Covering posts from 0800 ET September 26 to 0800 ET September 27. Sources: 166 geospatial feeds.
Sunday volume across the tracked feeds was thin. Once the job listings, product feature videos, and generic filler are cleared out, only a handful of posts in this window are worth a reader's time. Here are the highlights.
1. Canadians Are In The Dark About Their Wildfire Risk — EarthStuff Alasdair Rae flags a Globe and Mail investigation into how little many Canadians know about their own wildfire exposure, tagging it as a hazard mapping and assessment story. It's a short pointer rather than original reporting, but it surfaces a real gap in public risk awareness that hazard mapping is meant to close. → Read it
2. Names in OSM — Spatialists OpenStreetMap volunteers have now mapped 115 million place names worldwide, and a post on the OSM blog explains how the project handles local, official, and multilingual naming. Unlike some large commercial map providers, OSM's default map shows everyone the same local name rather than a localized substitute. → Read it
3. You are here in Glencoe — Mappery Another entry in Mappery's long-running collection of found "you are here" signage, this one submitted by contributor Paul Hardy. It's a small reminder that public wayfinding maps are their own quietly persistent design tradition. → Read it
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