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The way we observe our planet from orbit is undergoing a seismic shift, moving beyond the limitations of traditional satellite tasking to embrace a future of intelligent, interconnected Earth observation. This revolution is powered by the synergy of "virtual constellations" – diverse networks of coordinated sensors – and sophisticated "tipping and cueing" workflows, where broad-area monitoring by some assets automatically directs high-resolution satellites to points of critical interest. Underpinning this entire evolution is the transformative power of Artificial Intelligence, which not only automates the detection of subtle changes and orchestrates complex tasking but also distills vast streams of imagery into actionable insights, promising a more transparent, responsive, and understandable world.

Explore key developer components for migrating from ArcGIS Engine in the second part of our series.

My parents had rented a barge to explore the Barrow Navigation in Ireland for a week. I joined them on three days to capture water-level imagery with my GoPro (and to catch up with them as well). There are unfortunately 1.7km missing where the battery of the camera ran out, and there was no place to moore to exchange or charge it. All the images are uploaded to Mapillary (Sequence key for 1st sequence: l2Yx6tGPdI9qRUAwZLvTFe) and Panoramax (Sequence key for 1st sequence: 7fe2a04f-e18c-4cf3-8bb5-48af1d1cf7ad); there were 2,446 in total, if I remember correctly. This being Ireland, of course it rained for some bits of it, so the images between Carlow and Athy are a bit blurry. Along the way, I tried to improve the waterway mapping, especially mooring places and water supply. Mooring places don’t seem to get rendered at all (not even in the waterways map on OSMAnd), so that was a bit of a waste of time from my perspective. I’m hoping that there is an app out there that does...

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The ADS-B Massive Visualizer now maps 1.5 billion eBird observations. This powerful, interactive geospatial tool shows where and when different bird species have been observed by eBird users around the world.At first glance, the map may look like just a collection of dots - but click the selector button (the square with an arrow in the bottom left corner), and you can draw a region to

Learn about the considerations involved when displaying device location in a geospatial application with the Native Maps SDKs.

Follow a guided workflow to auto-generate attribute domains and contingent values.

Interoperability isn’t about perfection—it’s about progress. Learn how incremental, machine-readable standards unlock real ROI and reduce integration costs. The post The “All or Nothing” Myth of Interoperability. appeared first on Open Geospatial Consortium.

In this interview from the 2025 GEOINT Symposium, Adam Simmons of Project Geospatial speaks with Phill Thomas from Innovate. Phill discusses his career path, starting at Accenture and moving into federal government work. He introduces Innovate as a woman-owned small business headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia, with a history primarily in federal civilian and commercial sectors. Innovate is now excited about bringing their solutions to the Intel community. Phill details Innovate's evolution, including their decision in 2012 to focus intensely on the Salesforce and Esri platforms, becoming "an inch wide and a mile deep". He highlights their extensive experience with over a thousand Esri deployments and over 800 Salesforce deployments, their gold level partnership with Esri, numerous specialty certifications, and the presence of Salesforce certified architects. This deep expertise allows them to build reusable component repositories for efficiency. Phill shares that GEOINT 2025 is...

Adam Simmons interviews Yuval Lorig, VP R&D at Asterra, at the GEOINT 2025 conference. Yuval shares his background in physical geography and the geospatial industry. They delve into Asterra's work, which utilizes satellite data, particularly SAR, to monitor critical infrastructure like dams, levies, and canals, in addition to their traditional focus on water leaks. Yuval discusses the company's expansion into APIs, a SAS platform called EO 2.0, their global reach across over 70 countries, and their focus on improving technology accuracy and developing in-house AI models.Highlights• Interview with Yuval Lorig, VP R&D at Asterra.• Astera focuses on monitoring critical infrastructure (dams, levies, canals) and the water industry.• They utilize satellite data, specifically SAR, for subsurface penetration to gain insights.• Expanding their offering to include APIs and a SAS platform (EO 2.0).• Customer base is now global, working in more than 70 countries with almost a thousand projects.•...

Adam Simmons of Project Geospatial speaks with Burt Wagner, a Data Architect at Broadcom, during the GEOINT 2025 Symposium. Burt, with 25 years supporting the US intelligence community and federal law enforcement, discusses Broadcom's lesser-known big data solutions. While Broadcom is widely known for semiconductors and acquiring VMware, Burt highlights their significant data products, including Gemfire and Greenplum databases. He explains how Greenplum, based on PostgreSQL, provides massive scalability (up to tens of petabytes) for analyzing geospatial data, overcoming PostgreSQL's limitations. The conversation also covers Broadcom's Unified Data Management (UDM) solution, which includes capabilities for crossing network security boundaries and operating in environments with denied, delayed, intermittent, and latent communications. UDM facilitates bringing edge data centrally for detailed analysis and building AI/ML models that can then be exported for use on small edge...

Adam Simmons interviews Craig Brower from Unseenlabs US at the GEOINT 2025 Symposium. Craig discusses Unseenlabs' capability to provide satellite-based RF (Radio Frequency) data for monitoring and tracking, which is integrated into customer workflows for rapid tasking and delivery. He highlights the ongoing need to educate the community about RF data and SIGINT-type sources, noting that many, including traditional imagery analysts, may be unfamiliar with it. Craig describes their data as simple "dots on a map" where status changes indicate behavior, such as a vessel turning off its AIS. He mentions that Unseenlabs is unique in being a profitable company, recently secured a large investment to build 20 new satellites and next-generation birds, and currently has 16 satellites on orbit.Highlights• Interview with Craig Brower from Unseenlabs US.• Provides satellite-based RF (Radio Frequency) data for monitoring and tracking.• Data is integrated into customer workflows for quick tasking...

Adam Simmons of Project Geospatial interviews Dan DeGennaro (CTO), Bryan Cosme (CEO & Co-founder), and Brian Buttaccio (COO) of Trevity at the GEOINT 2025 Symposium. Bryan shares his background, including experience in the Marine Corps specializing in geospatial, which informs Trevity's focus. Dan, a physicist turned coder, focuses on AI, Augmentation, and integrating capabilities into analyst workflows. All of them discuss Trevity's mission to increase analyst productivity, believing they can nearly double it. They highlight their new software, Inkwell, which addresses the challenge of managing vast amounts of geospatial data. Inkwell allows for targeted data scraping and, crucially, enables analysts to interact with and filter data using natural language. This helps analysts quickly find and understand relevant data within an area of interest.Highlights• Trevity's founders have a background in the Marine Corps specializing in geospatial intelligence.• Trevity aims to significantly...

Mats Palsson, CEO of T Kartor Group, shares his journey from engineering to finding his passion in geospatial and maps. He introduces T Kartor Group, founded 40 years ago, which specializes in map and information management solutions based on the principle that maps represent information assets with a position. T Kartor provides solutions for major cities, defense organizations, and public safety sectors in Europe and the US. Palsson mentions T Kartor has significant operations in St. Louis and Sweden. He explains that "making maps" for them involves managing information and tailoring its presentation for diverse end-users, such as military personnel and public transport systems. The company has evolved to focus on information management with a cartographic element. Recent developments include providing customers with dashboards to monitor how their information is used. Palsson discusses the significant industry changes driven by the tremendous amount of data from satellites and...

Adam Simmons of Project Geospatial interviews Geoffrey King, Vice President of Strategy at Greater St. Louis Inc. (GSL), at the GEOINT 2025 Symposium. Geoffrey discusses GSL's role in growing and strengthening the geospatial cluster in St. Louis through the GeoFutures Initiative. He explains GSL's various functions, including business attraction, downtown revitalization, and supporting small and diverse businesses. Geoffrey highlights NGA as a key anchor institution for the region's geospatial growth. He talks about GSL's presence at GEOINT for over five years, showcasing St. Louis's assets to attract talent and investment. He notes that St. Louis is hosting GEOINT for the third time this year and will host again in 2029, emphasizing the significant effort invested in the 2025 event. GSL aims to collaborate with partners and connect different sectors and communities to maximize the economic impact of geospatial growth in the region.Highlights• Geoffrey King of Greater St. Louis Inc....

Adam Simmons interviews Tim Klawa of Figure Eight Federal at the GEOINT 2025 Symposium. Tim discusses the critical importance of data validity for training effective AI programs, particularly for users like warfighters and operators. He emphasizes that understanding the attributes and relevance of training data to specific mission needs is essential for building confidence in the resulting AI models. Tim mentions that Figure Eight Federal's technology, including their enterprise data labeling platform Artemis and their Hydra AI platform for situational awareness and decision support, helps address this challenge. He notes that they will be demonstrating their capabilities at Amazon's booth.Highlights• Interview with Tim Klawa of Figure Eight Federal.• Emphasizes the importance of data validity for AI programs.• Understanding data set attributes and alignment with mission needs is crucial for AI confidence.• Discusses Figure Eight Federal's technology platforms.• Artemis platform is...

Adam Simmons of Project Geospatial speaks with Billy Soal and Brent Perry of Progress Federal during the GEOINT 2025 Symposium. Brent, with a background in full stack engineering and data analytics for defense and IC customers, highlights geospatial as one of the top ways to visualize intelligence. They introduce Progress Federal, a business unit within Progress Software that includes the capabilities of the acquired company Mark Logic. They explain that Mark Logic's history spans diverse industries and government, focusing on a multi-modal database that can aggregate data from multiple systems, regardless of format. This database is designed to operate at immense scale and also to scale down to a laptop for use in hostile environments with denied, delayed, intermittent, or latent communications. They emphasize the importance of being agile due to the rapid rate of change in user expectations and technology in the market.Highlights• Progress Federal is a business unit of Progress...

Guy De Carufel, CEO of Cognitive Space, shares his background as an aerospace engineer from NASA and Firefly. He introduces Cognitive Space as an AI software company dedicated to making the most effective use of space leveraging assets. De Carufel explains his motivation for starting the company was to apply modern AI to automate space operations, addressing the manual methods previously used. He describes their product focused on mission management for ground systems, which automates the process of generating effective schedules from mission priorities and integrates with C2 systems. Cognitive Space uses AI to orchestrate proliferated satellite systems, diverse sensors, and different organizations (national, commercial, allied). He also mentions their Sentient Earth product for aggregating data and providing predictive capacity analytics. Their primary customers manage constellations, including government and commercial entities. De Carufel highlights Cognitive Space's focus on...

Adam Simmons of Project Geospatial interviews Nicole Sullivan from Gateway Geospatial Group at the GEOINT 2025 Symposium in St. Louis. Nicole proudly states that Gateway Geospatial Group is St. Louis born and bred. She shares some of the company's capabilities and interests, including their work with low-cost mesh networks for data collection. A key area of focus is performing near real-time AI/ML on the data collected via their mesh network. They are also interested in the challenges related to different data formats. Nicole encourages attendees and viewers to visit their booth or website to learn more and share ideas.Highlights• Nicole Sullivan represents Gateway Geospatial Group at GEOINT 2025.• Gateway Geospatial Group is a company based in St. Louis.• They work with low-cost mesh networks for data collection.• A key capability is performing near real-time AI/ML on collected data.• The company is interested in exploring ideas related to their technology and addressing challenges...

Adam Simmons speaks with Will Clapperton from GDIT at the GEOINT 2025 Symposium. Will highlights GDIT's focus on supporting tactical missions with advanced technology. He provides an example of their innovative work using VR/AR technology for post-damage assessment scenarios. This allows users to immerse themselves in a virtual landscape containing geospatial data, identify areas needing attention like damaged infrastructure, plan subsequent steps, and share that critical information with other responders. Will stresses that GDIT's involvement goes deep into everyday missions, far beyond traditional IT support, and emphasizes their passion for working close to the tactical edge. He also offers advice to young professionals entering the field, encouraging technologists to prioritize understanding and addressing tactical mission needs.Highlights• Interview with Will Clapperton from GDIT.• GDIT focuses on supporting tactical missions with technology.• Discusses the use of VR/AR...

Adam Simmons speaks with John True and Andy Dearing from Cultivation Capital at GEOINT 2025, gaining insights from their perspective as investment professionals in the geospatial sector. They offer advice to startups attending GEOINT, emphasizing the importance of developing dual-use technology applicable to both government and commercial markets rather than focusing solely on federal contracts. They highlight that they look for companies that are genuinely solving problems for the customer base, particularly addressing the challenge of data overload and analyst shortages, potentially leveraging AI and machine learning. They discuss monitoring exit strategies in the market, like SPACs, and the increasing value of data for internal processing by larger companies to build solutions. John and Andy are proud of Cultivation Capital's foundation built on the experience of former geospatial operators, which allows them to offer unique insight and support to entrepreneurs.Highlights•...

Susan Moreira from Axiologic Solutions discusses her company's role as an Intel integrator specializing in system, data, and cyber security engineering for complex intelligence systems. She explains their support for geospatial data across customers like NGA and DIA, including managing the Mars program and improving analytic workflows. Moreira highlights their "mission ready" approach, working directly with analysts and operators to translate requirements. Axiologic Solutions is involved with AI efforts, supporting Project Maven and prototype development, focusing on successfully integrating AI with constrained resources and accelerating Authority to Operate (ATO) processes. Other supported efforts include the common data fabric and DIA's data hub. Cyber security is a key focus, integrated from the project's beginning, offering advisory services and researching future challenges like quantum engineering for security. Moreira shares what Axiologic hopes to achieve at GEOINT, such as...

Adam Simmons of Project Geospatial interviews Trent Tinker, who leads the Federal Business Development team at Cesium, during the GEOINT 2025 Symposium. Trent shares his extensive background in the geospatial industry, focusing on 3D geospatial for defense and aviation. His career includes experience with Esri, Hexagon, and the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), where he developed a passion for interoperability and open standards. The discussion touches upon Cesium's history, having spun out of AGI and advancing their vision with Bentley. A key announcement is Cesium's upcoming first-ever developer conference in Philadelphia from June 23rd to 25th.Highlights• Trent Tinker leads the Federal Business Development team at Cesium.• Trent has a long career in 3D geospatial software, focusing on the defense and aviation domains.• His background includes working with Esri, Hexagon, and the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), highlighting his passion for interoperability and open standards.•...

This clip features Carter Christopher discussing Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) at the GEOINT 2025 Symposium. He highlights ORNL's core mission of doing science for the government. Carter emphasizes that ORNL's work is particularly centered on computing and AI. He suggests that this focus differentiates ORNL within the geospatial community and contributes to advancing the field for everyone.Highlights• Clip featuring Carter Christopher from Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL).• ORNL focuses on doing science for the government.• Work is centered on computing and AI.• This focus differentiates ORNL and helps advance the community.

Mike DeLaFleur from TekSynap, with over 34 years in the community, discusses his role in BD, capture, and geospatial solutions. He introduces TekSynap as a mid-size government contractor providing IT services and solutions for the DoD, Fed Civ, and IC, which has grown organically since 2008. TekSynap works with various agencies and is expanding into the geospatial world with R&D investments in AI and analyst tools. DeLaFleur highlights TekSynap's distinction as one of the few companies globally with CMMI Level 5 in Services, Development, and Security. He shares recent examples of applying AI in IT networking (Marvis AI) and document management (Megatron). Their core geospatial offering for the IC is ARTA (AI recommendation-driven analytics). TekSynap recently contributed to a project at NGA focusing on disaster response using UI/UX, data fabric, and integrating the unclassified data lake. DeLaFleur reflects on his extensive experience attending GEOINT symposiums and praises TekSynap's...

Adam Simmons of Project Geospatial interviews Sean Walsh, Managing Partner of Turnberry Labs (part of Turnberry Solutions), at the GEOINT 2025 Symposium. Sean, with over 30 years in tech, discusses Turnberry Solutions' work, including geospatial custom development for both private sector clients (like Bayer Crop Science) and national geospatial agencies (like NGA). He highlights their approach as a commercial company that moves at commercial speed and their trademarked methodology: Human Centered Design Agile (HCD Agile). This method prioritizes understanding user needs before developing technology. Sean shares details of their work with NGA on the AIM 2 (Aeronautical Information Management System 20) project, where they migrated a system to AWS, focusing heavily on user engagement to ensure the new cloud-based application worked seamlessly for users without requiring training. He emphasizes that their HCD Agile approach allows them to quickly start solving problems and deliver value...

Bill Conroy discusses his diverse background, which includes serving in the Coast Guard on an Arctic icebreaker, studying GIS, and working for NGA on nautical charts. He introduces his company, Semaphore Maritime Solutions, which he started about a year ago. Conroy explains his primary work involves providing maritime analysis for the US Space Force TAC SRT program, handling unclassified data requests. Drawing on his extensive maritime experience and licenses, he analyzes data like AIS, contextualizing it with factors like weather and regulations to identify suspicious activities. He focuses on taking existing data sets and providing deeper insights through activities-based analysis. Conroy notes that his location in landlocked St. Louis is not a barrier to this work. He mentions utilizing NGA's Port Index data set in his platform. He highlights networking at events like GEOINT as part of his growth strategy and positions himself as a maritime subject matter expert valuable for...

Adam Simmons of Project Geospatial interviews John Berglund about the development of the geospatial ecosystem in St. Louis, particularly in the Downtown North area and its connection to the new NGA facility. John highlights that St. Louis has a long history with NGA, dating back to the 1930s, and is one of only two NGA locations in the US. The new NGA building is discussed, noting its more outwardly focused approach and the start of employee moves in September/October 2025. This move is anticipated to create a "geospatial bump," attracting companies interested in working with NGA. The goal is to expand this growth beyond just defense subcontractors to encompass areas like spatial finance and other cross-cutting applications, thereby growing the entire ecosystem. John, a St. Louis native, expresses pride in his hometown and encourages visitors to see the positive developments happening in the city.Highlights• The conversation focuses on the growing geospatial ecosystem in St. Louis,...

Today marks the final, quiet farewell to Landsat 7, a satellite that has tirelessly served as humanity's eye on Earth for over a quarter-century. Its incredible 2.5 million images have not only documented our planet's vital pulse – from receding glaciers to changing forests – but have also empowered countless discoveries and deepened our understanding of our world. As it drifts into its final, silent orbit, we honor its unparalleled service and the dedication of the countless individuals who guided its mission, ensuring its legacy of environmental insight endures.

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Lecce is in Italy’s southern Apulia region.

The WWF has launched a new interactive map Blue Corridors that brings 30 years of whale migration data to life. Using the map you can:🛰️ See where whales travel.⚠️ Learn what’s putting them at risk.💙 Discover how we can protect them.The new Blue Corridors interactive map is designed to support global whale conservation efforts by visualizing decades of scientific data in a way that is

As drones become a staple in modern industries—from infrastructure inspection and agriculture to public safety and energy—the demand for skilled drone professionals is growing rapidly. But while the technology continues to soar, a major challenge has emerged: finding qualified drone talent. Why the Demand is Exploding Drones, or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), are no longer […]

A light exploration into organizing stac-geoparquet

ArcGIS StoryMaps introduces infographics, 360 images, video playback options in briefings, and axis customization in charts.

When and where? Geomob Berlin took place at 18:00 on Wednesday the 4th of June, 2025 at the office of Toll Collect at Linkstraße 4, 10785 Berlin - Google Maps - OpenStreetMap. The nearest station is Potsdamer Platz. Summary Thread Post by @[email protected] View on Mastodon Agenda Our format for the evening will be as it always has been: doors open at 18:00, set up and general mingling at 18:30 we begin the talks with a very brief introduction Each speaker will have slides and speak for 10-15 minutes. After each talk there will be time for 2-3 questions. We vote - using Feature Upvote - for the best speaker. The winner will receive a SplashMap and unending glory (see the full list of all past winners). We head to a nearby pub for discussion and #geobeers paid for by the sponsors. The speakers: Georg Held, Community Mapping for Safe Roads to School Evgenii Burmakin, Dawarich and how it uses...

Learn about the new and improved join layer interface and features (highlighting, appended fields, styling) using sample data and examples

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The Emergency Response Guide (ERG) web tool enables users to visualize and analyze hazardous material spills directly in ArcGIS platform.

Learn how one county is using Parcel Value Analysis to shave three weeks off their appraisal timeline.

2025年5月24日（土）神奈川県横浜市の上大岡でOpenStreetMapマッピングパーティーを開催しました。上大岡駅東口から南東方面、谷戸地形の調査散策。 Field Papersとmuramotoさん作成の地形3Dプリントを参考にしながら、崖に張り付いた谷戸的住宅街などを確認しました。高い場所へ移動して谷戸の全景をチェック、「黒船来航」で人が集まったとされる丘に移動し、横浜港方面を眺めました。その後、富士見ポイントなどに寄りつつ散策、上大岡駅に戻りました。 https://note.com/osmers_club/n/n52311b32be23

Když se v pozdním jaru nebo na začátku léta procházíte po loukách v okolí Lipna, Frymburka nebo Českého Krumlova, občas si všimnete neznatelných změn v porostu, rovných linií, kde vegetace roste s jinou intenzitou. Nejde si nevšimnout ani častých betonových skruží uprostřed polí, nebo pastvin. Jsou to stopy minulosti, kdy se ve velkém prováděly meliorace s cílem odvodnit zamokřené louky a přeměnit je v intenzivně využívanou zemědělskou půdu. Dnes tyto bývalé, ale stále funkční zásahy do hydrologického režimu krajiny znovu otevírají diskuse. Nejen mezi vědci a ochranáři, ale i mezi zemědělci a krajinnými inženýry. Dědictví meliorací Na obrázku je výřez louky s patrnými liniemi melioračních brázd u osady Skláře, nedaleko Hořic na Šumavě. Středem louky prochází hlavní odvodňovací kanál, který je osazen skružemi. Ty slouží především jako přístup k čištění. Někdy je z kanálů vyvedena voda na povrch za účelem napáječky dobytka Meliorace se budovaly ve velkém v 60. až 80....

Esri's Elevation 3D and Hillshade layers are enhanced using new Maxar’s Precision3D data along with lidar from Germany, Austria, USA and Canada.

PLUS: planning flood evacuations using AR, generating terrain models using text, and more.

The wildfires currently raging in Canada have forced the evacuation of over 25,000 people across Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta. Manitoba has been the hardest hit, with entire communities like Flin Flon and Cranberry Portage forced to flee. The smoke from the wildfires is now affecting air quality not just in Canada, but in several U.S. states.You can use Smoke Forecast to view

Fancy a visit to Puglia? Here is Polignano a Mare, Puglia, Italy.

JOSM + плагины: FastDraw, reltoolbox, buildings_tools, CustomizePublicTransportStop, UtilsPlugin2

Here are two maps of Poland. The map on the left shows the partitioned Poland of 1815–1918 (from Lessons from the Partitions of Poland). The map on the right is Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza's interactive map of this week's 2025 Polish Election.It has long been a tradition, after every Polish election, for observers to note that current voting patterns in the country still seem to follow

Vernetzungstreffen für Geoinformatiker:innen, FOSSGIS-Konferenz-Teilnehmende, Mitglieder und Interessierte in der FOSSGIS-Community Es begann mit einem Anruf einer Onlineteilnehmerin der FOSSGIS 2025, die ihre Begeisterung zur Konferenz zum Ausdruck brachte und nach Vernetzungsmöglichkeiten fragte. Die Idee ein Vernetzungstreffen online zu veranstalten, in dem sich die Teilnehmenden kennenlernen und austauschen, war im Raum. Für den 04. Juni geplant, startete die Veranstaltung um 18 Uhr. Sieben Teilnehmende waren dabei, lernten sich kennen, erzählten woher sie kommen, womit die sie sich hinsichtlich FOSSGIS, Geoinformatik beschäftigen und suchten und fanden Kontaktpunkte. Oft ist es so, dass Geoinformatiker:innen in ihrer Institution die einzigen oder in einem sehr kleinen Team sind und deshalb den Austausch über die eigene Institution hinaus brauchen. Veranstaltungs- und Aktivitätenhinweise wurden dankbar angenommen. Katja stellte den Verein und aktuelle Aktivitäten vor und...

This blog discusses the new functionality available in ArcGIS Monitor 2025.0.

Two decades after its debut, the canton of #Zug unveils #ZugMap’s new #3D mode and various 3D datasets. Users can test the ZugMap 3D experience and help shape its future by participating in the canton’s user survey.

GIS Manager - City of Victorville, Victorville, CA USA posted on 2025-06-03

Hallo Community, Ich habe momentan folgendes Problem. Durch unseren Ort ist ein Mapper gegangen und hat 40 von ca. 250 Hydranten gemappt. Diese sind zum Teil fehlerhaft (Falscher Standort, Falsche Typ, kein Hydrant nur Entlüftung, Löschbrunnen als Hydrant deklariert, usw…) von den 40 Stück sind es ca. 10 Stück. Die ganzen Überfluhrhydranten ca. 20 Stück ohne Rohrdurchmesser angegeben. Somit für die Feuerwehr nur bedingt brauchbar. Da der Führungskraft wieder nachsehen muss welche Leitung es ist, um das bereite gestellte Löschwasser zu berechnen. Ich wollte darauf hin die 40 Hydranten löschen, dies wurde mir leider untersagt. Stattdessen soll ich diese alle Richtig stellen. Dies sehe ich aber nicht als meine Job. Ich kann dies gerne an die Gemeinde weitergeben, diese wollen aber dann einen Lohn für die Arbeiten. Wer übernimmt die Kosten dafür? Was hilft es uns, wenn nur 40 von ca. 250 Hydranten in dem System sind, wir aber seit 10 Jahren ein anderes System verwenden hier...

GIS Specialist - City of Decatur, IL, Decatur, Illinois, United States posted on 2025-06-03

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At work1, I started creating a real pedestrian routing that uses sidewalks rather than the middle of the road (unlike most pedestrian routing software nowadays). This is necessary for calculating safe routes to and from schools. In this case, it really matters which side of the road the children use and which crossing they take. The OSM community mainly uses two methods of mapping sidewalks (and the choice between these two methods directly influences the mapping of crossings): One option is to attach them as tags to the road (for example sidewalk=both), and the other is to use separate geometry. In this post, I would like to show an example where mapping the geometry separately makes a huge difference.   A Dangerous Crossing The image shows one of Germany’s most dangerous places for pedestrians, according to accident statistics 2. This crossing is located near Rothe Erde in Aachen. The following figure, taken from a screenshot of JOSM, shows the OSM data for this...

