Sanborn Map Company produced detailed, block-by-block maps of all U.S. cities between 1870 and 1960, which can now be consulted georeferenced.
https://mapsnap.org/
GPXZ aims to improve access to high-quality open elevation data, with a limited free option to access the API.
https://www.gpxz.io/
A journey through the crafts, recipes, and traditions that Eugenio Monesma has documented for decades, with a map linking the 49 video documentaries.
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https://monesmapa.com/
Map of the diversity of jingles (attention or information tones) used in public transportation in Europe, with a final link to a video compilation of jingles from around the world.
https://europeancorrespondent.com/en/r/mind-the-tone
Map of long-distance trains on the Amtrak and VIA Rail networks in the USA shows which part of the journey is during the day and which is at night, under theoretically ideal conditions.
https://daynight.transittools.dev/
The geomorphology of rivers and how flow and course affect the deposition of materials, and thus the constant change shown in a 3D simulation with controls for experimentation.
https://sael.net/river-bend/
Practical tips for exploring the Cheviot Hills, a range of uplands that stretch across the Anglo-Scottish border in Northumberland, with walks and sites
https://cheviots.co.uk/
Viewer with the estimated percentage of companies directly exposed to all tariffs in effect after September 29, 2026 due to the US trade war against Canada
https://mappingtariffs.org/map
The way to make road trips more entertaining is to plan your route with detours in mind—to see hidden gems, oddities, and unique artifacts.
https://makemydrivefun.com/
Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) threaten approximately 1.5 billion people worldwide, altering lives and causing physical, cognitive, and emotional harm—and, in some cases, even death.
https://endfund.org/visualizing-neglect/
FontApp is a collaborative, informational service regarding springs, water status, and potability, featuring information provided by users.
https://fontapp.net/
The Collaboratory for Equity in Water Allocation (COEQWAL) presents the complex water system of the state of California to illustrate the impacts of water-related decisions.
https://ucanr.edu/blog/green-blog/article/coeqwalwater
Temperature projection combining the year observed so far with the ENSO multimodel ensemble renewed every morning using ERA5, and with a specific section on El Niño
https://dashboard.theclimatebrink.com/#map
A guide to discover, plan, and collect goshuin at temples and shrines across Japan, featuring unique, hand-stamped calligraphies from each site.
https://goshuin.com/en/map?src=hero_map
The geoid height varies from +85 m in Iceland to -106 m in southern India, as calculated by the GOCO (Gravity Observation Combination) project using millions of data points
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5660/
Interactive map of all passenger train lines globally: including high-speed, commuter, metro systems, and trams, even in countries with limited cartography.
https://trains.theojaffee.net/#view=1.01/0/-127.8
The Earth, represented as data: winds, currents, terrain, borders, populations, reveals the shapes beneath the numbers in a different way of seeing the world
https://mapped.earth/
FactMap is another daily geogame, this time about historical facts that you have to match to the map, where points are awarded based on how close you are to the correct answer.
https://www.factmap.world/
An old-school, open-source projection demonstrator: a point of light, a sphere, and a plane, made with Python, three.js, proj4js, d3-geo
https://github.com/hypertidy/playproj
"Detention Landscapes" aims to create an open-access database that collects evidence of violations within immigrant detention centers in all countries.
https://detentionlandscapes.uwazi.io
User stage7 has collected all the stamps from the subway and train stations in Tokyo, known as eki stamps, along with a small line map, available for download as a 160 MB PDF.
https://stage7.net/dls/
In Torreilles, public institutions are joining forces to preserve and help you discover the coastal dunes.
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https://pmmdem.fr/fr/
This route invites you to discover the village of Montricoux and its artistic and architectural heritage through its residents, artists, and cultural figures.
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https://montricouxatraverslesarts.fr/
With the help of Opus 5.5, a software engineer develops an application in a single workday to recognize and make searchable all the text in an 1819 map of the Bosphorus.
https://github.com/CahidArda/bosphore-1819
A collaborative sound map of the Arcachon Basin to discover the territory in a different way for those who live there and for those who visit.
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https://cartophonieparticipative.com/
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.
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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
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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.
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https://www.visionscarto.net/castel-volturno
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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:
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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.
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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
Different models of early migrations, considering their compatibility with genetic, archaeological, and environmental evidence, to determine when humans arrived in the Americas.