Covering posts from 0800 ET July 4 to 0800 ET July 5. Sources: 113 geospatial feeds.
Quiet day across the feeds — a second straight holiday-weekend lull following July 4th, with personal Mappery posts, evergreen explainers, and institute-retreat writeups accounting for most of the volume. No thematic convergence strong enough to support the usual three-topic format. Here are the highlights worth a look:
1. PostGIS 3.7.0alpha1 Released — PostGIS The alpha of the next major PostGIS release is out, targeting PostgreSQL 14–19beta1 and requiring GEOS 3.10+ (3.15+ for full feature support). It's a substantive infrastructure milestone for the spatial database community rather than a routine patch, marking the start of the 3.7 release cycle. → Read on PostGIS
2. The Evidence Gap: Why the Next Frontier in GeoAI Is Not Better Seeing — Earth Observation on Medium Argues that as Earth AI models get better at pattern recognition, the harder unsolved problem is knowing what evidence is missing before a model's output gets treated as a decision-ready answer. A useful counterpoint to the mostly aspirational, capability-focused GeoAI discourse dominating the feeds this year. → Read on Medium
3. The Misleading Concept of the "Global South" — GeoCurrents Martin W. Lewis dissects the "Global North/Global South" framing, pointing out how the clean binary breaks down for outliers like Australia, New Zealand, Israel, and France's overseas departments once you look at the underlying wealth data UNCTAD uses to justify the split. A geographic-literacy piece worth a read for anyone who uses the terms uncritically. → Read on GeoCurrents
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