#171: contest, card game, fantastic, clouds, nyc, tables, population, infography, georef, cooperatives, fines, energy
, last check: Wed, 06 May 2026. Post history
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contest
CartoDB maps contest, open until August 31, with prizes
https://go.cartodb.com/insight-competition | archive.org -
card game
A card game to learn USA geography
https://ubique.americangeo.org/company-and-not-for-profit-spotlights/geoplunge-by-learningplunge-inc-a-thrilling-way-to-learn-u-s-geography/ | archive.org -
fantastic
"Picture perfect days": map of the USE according to the number of days with good weather conditions
http://us-climate.blogspot.com/2015/03/picture-perfect-weather-days.html | archive.org -
clouds
2012 cloud frequency map measured with the MODIS satellite
https://cloudfrequency.appspot.com/ | archive.org -
nyc
Hand drawn anonymous map with New York at the centre of the World and fitting the whole country
https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~274078~90047809:New-York-City?sort=Pub_List_No_InitialSort%2CPub_Date%2CPub_List_No%2CSeries_No&qvq=w4s:/where/New+York+City;sort:Pub_List_No_InitialSort%2CPub_Date%2CPub_List_No%2CSeries_No;lc:RUMSEY~8~1&mi=24&trs=31 -
tables
Tabula, a tool to free tables locked on PDF files
https://tabula.technology/ -
population
Detailed explanation of how the Europe population change was mapped
http://blog.webkid.io/how-we-created-a-map-with-100k-interactive-areas/ | archive.org -
infography
Infography to overview the different career options for GIS students
https://gis.usc.edu/msp-resources/infographics/career-paths-2/ -
georef
Using an old map as a basemap for a temporal visualization project
https://movingbodiesmovingculture.wordpress.com/2015/07/28/historical-basemaps/ -
cooperatives
Slides and report: "Mapping agro-food consumption groups in the city of Barcelona"
http://ww16.ict4rd.net/mapping-agro-food-consumption-groups-in-the-city-of-barcelona/?sub1=20240729-1909-3701-9e5b-0194d44944d9 -
fines
Map of the 177.974 fines reported in Madrid at February 2015, summing 17.525.900€
https://piensaenpixel.carto.com/builder/72a358fe-0894-11e5-9e8a-0e018d66dc29/embed -
energy
Interactive map of the global connections between geopolitics, energy and natural resources
http://worldpowermap.com/ | archive.org
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