AI-ASSISTED · EDITOR-REVIEWED
Theme brief
Taste can be mapped through places to eat, agricultural origins, trade routes, protected regions or personal memory. Avoid turning cuisine into a single dot per country; food geographies overlap, move and change.
Official prompt“Food, drink or something else which you can taste.”
30DayMapChallenge 2026
WAYS IN
Four map ideas
- 01
Map one ingredient from farm region to market or restaurant.
- 02
Compare late-night food options along a transit network.
- 03
Create a personal atlas of memorable tastes with short notes.
- 04
Map crop patterns that shape a regional cuisine.
IN THE DIRECTORY
Recommended tools
Datawrapper
Makes a clean locator or small thematic food map quickly.
Freemium · View detailsQGIS
Combines crop rasters, regions and place data for deeper analysis.
Open source · View detailsOpenStreetMap
Its cuisine and shop tags support detailed local food queries.
Free · View detailsFelt
Good for a shareable, annotated personal food map.
Freemium · View detailsSTART WITH A CLEAR LICENSE
Data sources
Useful for local venue maps; completeness varies.
ODbL 1.0 · attribution required USDA Cropland Data LayerAnnual crop-specific land-cover rasters for the United States.
U.S. government data FAOSTATAgriculture, food and trade indicators with country coverage.
CC BY 4.0 · attribution requiredLicenses are a planning aid, not legal advice. Check the source record and version you actually download; terms can vary within a catalog.
BEFORE YOU EXPORT
Cartography check
Treat cuisine labels as observations, not fixed cultural borders, and explain who supplied or classified the data.
COMMUNITY MAPS
Selected work
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