Nº1248: watersheds, census, france

Fri, 24 Jan 2020 by Raf

This online viewer of the internal watersheds of Catalonia reports in realtime rivers and dams capacity and status
http://aca-web.gencat.cat/aetr/
This report analyzes the Spanish population and generational breach by origin, gender, and up to street level, using the 2019 January continuous census
https://www.eldiario.es/sociedad/MAPA-Radiografia-poblacion-calle-generacional_0_987601539.html
A crowdsourced map of France social movements [FR]
https://geographesesr.github.io/cartographie-des-mouvements-sociaux/

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Nº1247: migrations, lego, population

Thu, 23 Jan 2020 by Raf

Map of internal migrations in Spain between 1988 and 2018 via @realivansanchez
https://www.elconfidencial.com/economia/2019-09-27/exodo-urbano-espana-migraciones-provincias_2240119/
Catalonia map created using Lego texture and color palette via @ammont82
https://jcastellssala.com/2020/01/14/catalunya-lego-map/
WorldPop project provides data, tooling, and methodologies for spatial demographics of developing countries
https://www.worldpop.org/

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Nº1246: living, pollution, salaries

Wed, 22 Jan 2020 by Raf

A complete crowdsourced database to compare the cost of living around the world
https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/
Slides from last London #geomob on studying the presence of polluting particles in London underground
https://jimshady.github.io/GeoMobPresentation/AirQualityLondonUnderground-pdf.html#1
Results of a crowdsourced survey on 2019 (mostly) Spanish GIS salaries promoted by @fran_raga
https://www.cursosgis.com/salarios-en-el-mundo-gis-2019/

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Nº1245: public transport, china, streets

Tue, 21 Jan 2020 by Raf

How to compute and display bus schedule deviations using real-time positions and GTFS data
https://saadiqm.com/2020/01/05/bus-schedule-deviation-visualization.html
This map presents Chinese funded mega-projects all around the world, growing their global influence
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/global-chinese-financing-is-fueling-megaprojects/
This Open Source website extracts all the streets of a city using OSM data, ready to configure and export as an image or a mug to buy
https://anvaka.github.io/city-roads/

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Nº1244: tourism, pools, noise

Mon, 20 Jan 2020 by Raf

City maps for visitors classifying the territory by significant categories (suits, hipsters, tourists, ...) and including located comments via @delawen
https://hoodmaps.com/barcelona-neighborhood-map
Article and map about Madrid city swimming pools sanitary inspections between 2018 and 2019
https://maldita.es/malditodato/una-de-cada-cuatro-piscinas-de-madrid-suspendieron-las-inspecciones-sanitarias-cuales-son-y-por-que/
This interactive map by @abel_vm visualizes Madrid day and night noise pollution by building
https://madb.netlify.com/

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Nº1243: drones, park, maps

Fri, 17 Jan 2020 by Raf

This recently started project of citizenship participation wants to generate orthoimagery and 3D models using drone images
http://www.aulanatura.org/cartodron/
This interactive tool uses OSM data to highlight parking lots
http://imactivate.com/parkulator/
@kennethfield 2019 favorite maps
http://cartonerd.blogspot.com/2019/12/favourite-maps-from-2019.html

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Nº1242: disasters, commute, planninge

Thu, 16 Jan 2020 by Raf

Ethical Machine Learning for Disaster Relief: Rage for Machine Learning
https://www.azavea.com/blog/2019/12/10/ethical-machine-learning-for-disaster-relief-rage-for-machine-learning/
This web application breaks down by state and county of the USA the direct and reverse commuters distribution
http://bigbytes.mobyus.com/commute.aspx
Using satellite imagery, this report displays how the USA territory has been developed over the last decade for many different purposes
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/27/upshot/america-from-above.html

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Nº1241: siglibre, sketching, africa

Wed, 15 Jan 2020 by Raf

Remember to save the date: 4th and 5th of June for this year Spanish FOSS4G conference (SIG Libre)
https://www.jornadassiglibre.org
"Geological Field Sketches and Illustrations", a practical guide for your geological surveys to be released soon
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/geological-field-sketches-and-illustrations-9780198835929?cc=us&lang=en&
"African cratonic lithosphere carved by mantle plumes" is a report on how seismic tomography is helping to map the core of the African continent
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-13871-2

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Nº1240: buildings, iran, oceans

