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Combining Google Earth Engine and Mapbox for Interactive World Population Map

Well, the title says it all. This article [1] combines Google Earth Engine and Mapbox to show an interactive 2,5D map of global population density, and provides enough information to reproduce it (given sufficient Mapbox resources).

[1] https://blog.mapbox.com/3d-mapping-global-population-density-how-i-built...

Tags: 
Google Earth Engine
Mapbox
web mapping
cloud computing
tutorial

Frank O. Ostermann's research interest

Research keywords: 
user-generated geographic content
cloud computing
citizen science


Description of research interests: 

Frank's main research interests are the opportunities and challenges of distributed collection, storage, processing and sharing of crowd-sourced and volunteered geographic information. Example research themes are: Which new collaborative types of production and consumption of geographic information emerge, and what are their broader societal implications?

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