#1990: ue, transport, processing

Fri, 27 Jan 2023 by Raf

• The European Union is a mosaic of very different labor regions in a territory where talent and innovation are concentrated in 48 cities that represent 20% of the population [ES]
  https://elordenmundial.com/mapas-y-graficos/regiones-laborales-union-europea/?nab=0
• A huge repository of detailed maps of public transport lines of cities all over, especially France, some even with details of facilities and equipment not visible to passengers [FR]
  https://cartometro.com/cartes/metro-tram-barcelona/
• Geoprocessing environment for geographic and Earth observation (EO) data to obtain, translate and manipulate geospatial data (raster, vector, EO/STAC) using chained and API-accessible processes
  https://github.com/ahuarte47/geodataflow

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#1989: color, heritage, film

Thu, 26 Jan 2023 by Raf

• "The misuse of color in science communication" is yet another paper on color maps that visually distort data through uneven or illegible color gradients via @xurxosanz
  https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-19160-7.epdf
• The Air Tahiti airline serves 48 French Polynesian islands spread over an area almost as large as Europe
  https://www.airtahiti.com/en/all-our-destinations
• "L'Afrique : un continent assassiné" shows on a map the data on armed conflicts published annually by the Department of Peace and Conflict Research of the University of Uppsala (UPCD), with a link to the code and the data with which has created [FR]
  https://www.humanite.fr/en-debat/regard-de-cartographe/l-afrique-un-continent-assassine-775086

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#1988: gdal, heritage, film

Wed, 25 Jan 2023 by Raf

• gdal3.js is a web application that provides a GUI for the gdal_translate, ogr2ogr, and gdal_rasterize applications to use online and convert raster and vector geospatial data to various formats and coordinate systems
  https://gdal3.js.org/
• Heritage Browser lets you discover digitally available treasures from the National Library of Israel displayed on a map based on where they were created or the locations they describe
  https://kima.rainersimon.io/
• The map that Hilary Ament created especially as a source of navigation for the film "Jungle Cruise", along with other graphic materials, and is now on permanent display at Disneyland
  https://www.hilaryament.com/jungle-cruise

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#1987: functionary, co2, segmentation

Tue, 24 Jan 2023 by Raf

• X-ray of the public employee: how many administration workers does each territory have, in which areas of action and with what employment relationship and what ratio it represents in relation to the inhabitants compared to Spain and Europe [CAT]
  https://www.naciodigital.cat/noticia/250831/radiografia-empleat-public-quants-municipi-fan-molts-funcionaris
• What is the theoretical distance that could be traveled in Europe emitting 5 kg of CO2 per person with various modes of transport, with all the assumptions, formulas and sources in case anyone wants to check the numbers or redo the calculations
  https://www.mob-box.eu/post/mob-box-paper-4
• Raster Vision is an open source deep learning based computer vision library and framework for classification, semantic segmentation and object detection
  https://rastervision.io/

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#1986: dwf, crashes, tidyterra

Mon, 23 Jan 2023 by Raf

• The operations of China's distant water fleets (DWFs) analyzed in terms of subsidies they receive, illegal, unreported and unregulated catches and practices, and the challenges they pose to competing EU fleets (pdf)
  https://www.europarl.europa.eu/thinktank/fr/document/IPOL_STU(2022)733101
• CROS collects and centralizes data, provided by agencies and volunteers, of wildlife crashes on California highways to improve policy, management and financial investment to reduce crashes
  https://www.wildlifecrossing.net/california/
• Second post in the "Hillshade, colors and marginal plots with tidyterra" series exploring an approach to annotating marginal plots on a ggplot2 map of a SpatRaster, including longitude and latitude value information
  https://dieghernan.github.io/202212_tidyterra-hillshade-2/

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#1985: icons, prices, electricity

Fri, 20 Jan 2023 by Raf

• The icon generator built by Mapeo can be used to generate icons in SVG format to be used in both Mapeo and any other tool, just searching with a description
  https://icons.earthdefenderstoolkit.com/
• Lego (plastic building block) price worldwide shows a 744% difference between the cheapest and most expensive average price comparing eight popular sets in over 200 countries
  https://thetoyzone.com/the-countries-that-pay-the-most-and-least-for-lego
• Real-time mapping of the equivalent emissions in the production and consumption (taking into account the import and export of energy in any state) of electricity at global level by countries and zones
  https://app.electricitymaps.com/zone/ES

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#1984: tenants, risk, statistics

