By the Stanford Public Interest Redistricting Project. The student plans uploaded here are guided by one or more clearly-identified redistricting principles, and attempt to comply with all applicable state and federal legal requirements.

• gerrymandering

• Voting and elections
• Civic maps

• Data visualization
• Civic maps
• COVID Engagement Projects

A global map ranking countries by their Freedom of Information laws

• free speech

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Civic maps

Soils Revealed is a platform that visualises how soil organic carbon stocks have changed globally, and how they might change in the future.

• soil
• Climate action

• Civic maps

PLACE is a non-profit data trust that creates and stewards hyperlocal mapping data for a membership community that is open to all and serves the public interest.

• Data schemas and standards
• Mapping tools

Explore data on refugee community locations and resources in the United States. Built by Graphicacy with UNHCR.

• refugees

• Civic maps

Real-time HD maps for autonomous driving

• Mapping tools

Add, view, or discuss places of value to your local community (including Assets of Community Value and assets owned and run by the community).

• local
• neighborhoods

• Crowdsourcing
• Civic maps

Für mehr Transparenz und neue Möglichkeitsräume in der Stadt

• housing

• Crowdsourcing
• Civic maps

The Geo Data Upload is a free and easy-to-use tool for organizations to share their geographic data with Google Maps.

• Mapping tools

This new coloring book is the perfect tool for kids and adults to learn about the political landscape of the United States in a fun and interactive way.

• Civic literacy
• Artistic interventions

Lets people draw their own representative districts as well as advocate to their state's redistricting process

• gerrymandering

• Mapping tools

Participate in the international celebration of GIS technology.

• Mapping
• Holidays

After playing thousands of hours of transportation simulation games, we were left wondering what could happen if some of the traditional limits of the genre didn't exist: in map sizes, track layout complexity, or train scheduling.

• mass transit

• Games and gamification

The cities in this Atlas represent the vanguard of urban governments that are hosting tests, developing their own autonomous vehicle (AV) pilots, making plans and policy, and monitoring developments in AV technologies, uses, and markets.

• mobility
• cities

• Emerging tech
• Hardware
• Automated Vehicles

Archive of New York City directories

• cities
• libraries

• Civic data
• Predecessors

This site gives you a clever way to explore historical aerial imagery of New York City. You can click and drag on the map to "scratch off" the historical imagery and reveal the same location's present-day imagery. By Chris Whong

• history

• Civic maps
• Games and gamification

Africa’s first investigative environmental journalism unit, which combines traditional investigative reporting with data analysis and geo-mapping to expose offenses and track crime syndicates

• Sustainable cities and communities

• Media
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Investigative journalism tech

In 2017, Media Democracy Fund launched a pilot for PhDX, a fellowship program designed to pair graduate or PhD level university students with a background in technology with DC-based public interest technology policy organizations for an immersive fellowship experience over two consecutive summers.

• students

• Fellowships

A global interactive by the New York Times visualizing the local climate risks for the entire planet

• Climate action

• Data visualization
• Civic maps

Everyone is talking about AI, but how and where is it actually being used? We've mapped out interesting examples where AI has been harmful and where it's been helpful.

• Adjacent Fields
• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

Enter your location and learn about the most popular song in your area, plus those nearby. By The Pudding.

• Media
• Civic maps
• Filter bubble poppers

A great overview map and gallery of the global trend toward open streets

• mobility

• Civic maps

Clearing mines & Helping Countries Recover “We use a combination of machine learning on satellite imagery, GIS and field surveys,” says Luan Jaupi, who heads up information and communications technology at HALO

• landmine clearance

• Mapping tools
• Satellites

596 Acres built tools to help neighbors see vacant lots as opportunities and create needed green spaces that become focal points for community organizing and civic engagement.

• land
• cities

• Graveyard
• Specific campaigns

One Dollar Lots documented each time NYC sells or plans to sell a vacant lot to developers for $1. This tool can help New Yorkers better shape how dollar sales of public land impact our neighborhoods and city.

