German Döner Kebab restaurants have started popping up all over London. For some reason, the idea of a German kebab still strikes me as slightly incongruous - a bit like a Swiss curry or a French taco. However, according to a recent analysis of OpenStreetMap food venues, there are far more döner kebab restaurants in Germany than there are in Turkey. In fact, 51% of the world's döner shops are located in Germany.

The surprising truth is that restaurant names often tell us more about migration and language than they do about the birthplace of a dish. That's the premise behind Flavor Lines, an ingenious interactive map that uses millions of restaurant names from OpenStreetMap to reveal the invisible cultural boundaries that shape the world's cuisine.

Tourism websites often present destinations using static maps, brochures and carefully curated lists of attractions. Bigfoot's BC demonstrates that there is a much more engaging alternative. By turning British Columbia into a playful 3D world that visitors can explore as a giant Sasquatch, it transforms the traditional tourist guide into an interactive adventure.

Built with three.js and powered by open geographic data, this map recreates the province of British Columbia as a charming low-poly landscape. The terrain follows British Columbia's real topography, while roads, lakes, parks and settlements are all positioned using real-world geographic data. The result is a map that resembles an open-world video game.

Since the launch of the Google Maps API back in 2005, two fictional journeys have been mapped over and over again: Phileas Fogg’s global circumnavigation in Around the World in Eighty Days, and Odysseus’ long voyage home in the Odyssey.

For some reason Homer’s hero is having a bit of a moment - and a sudden surge of new Odyssey maps means Odysseus seems to have pulled ahead of Phileas Fogg in the fictional journey mapping contest.

The latest entry in this sudden wave of Homeric cartography is The Odyssey Journey, an animated, narrated retelling of Odysseus' decade-long voyage back to Ithaca.

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[1] Application de navigation permettant notamment de localiser précisément les entrées des immeubles et les plages de numéros d’appartement | © Oleksandr Nazarenko | données cartographiques © Cartographes OpenStreetMap.

For many years now, we have been enjoying the basemap.at service with it’s various basemap options (color, gray, with/without labels, …) in WMTS and vector tiles.

For a few weeks now, there is an additional service by BEV: Their cartographic models “Kartographischen Modelle (KM)” are now available as raster (KM-R) in COG-TIFF format.

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En tant que consommateur de données, c’est également via l’API que l’on va pouvoir configurer ses clés d’accès. Cela n’implique pas d’avoir accès à un entrepôt, ni même d’être membre d’une communauté.

L’ensemble des permissions qui m’ont été personnellement données ou qui ont été données à une communauté à laquelle l’utilisateur appartient constitue une sorte de catalogue de données qu’il va être possible de consommer.

Free Map Tiles Providers:

• OpenFreeMap
• VersaTiles
• Maptoolkit.org

One of the biggest barriers to building web maps has always been the cost and complexity of map tiles. Services such as Google Maps and Mapbox offer excellent infrastructure, but commercial pricing can quickly become prohibitive as projects grow. Self-hosting OpenStreetMap vector tiles is an alternative, but maintaining a global tile server yourself is far from trivial.

Randall Munroe's famous xkcd comic Map Age Guide distilled two centuries of global geopolitics into a wonderfully simple flowchart for dating maps. Does the map show Germany divided into East and West? Is there a Yugoslavia? Does South Sudan exist? By answering a handful of such questions about borders and country names, the comic demonstrates how you can usually work out when almost any modern map was made.

Date the Globe turns this idea into a really fun daily map game.

One of the biggest challenges when moving home is deciding which compromise you are prepared to make. You might want to live close to work, a good school, a supermarket, a park, a gym and your favourite coffee shop - but finding somewhere that sits within easy reach of everything is rarely possible.

Close is an interactive travel-time map of the United States designed to solve exactly that problem. Instead of measuring access to just one destination, it allows you to select up to six different amenities and then colours every census block according to the travel time to the furthest of those destinations.

