Covering posts from 0800 ET August 1 to 0800 ET August 2. Sources: 162 geospatial feeds.
Quiet day across the feeds — here are the highlights.
Four items landed in the window and only two survive filtering: a jobs roundup from EarthStuff and a personal reflection post on Medium account for the rest. This is the weekend floor of the ecosystem, and it is worth noting what fills it. After a week in which the industry argued about synthetic imagery contaminating the consumer basemap, the one substantive technical post of the day is about choosing the right projection.
A practical guide to map projection mistakes — Spatialists Ralph Straumann surfaces Dominic Royé's breakdown of common projection errors and their fixes, organized around a taxonomy of equal-area, conformal, compromise, azimuthal, and equidistant projections. The examples are in R, but the failure modes are toolset-independent. Straightforward craft content of the kind the feeds produce less of than they should. → Read it
Self Posted Map — Mappery Gorg Verweyen contributed a map he made himself — all the houses, one stream, and two public transit lines of a village — now hanging in a local medical clinic. Light, but a useful reminder of the scale at which most maps actually get used. → Read it
No thematic convergence to report. Two substantive posts is below the threshold for topic analysis; normal service should resume with Monday's feeds.
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