Tue, 14 Jan 2020 by Raf

Visualizing the historical evolution of OSM buildings using the ohshome API and QGIS
http://k1z.blog.uni-heidelberg.de/2018/12/14/how-to-become-ohsome-part-1-visualizing-the-historical-evolution-of-osm-buildings-of-your-city/
A survey by the American news website Politico shows the low percentage of people that knows where Iran is
https://morningconsult.com/2020/01/08/can-you-locate-iran-few-voters-can/
Maps for the future, they will be centered on the oceans and using the Oblique Mercator Projection
https://rightbasicbuilding.com/2019/09/09/the-world-maps-of-the-future/

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Nº1239: gps, hexagons, mvt, bushfires

Mon, 13 Jan 2020 by Raf

GPS is easy to hack to spoof wrong positions and using affordable hardware, and the USA has no backup
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/gps-is-easy-to-hack-and-the-u-s-has-no-backup/
Jupyter Notebook showing how to work with Uber H3 API for Urban Analytics for Toulouse (France) via @xurxosanz
https://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/uber/h3-py-notebooks/blob/master/H3%20API%20examples%20on%20Urban%20Analytics.ipynb
A simple example using Python to serve vector tiles and create interactive maps using PostGIS MVT support
https://info.crunchydata.com/blog/dynamic-vector-tiles-from-postgis
This interactive map by The Guardian gives you an idea of the area covered by Australian bushfires. For example, they would cover most of Scotland
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/datablog/ng-interactive/2019/dec/07/how-big-are-the-fires-burning-on-the-east-coast-of-australia-interactive-map?lat=57.2&lng=-4.3

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Nº1238: water, pollution, scots, cycling

Fri, 10 Jan 2020 by Raf

MERIT Hydro is a global hydrography datasets, developed based on the MERIT DEM and multiple inland water maps. It contains flow direction, flow accumulation, hydrologically adjusted elevations, and river channel width
http://hydro.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~yamadai/MERIT_Hydro/
This world map shows in near real-time the air quality, using ground measuring stations
http://berkeleyearth.org/air-quality-real-time-map/
The Scots Syntax Atlas showcases some of their idioms, including audio samples
https://scotssyntaxatlas.ac.uk/
Paris on a bike: average cycling time to ride the city and avoid subway strikes or ditch your car [FR]
http://www.leparisien.fr/amp/info-paris-ile-de-france-oise/transports/greve-dans-les-transports-a-paris-les-temps-de-parcours-a-velo-en-une-infographie-21-12-2019-8222538.php

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Nº1237: bikes, population, housing, churros

Thu, 09 Jan 2020 by Raf

Open Sourced and very detailed instructions, data, and styles to produce a cycling map of the world
https://dev.to/hiddewie/creating-a-custom-cycling-map-3g2a
"Nombre d’habitants en 2040 et taux d’évolution annuel moyen de la population de 2010 à 2040", the cartogram that predicts France population distribution [FR]
https://cget.gouv.fr/node/6468
"Mapping America’s Metropolitan Growth: Islands of Density in a Sea of No Growth", analyzing the past to understand the current housing crisis
https://www.zillow.com/research/housing-stock-islands-of-density-25866/
Check this map with locations, schedule, and specialties of 30 churros shops in Barcelona [CA]
https://beteve.cat/economia/mapa-xurreries-barcelona/

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Nº1236: terrorism, visibility, topo

Wed, 01 Jan 2020 by Raf

This world map of all the Islamist terrorist attacks between 1979 and 2019 (33769) reports new insights, and it's also available as an open database
http://www.fondapol.org/carte-des-attentats-islamistes-dans-le-monde/
This tutorial explains how to make a visual impact analysis using QGIS, applied to the Urkulu tower in the Navarre Pyrenees
https://landscapearchaeology.org/2019/visual-impact-analysis/
These instructions help you produce a 1:25.000 topographic map of France with the IGN style using OSM data [FR]
https://github.com/igeofr/osm2igeotopo

Happy New Year!!!