Using Close is refreshingly straightforward: 

1. Search for a city or neighbourhood
2. Add the destinations that matter to you
3. Choose how you would travel to each one - walking, cycling or public transport

L’exposition “Cartes imaginaires” de la Bibliothèque nationale de France vient de s’achever. Pour diffuser plus largement les œuvres et les connaissances qui y ont été présentées, nous vous proposons un atelier de contribution sur Wikipédia.
9e site internet le plus consulté de France, l’encyclopédie reste pourtant méconnue. Cet atelier est l’opportunité d’enrichir le contenu dédié à la cartographie et de diffuser largement les recherches en géographie avec une perspective de science ouverte !
L’atelier se compose d’une formation et d’un large temps dédié à la contribution.

Lundi 26 octobre, 9h30-13h30 (deuxième lundi des vacances d’automne), gratuit.
Lieu: salle de lecture des départements des Cartes et plans / Estampes et photographie, sur le site de Richelieu.
En partenariat avec le projet Wikifier la science”

Shinjuku Station has a well-earned reputation as one of the world's largest and most bewildering transport hubs. The  Shinjuku Station Indoor interactive 3D map tackles that complexity by turning the station's official indoor mapping data into a clean, schematic three-dimensional blueprint. This map strips everything back to the essential geometry of corridors, platforms and rooms, making it much easier to understand how the station's many levels fit together.

Navigation is simple and intuitive. Users can pan across the station, zoom in and out, and hold Ctrl while dragging the mouse to rotate the view, making it easy to examine the station from almost any angle. Individual floors can be toggled on and off using the built-in control panel, allowing users to isolate a single level or view multiple floors stacked vertically. 

Streetnames by Elo is a fascinating interactive map which colours streets according to how highly the internet rates the people, places or things they are named after. The map combines OpenStreetMap's `name:etymology:wikidata` tags with EloEverything's crowd-sourced Elo rankings to create a surprisingly revealing view of the world's street names.

EloEverything asks users to choose which of two randomly selected things they prefer, building an Elo rating for everything from the Sun to headaches. By matching those ratings to OpenStreetMap's street etymology data, Streetnames by Elo turns road networks into a colour-coded map of collective internet opinion.

Depuis 1967, les axes routiers des territoires occupés sont contrôlés par Israël. Le réseau de « checkpoints » et d'entraves à la circulation, illégal au regard du droit international, s'est considérablement développé au début des années 1990. Ces postes militaires assurent le maillage des territoires palestiniens, fractionnés par l'enchevêtrement de colonies et le mur de séparation. Selon les Nations unies, une centaine de « checkpoints » sont répartis à travers la Cisjordanie, sans compter les quelque quatre cents obstacles matériels – barrières, blocs de béton, monticules de terre… Pour un Palestinien, se déplacer en Cisjordanie relève de la prouesse. Les kilomètres deviennent de longues heures harassantes.

J'adore Panoramax, mais en me baladant, je ne sais jamais si je dois tourner à droite ou à gauche pour ne pas repasser trop aux mêmes endroits. Heureusement, j'ai quelques outils.

Alain de Pasq.fr

J'adore Panoramax, mais en me baladant, je ne sais jamais si je dois tourner à droite ou à gauche pour ne pas repasser trop aux mêmes endroits. Heureusement, j'ai quelques outils.

Alain de Pasq.fr

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[1] RoomTBA, une application web de l’Université des Philippines à Los Baños | © UPLB Tools | données cartographiques © par les contributeurs et contributrices OpenStreetMap.

NYCSim is a truly impressive digital twin for New York City. Part real-time spatial platform and part living sandbox, this browser-based simulator allows you to explore a virtual Manhattan from the comfort of your own home. By pulling in live municipal transit data, real-time air quality metrics, and local weather feeds, the platform transforms a static city plan into a living, breathing map. 

Prezado leitor,

Neste post irei apresentar como instalar o GeoServer 3 juntamente com o PostgreSQL 18/PostGIS utilizando Docker em um servidor executando Ubuntu Linux 26.04.

