#1470: trees, fantasy, paralleluniverses
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An international team of scientists has used artificial intelligence and commercial satellites to identify an unexpected number of trees spread across arid and semi-arid areas, via @xurxosanz
https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/147612/counting-trees-in-africas-drylands -
Monsoon is an open source fantastic map generator that uses numpy with the code in sight and explained on a notebook, via @vehrka
https://fangzhangmnm.itch.io/moonsoon -
If the results of the main elections, wars and other events had been different we would have maps that represent alternative worlds to ours, such as those in this collection
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20201104-the-intriguing-maps-that-reveal-alternate-histories
Raf