The Transparency Code stipulates that every English council must publish payments over £500 openly, which, once net and processed, are displayed on this aggregator map.
https://bentossell.com/council-spend/#/
The easiest way to make maps in the field is to have a conversation (on WhatsApp, Telegram, or Signal) and export the chat to view locations, messages, and photographs.
https://github.com/hotosm/chatmap
Geo Whisperer shows the history of a place in images, in words, and in a short film built from what has changed, all from a single address.
https://www.geowhisperer.org/
The 2,199-mile route of Route 66 in 3D, passing through the 280 towns that still remain, including every place to eat, every hotel, the sights, and the gas stations.
https://www.pit-stop-app.com/viz/route66
Anthropeum is a daily, scored game where you guess the location and time period of ten objects based on photographs from the Met Museum.
https://anthropeum.com/
In the global virtual museum of interactive maps, each map tells a story to explore the world through space, time, and perspective.
https://themuseumofmaps.com/
A free, real-time 3D globe that overlays 32 layers of live global data onto an interactive Earth: flights, ships, earthquakes, fires, satellites, and much more.
https://overwatch.earth/
Sound map of the Pacific Crest Trail created using field recordings from a six-month journey of listening to the environment and connecting with the space.
https://www.thomasmkelly.com/pct-soundmap/
BeanMap is a free, open-source atlas of specialty coffees that answers questions about where they were grown on Earth, what they taste like, and how they are prepared.
https://bean-map.com/en
Wall Watch documents the construction of walls, the installation of buoys, and other infrastructure along the U.S.-Mexico border using community-sourced data.
https://wallwatch.theborderchronicle.com/
The Inception-like effect of folding the city around you, achieved using Cesium 3D tiles and three.js to animate it in the browser.
https://github.com/Makio64/dreamfold
A small guide to how to find a bot for Bluesky that publishes a random British/Irish city (town, village or hamlet) every hour with satellite images and 3 photos of the city
https://satyrs.eu/garden/2026/towns
Map of LTS (Level of Traffic Stress) in Italy, classifying roads based on the level of stress their characteristics may generate for cyclists.
[IT]
https://stressinbici.it/
City2Graph transforms geospatial relationships into graphs to support network analysis, urban research, and graph neural networks (GNNs).
https://github.com/c2g-dev/city2graph
Foldable balloon templates ready to print: all free to download, print, and fold, and all customizable using the custom balloon builder.
https://foldingglobes.com/globes
Tomarigi is an unofficial personal project for discovering and watching live cameras from Japan and around the world, as well as videos of train journeys in Japan.
https://tomarigi.me/
The daily map of cloud distribution and height over India, based on a reinterpretation of the official meteograms distributed by the India Meteorological Department.
https://diagramchasing.fun/2026/mapping-clouds
MapSplit, created by Giuseppe Sollazzo (who has an interesting newsletter, by the way), features a movable line that divides any set of geographic information into two parts
https://puntofisso.net/MapSplit/
A detailed map and information pages about dialects of North American English, focusing on their pronunciation patterns
https://aschmann.net/AmEng/
Terrain and historical imagery in the browser using MapLibre: shading, hypsometric tint, contour lines, relief display, and satellite image timelines
https://terrain-viewer.iconem.com/docs/
A 3D game from Maptiler where you must consume as many map elements as possible to expand the 300-meter-diameter chasm you control
https://sinkhole.maptilerlabs.dev/
WikiShootMe V3 is a tool for displaying Wikidata items, Wikipedia articles, and Commons images with geographic coordinates on a single map, allowing users to help enhance their data
https://wikishootme.toolforge.org
A real-time interactive viewfinder that allows you to select a window seat on any airplane flying over your house or a satellite, helping you imagine you’re traveling
https://stowaway.live/
The live map of maps, Maps in the Wild, has returned with approximately 1,400 entries, and we still have work ahead to review some old items
https://mappery.org/the-mappery-map-is-back/
The area stretching from Castel Volturno to Casal di Principe, a few kilometers north of Naples, is undoubtedly one of those places that cannot be fully understood in a single visit.
