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Technologies to collect, plot, and display geographic data.

Suggested reading: In Borneo, Indigenous communities are using mapping tech to claim their land rights and fight the expansion of oil palm plantations. (Rest of World)

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Google Maps Platform

Google Cloud now offers Geospatial Analytics, Generative AI on Street View imagery, and more environmental data as part of the broader Google Maps Platform

OpenStreetMap Americana

OpenStreetMap Americana

United States of America (the)

A new OpenStreetMap style by the US chapter

Field Tasking Manager (FieldTM)

FIeldTM allows for coordinating field mapping activities in Open Mapping campaigns. While there are existing field mapping applications, there is a lack of efficient tools to coordinate these activities. The FMTM builds on the HOT Tasking Manager and other mapping applications to provide a more streamlined and organized process for completing field mapping tasks.

EveryDoor

EveryDoor is an OpenStreetMap editor for POIs and entrances.

StoryMap

StoryMapJS is a free tool to help you tell stories on the web that highlight the locations of a series of events. Tells a story based on a series of singular point locations.

Cloud-Native Geospatial Foundation

The Cloud-Native Geospatial Foundation encourages adoption of highly efficient and accessible approaches to working with geospatial data over the Internet.

Auglinn

Auglinn

Wilmington, DE

Drop notes and questions outdoors with augmented reality, and create 2D and 3D maps. Interact with citizens outdoors and let the city speak.

digitize your city

digitize your city

Valencia, Carabobo, Venezuela

Digitize your city is a series of actions that seek to create a friendlier environment through the use of technology previously influenced by us and the data we consciously create and deliver.

The Systemic Racism Pin

The Systemic Racism Pin

Quebec City, QC, Canada

We highjacked Google Maps API to create a geolocated placename called Systemic Racism, just in front of the Parliament of Quebec, where it'd be impossible for the Premier to ignore.

Kenya Digital Public Works

"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?"

Close Up at a Distance: Mapping, Technology, and Politics

In Close Up at a Distance, Laura Kurgan offers a theoretical account of these new digital technologies of location and a series of practical experiments in making maps and images with spatial data.

Map Kibera

Map Kibera

Nairobi

Kibera in Nairobi, Kenya, was a blank spot on the map until November 2009, when young Kiberans created the first free and open digital map of their own community. Map Kibera has now grown into a complete interactive community information project. We

The Free Speech Project

The Free Speech Project

3700 O St NW, Washington, DC 20057, USA

The Free Speech Project at Georgetown University works to document and analyze the ways Free Speech is threatened in the United States through its flagship enterprise, the Free Speech Tracker, an online tool for monitoring Free Speech challenges and controversies in education, civil society, and government.

Million Dollar Blocks

Illinois allocates an incredible amount of money to incarcerate people from Chicago's poorest neighborhoods — sometimes millions for residents on individual city blocks. There are more effective ways to invest public dollars.

Axon Vibe

Axon Vibe

Lucerne, Switzerland

Axon Vibe provides smartphone app technology that enables public transport operators to deliver personalized communications based on users’ commuting behavior.

Remix

Remix

San Francisco

A single platform to design for multiple transportation modes to thrive in your city.

Displacement Alert Project Map

Displacement Alert Project Map

50 Broad St, New York, NY 10004, United States

The Displacement Alert Map is a rich resource of more than a decade of key data on residential displacement in New York City.

Harvard's Malaria Tracking Research

Researchers used satellite and cell phone data to map how malaria spreads throughout Namibia and show where elimination efforts have the greatest impact.

City Innovation survey and map

City Innovation survey and map

OECD, Rue André Pascal, Paris, France

Explore how cities around the world are applying innovation methods to tackle their tough challenges

K-Monitor mobile app

Örömmel tudatjuk, hogy – a K-Monitor webes felületének közelgő megújulásával szinkronban – a mai naptól elérhető a K-Monitor új okostelefonos alkalmazása

Mapping LA

Mapping LA

Los Angeles, CA

This re­gion­al view is your portal to in­di­vidu­al maps and stat­ist­ics for 158 cit­ies and un­in­cor­por­ated places and 114 neigh­bor­hoods with­in the city of Los Angeles.

Terrastories

Terrastories

Pusugrunu, Suriname

Terrastories is a geostorytelling application built to enable local communities to locate and map their own oral storytelling traditions about places of significant meaning or value to them.

Quantum GIS

Create, edit, visualise, analyse and publish geospatial information on Windows, macOS, Linux, BSD and mobile devices For your desktop, server, in your web browser and as developer libraries

Caminos de la Villa

Caminos de la Villa

Thames 1024, DCV, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Caminos de la Villa es una plataforma de acción ciudadana que permite acceder de manera sencilla a la información vinculada con los procesos de urbanización en las villas de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires y ver de qué manera se están llevando adelante. ¡Sumate!

Locate, by Mapbox

Mapbox's first event celebrating and exploring the connectedness of the world around us. #explorelocate

Transit.land

Transit.land

Bay Area, CA, USA

Our goal at Transitland is to make sense of the jumble here in the SF Bay Area. We're mapping those buses, trains, streetcars, ferries, and even cable cars.

Paint the Town

Paint the Town

New York City

Paint the Town is a collaborative data art project. It allows anyone to paint a New York City tax lot to any color they choose.

Skycatch

Drone maps and 3D models processed in the cloud for construction, mining, energy, & more.

Urban Archive

Urban Archive

155 Rivington Street, New York, NY, USA

Urban Archive is a technology nonprofit that creates new connections between people, places, and historical institutions.

Mask supply and demand information platform

Maps and inventory status of masks to help reduce the spread of Coronavirus in Taiwan

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