Ao final deste tutorial você terá um ambiente pronto para desenvolvimento, testes ou treinamentos, contendo:

• PostgreSQL 18 + PostGIS 3.6
• GeoServer 3.0.0
• Nginx como proxy reverso
• Estrutura organizada para persistência dos dados
• Instalação totalmente baseada em containers Docker

Pré-requisitos:

• Ubuntu 26.04
• Acesso sudo
• Conexão com Internet
• Pelo menos 4 GB RAM (8 GB recomendado)

Sem enrolação, vamos aos passos:

1. Atualizar o Ubuntu

Antes de instalar qualquer software é recomendável atualizar os repositórios e aplicar as últimas atualizações do sistema operacional.

This animated map reveals how agricultural productivity is expected to be affected by climate change around the world throughout this century. It uses the new Climate-Driven Agricultural Decline Index (CADI) to show where and how global heating is likely to alter crop-growing conditions.

According to the Climate-Driven Agricultural Decline Index, more than 640 million people already live in agricultural regions where food production has fallen by over 10% compared with 30 years ago. Looking ahead, the map suggests these declines will accelerate, with almost half of the world's population expected to be living in areas experiencing reduced agricultural productivity by the middle of the century under a high-emissions scenario.

If you have ever tried styling a vector map in Maputnik, you have probably hit this wall: you have a folder full of perfectly designed SVG icons, but there is no simple “Upload SVG” button for your symbol layers.

Unlike desktop GIS software, web mapping specifications (like MapLibre and Mapbox GL) are optimised for rendering speed. Loading hundreds of individual SVG files requires too many HTTP requests and bogs down performance. Instead, the style specification requires a sprite sheet : a single raster image (PNG) containing all your icons, paired with an index file (JSON) that tells the map exactly where each icon sits on that image.

El Inside the Lab CITIUS ha cumplido 10 años y hemos vuelto a asistir para vivirlo de cerca. El Centro Singular de Investigación en Tecnoloxias Intelixentes (CITIUS) es un centro tecnológico de la USC (Universidad de Santiago de Compostela), ha celebrado una nueva edición de su jornada de puertas abiertas para enseñar los demostradores de los proyectos que desarrollan en sus instalaciones. Es un día para, directamente, venirse arriba con la ciencia que se hace aquí al lado.

Este año la cita era todavía más especial por alcanzar esa cifra redonda de una década de divulgación y tecnología.

Tras recorrer gvSIG Desktop en los siete primeros vídeos del curso y desplegar el geoportal en gvSIG Online en el vídeo 8, llega el turno de gvSIG Mapps, la pieza móvil de la Suite. Es la aplicación pensada para llevar el geoportal al terreno: el técnico municipal sale a campo con tableta o móvil, consulta las mismas capas publicadas en Online y, si tiene permisos, edita los datos desde la propia posición sin pasos intermedios de vuelta al servidor.

Where is Downtown? is an interactive map surveying tool designed to crowdsource the boundaries of "downtown" for any city. 

The process is very simple:

• Enter the name of a city into the search bar
• Draw your perceived outline of "downtown" on the map
• View a heatmap of all the collective responses submitted so far

Last month I posted a review of Klimadashboard's European Heat Tracker, which visualizes how many people across Europe are exposed to extreme heat in real time. Since then, temperatures have continued to exceed seasonal norms across much of the continent, and new mapped visualizations have continued to document the unfolding heatwaves.

Con el vídeo anterior cerramos el bloque dedicado a gvSIG Desktop. En este octavo damos el salto a la segunda pieza de la Suite: gvSIG Online, la plataforma web sobre la que se montan los geoportales municipales. Donde en Desktop el proyecto se quedaba en el equipo y la salida final era estática (un PDF, un plano impreso), con Online ese mismo trabajo se publica en internet y queda disponible para que cualquier técnico o ciudadano lo consulte desde el navegador.

