Our world has reached 8 billion people last November, according to the United Nations! 😯 And this report expects the world to become a host…

More than a half of the world’s population lives in cities and the number is expected to rise to two-thirds by 2050! 😯 As our soil rapidly…

From mills to modern turbines, humanity has used wind energy for thousands of years. Wind is the fastest-growing renewable and is…

Every summer we read sinister news about the spread of wildfires in Australia, Americas and Europe. For example, I still remember those…

In one of my previous tutorials I’ve showed you how to make crisp topographic maps programatically in R using a few lines of code. This…

During my last week’s commute to work on a train I bumped into OpenRailwayMap, an OpenStreetMap (OSM)-based interactive map of railways…

From GoogleMaps to weather apps, our online world is replete with applications that use topographic data. Thanks to open data platforms such…

I’ve played a bit with 3D mapping in R, which gave birth to this map of average forest height in Brazil 🌳. In this tutorial, we will…

Last week on March 22 we had the World Water Day, which focuses on the importance of freshwater and brings attention to the 2.2 billion…