mapmania.org/

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Nº1056: education, paths, drones, qgis, permafrost, countries

Fri, 15 Mar 2019 by Raf

• "Lindsey, the GIS specialist. A GIS mapping story" is an illustrated educating book with a small geospatial glossary via @delawen
  https://www.bolton-menk.com/books/lindsey/Lindsey.html
• Data analysis and beautiful design to show the busiest paths of Great Britain, from Ordnance Survey collected user data
  https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/blog/2019/03/data-visualisations-show-britains-most-trodden-paths/
• PDF report about experimental tests to capture images using drones
  http://www.prisma-tic.cat/sites/default/files/papers/media/informe_avaluacio_restauracio_activitats_extractives_amb_drons_2018.pdf
• The third edition of the GIS and urban planning online curse, 80 hours and 250€ between April 24th and June 4th
  http://www.sigdeletras.com/2019/curso_on_line_sistemas_de_informacion_geografica_qgis_y_urbanismo_3_edicion/
• Permafrost melting is the worst global warming effect, and places like Tibet are noticing it
  https://multimedia.scmp.com/news/world/article/3000839/permafrost/
• An alternative data-driven map using the t-SNE algorithm to visually group similar countries
  https://projects.interacta.io/country-tsne

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Nº1055: carbon, processing, raster, quality, alternatives

Thu, 14 Mar 2019 by Raf

• A website to get your carbon footprint, also showing a map with more than 200 countries and regions biocapacity
  https://www.footprintnetwork.org/
• SIGTE talk at A Coruña QGIS user conference about image processing and change detection via @lluisvicens
  https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Hk38uOEplOS9ibdvtmZjiz8LY3ASAN-MDvgAMh-Gya0/edit#slide=id.g503e6390b4_0_0
• A repository with some R code to introduce you to working with spatial images as data frames
  https://github.com/thejholloway/raster2data
• Affordable and enterprise-ready solutions to ensure GIS data quality
  https://geospatial.blogs.com/geospatial/2019/03/bringing-reliable-near-real-time-gis-within-reach-of-every-utility.html
• An overview of the different alternatives available to Google Maps services
  https://medium.com/@stouff.nicolas/de-googleing-my-digital-life-goodbye-google-maps-381c76587690

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Nº1054: economy, solar, sustainability, buses, hackathon, gas

Wed, 13 Mar 2019 by Raf

• These clusters of populated places power the global economy
  https://www.citylab.com/life/2019/02/global-megaregions-economic-powerhouse-megalopolis/583729/
• An English OpenStreetMap user provides a detailed explanation on how to add solar panels to the database
  https://sk53-osm.blogspot.com/2019/03/mapping-roof-top-solar-panels.html
• A web GIS for small towns of Catalonia to develop sustainable municipalities helping potential new residents
  http://atlantis.uab.cat/hamlet/public?request_locale=ca
• "The Beauty of the Bus", in animated form, showcasing 6 hours of scheduled bus journeys with tension applied to their routes to create more abstract curves
  https://vimeo.com/321725429
• Digital agriculture hackathon for developers and focused on Sentinel imagery via @cpomarbe
  https://atos.net/es/2019/noticias_2019_03_07/atos-organiza-un-hackathon-de-agricultura-digital-basado-en-informacion-satelital
• "Global Gas Lock-in: Bridge to Disaster" is a PDF report about the gas consumption rise in Europe, hence dependency from Russia
  https://www.rosalux.eu/fileadmin/user_upload/Publications/2017/Global_Gas_Lock-in.pdf

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Nº1053: deep learning, qgis, gender, power lines, india

Tue, 12 Mar 2019 by Raf

• Deep learning to decipher old historical texts opens new doors at the OCR industry
  https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2019/01/24/deep-learning-deciphers-historical-documents/
• A personal overview of the recent QGIS User Conference at A Coruña, with plenty of notes and links to slides and resources
  https://spatialthoughts.com/2019/03/08/qgis-user-conference-2019/
• The gender gap at Germany goes up to 21%, being worse on the west side of the country
  https://interaktiv.morgenpost.de/gehaltsvergleich-maenner-frauen-gender-pay-gap/
• Lidar, precise data analysis, and vision computer modules to maintain power lines and avoid problems with trees
  https://enview.com/electric/
• Famine and dearth in India at 1630 is a story map that covers Peter Mundy's trip and selected excerpts from his book Itinerari Mundi
  http://humanities-research.exeter.ac.uk/famineanddearth/map/

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Nº1052: hand-drawing, tap water, paris, drone, flat earth, georgraphy

