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Essencial Geo goes live
An atlas of thematic maps of Brazil, with open data, a DOI for each plate and publication in Portuguese and English. The first series, “Brazil, state by state”, starts today with São Paulo.
Published
Essencial Geo starts today as three things at once: a feed of thematic maps of Brazil, an open-data repository and a cartography portfolio that grows in public. Each plate comes with the files that produced it (GeoPackage, CSV, SVG), with its projection and sources declared and — from the maps with real data onwards — with its own DOI on Zenodo, so that it can be cited in a paper, a design drawing or an academic CV.
What is here already
Plate 001 opens the first series, Brazil, state by state: a cartographic base for each federative unit, with municipalities, immediate and intermediate geographic regions, the boundary and highways, as a GeoPackage pre-styled for QGIS, CSV and SVG. It starts with São Paulo, today, and continues on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays until 23 December, when it reaches Rondônia — 27 plates, all with the same design.
Two languages, always
Every map, technical record and note is published in Brazilian Portuguese and British English. The PT · EN switch at the top of the left-hand column takes you to the same page in the other language. The plates themselves are exported in both versions.
Dates, as in a newspaper
Every item carries its date in full and, where relevant, the date of its last update. Items are scheduled: they go live at 09:00 Brasília time (12:00 UTC) on their publication day.
How to follow
Subscribe to the RSS feed (there is one per language) or watch the repository on GitHub. Corrections and suggestions for new extents are welcome as issues.