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Tooling and utilities for making civic maps
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GeoMSF Platform
Washington, DCA full suite of mapping and geodata tools developed by and for Medecins Sans Frontieres
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.
Mark and find wheelchair accessible places — worldwide and for free. Wheelmap is the map for wheelchair accessible places
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.
Turn-by-turn navigation, OpenStreetMap, Crowd-Sourced Traffic, 3D maps, Satellite maps, Offline maps and Transit. Entirely free.
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.
Measure from images: A unique photogrammetry software suite for mobile and drone mapping PIX4Dmapper: Photogrammetry software for professional drone mapping
Access street-level imagery and map data from all over the world. Fill in the gaps by capturing coverage yourself.
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.
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!
Swipe and tap. Put communities on the map. Help humanitarians find and help vulnerable people.
MapRoulette has dozens of mapping Challenges that are created by experienced mappers. Each Challenge is about improving OSM in one very specific way
EveryDoor is an OpenStreetMap editor for POIs and entrances.
Mapeo is a free, easy-to-use, open source set of tools for collecting and mapping information. Mapeo was built by Digital Democracy with and for earth defenders to easily document environmental & human rights information and to collect data about their land. It was designed to work in entirely offline environments, is highly customizable, and built on a decentralized peer-to-peer database that allows communities to own their own data.
Field Papers is a tool to help you create a multi-page atlas of anywhere in the world. Once you print it, you can take it outside, into the field, to record notes and observations about the area you're looking at, or use it as your own personal tour guide in a new city.
Kepler.gl is a powerful open source geospatial analysis tool for large-scale data sets.
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.
We’re building sustainable solutions for collecting, processing, analyzing and displaying aerial data while supporting the communities built around them.
The Export Tool is an open service that creates customized extracts of up-to-date OSM data in various file formats.
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.
Karachi Chal
KarachiYour AI based Itinerary planner for the City of lights.
Mapped
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)Mapped integrates with common organising platforms like Airtable, Mailchimp and Action Network to augment membership lists with other useful data sources.
OpenPV
Germany (Deutschland)Currently a solar potential look-up tool for the German state of Bavaria. "We support the roll-out of more photovoltaic roof systems."
Hurricane Mapping (Sea Island Software)
Richmond, VAWe are Sea Island Software, Inc., a company specializing in hurricane threat assessment. HurricaneMapping.com is our storm tracking service for Google Earth and ESRI's ArcGIS.
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
Urban Analyst provides interactive maps of the properties of cities including of their transport systems and socio-demographic conditions, as well as statistical summaries of all cities.
Nappal hajtva
Hungary (Magyarország)Information website by Budapest municipality in order to help the population find the possibilities of solar energy
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
PetaBencana.id
JakartaPetaBencana.id provides residents, government agencies, and first responders with a real-time disaster information sharing system at an unprecedented scale. It is the first platform of its kind to harness the power of crowdsourcing through social media to aid humanitarian response and recovery.
Posting towns in the USA with a population less than 1000 that are undermapped on OpenStreetMap.org
HOT Tasking Manager
1100 13th Street NW Suite 800 Washington, D.C. 20005The tool to team up for mapping in OpenStreetMap
Partimap
Hungary (Magyarország)PARTIMAP is a free, easy to use and customizable map-based survey for those who believe that affected citizens should have a say in public development projects.
Data Commons aggregates data from a wide range of sources into a unified database to make it more accessible and useful. More
OpenSidewalks
Seattle, WA, United States of AmericaOpenly mapping for the pedestrian experience.
We have all the redistricting data you can use to draw or analyze Community of Interest or District maps
Introducing the world’s best way to make & share maps on the internet.
PesaYetu
KenyaPesaYetu helps journalists, researchers and activists transform their work with in-depth county-specific information.
OneCity
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)OneCity allows developers and businesses to identify, evaluate and compare investment opportunities that align with official spatial strategies.
FornPunkt
Sweden (Sverige)Crowdsourced mapping of cultural locations in Sweden
Mobilní Rozhlas
Czech Republic (Ceska Republika)All-in-one resident engagement suite in Czechia
Pocitové mapy
Czech Republic (Ceska Republika)Map-based surveys with sentiment visualization
Mapotic
Czech Republic (Ceska Republika)Work with maps like never before. Build your structure, visualise data and let people interact. Use maps to get you mission fullfiled.
City as a Platform
Estr. Paço do Lumiar 44, R/C Dto 1600-546 Lisboa, PortugalMapping solution for municipalities
ZoningHub gives municipalities a new way to post their #zoning regulations online. Big cities or small villages, ZoningHub is easy and accessible. #civictech
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