Mon, 11 Mar 2019 by Raf

• Anton Thomas has finished his four years long project to hand-draw the North American Continent via @realivansanchez
  https://www.antonthomasart.com/
• Frequent travelers useful map: a world map of countries where you can drink tap water
  https://www.globehunters.ca/blog/safe-tap-water.htm
• A 3D view of Paris city hall Open Data buildings classified by the number of stories
  https://www.sites.univ-rennes2.fr/mastersigat/Webmapping/Parisbati.html
• Commercial software that combines advanced algorithms with AI to improve drone imagery
  https://skylum.com/airmagic
• "Behind the curve" is a Netflix documentary about flat earth believers all around the globe
  https://www.behindthecurvefilm.com/
• Festival of personal geographies, between 12 and 19 of March, explores how art can be used to create personalized maps
  http://tibichelcea.net/fpg

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Nº1051: children, vr, printing, point cloud, design, deep learning

Fri, 08 Mar 2019 by Raf

• The young population of Barcelona city is shrinking: gentrification is pushing out them at the center and Sagrada Familia districts
  https://www.instamaps.cat/visor.html?businessid=c50476d90e485105646f0127d30aa60a&3D=false#13/41.3899/2.1501
• Creating a simple VR mobile application to display place names on top of your Android camera using Cesium
  http://blog.spotupapp.com/2019/03/build-ar-maps-app-with-cesium.html
• How to export CARTO maps for custom printing and high resolution in this digital maps era
  https://carto.com/blog/exporting-maps/
• A three chapters series to present a Point Cloud Open Source infrastructure built with PDAL and Entwine
  http://www.spatialised.net/an-open-source-point-cloud-data-infrastructure-introduction-and-land/
• Five tips for designers that work with developers, and five tips back for devs that work with designers
  https://www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/products/developers/uncategorized/5-tips-for-designers-who-work-with-developers/
• Applying deep learning techniques to urban planning and predicting cities evolution
  https://www.paisajetransversal.org/2019/02/Modelo-predictivo-de-densidades-urbanas-a-partir-de-la-lectura-de-fotos-aereas-Sistemas-informacion-geografica-GIS-Barcelona-Bogota-Urbanismo-Analisis-Deep-Learning-Densidad.html

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Nº1050: housing, point cloud, dataviz, qgis, sim city

Thu, 07 Mar 2019 by Raf

• France housing mobility, a study and interactive viewer of trends and regional impacts
  https://observatoire-territoires.github.io/synthese_mob_resid/
• CloudCompare is an Open Source software to process point clouds, with several plugins and a light viewer
  http://www.cloudcompare.org/
• A guide on how to select the correct data visualization technique, with a geospatial section via @xurxosanz
  https://gramener.github.io/visual-vocabulary-vega/#/Spatial/
• QGIS processing workflow workshop material, fresh from this year A Coruña User Conference
  https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1GT0cIUBPNBdZzcaWnXtZjQlmbw6N_C5griux7Gj0nlU/edit#slide=id.p
• "Sim City" is 30 years old, and has inspired a pile of folks into urban planning
  https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-simcity-inspired-urban-planners-20190305-story.html?outputType=amp

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Nº1049: channels, tiles, portfolio, cloudless, planet

Wed, 06 Mar 2019 by Raf

• Interactive and PDF maps of the European inland navigable waterways
  https://www.unece.org/trans/main/sc3/where.html
• https://tilejson.io/ is an Open Source project to share raster tilesets easily
  https://www.azavea.com/blog/2019/02/27/introducing-tilejson-io/
• Online portfolio and training materials from Boris Merickscay, Rennes Univerisity geography teacher
  https://www.sites.univ-rennes2.fr/mastersigat/B_Mericskay/index.html
• February 2019 extraordinary clear skies allowed getting quite a lot of satellite imagery without clouds
  https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/144603/a-break-in-the-clouds-for-europe
• An interactive journey over the history of the Earth planet between Pangea and today using a 3D Globe via GeniC
  http://dinosaurpictures.org/ancient-earth#0

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Nº1048: internet, slums, amber, mediterranean

Tue, 05 Mar 2019 by Raf

• The Critical Atlas of the Internet helps understanding social, political, and economic issues through shape
  http://www.internet-atlas.net/
• Machine Learning techniques applied to satellite imagery to detect potential slums settlements at Latin America
  https://ap-latam.dymaxionlabs.com/en/
• Ukrainian illegal amber mining spots leave lunar landscapes, detected using machine learning on satellite imagery
  http://texty.org.ua/d/2018/amber_eng/
• The Mediterranean Corridor, a development project transformed into a political negotiation leverage
  http://geoconfluences.ens-lyon.fr/informations-scientifiques/dossiers-regionaux/territoires-europeens-regions-etats-union/rte-t/corridor-mediterraneen-espagne-serpent-de-mer

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Nº1047: massacres, whiskey, farming, africa

