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 *A compilation of geospatial-related web frameworks, tools, demos, applications, data sources and more.*
 
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## Contents
- [👨‍💻 **JavaScript Libraries**](#-javascript-libraries)
  - [Mapping](#mapping) 
  - [Data Processing](#data-processing)
  - [LiDAR](#lidar)
  - [Remote Sensing](#remote-sensing)
- [💾 **Data sources**](#-data-sources)
  - [Downloads](#downloads)
  - [Web APIs](#web-apis)
  - [Collections](#collections)
- [📒 **Notebooks**](#-notebooks)
  - [Beginner](#beginner)
  - [Intermediate](#intermediate)
  - [Advanced](#advanced)
- [:world_map: Web maps](#world_map-web-maps)
- [🌐 **Web apps**](#-web-apps)
- [🎨 **Colour advice**](#-colour-advice)
- [📍 **Icons**](#-icons)
- [📺 **Videos**](#-videos)
- [📚 **Further reading**](#-further-reading)

## 👨‍💻 JavaScript Libraries 

### Mapping 
Libraries for creating web maps:

- [Leaflet](https://leafletjs.com/) - The leading open-source JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps.
- [OpenLayers](https://openlayers.org/) - A high-performance, feature-packed library for creating interactive maps on the web.
- [Cesium.js](https://cesium.com) - An open-source JavaScript library for world-class 3D mapping of geospatial data.
- [maplibre](https://github.com/maplibre/maplibre-gl-js) - It originated as an open-source fork of mapbox-gl-js, before their switch to a non-OSS license in December 2020.
- [Deck.GL](https://github.com/uber/deck.gl) - WebGL2 powered geospatial visualization layers.
- [MapTalks.js](https://github.com/maptalks/maptalks.js) - An open-source JavaScript library for integrated 2D/3D maps.
- [antvis L7](https://github.com/antvis/L7) - Large-scale WebGL-powered Geospatial Data Visualization.
- [Tangram](https://github.com/tangrams/tangram) - WebGL map rendering engine for creative cartography.
- [TerriaJS](https://github.com/TerriaJS/terriajs) - TerriaJS is a library for building rich, web-based geospatial data explorers.
- [gridviz](https://github.com/eurostat/gridviz) - A package for visualizing gridded data.
- [Eurostat-map](https://github.com/eurostat/eurostat-map.js) - Create and customise web maps showing Eurostat data using D3.js.
- [Bertin.js](https://github.com/neocarto/bertin) - A JavaScript library for visualizing geospatial data and making thematic maps for the web.
- [regl-map-animation](https://github.com/eurostat/regl-map-animation) - Animate x/y point data using regl and categorize them into a bar chart.
- [iTowns](https://github.com/iTowns/itowns) - A Three.js-based framework written in JavaScript/WebGL for visualizing 3D geospatial data.
- [globe.gl](https://globe.gl/) - This library is a convenience wrapper around the three-globe plugin, and uses ThreeJS/WebGL for 3D rendering.
- [d3-geo](https://github.com/d3/d3-geo) - A library for creating maps based on D3.js.
- [d3-geo-projection](https://github.com/d3/d3-geo-projection) - Extended geographic projections.
- [d3-geo-voronoi](https://github.com/Fil/d3-geo-voronoi) - Voronoi diagrams and Delaunay triangulation for the sphere.
- [d3-inertia](https://github.com/Fil/d3-inertia) - An extension to d3-drag that continues the mouse movement with some inertia.
- [datamaps](https://github.com/markmarkoh/datamaps) - Customizable map visualizations in one file.
- [react-simple-maps](https://github.com/zcreativelabs/react-simple-maps) - An SVG mapping component library for React, built on top of d3-geo.
- [Google Maps](https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript) - Google Maps API for JavaScript.
- [Wrld.js](https://github.com/wrld3d/wrld.js/) - Animated 3D city maps based on Leaflet.
- [Mapbox GL JS](https://docs.mapbox.com/mapbox-gl-js/examples/) - JavaScript library that uses WebGL to render interactive maps from vector tiles.
- [ArcGIS API for JS](https://developers.arcgis.com/javascript/3/) - A lightweight way to embed maps and tasks in web applications.
- [HERE maps API](https://developer.here.com/develop/javascript-api) - Build web applications with feature-rich and customizable HERE maps.
- [Map Forecast API](https://github.com/windycom/API) - Simple-to-use library based on Leaflet 1.4.x. It allows you to show wind maps.

