When you open Disaster Ninja, the first thing you notice is real-time visualization of natural disasters — earthquakes, floods, hurricanes — all shown with their estimated impact zones. But what many don’t realize is that Disaster Ninja is also a…

Timely and structured disaster intelligence can make all the difference — whether you’re underwriting parametric policies or monitoring asset exposure in risk-prone regions. If you already know what a Global Natural Disaster List is and how the Kontur Event Feed…

What if your business had a simple way to know about any natural disaster in the world the moment it occurred — with precise geometry, severity levels, the number of people affected, and even preliminary loss estimates? That was exactly…

On January 11, 2025, we’ll celebrate six months since the launch of Atlas — a global map that answers any question beginning with “Where…?”. During this time, Atlas has grown rapidly, enriched with new features and datasets inspired by user…

Our Atlas product already features more than 200 data layers, and we continue to add new ones based on user requests. Our backlog currently includes over 80 layers. In this article, we explain the process of adding a new data…

By Aliaksandra Tsiatserkina, maps – by Kontur’s team Originally launched in 2019 by Topi Tjukanov, the #30DayMapChallenge has become a source of inspiration for the cartography and geospatial communities, with tens of thousands of maps shared globally. This annual event invites…

Emergencies pose a host of challenges for governments and local and international disaster response organizations: damage assessment, planning, logistics, communication and coordination, etc. The NASA Lifelines Simulations aim to address these issues through focused role-playing games based on real-world crisis…