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Julien Gaffuri

@jgaffuri.bsky.social

This morning, I had the chance to present Eurostat work on education and healthcare services accessibility in Europe, with my colleague @joewdavies.bsky.social. If you missed it, the replay is luckily available:

➡️ europa.eu/!GxbcDt

#map #gis #cartography #mapping #demography #europe #gischat

May 14, 2025 at 3:00 PM

Joe Davies

@joewdavies.bsky.social

Julien (@jgaffuri.bsky.social) and I will be giving a brief talk on some grid-based fun on wednesday in case you fancy tuning in:

ec.europa.eu/eurostat/new...

#maps #statistics #GIS

Mastering map creation with Eurostat: from data to visualisations - EurostatLog inEnglishSearchSuccess

ec.europa.eu

May 12, 2025 at 8:44 AM

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Nicolas Lambert

@neocarto.bsky.social

Travel times to European cities.
A web mapping tool based on the gridviz JavaScript library (Eurostat) for the H2020 Granular project.
- app: nlambert.gitpages.huma-num.fr/granular-gri...
- code: gitlab.huma-num.fr/nlambert/gra...

April 24, 2025 at 9:41 AM

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mweinstock.bsky.social

@mweinstock.bsky.social

Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

February 15, 2025 at 1:43 PM

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John Nelson

@johnnelsonmaps.bsky.social

Here are global currents in the Spilhaus one-world-ocean map projection.

February 4, 2025 at 5:58 PM

Joe Davies

@joewdavies.bsky.social

Grid Cartograms are now available in eurostat-map!

just use map.gridCartogram(true)

observablehq.com/@joewdavies/...

have a nice weekend :)

January 31, 2025 at 5:26 PM

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Joe Davies

@joewdavies.bsky.social

'Put it into Blender and see what happens' #4

Bivariate maps showing the relationships between Temperature and Precipitation.

(Monthly data since 1958 by TerraClimate)

observablehq.com/@jo...

#maps #blender #climate #sciart #cartography #gis

January 13, 2025 at 7:00 AM

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Datawrapper

@datawrapper.de

Today we have a Maps Dispatch for you. Find locator maps about fire 🔥, symbol maps about congestion 🚗, and choropleth maps about dengue fever 🦟.

Full Data Vis Dispatch here: https://blog.datawrapper.de/data-vis-dispatch-january-14-2025/

Locator map showing major wildfires near Los Angeles, California, as of January 9, 2025. The map includes fire locations such as Palisades, Eaton, and Hurst, marked in dark red to indicate active fire zones, and hatched red areas representing evacuation zones. Published in n-tv.

Map of Greater London showing over 10,000 electric vehicle charging points as of July 2022. Dots represent chargers per 500m², with color-coded types: blue for fast and slow chargers, and pink for rapid and ultra-rapid chargers. The Ultra Low Emission Zone is outlined in green. Dense clusters of chargers are seen in central London, decreasing in density toward the outskirts. Published in Bloomberg.

Map of the Arctic Circle and its territories. 10 countries have political territories in this region, including the European Union, Russia, Canada, Greenland and Norway. Published in El País.

World choropleth map showing projected areas at risk of dengue fever. Light yellow indicates a projected increase of 1 month of dengue-prone months per year in 2050, dark orange indicates 6+ months. A red overlay indicates areas with more than 6 months of climate suitability in 2050. High dengue risks are found in southern Africa and South America, with lower risks in southern Europe and the northern United States. Published by Bloomberg.

January 14, 2025 at 6:14 PM

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Mark SubbaRao

@marksubbarao.bsky.social

Global temperature anomalies 1880-2024. svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5450

January 10, 2025 at 8:07 PM

Joe Davies

@joewdavies.bsky.social

3D renders of LINZ topographic maps of New Zealand.

