TOKYO
GEO TOKYO
MEETUP#7
MEETUP#7
WED, MAY 27 · 18:00 FabCafe Tokyo
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Geo Tokyo Meetup May 2026
- when
- Wed, May 27 2026
18:00 – 20:00 - where
- FabCafe Tokyo
Shibuya, Tokyo - hosts
- Alastair Tse, Shane Reustle, Quentin Siutkowski
- luma
- luma.com/e9g4xnxe
Our seventh meetup, a casual and friendly group of mapping enthusiasts in Tokyo. We chatted about all things cartographic and mapping: beautiful data visualisations, GIS tech, cool map based projects, and demos from anyone working on map related tech.
Notes
The event is on FabCafe’s second floor. Buy a drink from the first floor cafe and come up.”
Projects presented
Japan Train Line Maps — Alastair Tse train-lines.liquidx.net Interactive maps plotting every train line in Japan.Speak for the Trees — Rob speakforthetrees.com Follow activity in your local ecosystem, drawn from 20+ public environmental data sources.Ask Maps in Google Maps — Sophie blog.google Gemini-powered feature for asking Google Maps complex questions about places.Tracks iangrossberg.com IAN Grossberg's experiments in movement and location based music, songs to hear while riding the train.Map links discussed all map links →
bu.edu
Asia Maps: Digital Collections (Boston University) — Boston University's list of digitised historical map collections covering Asia. historical · bu.edu bu.edu
Best motorcycle roads in Japan — Motorcycle Paradise's guide to Japan's best roads for riding. japan · motorcycleparadise.net motorcycleparadise.net
japanmaps.davidrumsey.com
David Rumsey Map Collection: Japan — The David Rumsey collection's archive of historical Japanese maps. historical · japan · japanmaps.davidrumsey.com japanmaps.davidrumsey.com
maps.gsi.go.jp
GSI Tiles (地理院タイル) — The Geospatial Information Authority of Japan’s basemap, relief and photo tiles. basemap · dataset · japan · maps.gsi.go.jp maps.gsi.go.jp
How I Turned Satellite Imagery Into Poster Art — John Nelson turns satellite imagery into cartoon-style poster maps in ArcGIS (video). illustration · youtube.com youtube.com
Japan Best Motorcycle Rides (My Map) — Google My Map of good riding roads, built over nine years and 110,000 km of touring Japan. japan · google.com google.com
guides.lib.berkeley.edu
Japanese Historical Maps Collection (UC Berkeley) — Guide to the C. V. Starr East Asian Library's digitised Japanese historical maps. historical · japan · guides.lib.berkeley.edu guides.lib.berkeley.edu
Jonni Walker: Messa — Jonni Walker's detailed 3D Mapbox style of the Shenandoah Valley area, Virginia. 3d · illustration · api.mapbox.com api.mapbox.com
Jonni Walker: Mount Rainier — Jonni Walker's detailed 3D Mapbox style of Mount Rainier. 3d · illustration · api.mapbox.com api.mapbox.com
Jonni Walker: Switzerland — Intricately detailed 3D Mapbox style of the Swiss Alps by Jonni Walker. 3d · illustration · api.mapbox.com api.mapbox.com
Jonni Walker: Switzerland (second view) — Another of Jonni Walker's detailed 3D Mapbox styles of the Swiss Alps. 3d · illustration · api.mapbox.com api.mapbox.com
Jonni Walker: US Light Map — Jonni Walker's Mapbox style of the United States lit up at night. illustration · api.mapbox.com api.mapbox.com
Kansai Jisou Maps — The Kansai (Osaka) edition of the Jisou historical maps app. historical · japan · play.google.com play.google.com
Medieval maps of the Ryukyu Kingdom — The three huge 17th-century Ryukyu Kuniezu maps, now online in high resolution with zoomable detail of Okinawa. historical · japan · medievalists.net medievalists.net
noclip.website
noclip — A digital museum of video game levels you can fly around in the browser. 3d · noclip.website noclip.website
jugcerovic.com
One Metro World (Jug Cerovic) — Jug Cerovic's standardised schematic subway maps of the world's metros, including Tokyo. transit · illustration · jugcerovic.com jugcerovic.com
blog.mapbox.com
Painting with Mapbox Studio: Telling Stories with Detail — Mapbox blog on building richly detailed, painterly map styles in Mapbox Studio. basemap · illustration · blog.mapbox.com blog.mapbox.com
Rekichizu (れきちず) — Edo-period historical maps in a modern map-app design, with comparison to today, 3D terrain and GPS. By @chizutodesign. historical · basemap · japan · rekichizu.jp rekichizu.jp
Rekichizu: Edo period styled as Google Maps — Edo-era roads, post towns and sights drawn in a Google Maps style, in the browser. historical · basemap · japan · rekichizu.jp rekichizu.jp
Tokyo Jisou Maps — Android app for browsing old historical maps of Tokyo. 'Jisou' means 'layers of time'. historical · japan · play.google.com play.google.com
Vancouver AIS ship traffic visual — Craig Taylor and Jonni Walker's animated Vancouver ship traffic (AIS) visual on a detailed Mapbox map. visualization · x.com x.com
大日本沿海輿地全図 (Ino Tadataka's maps, NDL) — National Diet Library exhibit of Ino Tadataka's large-scale survey maps of Japan's coast. historical · japan · ndl.go.jp ndl.go.jp
懸垂のできる公園リスト (Pull-up bar map of Tokyo) — A map of parks in Tokyo with bars you can do pull-ups on, visited stamp-rally style. japan · kensui-to-watashi.com kensui-to-watashi.com
lapis.nichibun.ac.jp
日文研 所蔵地図データベース (Nichibunken map database) — Database of historical maps held by the International Research Center for Japanese Studies. historical · japan · lapis.nichibun.ac.jp lapis.nichibun.ac.jp