When and where? Next on our tour-de-Belgique is Brussels, the event’s venue is at The Sister Cafe on the first floor. We will welcome everyone at 6:30 PM and aim to start the talks by 6:45 PM. Agenda Our format for the evening will be: 6:30 PM: doors open, set up and general mingling 6:45 PM: we begin the talks with a very brief introduction Each speaker will have slides and speak for 10-15 minutes. After each talk there will be time for 2-3 questions. This time we stay in the same place (we are already in a ‘pub’!) #geobeers paid for by the sponsors. The speakers: Joost Schouppe, NCCN (National Crisis Centre) and OSM.be, Dealing with disasters: geodata challenges for emergency response. Tommaso Di Gioacchino, Center for Climate Crime Analysis, Translating satellite data into action to support rapid methane emissions reductions. Martijn van Erp, Climbfinder, Mapping 65.000 cycling ascents with a shoestring budget. Pieter De...

GIS Supervisor - City of Richland, Richland, WA USA posted on 2025-06-03

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Well, we did it. The Cloud-Native Geospatial Forum (CNG) community came together on April 30-May 2 for our first in-person conference in Snowbird, Utah–and honestly? It was something special. For 2.5 packed days, we welcomed around 250 attendees from over 100 organizations, spanning cloud service providers, government and nonprofit agencies, academic institutions, and private sector companies. People flew in from across the globe, with participants joining from countries including Australia, Argentina, Japan, South Korea, Germany, France, and more – all ready to learn and share what it takes to build geospatial workflows for the cloud. Who showed up? Our attendees largely consisted of highly technical, skilled data practitioners, including software engineers, data scientists, and geospatial developers. Here’s a breakdown of who was in the room: 45%: Senior technical professionals (software engineers, geospatial developers, data scientists) 20%: Mid-level...

Edge computing for earth observation

Agentic AI is poised to transform field operations by executing repetitive tasks autonomously, adapting to changing conditions, and reducing the need for human coordination. This evolution in agentic AI for field operations is built on decades of progress and now stands ready to address real-world challenges in industries like utilities, construction, environmental consulting, and others. La entrada Built to act: Agentic AI for field operations se publicó primero en Fulcrum.

Trays as Peak District swag. I already have too many. One more?

At Geospatial World Forum 2025, Carmen M Aguilera, Market Development Officer for Transport, European Union Agency for Space Program, brings a space-first perspective to the evolving geospatial landscape. Representing the […] The post How EU Space Programs are Driving the Future of Geospatial Technology | GWF 2025 appeared first on Geospatial World.

The Hunger Map by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations is a visual tool that illustrates the prevalence of undernourishment across the world. It visualizes the geographic distribution of hunger and helps monitor global food insecurity trends.Hunger Map allows users to explore data across multiple geographic scales, including countries, subregions, and regions,

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An interactive map that brings wildfire progression and wind conditions into focus.

Last week, Switzerland’s Birchgletscher collapsed and caused a major rock avalanches, altering the landscape and burying the village of Blatten. With the data of the federal Rapid Mapping service and the help of individual experts, a first open post-event elevation model was made available. I used the model to create pre- and post-event visualizations and prints at a local scale.

The story behind #QGIS: The new canonical open-access paper, “The QGIS project: Spatial without compromise,” authored by core members of the QGIS Project Steering Committee, Anita Graser, Tim Sutton, and Marco Bernasocchi, explores the evolution of the QGIS project, its organizational structure, and future challenges.

10 years + a few days ago, we held the White House Mapathon. https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2015/05/28/citizen-cartographers-unite-report-first-white-house-mapathon Over a hundred mappers gathered and livestreamed the happenings, shared stories of cool mapping projects, dialed in Peace Corps volunteers from the across the globe, and naturally mapped. There were cake pops decorated like globes. Along the walls, stunning reproductions of historic American maps provided by the Archives (I snagged a couple prints, they hang in my office to this day). Everyone dressed formal for the setting, except Alex Barth in usual attire, commenting “Wow OpenStreetMap is fancy today”. Can you imagine that occurring today? Unimaginable. Of course not. These kinds of convenings are by their nature fleeting. A recognition and shared touchstone for future work. Yes a bit hype-y, but grounded in real work and real opportunity. This was the era of upswing in open government, open data,...

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Artificial intelligence is rapidly redrawing the boundaries of the geospatial industry, unlocking powerful new insights and efficiencies at an unprecedented scale. Yet, beneath the veneer of technological marvel and the often-touted narrative of 'AI augmentation,' a more profound and unsettling transformation is underway for its workforce. This investigation delves into the stark realities of how AI and machine learning are not just reshaping, but in many cases, actively replacing traditional geospatial roles, forcing a critical reevaluation of skills, careers, and the very future of human expertise in mapping and understanding our world. As the AI wave crests, the line between assistant and successor is becoming increasingly, and for some, alarmingly, clear.

Spotted in Rome, Italy, next to the Colosseum

Hurricane season in the Atlantic Ocean officially begins on June 1 and ends on November 30 each year. The peak of hurricane activity typically occurs from mid-August to late October, with September 10 often cited as the statistical peak of the season. During this time, meteorologists and emergency planners closely monitor tropical systems and prepare for potential impacts to the U.S., Central

In this keynote from the Geospatial World Forum 2025, held in Madrid, Spain, Kunal Satyarthi, Joint Secretary at the Department of Land Resources (DOLR), Government of India, outlines seven major […] The post Modernizing of Land Records in India: Challenges and the Road Ahead | GWF 2025 appeared first on Geospatial World.

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Como é habitual para mim, encontrei-me perdido em indecisões sobre como começar coisas. Desta vez foi na sequência de uma conversa de pequeno-almoço em que estive a falar de projetos interessantes que rodem o OpenStreetMap, onde constatei que tenho que arranjar um sitio onde reunir links para mais tarde os encontrar sem ter que andar a fazer scroll em conversas de Telegram, Discord ou Mastodon. E depois de considerar as muitas opções disponíveis sem encontrar uma ideal, decidi que o melhor é deixar de fazer planos e fazer-me à estrada. Coisas interessantes que descobri hoje: Open Architect Map - Interactive map showing the architects who created buildings and structures, based on OpenStreetMap and Wikidata. Open Etymology Map - Interactive map that shows the etymology of names of streets and points of interest based on OpenStreetMap and Wikidata.

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En el primer trimestre de 2025 me he dedicado a mejorar el mapeo en la Amazonía colombiana, enfocando resguardos indígenas, caseríos y asentamientos, ríos y, con mayor preocupación, selva deforestada.

Explore how homophily—our tendency to bond with similar others—shapes customer behavior and risk. Discover how geospatial analysis of homophily patterns reveals opportunities in marketing, sales, and fraud detection across industries.

Discover how our partnership with IQGEO and Mapidea's geospatial intelligence can help telecom operators find growth opportunities, improve operational efficiency, and drive innovation. Dive into data-driven business cases for network planning, marketing, and more!

22/05/2025-28/05/2025 [1] “Lastupdated” – new JOSM Map Style by ryphyrin | © ryphyrin | Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors. Mapping campaigns Séverin Ménard shared a new blog post ► about the ongoing building damage mapping in Mayotte, with statistics for each of the territory’s 17 communes, including hourly updated pie charts showing mapping progress and the damage classes. The preliminary results reveal the heterogeneity of the damage across the communes and show that the north-eastern coasts were not necessarily the areas most severely affected. The newly added Mastodon account ‘OpenStreetMap Wiki Proposals’ toots when proposals are open for voting, with its latest toot being: ‘A new OpenStreetMap Wiki proposal aims to improve power circuit routing by introducing standardised relations for circuits and line sections, enhancing electrical grid modelling’. Community Peter has calculated the year when the sun first stopped setting on the British Empire, based on the...

Last Wednesday, the #Birch Glacier in Switzerland collapsed beneath debris, burying parts of the evacuated village of #Blatten. Using #Swisstopo’s openly available #RapidMapping geodata, professionals quickly produced detailed pre- and post-event textured #3D models and animations, enabling interactive exploration and enhanced understanding of the impacted area.

Spotted outside the Queen’s Park Farmers’ Market, London.

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OBDL but governments like Hungary (homophobia), Isreal (genocide), groups like the Republican Party (every stripe of bigotry imaginable) and companies like Tesla (same) are blanket excluded from using, copying, redistributing or accessing OSM data in any way, shape or form?

Is the UK hot right now? is a new interactive map that displays live, hour-by-hour temperatures across the country and shows how these temperatures compare to the historical average.On the map, colored numbered markers indicate how much the current temperature is above or below the average at various locations. Clicking on a location’s marker opens a chart showing all recorded temperatures

Liste d’attributs occasionnels Lignes (rues) Pour les trottoirs sur lesquels passent des rues : crossing:continuous=yes mais non applicable si la rue est continue et le trottoir séparé (voir traffic_calming=table) Points (objets) Pour les panneaux d’affichage libre en France : advertising=board et message=opinions;non_profit Surfaces (aires, bâtiments) Pour les baraques, cabanes et autres bâtiments mixtes stockage et travail ne pouvant être à usage d’habitation : building=shed sauf si building=barn (grange) Pour les buissons artificiels n’étant pas des haies : natural=shrubbery avec shrubbery:density=dense (si bloque), medium (si franchissable au besoin) ou sparse (si aéré)

My name is Saïd Abou Kharroub, and I’m truly honored to be nominated as a candidate for a 2025 HOT voting member. I’m excited to share a bit about my journey with HOT, my current work in Lebanon, and my aspirations as a voting member. To me, HOT shows the incredible power of people working together with open data in humanitarian crises. It’s amazing how a global community can use mapping to make a real, life-saving difference. What I really appreciate is HOT’s dedication to empowering local communities and building a space where knowledge and skills are freely shared. My involvement with HOT became very personal and hands-on through the “Lebanon: Conflict - October 2024” project. I got involved when I arrived in Lebanon in January 2025, taking on the role of Lebanon Local Consultant for HOT’s H2H funded project, “Collaborative Approaches to Mapping Damage in Lebanon.” I’ve also been a strategic advisor for CivAPI.com, a data API provider that includes OpenStreetMap layers like...

The diameter_crown tag is fairly well used for trees. It’d be nice when showing trees to show larger ones as larger than smaller ones. One challenge is that the values can be a bit hit and miss. There are a couple of sorts of issues there: One is “obviously silly values from an import gone wrong” like the 289 diameter_crown=width: 2.0; color: green; that have found their way into the database, perhaps by a failed JSON conversion. Another is “human but not machine readable values” like “4 - 7 m” Another again is implausible values for certain tree types. For example, this is apparently a London Plane that is 5 times wider than it is high. That’s technically possible with a bit of pruning, but unlikely. Much more likely is that the data was not sanity checked before import, and the “diameter” figure here is actually a “circumference”. In order to work around these issues, when processing the data prior to display I: Make sure that diameter_crown is actually a number...

I was sitting near the entrance to the Carmel Market (shuk) in Tel Aviv and I spotted this map of Israel made out of iron plates. Felt significant to me but I understand others won’t agree.

Hi community I’m sharing my application to become a Voting Member of HOT through this diary entry. What does HOT mean to me? For me, HOT has been a true school since I started mapping in OpenStreetMap. At the end of 2022, as a founding member of the YouthMappers SAGEMA chapter, we were excited to begin using this tool in our research and community work. My first contact was with Juan Melo, Data Quality Senior Associate at the HOT Open Mapping Hub for Latin America and the Caribbean, who became a mentor to our chapter and taught us the tools we needed to organize our first mapathon at the campus of the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. After that experience, I decided to get more involved in volunteer mapping. That’s how I discovered the Tasking Manager and participated in my first humanitarian project: mapping after the earthquake in Morocco. That experience showed me the real impact of OSM, and how with just a little time, we can help save lives. Since then, I have been part of...

Hola comunidad, comparto a través de esta entrada mi postulación para ser parte del los Miembros de Votación de HOT ¿Qué significa HOT para mí? Para mí, HOT ha sido una verdadera escuela desde que comencé a mapear en OpenStreetMap. A finales de 2022, como miembro fundador del capítulo YouthMappers SAGEMA, nos entusiasmaba comenzar a usar esta herramienta en nuestros procesos de investigación y trabajo con comunidades. Mi primer acercamiento fue con Juan Melo, Data Quality Senior Associate del Hub de Mapeo Abierto para América Latina y el Caribe de HOT, quien se convirtió en mentor de nuestro capítulo y nos enseñó las herramientas necesarias para realizar nuestra primera mapatón en el campus de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Después de esa experiencia decidí involucrarme en el mapeo voluntario, donde conocí el Tasking Manager y participé en mi primer proyecto humanitario: el mapeo tras el terremoto en Marruecos. Esta experiencia me mostró el impacto real de OSM y cómo, con...

Tell Us About YourselfMy name is Antonia Blankenberg. Alongside being a drummer with the fantastic TBL8 Brass, I’m a Lead Consultant in Utilities with Esri Ireland and I’ve been working in GIS for 6 years now. I’ve always been interested in geography, but I only first came across GIS during my undergraduate degree. I was […] The post Maps and Mappers of the 2025 Calendar – May – Antonia Blankenberg appeared first on GeoHipster.

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Linda Stevens says it’s time to move past GIS: Since its inception, the evolution of GIS has often felt like forcing a square peg into a round hole. Over the years, the layer-based model has been… More

Elizabeth spotted this in Delhi, apparently it is some kind of musical instrument. It looks a bit like a cross between a drum and a xylophone, if anyone knows better please correct me in the comments.

There are only two gun stores in Mexico, and both are located on military bases. Yet the country still suffers from a major gun homicide problem. So where are the guns coming from?In 2015, a Mexican military helicopter was shot down by cartel fighters using a Browning machine gun and a Barrett .50-caliber rifle. Both weapons were traced back to legal purchases in U.S. gun shops. This stark

The current version of GIS can be seen as a 1.0 model—built in an era when computers were in their infancy, and storage and processing power were both limited and prohibitively expensive.

The Waffle House Index is an informal metric used to assess the severity of a storm in the U.S. South, because Waffle House restaurants don’t close unless Things Are Very Bad. But when Jack LaFond… More

Sugiero a los desarrolladores del programa openstreetmap que deben adiconar más capas de mapas para editar , tambien tener la opcion de ver el mapa tanto en 3D y 2D, si fuera posible tambien poder girar el mapa 360º y poder ver la perspectiva completa al editar informacion. Gracias.

At this point in my entry-level upskilling project, the ground work has been done. I have a polygon of the Chesapeake Bay laid over an OpenStreetMap layer and I know how to change the color of it. Going back to the initial post, my hope with this project is to show change over time in … Continue reading A Novice Takes a Stab at GIS – Part 3 →

In the Halton region in Ontario Canada (and probably elsewhere), many two-way streets split with a boulevard are modelled as two one-way street segments (eg Way 286996210). It has been observed (2025-May) that many (2025 May, n=244) of these are tagged cycleway=lane, which incorrectly renders in cycling maps as having a bike lane on both sides of the street. Eg https://www.cyclosm.org/#map=18/43.33590/-79.81317/cyclosm Many (all?) of these should be tagged cycleway:right=lane instead

GeoAI combines artificial intelligence with geospatial data in a deep learning model to help field teams work faster, make better decisions, and stay ahead of operational challenges. This blog explains how GeoAI evolved, what it enables today, and how it’s reshaping asset management, risk detection, and resource planning across industries. It also explores practical considerations like implementation, data security, and future trends including IoT integration and adaptive machine learning. La entrada How GeoAI is shaping the future of field operations se publicó primero en Fulcrum.

In Conversation with Andy Rahden, VP of Solution Engineering, Bentley Systems Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming the global infrastructure landscape, driving smarter planning, faster execution, and safer outcomes. Combined […] The post Reimagining Infrastructure with Artificial Intelligence appeared first on Geospatial World.

Hi everyone, I’m Paula Villar, from Paraguay with a degree in architecture from the National University of Asunción. I completed my final graduation project as an internship at the Research, Development, and Innovation Center (CIDi) of FADA-UNA, where I participated in open mapping projects, territorial analysis, and the production of geospatial data. I also served as president of YouthMappers UNA (2022–2025), promoting student engagement in collaborative mapping activities. What does HOT mean to me? HOT represents a community that brings open mapping and geospatial data closer to the people who need them to make informed decisions about their territories. Through projects like Atlas Urbano Paraguay (AUPy) and YouthMappers activities, I’ve seen how collaborative tools and open data help make underrepresented urban and rural realities visible. I particularly value the spirit of collective work and the opportunity to contribute from different disciplines while learning and...

Gregory spotted this towering metal map within a service station, showing the network of major roads. Just to show how large it is here is Gregory, who happens to be wearing a strangely projected map t-shirt. That’s the end of our little series of Gregory’s pictures from his visit to South Africa, we look forward […]

In 2013, China launched its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) to boost trade with the rest of the world. Today, China is the world’s largest trading nation.A key component of the BRI has been major investments in strategic overseas ports and airports. The Council on Foreign Relations has tracked these developments through two interactive maps:Tracking China’s Control of Overseas PortsTracking

At Geospatial World Forum 2025, Geert De Coensel, CEO of Merkator shares the inspiring journey of how a young geospatial company is transforming infrastructure, connectivity, and sustainability across Europe and […] The post Fiber, Data & ESG: The Tech Stack Behind Merkator’s Geospatial Solutions | GWF 2025 appeared first on Geospatial World.

Above the Arctic Circle, Point Barrow is the northernmost point in the United States. The post Northernmost Point in the United States appeared first on Geography Realm.

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Reflecting on Another Event Facilitating Regional Collaboration, Share, and Advancement of Geospatial Innovation in the DMV The DMV GIS Day 2025: Midpoint Meetup, held on April 30, 2025, served as an engaging follow-up to the successful DMV GIS Day 2024. This virtual event convened a vibrant geospatial community to highlight the significant impact of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and the innovative advancements shaping progress throughout the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia (DMV) region. 

Hello HOT Membership. I’m Priscovia Ng’ambi, a passionate OSM Mapper from Zambia, Southern Africa. I’m more than honored to be shortlisted as a 2025 voting member. As a core founder of Local Knowledge Mappers, I serve as Head of Communications and actively contribute to OpenStreetMap as a validator, trainer, and mapper. I also lead the communication for Local knowledge Mappers, a very active open mapping organization in Zambia. How did you become involved in HOT? My journey with HOT began in 2020 as a YouthMappers , and at the same time a friend invited me to a mapathon. The very first HOT event I joined, sparked my interest in continue doing my Mapping on TaskManager, it also opened doors to a community that shares my passion for using geospatial technology to drive positive change. Since then, I have been actively involved in various HOT projects such as disaster Mapping across the global and other events. I’m excited about the opportunity to contribute to the...

A team of researchers has released #GEDTM30, a global #DigitalTerrainModel with 30-meter (1 arcsecond) resolution, generated through #MachineLearning fusion of various data sources, and accompanied by 15 geomorphometric parameters computed at multiple spatial scales. Published under a CC-BY license, GEDTM30 offers open, high-resolution global terrain data and is accessible as cloud-optimized #GeoTIFF-s (#COG) via Zenodo and OpenLandMap.

The post Turning Insight Into Action: The Next Wave of GeoAI Innovation is Here appeared first on Taylor Geospatial Institute.

Hello, I have completed work in the stilon area of Wilson. I have already moved on and made significant progress in improving Teton Pines, both the golf course and residential areas. I will provide another update once I complete work in this area!

福岡市のOSMのフットプリントが大幅に充実 表題の通り、福岡市のPLATEAUからのインポートが始まったらしい。 PALTEAUより提供がされる福岡市のモデルはLOD2であり、これに含まれている高さ、階数データがOpenStreetMapの福岡市内の建物フットプリントに与えられる。 福岡市ではこれまで、自分以外にもいろんなマッパーが活躍していたようで、中心市街地のほか、局所的に建物が充実して書き込まれているところを見かけていた。 それでも「空白地帯」は少なくなく、天神の大名地区などはかなり頑張って航空写真より描画してきた。 コレによって福岡市域のフットプリントが大幅に充実されることにあいなった。 ちなみに 福岡市(2022年度版)においては厳密にはLOD2とLOD1の間に大きな違いはない。 測量実施業者と福岡市の間で取り決めがあったランドマークだけが多少複雑なポリゴンとして実装されており、表面テクスチャも存在しない。 地下...

Discover how advanced positioning technology is transforming industries and reshaping the future in this compelling keynote by Olivier Casabianca, VP of Positioning Services at Trimble. Speaking at the Geospatial World […] The post How Trimble is Powering Smart Cities, Mobility & Autonomy | GWF 2025 Keynote appeared first on Geospatial World.

 For anyone not familiar. I can recommend this for general GIS stuff.GeoGPT

The Sightings board at Kruger National Park. Markers for Rhinos are removed so that poachers don’t get that information.

Geospatial systems are rapidly evolving from isolated data silos into dynamic, interoperable ecosystems. This shift enhances resilience, decision-making, and national development. Learn how standards, semantics, and sovereignty are redefining geospatial infrastructure and why this matters now more than ever. The post The Shift That’s Reshaping Geospatial—and Why It Matters Now appeared first on Open Geospatial Consortium.

PLUS: When AI models get it wrong in urban planning, detecting ships using radar, and more.

The average American spends nearly $3,000 a year funding the military. In contrast, if those Americans lived in Haiti, they would contribute just $1.70 per year to military spending.The World BEYOND War's Mapping Militarism project presents a series of maps that illustrate how much individual countries spend on their militaries. The site’s “Money” map includes two key views: one

Keeping geospatial professionals informed on the legal and policy issues that will impact GeoAI.

Kota Bandung mengalami perubahan secara dinamis dalam beberapa dekade terakhir ini. Perubahan ini juga berdampak pada jalur transportasi umum di Bandung. Sebelumnya, Kota Bandung dilayani oleh sistem transportasi yang dikenal dengan nama Angkot alias Angkutan Kota. Sistem transportasi ini berdampingan dengan transportasi bus dalam kota yang dilayani oleh DAMRI. Pengelolaan Angkot bersifat organik, tidak berada di bawah struktur pengelolaan kota. Pihak pemerintahan kota hanya bertindak sebagai regulator sementara Angkot yang beroperasi dikelola langsung oleh swasta (pemilik angkot) dan koperasi. Dinamika yang berlangsung selama ini, ditandai dengan kemunculan sistem angkutan kota berupa bus (non-DAMRI) dengan pengelolaan yang lebih profesional menyebabkan beberapa perubahan pada pengoperasian angkot. Dari sekian jumlah rute yang ada sebelumnya, terjadi adaptasi di jalanan sehingga ada rute yang akhirnya tidak lagi beroperasi. Ada juga yang beroperasi hanya setengah rute, dan ada...

Vom 16. - 18. Mai 2025 haben sich 23 FOSSGIS- und OpenStreetMap-Begeisterte zum Arbeitstreffen im Linuxhotel getroffen. Das Treffen begann am Freitagabend mit dem traditionellen Pizzaesssen. Wie auch schon beim vorigen Treffen gab es nach dem Frühstück am Samstag und Sonntag eine kurze Session, in der zu besprechende Themen gesammelt und ein Zeitplan für den Tag erarbeitet wurden. So lief auch dieses Treffen wieder sehr strukturiert und effizent ab. Diskutiert wurden Themen zur FOSSGIS- und OpenStreetMap-Community wie Öffentlichkeitsarbeit, Präsenz auf Messen, Beitrag von FOSSGIS und OSM zur digitalen Souveränität, Vor- und Nachbereitung der FOSSGIS-Konferenz und vieles mehr. Auch technische Themen kamen nicht zu kurz, so wurde über Möglichkeiten gesprochen, GPS-Korrektursignale über SSRoverDAB+ mittels low-cost-Hardware zu empfangen, was zentimetergenaue Satellitenpostionsdaten für die breite OSM-Community verfügbar machen könnte. Ein weiteres Thema war das Model Context...

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#Grid features an interesting interview with Jennings Anderson, a #Meta Software Engineer and #OpenStreetMap (#OSM) researcher, who shares his perspective on the #Overture Maps Foundation (#OMF) — an initiative aiming to integrate diverse open geodata into a consistent base map.

If you're technically inclined, consider using Borg, Vorta, and rsync.net for encrypted remote backups. If that feels a bit too complex, Arq Backup might be a simpler option for you.

V únoru 2025 byla vyhlášena nová přírodní památka Ptačí hrádek u Českého Krumlova. Tato lokalita o rozloze 24 hektarů zahrnuje lesní porosty s bohatou druhovou skladbou bylin, včetně chráněných druhů. Ptačí hrádek je také místem nedokončeného památníku z 19. století, který měl oslavovat vítězství spojeneckých armád nad Napoleonem v bitvě u Lipska.(EnviWeb.cz, Wikipedie) Přírodní památka Lokalita Ptačí hrádek je významná svými lesními ekosystémy, které zahrnují skalní výstupy na příkrých svazích se silikátovým podložím. Tyto biotopy jsou domovem pro řadu vzácných a chráněných druhů rostlin a živočichů. Ochrana této oblasti je důležitá pro zachování biologické rozmanitosti regionu. (Životní prostředí Jihočeského kraje) Historie památníku Památník, známý jako Ptačí hrádek, byl plánován jako monument na počest Karla Filipa ze Schwarzenbergu, který velel spojeneckým vojskům v bitvě u Lipska v roce 1813. Stavbu navrhl architekt Jan Sallaba, ale kvůli nedostatku financí byla...

Yes, yes, maps are spatial communication devices and we can obsess over precision and clarity. But it all depends on your map’s purpose. Maps are also designed objects so they can carry within them the power of sentiment. Memory, joy, nostalgia. Or just plain old wonder and curiosity. Here’s how you can create a charming …

Gregory said “The contour letters in Cape Town – I don’t know if that counts as a map, but each one was a specific local mountain” Yes, that definitely counts! Neat use of contours?

The Maha Kumbh Mela is one of the largest religious gatherings on Earth. It is a Hindu pilgrimage festival that occurs every 12 years. The 2025 Maha Kumbh Mela, held in Prayagraj, was particularly significant because it was a “Maha Kumbh”, an event that takes place only once every 144 years, due to a rare celestial alignment.During the 2025 Maha Kumbh Mela, an estimated 663 million pilgrimages

Discover how geospatial intelligence is transforming financial inclusion and Earth observation in this powerful keynote by Prateep Basu, Founder & CEO of SatSure, at Geospatial World Forum 2025 in Madrid. […] The post From Earth Observation to Economic Empowerment | Prateep Basu at GWF 2025 appeared first on Geospatial World.

