The Civic Information Index uses data to map drivers of engaged, informed, equitable, and healthy communities nationwide.

• local

• Civic data
• Civic maps
• Evaluate impact

The Upward Mobility Dashboard helps people understand key conditions affecting upward mobility from poverty and racial equity in communities.

• Reduced inequalities
• No poverty

• Civic data
• Civic maps
• Dashboards

This map shows municipal networks across the United States.

• Civic maps
• Connectivity
• Community wifi

Healthsites.io establishes this data and the tools necessary to upload, manage and make the data easily accessible.

• Civic maps

Using GPS mapping technology, Nidoroualmewaafe identifies areas that do not have access to safe drinking water and shares this information with local authorities and communities to inform decision-making.

• Clean water and sanitation

• Civic maps

This map...illustrates a [Congress] in a state of dysfunction, with growing dissatisfaction on the part of the public, waning trust in its ability perform, and -- most significantly -- large-scale disengagement from the system by the public.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Data visualization
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

We're a UK charity that uses data to highlight local and structural food insecurity then provides tools to help alleviate it.

• Zero hunger

• Civic data
• Civic maps
• Access social benefits

This site maps data about UK constituencies on hex maps (cartograms). We have created several themes (economy, energy, environment, health, society, and transport) and have filled those with separate pages for each data aspect.

• Civic data
• Civic maps

Cutting-edge map tools for historical research. Search, explore, and discover the history of your surroundings through historical maps.

• history

• Mapping
• Civic maps
• Mapping tools

THE NYC public toilet Google map

• Civic data
• Civic maps

Mapping debris cleanup following Hurricane Beryl 2024

• hurricanes

• Civic maps
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

The Atlas contains measurements of nine indicators for cities all around the world.

• Sustainable cities and communities
• cities
• mass transit

• Mapping
• Civic maps

A Code for Pakistan initiative to Crowdsource the flood-related data from the 2022 Floods in Pakistan.

• floods

• Crowdsourcing
• Civic maps
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

Kidmapping is an information resource for parents, human rights activists, volunteers and activists. Here you can find information about all kinds of locations of deported children in Russia, Belarus or occupied regions of Ukraine.

• youth
• Ukraine

• Civic maps
• Specific campaigns
• Participatory memorials

There have been over 40 recent bans of the rainbow flag. The Gilbert Baker Foundation and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Are Fighting Back.

• LGBTQI
• 2024 Webby Awards

• Civic maps
• Specific campaigns

Through powerful personal narratives and comprehensive data, Global Press Journal shares the untold stories of 11 courageous, local journalists and activists across the globe.

• free speech
• 2024 Webby Awards

• Journalism
• Civic maps
• Story-based campaigns

Falling Fruit is a massive, collaborative map of the urban harvest.

• Zero hunger
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing
• Civic maps

Spatial Equity NYC (SE), a tool developed by MIT’s Norman B. Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism (LCAU) in close collaboration with New York City-based nonprofit Transportation Alternatives (TA), visualizes mobility, environment, and health data.

• cities
• place-based
• Reduced inequalities

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Civic maps

Divestment campaign targeting local councils investing in fossil fuel companies

• Climate action
• local

• Civic maps
• Specific campaigns

Just like how we use AI to detect sidewalks, street signs and road names in satellite imagery to display helpful information in Google Maps, we’ll also use AI to identify oil and gas infrastructure, like oil storage containers, in our imagery. Then, we’ll combine it with EDF’s information about oil and gas infrastructure to locate where the emissions are coming from.

• Google
• Climate action
• methane

• Civic maps
• Satellites
• Environmental data

ATLAS is a crowdsourced (map) repository of projects happening in cities involving the use of artificial intelligence systems.

• Emerging tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Smart Cities and sensors

UK PlanIt is a national aggregator for current and historical planning information.

• Civic maps
• Urban planning

Campaign website explaining landlord / proptech surveillance and what tenants can do to fight back

• housing
• surveillance
• landlord

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Crowdsourcing
• Civic maps

Housing Courts Must Change! (HCMC) is a statewide campaign launched by the Right to Counsel NYC Coalition in 2020 to transform the courts across New York State (NYS) from an “eviction machine” to a place that holds landlords accountable, upholds tenants’ rights, and enables tenants to remain in their homes.

• housing

• Civic maps
• Justice tech
• Specific campaigns

Urban Analyst provides interactive maps of the properties of cities including of their transport systems and socio-demographic conditions, as well as statistical summaries of all cities.

• cities

• Civic maps
• Mapping tools

NYC Street Map is an ongoing effort to digitize official street records, bring them together with other street information, and make them easily accessible to the public.

