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.

• state

• 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.

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Civic maps
• Mapping

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

• earthquakes

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

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 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

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

• Civic data
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• 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.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

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

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

• city
• landlord
• land

• Civic data
• 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
• Civic maps
• Mapping

Openly mapping for the pedestrian experience.

• place-based
• city
• OpenStreetMap

• Civic data
• Civic maps
• Assistive and Accessible Tech

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

• Civic maps
• Assistive and Accessible Tech

Tracking Current Wildfires in the US

• fires

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Civic maps

Refugees as City-Makers

• city
• refugees
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic data
• Research and policy centers
• Civic maps

The Citizens Police Data Project (CPDP.co) is a tool for holding police accountable to the public they serve. By Invisible Institute

• criminal justice

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Civic maps
• Justice tech

Open database and map of recipients, donors

• United Nations
• United Nations Development Programme

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Civic maps

Air Alliance Houston is a non-profit advocacy organization working to reduce the public health impacts from air pollution and advance environmental justice.

• air quality

• Civic maps
• Crowdsourcing

Making Census Data Easy to Use

• census

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Civic maps

A Google Earth tour of the raw material extraction that powers our tech products, by Melissa Hsiung

• sustainability
• supply chain

• Civic maps
• Walking tours

Ushahidi instance crowdsourcing the flood-related data from the 2022 Floods in Pakistan.

• floods

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Civic maps
• Mapping

InfoNile is a cross-border group of geojournalists with a mission to uncover critical stories on water issues in the Nile River Basin through data-based multimedia storytelling.

• Clean water and sanitation
• rivers
• local

• Media
• Civic data
• Civic maps

We've mapped more than 17,000 New Deal sites and now have more than 100 sites documented in every state.

• Civic maps
• Archives

We’re here to help you understand how to get an abortion.

• Good health and well-being
• health
• women's health

• Civic data
• Civic maps

Mapping data on economic security, housing, health, education and more in NYC

• Civic maps
• Access social benefits

Linking river health to wellbeing in the Thames basin

• Clean water and sanitation
• rivers

• Civic maps
• Media and social media analysis
• Public sentiment tools

A map visualizing the Atlantic Council’s DFRLab research on coordinated disinformation campaigns.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Civic maps

An interactive map to show the billions worth of properties that went from state-owned to privately owned in recent years, together with K Monitor

• real estate
• corruption

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Civic maps

Poynter's global guide on existing attempts to legislate against what can broadly be referred to as online misinformation

• guides

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Civic maps

By the Stanford Public Interest Redistricting Project. The student plans uploaded here are guided by one or more clearly-identified redistricting principles, and attempt to comply with all applicable state and federal legal requirements.

• gerrymandering

• Voting and elections
• Civic maps

Launching LCR Analytics…

• Data visualization
• Civic maps
• COVID Engagement Projects

A global map ranking countries by their Freedom of Information laws

• free speech

• Civic maps
• Freedom of Information
• Civic tech legislation and policy

Für mehr Transparenz und neue Möglichkeitsräume in der Stadt

• housing

• Civic maps
• Crowdsourcing

A global interactive by the New York Times visualizing the local climate risks for the entire planet

• Climate action

• Data visualization
• Civic maps

Everyone is talking about AI, but how and where is it actually being used? We've mapped out interesting examples where AI has been harmful and where it's been helpful.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Civic tech catalogs
• Adjacent Fields

Use #WildEye Asia to track seizures, arrests, court cases & convictions across the continent. The data is anchored in our dossier of investigations.

• animals

• Media
• Civic maps

Atlascope is a tool for exploring historic urban maps in metropolitan Boston and telling stories about how places have changed over time.

• history

• Civic maps

"Google is working with non-profit groups like No Kid Hungry and FoodFinder, as well as the US Department of Agriculture, to aggregate 90,000 locations with free food support across all 50 states — with more locations to come." - Andrew J. Hawkins

• Google
• Zero hunger

• Civic maps
• Access social benefits

ADL H.E.A.T. Map is the first-of-its-kind interactive and customizable map detailing hate, extremist and antisemitic incidents by state and nationwide.

• anti-harassment
• hate speech
• racial equity

• Civic maps

An early video mapping project of Aspen, Colorado

• Civic maps
• Predecessors

A development-focused map of Africa with layers for water, maize, etc.

• Civic maps

White Collar Crime Risk Zones uses machine learning to predict where financial crimes are mostly likely to occur across the US. To learn about our methodology, read our white paper.

• white collar crime

• Civic maps
• Artistic interventions

Explore Nepal Using Data

• Civic data
• Civic maps
• Open data publishing portals

In January 2022, CIR launched the Eyes on Russia project to collect and verify videos, photos, satellite imagery, or other media related to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The goal of the project is simple: to provide the world with timely and reliable information concerning the impact of Russia's invasion on Ukraine and its people.

• refugees
• Ukraine

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Civic maps
• Crowdsourcing

Our goal is to provide multiple independent data sources allowing everyone to reach their own conclusions on what will happen in the 2020 elections.

• US Election 2020

• The Tech
• Media
• Civic data

Hayat Technologies is a specialised health-tech analytics and digital solutions provider

• health
• Good health and well-being
• Decade-Plus Club

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Adjacent Fields

Muniphase research project exploring urban expansion and boundaries.

• city
• United Nations
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic data
• Civic maps
• Urban planning

Cette plateforme mise en œuvre par Bruitparif centralise les cartes stratégiques de bruit (CSB) disponibles au sein de la région Île-de-France dans le cadre de la mise en œuvre de la directive européenne 2002/49/CE.

• city
• noise
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic maps
• Smart Cities and sensors

This prototype tool allows you to see climate change forecasts for local areas, the expected impacts on health and wellbeing, and suggested adaptation priorities.

• Climate action
• Good health and well-being

• Civic maps

a portal of water-related data and information

• Clean water and sanitation

• Civic maps