OsmAnd is about to turn 15, and as we approach this milestone, we’d like to share the results of our journey so far. First and foremost, we want to thank our users — your feedback has been incredibly valuable and continues to shape our development. From the beginning, OsmAnd has been powered by the OpenStreetMap (OSM) project — a global, collaborative initiative to create a free and editable map of the world. Thanks to this incredible community, OsmAnd is more than just a navigation app — it's a powerful tool for offline maps, route planning, outdoor exploration, and global travel, built entirely on open data. Over the past 15 years, we’ve delivered more than 35 releases for the Android version — and over 25 releases for iOS since its launch. This year, we introduced OsmAnd 5.0, a major milestone for both platforms. We also launched the OsmAnd Web version, which has become an essential part of the OsmAnd ecosystem. All platforms are now seamlessly connected, allowing users to...

Learn how to create a radial flow map in QGIS to visualize migration using metro-to-metro data from the U.S. Census Bureau. The post How to Create a Radial Flow Map Using QGIS appeared first on Geography Realm.

#geowerkstatt has updated their open-source plug-in “#INTERLIS 2” for Microsoft #VSCode. The plug-in now supports drawing the #UML class diagram of Interlis models. It still also offers: syntax highlighting, snippets, and #Markdown documentation.

El Gran Apagón Many people around the world will have heard about the serious power outage that Spain and Portugal had a few weeks ago, as the power grid for almost the whole of the two countries failed for the best part of the day. I know, first world problems for those who live in countries where electricity network failures (or even availability) are still a regular feature of daily life. But the event was still a useful wake-up call on just how dependent we have become on that network for so much of our daily activity, not least because the outage also left people with very limited or non-existent mobile phone and internet coverage. The blackout happened in the middle of the day when a large part of the adult population was at work, getting home for those whose journey depends on electrified train or underground Metro services turned into a problem for so many. With bus transport and other road transport services overwhelmed by demand the only solution for a lot of people...

Let’s examine an oft-heard question from students and even from GIS colleagues, “Is my map right”?  Let’s explore some valid responses to this question that encourages people to think about what “right” actually means, and also what might be better questions to ask.   The responses are listed in text form below and in this video on […]

NOTE: I am in the DeFlock discord server. If you see any issues on Flock cameras or similar, or would like a second set of eyes in the Greater Gadsden area, ping me (I’m <@997714796537450597>) in the server, or contact me on any of my available platforms on my profile. I have added: 1. osm.org/changeset/166784827 2. osm.org/changeset/164790735 3. osm.org/changeset/163818346 4. osm.org/changeset/159052678 So far. I have noticed someone whether it be human or bot modifying and taking ownership of my points. If this has been noticed, please alert me immediately.

On April 26 and 27, I had the opportunity to share my experiences with YouthMappers Universitas Negeri Jakarta (UNJ) about how to contribute to the Mapillary platform. for your information, mapilary is very helpful for open mapping activities such as openstreetmap, especially for validating road data because in reality open mappers must use all open sources and mapilary is one of the platforms for that. in this activity i have provided information and simple techniques on how to collect street level imagery on narrow streets of jakarta using motorbikes and smartphones. YM UNJ has plans to create open mapping activities on openstreetmap and also mapilary. This Mapillary activity is very helpful for other mappers to map areas that are still not perfectly mapped and do not have street level imagery data for validation. more info check to this link MapilaryTraining

Recently, someone asked me to create a custom MapCSS style for JOSM that visually indicates how “fresh” OSM objects are—essentially, a way to distinguish recently updated or created objects from older ones at a glance. Digging into the JOSM MapCSS implementation, especially the eval expression support, I realized this was very doable. The Basic Idea The approach is pretty straightforward. Each OSM object has a timestamp field (typically stored as a Unix timestamp). By comparing this timestamp to a reference timestamp (say, representing the current year—2025 in this case), we can calculate how “old” an object is. So I hardcoded a reference timestamp for 2025, subtracted the OSM timestamp from it, and divided the result by the number of seconds in a year (ignoring leap years for simplicity). This gives us a rough “age” of the object in years. For example, if the result is around 6.0, that means the object was last updated approximately six years ago—relative to 2025. Since...

Experience the visionary keynote by Dean Angelides, Corporate Director, International at Esri, delivered at the Geospatial World Forum 2025 in Madrid, Spain. Addressing the global geospatial community, Dean explores how […] The post Connecting the World Through Geospatial Infrastructure | Dean Angelides Keynote at GWF 2025 appeared first on Geospatial World.

You have to go on a vineyard tasting experience if you are visiting South Africa and you need a map to help you find your way!

Google's My Maps is a free tool that allows users to create custom maps. It's particularly useful for planning trips, visualizing geographic data, or sharing directions and locations with others.Given the popularity of My Maps, there are likely millions of maps containing valuable local knowledge created by users around the world. Unfortunately, Google does not provide a centralized

Topoprint has introduced three significant updates to its service for creating 3D mini-reliefs, or Topodiscs, of Swiss locations: bridges with arches, an easy-to-use Topodisc designer and an automated printing-as-a-service option.

I’ve recently been taking on more tagging for wheelchair accessibility in my neighbourhood. It’s been one of those “you don’t see it until you think to look for it” kinds of things. I’m not disabled myself, so I never thought to consider the heights of steps (until I tripped on them.) Now that I look for them, I must freak out other people around me as they see me stare at my foot to see whether a step is ankle high or not. There were a couple things I came to think about while mapping that I could not seem to find answers for in the wiki. A lot of the time, I just answer the question with the framework of “I’ve seen places do these things, so I will treat them as the standard and anything that falls under that bar is limited or not accessible.” I would be curious for others thoughts on them. Do establishments need powered doors to be accessible? Here in Regina (and a lot of Canada, these were extremely common back in Ontario), doors have buttons that you can press to...

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15/05/2025-21/05/2025 [1] Kamakura Tourist Congestion Map | © Kamakura | Map © OpenStreetMap Contributors. About us Erratum: Last week we reported on the Panoramax activities of Arretche. Contrary to what was mistakenly linked, the river in question is not the L’Ardour, but the L’Adour. This section was documented by Arretche. Mapping LordGarySugar has proposed removing the railway=site tag that is used to map historic stations and junctions in Great Britain, emphasising that such a tag should be used only for active railway features. A request for comments has been made for the ‘Charging Stations v2‘ proposal. It proposes a revised and detailed structure for recording charging stations for electric vehicles in OSM, including a clear distinction between station, charging bay, and charging point as well as modern tagging options for plug types, power, and payment options. The aim is a consistent, future-proof mapping of current and future charging technologies, where...

Last year Gregory Marler (aka on social media as Living with Dragons) went to South Africa, he found lots of mappy stuff to share with us, so good that I thought `I would make a short series of his pics. This one is a tactile map at the top of Table Mountain https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/287085527#map=19/-33.958275/18.403714 (Greg is a […]

本人决定开始河北易县下辖所有镇landuse及10级行政区划补充计划，暂无截止时间，望周知。 计划名：Baoding Integrated Land Survey Project，Bilsp（比尔斯普） 预计是本人自吉安峡江县后规模最大，时间最久的一次测绘计划。数据主要来源于保定市人民政府公开的国土规划文件，百度，高德，天地图等平台，并根据主观判断合理纠偏。 （考虑到本人只能周六，周日上线，时间跨度可能较大）

Successful Open Field Mapping Activity Led by YouthMappers at Eastern University, Bangladesh President Noman Bin Hossain. On May 16, 2025, YouthMappers at Eastern University, Bangladesh successfully conducted an Open Field Mapping activity using Mapillary, a platform for crowdsourced street-level imagery. The initiative took place in Ashulia Model Town, Savar, and was led by our club president, Noman Bin Hossain. This field event focused on capturing and uploading street-level imagery to support the enhancement of geospatial dataand promote accessibility of real-world visuals for map editing, disaster response, urban planning, and community development. 📍 Location: Road 6, Block B, Ashulia Model Town, Khagan, Birulia, Savar, Dhaka 📅 Date: May 16, 2025 🛠️ Tool Used: Mapillary 🔗 Captured Imagery: Mapillary This effort aligns with the YouthMappers mission to “create and use open geographic data that directly address locally defined development needs.” The collected data...

فکر کنم؟ الانم می‌خوام رندوم ببافم برم نقشه ویرایش کردن مخصوصا POI ها که فایده نداره (ایران رو میگم مشخصاً یا کلا جایی که نقشه های بومی بهتر عمل میکنن) خیابون ها شاید یکم بدرد بخوره، اونم کمتر پیش میاد الان حتی تغیرات بزرگ دادن مفید نیست تو اپن استریت مپ اساساً ، هر چند وقت یکبار جوگیر میشم یه کارایی میکنم ولی بعد دوباره متوجه میشم که فایده ایی نداره قبل ازینکه نقشه اتوبوس توسط شهرداری اصفهان کامل و جامع بشه، ۲ ۳ تا خط رو انجام دادم بخش اصلی کارش رو،الان همونم فایده ایی نداره ماشاالله کیفیت تصویر ماهواره ایی هم در حد پشمکه، مگر جایی که دقت خیلی مهم نباشه ، مثلا میخوای محدوده یه فضای سبز رو مشخص کنی و اینجور حرفا ، این چند سال اخیر یکم بهتر شده ولی خب چه فایده (یادآوری مجدد که کشور خودمون رو میگم) و کلی موارد دیگه که به ذهنم نمیرسه به قول گفتنی “جمع کن برو بابا “ 😆😆 مشخصاً با خودم هستم پیغام پسغام: میبینم که تکس ادیتور این اپ استریت مپ هنوزم هم بده برای نوشتن این جور چیزا یا مثلا کامنت میکس فارسی انگلیسی، این یارو مارک دان اپن استریت هم که خیلی بدرد درست کردن راست به چپ...

🗺️ Gravatá, PE está sendo mapeada com dados do Open Google Buildings! 🏘️A UMBraOSM está coordenando uma ação de mapeamento colaborativo em Gravatá, Pernambuco, usando os dados do projeto Open Buildings, disponibilizados pela Google sob uma licença compatível com o OpenStreetMap. Essa iniciativa está atualizando o mapa da cidade com as edificações detectadas automaticamente, acelerando o processo de mapeamento e tornando as informações mais acessíveis e úteis para todos. Gravatá se junta a outras cidades brasileiras que estão sendo mapeadas com base nesses dados — e mostra que é possível mapear qualquer município do Brasil com qualidade e colaboração! 🔗 Participe do projeto no Tasking Manager da HOTOSM: https://tasks.hotosm.org/projects/20008 📬 Quer tirar dúvidas ou saber como contribuir? Fale com a gente pelo e-mail [email protected] ou entre na comunidade brasileira no Telegram: 👉 t.me/OSMBrasil_Comunidade Vamos juntos construir um Brasil mais bem mapeado!...

🚀 A menor cidade do Brasil no OpenStreetMap! 🗺 A UMBraOSM acaba de lançar um projeto na plataforma do Tasking Manager da HOTOSM para mapear Serra da Saudade (MG) — a cidade com a menor população do Brasil — usando dados do Open Google Buildings! 🏘✨ 🔍 O projeto está disponível em: 🔗https://tasks.hotosm.org/projects/20994 Com essa iniciativa, mostramos que é possível mapear qualquer cidade brasileira com os dados abertos e de alta qualidade disponibilizados pelo Google. A licença do projeto permite o uso desses dados no OpenStreetMap, facilitando e acelerando o mapeamento colaborativo de edificações em todo o país. 💡 Quer ajudar? 📩 Fale com a gente: [email protected] 💬 Ou entre na comunidade brasileira no Telegram: https://t.me/OSMBrasil_Comunidade Vamos juntos fortalecer o mapa livre do Brasil, uma cidade de cada vez! 🇧🇷🧭 hashtag#OpenStreetMap hashtag#UMBraOSM hashtag#MapeamentoColaborativo hashtag#GoogleOpenBuildin

Lose Hill is situated in the Peak District on a nice trail from Mam Tor. This hill offers a 360-degree landscape.

Wie wir für den Kanton Graubünden komplexe Daten nutzerfreundlich aufbereiteten – und dabei auf das richtige Tool setzten. Im Auftrag des Kantons Graubünden analysierten wir, wie sich der Tourismus auf die regionale Wertschöpfung und Beschäftigung auswirkt – kantonsweit sowie in einzelnen Regionen. Grundlage bildeten drei Befragungen mit über 30’000 Personen, Daten des Bundesamtes für Statistik …

To mark two decades of mapping innovation, Google has announced the Google Maps Platform Awards, a new program created to celebrate the developers and innovators who have shaped the digital mapping landscape over the past 20 years. For those who build with geospatial tools, APIs, and data this is your opportunity to showcase your best work.Google aims to recognize the impact that developers have

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Introduction Hi everyone! I’m Archit Rathod, a Computer Science Master’s student at the University of Illinois Chicago and a passionate open-source contributor. My interests lie at the intersection of geospatial technologies, backend systems, and applied machine learning. Over the years, I’ve built full-stack web platforms, worked on real-time traffic modeling, and contributed to research in social networks and AI ethics. This summer, I’m thrilled to be a Google Summer of Code 2025 contributor with OpenStreetMap, where I’ll be building a system to make navigation smarter and safer through real-time road closure data. I’m deeply grateful to the OSM community and my mentors for this opportunity, and I’m excited to learn, collaborate, and give back. Project Description: Temporary Road Closures Database and API OpenStreetMap provides excellent static map data, but temporary road closures, like construction, accidents, or local events, are often missing or delayed. This project...

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While editing the next edition of WeeklyOSM, I stumbled upon a fascinating case study that caught my full attention. A certain team, responding to a certain request, set out to display a mobile device’s geolocation on a map—completely offline, without any network access. Their initial approach? Crawling OpenStreetMap tile images one by one and storing them locally. It didn’t take long before they hit a wall: the data size exploded, and keeping the tiles up-to-date turned into a maintenance nightmare. Sensibly, they scrapped that plan. Next, they evaluated two open-source tools: tileserver-gl (JavaScript) and mbtileserver (Go). In the end, they opted for mbtileserver, citing Go’s “security” over JavaScript. I still don’t fully grasp that reasoning (somehow, it involves a decision between verifying their own source code and verifying the entire JavaScript interpreter), and I even asked them in the comments section. But for now, let’s accept that as a given and move...

#Python and CLI tools #QuackOSM and #OvertureMaestro offer easier access to data from #OpenStreetMap (#OSM) and the Overture Maps Foundation (#OMF) through #PyArrow, #GeoParquet, or #DuckDB. These tools can simplify large-scale geospatial data tasks for seamless data engineering and analysis.

New Light Technologies Inc. (NLT) is honored to serve as a Platinum Sponsor of the 10th annual Innovation Summit for Preparedness & Resilience (InSPIRE), taking place May 28–29, 2025, at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. Organized by the National Alliance for Public Safety GIS (NAPSG) Foundation, InSPIRE brings together leaders from across the public and private sectors to advance the role of geospatial technology in public safety and disaster resilience.This year’s summit is especially significant as it looks back at the 20 years since Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, recognizing the transformative role these devastating events played in shaping today’s emergency management practices. Many of the professionals attending and organizing InSPIRE 2025 were directly involved in the response to those historic storms.

After not saying much up here for the last month – here’s an update on the TN 911 Database. To catch you up if you don’t know – Tn has a NG911 setup and generally 97% of everyone is running ESRI Arc Something to input data. A few years ago I moved one county over […] The post Update on the TN 911 Database appeared first on North River Geographic Systems Inc.

In Conversation with Bibhuti Aryal, Sr. Director—Transportation, Bentley Systems India’s ambition to become a $40 trillion economy by 2047 hinges not just on expanding infrastructure but on doing so smarter, […] The post Why India Must Rethink Transport with Real-Time Digital Twins and Predictive AI appeared first on Geospatial World.

Reinder spotted this book cover, the title is “The Signal to Surrender”. Reinder explained “It’s not a perfect copy – but still attractive though, according to me. The design is by none other than the great Dutch graphic artist Dick Bruna. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Bruna Personally I think the book title is a little too stark and something softer […]

Current Map by Current Map is a powerful tool for visualizing ocean dynamics. This interactive map uses animated streamlines to depict tidal currents in coastal areas of the United States, offering high-resolution, real-time, and forecasted ocean current data. It's a practical, visually striking resource for sailors, scientists, and anyone with an interest in the ocean’s ever-changing

Discover how Lorenzo Garcia Asensio, Director General of the National Geographic Institute of Spain, welcomed the global geospatial community and set the vision for GWF 2025 in his opening address […] The post Geospatial Innovation for a Resilient Future | GWF 2025 Keynote Address by Lorenzo Garcia Asensio appeared first on Geospatial World.

GIS data is the cornerstone of planning decisions. It collects development project data and helps with project monitoring. Having GIS data in a project is a clear path to success when paired with a rigorous project management approach and a controlling process within the project team. GIS data helps us understand the relationships between a location and the surrounding environmental and social context. In sectors like utilities, environmental engineering, telecom, and others, GIS project managers use geospatial data to create accurate models and forecast possible risks. Project teams plan and oversee the completion of all major GIS-related projects. They depend on accurate field data to create timelines and allot resources. Because every stage must align with the team’s application of knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques, GIS project management is a complex job, with many moving parts. In addition to creating the overall workflow plan and timeline, the project manager also...

This fall, the 5th #Interlis User Group Meeting will be held. Discussion topics and questions can be submitted via the Interlis Forum.

Our followers will recognise the view from a few days ago with my Hip Flask. Now here is the OS Picnic Blanket standing on a proper map in the wilderness of the Peak District.

Join Sanjay Kumar, Founder & CEO of Geospatial World, as he opens GWF 2025, held from April 22–25 in Madrid, Spain, with a powerful keynote on the emerging era of […] The post How Spatial Computing & AI are Transforming Nations | Sanjay Kumar’s Keynote at GWF 2025 appeared first on Geospatial World.

CNN has used the Mapbox mapping platform to create a number of impressive animated mapped visualizations of recent 'plane close calls' at major U.S. airports. These animations are part of the interactive article Visualizing airplane safety: Are close calls and crashes really that common?, which investigates recent aviation incidents and public concerns about flight safety.One of the most

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When and where? Geomob Netherlands took place in Utrecht on the evening of Thursday, May 22nd, 2025 at the NOVI University of Applied Sciences: Newton House, 4th floor, Newtonlaan 247, 2584 BH Utrecht OpenStreetMap, Google Maps Summary Agenda Doors open at 16.30, set up and general mingling Talks begin at 17:00 with a very brief introduction Each speaker will have slides and speak for 10-15 minutes. After each talk there will be time for 2-3 questions. After the speeches, we vote for the best speaker. The winner will receive the best speaker prize and unending glory (see the full list of all past winners). Discussion and #award and #geobeers paid for by the sponsors: NOVI Hogeschool. The speakers: Jeffrey Benning, The impact of AI on search behavior: Google Maps, fresh data and smart LI combinations Jorrit Okkerman, A green living environment because of the automatic ‘Kapwachter’ Maarten Hogeweij, Heat stress and...

Wired reports that Trump administration cuts to NOAA are threatening an already-delayed update to the National Spatial Reference System (NSRS), which was supposed to replace NAD 83 and NAVD 88 in 2022 with corrected spatial… More

The Osher Map Library’s illustrated mapmaking contest for elementary school students has been a thing since 2016. For the 2025 contest, some 350 entries from Maine fourth, fifth and sixth graders were received. They’ve been… More

Immer wieder wird im Geschäftskontext über Datenqualität gesprochen. Leider oft genug ziemlich unscharf. Nachdem ich im ersten Blogpost dieser informellen Serie auf den Begriff der Datenqualität generell eingegangen bin, möchte ich nun etwas hineinzoomen auf die Beschreibung der Datenqualität. Ich tue das anhand eines breit etablierten Standards. Aber erst ein Kürzest-Recap von Teil 1: Wieso …

PLUS: mapping walkability in Europe, the unpredictability of rivers, and more.

The Battle of Hastings mapped by th Map Simulation Platform The Map Simulation Platform is a hugely ambitious project that uses AI to simulate text prompts in 3D on an interactive map. It employs natural language processing to interpret a prompt and render it on a geographical canvas. It's similar to a text-to-image AI tool, except here the output is a dynamic, map-based scenario rather

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TLDR; After 10²¹ FLOPs and 500 B patches, IBM’s TerraMind beats a supervised U‑Net by just +2 mIoU on PANGAEA; losing on 5/9 tasks, most other GFMs do worse.

Gentle readers, I have just wrapped up a fun side project that will be of great interest to a very small number of you. The result of one of the most technically demanding efforts of my career, I am very pleased to share it with you. Most of you will wonder what this place is, … Continue reading Planetfall →

Learn how modern GIS (Geographic Information Systems) mapping workflows transform raw field data into actionable insights. This guide covers everything from the four pillars of effective GIS mapping to real-world use cases and practical rollout steps, plus how Fulcrum streamlines data collection, sync, and integration with ArcGIS. La entrada Building better GIS mapping workflows: from field data to real-time insights se publicó primero en Fulcrum.

Undersea cables are the invisible lifelines of the global internet, yet they face growing threats—from accidents to sabotage. This article explores how geospatial standards from OGC, including MUDDI, enhance the security, monitoring, and resilience of this vital infrastructure powering global communications and economies. The post The Vital Role of Undersea Cable Infrastructure and the Importance of Geospatial Standards appeared first on Open Geospatial Consortium.

A nice coffee table with the usual missing NZ and MZ, but Central America has vanished; nonetheless, the British Isles are gone. I will not buy it.

Oslandia is pleased to invite you to a webinar dedicated to open source 3D on Thursday, July 3, 2025 at 5pm (Paris time). [in English] Program: 3D challenges in 2025:...

There are 3,144 counties in the United States, but the population is far from evenly distributed among them. In fact, half of the U.S. population lives in just 144 counties, while the other half is spread across the remaining 3,000 counties.This imbalance is neatly visualized in an interactive map created by Kyle Walker. County Population Share uses data from the 2024 U.S. Census

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Ever wondered how #linkeddata can help clarify the messy world, in general and with respect to postal addresses? – A blog post breaks down the basics using real-world examples. The article highlights how humans and computers interpret information differently and how the linked data paradigm can simplify #datamanagement and improve #dataquality.

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Daniel-J-H offers a comprehensive overview of #vectortiles technology, including #Mapbox Vector Tiles (#MVT), #MBTiles, and #Protomaps’s #PMTiles. The post explains the evolution from #raster to #vector #maps, compares key formats and technologies, and provides practical tips for creating your own vector tiles.

Learn how Fulcrum clients have mastered field data GIS integration by building seamless data pipelines from the field to the office. Discover how they’ve reduced rework, improved data accuracy, and streamlined workflows to unlock faster insights. See how the right tools can turn raw field data into a strategic asset. La entrada Bridging the field-to-GIS gap: GIS integration lessons from real deployments se publicó primero en Fulcrum.

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I wasn’t able to find Atlantis on the Atlas of Drowned Towns. That’s probably because it only maps ‘communities that were displaced or disappeared to make way for ... reservoirs ... (and) large dams’ since 1860.The map does, however, show the location of St. Thomas, Nevada, which was submerged under 60 feet of water in the 1930s during the construction of the Hoover Dam.  It also reveals

Our friend and top contributor, Reinder, sent us this. He said “. on a map of Belgium (in French) from 1965 … – isn’t it a beauty?” The answer is yes, beautiful, just beautiful! I don’t know what it is about this design that makes it feel so good.

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The PostGIS Team is pleased to release PostGIS 3.6.0alpha1! Best Served with PostgreSQL 18 Beta1 and GEOS 3.13.1. This version requires PostgreSQL 12 - 18beta1, GEOS 3.8 or higher, and Proj 6.1+. To take advantage of all features, GEOS 3.12+ is needed. To take advantage of all SFCGAL features, SFCGAL 2.1.0+ is needed. 3.6.0alpha1 source download md5 NEWS HTML Online en ja fr zh_Hans PDF docs: en ja, zh_Hans, fr Cheat Sheets: postgis: en ja fr zh_Hans postgis_raster: en ja fr zh_Hans postgis_topology: en ja fr zh_Hans postgis_sfcgal: en ja fr zh_Hans address standardizer, postgis_tiger_geocoder: en ja fr zh_Hans This release is an alpha of a major release, it includes bug fixes since PostGIS 3.5.3 and new features.

The latest releases of MovingPandas and Trajectools come with many “under the hood” changes that aim to make your movement analytics faster: Let’s have a look at some example performance measurements! Example 1: MovingPandas ValueChangeSplitter The ValueChangeSplitter splits trajectories when it detects a value change in the specified column. This is useful, for example, to …Read More

These amazing globe sculptural works were spotted by Reinder near the AFAS theatre in Leusden. He described them to me as “quite remarkable – and gigantic!” I can only agree, awesome. The scale of these things is just amazing!

Have you ever walked down a street and wondered where its name came from? Was it named after a historical figure, a local landmark, or an ancient word lost to time? The Open Etymology Map helps answer these questions by uncovering the stories behind place names - using data from OpenStreetMap and Wikidata.🏷 The Etymology Tag in OpenStreetMapThe OpenStreetMap (OSM) project includes an 'etymology

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The PostGIS Team is pleased to release PostGIS 3.5.3. This version requires PostgreSQL 12 - 18beta1, GEOS 3.8 or higher, and Proj 6.1+. To take advantage of all features, GEOS 3.12+ is needed. SFCGAL 1.4+ is needed to enable postgis_sfcgal support. To take advantage of all SFCGAL features, SFCGAL 1.5+ is needed. 3.5.3 source download md5 NEWS PDF docs: en HTML Online en ja fr zh_Hans Cheat Sheets: postgis: en ja fr zh_Hans postgis_raster: en ja fr zh_Hans postgis_topology: en ja fr zh_Hans postgis_sfcgal: en ja fr zh_Hans address standardizer, postgis_tiger_geocoder: en ja fr zh_Hans This release is a bug fix release that includes bug fixes since PostGIS 3.5.1.

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With version 3.5, users can now natively work with #GeoParquet files in #ArcGIS Pro, either by creating multifile feature connections or by accessing individual #Parquet files stored locally or in Amazon #S3. This streamlines the integration of #cloudnative data, though currently with specific requirements and limitations.

