Mastodawn

Day 97. Hot air balloons everywhere! 🪂

Late-campaign lightweight piece: one clear visual idea, but still built on a proper geospatial stack.

Hot air balloon glTF above dense 3D buildings in Mapbox GL JS, with animation + lighting in a custom Three.js layer rendered over the map WebGL canvas.

Playful interaction, geographically anchored.

https://maptheclouds.com/playground/buildings-experiments/balloon/

#100DayMapChallenge Day 97/100

#ThreeJS #WebGL #MapboxGL #MapTiler #Geospatial #CreativeCoding #Animation #3DMaps

MapTheClouds May 10

Day 91. Snow Dome Anywhere (3D + Particles) ❄️

This browser experiment keeps a dense 3D city readable, then layers winter atmosphere through particles and glow.

Inspiration: FOSS4G Bucharest 2019 - Iván Sánchez Ortega and Niene Boeijen.
BTW: FOSS4G Europe 2026 (Timișoara, 29 June - 3 July) - https://2026.europe.foss4g.org
Do not miss it - it might change your life.

https://maptheclouds.com/playground/buildings-experiments/snow/

#100DayMapChallenge Day 91/100
#ThreeJS #WebGL #MapboxGL #MaplibreGL #MapTiler #Geospatial #FOSS4G

MapTheClouds Apr 3

Day 53. AsgardMap 🗺️⚔️

Client fantasy map project built on Iceland geography, delivered with a QGIS pipeline and a custom Mapbox Studio style system shaped for readability and atmosphere.

🔗 Private client delivery (case-study documented)

#100DayMapChallenge Day 53/100
#MapboxGL #QGIS #FantasyCartography #Cartography

MapTheClouds Feb 23

Day 15/100: Mapping education access in Sierra Leone 🎓

Client project (2021) for Fab Inc: How far are children from schools?

Approach: #MapboxGL + Isochrone API to calculate realistic walking times (not straight-line distance). Generated 15/30/60-minute zones from each school location across actual terrain.

When mapping serves education equity, every pixel represents a child's opportunity to learn. ✨

Project details: https://maptheclouds.com/work/sl-isochrones/

#100DayMapChallenge #GIS #EducationAccess

Stamen Design Apr 18, 2023

New blog post by Stamen's Lead Geospatial Developer Damon Burgett: "Making a snappy raster map with shaders". We go behind the scenes of our recent project with the Exploratorium, where we pushed the limits of visualizing raster map data with custom #MapboxGL shader layers. And as a bonus: Damon created a super-responsive #SeaLevelRise simulator to illustrate the concept. Read more and play with the sea level visualizer here: https://stamen.com/making-a-snappy-raster-map-with-shaders/ #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #GlobalWarming

Making a snappy raster map with shaders | Stamen

One of the exciting aspects of working at Stamen Design is that we work with all kinds of data. Not only do we get to explore what story the data is telling us, but we also get to explore how to tell it from a technical perspective. A challenging data type for web mapping are...

Stamen

MapTheClouds Feb 15, 2023

Funky/Relaxed City 🌆

Live: https://maptheclouds.com/playground/buildings-experiments/funky-city/

Music by Skullbeatz.

#MapboxGL #ThreeJS #3D #maps #buildings #nyc #manhattan