### Data Processing 
Libraries that help you analyse and process geospatial data:
- [geolib](https://github.com/manuelbieh/geolib) - Library to provide basic geospatial operations like distance calculation, conversion of decimal coordinates to sexagesimal, etc.
- [Turf.js](https://github.com/Turfjs/turf) - Turf is a JavaScript library for spatial analysis.
- [JSTS](https://github.com/bjornharrtell/jsts) - JavaScript Topology Suite.
- [flatten-js](https://github.com/alexbol99/flatten-js) - For manipulating geometrical shapes, finding intersections, checking inclusion, calculating distance, transformations and more.
- [flatbush](https://github.com/mourner/flatbush) - A really fast static spatial index for 2D points and rectangles in JavaScript.
- [rbush](https://github.com/mourner/rbush) - RBush is a high-performance JavaScript library for 2D spatial indexing of points and rectangles.
- [Geometric.js](https://github.com/HarryStevens/geometric) - A JavaScript library for doing geometry.
- [Euclid.ts](https://github.com/mathigon/euclid.js) - 2D Euclidean geometry classes, utilities, and drawing tools.
- [Proj4js](https://github.com/proj4js/proj4js) - Transform coordinates from one coordinate system to another, including datum transformations.
- [GeoTiff.js](https://github.com/geotiffjs/geotiff.js) - Parse TIFF files for visualization or analysis.
- [Arc.js](https://github.com/springmeyer/arc.js) - Calculate great circles routes as lines in GeoJSON or WKT format.
- [awesome-GeoJSON](https://github.com/tmcw/awesome-geojson) - Catalogue of GeoJSON tools.
- [topoJSON](https://github.com/topojson/topojson) - Convert GeoJSON to TopoJSON for use in D3 maps.
- [d3-geo-polygon](https://github.com/d3/d3-geo-polygon) - Clipping and geometric operations for spherical polygons.
- [Wicket](https://github.com/arthur-e/Wicket) - A modest library for moving between Well-Known Text (WKT) and various framework geometries.
- [koop](https://github.com/koopjs/koop) - Koop is a JavaScript toolkit for connecting incompatible spatial APIs.
- [spl.js](https://github.com/jvail/spl.js) - Makes it possible to use SpatiaLite functionality in JavaScript. Behind the scenes, a WebAssembly port of SpatiaLite is used.
- [geotoolbox](https://github.com/neocarto/geotoolbox) - Provides several GIS operations for use with geojson properties. Useful for thematic cartography.
- [supercluster](https://www.npmjs.com/package/supercluster) - A very fast JavaScript library for geospatial point clustering for browsers and Node.
- [geoblaze](https://github.com/GeoTIFF/geoblaze) - A blazing fast JavaScript raster processing engine. Using geoblaze, you can run computations ranging from basic statistics (min, max, mean, mode) to band arithmetic and histogram generation in either a web browser or a node application.
- [geopackage-js](https://github.com/ngageoint/geopackage-js) - The GeoPackage JavaScript library currently provides the ability to read GeoPackage files.
- [geojson-merge](https://github.com/mapbox/geojson-merge) - Merge multiple GeoJSON files into one FeatureCollection.
- [Galton](https://github.com/urbica/galton) - Lightweight Node.js isochrone server. Build isochrones using OSRM, Turf and concaveman.
- [geojson-vt](https://github.com/mapbox/geojson-vt) - A highly efficient JavaScript library for slicing GeoJSON data into vector tiles on the fly.
- [geobuf](https://github.com/mapbox/geobuf) - Geobuf is a compact binary encoding for geographic data.
- [geoparquet](https://github.com/opengeospatial/geoparquet) - Encoding geospatial data in Apache Parquet.
- [statsbreaks](https://github.com/riatelab/statsbreaks) - Split (classify/discretize) a quantitative dataset into a (k) number of classes or thematic categories. Useful for creating a choropleth map.
- [gdal3.js](https://github.com/bugra9/gdal3.js) - Convert raster and vector geospatial data to various formats and coordinate systems entirely in the browser.
- [math.gl](https://github.com/uber-web/math.gl) - JavaScript math library focused on Geospatial and 3D use cases.