In March the FCC issued a Notice of Inquiry to explore GPS alternatives, citing increasing threats to the resiliency of the existing GPS network. GPS World worries that the U.S. may limit domestic access to… More

When it comes to quality standards and operational efficiency, people tend to notice when things go wrong rather than when they’re going right. La entrada How field inspection management software helps demonstrate the benefits of your Quality Assurance and Quality Control programs se publicó primero en Fulcrum.

Last week, I was able to settle on what the map I was creating would illustrate and find trustworthy data to use. This week, the focus is on actually creating the map itself. To do this, I need shapefiles of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed.  I was able to source one from the Chesapeake Bay Program … Continue reading A Novice Takes a Stab at GIS – Part Two →

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The Protest Mapper is a digital mapping tool designed to help journalists and community members contextualize local protests by visualizing them alongside broader regional or national trends. Using the tool, anyone can quickly create an embeddable, interactive map that displays all local protests occurring within a defined time period.Created by Rahul Bhargava, a journalism professor at

What is it? pgPointcloud is a PostgreSQL extension that allows storing point clouds in a PostgreSQL database. This article presents its various features, trade-offs, and main use cases. The Problem...

Introduction In this post, we’ll explore an experimental project — not something built for practical use, rather for exploring some technology and techniques. The goal is to create an immersive, cube-shaped map visualization using web tools and Python backend services. Specifically, we’ll use: Imagine standing inside a cube where every wall is a piece of … Building a Virtual Map Cube with FastAPI and Marzipano Read More » The post Building a Virtual Map Cube with FastAPI and Marzipano appeared first on Sparkgeo.

For companies in sectors like construction, as well as in field-oriented industries like telecom and utilities, the scope and complexity of in-house and field operations mean they’re often just squeaking by: for example, construction general contractors average a mere 4% profit margin (versus an average of 15.5% across all industries). In addition, keeping costs contained is critical for highly regulated telecoms and utilities that are subject to much scrutiny regarding profits, and, in the case of utilities, usually require government approval to raise rates. La entrada Prevent losses by using field inspection software for GIS asset management se publicó primero en Fulcrum.

On behalf of the Independent Map Artists (previously), Daniel Huffman is launching an experiment: a map of the month club. For a one-time subscription fee of $200, folks can get new mappy goods sent to… More

The OGC Simple Features Standard powers seamless geospatial data exchange—enabling smart maps, disaster response, and real-time navigation across platforms worldwide. The post The OGC Simple Features Standard: The Silent Backbone of Modern Mapping appeared first on Open Geospatial Consortium.

David Sherrren sent me this pic of the Strand Mural Map “Attached is the Strand Map Mural, named after the junction it faces in Southsea, Hampshire. In 2020 its creator, Mark Lewis, asked Guinness World Records to recognise this depiction of Portsmouth as the world’s only ever-changing mural. Business premises and vans, for example, can […]

The city of London has inspired many beautiful panoramic maps over the centuries, each lovingly crafted by talented artists. Interestingly, these panoramas almost always share a common perspective - north from the south side of the River Thames. This same viewpoint is used in Frederick James Smyth’s 1844 Panorama of London.Exeter University’s Digital Humanities Lab has created an interactive

A step closer to spatial AI with geospatial processing with Fabric The post The Geospatial Capabilities of Microsoft Fabric and ESRI GeoAnalytics, Demonstrated appeared first on Towards Data Science.

When and where? Geomob Zürich took place on the evening of Thursday, May 8th, 2025 May 15th, 2025 at the Meta Zürich office Giesshübelstrasse 30, 8045 Zürich: OpenStreetMap - Google Maps Enter on the ground floor, you may see Samsung signs, and look for Meta reception desk behind glass doors near the toilets. Agenda Doors open at 18:00, set up and general mingling Talks begin at 18:30 with a very brief introduction Each speaker will have slides and speak for ideally 10 minutes or less. After each talk there will be time for 2-3 questions. Relaxed discussion over beers drinks, and pizza paid for by our generous sponsors. The speakers: Oliver Wiplfi - Mapterhorn John Shimshack - Reasons for the “duplicates” Problem on Meta Maps and Collaborative Ways to Solve It Stefan Keller - OSM Swiss style: Innovations and Challenge INTERMISSION Petr Pridal - TimeMap.org: interactive map of history ...

Lacey, WA, USA Washington State Department of Ecology Category: Applications Developer

#Terrain is inherently #multiscale, with features and surface variations that must be analyzed across a range of spatial scales. New tools in #ArcGISPro 3.4 and 3.5 along with advanced options in #SAGA GIS and #LandSerf, make it possible to compute multi-scale surface metrics for more nuanced #terrainanalysis.

As the man said, “Life moves pretty fast.” At the start of the year, I had a planned eye surgery that sidelined me for a couple of weeks and then kept me somewhat limited after that. During that recovery, I was further sidelined by a respiratory illness. Five days after getting the all-clear from my … Continue reading Happy New Year to Me →

In the past month of April, there were 28 new plugins published in the QGIS plugin repository. Here follows the… Read more Plugin Update – April, 2025

PLUS: new job vacancy in my team, generating DEMs from optical images, and more.

I am very curious about the projection used, but it’s still a nice map for an Easter Egg hunt in London. This one was visible at Farringdon, London.

Oslandia and partners ( e.g. OPENGIS.ch) publicly launch the “Security Project for QGIS” : a mutualized funding effort to increase QGIS cybersecurity. Oslandia is pleased to invite you to a...

Spring 2025 has been exceptionally dry in Europe, with nearly every country affected by drought. To help monitor the increasing threat of drought due to global heating, the European Environment Agency (EEA) has launched a new interactive drought map. Updated monthly, the tool provides near real-time insights into drought conditions across the EEA’s 38 member and cooperating countries.The Drought

SFCGAL 2.1.0 : New Features and Improvements The upcoming version 2.1.0 of SFCGAL will soon be available, bringing with it a host of new features and improvements for this library...

Friends, you might remember that, last year, I wrote to you about how I was finally able to see a dream I’d had for many years come true: bringing together a bunch of map creators onto a single website. I had hoped that this would only be the beginning of our cooperation with each other. … Continue reading Map of the Month: An Experiment →

A month ago, a news headline about a landslide near Kelowna caught our attention, not just for its tragic impact, but for the question it raised: Was this slope destabilized by last season’s wildfires? We’ve since had a chance to explore the event more closely. Our satellite-based analysis suggests that wildfire-related landscape changes likely played … When Fire Sets the Stage for Landslides: Understanding Through Satellite Risk Analysis Read More » The post When Fire Sets the Stage for Landslides: Understanding Through Satellite Risk Analysis appeared first on Sparkgeo.

One of our goals at CNG is to create a larger and more diverse community of geospatial data practitioners. While tremendous progress is being made to make geospatial data easier to access and use in the cloud, we know that there are many people in need of training and educational opportunities to benefit from this progress. To this end, we are starting to experiment with issuing badges to recognize individuals who have completed cloud-native geospatial trainings. We have started by partnering with thriveGEO, a training and technical consulting company based in Germany. In April 2025, thriveGEO gave its first Cloud-Native Geospatial 101 training course and we have issued CNG Badges to course participants. CNG Badges use the Open Badges Specification which allows us to give people a verifiable digital credential that asserts they have completed a CNG-approved training course. By maintaining a vendor-neutral view of the geospatial technology landscape, we seek to...

In the past we have explored how social media can be used to delineate earthquakes, study human-wildlife interactions, understand urban morphology, urban smells or  locating wildfires among many other things. Keeping with the last topic (i.e., locating things), in a new paper published in GeoJournal entitled "Crowdsourcing dust storms in the United States utilizing social media data," Stuart Evans, Festus Adegbola and myself explore how we can use X (formerly Twitter) and Flickr  to source observations of windblown dust. As such the paper demonstrates how social media data can act as supplementary source for dust events monitoring and captures the seasonal trends of such events. Furthermore, the paper highlights the potential of using crowdsourced data for the often overlooked field of dust monitoring that has substantial health and economic impacts. If this sounds of interest, below we provide the abstract to the paper along with some figures which showcase our methodology and...

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Find out how to develop a continuous field management training program that reduces errors, increases consistency, and improves long-term team performance. Learn how to set clear expectations, standardize workflows, leverage technology, and reinforce training with real-time feedback. La entrada How to train your team for better field management practices se publicó primero en Fulcrum.

GIS Specialist (Stavanger, Norway) (Req. 1241) - geocgi, Stavanger, Norway posted on 2025-05-13

Mark Esper spent one and a half years drawing a map of Great Britain, Ireland and the dependencies (Isle of Man, Channel Islands). He describes how he did it in this blog post. “In its… More

Atanas Entchev shared this with us “150 North Riverside Plaza, Chicago. This skyscraper features a 400-foot-tall map of the Chicago River on its exterior, with a red rectangle indicating the building’s own location along the river.” I’m wondering if there is a taller map than that? Pretty meta that the building outline on the map […]

The Natural Hazards Index Map, developed by climate experts at Columbia University’s National Center for Disaster Preparedness, is a new interactive map that visualizes how and where climate change is increasing risks from natural disasters across the U.S. What Hazards Does It Show? The map focuses on 14 different types of natural hazards, with a special focus on those getting worse due to

As of Friday, #GDAL 3.11.0 “Eganville” has been released. Starting with GDAL 3.11, parts of the GDAL utilities are available from a new single gdal program which accepts commands and subcommands. This simplifies and unifies GDAL syntax.

#Swisstopo hosted a #colloquium to present the current state of Swiss Geoinformation Strategy (#SGS) implementation and ongoing SGS projects. Now, the recording is online.

Geospatial technology is no longer just for scientists and surveyors—it's a powerful business tool that can benefit almost every industry.

Location intelligence is becoming increasingly central to enterprise analytics, with organizations in sectors such as retail, logistics, and financial services integrating geospatial data into decision-making systems. A 2016 McKinsey report projected that data-driven decision-making could generate trillions in economic value, with location data playing a key role in operational and strategic improvements (Manyika et al., … Continue reading Reframing Location Intelligence From Where to Why →

In this article we explore how field data collection with mobile GIS cloud platforms like Fulcrum enable seamless, real-time communication and coordination between field and office teams. By capturing geospatial data instantly and sharing it across locations; organizations can make faster, smarter decisions and operate more efficiently. La entrada How GIS mobile data collection connects teams across distances se publicó primero en Fulcrum.

One of the cartographers whom I respect most, Andy Woodruff, created a map where all of the features are (intentionally) mislabeled, here: https://andywoodruff.com/posts/2023/30-day-map-challenge/images/badmap_usa_final.png Here is a section of it, below. I have recently shown this in a workshop and a course in which I am teaching. I then am silent, and wait until someone notices. […]

The 2024 U.S. Sea Level Report Cards from the Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) reveal that Gulf Coast states, particularly Louisiana and Texas, continue to experience some of the fastest rates of sea-level rise in the country.Published annually, the VIMS sea-level report uses observed tide gauge data to track sea-level trends across the United States and project future changes based

Two recent cautionary tales about the risks of going forth without proper navigational tools. First, I’m a bit confused about this BBC News report, which cites what3words as coming through when a boat broke down… More

Politico looks at what they call Donald Trump’s “cartographic compulsion”—the ways that maps have turned up in his political career over and over, from his use of election maps to Sharpie-gate in his first term,… More

Tell Us About Yourself I’m a cartographer, geospatial scientist and educator in the San Francisco Bay Area. I work on the mapping team at the California Coastal Commision. On the side, I teach GIS courses at the University of San Francisco and help run BayGeo, a local non-profit organization focused on GIS education and training. My past […] The post Maps and Mappers of the 2025 Calendar – April – Cameron Denny appeared first on GeoHipster.

Pin the Tale Pin the Tale is an interactive storytelling game that uses the What3Words geolocation system as its foundation. Webcurios describes Pin the Tale as “a combination of cryptic crosswords and Geoguessr,” while the creators themselves call it a "treasure hunt."For those unfamiliar, What3Words is a geolocation addressing system that divides the entire world into a grid of 3

Every year, around 1.3 billion tons of food – nearly a third of total global food production – goes to waste (FAO). At the same time, 733 million people faced hunger in 2023, with one in five affected in Africa (WHO). It’s a painful paradox: tons of food are thrown away while millions go without. The post Food Systems Have Complicated Problems. Where Can Geospatial Help? appeared first on Taylor Geospatial Institute.

The Federal Government has launched a new National #Drought Platform providing standardized, up-to-date information and forecasts on drought risks across Switzerland. The platform integrates #remotesensing data for #vegetation health and data on precipitation, soil moisture, rivers, lakes, and groundwater.

In Wednesday’s xkcd comic, Replogle has apparently been taken over by mad scientists. I’m having a hard time resisting the urge to explain the joke (I doubt many of my readers are physicists, but then… More

For the last handful of months, I’ve been working with my father’s company, Cercana Systems, to assist with content marketing and business development. In college, I finished most of a public relations degree at The University of Alabama before the first of my two daughters graced us with her presence and we decided to move … Continue reading A Novice Takes a Stab at GIS →

How the EO Community Went from Adopting AI to Driving Its Future

One consolation to all this “Gulf of America” nonsense was that, as something done by executive order, it would be just as easy to undo when all of this is over. Was. Republicans in the… More

Apparently, #Snapchat, like other #socialmedia companies, has been exploring geospatial use-cases. TechCrunch compiled some interesting usage numbers.

Identify spatial gaps in the urban pharmacy network suitable for the installation of new pharmacies, while adhering to legal requirements on minimum distance between establishments, using geospatial tools such as OSMnx and NetworkX. The post Pharmacy Placement in Urban Spain appeared first on Towards Data Science.

Discover how the MUDDI standard is transforming underground infrastructure data to build safer, smarter, and more resilient cities from the ground down. The post What Lies Beneath: The Standard Making Underground Infrastructure Smarter and Safer appeared first on Open Geospatial Consortium.

Geospatial Intelligence is quickly becoming a game-changer in Pharma. As more companies adopt spatial analytics to optimize sales, marketing, and territory planning, those who delay risk falling behind. This article explores how geography adds critical context to business data — and why now is the time to make it part of your data strategy.

The 2025 papal conclave is underway. Here's which countries the 135 voting cardinals eligible to elect the next pope come from. The post Map and Chart of Cardinals and the 2025 Papal Conclave appeared first on Geography Realm.

David O’Sullivan explores innovative visualizations of complex #multivariate data on #maps, using a case study with three variables. His article showcases creative #mapping techniques pushing the boundaries of traditional GIS #visualization.

GIS Manager (IT Application Development - Manager) - WA State Department of Ecology, Lacey, WA posted on 2025-05-07

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Learn how pairing field-first platforms with ArcGIS strengthens GIS accuracy and improves workflows, and how structured, real-time field data collection eliminates delays and integrates cleanly into ArcGIS systems. La entrada How field-first platforms extend the value of ArcGIS solutions se publicó primero en Fulcrum.

The largest iceberg in the world is A-23A, with an area of about 1,240 square miles. The post World’s Biggest Iceberg appeared first on Geography Realm.

Both Australia and Canada had federal elections last week. Both countries have overwhelmingly urban populations (Australia 87%, Canada 82%) and vast tracts of sparsely populated territory, which means that strictly geographical election maps of both… More

Join New Light Technologies at the 2025 New Mexico APCO GIS Conference to explore cutting-edge solutions in public safety and geospatial innovation.

A stark vision for America's fiscal future now casts an ominous shadow, as the proposed Fiscal Year 2026 budget threatens a veritable demolition of non-defense federal capabilities, launching an unprecedented assault on the agencies underpinning our nation's world-leading geospatial infrastructure with a staggering $163 billion targeted for removal from base non-defense spending . This plan strikes at the heart of essential government functions, and even as it calls for "unprecedented increases for defense" , the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) faces a deep paradox: its direct appropriations may rise, but devastating cuts to civilian partners like NOAA, NASA, and USGS threaten to hamstring its operational effectiveness, potentially forcing NGA to divert its own increased budget to backfill widening data gaps and maintain "GEOINT Supremacy" with a critically weakened foundational support system. The reverberations are already palpable, and as the...

PLUS: making radar images colourful, foundation models for estimating carbon stocks, and more.

A new way to query geospatial metadata without the overhead.

GIS Specialist (Brussels, Belgium) (Req. 1235) - geocgi, Brussels, Belgium posted on 2025-05-06

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Over the past two weeks, #RTS’s “Dis, pourquoi?” dedicated its episodes to an in-depth look at #toponymy and at #maps and #cartography, featuring Frédéric Giraut of the University of Geneva for the former and Pascal Marguerat and Raphaël Bovier of #Swisstopo for the latter topic.

Senior Tax Map Technician - Albany County Real Property Tax Service Agency, Albany, NY posted on 2025-05-05

OGC’s GeoPose team recently engaged with W3C and the Khronos Group to promote adoption of the GeoPose 1.0 standard. Through presentations at Google HQ and the 3D on the Web event, they demonstrated how GeoPose enables interoperable, spatially anchored digital content for XR and web platforms. The post OGC GeoPose Outreach to W3C and Khronos Group appeared first on Open Geospatial Consortium.

“Lars’ Transport Maps” is a project by a transport planner passionate about #train-travel and #mapdesign, offering a growing collection of unofficial #publictransport maps for European countries. The maps cover a wide range of services with particular depth given to the Swiss #rail network, featuring a detailed historical series since 1982.

A recent #Mapscaping podcast episode features Marco Bernasocchi who shares the story behind #QField – a mobile app for field data collection. Marco Bernasocchi discusses the evolution of QField and QFieldCloud and the broader open-source movement.

I’ve been making note of procedural fantasy map generators for a while now. These are tools that generate a map of an imaginary landscape, town or dungeon, mostly (but not necessarily exclusively) for the purposes… More

At the "Calgary 11," Tee referenced "spatial thinking" as a key future workforce attribute. In an age of AI, why is simply being able to think so important?

When most people hear “geospatial,” they immediately think of maps. But in many advanced applications, maps never enter the picture at all. Instead, geospatial data becomes a powerful input to machine learning workflows, unlocking insights and automation in ways that don’t require a single visual. At its core, geospatial data is structured around location—coordinates, areas, … Continue reading Geospatial Without Maps →

At its 2025 Partner Conference, Esri announced it will integrate Google’s Photorealistic 3D Tiles into the ArcGIS ecosystem. The move is more than a technical milestone. It’s a bold endorsement of open standards—and the latest example of a greater shift towards openness in tech. The post How Esri’s Adoption of 3D Tiles Accelerates the Open Geospatial Future  appeared first on Open Geospatial Consortium.

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FedGeoDay 2025, held April 22nd in Washington D.C., was a packed and energized convergence of over 200 geospatial experts dedicated to a vital mission: building resilience through open source tools and data. Project Geospatial's coverage of the event revealed a community deeply committed to collaboration, showcasing everything from NASA's critical Earth observation data applications and foundational government datasets like USGS's 3DAP to the complexities of AI reliability, the dynamics of open data initiatives like OpenStreetMap and Overture Maps, and the necessity of robust cybersecurity. The day underscored the immense potential of open geospatial solutions in facing increasing challenges and the collective effort required to harness their power for societal benefit. The palpable energy and high turnout signaled a community ready to tackle complex problems together, leveraging open platforms for a more resilient future.

In today’s AI-driven and geospatially enabled world, data is an organization’s most valuable asset — yet it is often treated as an afterthought until issues arise. Poor data quality, incomplete metadata, and inconsistent governance can quickly derail even the most sophisticated projects. At Cercana, we believe that data stewardship must be intentional, continuous, strategic, and … Continue reading Data Stewardship in AI, Geospatial, and Security Operations →

PLUS: using geospatial data to select power plant locations, new open-source geospatial tools from Microsoft, and more.

It’s all hot air until AI takes your job. In the geospatial community of practice, AI tools are making an increasingly big impact. We can choose to flip the table, or take the win. Three weeks ago I was introduced to Lovable by Sparkgeo’s UK Lead, Dan Ormsby. The next week I messed around with it, and was deeply … Prompt disruption, geoAI took my job. Read More » The post Prompt disruption, geoAI took my job. appeared first on Sparkgeo.

Immer wieder wird im Geschäftskontext über Datenqualität gesprochen. Aktuell wird Datenqualität in Diskussionen häufig mit anderen Themen verwoben: Autorität im Sinn von «authoritativeness», Offizialität, Entstehungskontext, Governance-Modelle, Rechtssicherheit, «foi publique» etc. Das sind wichtige weitere Themen rund um Daten. Und diese können im Einzelnen die Erkenntnistiefe erhöhen, aber es lohnt sich meines Erachtens, zuerst die Begrifflichkeiten …

Geospatial Analyst - Land IQ LLC, Sacramento, CA posted on 2025-04-28

What is FedGeoDay? FedGeoDay is a single-track conference dedicated to federal use-cases of open geospatial ecosystems. The open ecosystems have a wide variety of uses and forms, but largely include anything designed around open data, open source software, and open standards. The main event is a one day commitment and is followed by a day … Continue reading Reflections on the Process of Planning FedGeoDay 2025 →

As a major theme of our book and this blog is spatial data, this article in ArcNews from my Esri colleague Sarah Hanson that summarizes 7 ways to integrate data into ArcGIS Online is one I trust will be very useful to this community: https://www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/products/arcgis-online/data-management/seven-ways-to-integrate-data-with-arcgis-online/ The article discusses why and how to use each of […]

OK I will admit it took me longer than I had planned to finish this up.  Life got in the way.  But now I think is a good time to finish up the series and move on to another. In … Continue reading →

It’s all hot air until AI takes your job. In the geospatial community of practice, AI tools are making an increasingly big impact. We can choose to flip the table, or take the win.

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Here’s how to use compositing to tint flowing wind patterns by underlying terrain colors. Why? Because rather than a basemap providing some context around a layer that inherently blocks your view of it, you can leverage the amazing compositing blend modes of the ArcGIS Online Map Viewer to make the phenomenon reveal context rather than …

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OGC’s Open Science Persistent Demonstrator (OSPD): A living lab for reproducible scientific results and reusable research The post From Wildfires to Water Scarcity: OGC’s Open Science Demonstrator Is Turning Research into Real-World Impact appeared first on Open Geospatial Consortium.

We are extremely pleased to announce the six funded proposals for our 2025 QGIS.ORG grant programme. Funding for the programme… Read more QGIS Grant Programme 2025 Results

Telcos are sitting on a goldmine of spatial data—but most of it is locked behind technical tools and inaccessible to the majority of the organization. Operational GIS is critical but not enough. To win, telcos must democratize Geospatial Intelligence across departments, empowering thousands of users to make smarter decisions, faster.

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The present moment is the only reality. Embrace it fully, and you will discover true contentment.

Web Mapping, Meets Generative AI AI is reshaping how we build the web, from how we write code to how we visualize data. While tools like ChatGPT and Copilot have turned heads in software development, a new wave of tools like Lovable claim to make entire front ends with just a prompt. No coding. No … Exploring Lovable UI for AI-Powered Web Map Creation Read More » The post Exploring Lovable UI for AI-Powered Web Map Creation appeared first on Sparkgeo.

GIS Specialist - Florida Trail Association, Tallahassee, FL posted on 2025-04-23

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What do you do when you’re cleaning up data. Especially address data and you get down to the sloppy part of the data cleanup? I did 80% of this in Postgresql by shaking off the cobwebs on my sql skills but this part requires visual. I have addresses assigned to roads with no street type […] The post Tips for Data Cleanup: Virtual Layers appeared first on North River Geographic Systems Inc.

Readers might of noticed that recently we have been exploring the use of street view images to explore cities or how we can utilize geosocial media to understand the form of function of cities, but one thing we have not explored is the role of smell and how it shapes peoples perceptions of urban spaces. However, in a new paper recently published in the Annals of the American Association of Geographers with Qingqing Chen, Ate Poorthuis we do just that. The paper is entitled "Mapping the Invisible: Decoding Perceived Urban Smells Through Geosocial Media in New York City" In the paper we use text mining techniques to tease out smell related information from over 56 million geolocated tweets which are then assigned to specific small categories (e.g., nature, food, waste) resulting in a new smellscape map for New York city. If this sounds of interest, below you can read the abstract to our paper, see our workflow and resulting smellscape map. While the the analysis steps, along with the...

Wussten Sie, dass Daten zu Naturereignissen wie Überschwemmungen, Lawinen oder Bergstürzen systematisch erfasst werden? Die Webapplikation StorMe ist die schweizweit zentrale Datenbank des Bundesamtes für Umwelt (BAFU) für die Erfassung und Verwaltung von Naturereignissen. Sie zählt mehr als 70’000 Einträge, welche laufend vom Bund und den Kantonen ergänzt und ausgewertet werden. Aber auch andere Organisationen, …

GIS Application Developer - NYCDEP/RFCUNY, Kingston, NY posted on 2025-04-22

PLUS: Using fiber optic cables to measure seismic activity, a new tool from IBM to finetune geospatial foundation models and more.

Cercana Systems is excited to share that our entire team will be in attendance at FedGeoDay 2025! This is a great opportunity to meet with us face-to-face and learn more about our capabilities and the work we do. The event is happening April 22, 2025 at the Department of Interior’s Yates Auditorium in Washington, D.C.  … Continue reading Cercana At FedGeoDay →

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⛔️ Caution - this episode contains some details of suicides that happened when I worked at Amec Foster Wheeler in Kuwait

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Space is no longer just a frontier—it’s a marketplace, a battleground, and a lifeline. The post From Data to Decisions: Aligning for the Space Economy   appeared first on Open Geospatial Consortium.

Exciting times are ahead for the QGIS project! We’re thrilled to share some major updates coming to the QGIS platform over the next few months. These changes are part of a long-planned technical migration that will bring new possibilities and ensure QGIS stays modern, fast, and future-ready.

PLUS: WorldPop extends its data to 2030, mapping pesticide exposure, and more.

In today’s fast-paced professional world, it’s easy for young professionals to assume that hard work alone will get them ahead. While grinding at the desk and delivering results matters, relying solely on your work to speak for itself may leave you overlooked in a competitive field. Getting out of the office and into local conferences, … Continue reading Why Young Professionals Should Get Out of the Office and Into Industry Events →

When and where? Geomob San Francisco will place on the evening of Tuesday, April 15th, 2025 at the Meta SF office, 250 Howard St, San Francisco, CA 94105 Maps: OpenStreetMap, Google Maps We are delighted to organize this event in collaboration with the GeoMeetup community! Please find the full details, speaker list, and the event sign-up on the GeoMeetup site. Summary Thread Post by @[email protected] View on Mastodon Agenda Doors open at 5:30, set up and general mingling Talks begin at 6:00 with a very brief introduction Each speaker will have slides and speak for 10-15 minutes. After each talk there will be time for 2-3 questions. We retire to a nearby bar for discussion and #geobeers paid for by the sponsors. Speakers Please find the full details, speaker list, and the event sign-up on the GeoMeetup site. Would you like to speak at a future event? Volunteers are always welcome The organizers: Geomob San Francisco is...

