Geography

tags: Data Visualization , OpenStreetMap Stuff , Mapping Ecosystem , Cartography

Fun projects/generators

These are more like Creative Programming stuff rather than plain map-making.

Geotagged wikipedia places: Explore interesting places nearby listed on Wikipedia | Hacker News
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https://github.com/ColCarroll/ridge_map : A library for making ridge plots of… ridges. Choose a location, get an elevation map, and tinker with it to make something beautiful.
Easter eggs on Swiss maps (2021) | Hacker News 🌟
- Check for the map provider here
- “The maps on that website have some very cool features including “Journey through time” which allows you to see the maps going back to 1864.”
https://github.com/fogleman/PirateMap: Procedurally generated pirate treasure maps. X marks the spot!
prettymaps : A small set of Python functions to draw pretty maps from OpenStreetMap data. Based on osmnx, matplotlib and shapely libraries.
- Prettymapp – Create maps from OpenStreetMap data in a Streamlit webapp | Hacker News
https://github.com/shuding/cobe
https://github.com/mewo2/terrain : Code for generating fantasy maps, using the algorithm behind unchartedatlas. More details: Generating fantasy maps
- Fantasy Map Brushes | Hacker News
A cartographer drew a freehand map of North America (2019) | Hacker News