### LiDAR
Tools for visualizing point clouds with web browsers:

- [Potree](https://github.com/potree/potree) - WebGL point cloud viewer for large datasets.
- [Plasio](https://github.com/verma/plasio) - Drag-n-drop In-browser LAS/LAZ point cloud viewer.
- [Potree & Cesium.js](https://potree.org/potree/examples/cesium_retz.html) - Rezt, Austria LIDAR viewer.
- [Three.js](https://threejs.org/examples/#webgl_loader_pcd) - Point cloud data loader.

### Remote Sensing

Resources for frontend earth observation and remote sensing:

- [Google Earth Engine](https://developers.google.com/earth-engine/tutorials/tutorial_api_01) - Geospatial processing service.
- [sentinelhub-js](https://github.com/sentinel-hub/sentinelhub-js/) - Download and process satellite imagery in JavaScript or TypeScript using Sentinel Hub services.
- [Sentinel Hub custom scripts](https://github.com/sentinel-hub/custom-scripts) - A repository of custom scripts to be used with Sentinel Hub.
- [Spectral](https://github.com/awesome-spectral-indices) - Awesome Spectral Indices for the Google Earth Engine JavaScript API (Code Editor).
- [EOSDIS Worldview](https://github.com/nasa-gibs/worldview) - Interactive interface for browsing global, full-resolution satellite imagery.


## 💾 Data sources 
A collection of geospatial open data sources:

### Downloads 
Data available for download:

- [OpenMapTiles](https://openmaptiles.org/) - Free OpenStreetMap Vector Tiles.
- [OpenStreetMap](https://www.geofabrik.de/data/download.html) - A free, world-wide geographic data set.
- [Natural Earth](https://www.naturalearthdata.com/) - Free vector and raster map data at 1:10m, 1:50m, and 1:110m scales.
- [World Atlas TopoJSON](https://github.com/topojson/world-atlas) - A convenient redistribution of Natural Earth's vector data as TopoJSON.
- [Copernicus global DEM](https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/gisco/geodata/reference-data/elevation/copernicus-dem/elevation) - Global elevation tiles.
- [ETOPO1](https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/global/) - 1 arc-minute global relief model of Earth's surface that integrates land topography and ocean bathymetry.
- [HydroSHEDS](https://www.hydrosheds.org/) - Hydrographic information in a consistent and comprehensive format for regional and global-scale applications.
- [geoboundaries](https://www.geoboundaries.org/) - The world's largest open, free and research-ready database of political administrative boundaries.
- [Global power plant database](https://datasets.wri.org/dataset/globalpowerplantdatabase) - A comprehensive, global, open source database of power plants.
- [Ookla internet speed data](https://github.com/teamookla/ookla-open-data) - Provides global network performance metrics. Data is provided in both Shapefile format as well as Apache Parquet.
- [European population grids - GISCO](https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/gisco/geodata/reference-data/grids) - These datasets contain grid cells covering the European land territory, for various resolutions from 1km to 100km. Base statistics such as population figures are provided for these cells.
- [Healthcare Services in Europe](https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/gisco/geodata/reference-data/healthcare-services) - The locations of healthcare services across Europe.
- [European Postcodes Point Data](https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/gisco/geodata/reference-data/postal-codes) - The postal code point dataset shows the location of postal codes, NUTS codes and the Degree of Urbanisation classification across the EU, EFTA and candidate countries from a variety of sources.
- [WorldPop](https://www.worldpop.org/) - Open access spatial demographic datasets built using transparent approaches. 
- [World Bank](https://data.worldbank.org/) - Free and open access to global development data.
- [USGS Earth Explorer](https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/) - Query and order satellite images, aerial photographs, and cartographic products through the U.S. Geological Survey.
- [Open Topography](https://opentopography.org/) - OpenTopography facilitates community access to high-resolution, Earth science-oriented, topography data, and related tools and resources.
- [NASA Earth Observations](https://neo.gsfc.nasa.gov/) - Here you can browse and download imagery of satellite data from NASA's constellation of Earth Observing System satellites.
- [Geodata.gov.gr](https://geodata.gov.gr/en/dataset) - Open geospatial data for Greece.
- [ArcGIS Hub](https://hub.arcgis.com/) - Over 380,000 open datasets.
- [DIVA-GIS](https://www.diva-gis.org/Data) - Free spatial data. Includes country and global level boundaries, climate, species occurence, crop and elevation data.
- [OpenAerialMap](https://openaerialmap.org/) - An open service to provide access to a commons of openly licensed imagery and map layer services.
- [Global Climate Monitor](https://www.globalclimatemonitor.org/) - Global open climate data available for download.
- [Copernicus open access hub](https://scihub.copernicus.eu) - Copernicus satellite imagery download.