• cities

• Civic data
• Civic maps
• Open government data

O LupaMundi - Mapa das Legislações sobre Desinformação é um mapa interativo que apresenta as leis nacionais de combate à desinformação.

• Fight disinformation
• Civic maps
• Civic tech legislation and policy

The Water Data Explorer was developed by the British Geological Survey in collaboration with Imperial College London, The University of Oxford and UCL as part of the CAMELLIA project, and in partnership with a broad range of stakeholders. CAMELLIA has been funded by the UKRI's Natural Environment Research Council (NERC).

• Clean water and sanitation
• cities
• rivers

• Civic maps

An opportunity for every conscious member of society to contribute to the elimination of the shadow economy.

• taxes
• illicit goods
• corruption

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Civic maps

Know where you spend your money - mapping politically exposed hotel & restaurant owners

• Civic maps

Collaborative data collection map on informal payment in maternity care

• Civic maps

A continent-wide map of AI policy, laws, and tools in Africa

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Civic maps

This map will help us grow volunteer engagement at a neighborhood level and track our progress towards increasing tree stewardship across District 33 (in New York City)

• trees
• cities
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic maps

An interactive data visualization project demonstrating the gender imbalance of street names in Porto

• cities
• Gender Equality

• Data visualization
• Civic maps

Die Plattform protestdata.eu beinhaltet Informationen zu Protestkampagnen und Protestaktionen von 1950 bis 2020, die in mehreren Forschungsprojekten gesammelt wurden.

• Advocacy tech
• Civic maps
• Archives

"Here’s a real-time map of the hundreds of protests taking place across Israel as the pro-democracy movement there hits its ninth week of massive participation. An estimated 400,000 people turned out across the country last weekend; that’s five percent of its population" - Micah Sifry, The Connector

• Advocacy tech
• Mapping
• Civic maps

Real-time flood sensors were developed by the FloodSense project at NYU and the CUNY Advanced Science Research Center (ASRC), with a goal of providing information on the presence, frequency, and depth of hyperlocal street-level flood events to a range of stakeholders, including policymakers, government agencies, citizens, emergency response teams, community advocacy groups, and researchers.

• floods

• Civic maps

The Environmental Justice Index (EJI) scores census tracts using a percentile ranking which represents the proportion of tracts that experience cumulative impacts of environmental burden and injustice equal to or lower than a tract of interest.

• Good health and well-being
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic maps

The Colorado Broadband Office (CBO) leads the statewide effort to expand broadband coverage and quality for all Coloradans and coordinates all broadband efforts for Colorado.

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Civic maps

With this mapathon, the UN Mappers community wants to join the efforts of the NGO Yer Çizenler and the OpenStreetMap community to map buildings and roads in the area.

• Crowdsourcing
• Mapping
• Civic maps

Gaziantep, Kahramanmaraş ve depremi yoğun bir şekilde hisseden Güneydoğu Anadolu illerinde sokakta kalan vatandaşlara

• earthquakes

• Civic data
• Civic maps
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

This interactive global map of Public Interest AI projects aims to help foster research on Public Interest AI projects, demonstrate their self-understanding, and provide publicly accessible data about them to the broader public.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Civic tech catalogs
• Civic maps

The Beirut Urban Observatory is a platform of geolocalized urban data informing ongoing post-blast recovery efforts.

• Civic data
• Civic maps
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

The Beirut Built Environment Database is a platform gathering geolocalised social, environmental, and economic information on building activity in the Greater Beirut Area.

• cities
• landlord
• land

• Civic data
• Civic maps

Between March and September 2021, BUL researchers identified around 80 NGOs that participated in shelter repair within the neighborhoods severely affected by the August 2020 port blast. The data and findings are presented through a recent mapping output on the Beirut Urban Observatory.

• cities

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Civic maps
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

The Beirut Urban Lab is launching a platform that documents the processes and mechanisms that generate housing precarity in today’s Beirut.

• housing
• No poverty
• landlord

• Civic maps

"DPW set out to answer a question: Can the youth use affordable and widely available technologies to gather the information necessary to support informal settlement upgrading?"

• housing
• informal settlements

• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing
• Mapping

A map of Seattle and areas with accessibility in mind, including hill steepness and sidewalk curb barriers

• Civic maps
• Assistive and Accessible Tech

Openly mapping for the pedestrian experience.

• place-based
• cities
• OpenStreetMap

• Civic data
• Civic maps
• Assistive and Accessible Tech

Tracking Current Wildfires in the US

• fires

• Civic maps
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech