#664: forest fires, fishing, pedestrians, lidar, moscow, gas, beijing, museums, climate change, population, kowloon, wms, oceans, accessibility, mapzen
, last check: Thu, 30 Apr 2026. Post history
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forest fires
Updated map of the last forest fires and the area burned thanks to the European Copernicus program
https://effis.jrc.ec.europa.eu/static/effis_current_situation/public/index.html | archive.org -
fishing
First open too for fishing control, aimed to improve our seas management
https://www.vizzuality.com/projects/global-fishing-watch | archive.org -
pedestrians
Washington DC map showing the most dangerous areas for pedestrians
https://dcist.com/2017/05/dangerous_hoods_for_pedestrians.php | archive.org -
lidar
Interactive map to show Vermont landscape invisible features
https://www.vermontpublic.org/programs/2017-05-25/maps-and-cutting-edge-cartography -
moscow
Moscow is still growing and has space to fit the population of the next 15 biggest Russian cities
https://sashat.me/2017/05/28/will-moscow-ever-stop-growing/ | archive.org -
gas
ETH model to prevent natural gas crisis in Europe
https://ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2014/03/erdgas-krisen-verhindern.html -
beijing
50 years of satellite imagery to review Beijing urban network
https://journals.openedition.org/cybergeo/28038?lang=fr -
museums
3D digitalization of museums heritage for better understanding of their collections
https://sketchfab.com/blogs/community/brighton-hove-museums/ -
climate change
Front line of climate change reported by a network of indigenous people
https://www.fastcompany.com/40429368/this-network-of-indigenous-people-is-reporting-from-the-front-lines-of-climate-change | archive.org -
population
Using Landscan data to estimate human population on a 1km grid
https://www.populationexplorer.com/ -
kowloon
How life was at the disappeared Kowloon walled city
https://weburbanist.com/2013/04/08/lawless-metropolis-kowloon-walled-city-then-and-now/ -
wms
Simple WMS viewer to combine different services
https://storage.googleapis.com/wms-viewer-online.appspot.com/wmsvieweronline/index.html -
oceans
Oceans of the World, international waters and why Earth is a wrong name for the planet
https://s3.amazonaws.com/terramar/upload/homepage/int_waters_map.jpg -
accessibility
CARTO map of Seville old town urban accessibility
https://cristinadc.carto.com/viz/7b540e62-61e0-11e5-aec9-0e4fddd5de28/public_map | archive.org -
mapzen
R client for Mapzen search, isochrones and vector tiles APIs
https://tarakc02.github.io/rmapzen/
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