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Day 30 - A mapped - The isoline of Õ

For the map I decided to make a very simple map about the isoline of Õ. One of the coolest peculiarities in Saaremaa dialect is that instead of Estonian vow...

Day 29 - Globe - Antipode of Estonia

Everyone knows where Estonia is on the globe but how many of you know that the antipode of Estonia is in the middle of nowhere? Finding a geographic point’s ...

Day 28 - Non-geographic - Roots

The hidden life below-ground. Roots are the back-bone of life and biodiversity below-ground. Data collected by an awesome team Ivika Ostonen-Märtin and Maril...

Day 27 - Small data - Hide-and-seek

Hide-and-seek or actually the very correct name in English would be “kick the can” is a game that every Estonian has played in their childhood in long warm s...

Day 25 - COVID - COVID cases in Estonia

Active COVID cases in Estonia mapped as individual random points in the administrative units. I guess this illustrates a bit how likely you are to bump into ...

Day 24 - Elevation - Bathymetry of Neugrund

The bathymetry around Osmussaar island and Neugrund meteorite crater. Neugrund is the biggest meteorite crater of Estonia and one of the best–preserved marin...

Day 13 - Raster - Landscape Diversity

Landscape diversity by Simpson’s Diversity Index calculated in Fragstats on Estonian generalised topographic database land use data.

Day 10 - Grid - Population in 3D Grid

Estonian population in 1km mapped in 3D. The original map was made in grayscale in QGIS and imported to Aerialod which ertrudes based on the color.

Day 4 - Hexagons - Forest loss in Estonia

4.Hexagons: Forest loss in #Estonia from 2001 to 2019 based on #GLobalForestChange data. The analysis was done for 3km hexagons. Forest loss was summed for e...

Day 2 - Lines - Isodistances from the coast

Isolines are very efficient way to map quantitative data as lines. The current map is representing 1km-isodistances from the Baltic sea. The farthest village...

Day 1 - Points - Dialects

The first day challenge is points. I mapped three most widely spoken dialects in Estonia: Võru, Saare, Mulgi mapped as dots. 1 dot is marking 1 person speaki...

Day 0 - MapChallenge Categories

Topi Tjukanov announced the 30 Day Map Challenge for the first time in November 2019. This is the second year of the challenge. Last year I managed to do all...