Thu, 19 Jan 2023 by Raf

• City of Tenants is a map-based knowledge platform made by tenants for tenants that collects and shares information about rentals in Beirut
  https://cityoftenants-aub.hub.arcgis.com/
• AI Superior, a German company, trained its AI models to a high degree of accuracy using Pleiades Neo satellite imaginary to identify 400K objects to make estimations of risk and damage in urban areas
  https://up42.com/case-study/ai-superior-estimates-property-damage-risk
• An introduction to the different types of spatial data and the specific types of statistical tools to analyze them, with comments on the most important applications and some real examples, by @precariobecario [ES]
  https://www.seio.es/beio/una-introduccion-a-la-estadistica-espacial/

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#1983: ai, routing, paving

Wed, 18 Jan 2023 by Raf

• Results obtained with queries mostly about cartography and map prompts using Dall E 2 and Midjourney, two open access text-based deep learning image generators
  https://aballatore.space/2023/01/16/ive-made-some-maps-using-ai/
• Felt's collaborative open-edit map that started as a map of the optimal route to visit all of California's national parks and gradually expanded to cover the entire US
  https://felt.com/map/Optimal-Routes-to-National-Parks-GHn6xMzjQOmip8QdSaIwXD?lat=36.686975&lon=-121.579948&zoom=6.75
• In the city of Berlin almost 34% of the surface is paved. This is very problematic for the urban climate and for flora and fauna, especially when large areas are all covered by concrete or asphalt [DE]
  https://www.morgenpost.de/infografik/#/grafik/63b703401c325401b810c3fc

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#1982: game, indicators, queries

Tue, 17 Jan 2023 by Raf

• Japan's independent game studio "Furoshiki Lab" is launching a campaign in KS to publish a video game and a physical map based on the "Carta Marina", the 16th century map of Scandinavia by the Swedish priest Olaus Magnus
  https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cartamarina/carta-marina-a-16th-century-nordic-map-and-game
• Although the presence of a fast food restaurant is not an indicator of urban development, in Malaysia the location of a McDonald's provides clues about the demographic, urban and socio-economic status of an area
  https://aziffazuddin.com/current-affairs/mcdonalds-malaysia-urban-development/
• Overpass Ultra is a web data visualization and filtering tool for OpenStreetMap based on MapLibre GL JS that allows visualization of larger datasets than Overpass Turbo
  https://overpass-ultra.trailsta.sh/

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#1981: floods, pizza, geology

Mon, 16 Jan 2023 by Raf

• PYthon FLOod Mapping is a free and open source Python toolbox to generate flood maps in a 4-step process using Sentinel-1 imagery analysis
  https://github.com/kleok/FLOODPY
• In New York the price of a slice of pizza has reached $3.00 during 2022, according to the field work that @elkue@mstdn.social has done since 2014 with the 464 portions eaten represented in the corresponding map
  https://elkue.com/nyc-slice/
• 2023 program of the more than interesting walks about geology, landscape and culture, organized, guided and explained by @blocdecamp in the area of the Natural Park of Sant Llorenç del Munt i l'Obac in Catalonia [CA]
  http://www.blocdecamp.cat/2023/01/passejades-de-geologia-paisatge-i.html

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#1980: stamps, art, legends

Fri, 13 Jan 2023 by Raf

• This stamps online collection, technically designated to the "cartophilatelic" area, also links to Gilad Aharoni's 17 thousand pieces collection via xurxosanz@mastodon.social
  https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/maps-on-stamps/
• Mary Edna Fraser's art intersects cartography and fabric, translating views from her plane into silk and other supports
  https://maryedna.com/the-artist/
• A virtual platform to facilitate georeferenced access to critiques and bibliography of relevant Spanish literary texts from the 19th century via @vehrka [ES]
  https://www.descubreleyendas.es/Info/Consultas.aspx?idleyenda=526

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#1979: watch, venezuela, barcelona

Thu, 12 Jan 2023 by Raf

• The Cosmos wristwatch, created by Girard-Perregaux, has three unique complications, showing Sky and Earth in two separate globes and available in exclusive variations (in case you want to do a lovely gift to Raf)
  https://www.girard-perregaux.com/row_eur_es/99292-21-3092-5cc.html
• Venezuelan traffickers control the global cocaine distribution channels in a narco-country where the line between underworld and state is blurring, and with direct intervention from the president
  https://insightcrime.org/investigations/maduro-seeks-to-regulate-the-cocaine-trade/
• carrers.barcelona is an open project that combines outdated information from the city nomenclator with other available data sources to offer a more accurate and interactive visualization of the city streets network [CA]
  https://carrers.barcelona/quant-a/