### Web APIs 
Restful APIs for consuming geospatial data on the fly:

- [GISCO data distribution API](https://gisco-services.ec.europa.eu/distribution/v2/) - Official European Commission data source for administrative regions, Coastal lines, Communes, Countries, Local Administrative Units, NUTS, Urban Audit.
- [Address API](https://gisco-services.ec.europa.eu/addressapi/docs/) - Pan-european address data. Supports geocoding, reverse-geocoding and lists of address components (e.g. all roads in a city).
- [USGS earthquake data](https://earthquake.usgs.gov/fdsnws/event/1/) - Allows custom searches for earthquake information using a variety of parameters.
- [movebank-api](https://github.com/movebank/movebank-api-doc) - Movebank is a free, online database and research platform for animal tracking and other on-animal sensor data. 
- [Overpass API](https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Overpass_API) - Retrieve OpenStreetMap data.
- [REST countries](https://restcountries.com/) - Get information about countries via a RESTful API.
- [OSMNames](https://osmnames.org/api/) - The OSMNames open-source project provides raw place data in an easy-to-index form.
- [Open Notify](http://open-notify.org/Open-Notify-API/) - Get the current location of the International Space Station (ISS) and current number of people in space!
- [OpenAQ](https://docs.openaq.org/docs) - OpenAQ is the largest open-source air quality data platform.
- [openrouteservice](https://openrouteservice.org/dev/#/api-docs) - Directions, Isochrones, Time-Distance Matrix, Pelias Geocoding, POIs, Elevation, Optimization.
- [GraphHopper Route Optimization API](https://www.graphhopper.com/route-optimization/) - Solves a variety of vehicle routing problems, including the classical “traveling salesman problem”.
- [Geoapify](https://apidocs.geoapify.com/) - Maps, address and location search, route optimization, reachability analysis, geodata access, and more.
- [OpenCage](https://opencagedata.com/api) - Forward and reverse worldwide geocoding API using open data.
- [breezometer](https://docs.breezometer.com/api-documentation/introduction/) - API endpoints for Air Quality, Pollen, Weather, Wildfire, Cleanest Routes and Environmental Alerts. Serves current conditions, forecasts, and historical data.
- [ipfind](https://ipfind.io/) - Geographic location of an IP address or any domain name along with some other useful information.
- [bng2latlong](https://www.getthedata.com/bng2latlong) - Simple API to convert an OSGB36 easting and northing (British National Grid) to WGS84 latitude and longitude.
- [Open Postcode Geo API](https://www.getthedata.com/open-postcode-geo-api) - British postcodes with easting, northing, latitude, and longitude.
- [Country State City API](https://countrystatecity.in/) - Full Database of city state country available in JSON, SQL, XML, YAML & CSV format.
- [API Geo](https://api.gouv.fr/les-api/api-geo) - 	Official French geographical data API.
- [geonames](http://www.geonames.org/export/web-services.html) - Supports placename lookup, postal Code Search, reverse geocoding, nearby populated place and nearby toponym searches.
- [opentopodata API](https://www.opentopodata.org/) - Open Topo Data is a REST API server for your elevation data.
- [what3words](https://developer.what3words.com/public-api) - Convert 3 word addresses to coordinates and vice versa.
- [TomTom](https://developer.tomtom.com/api-explorer-index/documentation/product-information/introduction) - Charging stations, fuel prices, routing, geocoding, parking availability, traffic and waypoint optimization endpoints.
- [Open Charge Map API](https://openchargemap.org/site/develop/api) - Non-commercial, non-profit global public registry of electric vehicle charging locations.
- [OpenSky API](https://openskynetwork.github.io/opensky-api/rest.html) - Retrieve live airspace information for research and non-commerical purposes.
- [Open-Meteo](https://open-meteo.com/) - Global weather forecast API for non-commercial use.
- [RainViewer](https://www.rainviewer.com/api.html) - Free weather API. Offers the past (2 hours) and forecast (30 minutes) weather radar data and the past infrared satellite data.
- [Sunrise and sunset](https://sunrise-sunset.org/api) - Sunset and sunrise times for a given latitude and longitude.
- [Geocode.xyz](https://geocode.xyz/) - Reverse Geocoding, Forward Geocoding, Geoparsing API. Free requests throttled at 1 request per second.

