maps

A repository with different kind of maps.

//Under construction//

Tools 🛠

This list contains useful tools and related tutorials/applications for map making in different categories.

• Map data analysis 📈
• 3D Visualization 👀
• Web-mapping 🌐
• Geospatial storytelling 💬

• …

Map data analysis 📈

GIS software and libraries for processing geospatial data and make simple maps.

• QGIS
  • // to do //
• Python
  • Shapely
  • Pandas
    • Learning resources: 1 - 2 - 3
  • GeoPandas
    • Learning resources: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4
  • PyQGIS

    • Learning resources: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6

      3D Visualization 👀

      Software and applications to create 3D maps and visualization.

• Aerialod
  • Offical website
  • Amazing 3D rendering with Aerialod - a tutorial
  • Arterial City 3D rendering
  • 3D mapping with Aerialod (for Windows) - Udemy Course
  • Raster-Based 3D Models with QGIS, OSM and Aerialod
• Blender
  • Official website
  • Creating shaded relief in Blender

  • QGIS+Blender tutorial

    Web-Mapping 🌐

• Miscellanea
  • Learning resources:
    • Web Programming for GIS Applications (Course UW Seattle)
    • Advanced Digital Geographies - (Course UW Seattle)
    • Online WebMap (Course Clark University)
    • Web Mapping Curriculum (Course Mapbox)

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Geospatial Storytelling 💬

Tools for visual geospatial storytelling, like map-scrolling and interactive narrative.

• Mapbox
  • How to build a scrollytelling map
  • Scrolly drive (animated paths)
  • Mapbox Guides
  • Mapbox Impact Tools
  • Mapbox Education Platform
    • Examples: Subway usage in first 2 weeks of COVID-19 crisis
• StoryMap JS
  • StoryMap website
  • How to make a StoryMap JS [VIDEO]
    • Examples: Creating Narrative Maps - Using StoryMap JS
• Timeline JS
  • Official Website
• Maplibre GL JS
  • Official Website
• Cesium Stories
  • Official Website
• Terria JS
  • Official Website

Tutorials

• Points Unknown NYC
• Programming Historian
• Lindsey Wieck - History of San Francisco Course
• Digital Narrative
• Animated path storytelling
• Tympanus Tutorials
• How to implement scrollytelling
• ViaLab Tutorials
• MapTime Boston
• Map-making tools repository
• University of Washington - Humanistic GIS Laboratory

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