• land
• cities

• Civic maps

A world map displaying the locations of indigenous peoples whose lands have been taken

• Civic maps

Use #WildEye Asia to track seizures, arrests, court cases & convictions across the continent. The data is anchored in our dossier of investigations.

• animals

• Media
• Civic maps

Atlascope is a tool for exploring historic urban maps in metropolitan Boston and telling stories about how places have changed over time.

• history

• Civic maps

A global map of malaria rates over time

• Good health and well-being
• malaria

• Civic maps

DEDA helps data analysts, project managers and policy makers to recognize ethical issues in data projects, data management and data policies.

• toolkits
• resources

• Ethical tech and responsible tech

NYCommons helps New Yorkers impact decisions about public land and buildings in their neighborhoods. It is a collaboration between Common Cause/NY, the Community Development Project at the Urban Justice Center, and 596 Acres.

• land

• Civic maps

"Google is working with non-profit groups like No Kid Hungry and FoodFinder, as well as the US Department of Agriculture, to aggregate 90,000 locations with free food support across all 50 states — with more locations to come." - Andrew J. Hawkins

• Google
• Zero hunger

• Access social benefits
• Civic maps

Living Lots NYC is a clearinghouse of information that New Yorkers can use to find, unlock and protect our shared resources. 596 Acres started with vacant lots and remains committed to helping fill these holes.

• land

• Civic maps

Distributing air sensors to volunteer cyclists to map pollution data throughout Lisbon Sensores distribuídos. Cinco dezenas de ciclistas vão andar a medir a poluição atmosférica – Lisboa Para Pessoas

• cycling
• air quality

• Specific campaigns
• Smart Cities and sensors

Filter and aggregate data to provinces or districts without code or mapping software

• Mapping tools

This dashboard allows you to interact with first of its kind quantifiable data on China’s public diplomacy efforts from two of AidData’s reports Ties That Bind and Influencing the Narrative. This includes metrics for five types of public diplomacy: financial, cultural, elite-to-elite, exchange, and informational. Using this dashboard you can create custom data sets, maps and graphs based on the type of public diplomacy, recipient countries and time periods in which you are specifically interested.

• Civic maps

OneCity allows developers and businesses to identify, evaluate and compare investment opportunities that align with official spatial strategiesWe deliver current information and analysis on a single platform, incorporating data from over thirty qualified sourcesOneCity can be integrated into Local Authority GIS systems, to streamline and support land use planning

• cities

• Civic data
• Mapping tools
• Urban planning

White Collar Crime Risk Zones uses machine learning to predict where financial crimes are mostly likely to occur across the US. To learn about our methodology, read our white paper.

• white collar crime

• Civic maps
• Artistic interventions

Crowdsourced mapping of cultural locations in Sweden

• culture
• history
• place-based

• Crowdsourcing
• Mapping tools

Solidarity with frontline communities using tech to defend environmental & human rights. Co-building mapping & monitoring tools. Challenging tech colonialism.

• Sustainable cities and communities
• human rights

• Digital rights

This tool kit, developed by a national workgroup of civic data stakeholders, aims to support data sharing and integration done well.

• guides
• racial equity
• toolkits

• The Tech
• Civic data

Resist the Parliament Shutdown. protest map, calendar, updates, posters.

• Brexit

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Graveyard

The 21st Century Vocabulary seeks to map and catalog the emergence of new terms to enable a more sophisticated public discourse on technology, innovation, and governance.

• Glossaries

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
• Engagement tech

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

A collection of 232 resources for political progressives

• The Tech
• The People
• Advocacy tech

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

A project by AlgorithmWatch that maps frameworks that seek to set out principles of how systems for automated decision-making (ADM) can be developed and implemented ethically

• The Tech
• Adjacent Fields
• Emerging tech

The Audit Law Database describes state laws, regulations and procedures for post-election audits in states across the country.

• Voting and elections
• Election administration