TripGeo Air is an impressive new browser-based flight simulator that lets you fly over a photorealistic 3D model of the real world.

What makes TripGeo Air particularly fun - besides the thrill of flying over your favorite landmarks - is the game's progression tasks. New pilots begin with simple circuit training before unlocking a series of paid jobs, including sightseeing flights, cargo deliveries, and passenger charters. Completing jobs earns credits which can be spent on unlocking more than twenty different aircraft, from light propeller planes to regional turboprops and airliners, each with its own handling characteristics. The result is an enjoyable progression system that gives players rewards and a reason to keep returning to the skies.

If you've ever looked at a railway map and wondered which routes are truly worth travelling, then TrainRouter has the answer. The interactive map showcases 767 of the world's greatest train routes across 118 countries, covering around 372,500 kilometres of railway.

Rather than simply displaying rail networks, TrainRouter acts as a curated railway atlas. Every highlighted line has been selected because it offers something distinctive, whether that's spectacular scenery, historic significance, engineering achievement or simply a memorable journey between two cities.

The map's filtering tools make it easy to discover routes that match your interests. You can explore High-speed, Classic, Night Train and Scenic railways, or browse the 60 most famous routes from around the world. Routes can also be filtered geographically by continent, or by journey type, including city-to-city services.

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[1] Guide de cartographie d’intérieur avec OpenStreetMap | © Mapper-Jonas | données cartographiques © contributeurs et contributrices OpenStreetMap.

It’s been a couple of busy weeks, with the QGIS 4.2 release and meetings and conferences all over the place before a few, hopefully quieter, weeks of summer break.

The Austrian QGIS user group met online on 25 June to exchange experiences with different webmapping solutions, ranging from QGIS+Lizmap to QGIS Cloud.

Launched in late 2025, Prakrit Ojha's War Atlas is an interactive map that visualizes more than 8,500 historical battles. Spanning from 1500 BC to the present day, it offers an immersive, guided tour through the history of human conflict.

Now there’s another War Atlas on the scene. Not only does this new map share the same name, a very similar URL, and a nearly identical thematic DNA, it also adopts a very similar AI-generated aesthetic. (A quick plea to all vibe-coders out there: please stop with the microscopic gray text on black backgrounds!) 

While the original War Atlas focuses on the precise points where battles took place, this new version tackles the broader political canvas. It maps 10,584 named conflicts layered over fluid, shifting empire borders spanning from 2500 BCE to the present day.

« Indépendamment de l’ordre qu’on peut et qu’on doit même mettre dans une correspondance, [comment] pourrois-je, Madame, vous parler de l’Amérique, sans que la géographie se présentât pour faire le sujet de cette lettre. Cette science est la première que l’on ait fait entrer de nos jours dans l’éducation d’une demoiselle. »

Marie Le Masson Le Golft, Lettres sur l’éducation, 1788, p. 95.

ORGANISATION

OpenStreetMap did not come out of a European research programme. It was not created as a policy instrument, nor was it designed from the top down to support institutional priorities.
Yet many of the ideas behind OpenStreetMap are now central to European strategies on data, digital transformation, innovation and technological sovereignty.
Openness, reuse, collaboration, trusted digital infrastructure, digital commons and technological autonomy are all important elements of current EU policy. They are also principles that have shaped OpenStreetMap for more than twenty years.
The OpenStreetMap Foundation is interested in opportunities to collaborate in EU-funded projects.
OpenStreetMap can make a practical contribution in areas such as digital commons and digital sovereignty.
This post is aimed mainly at people who are developing, or considering de...

Para organizaciones científicas como el Instituto de Ciencias del Mar (ICM), la alineación con los estándares internacionales no es solo una cuestión técnica, sino una necesidad estratégica para que sus investigaciones tengan un impacto real.

