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Technologies to collect, plot, and display geographic data.

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Heidelberg Institute for Geoinformation Technology

We provide research and development to support decision making in the field of sustainable mobility and humanitarian aid. We accomplish this through open geoinformation, open methods, open software and close collaboration with our partners.

Social Explorer

Social Explorer

New York, USA

Gain deep insights into any location of interest through thousands of data variables and stunning visualizations. Reinforce your decisions with Social Explorer’s reliable data mapping capabilities. Watch Videoplay_arrow

Digital Commons Lab

Digital Commons Lab (DCL) is a research laboratory of the Digital Society center of FBK with the goal to design, develop and analyze digital commons based on open data.

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.

HOT Tasking Manager

Each year, disasters around the world kill nearly 100,000 and affect or displace 200 million people. Mapping can help change this.

מפת מחאות יום ד' 1.3.23

"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

UN Mappers

UN Mappers is a community of mapping enthusiasts collaborating to collect, validate and disseminate geospatial open data in areas where the United Nations carries out field operations with the goal of supporting the decision-making process with more accurate location-based data.

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap activation Turkey earthquake

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.

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?"

Spatial Collective

We support communities and organizations in adopting available technologies to collect data that is important to them

Redistricting Data Hub

We have all the redistricting data you can use to draw or analyze Community of Interest or District maps

Open Mapping Hub - Eastern and Southern Africa

The Open Mapping Hub - Eastern and Southern Africa exists to serve communities in the region by supporting the creation, maintenance, distribution, and use of high-quality open maps that are relevant for and contributed to by local communities.

Flood Light

Flood Light

Pakistan

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

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.

CUNY Mapping Service

The CUNY Mapping Service at CUR engages with foundations, government agencies, businesses, nonprofits, and other CUNY researchers to use spatial information and analysis techniques to develop and execute applied research projects.

Accela Civic Insight

See how cloud-based and on-premise civic engagement software creates a dynamic ecosystem between government agencies, citizens, developers and partners.

2020 Political Atlas

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

AIME

AIME

Moffett Field, Clark Road, Mountain View, California, USA

Our platform provides its users with the exact geo location and date of the next dengue outbreak, 3 months in advance - quickly and intuitively.

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

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.

Locate, by Mapbox

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

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.

Berliner Gehwegbreiten

A map showing the width of sidewalks across Berlin using #OpenData

Remix

Remix

San Francisco

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

MapaTanda

MapaTanda

12 Makadios, Diliman, Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines

Mapping with and for the Older Adults (Senior Citizens) and Ageing Population in the Philippines

Bonayo

Bonayo

San Francisco

Bonayo is free user-supported software that helps San Francisco citizens see every 311 call in the City.

Carto

CARTO Turns Your Location Data Into Business Outcomes.

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.

Digital Attack Map

Digital Attack Map visualizes the most powerful DDoS attacks happening in the world right now

MapIt UK

MapIt UK

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

If you have a Excel, CSV, or OpenDocument file including a column of postcodes, upload it here, and MapIt will automatically match the postcodes and add columns for the administrative areas (councils, constituencies, CCGs, etc.) you request, sending you the results by email.

Supernormal

Supernormal

285 Washington St, Somerville, Massachusetts, USA

Supernormal is an architecture, urban design, and research firm investigating the inevitable overlap of cultural and digital practice.

GroundTruth Initiative

Helping communities use digital media, mapping, and open data tools for greater influence and representation in development and democracy.

Google Crisis Map

Google Crisis Map

Mountain View, CA, USA

A collection of national and regional-scale layers related to weather, hazards, and emergency preparedness and response, mostly for the US.

Google Earth

Explore the far reaches of the world, right in your browser.

US Census TIGER

US Census TIGER

Suite 216 Bendheim Hall Princeton University Princeton, NJ 08544 U.S.A.

From Saving the Census to Google Maps: The US Census Bureau's TIGER System, 1980-2010

Paint the Town

Paint the Town

New York, NY

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.

MapAction

MapAction

Oxfordshire, UK

An emergency map publishing system that supports humanitarian workers in the field

ESRI

ESRI

ESRI

Esri's GIS mapping software is the most powerful mapping and spatial data analytics technology available. Unlock the full potential of your data and improve operational & business results with our location platform.

GEOIDEA.RO

GEOIDEA.RO

Romania

Geoidea.ro stands for GEodata Openness Initative for Development and Economic Advancement in ROmania and started in January 2013. It aims at improving the scientific basis for open geodata model adoption in Romania

Veovo

Veovo

Auckland, New Zealand

Veovo instantly measures the number of passengers moving through a subway station to identify crowding and make service more efficient. The MTA can use this information to improve the deployment of staff to stations, change train distribution and plan more efficient station design.

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