The 3-30-300 rule states that in urban areas, you should be able to see at least three trees, live in a neighborhood with 30% tree cover, and have a park located less than 300 meters away
https://www.not-ship.com/can-you-see-three-trees/
A new interactive map created by the Environmental Defenders Office allows Australians to understand the extent of offshore fossil fuel exploitation in their waters
https://www.edo.org.au/offshore-map/
This interactive tool displays the sunrise and sunset lines in real time on a globe, allowing users to send virtual good mornings (Ohayo).
https://www.ohayoworld.com/en/
Interactive timeline of the New York Public Library's Buttolph Menu Collection from 1880 to 1920, highlighting the rise of modern gastronomy
https://pudding.cool/2026/06/menu-story/
glyphcss converts 3D models into ASCII art rendered as text, without the need for WebGL or canvas. It supports the most common formats and is compatible with JS, React, Vue, and also works in the terminal
https://glyphcss.com/
gitRmap is a semi-automated location mapping tool, allowing users to add their own points by editing a CSV file. It is designed for those who are new to GIS but have some knowledge of it
https://nickbearman.com/gitRmap/
A set of 4 simple static tools for browser-based mapping to make range, great circle, situation and concentric circle maps
https://tools.thinkinginspace.net/
LA Metro: Ambient turns the Los Angeles rail network into a generative musical instrument where every note you hear is a real train arriving at a real station at that moment
https://metromusic.weisswideweb.com/
Forebears is a genealogy portal that includes a directory of geographically indexed and cross-referenced sources for surname and family history research
https://forebears.io/
Interactive viewer of seismic information from Spain with filters, indicators and graphs to explore earthquake data in various time intervals and generate reports
[ES]
https://indicadores-terremotos.ign.es/
The daily "AI maps" published by Ian Muehlenhaus and Kenneth Field are an experiment in "fast mapping" to find out what AI can and can't do, where it fails, and where it's headed
https://mapdesign.icaci.org/
Jerry's Map (2012 repost, still working on it) is a two-dimensional "virtual world" art project made up of over 4,000 individual panels that once assembled form a circle
https://www.jerrysmap.com/the-map
A small geographical game that consists of correctly locating 5 old georeferenced maps, with a time limit and scores for accuracy achieved.
https://arcade.allmaps.org/
PLACE is a global non-profit technology organization that aspires to be the legal and permanent trust for cartographic data
https://thisisplace.org/
Focs.cat shows the wildfires in Catalonia crossing the data from firemenscat and the ArcGIS layer with an artificial delay of 10-15 minutes
[CA]
https://focs.cat/mapa
The Museum of Spatial Shirts aims to be the open source community's living archive of geographical promotional materials, and asks for everyone's collaboration to complete the inventory
https://museumofspatialshirts.org/
This article analyzes and identifies a source of GNSS interference from space that has caused numerous wide-area transient interference events since 2019
https://arxiv.org/html/2606.03673v1
Le Baguette Index uses Brigitte, a proprietary AI agent, which calls French bakeries to collect the price of the traditional baguette and visualizes the price of the bread
[FR]
https://lebaguetteindex.fr/
The Mayor of London has partnered with Thames Water to install a network of over 100 drinking water fountains across London to reduce the number of single-use plastic water bottles
https://apps.london.gov.uk/water-fountains/
The Network of Good Living Cities, brings together cities with the opportunity to enjoy solutions and services that allow citizens to live their town in an easy and pleasant way
https://www.cittaslow.org/
Focs.cat shows wildfires in Catalonia by crossing firefighters data and an ArcGIS layer with an artificial delay of 10-15 minutes
https://focs.cat/
Satellite Eyes is an application for macOS that automatically changes your desktop wallpaper to a satellite view of where you are right now.
https://satelliteeyes.tomtaylor.co.uk/
Cartography of the French far-right that explores the links and relationships between far-right figures, organizations, media and groups in France
[FR]
https://link-ed.info/carte
Map of the main AI data centers in the USA, operational or under construction, overlaid with communities that have expressed concern about the issue
https://brockovichdatacenter.com/#map-section
OMT Router is a client-side JavaScript library for calculating routes and contours on OpenMapTiles tiles, without any need for a server.
https://abelvm.github.io/omt-router/
DataClimat is an open source tool for visualizing climate data from France, created through a collaboration between Infoclimat and Data For Good.
