Nº1190: gaming, barcelona, qgis, castes

Mon, 21 Oct 2019 by Raf

• Tech vigilance also on games: "First, Nantic Mapped The World. Now It is Mapping You"
  https://kotaku.com/the-creators-of-pokemon-go-mapped-the-world-now-theyre-1838974714
• The next #geomobBCN will take place on January 15th with 5 exciting talks. Please remember you can also propose your talks for the following sessions
  https://thegeomob.com/post/jan-15th-2020-geomobbcn-details
• How to compile and debug QGIS with Windows and Visual Studio [ES]
  https://www.cursosgis.com/compilar-y-debuggear-qgis-en-windows/
• Using Census data from 2011, this study analyzes India cities' castes geographies and the segregation of the different tribes
  https://www.livemint.com/news/india/the-geography-of-caste-in-urban-india-1569564507580.html

Raf

Nº1189: land use, scooters, rotation

Thu, 17 Oct 2019 by Raf

• Scalable and almost realtime land use classification using satellite imagery and Artificial Intelligence
  https://medium.com/devseed/tracking-a-rapidly-changing-planet-bc02efe3545d
• This article analyses Germany's e-scooters micro mobility with data, charts, maps, and conclusions
  http://scooters.civity.de/en
• How planet Earth would look like with a retrograde rotation and how it would affect the global climate
  https://eos.org/articles/reversing-earths-spin-moves-deserts-reshapes-ocean-currents

Raf

Nº1188: crops, sounds, qgis

Wed, 16 Oct 2019 by Raf

• A free app for cooperative agriculture that helps the management and digitization of your crops [ES]
  http://www.osigris.com/
• Mexico sound map, to understand and enjoy the geocultural diversity, search for sounds and add your recordings [ES]
  https://mapasonoro.cultura.gob.mx
• A comprehensive QGIS 3.4 tutorial aimed for high school teachers and to be easy to follow at the classroom [FR]
  https://www.pedagogie.ac-nantes.fr/sciences-de-la-vie-et-de-la-terre/laboratoire/activites-avec-les-eleves/logiciels-et-tutoriels/systeme-d-informations-geographiques-sig-/tutoriel-pour-le-sig-systeme-d-information-geographique-qgis-3-4-959086.kjsp

Raf

Nº1187: geocoding, slam, dataviz

Tue, 15 Oct 2019 by Raf

• The geocoding theory explained briefly in a two parts blog post: normalization and correlation [FR]
  https://makina-corpus.com/blog/metier/2019/geocodeur-la-theorie
• Kimeria is an Open Source library with SLAM (Simultaneous Localization And Mapping) capabilities to generate annotated multi-frame 3D meshes
  https://github.com/MIT-SPARK/Kimera
• Microsoft releases SanDance, an Open Source tool for data exploration based in Vega and Deck.gl
  https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/opensource/2019/10/10/microsoft-open-sources-sanddance-visual-data-exploration-tool/

Raf

Nº1186: inspections, warming, impeachment, tokyo

Mon, 14 Oct 2019 by Iván Sánchez

• Madrid restaurants sanitary inspections mapped via @realivansanchez [ES]
  https://civio.es/tu-derecho-a-saber/2019/10/10/consulta-los-locales-de-tu-barrio-que-suspendieron-en-la-ultima-inspeccion-sanitaria/
• Transportation is the principal source of greenhouse gases emissions, this is the most detailed map for the USA via @realivansanchez
  https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/10/10/climate/driving-emissions-map.html
• Territory and population on this map of the last USA election results, regarding Trump impeachment process via @realivansanchez
  https://observablehq.com/@karimdouieb/try-to-impeach-this-challenge-accepted
• Tokyo 3D realtime public transportation map, made using Open Source Software and Data via @realivansanchez
  https://nagix.github.io/mini-tokyo-3d/#14/35.6814/139.767/0/60

Iván Sánchez

Nº1185: crawl, housing, course

Fri, 11 Oct 2019 by Raf

• Fancy a beer? This online tool computes the best route for all the pubs with the same name. You can have 339 pints in pubs named "Red Lion" for example
  https://pudding.cool/2019/10/pubs/
• The Barcelona Metropolitan Housing Observatory has a viewer that generates maps and downloadable CSV files with indicators [CA]
  https://www.ohb.cat/
• @kaggle is offering a free geospatial analysis course to generate interactive maps and discover data patterns via @xurxosanz
  https://www.kaggle.com/learn/geospatial-analysis

