I built the interface I wanted to see when the Google Earth 3D Tiles thing first came out: (1) select a map region (2) get a single glTF file normalized around (0,0,0) that you can just pop in Blender/ThreeJS/any 3D engine! Here it's in Three.js omarshehata.github.io/google-earth-a…

After much procrastinating, I've put together a tutorial covering my process for getting geospatial data into Blender and animating it with geometry nodes. peteratwoodprojects.wordpress.com/2024/01/26/map… #blender3d #maps #gis

Allmaps now supports MapLibre GL MapLibre ⚡⚡ See observablehq.com/@allmaps/mapli… for an interactive example. (There are plugins for OpenLayers and Leaflet as well!)

April 8 is eclipse day🌑🌞! If you're planning to watch it, use our handy tool to see what historical cloud cover was like at your location. We will update this page with real weather forecast data closer to the day of. w/ Josh Katz William B. Davis nytimes.com/interactive/20…

Mass incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII devastated SF's Japantown - what was once a rich, thriving neighborhood for Japanese Americans For the first time, we can visualize how disastrous a 1942 order was on the community San Francisco Chronicle sfchronicle.com/projects/2024/…

In just a few lines of Python code, query Overture Maps Foundation buildings and plot them with Lonboard. Making use of the latest work in GeoParquet. New example: developmentseed.org/lonboard/lates…

Ocean currents of the world. #rayshader-#rayrender adventures, an #rstats tale

Check out NPR's interactive map story on USDA Plant Hardiness! - OSM + Protomaps https://bsky.app/profile/protomaps.com powered basemap, overlays and Mapzen terrain apps.npr.org/plant-hardines…

Excited to share a visual that I worked on last year… It's an interactive timelapse of Intelligent Octopus EV charging patterns, alongside electricity generation outturn and carbon intensity 🚗⚡🍃 Play for yourself 👇 octopus.energy/smart-energy-e…

Excited to share Precondo 3D from Precondo / jordon — an interactive new way to explore pre-construction development from any web browser (a lite-version of Future Model Toronto with useful project data built-in). Try it now: precondo.ca/3d-model-toron… #Toronto #ToRE

A map of my Grandfather's adventures before and during WW2

You might think the geodesic circles 'look weird' - here's what they look like when you draw them onto a globe. Makes sense now right? 😅

I made a Mapbox GL JS plugin to show a little globe minimap to show the main map's center point. Made with D3.js. github.com/chriswhong/map…

Ever wanted to research mobility patterns but no idea where to start looking for data? Qingqing Chen, Matthew Zook and I are releasing a dataset originally based on geotagged social media posts by 2 mln users across the US, containing 1.2 bln data points sent between 2012-2019.

📢 Exciting news! Leafmap now supports creating 3D 🌎 maps with Mapbox! This demo showcases how to visualize the ESA global land cover from #EarthEngine on a 3D globe. Explore the 100 PB+ Earth Engine Data Catalog and display any geospatial datasets in 3D 🚀 Notebook:

I enjoy a visual challenge and this was a tricky one from the Financial Times's visual storytelling team: create a 3D view of Canary Wharf but have it rotate up from the iconic skyline when the reader scrolls down

Spent the last few weeks parsing NYC's massive 2017 lidar dataset (almost 1TB of data) and segmenting them by building. Now you can select any of NYC's more than 1M buildings and see its point cloud. #webgpu

The open-source, cross-renderer Terra Draw library by James Milner has a demo site powered with MapLibre + Protomaps https://bsky.app/profile/protomaps.com now! Try it out at terradraw.io