maps.md

Maps

• [gis]

Links to working with map data

• openinframap.org

  • Power infra for the planet! Power plants and cables!
  • Gas, Oil, Water (resovwars!)

• FlightRadar24 - All the commercial planes in the world

• GPS jamming map

• oldmapsonline.org World History Atlas

• app.electricitymap.org

  • Electricity usage per country

• city-roads

  • Download openstreetmap data for a city
    • view in opengl
    • save as an svg
  • Source code available to inspect OpenStreetMap data

• maps.stamen.com

  • Examples for differnt renderers for map data
    • Water color

• A Step-by-Step Guide to Making 3D Maps with Satellite Imagery in R

• World Map Visualisation of Celltower coverage

  • using data from opencellid.org see [datasets] [networks]
  • opencellid.org - The world's largest Open Database of Cell Towers

• Unfolding the Earth: Myriahedral Projections

  • Mapping the earth is a classic problem. For thousands of years cartographers, mathematicians, and inventors have come up with methods to map the curved surface of the earth to a flat plane. The main problem is that you cannot do this perfectly

  • Myriahedral animated in browser

• Planetfall

  • Making a planet projection of Sir Miers Alpha Centari

• shipmap.org

  • Shipping lanes animated and visualised

• lightpollutionmap.info

• mapsforeurope.org

  • data

• from [datasets]

  • Live Realtime
    • Lightening Maps
      • blitzortung.org - a better web client that lightening maps?
    • Windy.com
    • earth.nullschool.net
      • source
    • Rain-dar
  • Electricity Map of the World - Ranked by carbon intensity of electricity consumed (gCO₂eq/kWh)
  • SlowWays - footpaths between cities

• OpenHistoricalMap

• Map of Starlink Coverage

• atlasof.space

• Is the mcdonald’sice cream machine broken? [creativity]

  • Amazing #reverse-engineering of Mcdonalds order API to check if IceCream is served. Live maps of broken ice cream machines
  • The REAL Reason McDonalds Ice Cream Machines Are Always Broken

• 3D Elevation of South America Twitter

  • Could be an interesting 3D printing project?

• Map Data V: False Assumptions Programmers Make`

• Serverless Maps - Now Open Source

  • Self hosting map tiles yourself on AWS for 1/700th of the cost of GoogleMaps

• Maps Distort How We See the World - 30 Maps to Rethink the World

  • Amazing area comparisons

• organicmaps.app

  • Organic Maps is one of a few applications nowadays that supports 100% of features without an active Internet connection.

• darkhotels.co

  • Hotels and light pollution on a map - for stargaing

• 2024: announcing the year of the OpenStreetMap vector maps

• MapTCHA, the open source CAPTCHA that improves OpenStreetMap

• Space -> Time - maps of a few cities

  • This is a map that can show time instead of space. Distances in the map reflect travel times: points that are close but take a long time to travel between (by car) get pushed away from each other, and vice versa.

Old cartography

• Fantasy Map Brushes
  • Making maps look like old paper maps