Raf

Nº1184: image, opioids, jupyter

Thu, 10 Oct 2019 by Raf

• ImagePlay is an Open Source tool for rapid prototyping and extension of image processing algorithms
  http://imageplay.io/
• Belgians pain: a scrollymap with data about opioids consumption raise in Belgium compared with the rest of the world [FR]
  https://medor.coop/nos-series/la-douleur-des-belges/opioides-datavisualisations/
• This tutorial in Spanish presents Google Colab: a hosted environment to run Python Jupyter Notebooks for all kinds of data science workflows [ES]
  https://www.adictosaltrabajo.com/2019/06/04/google-colab-python-y-machine-learning-en-la-nube

Raf

Nº1183: 3d, housing, catalonia

Wed, 09 Oct 2019 by Raf

• mago3D is an Open Source system that integrates AEC (Architecture, Engineering, and Construction) with BIM and 3D GIS using web technologies
  http://www.mago3d.com/eng/
• This Barcelona subway map displays the salary you need to buy a house near each station
  https://blog.kasaz.com/mapa-metro-salarios-comprar-piso-barcelona/
• A free Android app to get Catalonia maps, points of interest, and hiking proposals to learn about the territory
  https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ffscreens.catalogne&hl=es_419

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Nº1182: patterns, isolation, pollutants

Tue, 08 Oct 2019 by Raf

• The 21st-century concept for distance, and how to understand cities using different technologies via @vehrka
  https://medium.com/topos-ai/rethinking-distance-in-new-york-city-d17212d24919
• Communities in Canada with no year-round road access
  https://metricmaps.files.wordpress.com/2019/10/isolated-communities-of-canada.png
• Map of Spanish research centers for pollutants that are not yet considered a threat
  http://geomatica.imdea-agua.org:21000/webmappings/Contaminantes_Emergentes/WM_CEmergentes.html

Raf

Nº1181: disasters, nationality, borders

Mon, 07 Oct 2019 by Raf

• MIND (Managing Information for Natural Disasters) is a prototype dashboard by United nations being released to respond to disasters and emergencies
  http://sm4good.com/2019/09/04/the-uns-new-data-analysis-platform-for-disasters/
• World map showing how nationality is acquired for the second generation: "ius soli" versus "ius sanguinis"
  https://laviedesidees.fr/Par-le-sol-et-par-le-sang.html
• "The Atlas of Unusual Borders" shows twisted borers, enclaves, exclaves, divided islands, nonexistent cities, and other curiosities
  https://www.harpercollins.co.uk/9780008351779/the-atlas-of-unusual-borders-discover-intriguing-boundaries-territories-and-geographical-curiosities/

Raf

Nº1180: atlas, reforestation, lidar

Fri, 04 Oct 2019 by Raf

• Just released: "Mad Maps. L’atlas qui va changer votre vision du Monde", a collection of maps that are not OK
  https://www.armand-colin.com/mad-maps-latlas-qui-va-changer-votre-vision-du-monde-9782200625825
• An ecologist wants to restore the planet through mapping trees, fungi, worms, microbes, and more
  https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02846-4?fbclid=IwAR2d2EaOvJOr7ZTPa9SxjB5KNbPiN4EszDeFHbqSzeFhyuFPTVGzec9p2_Y&error=cookies_not_supported&code=4e088e0e-a71a-42a9-8c73-320be08346a0
• Latvia publishes a full country LiDAR coverage under an Open Data license
  https://rapidlasso.com/2019/09/03/national-open-lidar-strategy-of-latvia-humiliates-germany-austria-and-other-european-closed-data-states/L

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Nº1179: cycling, tanaka, cadastre, gondwana

Thu, 03 Oct 2019 by Raf

• A new version of an Open Source world cycling map from OSM data, with a new CartoCSS style
  https://www.cyclosm.org/#map=12/52.3728/4.8936/cyclosm
• An Open Source globe of the world population using Tanaka style, made with R and D3
  https://neocarto.hypotheses.org/6111
• Open Source project to help to download Spanish Cadastre data into geopackage using Inspire Atom feeds
  https://blog.geomati.co/post/187372693113/herramienta-de-consola-para-la-descarga-desde-el
• Gondwana project continues working on a geometry model for continents dispersion
  https://www.reeves.nl/gondwana

Raf

Nº1178: flu, geocoding, tourism, amsterdam

Wed, 02 Oct 2019 by Raf

• An animated USA map shows how the flu spreads over the country in the 2018-2019 season
  https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/usmap.htm
• A blog post reveals insights into Argentina's national address normalization API after its first year
  https://medium.com/datos-argentina/c%C3%B3mo-se-usa-y-hacia-d%C3%B3nde-va-la-api-georef-b8c27943f47b
• An online scenic routes calculator of many world cities to find the most exciting and reviewed points of interest
  https://sightsafari.city/?type=circular&from=41.377301,2.173234&duration=30&locale=en
• An interactive animation with all the boats that traveled Amsterdam channels between 6th and 12th of August 2019
  http://senseable.mit.edu/roboat_summer_day/