The United States is facing a looming crisis in its geodesy workforce, threatening the nation's capacity to maintain and advance this essential science. Our research delves into the definition, applications, and history of geodesy in the US, examining the workforce challenges and potential consequences if this crisis remains unaddressed.

At its core, wayfinding is about understanding our position in relation to a place and planning effective routes.

The Geospatial Data Catalog was recently announced and as this blog is focused on the topic of geospatial data, I wanted to review it and bring it to our readers’ attention: https://www.geospatial.community/. The catalog was created by Rob Johnsen, and since Rob used to work at the World Bank, an organization which we have discussed […]

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Wisconsin Public Radio takes up the story of fantasy cartographer Karen Wynn Fonstad (1945–2005), best known for her Atlas of Middle Earth and other fantasy-world atlases. “Fonstad passed away 20 years ago. Now, her husband and… More

Though it’s been about a week since we sent it out there, I just recalled that I haven’t alerted all of you to the 2025 edition of the freelance cartographer survey that Aly Ollivierre and I conduct. Due to popular demand, we are going to try conducting it annually, rather than biennially. This survey is … Continue reading 2025 AFC Freelancer Survey →

GIS Technician - City of Burlington, NC, Burlington, NC posted on 2025-04-11

Foreshadowed on Mastodon in January, the horror that Daniel Huffman has created is now upon us. Behold the Asymmetric Monstrosity projection, an equal-area—yes! every part of it—projection that grafts together pieces of the Equal Earth,… More

This “Gulf of America” business has spread to the state level, and where else would it start but Florida, where two state house bills that would purge “Gulf of Mexico” from state laws and educational… More

The GeoFacts Challenge is calling for games that teach geography. How many of us only know where Winnipeg is because we played Ticket to Ride, or Kinshasa because of Pandemic, or Kamchatka because of Risk?… More

Friends, I’m excited to share that I have just completed a world physical map, in my new asymmetric monstrosity projection. It’s free to download, or if you want to buy a 30″ × 20″ print, you can also do that (and I will be pleasantly surprised). If you download it and print it yourself, I … Continue reading A Usefully Useless Projection →

Discover how OGC’s Integrity, Provenance, and Trust (IPT) framework ensures data reliability, transparency, and accuracy across industries. The post Navigating the Era of Synthetic Imagery: Why Trust in Geospatial Data Matters appeared first on Open Geospatial Consortium.

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It’s amazing what you can find when you plug in an old external hard drive. I recently rearranged my desk and realized that one of the external drives on top of my desktop Linux machine had apparently been unplugged for a while. I plugged it in to see what it held, and there were a … Continue reading A Geospatial Time Capsule →

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In the last couple of months a total of 57 new plugins were published in the QGIS plugin repository. Highlights… Read more Plugin Update – February to March, 2025

Depending on your point of view, “vibe coding” – using generative AI to iteratively develop code by using natural language to describe desired functionality – is either revolutionary or the slippery slope to deploying poor, irresponsible software. While both viewpoints have merit, I fall somewhere in the middle. As a programmer who is approaching 50 … Continue reading “Vibe Coding” a Mock API →

The high cost of commercial remote sensing data is a major obstacle to widespread adoption. As Keith Barber notes, 'Right now, the price point is such that it's still cheaper to go hire 150 guys to walk that field than it is to use the technology.' By refactoring the executability of the commercial and government markets from a macro-economic perspective and moving to a Defense-wide budget, the price per image or access would decline, amortizing the value and creating a price point where commercial adoption would rapidly increase, essentially baselining the cost.

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We’re excited to announce that New Light Technologies (NLT) is once again a proud sponsor of FedGeoDay, happening April 22, 2025, in Washington, D.C. at the American Red Cross Building – DOI Yates Auditorium.

You know how you can crank up the sense of drama and studio photography professionalism by switching over to portrait mode on your phone’s camera? It just looks…cool. The subject is in focus and the peripheral background content is blurry. It’s actually how our eyes and brains work, so it’s pleasing to see in photography. …

I’m happy to once again be participating in a DMV GIS Day event. GIS Day is still months away, but Cercana Systems is partnering again with New Light Technologies on a “Midpoint Meetup.” Like the inaugural event, it is a free virtual event. The midyear event will be about two hours long and serves as … Continue reading DMV GIS Midpoint Meetup 2025 →

Building your own AI assistant can be a powerful learning experience — especially when you decide to stop.

I was today years old when I realised you can stream a COG into QGIS.

Esri will soon be publishing an article featuring CapMetro’s Geospatial Program and how we have combined Esri’s ArcGIS Enterprise with FME Flow to create a robust Geospatial Platform. View the sneak peek below.

New York City’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) has announced the first major redesign of its system map since 1979. The new map adopts a diagrammatic style, in common with most other transit maps around the… More

We are excited to announce the DMV GIS Day 2025: Midpoint Meetup, a follow up to the inaugural DMV GIS Day 2024.  This is where the dynamic geospatial community of the Washington, D.C., Maryland, and Virginia (DMV) region comes together to showcase the history, latest innovations, applications, and trends in Geographic Information Systems (GIS). This half-day event highlights the diverse ecosystem of GIS professionals, organizations, and enthusiasts working to solve real-world challenges using cutting-edge geospatial technologies in our community.

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PLUS: How Google's improving vision-language models for remote sensing and more.

Apple announced last week that Apple Maps will now display Indigenous lands, place names and other content in Australia and New Zealand. Beginning today, Apple Maps now displays Indigenous lands in Australia and Aotearoa New… More

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TGE hosted a workshop to begin the second phase of our collaboration on AI for Earth Observation and Field Boundaries. Learn how to get involved. The post AI for Satellite Imagery: Fields of the World Phase 2 Begins appeared first on Taylor Geospatial Engine.

NLT at the 2025 North Carolina GIS Conference From March 18-21, 2025, Winston-Salem, North Carolina held its annual NC GIS conference, a dynamic gathering of state, local government, academic, and industry professionals dedicated to leveraging GIS for real-world solutions. New Light Technologies (NLT) proudly participated as a platinum exhibitor and Herb Stout award sponsor, making their first appearance and engaging deeply with the incredible North Carolina GIS community, demonstrating their latest geospatial innovations and strengthening collaborative partnerships for mission success.

“Mapping the seafloor isn’t the SWOT mission’s primary purpose,” says the JPL, and yet the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite is being used for more than measuring sea surface height: those ocean surface topography measurements… More

For the past two years, have been working with a fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) provider supporting various data architecture and geospatial activities. This is a classic infrastructure business that cycles through phases of design, construction, and maintenance as the built environment changes. This leads to a lot classic GIS editing over time – which can mean the … Continue reading GeoParquet Backup and Restore →

Unveiling the Drive Behind New Light Technologies' Bold Move New Light Technologies (NLT) has long been a beacon of innovation in the realms of technology, geospatial science, and data solutions. However, the company is now poised to illuminate a new path by venturing into the lighting industry. This strategic pivot seems both unexpected and ingenious, rooted in the convergence of brand perception and market demand. Over the years, NLT has been inundated with inquiries about lighting solutions, from LED retrofits to smart lighting systems, and even decorative fixtures. This surge in interest highlighted an intriguing opportunity: the potential to expand their brand into an industry closely aligned with their name and ethos.

Here are some interesting geography facts that are unique to individual U.S. states and do not occur in any other state. The post Only State… Geography Facts appeared first on Geography Realm.

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Coral restoration and the realities of tech in climate fieldwork

As the AAG has just wrapped up I thought I would write brief (well actually quite long) post on the talks that I was involved with at the conference. These talks would not have been possible without the many great students and colleagues who I have been collaborating with over time. Below you will find a brief summary of the talks and if any sound interesting, please reach out and we can give you more details. First up (in order in which they were presented) was "Utilizing Streetview Images for Mapping Building Attributes with ChatGPT" with Qingqing Chen and Linda See. In this talk we discussed how multimodal Large Language Models are giving us a new way to study cities, in the sense, lowering the boundary for information extraction. Using ChatGPT and street view images from Mapillary as an example, we showed how one can extract building age, usage (e.g., commercial, mixed use, residential) and estimate building height  which could all be used to inform urban climate models which...

Sometime in 2020, I ordered the ArcGIS Home Program and ran it on some virtual machine I had sitting around. My problem is I have too much fun learning things on the open source side of the house so I didn’t use it a lot. As I look back I’m pretty sure I stayed in […] The post Opening a ArcPro Template in QGIS appeared first on North River Geographic Systems Inc.

I recently took and highly recommend the Open Science 101 course entitled “Transform to Open Science (TOPS)”, a NASA initiative designed to rapidly transform agencies, organizations, and communities to an inclusive culture of open science. Developed by the TOPS initiative, the guidance provided by the Open Science 101 curriculum promotes “the transformation of the research […]

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At the end of yesterday’s TimeGPT for mobility post, we concluded that TimeGPT’s trainingset probably included a copy of the popular BikeNYC timeseries dataset and that, therefore, we were not looking at a fair comparison. Naturally, it’s hard to find mobility timeseries datasets online that can be publicized but haven’t been widely disseminated and therefore …Read More

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tldr; Maybe. Preliminary results certainly are impressive. Introduction Crowd and flow predictions have been very popular topics in mobility data science. Traditional forecasting methods rely on classic machine learning models like ARIMA, later followed by deep learning approaches such as ST-ResNet. More recently, foundation models for timeseries forecasting, such as TimeGPT, Chronos, and LagLlama have …Read More

I recently gave a careers talk to students at Solent University, and through that I got to know a MSc student there who had previous GIS experience and was now doing a Data Analytics and AI MSc course. Her GIS experience was mostly in the ESRI stack (ArcGIS and related tools) and she was keen […]

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Tell Us About Yourself I’m Bernie Connors, a Geomatics Engineer from Fredericton, New Brunswick in Atlantic Canada.  I have been working in GIS since 1993 and I have worked for the Province of New Brunswick since 1997.  I manage an ArcGIS Server architecture that is used to share the province’s rich GIS resources as online […] The post Maps and Mappers 2025 – March – Bernie Conners appeared first on GeoHipster.

When and where? Geomob Edinburgh x Edinburgh Earth Observatory Seminars x AGI will be held at 5:30pm on Friday, March 28th, 2025. at The ECCI at Edinburgh Climate Change Institute, High School Yards, Edinburgh EH1 1LZ (Google Map,OpenStreetMap) Agenda Our format for the evening will be: doors open at 17:30, set up and general mingling at 18:00 we begin the talks with a very brief introduction - some talks brought by Geomob some talks brought by EEO Each speaker will have slides and speak for 10 minutes. After each talk there will be time for 2-3 questions. We head to a nearby pub for discussion and #geobeers sponsored by OpenCage and Esri. The speakers: Euan Mitchell from Space Intelligence - Pantropical cocoa and coffee mapping for EUDR compliance Dave Craig - Soundscape Using protomaps for audio description Kira Myers from ECCI - Spatial Storytelling to Drive Climate Action Amy Tyndall from EOLAS Insight - Overground,...

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Listed here are different clouds formations as seen on satellite imagery. The post Satellite Imagery of Clouds appeared first on Geography Realm.

PLUS: AI traffic lights can reduce emissions, identifying building damage from satellites, and more.

MKBHD did a great take on how Zipline does drone delivery. While he doesn’t talk a lot about the geography of the process, it is still very cool and, of […]

Earth holds trillions of tons of water, mostly in oceans. Only 2.5% is freshwater, primarily found in glaciers, groundwater, lakes, and rivers. The post Water on Earth appeared first on Geography Realm.

Tell us About Yourself: I’m a cartographer at Woodwell Climate Research Center where I make maps that communicate climate science to address the climate crisis. Previously I was a graphics editor at National Geographic magazine where I made maps on topics ranging from climate change to conservation and biodiversity. My background is in physical geography, […] The post Maps and Mappers of 2025 – February – Christina Shintani appeared first on GeoHipster.

The “Security project for QGIS” is now public ! Pledge now ! The goal of this project is to mutualize funding to improve QGIS security to the highest levels. Oslandia...

Data drives decisions, but where that data comes from—or converges—can be the key differentiator. By weaving geospatial analytics into your everyday workflows, you unlock the ability to detect trends, spot opportunities, and handle obstacles more proactively.

Last year we put out a call for abstracts for presentations for our sessions Geosimulations for Addressing Societal Challenges. The session description is as follows: There is an urgent need for research that promotes sustainability in an era of societal challenges ranging from climate change, population growth, aging and wellbeing to that of pandemics. These need to be directly fed into policy. We, as a Geosimulation community, have the skills and knowledge to use the latest theory, models and evidence to make a positive and disruptive impact. These include agent-based modeling, microsimulation and increasingly, machine learning methods. However, there are several key questions that we need to address which we seek to cover in this session. For example, What do we need to be able to contribute to policy in a more direct and timely manner? What new or existing research approaches are needed? How can we make sure they are robust enough to be used in decision making? How can...

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Introduction New Light Technologies team member, Douglas Rose, recently attended the annual Earthquake Summit, a premier event that brings together hundreds of professionals to explore the latest insights on earthquake risks, preparedness strategies, and recovery planning in the Midwest. Featuring expert-led sessions on best practices in earthquake response, transportation resilience, healthcare readiness, communication strategies, and utility impacts, the summit provided invaluable knowledge for communities and organizations striving to enhance their disaster preparedness. With a diverse lineup of speakers and sessions, this free event also offered professional development opportunities, reinforcing its role as a crucial gathering for those dedicated to seismic resilience.

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Those of you who know me, know that I am a proud Penn State alumnus with a degree in geography.

Researchers analyzed GIS faculty hiring data to identify geographic patterns influencing job placement. The post Where are GIS Professors Hired From? appeared first on Geography Realm.

Satellite Earth observation is at a crossroads, balancing national defense priorities, environmental monitoring, and commercial innovation. As competition intensifies and AI-driven analytics reshape the industry, the sector faces key challenges: pricing models, regulatory shifts, and the push for actionable intelligence over raw imagery. With market consolidation on the horizon, the future of Earth observation lies in the ability to extract value from data while navigating geopolitical and technological disruptions. 🚀

Sure, there’s a glorious drop shadow effect in the ever-more-capable ArcGIS Online Map Viewer to give features a sweet glow, BUT there’s no inner glow effect. How do we cast that beautiful glow inward? I’ll admit that I’ve been stumped by this one for longer than I care to admit, but then it just hit …

What scientists have discovered about our planet.

PLUS: predicting wildfires using deep learning, estimating emissions from road intersections and more.

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When and where? Geomob Lisbon till took place on the evening of Wednesday, March 19th, 2025 at Startup Lisboa, Rua da Prata 80, 1100-420 Lisbon (Google Maps, OpenStreetMap). Doors open at 17:30 and talks will begin at 18:00 Doors open at 18:00 and talks will begin at 18:15. Summary thread Post by @[email protected] View on Mastodon Agenda Doors open at 18.00, set up and general mingling Talks begin at 18:15 with a very brief introduction Each speaker will have slides and speak for 10-15 minutes. After each talk there will be time for 2-3 questions. We vote the best speaker. The winner will receive the best speaker prize and unending glory (see the full list of all past winners). Discussion and #award and #geobeers paid for by the sponsors. The speakers: Kateryna Konieva, Bridging Geospatial and AEC worlds. Ana Bonifácio, Public spaces, Private Emotions… in blue spaces. Luís de Sousa, Discrete Global Grid...

Agricultural landscapes, when viewed from space, reveal distinct patterns shaped by historical practices, local geography, and technological influences. The post Types of Agricultural Patterns Visible from Space appeared first on Geography Realm.

..and everything is changing geospatial. If I were to characterize the last five years, I would use the word complex. We have a changing climate, with seemingly more extreme events every day. We are seeing increasing international tensions break out into kinetic conflict. The pillars of entrenched economic systems are creaking under the weight of fragile … Geospatial is Changing Everything Read More » The post Geospatial is Changing Everything appeared first on Sparkgeo.

I did a post a while back which was just a lot of links to things I found interesting, mostly in the geospatial/data/programming sphere. Since then I’ve collected a lot more links – so here are some of them. The theme, such as there is, seems to be ‘this would have really helped me about […]

The Coalition of Geospatial Organizations (COGO) has recently released its third Assessment from its ongoing review of the U.S. National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI). This Assessment serves as a periodic evaluation of the condition of the nation’s geospatial data infrastructure, which, like other forms of public works, is essential for our economy, health, safety, and […]

Notes and experiments from our latest wanderings in geospatial tech, GeoAI, and open data.

GIS 2.0: How Geography, Technology, and Connectedness Will Transform Our World

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The Marine Corps instills a leadership philosophy rooted in decisiveness, adaptability, and integrity.

Just as I have been contemplating and obtaining ‘zines again myself, I find that others have created Geo specific distribution outlets and have presentations at the 2025 AAG later this […]

As always, this post is very delayed – apologies. In fact, I was encouraged to write this by a friend who I see at PyData Southampton (Hi, if you’re reading this!). I mentioned my talk in passing to her, and she asked if I’d blogged about it yet. I admitted that I hadn’t, and promised […]

I hate putting in Deed calls. Some of you may call it Metes and Bounds. I usually even utter “Survey” as more of a curse than anything. There’s always the Azimuth and Distance plugin but if you check the homepage you will see it’s basically on life support or as it’s called – maintenance mode. […] The post GRASS and m.cogo appeared first on North River Geographic Systems Inc.

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Geospatial technology is the modern expression of geography, encompassing geographic information systems, remote sensing, and surveying technology. “Geospatial technology” is a convenient catch-all term for anything with a location component. The problem is that geography is quite literally everywhere, and modern geospatial technology is, in fact, changing everything.

Whether you are a parent who happens to be a geospatial veteran or want to help educate the next generation, check out these ideas to help the next generation develop integral geospatial skills and understanding.

For a proper Pi Day celebration in Postgres, Paul shows off a proof for CIRCULARSTRING.

Cloud-Native Geospatial is quietly revolutionizing geospatial data

Here’s how you can make a map inspired by the glorious collaboration of geologist Marie Tharp and landscape painter Heinrich Berann. We’ll use ArcGIS Pro (injected with a special terrain toolbox provided by cartographer, author, and public figure Ken Field), its amazing raster functions and blend modes, and luscious bathymetry data from GEBCO. Let’s dive in! 0:00 a brief …

A few weeks ago, I posed a simple yet thought-provoking question to the geospatial community on LinkedIn, one that many found difficult to answer, including myself:

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Innovating in GIS in North Carolina and Surrounding Region

In the past I have blogged about disasters, but mainly from a social media or agent-based modeling perspective. However, after the devastating wildfires that impacted parts of Los Angeles County earlier this year led me to wonder how resilient are cities to such events? Or more generally, what role could urban analytics play on the various stages of disaster management (i.e., preparation, response, recovery, and mitigation), or how can data, models, and methods at the disposal of researchers be leveraged to better prepare us for future disasters and be linked to policy?If these questions sound of interest, I encourage you to go and read  a short editorial that I recently published in Environment and Planning B entitled "Cities and Disasters: What can Urban Analytics Do?"Full referece: Crooks, A.T. (2024), Cities and Disasters: What can Urban Analytics Do?, Environment and Planning B, 52(3): 523-526. (pdf)

In today’s post, we (that is, Gaspard Merten from Universite Libre de Bruxelles and yours truly) are going to dive deep into how to analyze public transport data, using both schedule and real time information. This collaboration has been made possible by the EMERALDS project. Previously, I already shared news about GTFS algorithms for Trajectools that …Read More

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Simple facts about the new Cloud-Native Geospatial hype.

OK, it has been a while since the last time I published this data, but I have a valid excuse. The most striking feature of the 2024 chart is the zero’ing out of IBM’s piece of the pie. Big Blue, which once billed the government $107M in a year, has been reduced to a billing rate of less than $5M per year over the last two years. Everything else feels more or less the same. After seven years of NDP government, the overall trajectory of outsourcing growth has beeen flattened, but in no way reversed. It is a smaller proportion of overall spend, but the substantial change wrought by the Campbell Liberal government starting around 2005 has been durable – BC IT has a huge outsourced component still. The initial surge in smaller local companies after 2017 stalled out by 2021 and had been flat since. The most consistent grower is now CGI, which entered the Victoria market around 2005 and has grown to $60M/year in billings with consistent year-over-year increases.

Back to entry 1 I recently “celebrated” my “cancerversary”, the one-year mark since my GI doctor phoned me up and said the fateful words – “you have cancer”. At that moment, my universe shrank down immensely. All the external stuff, job, professional relationships, volunteerism, just kind of fell away, I had no mental space for it. It was just me and my immediate family and the many, many unknowns. My experience since then has included two major physical insults. The “curative” surgery that removed most of my rectum, and the associated c.difficle infection that brutally wrecked my GI tract. The insults really knocked me back. Moving around the house involved effort. Meals would lead to stomach pain and long sessions on the toilet. Runs were replaced with walks and then shorter walks. A trip to the cafe became my gold standard for “getting out”. Now, I am immensely “better” than I was this summer. But I am still a very long way from the physical condition I was before (which was...

Every year, around 1.3 billion tons of food – nearly a third of total global food production – goes to waste (FAO). At the same time, 733 million people faced hunger in 2023, with one in five affected in Africa (WHO). It’s a painful paradox: tons of food are thrown away while millions go without. The post How Geospatial Innovation Can Reduce Food Waste and Improve Access to Nutrition appeared first on Taylor Geospatial Institute.

The GRASS GIS 8.4.1 release provides more than 80 improvements and fixes with respect to the release 8.4.0. Enjoy! The post GRASS GIS 8.4.1 released appeared first on Markus Neteler Consulting.

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Cartography and 3D

The 2025 NLT Annual Conference was an incredible opportunity for our team to come together, collaborate, and strengthen the foundation that drives our success. Held alongside the Esri Federal User Conference, this event is an essential part of our company’s culture—bringing NLT team members together from the DC-Maryland-Virginia (DMV) region and across the country to align on our mission, share knowledge, and advance our work for customers.

We are pleased to announce that the minutes from the QGIS.ORG Annual General Meeting (AGM) 2024 are now available for… Read more QGIS.ORG Annual General Meeting 2024 – Minutes Now Available

With no universal definition, mapping and comparing forest coverage around the world is challenging. The post Defining How Much of the World is Covered by Forests appeared first on Geography Realm.

PLUS: ESA's new open-source Sentinel-2 super-resolution model, quickly detecting landslides from satellite images, and more.

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Store data in JSON format in PostgreSQL, consult it... and all this using INSEE french census data as an example.

Despite the world’s agricultural systems producing enough food to feed the current population, global food insecurity remains a critical challenge. The scale of the gap remains significant, with approximately 733 million people worldwide experiencing hunger in 2023. The post How Can Geospatial Innovation Promote Sustainable Agricultural Land Management?  appeared first on Taylor Geospatial Institute.

While there isn’t a direct way to symbolize a line feature in ArcGIS Pro to have a gradient that travels along its length (rather than across its width), there are a handful of workarounds to get you there. If your line is wiggly, you might have to try a more robust method, like split the …

We are delighted to announce a special track on “Integrating Large-Language Models and Geospatial Foundation Models to Enhance Spatial Reasoning in ABMs” as part of the Social Simulation Conference 2025, 25th to 29th August 2025 at Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands. Full conference details can be found at the end of this email.Abstract for the Special Track: Recent developments in the use of large language models (LLMs) offer exciting opportunities to control agent behaviour in potentially more realistic and nuanced ways than has previously been possible. However, an LLM-backed agent can only interface with their surroundings through text prompts, which is severely limiting. The integration of large language models (LLMs) and geospatial foundation models (GFMs) presents an exciting opportunity to use AI techniques to advance agent-based modelling for spatial applications, potentially allowing for agents with more comprehensive behavioural realism, as well as an improved...

In the article Private, Public, Personal: Shifting Patterns in Geospatial Data Sources in Geographic Research, which recently appeared in the Annals of the American Association of Geographers, the authors (Appiah et al. from the Georgia Institute of Technology) explored the extent to which peer-reviewed geospatial research has adopted three data source types: public sector, private […]

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The Trajectools repository is migrating from GitHub to Codeberg. The new home for Trajectools is: ➡️ https://codeberg.org/movingpandas/trajectools The GitHub repo remains as a writable mirror, for now, but the issue tracking is only active on Codeberg. Why the move? I am working on moving my projects to European infrastructure that better aligns with my values. …Read More

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FOSS4G:BG: Open GIS conference is coming early in March as a local FOSS4G event in Bulgaria organized by the QGIS.bg community. The event will span in two days, having a day with workshops with deep dive in different topics and a second day with conference presentations.

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The post Joe Cornelius Advocates Geospatial Innovation to Tackle Food Insecurity appeared first on Taylor Geospatial Institute.

PLUS: the link between population growth and flooding, satellite object detection with RS-YOLO, and more.

Around this time last year, we made a pivotal decision, GEO261 needed a true headquarters, a space that reflected not just where we worked, but who we were evolving.

Giro3D is a geospatial data visualization library for the Web. Free and open-source, it is compatible with many geospatial data sources (rasters, vectors, point clouds, etc.). 👉 See the full...

Demon Dialogues is a collection of comics which serves as a Handbook for Living with Your Inner Critic

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There are efforts to try to capture and share US government data as it once again disappears from federal sites. Luckily there are groups working to maintain this data. These […]

Thoughts on duplicating data with modern tooling and STAC

The post explores an SQL query using DuckDB and OvertureMaps data to extract, filter, and visualize pizza places in Switzerland. All these steps can be done in one line, and the generated map of Swiss pizza places can be viewed immediately using PMTiles.

We are pleased to announce the release of QGIS 3.42 Münster! Installers for Windows, Linux, and Mac are already out.… Read more QGIS 3.42 Münster is released!

Prompted by Free The Map, a book about change in the way we do cartography, I offer reflections on doing geospatial in Cambodia.

