#30DayMapChallenge 2023

Day 1: points
Points at the border of 3 or 4 countries in Africa. Made with QGIS using the UN country boundaries layer. Can you find the only quadripoint on the map?

Day 2: lines
Railways in Algeria. I've tried to imitate the style of vintage French travel posters. Map made with QGIS and OpenStreetMap data. Background image is AI generated.

Day 3: Polygons
Let's use basin boundaries instead of country boundaries. Made with QGIS. Open data from HydroSHEDS.

Day 4: A bad map
Map with all Bad towns in Germany. The prefix Bad ("bath") in German toponyms indicates the place is an officially acknowledged spa. Open data from OpenStreetMap, made with QGIS. Qartoon style by Topi Tjukanov downloaded from the QGIS Style Hub.

Day 5: Analog map
Today during a visit to University of Sciences and Technology Houari Boumediene in Algiers with Zoubina Nemer, we bumped into some students mapping the city. We were joined by a cat-ographer. Great to hear that the students are fan of QGIS!

Day 6: Asia
Rivers in Asia. Open data from HydroSHEDS, made in QGIS with the Interpolated Line renderer. Here's a video.

Day 7: Navigation
Today I'm testing the new position tracking functionality of Mergin Maps while going to the WaPOR training in Algiers. Here's a video.

Day 8: Africa
I'm currently in Africa (Algeria) giving a training on WaPOR concepts and validation. So it makes sense to publish a map with open data from the FAO WaPOR portal. The maps shows the gross biomass water productivity in Africa in 2022. Made with QGIS.

Day 9: Hexagons
It was the wettest October since the measurements started in the Netherlands. To keep us dry, the water boards use pumping stations. Open data from OpenStreetMap, made with QGIS.

Day 10: North America
Actual evapotranspiration and interception in September 2023. Open data: FAO WaPOR v3 (300 m resolution global) and major basins from HydroSHEDS. Made with QGIS.

Day 11: Retro
Dutch railways in part of the Netherlands in retro style. Open data from OpenStreetMap. Made with QGIS.

Day 12: South America
Transboundary aquifers and major hydrological basins. Open data: IGRAC and HydroSHEDS.

Day 13: Choropleth
Animated choropleth cartogram showing the trend in urbanisation in African countries, with UN projections until 2050. Open data from Our World in Data, made with QGIS using the temporal controller and geometry generator. Here's a video on making cartograms.

Day 14: Europe
Trend in share of electricity production from solar and wind. Open data from Our World in Data, made with QGIS.

Day 15: OpenStreetMap
Last week, I enjoyed exploring Algiers, the capital of Algeria. This map shows the roads, including the small ones winding up the Casbah, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Open data from OpenStreetMap, made with QGIS.

Day 16: Oceania
Relative Root Zone Soil Moisture - beta product (Global - Dekadal - 300 m) - FAO WaPOR v3 and Mapzen Global Terrain open data. Made with QGIS.

Day 17: Flow
I'm experimenting with using Felt in class. At IHE Delft Institute for Water Education I'm teaching about the Mara River Basin. I found out that Felt has a great Interpolated Line Renderer to visualise Strahler orders. Here's the interactive map.

Day 18: Atmosphere
Prediction of wind speed and direction over the Netherlands from today noon. Open data mesh: HARMONIE-AROME Cy40 model. Here's a video on how to make a similar map.

Day 19: 5 minute map
Polling stations for upcoming elections in the Netherlands. Made with QGIS using the MapTiler plugin for the Dark Matter vector tile backdrop and open data.

Day 20: Outdoors
On November 3rd, I joined Zoubina Nemer, Celia Hadj Ali and Nadir Louchahi for a beautiful hike in Djurdjura National Park, Tikjda, Algeria. Animated map made with QGIS. Backdrop: Outdoor vector tile via MapTiler plugin with hillshade from Mapzen Global Terrain. This video shows how to import routes from Strava and create an outdoor map with the MapTiler plugin.

Day 21: Raster
Stream Power Index (SPI) blended with hillshade. Created with the PCRaster Tools plugin in QGIS. DTM from IGN France.  Here's a video on calculating SPI with QGIS.

Day 22: North is not always up
The Global South: a concept used to describe a grouping of countries along lines of socio-economic and political characteristics according to UNCTAD. Open data: UN borders. Made with QGIS.

Day 23: 3D
I was trying the new 3D Tile support in QGIS 3.34. I've used the Cesium ion plugin and flew around Rotterdam using the Google Photorealistic 3D Tiles. Here's a video.

Day 24: Black and white
Street names in Rotterdam with
zwart = black
wit = white
Open data: OpenStreetMap, backdrop from CartoDB. Made with QGIS.

Day 25: Antarctica
Stereographic projection with Antarctica in the centre. Data sources: Bing Satellite blended with Mapzen Global Terrain exaggerated hillshade and UN borders. Made with QGIS.

Day 26: Minimal
The Netherlands shaped by water. Only one open data layer was used: KRW waterbody polygons WFS via the PDOK Services plugin in QGIS.

Day 27: Dots
Elevation of the Netherlands. Open data: SRTM. Made with QGIS.

Day 28: Is this a chart or a map?
Elevation profile of the centre of Delft, the Netherlands. Open data: AHN4 point cloud. Made with QGIS. Here's a video.

Day 29: Population
The gender landscape of the Netherlands. Men per 100 women for each municipality. Delft!?
Open data: CBS. Created in QGIS. These data only includes binary genders and does not account for the diversity of gender identities.

Day 30: My favourite...
...maps are the ones that show the diversity of our students IHE Delft Institute for Water Education in the MSc programmes and short courses. Here you see the current batch of MSc students in the Water & Sustainable Development programme on a world map with the major basins from HydroSHEDS.

The free course Creating data visualisations with graphs, maps and animations at GIS OpenCourseWare is highly recommended.