Mon, 04 Mar 2019 by Raf

• An open, crowdsourced map of the massacres of indigenous Australians
  https://namesofplaces.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapJournal/index.html?appid=1fca23b6fd87494e8f98ff2e29c71b4b
• Whiskey distilleries in the world, even apparently all of them are in Ireland and Scotland
  https://www.mapotic.com/whisky-distilleries-scotland
• Common Europe Agrarian Atlas: figures and challenges
  http://fr.boell.org/fr/atlas-de-la-pac
• Maps of Africa: how to obtain good geodata quality for better research using Open Source tools and field teams
  https://www.azavea.com/blog/2019/02/21/mapping-africa-crowdsourced-machine-learning/

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Nº1046: china, green book, photos, corruption

Fri, 01 Mar 2019 by Raf

• The central position of China in the new Eurasian order looking at current and planned geostrategic projects and built infrastructures
  https://www.aspeniaonline.it/la-cina-e-il-nuovo-ordine-euro-asiatico/
• A route planner based in the Green Book content, the hotels, bars, and restaurants guide for USA black travelers at segregation times
  https://publicdomain.nypl.org/greenbook-map/trip.html
• A photo-essay of selected NASA Earth imagery presented as a book in several formats online and hardcover
  https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/features/earth-book-2019
• A report that gathers documentation about the corruption around the real estate bubble and urbanism abuses at the Spanish Mediterranean coast
  https://datadista.com/

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Nº1045: cables, flights, elevation, cli

Thu, 28 Feb 2019 by Raf

• 2019 edition of the submarine cable map, now interactive
  https://submarine-cable-map-2019.telegeography.com/
• Cheap flights search, with destination visualization to escape from your office right now
  https://greatescape.co/
• Google Earth, Google SketchUp, and GIS software; An Interoperable Work Flow for Generating Elevation Data
  https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/201901.0302/v1
• \"Command Line Cartography\" is a short introduction on how to manipulate geospatial data using Mapshaper
  https://moriartynaps.org/command-carto-part-one/

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Nº1044: methane, living, climate, atlas, oceans

Wed, 27 Feb 2019 by Raf

• A NASA study reveals that even with a 12% reduction of forests affected by fires since 2000, the total methane generation has increased
  https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/nasa-led-study-solves-a-methane-puzzle/
• A website showing updated global information about cities living costs: housing, health, pollution, and others
  https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/
• With current pollution emissions, USA cities climate is shifting 500 kilometers in just one generation
  https://www.umces.edu/futureurbanclimates
• A crowdsourced atlas of change to register World geographical evolution at global and local level via @jsenag
  https://mapstory.org/
• Mapping the Oceans: How cartographers saw the world in the Age of Discovery
  https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/mapping-oceans

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Nº1043: valència, journal, solar, streaming, trade

Tue, 26 Feb 2019 by Raf

• @thisismikehall exquisite detailed district maps of València city
  https://shop.thisismikehall.com/collections/districts-of-valencia
• February issue of Geospatial World journal (PDF) with a few insights about the future of the industry
  https://twitter.com/DescartesLabs/status/1096110836509224960?s=19
• Solar Cadastre of Lyon: a map of solar, photovoltaic, and thermal exploitation from building roofs, also with a mobile version
  https://www.grandlyon.com/services/connaitre-ensoleillement-toit.html
• @pinakographos is doing a Cartography live Youtube streaming session each month first Wednesday
  https://somethingaboutmaps.wordpress.com/2019/02/13/upcoming-live-events/
• Medieval trade networks, just between the Vikings and the Mongolian dominion
  https://imgur.com/MsXaOdV

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Nº1042: cityjson, infrastructures, datasci, wildlife, ice

Mon, 25 Feb 2019 by Raf

• A simple CityJSON files drag&drop viewer
  https://twitter.com/tudelft3d/status/1095381160786649088?s=19
• A report about China tactics for world domination using foreign infrastructures
  https://www.csis.org/analysis/influence-and-infrastructure-strategic-stakes-foreign-projects
• A curated list of Data Science introductory courses via @xurxosanz
  https://medium.freecodecamp.org/i-ranked-all-the-best-data-science-intro-courses-based-on-thousands-of-data-points-db5dc7e3eb8e
• A mobile application with Augmented Reality, location, and virtual animals to approach wildlife to young people
  https://www.pocketpalsapp.com/
• Inuit hunters using radar imagery to understand ice conditions
  https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/hunters-radar-maps-ice-navigation-1.5018722

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Nº1041: forests, zoom, elephants, counter-cartography, distances

