Community features Hurricane inundation zone map This beautiful map by Fabien Lezeau shows the areas that would be affected by varying categories of hurricanes. The LIDAR-based relief adds an extra element of detail and context to the map. Created using QGIS and Blender. I added some relief to my Hurricane
Community features Women in Geospatial+ Not only an account to follow for interesting spatial content, their primary focus is as a professional network to promote gender equality in the spatial industry. Women in Geospatial+ (@geospatialwomen)
Community features Carl Churchill I discovered Carl’s work on Twitter quite recently and immediately loved it. He’s prolific and has produced loads of beautiful maps. He’s also a student at Arizona State University. It’s criminal that he only has 33 followers on Twitter — I
Community features Netherlands building data in PostgreSQL and GeoPackage formats Delft University of Technology has helped pull together GeoPackage and PostgreSQL downloads for 3D building data in the Netherlands. Building quality is LOD1, which are effectively extruded polygons. 3D BAG3D Basisregistratie Adressen en Gebouwen (BAG)
Community features First batch of 1m LIDAR data for England's full coverage In December 2017 the Environment Agency announced their 3-year plan to deliver a 1m LIDAR dataset that covers the whole of England. Fast forward to today and they’ve released their first batch of data from the 17/18 winter flying season (they fly
Community features New Zealand releases 10s of thousands of old aerial photographs The National Library and Alexander Turnbull Library in New Zealand have released nearly 50,000 old aerial photographs, free to use under a CC-BY licence. I’m yet to dig through them all (is that even possible?) but no doubt these will be of
Community features DCFemTech recognises Mapbox Map Data Engineer Anna Petrone An insightful interview with Anna Petrone, highlighting why she’s interested in maps and her advice to people in influence for making the tech industry more inviting for women. DCFemTech recognizes Mapbox Map Data Engineer Anna PetroneDCFemTech is a coalition aimed at lowering the
Community features (Who will be) America's next big mapping company? Paul Ramsey looks at the history of mapping companies in the US takes a stab at who might become the big thing. Spoiler: Could it be Amazon? Will be interesting to loop back to this one in a year or two. (Who will be)
Community features Creating a DEM from OpenTopography point clouds This detailed tutorial from Land Information New Zealand (LINZ) shows how to take OpenTopography point cloud data and use it to create your own DEM. From points to pixels — creating digital elevation models from OpenTopography point cloudsLand Information New Zealand has a partnership with
Community features Mapping mistake allowed a billionaire to win over the poor Take an obscure development law and combine it with misaligned polygons. And what do you get? A way to divert tax breaks that were meant to help the poor. It’s hard to believe that this was even allowed to happen in the first
Community features Visualising tsunamis is all about capturing cause and effect This map of tsunamis in Google Earth visualises both the cause and effects of these (mostly) natural disasters. The article contains a detailed write-up of how they collected and manipulated the data to create the maps. Visualizing tsunamis is all about capturing cause and
Community features Cities start to regret single-family zoning I came for the maps, I stayed for the story. This article from the New York Times provides insight in to a growing zoning issue in the US — there’s just simply too many lots dedicated to single-family housing. Cities Start to Question an
Community features Over $300,000 raised for development of OpenLayers 6 OpenLayers is used and loved by a huge number of people in the spatial community. Recently a series of work for OpenLayers 6 took place to add WebGL support by using a Mapbox GL JS layer, the funding of which was initiated by Swisstopo.
Community features CesiumJS 1.57, with up to 10x faster 3D Tiles The recent release of Cesium 1.57 has added a whole bunch of improvements, one of the most exciting being a dramatic improvement in performance of 3D Tiles. The linked article covers how they achieved this from a technical perspective. Nice! Up to 10x
Community features qgis2web Did you know that you can export a map from QGIS to Open Layers or Leaflet? How? By using qgis2web! This great plugin, and its sibling web2qgis, are created and maintained by Tom Chadwin. He’s currently looking for code contributions on qgis2web to
Community features harp.gl A brand new WebGL-powered 3D mapping framework has been released by HERE. It’s based on Three.js and Mapbox Vector Tiles. It’s also open source and released under the Apache License. It’s nice to see another mapping framework using Three.js,
Community features trip-simulator v2.1.0 SharedStreets have updated their tool for generating simulated raw GPS telemetry. The new features support simulating vehicle shift changes and random vehicle hardware failure mid trip. I’ve been itching to try this tool out, if only for the pretty visualisations. SharedStreets trip-simulator v2.
Community features OGC publishes results from Vector Tiles pilot The Open Geospatial Consortium are currently looking at creating a specification for the encoding and publishing of vector tiles. As things stand, this specification will be based upon the Mapbox Vector Tiles specification. It’s as yet unclear what impact this will have on
Community features OpenStreetMap discuss terminating Facebook's right to use it After systematically failing to attribute OpenStreetMap in their maps, Facebook may be given notice of their breach of the ODbL licence. The resulting discussion on the OSM mailing list is both long and interesting, highlighting how the issue of attribution goes far beyond Facebook
Community features StoryMap of 68 map projections Hugely exciting? Perhaps not. Still, this well-presented roundup of map projections is both interesting and useful all at the same time. Map Projections in ArcGIS
Community features Visualising Web Mercator distortion using an orange peel I’ll save you from the “apeeling” map jokes. But seriously, this juicy map created by Chris Whong is a humorous insight into the distortion caused by Web Mercator. Visualizing the Distortion of WebMercator Maps with an Orange PeelMost modern web maps use a
Community features A topographic map of Mercury Eleanor Lutz is back again, this week with a fantastic topographic map of Mercury. She’s also written a detailed tutorial on how to create this map yourself, which also includes code for mapping Mars, Venus, and the Moon! A Topographic Map of MercuryHow
Community features "Throwing shade" on EMODnet bathymetry This beautiful elevation map from Liam Mason is a great example of using multiple hillshade layers that have different values for colour and angle of light. Lovely stuff. If you want to make something like this yourself then John Nelson has written a well-illustrated
Community features Detailed map of Omaha Beach D-Day landing zone This month was the 75th Anniversary of D-Day, the ambitious Allied landings during World War II that began the liberation of France. This detailed and top-secret map of the Omaha Beach landing zone shows the numerous obstructions that the landing forces were expected to
Community features An orbit map of the solar system Eleanor Lutz has created a stunning map of over 18,000 asteroids in the solar system. Make sure to check out her detailed tutorial and code if you’re interested