### Collections 
Compilations and repositories of open geospatial datasets:
- [awesome-public-datasets](https://github.com/awesomedata/awesome-public-datasets) - An awesome repository full of open datasets from an abundance of different categories.
- [Free GIS data](https://freegisdata.rtwilson.com/) - Links to over 500 sites providing freely available geographic datasets.
- [WRI](https://www.wri.org/data) - World resources institute.
- [Public APIs](https://github.com/public-apis-dev/public-apis) - A collective list of free APIs for use in software and web development.

## 📒 Notebooks 
Some JavaScript notebooks to help you code:

### Beginner
- [Hello, Leaflet](https://observablehq.com/@observablehq/hello-leaflet) - ObservableHQ.
- [Hello, Bertin.js](https://observablehq.com/@neocartocnrs/hello-bertin-js) - Nicolas Lambert.
- [Hello, Mapbox GL](https://observablehq.com/@observablehq/hello-mapbox-gl) - Mike Bostock.
- [Hello, eurostat-map.js](https://observablehq.com/@joewdavies/eurostat-map-js) - Joe Davies.
- [Hello, gridviz](https://observablehq.com/@neocartocnrs/hello-gridviz) - Nicolas Lambert.

### Intermediate
- [World Tour](https://observablehq.com/@d3/world-tour) - D3.
- [Choropleth](https://observablehq.com/@d3/choropleth) - D3.
- [How to make a nice scalebar](https://observablehq.com/@jgaffuri/nice-scale-bar) - Julien Gaffuri.
- [#GISCHAT Twitter Users with MapBoxGL - Globe Projection](https://observablehq.com/@chriszrc/gischat-twitter-users-with-mapboxgl-globe-projection) - Chris Marx.
- [Hexgrid maps with d3-hexgrid](https://observablehq.com/@larsvers/hexgrid-maps-with-d3-hexgrid) - Larsvers.
- [Bivariate Choropleth with Continuous Color Scales](https://observablehq.com/@stephanietuerk/bivariate-choropleth-with-continuous-color-scales) - Stephanie Tuerk.
- [Visualizing Eurostat grid data using Three.js & D3](https://observablehq.com/@joewdavies/visualizing-eurostat-grid-data-using-three-js-d3) - Joe Davies.