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#1978: zip, climate, web

Wed, 11 Jan 2023 by Raf

• SOZip is a profile for the ZIP format to pursue access to random large compressed files without decompressing the whole file, like extensive zip collections of shapefiles, flatgeobuff, etc.
  https://github.com/sozip/sozip-spec/blob/master/sozip_specification.md
• Anticipating sea level rise, speculative sales of inland lots are starting
  http://therise-realestate.com/en/home.html
• JSLegend is a small JavaScript library to develop dynamic web map legends with HTML and CSS
  https://www.postholer.com/portfolio/index.php?example=jslegend

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#1977: mapping, volcano, lego

Tue, 10 Jan 2023 by Raf

• A detailed view of how Overture Maps Foundation has landed, how the maps market and providers are evolving, and which role each will play
  https://maphappenings.com/2023/01/03/overture-maps-foundation/
• A map collects all the volcano vents (small overtures between rocks blowing air at a constant temperature throughout the year) at La Garrotxa Natural Park [CA]
  https://geoconservacio.org/2022/12/12/els-bufadors-volcanics/
• Jon Tordoff, from Derbyshire, who started creating a Lego replica of Buttermere, ended up covering the whole Lake District with 9.2 square meters and around 200.000 blocks
  https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-derbyshire-63905934

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#1976: oceans, ski, hiking

Mon, 09 Jan 2023 by Raf

• Showing chlorophyll concentrations on oceans through 2021 with NASA Aqua satellite images acquired by the Moderate Resolution Imaging chlorophyllSpectrodiometer (MODIS)
  https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/150656/breathing-life-into-the-ocean
• Map of Ski Resorts in North America (downhill and nordic runs) with descriptions and pictures of some of the best locations, an activity decreasing yearly, not only because of climate change
  https://databayou.com/ski/resorts.html
• The Mountain literary map presents recommended books on mountaineering and hiking in a personal collection by @EntreRefugis, who has other interesting story maps on their website [ES]
  https://uploads.knightlab.com/storymapjs/0d058776d38e128756cc841dc388306d/mapa-literari-de-muntanya/index.html

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#1975: planning, standards

Fri, 06 Jan 2023 by Raf

• A sample of the practical applications of GIS in town planning and urban planning
  https://urbandesignlab.in/gis-as-a-tool-for-urban-planning/
• The lack of data standards in the geospatial sector, which makes the use and exchange of information very difficult, is reminiscent of the situation in freight transport before the container was invented
  https://maphappenings.com/2022/12/01/why-geospatial-data-is-stuck-in-the-year-1955/

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#1974: heritage, cog, community

Wed, 04 Jan 2023 by Raf

• Geographical presentation of the rich cultural heritage of the Benin people from the capital Benin City to the ancient and outlying towns
  https://digitalbenin.org/
• A method for converting QGIS projects into stylized Cloud Optimized Geotiffs (COG)s as an alternative to raster tiles and using COGs as tiles and Qgis as a Tilemill replacement
  https://xycarto.com/2022/11/26/qgis-to-stylized-cogs/
• The Coolock Traveler Community Map represents the stories and memories of three generations about specific places in their north Dublin home to preserve intangible heritage
  https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/62f124c0295c439ebd0de48f4ce2619c

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#1973: design, color

Fri, 30 Dec 2022 by Raf

• "What to think about when designing maps" is a talk at Web Directions Design 2019 to give designers the foundation to be critical when creating maps, and turn them from generic maps to amazing maps
  https://smallmultiples.com.au/articles/what-to-think-about-when-designing-maps/
• A collection of maps on the etymology of the word color in Europe, with specific maps of the etymology of other colors
  https://mapologies.com/colors/

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#1972: climate, abandoned, oil

Wed, 28 Dec 2022 by Raf

• "Voices from the frontlines" explores how to tackle climate change in Africa and provides a dataset to understand the importance of critical factors affecting climate mobility in Africa
  https://africa.climatemobility.org/overview
• The map with all locations and the photo gallery of Urbex, a site dedicated to the urban exploration of abandoned facilities across Europe, with thematic and country search
  https://www.urbex.nl/map/
• A website with an extensive collection of examples of the history of oil company road maps in Europe
  http://www.petrolmaps.co.uk/index.htm

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#1971: energy, dataset, 30daymapchallenge

