Urban

November 8, 2025 | Michael

Sunset over Rouen, Normandy, France – Public domain by Pierre Blaché Day 8 of 30DayMapChallenge: « Urban » (previously). French Urban unit database from INSEE. The concept of an urban unit is based on continuous built-up ar...
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Inaccessibility

November 7, 2025 | Michael

IMG_9811 – CC-BY-NC by Eddie Lawrance Day 7 of 30DayMapChallenge: « Accessibility » (previously). Well, let us be rebellious and instead seek inaccessibility; more precisely the pole of inaccessibility of France (the Hexagon...
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Mamdani vs Sliwa and Cuomo

November 6, 2025 | R on kieranhealy.org

Mamdani’s victory in the New York City mayoral election gave me the opportunity to draw a few maps, and also to learn a bit about incorporating additional spatial data into maps drawn in R. R is not a specialized piece of GIS software. ESRI&rsquo... [Read more...]

Dimension reduction

November 6, 2025 | Michael

Floura - Light Bloom - The Art of Hybycozo - Desert Botanical Garden – CC-BY-NC by Alan English CPA Day 6 of 30DayMapChallenge: « Dimensions » (previously). According to Wikipedia, Uniform manifold approximation and projecti...
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Reversed

November 5, 2025 | Michael

Calvi - Noël 2017 – CC-BY-NC-NA by Valerie Hukalo Day 5 of 30DayMapChallenge: « Earth » (previously). What if the bathymetry of the Mediterranean Sea is reversed? We would get a Western Island and an Eastern Island, a Sardin...
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Data centers

November 4, 2025 | Michael

6509Es – CC-BY-NC by Bob Mical Day 4 of 30DayMapChallenge: « My data » (previously). Where are my data? Partly in a data center; probably with your data too… So, where are they? library(dplyr) library(purrr) library(sf) library(osmdata) library(glue) library(leaflet) We send an Overpass API query with {osmdata}: # Get ...
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simaerep release 1.0.0

November 3, 2025 | R on datistics

Simulate patient-related events in clinical trials with the goal of detecting over and under-reporting sites. Monitoring reporting rates of patient-related events such as adverse events (AE) in clinical trials is important for patient safety. We u...
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Country codes

November 2, 2025 | Michael

Physicists of many nations – CC BY-NC-ND by Ann Fisher Day 3 of 30DayMapChallenge: « Polygons » (previously). An interesting challenge a few weeks ago on https://en.osm.town/@opencage/115271196316302891: Post by @[email protected] View on Mastodon Name countries whose ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code is contained as a substring in the ...
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Ridgelines

November 1, 2025 | Michael

Hiking Path – CC BY-NC-SA by HD Day 2 of 30DayMapChallenge: « Lines » (previously). Representing a digital elevation model as ridgelines… Config library(elevatr) library(rnaturalearth) # remotes::install_github("ropensci/r...
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