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
- Check comments
- 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.
- 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
- A cartographer drew a freehand map of North America (2019) | Hacker News