Dear QGIS Community, We are very pleased to announce that this year’s round of grants is now available. The call… Read more QGIS Grants #10: Call for Grant Proposals 2025

Continuing to look back at the history of geospatial technologies

A funny thing happened when I wrote up my 2025 book list – a lot of the books were parts of pairings. And I started wondering what other pairings I had read that were memorable. So here’s another list! Wicked, Gregory Maguire and The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum You wouldn’t know it to look at me (or would you?) but I am a person who has read all 14 books of the original L. Frank Baum Oz series. From “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” to “Glinda of Oz” and all in between. As… that kind of person, I was truly tickled to pick up “Wicked” a couple years ago and take in not only the invented back-story of the Wicked Witch of the West (Elphaba), but also all the references to the Oz world that Maguire builds into his narrative. “Wicked” is the best kind of reimagining, one that manages a completely fresh story, but without tearing down the original source material on the way. Maguire clearly is also… that kind of person, and he treats Oz with respect while building a totally fresh...

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I recently had a project requirement to export the contents of a delta table in Databricks to several formats, including shapefile and file geodatabase, with the output being placed in object storage mounted to DBFS. I set up the logic in a notebook, with the intent to use geopandas, which provides an easy wrapper around … Continue reading Exporting Data with GeoPandas in Databricks →

When and where? Thursday, 20 February, the afternoon at 16:30–19:30 Tampere University of Applied Science premises (Kuntokatu 3, Tampere) Sign up here by 19th of February Agenda Our format: Doors open at 16:30 for set up and general mingling over refreshments At 17:00 we begin the talks with a very brief introduction Each speaker will have slides and speak for 10-15 minutes. Talks will be in English. After each talk there will be time for 2-3 questions. After the presentations, the event continues with networking and mingling. The speakers: Mikko Vesanen, Novatron – Use of geospatial data in Novatron applications Teijo Meriläinen, Kelluu – Redefining Geospatial Data with Kelluu Airships Markus Hohenthal, Lentola Logistcs - Using Location Information in Drone Logistics Ilpo Tammi, Ubigu – Power of GIS The organizers: Geomob Finland, Tampere is organized by Tampere...

Safe Software highlighted CapMetro's Geospatial Program in a success story, showcasing the integration of FME and ArcGIS to enhance transit operations, planning, and performance management. Their comprehensive GIS platform automates workflows and utilizes real-time data, ensuring decision-makers have access to vital information.

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We are thrilled to announce the release of Iris 2.10, our most powerful and feature-rich update yet.

The Swiss Rooftop Explorer is a cloud-native web app that retrieves Swiss building roof heights without a GIS server. Using PMTiles, Geoparquet, and DuckDB-WASM, it enables fast, low-maintenance geospatial queries. This post explores the data pipeline and its benefits of cloud-optimized formats, and how static files can replace traditional GIS infrastructure.

Profound changes are on the horizon.

PLUS: some surprising vulnerabilities when using pre-trained models, examining travel patterns in Africa and more.

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Literacy skills, are essential for enabling students to develop their geographical understanding and being able to communicate this, both in writing and verbally. In order for students to be able to develop their literacy skills and become confident with reading, writing, speaking and listening, to enable communication and geographical understanding, vocabulary plays a key role.Continue reading "The Importance of Vocabulary Learning in the Geography Classroom"

Recent notices about the completion of the biggest map of the Milky Way Galaxy, consisting of 200,000 images, will surely be an interesting and informative reading for the subscribers to this data blog. https://www.cnet.com/science/the-biggest-map-of-the-milky-way-ever-created-is-here/ “Using the VISTA telescope, the European Southern Observatory put 13 years of work into the map”, which covered 420 nights of […]

may the odds be ever in your favor

Demystifying cloud-native geospatial formats through illustrated storytelling.

Use Tailscale to build your own gated community (a.k.a. VPN) within the public internet: bypass geo-blocking, remotely control your smart home, and quickly provide services as a developer.

I can’t remember the exact time that I met Paul Ramsey in person and had a conversation with him – it was either at the 2011 FOSS4G in Denver or the inaugural FOSS4GNA in DC the following year – but I clearly remember what he said to me. By then, I had been writing this … Continue reading Long-Form Spatial Writing →

Time should be a first-class citizen in geospatial. In many ways, measuring change might always have been geospatial's killer app. But are we giving time enough structured attention?

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UPDATE: This post has been edited to provide the new, user-friendly URL. I’ve missed Planet Geospatial. I’ve missed it so much that I messaged James the other day and said we should get it going again. He wholeheartedly agreed and then started going on about perfectly valid stuff like not wanting to wrestle with 15-year-old … Continue reading GeoFeeds Is Online →

Learn about our plan for Phase 2 of the AI for Earth Observation and Field Boundaries Initiative and how to get involved. The post Join TGE in Phase 2 of AI for Earth Observation and Field Boundaries appeared first on Taylor Geospatial Engine.

50+ Female Product Manager/Senior GIS Analyst at North Road, Program Chair FOSS4G Oceania 2022-2024, QGIS AU Committee Q. Emma, Where in the world are you and what do you do? In sunny South East Queensland where the winter temperatures are in the 20° (Celsius degrees), but I am more of a -1° Celsius gal. I […] The post When I was 15 years old, I proclaimed I would be a cartographer appeared first on GeoHipster.

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Seven months ago, we issued A Call to Action for the Data Community to break down geospatial data silos and make GIS a core part of analytics. Today, we’re thrilled to announce two major developments that bring this vision closer to reality: The Parquet specification has officially adopted geospatial guidance, enabling native storage of GEOMETRY and GEOGRAPHY types Iceberg 3 now includes GEOMETRY and GEOGRAPHY as part of its official specification Now both Parquet and Iceberg support columns of type GEOMETRY or GEOGRAPHY just like INT32, INT64, FLOAT32, etc. columns! Yay! This is a landmark achievement for geospatial data! 🎉 A Community Achievement First, a heartfelt thank you to everyone who contributed to this effort—engineers, early adopters, and advocates who pushed for geospatial data to be treated as a first-class citizen. This milestone wasn’t achieved overnight; it took years of collaboration across organizations and...

The GRASS GIS 8.4.1RC1 release provides more than 70 improvements and fixes with respect to the release 8.4.0. Please support us in testing this release candidate. The post GRASS GIS 8.4.1RC1 released appeared first on Markus Neteler Consulting.

Summary thread Post by @[email protected] View on Mastodon When and where? Geomob Berlin took place at 18:00 on Wednesday the 12th of February, 2025 at Fora - Pressehaus Podium, Karl-Liebknecht-Straße 29A, 10178 Berlin (Google Maps, OpenStreetMap). Nearest stops are Alexanderplatz and Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz. Agenda Our format for the evening will be as it always has been: doors open at 18:00, set up and general mingling at 18:30 we begin the talks with a very brief introduction Each speaker will have slides and speak for 10-15 minutes. After each talk there will be time for 2-3 questions. We vote - using Feature Upvote - for the best speaker. The winner will receive a SplashMap and unending glory (see the full list of all past winners). We head to a nearby pub for discussion and #geobeers paid for by the sponsors. The speakers: Christian Wygoda, Sensor Tasking API Spec (at SatVu) Javier Jimenez Shaw,...

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January, the first month of 2025, brought us 36 new plugins, published in the QGIS plugin repository. Here follows the… Read more Plugin Update – January, 2025

Well-designed geospatial tools help decision-makers absorb information quickly, improve situational awareness, and enhance user experiences.

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Installing the most widely used open-source GIS software on the most popular Linux distribution should be straightforward, yet it often raises questions and even problems. This guide walks you through the process so you can refer back to it whenever needed.

Use Spliit App (open-source, web-app, mobile app) for an easy way to track and split expenses with a group.

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For PostGIS Day this year I researched a little into one of my favourite topics, the history of relational databases. I feel like in general we do not pay a lot of attention to history in software development. To quote Yoda, “All his life has he looked away… to the future, to the horizon. Never his mind on where he was. Hmm? What he was doing.” Anyways, this year I took on the topic of the early history of spatial databases in particular. There was a lot going on in the ’90s in the field, and in many ways PostGIS was a late entrant, even though it gobbled up a lot of the user base eventually.

This blog post was first published on Chris’ personal blog on February 9, 2025 and is being cross posted here. Have you benefitted from Cloud-Optimized GeoTIFF’s? SpatioTemporal Asset Catalogs? Zarr, COPC or GeoParquet? Not just the formats, but the whole ecosystem of tools and data around it? Well I’d like to present you with an incredibly easy opportunity to ‘pay it forward’ and help build and expand the movement. And all you have to do is attend a conference! One that should be a totally awesome experience, the first in-person CNG Conference, from April 30th to May 2nd. I have big dreams for this conference, as my hope is that it can expand in the next few years to become a truly vendor-neutral gathering for anyone working in and around geospatial data. To be one of those conferences that has the critical mass where you know ‘everyone’ you want to talk to will be there. In North America there’s really only two options for this: Esri...

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We are thrilled to announce that QGIS has been officially recognized as a Digital Public Good (DPG) by the Digital… Read more QGIS recognized as Digital Public Good

With the QGIS Grant Programme 2024 (Updates #1 & #2), we were able to support 7 enhancement proposals that improve… Read more Reports from the winning grant proposals 2024

Tell Us About Yourself My name is Kseniia. Right now, I am a student in the International Cartography Master program, but before starting my studies, I worked for many years as an analyst in the field of urban and transport planning. I think it’s because this field often involves working with different barriers (physical, social […] The post Maps and Mappers 2025 – January – Kseniia Nifontova appeared first on GeoHipster.

Paul shows you how to access raster data stored in the cloud or object storage for PostGIS using cloud optimized GeoTIFF (aka COG) files. He also includes some functions for working with raster elevation.

Due to some issues I’m running behind just a bit – so enjoy this map from December of 2024. Tell Us About Yourself I am a Senior Cartographer at National Geographic Maps, own my own freelance business, Tombolo Maps & Design, and have been making maps professionally for 15 years.  My maps have been in more […] The post Maps and Mappers 2024 – December – Aly DeGraff Ollivierre appeared first on GeoHipster.

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In previous posts we have noted how one can explore urban issues through newspapers, while at the same time we have used social media to explore trends in vaccinations. In a recently published paper in PLOS Digital Health entitled "From print to perspective: A mixed-method analysis of the convergence and divergence of COVID-19 topics in newspapers and interviews" with Qingqing Chen, Adam Sullivan, Jennifer Surtees, Laurene Tumiel-Berhalter and myself, we thought we would explore how COVID-19 was reported in newspapers and how this varied from interviews. The rationale behind this was that the COVID-19 pandemic has led to diverse experiences influenced by public health measures like lockdowns and social distancing. To explore these dynamics, we introduce a novel ’big-thick’ data approach that integrates extensive U.S. newspaper data with detailed interviews. By employing natural language processing (NLP) and geoparsing techniques, we identify key topics related to the pandemic and...

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Cloud-Native Geospatial represents a significant shift in how geospatial data is processed, stored, and analyzed. This approach offers GIS Professionals greater scalability, allowing them to handle massive datasets without relying on traditional and often limited on-premise infrastructure. Additionally, the cloud-native approach enhances collaboration by enabling multiple users to access and work on shared datasets in real-time, regardless of their physical location, helping to eliminate data silos. This level of accessibility and flexibility empowers GIS professionals to deliver faster results, streamline workflows, and adapt to the growing demands of modern geospatial applications. What is Cloud-Native Geospatial? Cloud-native geospatial refers to the practice of leveraging cloud-based technologies and architectures to handle geospatial data in the cloud, ideally without migrating it between heavy/purpose-built storage and file formats. This approach focuses on...

This past December, I attended the Thermal Remote Sensing (TRS) Workshop in Leicester, UK.

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Loftmyndir ehf. is an Icelandic company providing geospatial data for Iceland, such as aerial photography, LIDAR data and terrain models. They also provide online maps taylored to specific needs of...

Following up on my last post, I wanted to share some more details about the experience of using AI tools to code a plugin for QGIS, one that has seen some reasonable success, with over 2000 downloads in the past couple of months. My hope is to inspire others to make their own QGIS plugins and other geospatial tools, as I think more people doing AI-assisted coding has the potential to accelerate the momentum of the open source ecosystem. Cursor & QGIS — awesome together :) Can you really code a QGIS plug-in just using AI tools? Before we dig in I want to give everyone who is not a coder some encouragement to jump in and try things out. The quick answer is yes! You can code a QGIS plug-in even if you’re not a software developer. I’m sure you’ve seen the videos of people building cool things with AI tools, but it can still be hard to actually dive into it. For me the most important thing is to have a real problem you’re...

The post discusses AI hallucination - when AI generates incorrect information. It explores two main problems: user frustration with incorrect outputs and uncertainty about managing these errors long-term. Using a geodetic network analogy, it explains how AI errors can propagate like measurement errors in surveying, suggesting we need better frameworks for detecting and managing hallucinations.

Graphic designers! Here’s an easy way to grab beautiful accurate open map data for your design work. Real data. No tracing. Download vector map data as points, lines, and polygons, all styled and ready for your work in Illustrator or whatever program you use. Maps rule, and it’s too fun not to dive into the …

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I have been watching the codification of spatial data types into GeoParquet and now GeoIceberg with some interest, since the work is near and dear to my heart. Writing a disk serialization for PostGIS is basically an act of format standardization – albeit a standard with only one consumer – and many of the same issues that the Parquet and Iceberg implementations are thinking about are ones I dealt with too. Here is an easy one: if you are going to use well-known binary for your serialiation (as GeoPackage, and GeoParquet do) you have to wrestle with the fact that the ISO/OGC standard for WKB does not describe a standard way to represent empty geometries. Empty geometries come up frequently in the OGC/ISO standards, and they are simple to generate in real operations – just subtract a big thing from a small thing. SELECT ST_AsText(ST_Difference( 'POLYGON((0 0, 1 0, 1 1, 0 1, 0 0))', 'POLYGON((-1 -1, 3 -1, 3 3, -1 3, -1 -1))' )) If you have a data set and are running...

Sometimes I realize that in the amount of time I’ve spent looking for detailed data, I could have just created it. Often, water polygons at the scale you need for your mega-detailed map just aren’t available. Here’s how to draw a complex polygon in ArcGIS Pro super easily. And, for giggles, how you can style …

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MyGeodata Converter [https://mygeodata.cloud/] is a SaaS (Software as a Service) platform designed for the conversion, transformation, and processing of vector and raster spatial data. Launched in 2010, it was created to address the need for an easy and efficient way to convert and transform GIS and CAD data without requiring software installation or specialized knowledge. […]

Last month I released my first QGIS plug-in, and promised I’d write an in-depth post about it. I’ll give an overview and dig into some of the motivations, and then I’ll put the details of my experience of coding with AI in its own follow up post. Background I’ve been a long time QGIS user, though am very far from an expert — I mostly open different files and visualize them. I’ve never been able to afford an Esri license, so it’s QGIS all the way for me. And I’ve always loved the plugin ecosystem: the fact that many people worldwide are adding all kinds of functionality so that anyone can customize it to their needs is just awesome, and a testament to the power of open source. There’s still things Esri can do better, but we’re now at the point where there’s a lot of things QGIS can do better. I also recently have ‘become a coder’ again, thanks to the power of AI tools. I’ll dive into more of the experience in my next post, but it meant...

The integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) into geospatial technology is fundamentally reshaping industries, from urban development and environmental conservation to logistics and disaster relief. With businesses increasingly adopting AI-powered geospatial solutions,  the need for professionals who can harness these tools is higher than ever. To stay ahead, hiring teams must grasp the evolving landscape and […]

Today, I’m super excited to share with you the announcement that our open source textbook “Geocomputation with Python” has finally arrived in print and is now available for purchase from Routledge.com, Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, and other booksellers. “Geocomputation with Python” (or geocompy for short) covers the entire range of standard GIS operations for both vector and …Read More

In previous posts, we have written how large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT can be used in various urban analytical applications. We have kept exploring this potential especially with respect to citizen science applications. To this end we have just published a new paper in iScience, entitled "New Directions in Mapping the Earth’s Surface with Citizen Science and Generative AI". In the paper, lead by Linda See, we discuss how multi-modal LLMs (MLLMs) which are like LMMs but can take different forms of inputs (e.g., text, images, video) and output multi-modal information (e.g., take an image and output a description) could be leveraged to enhance citizen science land cover/land use mapping campaigns. If this sounds of interest, below you can read the abstract to the paper, see some of the figures we use to build our argument, while at the bottom of the post you can see the full reference and a link to the actual paper.Abstract: As more satellite imagery has become openly...

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I know it’s short notice, but I wanted to let you all know that I’m doing a livestream tomorrow. It’s been well over 2½ years since my last one. I’ll be covering a few monochrome maps I made for an upcoming book. Please come on by to ask questions, offer feedback, and share your thoughts … Continue reading Going Live →

When and where? Geomob London took place at 6:00 PM on Thursday the 30th of January, 2025 at Geovation Hub at (Sutton Yard, 65 Goswell Rd, London EC1V 7EN) Summary Thread Post by @[email protected] View on Mastodon Agenda Our format for the evening will be as it always has been: doors open at 18:00, set up and general mingling at 18:30 we begin the talks with a very brief introduction Each speaker will have slides and speak for 10-15 minutes. After each talk there will be time for 2-3 questions. We vote - using Feature Upvote - for the best speaker. The winner will receive a SplashMap and unending glory (see the full list of all past winners). We head to a nearby pub for discussion and #geobeers paid for by the sponsors. The speakers: Andy Ashburner, Pin Drop Maxime Lenormand, Fused.io Michael Dales, Geospatial to save the planet: assessing tropical forest restoration projects using all...

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As a consultant, I have to submit my resume a lot. You always want you resume tailored to the project you’re trying to land. In the old days, that meant taking the most recent version, tweaking it, and hope that any gaps from the previous version aren’t fatal. But these aren’t the old days and … Continue reading A Career Narrative – Not a Resume →

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When maps understand what you mean, not just what you click

I found myself sitting in a hospital talking to a doctor: Doc: You sure you haven’t had a heart attack? Me: I’m pretty sure…..Wouldn’t I know? Doc: Well……Yes and no. It was a conversation I didn’t want to have but there I sat having it. I didn’t know this was going to turn into the […] The post Once upon a time appeared first on North River Geographic Systems Inc.

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A goal for me this year is to ‘ship more’, so in the spirit of releasing early and often I wanted to share a little new project I got going this past weekend. See https://github.com/cholmes/geoparquet-tools. It’s a collection of utilities for things I often want to do but that aren’t trivial out of the box with DuckDB. It started focused on just checking GeoParquet files for ‘best practices’, which I’ve been working on writing up in this pull request, as I realized that lots of people are publishing awesome data as GeoParquet but don’t always pick the best options (and the tools don’t always set the best defaults). So it can check compression, if there’s a bbox column, and row group size. It also attempts to check if a file is spatially ordered, but I’m not sure if it works across different types of approaches. It does seem to work with Hilbert curves generated from DuckDB. I do need to refine the row group...

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DuckDB continues to be my go to tool for geospatial processing, after I discovered it over a year ago. Since that time its functionality has continued to expand, and as of version 1.1 it reads and writes GeoParquet natively, as long as you have the spatial extension installed. LOAD spatial; CREATE TABLE fields AS (SELECT * from 'https://data.source.coop/kerner-lab/fields-of-the-world-cambodia/boundaries_cambodia_2021.parquet'); COPY fields TO 'cambodia-fields.parquet'; Be sure to always run LOAD spatial; or the table won’t get a geometry column, it will just create blobs. If you see errors or your output data is just Parquet and not GeoParquet that’s likely the source of your problems. I often forget to add it at the beginning of my sessions — perhaps there is some nice way to configure DuckDB to always load it, but I don’t know it (yet). I also do recommend that you always use zstd compression, as it generally results in at least 20% smaller files, and its speed is...

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Transforming data into valuable insights.

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Wir haben etwas auf die letzten Monate zurückgeschaut. Was hat unsere Kunden und uns bewegt? Was haben wir als relevante und interessante Themen angeschaut und im Blog behandelt? Manchmal wird man sich dessen aufgrund der dynamischen Entwicklungen in manchen Tätigkeitsbereichen von EBP gar nicht in der ganzen Breite bewusst. Aus diesem Grund haben wir in …

Drought conditions in the lead-up to the 2025 L.A. fires

As a consultant, I have always placed a premium on the maturity of the technologies I recommend and deploy for my customers. While staying current with innovations, especially in the geospatial space, is a critical part of my work, I believe in letting new technologies develop and stabilize before introducing them into customer workflows. This … Continue reading Cloud, Ready →

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It's 2025 and all we've got is a spreadsheet of humanitarian satellite data

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Die GRASS GIS-Community würdigt die langjährigen Beiträge von Roger Bivand zur Entwicklung des rgrass-Pakets. The post Großer Dank an Roger Bivand! appeared first on Markus Neteler Consulting.

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We are thrilled to announce the development of the BNG Co-Pilot, an innovative platform for Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) assessment supported by the Taylor Geospatial Institute (TGI) and Amazon Web Service (AWS). This groundbreaking initiative applies Generative AI and advanced geospatial analytics to address the complexities of ensuring that land development projects in the UK … Introducing BNG Co-Pilot Read More » The post Introducing BNG Co-Pilot appeared first on Sparkgeo.

The PostGIS Team is pleased to release PostGIS 3.5.2. This version requires PostgreSQL 12 - 17, GEOS 3.8 or higher, and Proj 6.1+. To take advantage of all features, GEOS 3.12+ is needed. SFCGAL 1.4+ is needed to enable postgis_sfcgal support. To take advantage of all SFCGAL features, SFCGAL 1.5+ is needed. 3.5.2 source download md5 NEWS PDF docs: en ja, fr, zh_Hans HTML Online en ja fr zh_Hans Cheat Sheets: postgis: en ja fr zh_Hans postgis_raster: en ja fr zh_Hans postgis_topology: en ja fr zh_Hans postgis_sfcgal: en ja fr zh_Hans address standardizer, postgis_tiger_geocoder: en ja fr zh_Hans This release is a bug fix release that includes bug fixes since PostGIS 3.5.1.

In this experiment I used AI to automate architecture documentation by testing Aider (an AI coding assistant). After just 5 minutes and 5 prompts, I generated a decent C4 diagram for a Streamlit web application. While not perfect, this experiment shows the promising future of AI-assisted documentation.

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Spatiotemporal analysis of human movement during disasters

Whether you're a student charting your career path or a professional looking to pivot into a new industry, there are numerous ways to gain the knowledge and skills needed to thrive in Geospatial.

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Modernizing the geospatial industry is critical.

"Playground" by Richard Powers explores the interplay of technological ambition and environmental concerns, highlighting tensions between progress and preservation through diverse characters on a remote island.

Precipitation in the US corn belt

If Google won't, I will.

Die BIM-Methodik und der damit verbundene BIM- und Daten-Lebenszyklus werden meist anhand des Ideals “Projekt auf der grünen Wiese” (z.B. Neubau einer Immobilie) dargestellt. Je länger die BIM-Methodik jedoch in (Pilot-)Projekten praktiziert wird, desto deutlicher wird, dass dieses theoretische Ideal des einfachen Lebenszyklus-Pfeils mit interagierenden Akteuren, den Anforderungen der Praxis und insbesondere des Infrastrukturbaus nicht …

In this new release, you will find new algorithms, default output styles, and other usability improvements, in particular for working with public transport schedules in GTFS format, including: Note: To use this new version of Trajectools, please upgrade your installation of MovingPandas to >= 0.21.2, e.g. using import pip; pip.main(['install', '--upgrade', 'movingpandas']) or conda install …Read More

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In 2025, research on the web involves using ChatGPT for specific technical queries while considering sources and environmental impact, as Google's search has become less efficient.

Another post over break! This one also comes from a student’s suggestion on how to use Weather data in the form of gridded NetCDFs. This is a common format of the weather data provided by NOAA. The data are set up as a time-stacked set of rasters or spacetime cubes. The downloads have multiple years’ […]

This article describes "star-collector," a tool for automatically publishing web favorites using GitHub Actions and AI-generated titles, leveraging transformers for title creation from Mastodon posts.

I did a lot of reading last year, a lot, perhaps because I had a lot of down time. I tend to read before going to sleep, and recovery from surgery and other things means I go to bed early and then fill the time between bed and sleep with books. Books, books, and more books. To be totally precise, I read books on a Kindle, which allows me to read in the middle of the night in the dark with the back light. Also to read from any position, since all books are the same, light weight when consumed via an e-reader. I am a full e-reader convert. Anyway, I’ve had means, motive and opportunity, and I read a tonne. Some of it was bad, some of it was good, some of it was memorable, some not. Of the 50 or so books I read last year, here are ten that made me go “yes, that was good and memorable”. Demon Copperhead, Barbara Kingsolver I used to read Booker Prize winners, but I found the match to my taste was hit-and-miss. The Pullitzer Prize nominees list, on the other hand, has given me piles...

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How to visualize country borders with Python The post Easy Map Boundary Extraction with GeoPandas appeared first on Towards Data Science.

With many students graduating, I have had questions about how long will my ArcGIS Online account live and how can I move my work to another so I can keep a portfolio. Most schools only keep accounts open for a semester or two after graduation, and others right after graduation. So your best bet is […]

Paul explains the best way to run the http extension in production.

Introducing Topoprint.ch, a platform for creating personalized, 3D-printable topographic models of any location in Switzerland, accessible through social media bots. This post explains the "what," the "why," and a bit of the "how.".

Making the bears play nice The post Harnessing Polars and Geopandas to Generate Millions of Transects in Seconds appeared first on Towards Data Science.

Nearly five years ago, I completed a project that, to my mind, remains the most significant of my cartographic career: An Atlas of Great Lakes Islands, manually printed in cyanotype, with a hand-stitched binding. I wanted to share this project with all of you, but there were only a few copies. So, I decided to … Continue reading Journey’s End →

Elizabeth digs into the history and various uses of the vector.

The GRASS GIS community recognises the long-term contributions of Roger Bivand for the development of the rgrass package. The post A big thank you to Roger Bivand! appeared first on Markus Neteler Consulting.

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The PostGIS development team is pleased to provide bug fix releases for 3.5.1, 3.4.4, 3.3.8, 3.2.8, 3.1.12 Please refer to the links above for more information about the issues resolved by these releases.

