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Tooling and utilities for making civic maps
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V-Dem Graphing Tools
Sweden (Sverige) 🇸🇪The V-Dem Graphing Tools is a platform for making data visualization intuitive, accessible and easy to use
Mapistry
San FranciscoCreated for businesses with air and water permits who want one software for inspections, emissions calculations, and reporting - that operations actually uses.
MyTownhall
New JerseyA one-stop-shop for accessible local political knowledge and discussion (for small towns in the NJ-NY-PA area).
Allmaps makes it easier and more inspiring to curate, georeference and explore collections of digitized maps.
Extract
10 Downing StreetUsing AI to unlock historic planning data
gvSIG Desktop
Valencia (Spain)A powerful, user-friendly, interoperable GIS used by thousands of users worldwide.
Doroob
West Bank (al-Ḍiffah al-Gharbīyah)Updated maps by local staff from your community to match map frequent changes equiped by location services.
تطبیق "أزمة" ھو تطبیق فلسطیني يعرض حالة الأزمات المرورية التي تفرضھا حواجز الاحتلال
OpenGroupMap is an open platform for creating and sharing collaborative maps. It enables communities, groups, and organizations to build shared geographic knowledge bases.
Verkehrszeichen in OpenStreetMap
Germany (Deutschland) 🇩🇪Verkehrszeichen sind wertvolle Daten in OpenStreetMap.
Google Maps Platform
Mountain View, CAGoogle Cloud now offers Geospatial Analytics, Generative AI on Street View imagery, and more environmental data as part of the broader Google Maps Platform
Datadaptive's Postcodes in Polygon tool allows users to draw an area on a map and retrieve a list of postcodes within that area in Great Britain, using data from the November 2024 release of the ONS Postcode Directory product
Updates Google Maps to show the Gulf of Mexico again.
GAMA is an easy-to-use open source modeling and simulation environment for creating spatially explicit agent-based simulations.
Debatomap / Carticipe
France 🇫🇷Un outil basé sur le retour d’expérience de sociologues et spécialistes de la concertation publique territoriale
OpenStreetMap Americana
United States of America 🇺🇸A new OpenStreetMap style by the US chapter
GeoMSF Platform
Washington, DCA full suite of mapping and geodata tools developed by and for Medecins Sans Frontieres
Turn-by-turn navigation, OpenStreetMap, Crowd-Sourced Traffic, 3D maps, Satellite maps, Offline maps and Transit. Entirely free.
FIeldTM allows for coordinating field mapping activities in Open Mapping campaigns. While there are existing field mapping applications, there is a lack of efficient tools to coordinate these activities. The FMTM builds on the HOT Tasking Manager and other mapping applications to provide a more streamlined and organized process for completing field mapping tasks.
The Sketch Map Tool is an easy-to-use tool for participatory sketch mapping through offline collection, digitization and georeferencing of local spatial knowledge. The tool has a variety of applications. For example, do you want to work together with people in a community to map their experience and perception of risk in their neighbourhood in a paper-based format, but still be able to quickly analyse the results digitally? Then, the Sketch Map Tool is exactly what you need!
Access street-level imagery and map data from all over the world. Fill in the gaps by capturing coverage yourself.
This app finds missing map data in your vicinity and displays it on a map as quests. Solve each quest by visiting the location on-site and answering a simple question to update the map.
Mark and find wheelchair accessible places — worldwide and for free. Wheelmap is the map for wheelchair accessible places
StoryMapJS is a free tool to help you tell stories on the web that highlight the locations of a series of events. Tells a story based on a series of singular point locations.
Mapeo is a free, easy-to-use, open source set of tools for collecting and mapping information. Mapeo was built by Digital Democracy with and for earth defenders to easily document environmental & human rights information and to collect data about their land. It was designed to work in entirely offline environments, is highly customizable, and built on a decentralized peer-to-peer database that allows communities to own their own data.
We’re building sustainable solutions for collecting, processing, analyzing and displaying aerial data while supporting the communities built around them.
Swipe and tap. Put communities on the map. Help humanitarians find and help vulnerable people.
MapRoulette has dozens of mapping Challenges that are created by experienced mappers. Each Challenge is about improving OSM in one very specific way
EveryDoor is an OpenStreetMap editor for POIs and entrances.
Georeferenced Guassian Splatting for drones to reproduce thin and tricky structures with clarity.
The Export Tool is an open service that creates customized extracts of up-to-date OSM data in various file formats.
Field Papers is a tool to help you create a multi-page atlas of anywhere in the world. Once you print it, you can take it outside, into the field, to record notes and observations about the area you're looking at, or use it as your own personal tour guide in a new city.
Kepler.gl is a powerful open source geospatial analysis tool for large-scale data sets.
Cloud-Native Geospatial Foundation
Washington, DCThe Cloud-Native Geospatial Foundation encourages adoption of highly efficient and accessible approaches to working with geospatial data over the Internet.
TreeKIT
New York City (NYC / New York, NY)We’re helping city dwellers measure, map, and manage street trees.
Cutting-edge map tools for historical research. Search, explore, and discover the history of your surroundings through historical maps.
Karachi Chal
KarachiYour AI based Itinerary planner for the City of lights.
OpenPV
Germany (Deutschland) 🇩🇪Currently a solar potential look-up tool for the German state of Bavaria. "We support the roll-out of more photovoltaic roof systems."
Hurricane Mapping (Sea Island Software)
Richmond, VAWe are Sea Island Software, Inc., a company specializing in hurricane threat assessment. HurricaneMapping.com is our storm tracking service for Google Earth and ESRI's ArcGIS.
Postcode => Westminster constituency converter
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧Enter a UK postcode and this tool returns the constituency it belongs to
MapIt
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧The easy way to match points to boundaries
Urban Analyst provides interactive maps of the properties of cities including of their transport systems and socio-demographic conditions, as well as statistical summaries of all cities.
Nappal hajtva
Hungary (Magyarország) 🇭🇺Information website by Budapest municipality in order to help the population find the possibilities of solar energy
Social Explorer
New York City (NYC / New York, NY)Gain deep insights into any location of interest through thousands of data variables and stunning visualizations. Reinforce your decisions with Social Explorer’s reliable data mapping capabilities. Watch Videoplay_arrow
PetaBencana.id
JakartaPetaBencana.id provides residents, government agencies, and first responders with a real-time disaster information sharing system at an unprecedented scale. It is the first platform of its kind to harness the power of crowdsourcing through social media to aid humanitarian response and recovery.
Posting towns in the USA with a population less than 1000 that are undermapped on OpenStreetMap.org
HOT Tasking Manager
1100 13th Street NW Suite 800 Washington, D.C. 20005The tool to team up for mapping in OpenStreetMap
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