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)
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.
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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.
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.
Each year, disasters around the world kill nearly 100,000 and affect or displace 200 million people. Mapping can help change this.
"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.
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.
"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?"
We 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
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.
Ushahidi 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.
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.
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.
Our platform provides its users with the exact geo location and date of the next dengue outbreak, 3 months in advance - quickly and intuitively.
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 Displacement Alert Map is a rich resource of more than a decade of key data on residential displacement in New York City.
Mapbox's first event celebrating and exploring the connectedness of the world around us. #explorelocate
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.
A map showing the width of sidewalks across Berlin using #OpenData
A single platform to design for multiple transportation modes to thrive in your city.
Mapping with and for the Older Adults (Senior Citizens) and Ageing Population in the Philippines
Bonayo is free user-supported software that helps San Francisco citizens see every 311 call in the City.
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 visualizes the most powerful DDoS attacks happening in the world right now
Heatmap of partner and peer networks across the US
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 is an architecture, urban design, and research firm investigating the inevitable overlap of cultural and digital practice.
Helping communities use digital media, mapping, and open data tools for greater influence and representation in development and democracy.
A collection of national and regional-scale layers related to weather, hazards, and emergency preparedness and response, mostly for the US.
This story map was created with the Story Map Series application in ArcGIS Online.
From Saving the Census to Google Maps: The US Census Bureau's TIGER System, 1980-2010
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.
An emergency map publishing system that supports humanitarian workers in the field
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 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 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.