#gis #blender #map

January 14, 2025 at 7:00 AM

Joe Davies

@joewdavies.bsky.social

Some maps from the Global Climate Highlights 2024 by @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social

"Atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations were higher in 2024 than at any time in at least 2,000,000 years."

climate.copernicus.eu/global-clima...

Map showing anomalies in sea surface temperature in 2024. A large portion of the map is the warmest on record. Just a reminder that six consecutive tropical cyclones hit the Philippines this year, three of which were super typhoons!

Map showing surface air temperature anomalies in 2024. The majority of the map shows positive anomalies (warmer than average).

Map showing water vapour anomalies in 2024. The majority of the map shows positive anomalies (more water vapour than average). As the atmosphere warms, it can hold more water vapour (about 7% more for each additional degree Celsius.

January 13, 2025 at 2:11 PM

Joe Davies

@joewdavies.bsky.social

'Put it into Blender and see what happens' #4

Bivariate maps showing the relationships between Temperature and Precipitation.

(Monthly data since 1958 by TerraClimate)

observablehq.com/@jo...

#maps #blender #climate #sciart #cartography #gis

January 13, 2025 at 7:00 AM

Joe Davies

@joewdavies.bsky.social

Shaded relief map of Nepal 🇳🇵

The only country with a non-rectangular flag!

Made with Blender and QGIS.

#map #gis #nepal #blender

January 12, 2025 at 11:54 AM

Joe Davies

@joewdavies.bsky.social

Genuary 08 - Draw one million of something.

1 Million Points in Three.js.

observablehq.com/@joewdavies/...

#genuary8 #genuary2025 #genuary

January 10, 2025 at 11:46 AM

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Sam Learner

@samlearner.bsky.social

A meme where a small domino at the start of a stack says "Gerardus Mercator devises map projection to make navigation easier in 1569" and a big domino at the end of the stack says "Trump invades Greenland"

January 7, 2025 at 9:13 PM

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Greg Fiske

@gfiske.bsky.social

A Collaborative and Scalable Geospatial Data Set for Arctic Retrogressive Thaw Slumps with Data Standards
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

January 6, 2025 at 4:15 PM

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Iñigo Sáenz de Ugarte

@iugarte.bsky.social

La estafa del Brexit en cifras. Ni siquiera en inmigración se cumplieron las promesas de los promotores del referéndum.

January 5, 2025 at 1:35 PM

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Joe Davies

@joewdavies.bsky.social

Bivariate maps showing the relationships between Temperature and Precipitation.

Made with Plot, based on a great tutorial by Fil: observablehq.com/@jo...

Data from TerraClimate (1958-present).

#cartography #maps #mapping #climate #dataviz #SciArt

January 6, 2025 at 7:00 AM

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Dr. Dominic Royé

@drxeo.eu

I am starting 2025 with a completely renewed blog based on Quarto. I have also updated all the previous posts. The first post addresses the issue of the lack of data normalization I observed in the Spanish National Atlas.

#rstats #dataviz

dominicroye.github.io/blog/2025-01...

Always normalize you data

I recently came across a map from the National Atlas of Spain showing the number of libraries by municipality. However, one thing directly caught my attention. There’s a saying that many maps show onl...

dominicroye.github.io

January 6, 2025 at 10:35 AM

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MapLibre

@maplibre.org

🎉 Happy New Year! 🎉

🌍 MapLibre GL JS v5: Now with Globe Mode for seamless 3D global visualizations!

📅 Eastern-Friendly Calls: Back every last Wednesday of the month.

👉 Read more: maplibre.org/news/2025-01...

#MapLibre #OpenSource #Geospatial #MapLibreGLJS5

MapLibre Newsletter December 2024

maplibre.org

January 6, 2025 at 4:14 AM

Joe Davies

@joewdavies.bsky.social

Bivariate maps showing the relationships between Temperature and Precipitation.

Made with Plot, based on a great tutorial by Fil: observablehq.com/@jo...

Data from TerraClimate (1958-present).

#cartography #maps #mapping #climate #dataviz #SciArt