ProductJuly 6, 2023

June spotlight: 10 best Felt Community maps

Here is how Felts put maps to use lately.

An illustration of overlapping green, blue and purple map tiles patterned with grids, contours and dots

Here is how Felts put maps to use lately — from combining all the Tour de France races in one place to trying out new Open in Felt feature.

Tourism in Vaucluse, France

Jean-Louis Zimmerman used OSM and Felt to map tourist attractions of his home region of Vancluse.

A Felt map of Vaucluse, France, dotted with tourist attractions, accommodation and amenities by type

Kilauea Eruption, 2018

GIS Analyst Chris Soriano created a map showing the lava flow path of the Kilauea volcano in 2018.

A Felt map of the 2018 Kilauea lava flow shaded by day, with destroyed buildings and before and after imagery

Toronto Public Realm Bike Tour

Lanrick Bennett Jr. used Felt to share a map with all the participants of a bike tour he led in Toronto.

A Felt map of Toronto with a green bike tour route linking stops from Sugar Beach to Evergreen Brick Works

Taxable property improvement value

Kaine Robertson used Open in Felt button to bring Regrid sample data into the browser. In this Faulkner Arkansas map, he focused on visualizing taxable property improvement value. This information is valuable for insurance providers, property owners, city planners, government agencies, and property developers. It offers insights into flood risks, insurance coverage, property investments, and risk mitigation.

A Felt map of Conway, Arkansas, with parcels shaded by taxable improvement value and flood zones in blue

Out of state ownership in Maine

Alex Alsup, Vice President of Research & Development at Regrid, was inspired by an op-ed about saving Maine’s year-round communitiesand thought he’d take a look at the county he was visiting soon — Hancock, ME. Alex made a map which shows that 1 in 4 properties there are owned out of state, and owner names in the county include a lot of rather recognizable last names.

A Felt map of Hancock County, Maine, with parcels colored by the state their tax bills are mailed to

Tour de France 2023, all the stages on one map

GIS specialist Márton Leitold created a map for anyone who is following Tour de France this year.

A Felt map of a Tour de France 2023 mountain stage in the Pyrenees with video highlights along the route

Getting To 31st Ave Open Street

Bobby Feltault mapped the nearest bike docks, train stations, and bus stops around an Open Street in Astoria, Queens, to help his neighbors navigate the area.

A Felt map of 31st Ave Open Street in Astoria, Queens, with nearby Citi Bike docks, bus stops and subway lines

All the places visited

David Moss has taken a video every day, recording where he is for the past 10+ years (since late 2012). He was looking for a way to visualize and share this easily, but wanted something interactive he could post on his personal website. He used Felt and was able to quickly visualize his travels.

A Felt map of North America with circles sized by the number of days spent in each place

Georeferencing 1747 Plan van Amsterdam

Stace Maples used Felt, IIIF.io, and Allmaps.org to georeference 1747 Plan van Amsterdam from the Conrad Collection on Dutch Waterways and share it on a digital map.

A georeferenced 1747 plan of Amsterdam overlaid on a watercolor-style map of the modern city

Wind speed and turbines

Felt Cartographer Mamata Akella used data from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory to map Average Wind Speeds and Installed Turbine Capacity in the contiguous US.

A Felt map of average wind speeds and installed turbine locations across the contiguous US

We recently launched our new QGIS mapping challenge — create a map using QGIS and Felt and win a limited-edition Felt drawstring bag, notebook, and a set of stickers! You map will also be featured in Felt Map Gallery.

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