The Vibeary — tag
maps
16 resources in The Vibeary tagged "maps" — tools, libraries and references pulled from across the library's shelves, each one checked by hand before it was added.
Gems in this collection

NASA FIRMS
World map overlaid with near-real-time infrared fire and thermal anomaly detections from multiple satellites.

F4Map
Renders OpenStreetMap building data as an interactive 3D city map in the browser.

MapLibre GL JS
Community fork of Mapbox GL JS rendering interactive vector tile maps in WebGL under a permissive licence.

Shadow Finder
Given a shadow length, date and time, maps every point on Earth where that shadow could occur.

flightcn
shadcn-compatible component set for flight and route visualisation: airport pickers, route maps and itineraries.

ShadeMap
Simulates mountain, building and tree shadows anywhere on Earth for any date and time, rendered over a live map.

Datawrapper Academy
Free documentation-plus-theory site covering chart choice, colour, annotation and map design from the Datawrapper team.

Placemark Figma Plugin
Brings real geographic data and styled maps into Figma frames from Placemark's map tooling.

MapChecking
Draws an area on a map and estimates the maximum plausible crowd size within it at different densities.

OrbTrack
Predicts and visualises the current position and orbital path of more than ten thousand satellites.

PlaceRoot
Keyless MCP server exposing 42 tools over Overture Maps open data: place search, geocoding, routing, isochrones and area comparisons.
amCharts Free SVG Maps
Free vector SVG maps of every country, region and US state, editable in any design tool.
Calcite
Esri's design system for mapping applications: web components, map-specific controls and a large geospatial icon set.
Satellites.pro
Single interface for switching between several free satellite imagery and mapping providers at the same location.
OpenInfraMap
Global interactive map of power lines, telecoms, solar, oil, gas and water infrastructure built on OSM data.
Overpass Turbo
Web IDE for querying and visualising arbitrary OpenStreetMap data with instant map rendering of results.