Fri, 23 Dec 2022 by Raf

• The Federal Energy Management Program (FEMP) offers a variety of renewable energy resource maps and a selection of tools to help agencies evaluate the feasibility of on-site distributed energy projects
  https://www.energy.gov/eere/femp/renewable-energy-maps-and-tools
• Coast Train is a set of coastal environment images, annotations, and label masks collected to train and evaluate machine learning (ML), deep learning, and other models for image segmentation
  https://cmgds.marine.usgs.gov/data-releases/datarelease/10.5066-P91NP87I/
• All the maps of the 2022 #30DayMapChallenge, 8446 of which passed through Twitter, collected on a page where they are organized by day and ranking or by account and with a search box
  https://30daymapchallenge.com/2022/

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#1970: rivers, maps, return

Thu, 22 Dec 2022 by Raf

• Inventory of all the rivers, creeks and streams of Catalonia including North Catalonia and also those of the counties of the Strip, with a diagram of each one and the location on the general map of hydrographic basins, thanks ERA [CA]
  https://riusdecatalunya.cat/
• The personal selection of the best maps of 2022 according to @kennethfield
  https://cartoblography.com/2022/12/20/favourite-maps-of-2022/
• Open source support generally takes two forms: contribution of effort or contribution of money, and in the public sector for example the second option is not possible, but it is still necessary to help maintain the projects
  https://blog.geomusings.com/2021/04/07/return-on-non-investment/

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#1969: documentary, projections, comparisons

Wed, 21 Dec 2022 by Raf

• A 7-minute documentary that explains in a very graphic way the genesis of the maps up to the Catalan Atlas, which is discussed exhaustively in another linked video
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJBBVQrRwqo
• A 40x60 cm poster shows the relationships between more than 100 different cartographic projections, ready to download in PDF and pay what you consider fair, with a fairly detailed explanation of the entire design and development process
  https://somethingaboutmaps.wordpress.com/2022/12/19/projection-connections-a-very-nerdy-poster/
• The population of the states of India, totalling 1.393 billion people in 2021, compared to the population of the countries of the world allows us to see how the state of Odisha has as many people as Spain
  https://www.visualcapitalist.com/population-of-india-compared-with-countries/

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#1968: digitaltwin, asia, playlist

Tue, 20 Dec 2022 by Raf

• The Center for Digital Built Britain completed its five-year mission and closed its doors at the end of September 2022, but it maintains the website as a legacy of the material generated during that time
  https://www.cdbb.cam.ac.uk/what-we-did/national-digital-twin-programme
• "Vanishing Asia" is a large book in 3 volumes that covers the gradual disappearance of some traditions in Asia as collected by Kevin Kelly, the author who spent 50 years traveling that continent
  https://vanishing.asia/
• Maps!! is a playlist on Spotify of 26 songs that lasts almost for two hours. The titles of the subjects are all related to the geospatial sector
  https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7AWBPQ2SjjIqhHDQOHqS8t?si=HUttv_2IRJ2Trm12SfswgA&nd=1

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#1967: javascript, education, aerial

Mon, 19 Dec 2022 by Raf

• TerraDraw is a JavaScript library for cross-provider map visualization, compatible with Mapbox, MapLibre, Google Maps, OpenLayers and Leaflet without friction and with some features of its own
  https://github.com/JamesLMilner/terra-draw
• Spatial visualization of the social position index (SPI) of first and second level educational centers in France geolocated from the number of registered administrative unit (UAI) [FR]
  https://www.data.gouv.fr/fr/reuses/cartographie-de-lindice-de-position-sociale-des-ecoles-et-colleges-france-metropolitaine-et-drom/
• Interactive viewer of the LoC (Library of Congress) collection of US panoramic maps (mostly oblique aerial views of cities from the late 19th and early 20th) via @noraes
  https://loc.maps.arcgis.com/apps/instant/media/index.html?appid=3c525318a2bf4898bc376fdb10f7d07b

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#1966: magellan, energy, climate

Fri, 16 Dec 2022 by Raf

• A four episodes documentary about the first circumnavigation by Magellan between 1519 and 1522 by Arte channel with audio in French and German [FR]
  https://www.arte.tv/fr/videos/RC-023013/l-incroyable-periple-de-magellan/
• Several factors have increased the price of energy around Europe; with heavy country interconnections combined with a consumption rise, it presents a rather severe scenario for this winter (paywalled)
  https://ig.ft.com/electricity-sharing/
• USA cities share a pattern on how households contribute to climate change by how far from the city center they are located and how wealthy their inhabitants are
  https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/12/13/climate/climate-footprint-map-neighborhood.html

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