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If you aren’t doing anything else on the allotted 2.5 hours of January 24, 2025, then consider tuning in to this Women in GIS workshop where I’ll share the process (and all the data and documents) for making this migration map. The cost is free, unless you count the 2.5 hours of life you’ll invest, …

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As you create your 2025 budgets, we invite you to join us as a sponsor at CNG Conference 2025 in Snowbird, Utah from April 30 to May 2, 2025. Sponsorship amplifies your organization’s visibility and aligns you with the innovators and leaders driving the future of geospatial data. CNG Conference 2025 is designed to foster collaboration, innovation, and growth within the geospatial community, with sessions organized around four main tracks: On-ramp to Cloud-Native Geospatial Data, The Bridge Between Science and Technology, Technically Advancing Cloud-Native Geospatial, and Enabling Interoperability. These tracks will guide attendees in exploring foundational skills, interdisciplinary collaboration, technical advancements, and best practices, ensuring a comprehensive experience for professionals across the geospatial field. Through keynotes, workshops, and networking opportunities, the conference aims to advance knowledge sharing, career development, and community...

The earth is round. Our screens are flat. Therein lies the problem.

What happens when top geospatial minds come together? Big questions, bold ideas, and a roadmap for what’s next.

Today, I want to point out a blog post over at https://carto.com/blog/urban-mobility-insights-with-movingpandas-carto-in-snowflake written together with my fellow co-authors and EMERALDS project team member Argyrios Kyrgiazos. For the technically inclined, the highlight are the presented UDFs in Snowflake to process and transform the trajectory data. For example, here’s a TemporalSplitter UDF: You can find the full code …Read More

A quick guide to prepping digital elevation data The post USGS DEM Files: How to Load, Merge, and Crop with Python appeared first on Towards Data Science.

Notes and experiments from our latest wanderings in geospatial tech, GeoAI, and open data.

Last time we learned why English is a hard language, both for humans and especially for computers.  For this time I think we will look at the past of NLP to understand the present. It actually has been an interesting … Continue reading →

Here’s how to make the drought map used in the Drought Aware app. This video covers creating a custom imagery basemap, modified to best support thematic data, and a styling method for the overlain drought polygons so they tint the imagery a color based on severity and have a cumulative shadow appearance to give a …

As the holiday season wraps us in its warm embrace, we at T-Kartor can't help but reflect on a year filled with challenges, triumphs, and moments that made our hearts grow.

This past week we attended the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting in Washington DC. At the AGU we presented two abstracts. The first follows on our work with respect to using synthetic populations within agent-based models. This work was with Na Jiang, Fuzhen Yin and Boyu Wang and entitled "A Framework for Populating Urban Digital Twins with Agents." Or more specially why digital twins need agents. Below you can see our abstract and a couple of figures showing our synthetic population workflow and how we integrate these into agent-based models.  Abstract:Over the last few years, considerable efforts have been placed in creating digital twins from diverse fields ranging from engineering to urban planning and many things in-between. These digital twins have benefited from the growth and availability of computational power and data. For example, in urban planning the growth of computational resources and the explosion of spatial data sources(e.g. remote sensing) has lead to...

From real-time applications to ethical considerations, these trends could define the industry's trajectory in 2025 and beyond.

Night-time satellite imagery reveals a key reason for the Syrian Government's combat ineffectiveness.

Kyle Barron, Cloud Engineer at Development Seed. You’ve spent years figuring out how to visualize large geospatial datasets in web browsers. Can you tell us a bit about your background and what initially drew you to this area? I have a bit of a nontraditional background; I have virtually no official training in geography or computer science. In college, I was interested in urban and environmental economics, trying to understand how policies shape cities and the environment. I planned to pursue a PhD in economics and after college worked for a health economics professor at MIT for two years. In that time I learned data analysis skills, but more importantly, I learned that I preferred data analysis and coding to academic research. I decided not to pursue a PhD and left that job to hike the Pacific Crest Trail, a 2,650-mile hiking trail from Mexico to Canada through California, Oregon, and Washington. Over five months...

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The AGU Fall Meeting 2024, the largest gathering for Earth and space science, starts this morning, Monday December 9-13 in Washington, DC. This year, there are many papers on cloud-native geospatial technologies by CNG members and other experts. This blog post highlights some key talks and posters you won’t want to miss. Monday Dec 9 Dynamic Tiling for Earth Data Visualization: This talk explores dynamic tiling, a method for generating map tiles on-the-fly, allowing for real-time modifications and eliminating the need for constant updates. Presented by Aimee Barciauskas from Development Seed. Learn more. Wednesday Dec 11 VirtualiZarr - Create Virtual Zarr Stores Using Xarray Syntax: This paper presents VirtualiZarr, a tool that allows accessing old file formats (like netCDF) as if they were stored in cloud-optimized formats (like Zarr). The authors will demonstrate using the Worthy Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement Efficiency Map dataset, which consists of ~40TB of data...

Spatial finance is emerging as a significant component of the geospatial landscape. As I have suggested before, this change has been happening incrementally for the last decade. That change has reached a tipping point.

As industries increasingly rely on geographic information systems (GIS) to unlock actionable insights, the demand for skilled GIS professionals has reached unprecedented heights. Hiring managers and HR professionals often face a unique challenge in sourcing and retaining top GIS talent. While our comprehensive guide on hiring GIS professionals outlines the broader hiring process, this article […]

Tell Us About YourselfMy name is Antonia Blankenberg. Alongside being a drummer with the fantastic TBL8 Brass, I’m a Lead Consultant in Utilities with Esri Ireland and I’ve been working in GIS for 5 years now. I’ve always been interested in geography, but I only first came across GIS during my undergraduate degree. I took […] The post Maps and Mappers 2024 – October – Antonia Blankenburg appeared first on GeoHipster.

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We're excited to share the latest Iris updates, designed to deliver even more robust capabilities and a streamlined experience for our customers and partners.

Some news about QChat and the features provided by the new 1.1 version. #GISChat #GISTribe

Our team will be in Washington, DC to see "What's Next for Science."

Create and visualize GIS data on the progress of the Vendée Globe 2024 race from official spreadsheets.

Jira is a powerful tool for managing Geospatial Programs, especially when integrated with Confluence and Bitbucket. This combination enhances task organization, documentation, and collaboration. Features such as task linking, smart commits, and expansive writing capabilities streamline complex project management, making these tools essential for optimizing workflows and improving efficiency.

Webseiten und mobile Anwendungen öffentlicher Einrichtungen müssen barrierefrei gestaltet sein, damit sie für alle Menschen, einschliesslich Personen mit Behinderungen, zugänglich sind. Was bedeutet Barrierefreiheit für digitale Produkte? Welche Richtlinien und Gesetze gelten und wie können diese umgesetzt werden? Barrierefreiheit bezeichnet die Gestaltung der Umwelt, so dass sie auch von Menschen mit Beeinträchtigungen ohne fremde Hilfe …

Crunchy Data hosted an online event for PostGIS on November 21st, 2024. Paul has a wrap up post discussing the highlights and themes throughout the day.

The Burmese Junta is looking for more ways to inflict terror.

I just shared this approach with some friends, and thought I’d blog it here too. When I get a relatively small amount of monetary compensation for something, I take the ‘Feynman Approach’ to it and buy something fun with the money, giving me a sense of satisfaction from the compensation (which, presumably, was to compensate […]

After a year on the offensive, the Arakan Army has nearly captured the entire countryside.

.. small area data refer to geographic, demographic and economic data tabulated for census blocks, block groups and census tracts — all subdivisions of counties. While these data might be produced by anyone, perhaps the most useful data in examining … Continue reading →

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Für ein Forschungsprojekt habe ich die Anfrage erhalten, eine Karte mit allen Einbahnstrassen Europas zu erstellen. Ziel war, die «Einbahnstrassen-Systeme» verschiedener europäischer Städte miteinander vergleichen zu können. Ich hatte die Idee, Daten von OpenStreetMap dafür zu nutzen, war mir aber nicht recht sicher, wie und wo ich die Daten ablegen sollte. Und es wäre auch …

tldr; Tired of working with large CSV files? Give GeoParquet a try! “Parquet is a powerful column-oriented data format, built from the ground up to as a modern alternative to CSV files.” https://geoparquet.org/ (Geo)Parquet is both smaller and faster than CSV. Additionally, (Geo)Parquet columns are typed. Text, numeric values, dates, geometries retain their data types. …Read More

Gestern habe ich seit langem wieder mal eine GIS Day-Veranstaltung besucht und zwar in Zürich. Es wurde ein Nachmittag voller interessanter Einblicke in Werdegänge im GIS-Umfeld, Diskussionen zur persönlichen Entwicklung und vielen Gelegenheiten zum Austausch und Netzwerken. Der Anlass wurde organisiert durch Adriana Kissling, Andreas Reimers (beide Stadt Zürich), Christian Sailer (ETHZ) und Philippe Lebert …

It feels like only yesterday I was typing “2024 Geohipster Calendar”……….. 2025 is here and has been “triple checked” for my sanity. The price increased just a bit to $18.00 dollars. There are warnings all over the order page about the Canadian Mail Strike so order appropriately if you are in Canadia. Link to Purchase! […] The post 2025 Geohipster Calendar appeared first on GeoHipster.

I know lately I’ve been in commercial mode, pointing you toward various projects of mine that you can support by giving me money. And I promise I’ll get back to less commercial musings as time goes on. But for now, I also want to alert you to a way you can give other people money, … Continue reading The Dream Lives →

.. using iVDA and Visual Data Analytics .. a Geographic Information System (GIS) is a computer -based tool that allows users to store, analyze, visualize, and interpret geographic data. Geographic data, also known as spatial or geospatial data, identifies the … Continue reading →

In einer digitalisierten Welt sind präzise und aktuelle Daten entscheidend. In dieser Blogserie zeige ich, wie moderne Technologien wie Deep Learning genutzt werden können, um Daten zu Rollstuhlpark-plätzen effizient zu pflegen. Im dritten und letzten Teil dieser Serie wenden wir das trainierte Deep-Neural-Network flächendeckend auf den Kanton Fribourg an. Zusätzlich skalieren und automatisieren wir die …

We invite you to join us at CNG Conference 2025 in Snowbird, Utah from April 30 to May 2 2025. Set against the beautiful backdrop of Snowbird, Utah, this inaugural event will convene the cloud-native geospatial community to learn from one another and collaborate to make geospatial data easier to access and use. The event will include keynote speeches, panel discussions, hands-on workshops, networking opportunities, and showcases of open-source projects, all designed to enhance attendees’ skills and knowledge. Participants will explore the newest developments in cloud-native geospatial technology, data accessibility, and practical applications. Save the date: April 30 - May 2, 2025 Where? Snowbird, Utah – about 40 minutes from Salt Lake City International Airport. Sponsorships: We are developing sponsorship packages. If you are interested, email us at [email protected] Interested in presenting? We will soon publish a call for proposals for presentations and...

Today, with the combined efforts of T-Kartor team members Dela Awadzi and Mercedes Fernandez, along with the support of T-Kartor, Theorose School is poised to reach new heights in digital learning.

Step-by-Step Tutorial on Applying Segment Anything Model Version 2 to Satellite Imagery for Detecting and Exporting Field Boundaries in... The post Field Boundary Detection in Satellite Imagery Using the SAM2 Model appeared first on Towards Data Science.

For the past several years, I’ve enjoyed the process of cyanotype printing, and have released a number of projects based on this technique (including my favorite item I’ve ever made). Now, I’ve decided to take my recent work in developing terrain sketches, and turn it into a new series of prints. For this, though, I … Continue reading Kickstarter 3: The Return →

From emergency response to crime prevention and disaster management, GIS provides actionable insights, helping public safety agencies make informed decisions.

AI and ML aren't simple add-ons. They're powerful tools that call for responsive, adaptable workflows to thrive. It's a commitment to efficiency, to cost savings, and ultimately, to future-proofing our processes.

This week on Wednesday, November 13, the CNG Virtual Conference 2024 will gather data user practitioners, enthusiasts, and newcomers to explore the latest in cloud-native geospatial technology. Come hear keynotes from NASA, Carto, the University of Tennessee, and speakers from many other organizations sharing updates and insights on cloud-native geo. This online event is an inclusive space for anyone curious about cloud-native geospatial, whether you’re an industry expert, an innovator, or just starting to explore cloud-native concepts. We invite you to join us to learn, connect, and engage with a field that’s rapidly changing how we work with geospatial data. Why You Should Attend Engage with the Future of Geospatial Cloud-native geospatial represents a transformative approach to handling data. At this conference, you’ll get an inside view into how cloud-native technology makes geospatial data faster, more flexible, and more scalable. And then discover how this...

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In numerous posts, we have been discussing synthetic populations and their use in agent-based modeling. But there are many modeling styles that also utilize synthetic populations. In our own work we often spend significant amounts of time creating such synthetic populations, especially those grounded with data, due to the time needed to collect, preprocess and generate the final synthetic population. To alleviate this, we (Na (Richard) Jiang, Fuzhen Yin, Boyu Wang and myself) have a new paper published in Scientific Data, entitled "A Large-Scale Geographically Explicit Synthetic Population with Social Networks for the United States." Our aim of this paper is to build and provide a geographically explicit synthetic population along with its social networks using open data including that from the latest 2020 U.S. Census which can be used in a variety of geo-simulation models.Summary of the Resulting Datasets.Specially, in the paper we outline how we created the a synthetic population...

One of the major outputs of Taylor Geospatial Engine’s first Innovation Bridge is the recently released Fields of The World dataset, also known as FTW. We wanted to take some time for a deep dive into the core idea, the various parts of the effort, and where things could go from here. The post Introducing Fields of The World appeared first on Taylor Geospatial Engine.

Am diesjährigen CNO Panel vom 28. Oktober im Casino Bern waren wir mit unserer CNO Academy zum Thema «KI und Nachhaltigkeit» vertreten. Die Resonanz der Besucherinnen und Besucher für die drei EBP-Workshops war überwältigend: Mit mehr als 65 Anmeldungen war unsere CNO Academy bis auf den letzten Platz ausgebucht. Unsere Workshops zogen zahlreiche Fachleute aus …

How to turn vector elevation lines into a grid - and build it from Lego The post Rasterizing Vector Data in Python appeared first on Towards Data Science.

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Summary: I’m involved in organising a hackathon, and I’d love you to take part. The open-source GeoTAM hackathon focuses on estimating turnover for individual business locations in the UK, from a variety of open datasets. Please checkout the hackathon page and sign up. There are prizes of up to £2,000! (Click image for a larger […]

It’s been a while since my post on geo and the AI hype in 2019. Back then, I didn’t use the term “GeoAI”, even though it has certainly been around for a while (including, e.g., with dedicated SIGSPATIAL workshops since 2017). GeoAI isn’t one single thing. It’s an umbrella term, including: “AI for Geo” (using …Read More

These systems are not just about understanding our present but about anticipating our future—guiding us safely and sustainably through the challenges ahead.

While in the past we have written about how we can use agent-based models to capture basic patterns of life, and even developed a simulations, but until now we have never really demonstrated how we go about this. However, at the  SIGSPATIAL 2024 conference  we (Hossein Amiri, Will Kohn, Shiyang Ruan, Joon-Seok Kim, Hamdi Kavak, Dieter Pfoser, Carola Wenk, Andreas Zufle and myslf) have a demonstration paper entitled "The Pattern of Life Human Mobility Simulation." in which we show: How to run the Patterns of Life Simulation with the graphical user interface (GUI) to visually explore the mobility patterns of a region.How to run the Patterns of Life Simulation headless (without GUI) for large-scale data generation.How to adapt the simulation to any region in the world using OpenStreetMap data,Showcase how recent scalability improvements allow us to simulate hundreds of thousands of agents.If this sounds of interest, below we show the GUI to the model, along with the steps to generate a...

Making sense of planetary data with next-generation AI.

Friends, earlier this week I mentioned that I’d completed a whole bunch of terrain sketches using some novel techniques that allowed me to create a hachure drawing style from digital elevation data. If you’d like to see the whole set, I’ve now assembled them into a quick eBook for your perusing. Click the image below … Continue reading A Free eBook of Terrain Lines →

In the past we have written about the use of synthetic populations and their use in agent-based models. We are finding such synthetic populations to be extremely useful in the creation or initialization of agent-based models. To give you a sense of how we are utilizing such synthetic populations at the 7th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Geospatial Simulation (GeoSim 2024),   Na (Richard) Jiang and myself have a new paper entitled  "Studying Contagious Disease Spread Utilizing Synthetic Populations Inspired by COVID-19: An Agent-based Modeling Framework." In the paper we show how we can we utilize a method to create the geographically-explicit synthetic population along with capturing their social networks and how this can be used to study  contagious disease spread (and various lineages of the disease) in Western New York. If this sounds of interest, below you can read the abstract from the paper, see some of the results and find the full reference and the link to the paper....

I thought I would switch topics and start to talk about things like Large Language Models and how they could be applied to things like Geographic Information System (GIS) data.  To do this, I think first it would be good … Continue reading →

Just a quick post, In recently released Encyclopedia of Human Geography edited by Barney Warf we were asked to write a short chapter entitled "Agent-based Models and Geography" In the chapter we discuss how over  the last several decades, agent-based modeling has gained widespread adoption in geography.and introduce the reader to what are agent-based models, how they have developed and types of geographical applications that can be explored with them, especially when linked to Geographical Information Systems (GIS). The chapter concludes with a brief summary along with a discussion of challenges and opportunities with agent-based modeling (ABM). If this sounds of interest, below you can find the full reference and link to the chapter. Example application domains for agent-based models over various spatial and temporal scales. For more examples and further details can be found at https://www.gisagents.org/Full Referece:Crooks, A.T. and Jiang, N. (2024), Agent-based Models and...

In the past we have explored how agent-based modeling can be used to study vaccine uptake and what is the mechanism underlying the diffusion of different vaccine opinions in hybrid spaces (e.g., physical, relational and cyber) can affect individuals’ vaccination decisions. But this prior work was limited to  just one small area. However, we know that urban and rural communities have different levels of digital connectivity and we were wondering if our initial findings are applicable to other counties which are more urban or to a larger study area. To explore this, at the 7th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Geospatial Simulation (GeoSim 2024)  we (Fuzhen Yin, Na Jiang, Lucie Laurian and myself) have a paper entitled "Agent-based Modeling of COVID-19 Vaccine uptake in New York State: Information Diffusion in Hybrid Spaces". This paper significantly extends our previous work in a number of ways. First we move from a single rural county to the entire state of New York which has...

Geopy's great circle method The post How to Make Proximity Maps with Python appeared first on Towards Data Science.

Gentle readers, I have some exciting things to share with you. After several months of tinkering and toolmaking, I have created a series of posters of iconic peaks (and other terrain), illustrated in a sketch style inspired by old hachure drawings. There are 37 designs to choose from, and I hope you’ll browse through. And, … Continue reading A New Take on an Old Style →

Die Mailingliste grass-dev (GRASS GIS Development) wurde von Mailman auf die Discourse-Plattform von OSGeo umgestellt. The post Umzug der Mailingliste grass-dev zu OSGeo Discourse appeared first on Markus Neteler Consulting.

How to contribute to GRASS GIS development: Guidance for new developers in the GRASS GIS Project. The post How to contribute to GRASS GIS development appeared first on Markus Neteler Consulting.

The effects of educational attainment on individuals and society have been the subject of much research. However, there is still a need to study what factors matter the most, and what is worth investing more time and resources into, and how new methods of analysis can provide additional ways of looking into some of the challenges faced by higher education. To this end at the 2024 International Conference of the Computational Social Science Society of the Americas (CSSSA), Amira Al-Khulaidy Stine and myself had a paper entitled "Retention in Higher Education: An Agent-Based Model of Social Interactions and Motivated Agent Behavior."  In the paper we introduce an agent-based model which explores retention where we focus on students and their levels of motivation (i.e., "grit"), their immediate connections (i.e., sense of belonging) and institutional support. At the same time we capture institutional locales (i.e., urban and rural) and their selectivity. Taken all together the model...

Innovation, at its best, is invisible; there is just an audible sigh of satisfaction. A good strategy is to make things look the same but be better.

As part of our showcase of the seed grant awardees for the Field Boundaries for Agriculture initiative, Taylor Geospatial Engine is pleased to highlight Jed Sundwall and Radiant Earth. The post Innovation Bridge Community Spotlight: Jed Sundwall and Radiant Earth appeared first on Taylor Geospatial Engine.

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Building upon last year’s successful sessions related to geosimulation, were various topics and issues from across the urban, social and environmental fields and the resulting application areas. More excitingly, we are witnessing the emergence of the integration of cutting-edge techniques (e.g., machine learning and generative AI) which is energizing the geosimulation community as they offer new approaches for advancing geosimulations. This year, the 2025 AAG Annual Meeting will take place in Detroit, Michigan from March 24 to March 28. We are continuing to organize sessions on "Geosimulations for Addressing Societal Challenges," and we encourage you to submit abstracts if this area aligns with your research interests.Session Description:There is an urgent need for research that promotes sustainability in an era of societal challenges ranging from climate change, population growth, aging and wellbeing to that of pandemics. These need to be directly fed into policy. We, as a...

Welcome to GeoAI Unpacked! I am Ali Ahmadalipour and in this newsletter, I’ll be sharing insights and deep dives in geospatial AI, focusing on business opportunities and industry challenges.

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Unter diesen Titel habe ich meinen Vortrag im Rahmen des GEOSummit-Webinars vom 15.10.2024 gestellt. Ich war angefragt worden, mich zum Zustand der Schweizer Geoinformationslandschaft zu äussern und zu überlegen, wo es bezüglich Bereitstellung und Verteilung von Geoinformationen heute noch harzt und worin allfällige Lösungen bestehen könnten. Das GEOSummit-Webinar funktionierte wie alle Webinare in diesem Rahmen …

In 2024, it's time to leave Teams and IRC behind to enter a new era where you can chat directly from QGIS with other GIS fellows. #GISChat #GISTribe

We are excited to announce the founding CNG Editorial Board, a group of leaders in our community who have graciously volunteered to guide our work. The experience and good judgment of our board helps us identify new technologies on the horizon and what fads can we safely ignore as we create our events and content. The editorial board is also designed to provide opportunities for visibility and leadership to our community members. Half of the CNG editorial board will be replaced every 12 months with new members selected by the existing editorial board. This will allow us to gain expertise from more people throughout our community and support emerging leaders. We are immensely grateful to our board for their support as we build CNG together. Ryan Abernathy CEO Earthmover Dana Bauer Geographer-at-large Freelance Tyler Erickson Founder VorGeo ...

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How to get clients, reviews and stable income The post My Freelance Experience as a Geo Data Scientist on UpWork after 10 Months appeared first on Towards Data Science.

Hopefully the final installment in our 'Dependency protection in Python' series

In today’s fast-paced, data-driven world, industries rely more than ever on geographic information systems (GIS) and geospatial technologies to streamline operations, make informed decisions, and foster growth. As an HR professional tasked with identifying top talent in this specialized field, understanding the value of GIS professionals and how they contribute to various sectors is paramount. […]

I thought I’d finally wrap this up so I can move on to other things.  Since I’ve last posted, I replaced my Jankinator 1000 (nVidia Tesla P40 with a water cooler) and my nVidia RTX 2060 with an Intel Arc … Continue reading →

A quick post today to talk about a couple of PostGIS functions I learnt recently. I had a CSV file that contained well-known binary (WKB) representations of geometries, stored as hexadecimal strings. I imported the CSV into a PostGIS database, and wanted to convert these to be proper PostGIS geometries. I initially went for the […]

For a long time now I’ve maintained a version of the Public Domain Census Tiger Data converted from county-level to state-level.  Over the years I’ve actually had a lot of those shape files downloaded so I’m glad they were useful … Continue reading →

The Four Corners, FL Urban Area experienced the highest percent population change (31.7% or 92,396 to 121,694), from 2020 to 2023, among the 431 Urban Areas having 2023 population of 65,000 or more. Urban Areas are a statistical geography defined … Continue reading →

Rust can be useful for building geospatial systems, but it's not a silver bullet.

The post Migration of grass-dev mailing list to OSGeo Discourse appeared first on Markus Neteler Consulting.

At TGE, our guiding principle is to contribute purposefully by elevating research-grade innovation into user-friendly and accessible capabilities that have broad awareness and reach. Because we are a very small team, this means that we are heads down most of the time. It’s important this week to take a minute to pop up and do a little celebrating! Two very different efforts, that are both critically important to us, have reached milestones. The post Celebrating Our Community’s Success appeared first on Taylor Geospatial Engine.

Last year I ran into the always-incisive Will Cadell and we immediately started discussing a favorite hallway-track topic:  how to effectively sell Geo. ME:  “If I had to do it all over again, I wouldn’t even bother with the web but just sell PDF maps to the Oil & Gas industry with big red arrows that […]

Understanding modern techniques for encoding geographic coordinates in a neural network The post Geographic Position Encoders appeared first on Towards Data Science.

It’s been a while since I posted here – I kind of lost momentum over the summer (which is a busy time with a school-aged child) and never really picked it up again. Anyway, I wanted to write a quick post to tell people that I won two awards at the British Cartographic Society awards […]

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Exploring the technical implementation of directional markers for an improved user experience.

Welcome to GeoAI Unpacked! I am Ali Ahmadalipour and in this newsletter, I’ll be sharing insights and deep dives in geospatial AI, focusing on business opportunities and industry challenges.

In case you haven’t seen the news – we had a lot of rain Last Friday. A hurricane hit Florida and then proceeded to drench a large portion of the world I Inhabit I was fine. Chattanooga was fine. North East Tennessee and Western North Carolina aren’t. The more I read up that also included […] The post Paper Maps or Something close appeared first on North River Geographic Systems Inc.

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Back to entry 1 I was glancing at the New York Times and saw that Catherine, the Princess of Wales, had released an update on her treatment. And I thought, “wow, I hope she’s doing well”. And then I thought, “wow, I bet she gets a lot of positive affirmation and support from all kinds of people”. I mean, she’s a princess. Even us non-princesses, we need support too, and I have to say that I have been blown away by how kind the people around me in my life have been. And also how kind the other folks who I have never really talked with before have been. I try to thank my wife as often as I can. It is hard not to feel like a burden when I am, objectively, a burden, no matter how much she avers I am not. I am still not fully well (for reasons), and I really want to be the person she married, a helpful full partner. It is frustrating to still be taking more than I’m giving. From writing about my experience here, I have heard from other cancer survivors, and other folks who have...

