#930: radical, water, first nations, land value, stonehenge, polution, lego, hexgrid, islands, buildings
, last check: Tue, 05 May 2026. Post history
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radical
The Radical Cartography Atlas is a collection of maps and essays around globalization social topics, inherently political, now available also as printed book
http://www.an-atlas.com/ -
water
2015 data and maps about USA water consumption, by main sectors
https://owi.usgs.gov/vizlab/water-use-15/#view=USA&category=total | archive.org -
first nations
Map of Canadian First Nations
http://fnpim-cippn.aandc-aadnc.gc.ca/index-eng.html | archive.org -
land value
2018 report on Latinamerica land value is ready
https://valorsueloamericalatina.org/ -
stonehenge
Interactive map of all artifacts found around the Stonehenge location
http://web.org.uk/barrowmap/ -
polution
Formaldehyde pollution over India makes their sky really different from imagery data
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-44550091 -
lego
A very simple recipe on how to create QGIS Lego-like maps
https://blog.data-wax.com/2018/06/07/jouer-aux-lego-avec-qgis/ -
hexgrid
Uber explains on a technical post their new open source hexagonal hierarchical grid system
https://www.uber.com/blog/h3 -
islands
All bigger than 5 km2 Great Britain islands reordered by area
https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/blog/2018/06/britains-largest-islands/ | archive.org -
buildings
Microsoft open releases more than 124 million building footprints, produced using deep learning and artificial intelligence techniques
https://blogs.bing.com/maps/2018-07/microsoft-releases-125-million-building-footprints-in-the-us-as-open-data
Note from Jorge: Back from summer holidays, I’ll try to catch up with Raf’s issues as fast as I can, bear with me ^_^
Raf