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.

• mobility
• Climate action

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Mapping

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

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Mapping

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.

• OpenStreetMap

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Research and policy centers

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.

• racial equity
• campaigns
• 2023 Webby Awards

• Mapping
• Specific campaigns
• Location

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

• OpenStreetMap

• Pro bono and volunteer
• Crowdsourcing
• Mapping

The tool to team up for mapping in OpenStreetMap

• OpenStreetMap

• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing
• Mapping

"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

• Advocacy tech
• Mapping
• Civic maps

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.

• OpenStreetMap

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Pro bono and volunteer
• Mapping

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
• Crowdsourcing
• Mapping

"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
• Crowdsourcing
• Mapping

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

• Civic data
• Mapping

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

• gerrymandering

• Civic data
• Mapping
• Mapping tools

The free and open global address collection

• Civic data
• Mapping
• Mapping tools

Open Mapping Hub Eastern & South Africa's podcast

• Mapping
• Podcasts

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.

• humanitarian

• Civic data
• Mapping

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

• floods

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Crowdsourcing
• Mapping

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.

• Books
• Mapping

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.

• gerrymandering

• Data visualization
• Mapping

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

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

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

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

• health
• Good health and well-being

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Adjacent Fields

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

• Crowdsourcing
• Mapping

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

• housing

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

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

• Mapping
• Conferences

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.

• Mapping
• Narrative tech
• Mapping platforms

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

• COVID-19
• health
• Good health and well-being

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

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

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

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

• mass transit
• mobility

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

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

• OpenStreetMap
• seniors

• Mapping
• Civic maps
• Open government data

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

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Govtech

Protests for a kinder world.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Advocacy tech

CARTO Turns Your Location Data Into Business Outcomes.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

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.

• The Tech
• Media
• Civic data

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

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Adjacent Fields

Heatmap of partner and peer networks across the US

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

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.

• guides

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

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

• cities
• urban planning

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

OpenStreetMap is the free wiki world map.

• OpenStreetMap

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

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

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Mapping

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

• crisis
• Google
• humanitarian

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

This story map was created with the Story Map Series application in ArcGIS Online.

• mobility

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

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

• Google

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

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

• census

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

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.

• cities

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

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

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

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.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

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

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

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.

• mass transit
• mobility

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Govtech