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Lineage distribution of SARS-CoV-2 across geographic regions of Ontario, Canada, Western New York, and New York City over timeIn the past we have posted on using agent-based models for explore the spread of diseases. We have been keeping up with this work especially in light of COVID-19. To this end we are excited to introduce our new paper entitled "Genomic Profiling and Spatial SEIR Modeling of COVID-19 Transmission in Western New York" published in Frontiers in Microbiology"  In this paper have been collaborating with other researchers at the University at Buffalo who focus  on the genomic sequencing of various lineages distribution of SARS-CoV-2. What is special about this  new paper is that we explore how such linages change over space and time and how this relates to movement patterns. If this sounds of interest, below you can read the abstract of the paper, see some the lineages in different regions which change over space and time, and our agent-based model which explores how...

Tell Us About Yourself I grew up in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and moved to Austin, Texas, where I was an undergraduate student and then a geologist. I’m currently graduating in October from an international cartography master’s program based in Europe, and I am excited to see what life brings next. Tell us the story behind […] The post Maps and Mappers of the 2024 Calendar – September – Phoebe Ly appeared first on GeoHipster.

The PostGIS Team is pleased to release PostGIS 3.5.0! Best Served with PostgreSQL 17 RC1 and GEOS 3.13.0. This version requires PostgreSQL 12 - 17, GEOS 3.8 or higher, and Proj 6.1+. To take advantage of all features, GEOS 3.12+ is needed. SFCGAL 1.4+ is needed to enable postgis_sfcgal support. To take advantage of all SFCGAL features, SFCGAL 1.5 is needed. 3.5.0 source download md5 NEWS PDF docs: en ja, fr, zh_Hans HTML Online en ja fr zh_Hans Cheat Sheets: postgis: en ja fr zh_Hans postgis_raster: en ja fr zh_Hans postgis_topology: en ja fr zh_Hans postgis_sfcgal: en ja fr zh_Hans address standardizer, postgis_tiger_geocoder: en ja fr zh_Hans This release is a feature release that includes bug fixes since PostGIS 3.4.3, new features, and a few breaking changes.

The US government should build searchable indices (e.g. STAC) for their geospatial data, and it should devote resources (aka money) to helping open commercial satellite companies' archives.

I’ve been too busy to write anything as of late. I have a lot to talk about – just not much time to do it. So FOSS4GNA happened on Sept 9-11 2024. Probably the biggest thing for me during the conference was we had two BOFs on QGIS. Granted – I think it was supposed […] The post QGIS US User Group appeared first on North River Geographic Systems Inc.

Back to entry 1 What happened there, I didn’t write for three months! Two words: “complications”, and “recovery”. In a terrifying medical specialty like cancer treatment, one of the painful ironies is that patients spend a lot of time suffering from complications and side effects of the treatments, rather than the cancer. In my case and many others, the existence of the cancer isn’t even noticable without fancy diagnostic machines. The treatments on the other hand… those are very noticable! A lot of this comes with the territory of major surgery and dangerous chemicals. My surgery included specific possible complications including, but not limited to: incontinence, sexual disfunction, urinary disfunction, and sepsis. Fortunately, I avoided all the complications specific to my surgery. What I did not avoid was a surprisingly common complication of spending some time in a hospital while taking broad spectrum antibiotics–I contracted the “superbug” clostridioides difficile, aka...

Don't Get Blinded By Your Vendor's Stories

Last week I had the honor to give a keynote talk entitled "Exploring the World from the Bottom Up with GIS and Agent-based Models: Past, Present and Future" at the 19th annual Social Simulation Conference which is the European Social Simulation Association (ESSA) annual conference. Attending the conference was a great experience being exposed to various applications of social simulation, catching up with old friends and meeting many new people. For anyone interested below I have pasted the abstract from my talk and the slides from the talk can be found here. Abstract We have seen explosion in the availability of data along with utilizing such data in agent-based models. At the same time, we have seen a huge growth in computational power and the associating agent-based models to real world locations through the use of geographical information systems (GIS). This talk will explore how geographically explicit agent-based models have grown and evolved over the last 20 years taking...

Bringing a new approach to an old way of thinking

.. the new 119th Congress Congressional Districts are those that will be used in the 2024 elections .. each state has one or more congressional districts whose boundaries are based on redistricting and the decennial census. Each of the U.S. … Continue reading →

As part of our showcase of the seed grant awardees for the Field Boundaries for Agriculture initiative, Taylor Geospatial Engine is pleased to highlight Dr Nathan Jabobs. Dr Jacobs is Director of the Multimodal Vision Research Laboratory (MVRL) and a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, MO. His research centers on developing learning-based algorithms and systems for extracting information from large-scale image collections. The post Innovation Bridge Community Spotlight: Dr. Nathan Jacobs appeared first on Taylor Geospatial Engine.

The first significant release of Python bindings for stac-rs.

We’re excited to announce the Cloud-Native Geospatial Forum (CNG) membership program. We have changed our name, but not our commitment to making geospatial data easier to access and use. As geospatial data becomes more important, so does the need for a vendor-agnostic, trusted platform to help people understand the true benefits and limitations of geospatial technology. CNG is stepping up to meet this need, providing a neutral forum where geospatial data users can come together and exchange ideas, share experiences, and learn from one another. Our membership program is designed to unite and empower a diverse community of geospatial professionals from across industries and specialties. In the last few years, we’ve witnessed how the cloud ecosystem, fueled by open standards, has changed how we work with geospatial data online. Cloud-native technologies have created capabilities that have been rapidly adopted across the commercial and public sectors. Despite this, many...

Slides and reflections from FOSS4G-NA 2024 in St. Louis.

A new release of stac-rs that includes STAC v1.1 and stac-geoparquet support.

How a design sprint helped us envision the future of food systems.

More than just a data platform, Prescient is a gateway to smarter, safer, and more efficient operations. Designed to help midstream companies optimize Lidar data, Prescient makes data management easier and boosts risk mitigation. The post Enhancing Risk Management in the Midstream Oil and Gas Industry with LiDAR and Prescient appeared first on Sparkgeo.

In May last year, we announced the “Cloud-Native Geospatial Foundation” as an initiative to “help people adopt patterns and best practices for efficiently sharing Earth science data on the Internet using a cloud-native approach.” Since then, we’ve done quite a bit. We’ve published 29 blog posts and quickly attracted over 1,000 followers on X. We created a new Slack workspace which has over 400 members and 200 monthly active users. Combined with some of Radiant Earth’s previously created online channels, we now have a social media following of over 6,000 across X, LinkedIn, and Medium, and our quarterly newsletter has over 8,000 subscribers. We have hosted in-person sprints for Zarr, STAC, and GeoParquet. We’ve been a part of the first SatCamp, the ESIP 2023 Summer and Winter Meeting Cloud Computing sessions, and convened a two-day workshop in Rwanda focused on improving access to air quality data throughout Africa. We’ve hosted a series of webinars to introduce...

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The PostGIS Team is pleased to release PostGIS 3.5.0beta1! Best Served with PostgreSQL 17 RC1 and GEOS 3.13.0. This version requires PostgreSQL 12 - 17, GEOS 3.8 or higher, and Proj 6.1+. To take advantage of all features, GEOS 3.12+ is needed. SFCGAL 1.4+ is needed to enable postgis_sfcgal support. To take advantage of all SFCGAL features, SFCGAL 1.5 is needed. 3.5.0beta1 source download md5 NEWS PDF docs: en ja, zh_Hans, fr This release is a beta of a major release, it includes bug fixes since PostGIS 3.4.3 and new features.

The PostGIS Team is pleased to release PostGIS 3.5.0rc1! Best Served with PostgreSQL 17 RC1 and GEOS 3.13.0. This version requires PostgreSQL 12 - 17, GEOS 3.8 or higher, and Proj 6.1+. To take advantage of all features, GEOS 3.12+ is needed. SFCGAL 1.4+ is needed to enable postgis_sfcgal support. To take advantage of all SFCGAL features, SFCGAL 1.5 is needed. 3.5.0rc1 source download md5 NEWS PDF docs: en ja, zh_Hans, fr This release is a release candidate of a major release, it includes bug fixes since PostGIS 3.4.3 and new features. Changes since 3.5.0beta1 are as follows: #5779 Failures building in parallel mode (Sandro Santilli) #5778, Sections missing in What’s new (Regina Obe)

Understanding the different types of GIS data, formats, and their uses is critical for anyone looking to maximize the potential of GIS technology.

Case study of the Russian-Ukrainian war The post Can You See the War from Space? appeared first on Towards Data Science.

We are proud to announce the final release of STAC 1.1.0. The focus has been the addition of a common band construct to unify the fields eo:bands and raster:bands. Additionally, Item Asset Definition (field item_assets) - formerly a popular STAC extension - is now part of the core specification. Various additional fields have been made available via the common metadata mechanism, e.g. keywords, roles, data_type and unit. We collaborated closely with the editors of OGC API - Records to align better with STAC, which resulted, for example, in a change to the license field. The link object was extended to support additional HTTP mechanisms such as HTTP methods other than GET and HTTP headers. The best practices have evolved and various minor changes and clarifications were integrated throughout the specification. A shoutout to all the participants and sponsors of the last STAC sprint in Philadelphia, who laid a solid basis for this release. Emmanuel Mathot and I were...

7 Nov 2024 Edit: Updated the command to install Pytorch. 22 Dec 2024 Edit: Updated and simplified the software install as there are aliases now. Note: It’s much easier if you upgrade your environment to just nuke the conda install … Continue reading →

Join the Taylor Geospatial Engine team on September 12, 2024 in St. Louis, MO for the 2024 Geo-Resolution conference. This year’s conference focuses on the development and application of geospatial models, such as digital twins, that can be used to address some of the world’s most critical challenges. The post Join Us at Geo-Resolution 2024 appeared first on Taylor Geospatial Engine.

The PostGIS Team is pleased to release PostGIS 3.4.7! This is a bug fix release. 3.3.7 source download md5 NEWS PDF docs: en

The PostGIS Team is pleased to release PostGIS 3.4.3! This version requires PostgreSQL 12-17, GEOS 3.8+, and Proj 6.1+. To take advantage of all features, GEOS 3.12+ is needed. To take advantage of all SFCGAL features, SFCGAL 1.5+ is needed. 3.4.3 source download md5 NEWS PDF docs: en, ja, fr

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Have you ever got a really good piece of life advice from your dad? Something along the lines of Good intentions matter, but your actions will define you.That’s basically what a design principle is, but instead of your dad, it’s a designer. And instead of advice about life, it’s about the thing you're building. The post Sparkgeo’s Design Principles appeared first on Sparkgeo.

John is a geospatial consultant based in Fremantle, Western Australia, where he runs Mammoth Geospatial, an open-source-focused GIS company. Specialising in open source GIS consulting and training, his career has taken him from BC & the Yukon to South America, PNG, the Pacific, and Australia. Deeply involved in the open geo community, John started Geogeeks Perth, chaired […] The post Local FOSS4Gs are a great way to bring the magic to the community appeared first on GeoHipster.

This post introduces STAC GeoParquet, a specification and library for storing and serving SpatioTemporal Asset Catalogs (STAC) metadata as GeoParquet. By building on GeoParquet, STAC GeoParquet makes it easy to store, transmit, and analyze large collections of STAC items. It makes for a nice complement to a STAC API. STAC Background STAC makes geospatial data queryable, especially “semi-structured” geospatial data like a collection of cloud-optimized GeotTIFFs (COGs) from a satellite. I can’t imagine trying to work with this type of data without a STAC API. Concretely, STAC metadata consists of JSON documents describing the actual assets. STAC metadata can typically be accessed in two ways: Through a static STAC catalog, which is just a JSON document linking to other JSON documents (STAC Collections and / or STAC Items, which include the links to the assets) Through a STAC API, which also enables things like search. In practice, I haven’t encountered much data...

Addressing the fragmented access to crisis response data

In the past we have wrote about using simulation to build synthetic datasets for trajectory analysis due to the limited availability of real world comprehensive datasets. In relation to this work we  (Andreas Züfle, Dieter Pfoser, Carola Wenk, Hamdi Kavak, Taylor Anderson, Joon-Seok Kim, Nathan Holt, Andrew DiAntonio and myself) have a new vision paper entitled "In Silico Human Mobility Data Science: Leveraging Massive Simulated Mobility Data" published in Transactions on Spatial Algorithms and Systems. In the paper we sketch out a framework  for in silico mobility data science. The rationale being in someway that mobility data alone does not tell us much about why people do what do and to quote from the paper "but imagine a world where we can go back in time to ask people about the purpose of their mobility to understand why an individual visited a place of interest." By building models (aka, agent-based models) we can do just that which therefore allows us to build in silico human...

.. examining block group demographics developed for Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act .. block groups (BGs) are the smallest geographic areas for which demographic data are developed from the American Community Survey (ACS). The most recent Citizen Voting … Continue reading →

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Spatial and Community

Why and when to use the FeatureHolder transformer in FME workflows.

The GRASS GIS 8.4.0 release provides more than 520 improvements and fixes with respect to the release 8.3.2. The post GRASS GIS 8.4.0 released appeared first on Markus Neteler Consulting.

Taylor Geospatial Engine and the core team of the Field Boundaries for Agriculture (fiboa) project are happy to share another technical update from Matthias Mohr and the Cloud-Native Geospatial Foundation on the continued development of open source tools to accelerate innovation in AI and computer vision models to extract field boundaries from earth observation imagery. The post Creating Interoperable Field Boundary Data with the fiboa Converter Tool | Cloud-Native Geospatial Foundation appeared first on Taylor Geospatial Engine.

I’m Chris(topher) Ren, and this is my publication.

The post describes the creation of an ArcGIS Dashboard in ArcGIS Enterprise to track data collection progress on field assets, including photo capturing. A dynamic query counts the number of attached photos and a map displays the results. The feature class is in an Enterprise Geodatabase on SQL Server with enabled attachments and versioning.

Automation is crucial in my work as a Geospatial Professional. I rely on three key types of automation: Dynamic, which reacts to user interaction; Scheduled, which runs tasks at set intervals; and Triggered, which responds to specific events. These methods streamline data management, map creation, and dashboard building for efficient projects.

Part 1 This is part 2 which will be pretty simple. This is more of the “get organized” part. In part 1 I was able to generate a watershed boundary from LIDAR Elevation Data. After it was generated I went back and checked the watershed line and really only found one thing that looked weird. […] The post Watershed Geo Part 2 appeared first on North River Geographic Systems Inc.

Geospatial technology has been a significant component in the last several Olympics, and Paris 2024 is no exception.

How many pixels are captured but never looked at; how many pixels could be captured but aren't?

It’s already been three years since the last release of the STAC specification and it’s time to improve the specification based on feedback from the STAC community that we received since the last release. After some intense time of discussions and document editing, we are proud to announce the release of STAC 1.1.0-beta.1. The focus has been the addition of a common band construct to unify the fields eo:bands and raster:bands. Additionally, Item Asset Definition (field item_assets) - formerly a popular STAC extension - is now part of the core specification. Various additional fields have been made available via the common metadata mechanism, e.g. keywords, roles, data_type and unit. We collaborated closely with the editors of OGC API - Records to align better with STAC, which resulted, for example, in a change to the license field. The link object was extended to support additional HTTP mechanisms such as HTTP methods other than GET and HTTP headers. The best...

In May, we discussed Field Boundaries for Agriculture (fiboa) and the fiboa ecosystem and mentioned that there is a new converter tool, which can take non-fiboa datasets and help you turn it into fiboa datasets. Back then we had 5 very similar datasets converted. In the meantime, we’ve converted additional datasets and improved the converter tool. Today, we’d like to give an update on the status and show how easy it is for you to make your field boundaries more useful by converting and providing them in a “standardized” format. Seven people are currently working on creating more than 40 converters: ~20 converters are fully implemented and easily usable ~20 converters are currently in development and available in a draft version How does it work that we can convert so many datasets so easily? We have implemented the fiboa Command Line Interface (CLI), which is a program that offers various tools to work with field boundary data. One of them is a command to convert...

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.. the growing/changing U.S. Hispanic population .. between 2022 and 2023, the Hispanic population accounted for just under 71% of the overall growth of the U.S. population, driven primarily by Hispanic births. Hispanics of any race grew to just over … Continue reading →

The EO sector has found itself in the Doldrums. How can we blow up a storm to move the market?

TL/DR – Funding is Hard. Last week I ran down a rabbit hole. While I’m passable as a sysadmin – my skills are lacking in some areas. I had a conversation with someone on hardware and software and we ended on “How would you run this 911 stack of software if you had the choice?”. […] The post Geoserver Rabbit Holes appeared first on North River Geographic Systems Inc.

Tell Us About Yourself I’m a GIS Analyst at Summit Design and Engineering Services where I manage data and collection processes for projects focused on asset maintenance. I started my career in GIS on a whim; I was thinking of getting my masters in Geology but realized I would need to fill a GIS-sized hole in […] The post Maps and Mappers of the 2024 Calendar – Katherine Rudzki – July appeared first on GeoHipster.

How to create building model maps in Python The post Visualizing 3D Spatial Data With Pydeck appeared first on Towards Data Science.

Today, we celebrate a true geospatial legend: GRASS GIS! The post Happy 41st birthday, GRASS GIS! appeared first on Markus Neteler Consulting.

Predicting urban blight via street view imagery to enable violence reduction

Making sense of huge amounts of remote sensing data is a job that many companies are working hard to solve. TorchGeo aims to fill the gap between deep learning and remote sensing.  The post Remote Sensing and Computer Vision: TorchGeo Data Loading appeared first on Sparkgeo.

So this will be my last “New Class” announcement for a bit. Back in the spring of 2024, I taught a 4 hour QGIS and LIDAR class at the TNGIC meeting (State of TN GIS meeting). I ran through it and shelved it and now I’m fixing the problem spots and smoothing down the rough […] The post QGIS and LIDAR appeared first on North River Geographic Systems Inc.

On July 11th, the military and political scene in Burma was uprooted as 2,000 soldiers from the United Wa State Army crossed the Salween River from their bases in the Wa Self-Administered Division and fanned out from the town of Tangyan across much of central Shan State.

Determining the burned area in forests due to wildfires using Sentinel-2 images with Python in Google Colab The post Quantifying Burned Areas from Wildfires Using Satellite Imagery appeared first on Towards Data Science.

.. VDAGIS Discovery (https://proximityone.com/vdagis_discovery) is a web-based tool thats provides issue-oriented stakeholders with access to easy-to-use Geographic Information Systems (GIS) resources .. for non-GIS users. VDAGIS Discovery may be accessed/used with any browser on any device. This unique and powerful … Continue reading →

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Over two years ago, the GeoParquet project brought together a diverse group of interests around a clear objective: standardizing how geospatial data is used within Parquet. The initial goal was modest: to ensure that any tool reading or writing spatially located geometries (points, lines and polygons) does so in a consistent and interoperable way. But the ultimate goal of the effort has been to make geospatial a primary data type within the broader data community, thereby breaking the ‘GIS’ data silo and enabling the seamless integration of geospatial data with all other data types. We envision a world where spatial data is simply another column in your dataset, not a special case requiring unique handling. This integration will unlock new insights, reduce the need for specialized tools, and make geospatial information accessible to a broader range of users and innovations. Without standardization, the current situation is that...

On June 25th in Northern Shan State and Mandalay Region, the approximately 6-month long Haigeng ceasefire broke down following mutual escalation and Junta air-and-artillery strikes on rallying resistance forces between Kyaukme and Mogok. In the first fourteen days following the resumption of clashes in the area, Resistance forces - primarily the Ta’ang National Liberation Army - captured 4 military bases along with the towns of

The fusion of Project Jupyter with powerful cloud-native solutions is reshaping browser-based geospatial scientific computing.

Government contractors and departments within the military use geospatial technology to improve operations and carry out missions.

Data Monetization is a hot topic, with companies looking to create new revenue streams from this asset. Learn what the main problems are and how to work around them to build and sell your Data-as-a-Service products.

Summary: I’ve created a demo web app where you can search an aerial photo of Southampton, UK using text queries such as "roundabout", "tennis court" or "ship". It uses vector embeddings to do this – which I explain in this blog post. In this post I’m going to try and explain a bit more about […]

Key takeaways and future directions from our recent convening.

A Step-by-Step Guide to Deploy YOLOv8 for Object Detection and Counting on Your Customized Database from A to Z. The post How Many Cars Are in This Aerial Imagery? Let’s Count Them with YOLOv8 from Scratch! appeared first on Towards Data Science.

I am excited to be presenting at the ESRI User Conference in San Diego this year. I will be presenting my work on creating a 3D Printed Map. I will be presenting on Wednesday, Jul 17, 8:30 AM – 9:30 AM PDT in the Marriott Grand Ballroom Salon 10. If you would like to attend […]

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I’m interested to find out who is reading my blog. Following the lead of Jamie Tanna who was in turn copying Terence Eden (both of whose blogs I read), I’d like to ask people who read this to drop me an email or leave a comment on this post if you read this blog and […]

The PostGIS Team is pleased to release PostGIS 3.5.0alpha2! Best Served with PostgreSQL 17 Beta2 and GEOS 3.12.2. This version requires PostgreSQL 12 - 17, GEOS 3.8 or higher, and Proj 6.1+. To take advantage of all features, GEOS 3.12+ is needed. SFCGAL 1.4-1.5 is needed to enable postgis_sfcgal support. To take advantage of all SFCGAL features, SFCGAL 1.5 is needed. 3.5.0alpha2 source download md5 NEWS PDF docs: en ja, zh_Hans, fr This release is an alpha of a major release, it includes bug fixes since PostGIS 3.4.2 and new features.

Call for Abstracts! At the 2024 American Geophysical Union (AGU) meeting to be held during the 9th to 13th of December in Washington, D.C., Carter Christopher, Wenwen Li, Gautam Thakur and myself are organizing a session entitled: “GC077: Future Map: The Convergence of Generative GeoAI, Population Synthesis, and Agent-Based Modeling to Develop Geographic Futures for Climate Assessments” Abstract: The climate community has long developed reliable climate models grounded in trusted Earth systems data and physics, but it has not been until recently that human dynamics and feedbacks have been viewed as a necessary coupling within these models. Including human dynamics within integrated models necessitates a forecasted understanding of human transitions within the landscape. The geospatial science domain has typically not looked forward through simulations. Advances in agent-based modeling, synthetic population generation, and GeoAI/GenAI are presenting new opportunities for generating...

In the recent edition of Key Thinkers on Space and Place edited by Mary Gilmartin, Phil Hubbard, Rob Kitchin and Sue Roberts, I was asked to write a chapter about Mike Batty. While I have known Mike for a while, to say writing the chapter was easy, is a understatement. In the sense, we had a word constraint (3,000 words plus references) and trying to sum up his biographical details and theoretical context, his spatial contributions along with his key advances and controversies, and key works was a challenge.  Anyway, if you would like to read a draft of my contribution to the book and my attempt to sum up Mikes work, you can find the reference and the link to the chapter below.Full reference:  Crooks, A.T. (2024), Michael Batty, in Gilmartin, M., Hubbard, P., Kitchin, R. and Roberts, S. (eds.), Key Thinkers on Space and Place (3rd edition), Sage, London, UK. pp. 37-43. (pdf)

For months now I’ve been collecting a load of links saying that I’ll get round to blogging them "soon". Well, I’m currently babysitting for a friend’s daughter (who is sleeping peacefully upstairs), so I’ve finally found time to write them up. So, here are a load of links – a lot of them are geospatial- […]

As Earth observation data becomes more abundant and diverse, the Earth Observation user community has spent considerable effort trying to find a common definition of “Analysis-Ready Data” (ARD). One of the most obvious reasons this is hard is that it relies on the assumption that we can predict what kind of analysis a user wants to perform. Certainly, someone using satellite imagery to analyze evapotranspiration is going to need something very different from someone trying to detect illegal mines. Despite this, we believe there is some degree of preprocessing, metadata provision, and harmonization that will be useful for most users to move more quickly. This blog post is an overview of our current thinking on ARD based on work we’ve been doing with NASA, the Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS) Systems Engineering Office, and others over the past year. STAC Some of the challenges of aligning around a definition of ARD has been solved by adoption of the...

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Explore any point on Earth at any time using satellite data with Streamlit The post Creating a Streamlit App for Satellite Imagery Visualization: A Step-by-Step Guide appeared first on Towards Data Science.

Creating a challenge for change

How NASA's Catalog of Archived Suborbital Earth Science Investigations brings airborne campaigns to life through interactive web visualizations

For the OGC Montreal meeting, I was asked to take part in the debate. This is my opening statement.

Historical records of the UEFA European Championship results The post UEFA Euro 2024 Map appeared first on Towards Data Science.

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.. anyone with Internet access, even a mobile device, can use the iVDA tool to interactively map and examine any state legislative district (SLD). Click here to start now. No cost, nothing to install, no registration. See more about State … Continue reading →

A tutorial in Python with an open data stack The post An Open Data-Driven Approach to Optimising Healthcare Facility Locations Using Python appeared first on Towards Data Science.

Geospatial data and technologies have revolutionized this process, providing detailed, real-time information that can significantly enhance the speed and accuracy of post-disaster evaluations.

Esri has some documentation that shows how to extract the descriptions of coded value domains and subtypes with an SQL query in an Enterprise Geodatabase. These pages seem to be in the archive section of their website and not in the latest documentation. I am documenting them here in case these pages are eventually deleted... Continue Reading →

Pixels are a pain and the source of all your EO product problems. Don't sell pixels; sell change.

In the past we have explored various ways to explore vaccine hesitancy and keeping with this theme we have a new paper published in PLOS ONE entitled "Understanding the determinants of vaccine hesitancy in the United States: A comparison of social surveys and social media" with Kuleen Sasse, Ron Mahabir, Olga Gkountouna and Arie Croitoru. In the paper we use social, demographic and economic (e.g., US Census) variables to predict COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy levels in the ten most populous US metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs). By using  machine learning algorithms (e.g., linear regression, random forest regression, and XGBoost regression) we compare a set of baseline models that contain only these variables with models that incorporate survey data and social media (i.e., Twitter) data separately. We find that different algorithms perform differently along with variations in influential variables such as age, ethnicity, occupation, and political inclination across the five hesitancy...