El uso de estándares permite que los datos dejen de ser archivos estáticos y aislados para convertirse en «datos vivos», capaces de integrarse en redes globales y ser utilizados por la comunidad científica internacional. Los principales marcos utilizados en este proyecto son:

La Terre est une sphère (plus précisément un géoïde), un objet tridimensionnel flottant dans l’espace. Pourtant, les cartes que nous utilisons au quotidien sont planes : elles existent en deux dimensions, sur papier ou sur écran. Pour passer de cette réalité courbe à une représentation plane, il est nécessaire de transformer les coordonnées exprimées sur le globe en latitude et longitude en coordonnées cartésiennes sur un plan.

Hasta ahora hemos trabajado dentro del documento Vista: cargar capas, simbolizarlas, consultarlas, editarlas. En este séptimo vídeo damos el paso al documento Mapa, que es el componedor cartográfico de gvSIG Desktop, donde montamos una salida lista para imprimir o exportar a PDF, con su rótulo, su leyenda, su escala, su norte y su logotipo institucional.

Partimos del proyecto electoral que ya usamos en los vídeos 3 y 5 (mesas electorales, ejes de carreteras y distritos electorales). Antes de pasar al Mapa, dejamos la Vista preparada como queremos que aparezca impresa: aplicamos una simbología por valores únicos sobre los distritos y configuramos un etiquetado por el campo districte, ajustando fuente, tamaño y color.

La soberanía digital europea se ha convertido en una de las grandes cuestiones estratégicas de nuestro tiempo. Ya no se trata únicamente de disponer de tecnología, sino de decidir qué tecnología usamos, bajo qué condiciones, con qué garantías y con qué capacidad real de control sobre nuestros datos, infraestructuras y servicios críticos.

Les premières publications du troisième millésime de l’OCS GE sont désormais disponibles pour 26 départements. Cette nouvelle étape s’inscrit dans un programme de production qui se poursuivra jusqu’en 2028 et s’appuie sur une importante contribution des utilisateurs, avec plus de 30 000 signalements déjà enregistrés.

Les premières données du trosième millésime de l’Occupation du Sol à Grande Échelle (OCS GE) viennent d’être publiées et sont désormais accessibles sur cartes.gouv.fr.

Les départements concernés par cette première vague de diffusion sont les suivants : 01, 02, 17, 2A, 22, 29, 30, 33, 34, 38, 47, 56, 60, 62, 66, 67, 68, 75, 77, 78, 80, 92, 93, 94 et 95.

Ces publications sont accompagnées :

Découvrez le Plan IGN HD et les Sentiers de randonnée balisés qui sont mis en avant dans l’application mobile Cartes IGN !

Camarades cartographes, après plusieurs mois de développement, je suis heureux de vous annoncer la sortie de la version @1 de geoviz, une bibliothèque JavaScript libre dédiée à la conception de cartes thématiques interactives pour le web.

geoviz propose un ensemble de fonctions compatibles avec D3.js, qui peuvent être combinées avec la syntaxe habituelle de D3 pour construire des représentations cartographiques. L’objectif est de fournir une bibliothèque à la fois intuitive et concise, permettant de produire des cartes de qualité avec un code simple, lisible et facilement réutilisable.

La bibliothèque permet de manipuler différents types de données géographiques (points, lignes et polygones) ainsi que de nombreuses “marques” cartographiques : cercles, carrés, spikes, pictogrammes, étiquettes, graticules, titres, légendes, échelles, flèches du nord et autres éléments de mise en page.

Depuis le lancement de OneGeo Chat, notre chatbot RAG dédié à l’exploration de données géographiques, la solution n’a cessé d’évoluer.

Après plusieurs itérations sur l’architecture RAG, l’interface et l’intégration à OneGeo Suite, voici la v2.2 : une refonte complète de l’interface, de nouvelles fonctionnalités de recherche géographique et des outils d’administration intégrés à l’application. Tour d’horizon de ce qui change !

Si vous n’êtes pas encore familier avec le principe de fonctionnement de OneGeo Chat, nous vous invitons à consulter notre article « Votre chatbot OneGeo Chat : décryptage technique » avant de poursuivre.