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Technologies to collect, plot, and display geographic data.
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GeoMSF Platform
Washington, DCA full suite of mapping and geodata tools developed by and for Medecins Sans Frontieres
デジタル空間社会連携研究機構ではIoTデバイスからのデータなどの多様でダイナミックなリアルタイム時空間ビッグデータを一元的に集約し、これらを統合した形で人々や企業の活動、交通
Google Research is applying AI to satellite and aerial imagery to build a Heat Resilience tool, helping cities understand how to reduce surface temperatures through planting trees or using highly-reflective surfaces, like cool roofs.
FMTM (beta release) 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 mapping tasks.
The Export Tool is an open service that creates customized extracts of up-to-date OSM data in various file formats.
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.
This app finds missing map data in your vicinity and displays it on a map as quests. Solve each quest by visiting the location on-site and answering a simple question to update the map.
OpenAerialMap (OAM) is a set of tools for searching, sharing, and using openly licensed satellite and unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) imagery. Built on top of the Open Imagery Network (OIN), OAM is an open service that provides search and access to this imagery.
EveryDoor is an OpenStreetMap editor for POIs and entrances.
The Sketch Map Tool is an easy-to-use tool for participatory sketch mapping through offline collection, digitization and georeferencing of local spatial knowledge. The tool has a variety of applications. For example, do you want to work together with people in a community to map their experience and perception of risk in their neighbourhood in a paper-based format, but still be able to quickly analyse the results digitally? Then, the Sketch Map Tool is exactly what you need!
Cloud-Native Geospatial Foundation
Washington, DCThe Cloud-Native Geospatial Foundation encourages adoption of highly efficient and accessible approaches to working with geospatial data over the Internet.
TreeKIT
New York CityWe’re helping city dwellers measure, map, and manage street trees.
Cutting-edge map tools for historical research. Search, explore, and discover the history of your surroundings through historical maps.
Powering current and next-generation map products by creating reliable, easy-to-use, and interoperable open map data
The Atlas contains measurements of nine indicators for cities all around the world.
Auglinn
Wilmington, DEDrop notes and questions outdoors with augmented reality, and create 2D and 3D maps. Interact with citizens outdoors and let the city speak.
Bangladesh Open Innovation Lab (BOIL)
Dhaka, BangladeshOur aim is to build a community that supports the Open Data and uptake of the Living Lab paradigm.
FedGeoDay
Washington, DCFedGeoDay is THE event devoted to "open geospatial ecosystems" (open source software, open/collaborative mapping, open science challenges, and open engagements) that are used to initiate and grow capabilities across the U.S. federal government.
Cycling updates to Google Maps now take account of traffic conditions and the availability of high-quality cycling infrastructure
Postcode => Westminster constituency converter
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)Enter a UK postcode and this tool returns the constituency it belongs to
MapIt
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)The easy way to match points to boundaries
digitize your city
Valencia, Carabobo, VenezuelaDigitize 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.
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
New York, USAGain 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
TrentoDigital 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
Quebec City, QC, CanadaWe 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
1100 13th Street NW Suite 800 Washington, D.C. 20005The tool to team up for mapping in OpenStreetMap
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Israel (Jisra'el)"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 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
1100 13th Street NW Suite 800 Washington, D.C. 20005With 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
Nairobi"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
NairobiWe support communities and organizations in adopting available technologies to collect data that is important to them
We have all the redistricting data you can use to draw or analyze Community of Interest or District maps
Conversations with Volunteers
Southern and East AfricaOpen Mapping Hub Eastern & South Africa's podcast
Open Mapping Hub - Eastern and Southern Africa
Southern and East AfricaThe 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
PakistanUshahidi instance crowdsourcing the flood-related data from the 2022 Floods in Pakistan.
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
New York CityThe 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.
AIME
Moffett Field, Clark Road, Mountain View, California, USAOur platform provides its users with the exact geo location and date of the next dengue outbreak, 3 months in advance - quickly and intuitively.
See how cloud-based and on-premise civic engagement software creates a dynamic ecosystem between government agencies, citizens, developers and partners.
Our goal is to provide multiple independent data sources allowing everyone to reach their own conclusions on what will happen in the 2020 elections.
Map Kibera
NairobiKibera 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
COVID-19 map
Taiwan (T'ai-wan)Members of g0v.tw built a page that matches government information on the recent movements of confirmed coronavirus patients with users' location history based on Google Maps Timeline to check whether or not they may have had contact with the patients, and if so — where and when.
Building on our previous publication of similar high-resolution population maps for 22 countries, we're now releasing new maps of the majority of the African continent, and the project will eventually map nearly the whole world’s population. Using weakly- and semi-supervised learning.
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
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