[FR]
https://www.visionscarto.net/castel-volturno
A curated and up-to-date list of MCP servers for geospatial tasks, GIS, mapping, and Earth observation, geocoding, routing, PostGIS, STAC/imagery, etc.
https://github.com/sparkgeo/geo-mcp-servers
The Sunshine Atlas shows sunny locations based on a variety of data sources that can be downloaded and are displayed on a map.
https://sunshineatlas.com/
The drought map for the United Kingdom, featuring indicators such as time series and affected population, along with forecasts and detailed data for any location on the map.
https://drought.uk/
The state of bus connectivity in England, highlighting where services are operating successfully and where critical gaps remain in achieving reliable, frequent, and sustainable public transport.
https://labs.podaris.com/cfbt-bus-service-standard/
A crowdsourced map of cheap eats under $10 across the US for people who love good food and incredible deals.
https://cheapfoodmap.com/
Remember that Geocamp is taking place in Asturias on Saturday, October 3rd, and that you can still sign up:
[ES]
https://2026.geocamp.es/
A map of gastronomic boundaries, based on restaurant names in OpenStreetMap, showing where *döner* becomes *shawarma* or *pierogi* becomes *vareniki*.
https://isoplov.vova.today/en/rice
A single, clear atlas of all named cycling routes in Austria—fast, accessible, and multilingual—featuring a directory, elevation profiles, stages, and GPX downloads.
[DE]
https://radatlas.at/de/
"Où Vivre" offers an independent, structured analysis of regions to help you decide where to settle, with a view to establishing a lasting connection rather than merely seeking immediate consumption.
[FR]
https://app.ou-vivre.fr/map/?config=apps/explore.fr.xml
A map of all Tokyo train stations where you can hear the trains' departure melodies—each one unique to its station, yet gradually disappearing as the service is modernized.
https://sheets.works/data-viz/bells-of-tokyo
Each country has a demographic footprint, a unique combination of how the population is distributed by age, how mortality varies throughout life, and where fertility is concentrated
https://visquill.com/gallery/world-demographics/
Decentralized location and control of remote Android devices to pass instructions to them in case of loss, with own self-hosted web server, all FOSS
https://fmd-foss.org/
Kumoy is a Qgis plugin that allows you to publish maps directly to the web without a server, and also provides cloud layer management and facilitates teamwork
https://www.kumoy.io/en
Digital twin with real-time data from New York City, to follow the pulse of the city live from all aspects, with an LLM agent who can reason
https://www.nycsim.com/
A daily geogame, in development, to recognize the place where 3 old photographs from the Cartoteca de Catalunya collections were taken, with combined scoring for accuracy and speed
[CA]
https://catmapps.github.io/retorn-al-territori/#/
Annual snow depth measurements for the period 1954 to 2026 at three Australian peaks show how the season is shortening and the amount of snow is decreasing
https://snowdepth.info/
Mark all the countries you have set foot in and discover what part of the planet you have traveled in terms of number of countries, surface area, population and GDP.
https://brilliantmaps.com/countries-visited/
CIRAD and CIFOR have developed a large-scale vegetation mapping initiative in accordance with the new regulation for mapping at the regency level in Indonesia
https://www2.cifor.org/map/vegetation/
An interactive world map of creation and origin myths — the stories civilizations told to understand where the universe, the earth, and humanity came from
https://originmap.sunnyguha.com/
Engineering an orbitable altitude field cartographic renderer, or how to entertain yourself during the summer by making a 3D map generator from scratch in the browser
[CA]
https://estrat.cat/
The best way to discover the Giants of Catalonia: do a search, on the map or textually, and download the silhouette of the Giant to color it to your liking (ideal for entertaining on the go)
[CA]
https://www.pintargegants.cat/
An interactive map showing the locations of the 360-degree panoramic views (nature, historical heritage, culture) documented in Aragón Virtual
[ES]
https://www.aragonvirtual.es/mapa/
Map of the City of London showing the salaries of engineers working at companies along the Thames; other cities available
https://www.levels.fyi/atlas/london
Second daily geogame of this month, also with 5 questions and scoring based on distance on the map, but this time with general geography questions
https://maptap.gg/
On August 28, 2026, the lunar eclipse will be partial but deep; this map shows how many minutes of the umbral phase actually remain above the true horizon as drawn by the terrain
https://eclipsemap.xyz/#11.9/41.24338/0.78603
From September 7 to 11, the first attempt at the longest non-stop train journey in Europe will be made, from Kemijärvi, in Finnish Lapland, to Lagos, in Portugal.