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Technologies to collect, plot, and display geographic data.

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GAMA Platform

GAMA is an easy-to-use open source modeling and simulation environment for creating spatially explicit agent-based simulations.

OpenStreetMap Americana

OpenStreetMap Americana

United States of America (the)

A new OpenStreetMap style by the US chapter

GeoMSF Platform

GeoMSF Platform

Washington, DC

A 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 (Digital Sapital Society (DSS))

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 Heat Resilience Tool

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.

HOT Export Tool

The Export Tool is an open service that creates customized extracts of up-to-date OSM data in various file formats.

MapHub

MapHub allows you to create interactive maps

SketchMapTool

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!

EveryDoor

EveryDoor is an OpenStreetMap editor for POIs and entrances.

GeoServer

GeoServer is an open source server for sharing geospatial data.

Field Mapping Tasking Manager (FMTM)

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.

StreetComplete

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.

StoryMap

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.

Cloud-Native Geospatial Foundation

The Cloud-Native Geospatial Foundation encourages adoption of highly efficient and accessible approaches to working with geospatial data over the Internet.

TreeKIT

TreeKIT

New York City

We’re helping city dwellers measure, map, and manage street trees.

PastMaps

Cutting-edge map tools for historical research. Search, explore, and discover the history of your surroundings through historical maps.

Overture Maps Foundation

Powering current and next-generation map products by creating reliable, easy-to-use, and interoperable open map data

Auglinn

Auglinn

Wilmington, DE

Drop 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)

Our aim is to build a community that supports the Open Data and uptake of the Living Lab paradigm.

FedGeoDay

FedGeoDay

Washington, DC

FedGeoDay 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. 

Postcode => Westminster constituency converter

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

MapIt

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

The easy way to match points to boundaries

digitize your city

digitize your city

Valencia, Carabobo, Venezuela

Digitize 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.

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.

OpenAerialMap

OpenAerialMap

1100 13th Street NW Suite 800 Washington, D.C. 20005

OpenAerialMap is an open service to provide access to a commons of openly licensed imagery and map layer services. Download or contribute imagery to the growing commons of openly licensed imagery. Start Exploring

HOT Tasking Manager

HOT Tasking Manager

1100 13th Street NW Suite 800 Washington, D.C. 20005

The tool to team up for mapping in OpenStreetMap

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"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

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap activation Turkey earthquake

1100 13th Street NW Suite 800 Washington, D.C. 20005

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.

Conversations with Volunteers

Conversations with Volunteers

Southern and East Africa

Open Mapping Hub Eastern & South Africa's podcast

Flood Light

Flood Light

Pakistan

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

Felt

Introducing the world’s best way to make & share maps on the internet.

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.

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.

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.

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

Google Earth

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