Spatial Equity NYC (SE), a tool developed by MIT’s Norman B. Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism (LCAU) in close collaboration with New York City-based nonprofit Transportation Alternatives (TA), visualizes mobility, environment, and health data.

• cities
• place-based
• Reduced inequalities

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Civic maps

Divestment campaign targeting local councils investing in fossil fuel companies

• Climate action
• local

• Civic maps
• Specific campaigns

Just like how we use AI to detect sidewalks, street signs and road names in satellite imagery to display helpful information in Google Maps, we’ll also use AI to identify oil and gas infrastructure, like oil storage containers, in our imagery. Then, we’ll combine it with EDF’s information about oil and gas infrastructure to locate where the emissions are coming from.

• Google
• Climate action
• methane

• Civic maps
• Civic features
• Satellites

ATLAS is a crowdsourced (map) repository of projects happening in cities involving the use of artificial intelligence systems.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech
• Civic maps

Campaign website explaining landlord / proptech surveillance and what tenants can do to fight back

• housing
• surveillance

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Crowdsourcing
• Civic maps

UK PlanIt is a national aggregator for current and historical planning information.

• Civic maps
• Urban planning

Housing Courts Must Change! (HCMC) is a statewide campaign launched by the Right to Counsel NYC Coalition in 2020 to transform the courts across New York State (NYS) from an “eviction machine” to a place that holds landlords accountable, upholds tenants’ rights, and enables tenants to remain in their homes.

• housing

• Civic maps
• Justice tech

Urban Analyst provides interactive maps of the properties of cities including of their transport systems and socio-demographic conditions, as well as statistical summaries of all cities.

• cities

• Civic maps
• Mapping tools

NYC Street Map is an ongoing effort to digitize official street records, bring them together with other street information, and make them easily accessible to the public.

• cities

• Civic data
• Civic maps
• Open government data

O LupaMundi - Mapa das Legislações sobre Desinformação é um mapa interativo que apresenta as leis nacionais de combate à desinformação.

• Fight disinformation
• Civic maps
• Civic tech legislation and policy

The Water Data Explorer was developed by the British Geological Survey in collaboration with Imperial College London, The University of Oxford and UCL as part of the CAMELLIA project, and in partnership with a broad range of stakeholders. CAMELLIA has been funded by the UKRI's Natural Environment Research Council (NERC).

• Clean water and sanitation
• cities
• rivers

• Civic maps

An opportunity for every conscious member of society to contribute to the elimination of the shadow economy.

• taxes
• illicit goods
• corruption

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Civic maps

Know where you spend your money - mapping politically exposed hotel & restaurant owners

• Civic maps

Collaborative data collection map on informal payment in maternity care

• Civic maps

A continent-wide map of AI policy, laws, and tools in Africa

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Civic maps

This map will help us grow volunteer engagement at a neighborhood level and track our progress towards increasing tree stewardship across District 33 (in New York City)

• trees
• cities
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic maps

An interactive data visualization project demonstrating the gender imbalance of street names in Porto

• cities
• Gender Equality

• Data visualization
• Civic maps

Die Plattform protestdata.eu beinhaltet Informationen zu Protestkampagnen und Protestaktionen von 1950 bis 2020, die in mehreren Forschungsprojekten gesammelt wurden.

• Advocacy tech
• Civic maps
• Archives

"Here’s a real-time map of the hundreds of protests taking place across Israel as the pro-democracy movement there hits its ninth week of massive participation. An estimated 400,000 people turned out across the country last weekend; that’s five percent of its population" - Micah Sifry, The Connector

• Advocacy tech
• Civic maps
• Specific campaigns

Real-time flood sensors were developed by the FloodSense project at NYU and the CUNY Advanced Science Research Center (ASRC), with a goal of providing information on the presence, frequency, and depth of hyperlocal street-level flood events to a range of stakeholders, including policymakers, government agencies, citizens, emergency response teams, community advocacy groups, and researchers.

• floods

• Civic maps

The Environmental Justice Index (EJI) scores census tracts using a percentile ranking which represents the proportion of tracts that experience cumulative impacts of environmental burden and injustice equal to or lower than a tract of interest.

• Good health and well-being
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic maps

The Colorado Broadband Office (CBO) leads the statewide effort to expand broadband coverage and quality for all Coloradans and coordinates all broadband efforts for Colorado.

