In this tutorial, I will show you how to use R and some awesome packages to download, load, crop, and calculate population difference from…

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

From roads to places of interest, OpenStreetMap (OSM) data is a springwell of free geospatial data. In my previous tutorials, we barely…

Satellite images of Earth at night are some of the most breathtaking pictures of our beloved planet. With fascinating sceneries of the lit…

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…

Recently I discovered that Russia is the world’s top wheat exporter, and that Ukraine is among the top 5 exporters. If it weren’t for the…

Did you know that the UN Security Council permanent members controlled nearly 90% of the arms market in 2008–2016 and that the United States…

Last week UN marked the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. The purpose of this day is to celebrate female participation and…

There’s been a new kid in programming town and their name is API. In reality, API goes by the terrifying name of Application Programming…

Let there be light: and there was light. But humans took the matter to extremes: a recent study shows that global light pollution has…

Have you ever wondered how to create your own road map? Look no further: in this tutorial, I’ll show you how to make a motorway map of…

Last Saturday we observed the World Environment Day under a slogan “Reimagine.Recreate.Restore.” As our world loses a forest the size of an…

Did you know that China has invested at least US$500 million since 2004 to establish 530 Confucius Institutes at partnering universities and…

With a total of 67,956 kilometers of railways in 2020 India ranked 4th just behind the United States, China and Russia. While Indian…

In this post, I’ll show you how to make your own choropleth map in R using <200 lines of code. Building on several years of map-making…

If you live in a polluted area, does it mean that you take climate change seriously? Following the Reprex Open Data Day 2021, we embarked on…