### Advanced 

- [Try to impeach this? Challenge accepted!](https://observablehq.com/@karimdouieb/try-to-impeach-this-challenge-accepted) - Karim Douieb.
- [Bars and pubs in Paris](https://observablehq.com/@neocartocnrs/bars-pubs-in-paris) - Nicolas Lambert.
- [Brussels Street Gender Inequality](https://observablehq.com/@karimdouieb/brussels-streets-gender-inequality) - Karim Douieb.
- [Animating voting maps with regl](https://observablehq.com/@bmschmidt/animating-voting-maps-with-regl) - Benjamin Schmidt.
- [Election maps as dorling striped circles](https://observablehq.com/@jgaffuri/election-map-dorling-striped-circles) - Julien Gaffuri.
- [GeoParquet on the web](https://observablehq.com/@kylebarron/geoparquet-on-the-web) - Kyle Barron.
- [Interactive Regl wind demo](https://observablehq.com/@dkaoster/interactive-regl-wind-demo) - Daniel Kao.
- [Dorling cartogram of the Spanish Presidential election](https://observablehq.com/@adrianblanco/dorling-cartogram-of-the-spanish-presidential-election) - Adrián Blanco.
- [Visualizing earthquakes with Three.js](https://observablehq.com/@joewdavies/visualizing-earthquakes-with-three-js) - Joe Davies.
- [GeoArrow and GeoParquet in deck.gl](https://observablehq.com/@kylebarron/geoarrow-and-geoparquet-in-deck-gl) - Kyle Barron.

## :world_map: Web maps 
A compilation of interesting web maps:

- [Map of notable people](https://tjukanovt.github.io/notable-people) - Topi Tjukanov.
- [Submarine cable map](https://www.submarinecablemap.com/) - TeleGeography.
- [Radio Garden](https://radio.garden/) - 3D Globe Radio Tuner.
- [Map of every building in the United States](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/10/12/us/map-of-every-building-in-the-united-states.html) - New York Times.
- [Map of the Roman transport network](https://orbis.stanford.edu/) - The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World.
- [Webgl Wind](https://github.com/mapbox/webgl-wind) - A WebGL-powered visualization of wind power. Capable of rendering up to 1 million wind particles at 60fps.

## 🌐 Web apps 
Plug-and-play geospatial web apps:

- [city roads](https://anvaka.github.io/city-roads/) - Render every single road in any city at once.
- [Kepler](https://kepler.gl/demo) - A powerful open source geospatial analysis tool for large-scale data sets.
- [Plasio](https://github.com/verma/plasio) - Drag-n-drop In-browser LAS/LAZ point cloud viewer.
- [mapshaper](https://mapshaper.org/) - Online editor for map data.
- [geotiff.io](http://app.geotiff.io/) - GeoTIFF.io provides quick access to easy-to-use raster processing.
- [IMAGE](https://gisco-services.ec.europa.eu/image/) - An easy-to-use tool for generating thematic maps.
- [magrit](https://magrit.cnrs.fr/) - Magrit is an online application for thematic mapping (cartography).
- [StoryMap JS](https://storymap.knightlab.com/) - The Open source alternative to ESRI's Story map application.
- [Datawrapper](https://github.com/datawrapper/datawrapper) - Create charts, maps, and tables.
- [Maputnik](https://github.com/maputnik/editor) - A free and open visual editor for the Mapbox GL styles targeted at developers and map designers.
- [Fantasy Map Generator](https://github.com/Azgaar/Fantasy-Map-Generator) - Free web application that helps fantasy writers, game masters, and cartographers create and edit fantasy maps.
- [uMap](https://github.com/umap-project/umap) - Lets you create a map with OpenStreetMap layers and embed it in your site.
- [Peak Map](https://github.com/anvaka/peak-map) - Allows you to visualize elevation of any area on the map with filled area charts (also known as a ridgeline).
- [mapus](https://github.com/alyssaxuu/mapus) - Mapus is a tool to explore and annotate collaboratively on a map.
- [MapOnShirt](https://maponshirt.com) - A fun tool for creating colorful designs from maps and turning them into T-shirts, Posters, Cushions and more.