Raf

Nº1177: bivariate, formats, canada, citations

Tue, 01 Oct 2019 by Raf

• Switzerland income inequality by municipality using 2015 data and a bivariate map, including details to reproduce it with any other data
  https://timogrossenbacher.ch/2019/04/bivariate-maps-with-ggplot2-and-sf/
• An interactive and API endpoint ogr2ogr web frontend to convert several geospatial formats from/to GeoJSON
  http://ogre.adc4gis.com/
• Average speed (km/h) of Canadian highways on a regular Wednesday noon, where green color represents congestion (!)
  https://metricmaps.files.wordpress.com/2019/09/canada-major-highway-speeds.png
• A crowdsourced map of cartographic citations, including authors, references, and terms, open to everybody to contribute literary excerpts citing maps
  https://neocarto.hypotheses.org/6502

Raf

Nº1176: submarine, whales, moon, gerrymandering

Mon, 30 Sep 2019 by Raf

• The investments made by Google on submarine Internet cable
  http://www.limesonline.com/carta-cavi-sottomarini-internet-google-cina-pacific-light-cable-network-hong-kong/114061
• A map showing captures and sightings of the USA whales hunting trips between 1784 and 1920
  https://public.tableau.com/views/WhalingVoyages/Whales?:showVizHome=no
• Moon trees: where seeds that traveled on Apollo 14 mission were planted
  https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2019/07/moon-trees-that-traveled-to-space-now-live-on-earth-where-are-they-now/
• Districtr, an Open Source tool to redraw USA electoral districts at your pleasure via @sfggeogis
  https://districtr.org/

Raf

Nº1175: witches, satellite, taxes, elevation

Fri, 27 Sep 2019 by Raf

• Witches of Scotland: a map of the historical registry of residence, detention, and trial locations of 3141 witches (and a few sorcerers)
  https://witches.is.ed.ac.uk/
• Planet is using a combination of satellite imagery, deep learning, and cloud computing to produce a worldwide map of the road network and buildings footprints
  https://www.planet.com/pulse/mapping-all-of-earths-roads-and-buildings-from-space/
• A study from 2016 data shows how only in Spain, 13% of taxes from big corporations are shifted to tax heavens
  https://missingprofits.world/
• An Open Source project allows to generate glTF or STL 3D models, alternatively providing an overlapping GPX file
  https://elevationapi.com/

Raf

Nº1174: paris, slavery, networking, trunks

Thu, 26 Sep 2019 by Raf

• Dans Ma Rue project in Paris provides an application to report public space incidents; allowing anyone to study the results with the city data portal
  https://data.pour.paris/dans-ma-rue
• All USA counties (or equivalent boundary) named after a slave owner
  https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EE4vX-LVUAAdVUH.png:large
• International university network, backed by USAID, for students, researchers, and educators to generate and use geospatial Open Data
  https://www.youthmappers.org/
• You can help to identify tree trunks on this crowdsourced project for forest inventories using drone point clouds
  https://mm.winiwarter.dev/threedgeo_treeprofiles.html

Raf

Nº1173: vinyl, human dev, papua, processing

Wed, 25 Sep 2019 by Raf

• Earth planet shape converted into a vinyl disc where one altitude meter equals to a Hertz; one hemisphere on each side and visible in the grooves
  http://www.katjaaufleger.com/ordner/sumofitsparts.html
• Subnational data and maps for the Human Development Index have been updated on September 2019
  https://globaldatalab.org/shdi/
• The Atlas of Deforestation and Industrial Plantations in Papua shows and analyzes the expansion of four threats to the environment
  https://atlas.cifor.org/papua/
• "Building a processing python plugin for #QGIS" is a guide to enable complex processes without developing any interface
  http://www.qgistutorials.com/en/docs/3/processing_python_plugin.html

Raf

Nº1172: floods, inuit, framework, gps

Tue, 24 Sep 2019 by Raf

• The great 2019 flood at the central states of the USA explained by the NYT using a scroll map
  https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/09/11/us/midwest-flooding.html
• "Pan Inuit Trails" is an atlas of Inuit mobility and their traces over the Northwest Passage
  http://www.paninuittrails.org/index.html?module=module.paninuittrails
• The "Global Statistical Geospatial Framework (GSGF)" is promoted by the United Nations and aims to help to integrate statistical and geospatial data
  http://ggim.un.org/meetings/GGIM-committee/9th-Session/documents/The_GSGF.pdf
• TraceJSON is a GeoJSON extension for expressing GPS path data. It is designed for simplicity and compatibility with existing geo tools
  https://github.com/sharedstreets/tracejson/tree/master/1.0.0

