Geospatial projects ideas

Excuses to learn geospatial This is just a compilation of ideas that would provide an excuse to learn and practices ... where I ideas or projects on how geospatial knowledge can be used for fun or meaningful things:

Personal use or share with friends

📍 Geotagged memories & travel mapping

• Map your geolocated (geotagged) holiday photos.
• Visualize locations where you have been (e.g. where I have been).
• Create visual stories using animated videos from tracking outdoor activities (like relive.cc).
• Build a 360º video tour of places you like or you’ve visited.
• Map your "wish list" of dream travel destinations.

🤔 Decision-making & analysis

• Find the best location to buy/rent a house or stay in a hotel combining geospatial data.
• Analyze your Google Maps location history to understand movement patterns (or know how many times you have been in X) example.
• Map to help choose the best school zones for your kids.
• Create a school guide with important details on schools nearby.

🐶 Pet projects & experimental apps

Event & personal mapping projects

• Create a custom wedding map to help guests find venues, accommodations, and activities (e.g. my own).
• Make a personal audio guide using AI and Wikipedia API to narrate geolocated stories.
• Help conference attendees to find other attendees to do ride-sharing
• Build a Geoguess/Geovote application (e.g., a "Geoporra" game).
• Create a fun Santa Claus tracker for the holidays.
• Create a maps of tech communities, conferences, and meetups around the world (example)

🗺 Exploration, Fun & Curiosity

• Explore historical maps and city transformations with old satellite imagery (example.

• Discover radio stations by location (e.g., Radio garden).

• Play Geogames to learn about world geography interactively.

• Use educational digital atlas to help your kids

• TV & movie location mapping (e.g., Game of Thrones, La casa de papel filming spots).

• Fantasy map generator - – create maps for fictional worlds

• Explore +20K satellites in orbit using interactive maps.

• Monitor Earth Observation Data: wildfires, air quality, climate change.

• Create animated gifs with wayback imagery

Sharing Knowledge & Community Impact

Share knowledge

• Share recomendations (e.g Victoriano)
• Share favourite hiking routes

Help your community

• Map to help you choose school zones
• Create a turistic guide of your city (Nerja interactive guide)
• Create open data of your neighbourhood from imagery with Mapillary

Humanitarian / People care

• Participate in Mapathons
• InfoRiesgo (idea)
• Social good hackathons / MLH