## 🎨 Colour advice 
Colour usage is very important in data visualisation and cartography. Here are some tools to help you choose the best colours for your maps:

- [ColorBrewer](https://colorbrewer2.org/) - Colour advice for maps, based on the research of Dr. Cynthia Brewer.
- [viz-palette](https://www.susielu.com/data-viz/viz-palette) - This project is optimized for tweaking, copying, and pasting colors in and out of JavaScript.
- [Chroma.js Color Palette Helper](https://gka.github.io/palettes/#/9) - This chroma.js-powered tool is here to help us mastering multi-hued, multi-stops color scales.
- [Dicopal.js](https://github.com/riatelab/dicopal.js) - Discrete color palettes (hundreds of them!) for JavaScript.
- [Textures.js](https://github.com/riccardoscalco/textures) - JavaScript library for creating SVG patterns. Made on top of d3.js, it is designed for data visualization. Textures are useful for the
selective perception of different categories.

## 📍 Icons
Icons to add to your GIS websites:
- [font-GIS](https://github.com/Viglino/font-gis) - A very very cool icon font set for use with GIS and spatial analysis tools.
- [Map Icons Collection](https://mapicons.mapsmarker.com/) - A set of more than 1000 free and customizable icons to use as placemarks for your POI (Point of Interests) locations on your maps.
- [Material Symbols](https://fonts.google.com/icons?icon.query=map) - Over 2,990 glyphs in a single font file with a wide range of design variants.
- [Geoapify map marker playground](https://apidocs.geoapify.com/playground/icon/) - The Marker Icon API lets you create beautiful icons and use them as Map Markers.

## 📺 Videos
Videos of web mapping presentations and tutorials:

- [Mapping Geolocation with Leaflet.js - Working with Data and APIs in JavaScript](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZaZ2dB6pow) - The Coding Train.
- [10 Maps, and the Tech and Stories Behind Them](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpWAKVjPlgU) - Maarten Lambrechts.
- [Intermediate Three.js Tutorial - Create a Globe with Custom Shaders](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vM8M4QloVL0&t=4418s) - Chris Courses.
- [Statistical Cartography - Design principles for statistical map design](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e803ElX5Q_c) - Julien Gaffuri.


## 📚 Further reading
- [Fundamentals of Data Visualization](https://clauswilke.com/dataviz/) - Claus O. Wilke.
- [A Workbook for Interactive Cartography and Visualization on the Open Web](https://github.com/uwcartlab/webmapping) - Robert Roth, Carl Sack, Gareth Baldrica-Franklin, Yuying Chen, Rich Donohue, Lily Houtman, Tim Prestby, Robin Tolochko, Nick Underwood.
- [Thematic Mapping: 101 Inspiring Ways to Visualise Empirical Data](https://www.esri.com/en-us/esri-press/browse/thematic-mapping) - Kenneth Field.
- [Color use guidelines for mapping and visualization](https://colorbrewer2.org/learnmore/schemes_full.html#qualitative) - Cynthia A. Brewer.


## Contributing

Contributions of any kind are welcome, just follow the [guidelines](./CONTRIBUTING.md) by either:

- Filling a [suggestion issue](https://github.com/joewdavies/awesome-frontend-gis/issues/new/) (easier).
- Opening a [pull request](https://github.com/joewdavies/awesome-frontend-gis/compare).

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