Raf

Nº1171: city models, ai, pleasures, roulette

Mon, 23 Sep 2019 by Raf

• A company generates city 3D models without photogrammetry, just using deep learning and Artificial Intelligence
  https://geopi.pe/
• Creating data to be added to OSM using Artificial Intelligence on satellite imagery
  https://mapwith.ai/#13/6.14921/6.76873/0/55
• A short tutorial on how to create maps that emulate the iconic Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures cover using DEM data
  https://cartographicperspectives.org/index.php/journal/article/view/1536
• Late July a new version of MapRoulette was released, grouping tasks in virtual projects among other notable improvements
  https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/mvexel/diary/390353

Raf

Nº1170: isotherm, border, reservoirs, arsons

Fri, 20 Sep 2019 by Raf

• T-Shirt tourism: a perfect 52 weeks trip around the world following the 21/24C 70/75F isotherm
  https://www.reservations.com/blog/resources/around-the-world-perfect-weather/
• "La Frontera de Los Muertos" is an Augmented Reality art project dedicated to the migrants dead in the US/Mexico border
  https://bordermemorial.wordpress.com/border-memorial-frontera-de-los-muertos/
• An interactive map to learn about the status of Spanish reservoirs
  https://urbithings.com/embalses.maps
• Spatial mobility patterns of urban arsonists: an explorative study
  https://www.ehu.eus/ojs/index.php/inecs/article/view/20767

Raf

Nº1169: roma, diversity, weather, barcelona

Thu, 19 Sep 2019 by Raf

• An Open Science project develops a Roman Open Data for text search and mapping visualization of a rich database about amphoras and epigraphies
  http://www.romanopendata.eu/
• 6 maps explain the USA expanding racial diversity
  https://www.brookings.edu/research/americas-racial-diversity-in-six-maps/
• 1999 to 2018 map displays the most frequent cause of weather fatalities in the USA states
  https://i.imgur.com/sRbDui1.png
• An interactive map shows the evolution of rent prices in Barcelona by neighborhood, with charts with the quarter tendency of the last years
  https://public.tableau.com/profile/agustin.tondelli#!/vizhome/MapacostodealquilerenBCNporbarrios/MapacostoalquilerBCN

Raf

Nº1168: calendar, radar, gifs, buenos aires

Wed, 18 Sep 2019 by Raf

• GeoHipster 2020 calendar is open for maps submissions
  http://geohipster.com/2020-geohipster-calendar/
• All chapters and materials are available for download for "The SAR Handbook: Comprehensive Methodologies for Forest Monitoring and Biomass Estimation."
  https://www.servirglobal.net/Global/Articles/Article/2674/sar-handbook-comprehensive-methodologies-for-forest-monitoring-and-biomass-estimation
• This short guide explains how to generate animated GIFs from satellite imagery with R, including an addendum to make them directly from EO Browser
  https://gijn.org/2019/08/07/how-to-build-a-gif-of-satellite-imagery-in-r/
• "Plano Abierto" is an open portal for the new Buenos Aires urban planning, including Open Data
  https://planoabierto.buenosaires.gob.ar/

Raf

Nº1167: eels rent, streets, voters, invasive

Tue, 17 Sep 2019 by Raf

• Paying your rent with eels, for centuries this was possible in England as this maps displays
  http://historiacartarum.org/eel-rents-project/english-eel-rents-10th-17th-centuries/
• How mapping street types help understand hidden patterns in cities, R scripts, and data available
  https://erdavis.com/2019/07/27/the-beautiful-hidden-logic-of-cities/
• Putting Native American Voters on the Map: Using Cadastral Data to Geocode Non-Traditional Addresses
  https://www.azavea.com/blog/2019/09/12/putting-native-american-voters-on-the-map-with-cadastral-data/
• Invasive water species detection in lake Victoria using Deep Learning techniques on satellite imagery
  https://cartometrics.com/blog/invasive-water-species/

Raf

Nº1166: dogs, irrigation, orientations, rides

Mon, 16 Sep 2019 by Raf

• Plotmypaws is a personal project to generate visualizations from several dogs walking patterns
  https://medium.com/@craig.taylor_72813/plotmypaws-a-dog-visualisation-a6ddd362cae1
• SiAR is an irrigation information system that publishes Open Datasets from the tracking stations
  https://datos.gob.es/ca/noticia/el-sistema-de-informacion-agroclimatica-para-el-regadio-siar
• This study explores the spatial configuration of streets orientations in many cities around the world
  https://geoffboeing.com/2019/09/urban-street-network-orientation/
• How Lyft Creates Hyper-Accurate Maps from Open-Source Maps and Real-Time Data
  https://eng.lyft.com/how-lyft-creates-hyper-accurate-maps-from-open-source-maps-and-real-time-data-8dcf9abdd46a

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