[FR]
https://dataclimat.fr/
The map, with some groups and videos, of heavy metal, a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and with many subgenres
https://mapofmetal.com/
Apocalypse Early Warning System based on the number of private jets taking off, as the wealthy who own planes would flee the cities at the first sign
https://ews.kylemcdonald.net/
This app calculates pedestrian routes to avoid heat in 80 major German cities, utilizing high-resolution shadow data
https://shaded.openrouteservice.org
Interactive map displaying 6,899 licensed terraces in Barcelona to determine if a terrace will be in sun or shade at a specific time.
[CA]
https://terrasses.cat
Kadaster's generic geographic components, such as Cadastre, Land Registry, and Cartographic collaboration for the Netherlands, serve as user-friendly building blocks for developers
[NL]
https://www.generiekegeocomponenten.nl/
A 3D building mapping service created with React-Three-Fiber enables the export of an area in GLB format from OSM data
https://github.com/cartesiancs/map3d
A two-stage training process to teach GeoHeightChat to implicitly infer the 3D geometric structure of a landscape from a standard 2D photo
https://teriri1999.github.io/GeoHeight/
Carto is an Inkscape extension designed to simplify the creation of maps, sketches, and vector diagrams, incorporating graphic scales, color palettes, and geometric symbols
[FR]
https://carto-geo.fr/logiciels/extension-carto
A plugin for LichtFeld Studio allows you to register splats with WGS84/ECEF geographic coordinates and get XYZ for any point in the model, while exporting georeferenced 3D Tiles or LAS
https://github.com/dozeri83/geo-register-plugin
Interactive visualization of the data compiled from Google Trends to graphically show the interest, via search, of the popularity of birds in the USA
https://searchingforbirds.visualcinnamon.com/
Land Lines is an experiment from the Google Chrome team that lets you explore Google Earth satellite images using gestures, either drawing a line or dragging
https://lines.chromeexperiments.com/
Audio-spaces allows you to paste the sound files recorded by the user on the world map, and explore audios from around the world saved by other users
https://audio-spaces.com/welcome
Weather Replay allows you to explore the reanalysis of ERA5 weather data since 1940, anywhere on Earth, to find out what the weather was like before
https://weather-replay.climate.copernicus.eu
Travel the longest route you can on the New York subway without visiting the same station twice (transfer in time before the end of the line)
https://singleride.nyc/#/
All Transport for London (Underground) journeys on a typical working day with the bubble size proportional to the number of passengers in the train
https://anita.garden/londonriders/
Collaborative map of accessible public bathrooms allows you to find bathrooms via filters, add them (registration is required) and find out their details
[ES]
https://lavapp.net/explore
The Abolitionist Map of New York offers a geographic study of incarceration and anti-prison resistance in Manhattan from Dutch colonization to the present
https://abolitionistguide.nyc/
A geographical game, daily and with other variants, of the municipalities of Catalonia (but be aware that it is poorly designed: the municipality of Santa Perpètua de Mogoda does not begin with P)
[CA]
https://els947.cat
Destination Earth (DestinE) is an ambitious European Union initiative to create a high-precision digital model of the Earth for various uses
https://destination-earth.eu/
Cota Alta sells 3D models of emblematic peaks of Catalonia, in 4 different sizes, as a way to remember the peaks that move us and to share our love for our landscapes
[CA]
https://cota-alta.cat/
The National Public Data Viewer of the Cyclic Laser Scanning of Slovenia (CLSS) allows viewing data in 2D and 3D format and provides information on various products
[SL]
https://clss.si/
Also in the Valencian Community, education has facilities where students and teachers spend the day without insulation or air conditioning, above the legal limit of RD 486/1997
[CA]
https://aulessocarrad.es/mapa
A geographical game, daily and with other variants, of the municipalities of Catalonia
[CA]
https://els947.cat/