Last week, we wrapped up our participation in the #30DayMapChallenge2024, an annual event for mappers of all skill levels to explore diverse mapping themes and showcase their creativity. 🌍✨
This year marked Kontur’s 4th time joining the challenge, with 20 talented team members demonstrating their mapping expertise across all topics, from “Points” to “The Final Map….” 🎯
A huge thanks to everyone who participated alongside us and used Kontur tools to create amazing maps! 🚀
#30DayMapChallenge Day 30: The final map
When you work at Kontur even your art is geospatial. Tied together the world, one nail at a time📌.
#30DayMapChallenge Day 29: Overture Data
We’ve captured the essence of Paris in a postcard-style map! 🇫🇷 Using data from the @overturemaps we extracted cafés, restaurants, bakeries, roads, and buildings to showcase the best places where you can definitely try a croissant 🥐.
This is just a small example of how Kontur can create layers with almost any data you need. Whether it’s for exploring a city’s culinary delights or analyzing complex datasets, we’ve got you covered.
#30DayMapChallenge Day 28: The Blue Planet
The Blue-footed Booby is a bird that nests and raises its chicks in only two places on Earth: the Galápagos Archipelago and the Gulf of California.
This bird is remarkably trusting of humans, which makes it vulnerable.
As it steps with its blue, planet-like feet, it reminds us how fragile and important the things we often take for granted truly are. 🐦💙
#30DayMapChallenge Day 24: Only circular shapes
Welcome to the Fruity Solar System! 🍊🪐 A cosmic map where planets are sweet, tangy, and juicy. If you ever need the current positions of celestial bodies for your next interstellar journey, feel free to use this photo! 🌞🍏😁
#30DayMapChallenge Day 22: 2 Colors
Some hexagons on Kontur maps (kontur.io) aren’t what they seem!
This map, crafted by our backend engineer, explores hexagonal oddities in just 2 colors⚫️ 🟤 - a statistical snapshot of the world through the lens of H3.
Data for this topic is generated by the script https://gist.github.com/sleeping-h/18fbe5cf5fed7b8a45f502fb207dd5de which uses h3-pg extension https://github.com/zachasme/h3-pg
(but could be generated with any other h3 bindings)
#30DayMapChallenge Day 21: Conflict
At Kontur, we primarily analyze natural disasters, yet it’s clear that humanity often brings the greatest devastation upon itself. The worst destruction in war unfolds directly on the frontlines, where everything in its path is erased. Some regions, like the areas around Verdun, have yet to fully recover even after a century.
This map shows the cumulative months that each hexagon has been a frontline since 1900.
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