Fri, 22 Feb 2019 by Raf

• A mobile application to feed data about the health status of Catalan forests
  https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.cordova.alertaforestal
• A NASA collection of seamless zoomed animations made from a variety of satellite imagery
  https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/search.cgi?series=50
• This census of elephants highlights a 30% of population shrink at the African savanna over the last seven years
  https://elephant-atlas.org/home
• \"This is not an Atlas\" is a compilation of counter-cartographies that break with technical tradition and cartography specialization
  https://notanatlas.org
• A new visualization of the distances to the nearest coastline to find the Earth Ocean (Nemo Point) and Continental Inaccessibility poles
  http://www.joshuastevens.net/blog/mapping-the-distance-to-the-nearest-coastline/

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Nº1040: wanderlust, shadows, quakes, 3d

Thu, 21 Feb 2019 by Raf

• A social website to annotate places you visit or want to go, making recommendations for your next trips
  https://www.roadgoat.com
• Using open software and data to generate realistic shaded relief representations: static, dynamic, interactive, 2D, and 3D
  https://makina-corpus.com/blog/metier/2019/modeles-numeriques-terrain-ombrage-3D
• A WebGL 3D globe exploring last 30 years of earthquakes with further information about each event
  http://www.ninepointfive.org/
• Adding shaded relief to old topographic maps to give them a new spin using Blender, a short walk-through
  http://www.joshuastevens.net/blog/tactile-topography/

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Nº1039: leaflet, 3d, women, climate

Wed, 20 Feb 2019 by Raf

• One daily post about Leaflet learning over two weeks by the authors of the Leaflet Cookbook
  http://spatialgalaxy.net/2019/01/23/two-weeks-of-leaflet-day-1/
• The economic value of 3D geoinformation with a 3:1 cost-benefit ratio, according to a study carried out by 11 European public mapping agencies
  https://www.gim-international.com/content/article/the-search-for-the-economic-value-of-3d-geoinformation
• Women and GIS: twenty-three stories about how ordinary girls with very different passions have become extraordinary women and made significant contributions to our world
  https://www.amazon.com/Women-GIS-Mapping-Their-Stories-ebook-dp-B07HXZ2PB4/dp/B07HXZ2PB4/
• Different digital visualizations about the Köppen-Geiger climate classification
  http://koeppen-geiger.vu-wien.ac.at/

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Nº1038: water, fishing, geomob, shaded relief

Tue, 19 Feb 2019 by Raf

• Water stress produced by droughts exposed on a map that is part of the Water Risk Atlas
  https://resourcewatch.org/data/explore/ed521429-58b4-4c55-9bbe-4f4bfd2fcb1f
• Fishing at the China sea since 1960 has finished with the reserves, up to being one of the major Asia destabilization issues
  https://worldview.stratfor.com/article/fish-overlooked-destabilizer-south-china-sea
• The second session for #geomob BCN will be April 24th 6pm with four talks already scheduled
  https://geomobldn.org/post/apr-24th-2019-geomobbcn-details
• An online archive of manually shaded relief maps by different map makers scanned, and even some of then georeferenced and without use restrictions
  http://www.shadedreliefarchive.com/

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Nº1037: internet, noise, privacy, human traffic

Fri, 15 Feb 2019 by Raf

• A map of Internet global network infrastructure
  https://global-internet-map-2018.telegeography.com/
• Global crowd-sourced noise map using data collected from a mobile phone application
  http://noise-planet.org/map_noisecapture/index.html#5/47.190/12.524/
• Developer recommendations on how to anonymize location apps to prevent user privacy
  https://blog.mapbox.com/prioritizing-privacy-when-using-location-in-apps-f31cdec85fc9
• A training dataset of more than a million images from 50K hotels to create a tool to help identify them for human traffic investigations
  https://github.com/GWUvision/Hotels-50K

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Nº1036: geomobbcn, health, railways, alphabets

Thu, 14 Feb 2019 by Raf

• Report of the first #geomob Barcelona meet up different talks and projects
  http://knowwhereconsulting.co.uk/blog/geomob-bcn-is-born/
• France Health Atlas with epidemiology data, indicators, and able to export and print data
  https://geodes.santepubliquefrance.fr/#view=map2&c=indicator
• A visualization of the 2018 busiest day in the Netherlands railway network
  http://tulpinteractive.com/on-time-every-time/
• A world endangered alphabets atlas with some details about each of them
  https://www.endangeredalphabets.net/

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Nº1035: corruption, cities, lidar

Wed, 13 Feb 2019 by Raf

• Map of the corruption perception index per country, taken from 2018 Transparency International data
  https://www.visualcapitalist.com/visualizing-corruption-around-the-world/
• Cities are growing horizontally instead of vertically, generating sustainability problems and environmental inequalities
  https://www.wri.org/blog/2019/01/too-many-cities-are-growing-out-rather-3-reasons-s-problem
• MIT is using autonomous boats to capture a 3D map of Amsterdam from the city channels
  https://www.designboom.com/technology/mit-roboat-laserscape-amsterdam-canals-01-30-2019

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