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Civic maps

With this mapathon, the UN Mappers community wants to join the efforts of the NGO Yer Çizenler and the OpenStreetMap community to map buildings and roads in the area.

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Crowdsourcing
• Civic maps

Gaziantep, Kahramanmaraş ve depremi yoğun bir şekilde hisseden Güneydoğu Anadolu illerinde sokakta kalan vatandaşlara

• earthquakes

• Civic data
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Civic maps

This interactive global map of Public Interest AI projects aims to help foster research on Public Interest AI projects, demonstrate their self-understanding, and provide publicly accessible data about them to the broader public.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Civic tech catalogs
• Civic maps

Between March and September 2021, BUL researchers identified around 80 NGOs that participated in shelter repair within the neighborhoods severely affected by the August 2020 port blast. The data and findings are presented through a recent mapping output on the Beirut Urban Observatory.

• cities

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Civic maps

The Beirut Built Environment Database is a platform gathering geolocalised social, environmental, and economic information on building activity in the Greater Beirut Area.

• cities
• landlord
• land

• Civic data
• Civic maps

The Beirut Urban Lab is launching a platform that documents the processes and mechanisms that generate housing precarity in today’s Beirut.

• housing
• No poverty
• landlord

• Civic maps

The Beirut Urban Observatory is a platform of geolocalized urban data informing ongoing post-blast recovery efforts.

• Civic data
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Civic maps

"DPW set out to answer a question: Can the youth use affordable and widely available technologies to gather the information necessary to support informal settlement upgrading?"

• housing
• informal settlements

• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing
• Civic maps

A map of Seattle and areas with accessibility in mind, including hill steepness and sidewalk curb barriers

• Civic maps
• Assistive and Accessible Tech

Openly mapping for the pedestrian experience.

• place-based
• cities
• OpenStreetMap

• Civic data
• Civic maps
• Assistive and Accessible Tech

Tracking Current Wildfires in the US

• fires

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Civic maps

Refugees as City-Makers

• cities
• refugees

• Civic data
• Research and policy centers
• Civic maps

The Citizens Police Data Project (CPDP.co) is a tool for holding police accountable to the public they serve. By Invisible Institute

• criminal justice

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Civic maps
• Justice tech

Open database and map of recipients, donors

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Civic maps

Air Alliance Houston is a non-profit advocacy organization working to reduce the public health impacts from air pollution and advance environmental justice.

• air quality

• Crowdsourcing
• Civic maps

Making Census Data Easy to Use

• census

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Civic maps

A Google Earth tour of the raw material extraction that powers our tech products, by Melissa Hsiung

• sustainability
• supply chain

• Civic maps
• Walking tours

Ushahidi instance crowdsourcing the flood-related data from the 2022 Floods in Pakistan.

• floods

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Crowdsourcing
• Civic maps

InfoNile is a cross-border group of geojournalists with a mission to uncover critical stories on water issues in the Nile River Basin through data-based multimedia storytelling.

• Clean water and sanitation
• rivers
• local

• Media
• Civic data
• Civic maps

We've mapped more than 17,000 New Deal sites and now have more than 100 sites documented in every state.

• Civic maps
• Archives

We’re here to help you understand how to get an abortion.

• Good health and well-being
• health
• women's health

• Civic data
• Civic maps

Mapping data on economic security, housing, health, education and more in NYC

• Civic maps
• Access social benefits

Linking river health to wellbeing in the Thames basin

• Clean water and sanitation
• rivers

• Media and social media analysis
• Civic maps
• Public sentiment tools

A map visualizing the Atlantic Council’s DFRLab research on coordinated disinformation campaigns.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Civic maps

An interactive map to show the billions worth of properties that went from state-owned to privately owned in recent years, together with K Monitor

• real estate
• corruption

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Civic maps

Poynter's global guide on existing attempts to legislate against what can broadly be referred to as online misinformation. This guide seeks to create an inclusive, collaborative approach to addressing misinformation around the world. While not every law contained here relates to misinformation specifically, they’ve all often been wrapped into that broader discussion. Article will be updated on an ongoing basis.

• guides

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Civic maps

By the Stanford Public Interest Redistricting Project. The student plans uploaded here are guided by one or more clearly-identified redistricting principles, and attempt to comply with all applicable state and federal legal requirements.

• gerrymandering

• Voting and elections
• Civic maps

• COVID Engagement Projects
• Data visualization
• Civic maps