I will be on holidays for the next week, see you later next week. Meanhwhile, as always, you can get your links directly from Raf, more details here: https://twitter.com/LinksGeo

Cheers!!
Jorge

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Nº1235: forests, migrants, spain, spain

Fri, 27 Dec 2019 by Raf

Estonian public forest management agency offers a complete mobile application to enjoy the country wildlife
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ee.rmk.app
Visas: about inequalities and mobility, a variable geometry used to derail immigration (PDF) [FR]
http://www.migreurop.org/IMG/pdf/note_10_fr.pdf
A beautiful collection of maps of many Spanish cities from 1910 [ES]
https://www.geografiainfinita.com/2019/11/planos-de-las-ciudades-espanolas-a-comienzos-del-siglo-xx/
A collection of maps of Spanish cities made by the US Army Map Service in 1943, available at the Texas University funds
http://legacy.lib.utexas.edu/maps/ams/spain_city_plans/

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Nº1234: tilt, tracked

Mon, 23 Dec 2019 by Raf

A full-year view of the Earth from #GOESEast satellite to celebrate the Winter Solstice
https://twitter.com/NOAASatellites/status/1208369576259596288
This NYT investigation in seven parts covers the consented and constant tracking of our lives and associated privacy issues.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/19/opinion/location-tracking-cell-phone.html

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Nº1233: waves, r, qfield

Fri, 20 Dec 2019 by Raf

JoyPlot allows to explore the world terrain using the iconic style from the Joy Division t-shirt, even printing it as a mug
https://anvaka.github.io/peak-map/#5.04/41.2/-5.63
RStoolbox is an R package providing a wide range of tools for your every-day remote sensing processing needs, open source
https://github.com/bleutner/rstoolbox
A course offered at Udemy teaches on how to do data collection with QField
https://www.udemy.com/course/qfield-quickstart/?couponCode=XMAS19

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Nº1232: bunker, europe, economies

Thu, 19 Dec 2019 by Raf

The maps of a not so far future end of the world that billionaires are checking to find safe spots
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jimdobson/2017/06/10/the-shocking-doomsday-maps-of-the-world-and-the-billionaire-escape-plans/amp/
The new Europe will be regional and supra-state, according to this map of national identities via @realivansanchez
https://vernaculareurope.blogspot.com/2019/12/bye-europe-of-states-hello-vernacular-europe.html
World cartogram of 2018 nominal GDP with main country subdivisions, with another map of per-capita GDP
https://i.imgur.com/SzmknJh.jpg

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Nº1231: csv, dataviz, tourism

Wed, 18 Dec 2019 by Raf

"GéoDataMine" is an online tool to make thematic extractions from France OSM data, including an open API [FR]
https://geodatamine.fr/
"InfoDistrictes" is an interactive dashboard with some health indicators for the different districts of Barcelona [CA]
https://www.aspb.cat/docs/infodistrictes/
The association for the most beautiful towns of Spain has a website with all kinds of information and an interactive map [ES]
https://www.lospueblosmasbonitosdeespana.org/

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Nº1230: switch2osm, arepas, fragmentation

Tue, 17 Dec 2019 by Raf

Why the Nukemap project moved from Google Maps to Mapbox/Leaflet via @realivansanchez
http://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2019/12/13/why-nukemap-isnt-on-google-maps-anymore/
This collaborative project in development helps you finding arepas and other Venezuelan meals around the world [ES]
https://buscatuarepa.com/
Using satellite imagery to understand urban expansion for the province of Córdoba, Argentina [ES]
https://idecor.cba.gov.ar/la-diferencia-esta-en-la-fragmentacion-conoce-la-estructura-de-las-ciudades-de-cordoba/

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Nº1229: oceans, streets, osm

Mon, 16 Dec 2019 by Raf

This 4K animation shows how the world would look like if oceans are drained from all water
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uOwv_Krqk8&feature=youtu.be
A/B Street is a game exploring how small changes to a city affect the movement of drivers, cyclists, transit users, and pedestrians
https://github.com/dabreegster/abstreet
#Switch2OSM explains how to leverage OSM data as a basemap for your cartography applications, even including details on how to generate and publish your tiles
https://switch2osm.org/using-tiles/

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Nº1228: air quality, haiku, tacos

Fri, 13 Dec 2019 by Raf

Real-time air quality map of the main cities of the world
https://air.plumelabs.com/air-quality-map
This website generates location-aware haikus using OSM data from the Overpass API
https://satellitestud.io/blog/post/openstreetmap-haiku/
Distribution of the main USA taco chains
https://i.redd.it/tbvkzz58m0441.png

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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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