HOT has shared a thorough update on open mapping tools, including:
🛰️ OpenAerialMap
✈ Drone Tasking Manager
🤖 fAIr
📱 Field Tasking Manager
💬 ChatMap

Which ones have you used? Which ones are you most excited about?!

⬇️ If you haven’t used any, or are excited about some you don’t know, read the article: https://www.hotosm.org/en/news/the-state-of-hot-open-mapping-tech/.

📉We focus here on mapping and field tagging tools, but that is not all, there are more for data insights!
#mapping #openstreetmap #gis

Had a great time at MapTime Amsterdam this evening

My favorite presentations were by a couple of Japanese researchers on 3D city modeling of the Netherlands and Japan, these researchers are associated with TUDelft

#gis #mapping #osm

Korea Times: Local map platforms rush upgrades as Google Maps eyes expansion. “Local map platform operators are racing to overhaul their services as Google prepares to expand its mapping services in Korea, setting the stage for a renewed clash between global big tech and entrenched local players. The shift follows the government’s conditional approval in February allowing Google to access […]

We are preparing for this year's edition of LUCID DREAMS, organized by students and staff of the department of Experimental Media at USTP St. Pölten. Come by next weekend and have a good time with us if you are nearby Vienna!

#vvvv #mapping #projection #ambisonics #multichannel #puredata #touchdesigner #newmedia #digitalart #festival

BBC: Three enjoyable ways to slow your brain's ageing

"...The brain area important for spatial navigation, the hippocampus, is believed to be the first part of the brain affected in Alzheimer's disease......For instance, studies show that ambulance and taxi drivers have among the lowest rates of Alzheimer's-related mortality compared with other roles, precisely because these drivers had been using their brain more for "spatial processing", the researchers propose. It's also long been known that taxi drivers who had spent years learning the city's streets without the use of a map, have an enlarged hippocampus...."

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260508-three-impactful-ways-to-protect-your-brain-from-ageing

#maps #mapping #gis

#Mapping 1,000s of Bike Trips Every Day

https://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2026/05/mapping-1000s-of-bike-trips-every-day.html

NOAA: Explore the Sea Floor with NCEI’s Modernized Portal. “NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) is excited to announce a big upgrade to the Bathymetric Data Map Viewer. The updated viewer is more responsive and provides a better mobile experience. NCEI scientists have also added more powerful search/filtering capabilities, and improved accessibility for users.”

Last Sunday, we collaborated with #OpenStreetMap Zambia for an online mapathon. 💻

They supported the mapping of Towsi-Libee roads 🛣, as part of our #mappingforpeace efforts in Somalia. 🇸🇴 The data generated will be used to provide peacekeepers with topographic #maps that will help them in their tactical and operational activities.

Map here 👉 https://tasks.hotosm.org/projects/48384

🙌 Thank you OSM Zambia community!

Become a UN Mapper! 💙

#UNMaps #UNMappers #Openstreetmap #mapping #openmapping #opendata

OSM way IDs just passed 1.5 billion, the BCP 47 proposal for consistent Latin-script transliteration tags (name:<language>-Latn) closes voting today, and a federated FOSSGIS governance proposal is on the table.

https://weeklyosm.eu/archives/18565

#OpenStreetMap #OSM #Geospatial #Mapping #weeklyOSM
https://weeklyosm.eu/archives/18565