30DayMapChallenge is a daily map making challenge which is held since 2019 every year in november on social network. This challenge has become year after year popular for the mapmakers community, and more than 8000 maps have been posted in 2022 session.

Last year was my first participation, it was a great opportunity to try to make unusual maps, complete sleeping projects, and be updated with geospatial technologies.
In this talk will be presented how this challenge has been completed and especially which open tools has been used to make the 30 maps.

Japan fascinates the world with its rich culture, materialized with a full of cultural sites in its territory as example. To protect it, the Law for the protection of cultural properties established a “cultural heritage” designation system, where designated places should be preserved.
With the collaboration of the Nara National Research Institute for Cultural Properties, Japan cultural heritages has been mapped as a WebGIS tool where more than 100,000 places can be visualized.
In this talk will be presented tool functionalities and technically its OpenSource based architecture.