From war to your home: how conflict scrap feeds steel
A cross-border investigation maps how war scrap from Syria, Libya, and Ukraine enters Turkish steel production and returns to Europe as finished products.
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Visual Journalism, Cartography and Tools
Maps, data, and visual stories from my daily work
Here I collect newsroom stories, independent projects, and open-source tools and experiments.
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Selected Work
2026 Four years of war in Ukraine: a front that barely moves
A map-based four-year balance of the war in Ukraine, showing a largely stalled front, energy infrastructure attacks, aid shifts, and the human cost of the conflict.
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Paiporta flood simulation: predictable, devastating, fast
A hydraulic simulation reconstructs the Rambla del Poyo flood minute by minute, showing three core findings: the event was predictable, devastating, and extremely fast.
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The center of the world crumbles like a cookie
A long-form visual explainer on Antarctic ice change that combines satellite-derived elevation data, cartographic experimentation, and narrative graphics to show where the continent is gaining or losing ice mass.
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2022 Melilla border tragedy: step by step
A forensic reconstruction of the Melilla border tragedy based on geolocated videos, witness accounts, and synchronized timelines to establish a verifiable sequence of events.
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Recent Work
2026 A week of war in Iran: mapping the escalation and response
A breaking-news map explainer produced in a day and a half that summarizes one week of war around Iran, from strikes and retaliation to proxy activity and pressure points near the Strait of Hormuz.
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2026 Hormuz under threat: tanker traffic and chokepoints
A rapid-response map explainer on the Strait of Hormuz, showing how tanker traffic patterns shift under blockade threats and what that means for Gulf exports and Europe.
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2026 Aragon election results, street by street
A live election map for Aragon at census-section level, with street-by-street results, party filters, and comparisons with 2023.
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2025 358,000 hectares in 15 days: Spain's wildfire peak
A visual summary of Spain's most severe 2025 wildfire weeks, combining burned-area perimeters, regional impact, and air-quality deterioration.
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2024 Paiporta under water: reconstructing a deadly flood
Based on extensive field measurements, this project reconstructs the peak flood level in Paiporta and nearby towns, showing the full magnitude of a water mass that exceeded three meters in many streets.
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2024 Ukraine war fronts after the Kursk offensive
A map-driven explainer on the Kursk offensive, contrasting Ukrainian advances inside Russia with simultaneous Russian gains in Donetsk through a clear temporal and territorial reading.
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Tools & Teaching
2026 Relievo: automated shaded relief maps from the command line
Relievo is a CLI that automates Daniel Huffman's Blender shaded-relief workflow end to end: DEM download or local input, reprojection, processing, headless rendering, color relief, clipping, and GIS-ready exports.
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2026 Cheesy Shadow Picker v2
A major new version of Cheesy Shadow Picker: from a simple shadow list to a full ai2html editing workspace with drag-and-drop import, live preview controls, artboard-aware behavior, and production-ready CSS export.
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2024 Mapbox inset map
A very interesting utility to build inset maps for Mapbox scenes that include bearing and pitch, solving a gap where no native option exists.
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2026 Inset Map Creator
A practical utility to build editorial inset maps with Globe or Region modes, align them to a main map view, and export clean SVG output for Illustrator and ai2html workflows.
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2024 Scaling artboards for ai2html
A tiny utility to calculate the exact scale ratio between ai2html artboards, helping map and graphics workflows move faster in Adobe Illustrator.
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2016 GIS should be a must in newsrooms
A course about the basic principles of cartography and GIS I gave to data journalism students at the University of Villanueva, in Madrid.
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