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What do you do when your favorite hosted image service gets retired? Learn how to convert vector features to rasters.

Using Sentinel-2 Level-2A from Living Atlas and raster function template to detect flooded areas in Map Viewer of ArcGIS Online.

I am a huge fan of GeoGuessr, but unfortunately without becoming a paid subscriber it is now a very limited game. I don't blame GeoGuessr for developing its subscription model. The Google Maps API isn't cheap and I'm sure Google sends GeoGuesssr huge invoices every month. However that does mean there is a huge potential market for a free geo-guessing type game.MapiGuesser MapiGuesser uses

Mr LeCartographe found this large physical map of Africa in Japanese at a second-hand shop

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I started mapping on 7 of August using StreetComplete. I discovered (unfortunately) that I understood some criteria concerning road smoothness wrong, and I was no longer sure if my edits from the first day were correct, so I decided to delete most of them, to remap and do it properly. Furthermore, I apologize if anyone had any inconvenience of my poor first mapping steps. I will stick to mapping and hope to improve in the future. :)

To day I added new apartments at Stabekk https://smedens-hage.no

We’ve curated a list of 11 standout highlights that capture the most impactful updates and moments from UC 2025. From immersive XR exploration..

…et wikipedia, modestement. Vive la communauté des contributeu·ices, et vive l’information libre (et décentralisée). Je voyage beaucoup et je suis de retour en Belgique. A bientôt ! LioRo

The dress that launched a million incredulous arguments and laid bare our fragile perceptual reality. Plus a map.

该标签用于提供通往住宅区或住宅区内的道路。虽然这些道路通常允许直通交通，但它们通常不用作直通路线。住宅道路上的大多数交通将用于进出住宅物业。主要通过交通或非住宅交通的道路应酌情使用不同的高速公路标签（例如，）进行标记（参见高速公路）。通往个别住宅的道路通常会被标记为（并且可能）。highway=residentialunclassifiedtertiaryhighway=serviceservice=driveway 对于城镇中的标记，考虑以下因素可能会很有用： residential– 通常用于定居点内当地交通的街道或道路。主要用于进入住宅物业，但可能包括进入一些非住宅物业（例如街角商店或便利店）。可能会有较低的速度限制或采取交通平静措施。 unclassified– 互连道路网络中优先级最低的道路。当交通不仅用于住宅通道时使用，即使住宅物业也可以通过这条道路进入。 tertiary– 使用取决于当地的地图惯例，但通常用于交通量低至中等的连接或连接道路。可能仍在住宅区，并且可能有住宅物业毗邻，但通常会连接多条住宅道路、当地活动中心或其他郊区。

Following on from yesterday’s post from Harlingen, here is a different version of the town plan alongside the harbour.

These Ocean Warming Stripes show the alarming extent to which average global sea surface temperatures have risen in the 21st Century, compared to the norm of annual global temperatures dating back to 1850. In the visualization, each year since 1850 is represented by a colored stripe. The color of each stripe is determined by the average global sea surface temperature. As you can see, there has

It’s summer break here at headquarters, so for a while things might be a bit quieter than usual.

The end of the spatial join? Vikram Gundeti, CTO of #Foursquare, is reimagining #geospatial for #datascientists by eliminating traditional GIS hurdles and embracing #ML-friendly, agent-ready solutions. Will geodata be seamlessly accessible and “mapless” by default?

I hardly ever do Mergin Maps blog posts. I need to do more. So I’ve been mapping random things in Chattanooga for OSM – which puts me out with my Bad Elf GPS and Mergin Maps. I don’t do nearly enough field work these days. It sort of scratches an itch. It’s fun. I’m probably […] The post Sketching in Mergin Maps appeared first on North River Geographic Systems Inc.

In my mental model of a walkability map it’s not enough to know how far away something is, but also how long it takes me to get there. My perceptions of the same distances, but with different walk times, are much different. There are realities that slow me down like intersections, buildings, water features, or …

It’s been a while since I last posted something about light-pollution maps, which are used by astronomers to determine the best places to observe the night sky. But a couple of online light-pollution maps came… More

While parks and public spaces are vital to public health, environmental resilience, and city infrastructure, many park systems still rely on outdated tools and informal routines that limit visibility, delay maintenance, and waste resources. With structured field data, consistent inspections, and spatial context, cities can manage park infrastructure assets more effectively, improve reporting, and extend the life of public spaces. By combining parks management software with mobile tools available on any mobile device, field crews can capture real-time data feeds, streamline maintenance tasks, and tackle backlogged tasks before they escalate. La entrada Smarter parks: turning public spaces asset data into sustainable park management se publicó primero en Fulcrum.

Dr Dawn Wright shared her picture heading earlier this year to the ESRI User Conference 2025.

“OSM Latest Changes” (https://rene78.github.io/latest-changes/) just got a few updates to make exploring recent edits more insightful - and smoother! New changeset info panel Clicking the arrow next to a changeset now reveals more detailed metadata: Editor used to make the changes Imagery used during editing User profile of the mapper (number of edits, time since joining OSM) Changeset integrity - an early signal for potentially suspicious edits (e.g. mass deletions) Performance upgrades Behind the scenes, the app has been optimized to better handle large numbers of changesets. On older hardware you should notice faster load times and smoother interaction overall. As always, feedback is welcome!

Beneath every forest, grassland, and field lies an invisible world that quietly sustains life on Earth. This world is woven together by mycorrhizal fungi - that live in symbiosis with plant roots. These fungi act like underground lifelines, delivering water and nutrients to plants, improving soil health, and even storing massive amounts of carbon.But until now, this underground world was

PLUS: New geospatial platforms from the UN, measuring the impact of pollution from cooking, and more.

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Randall Munroe, author of the xkcd web comic, posts a surprising amount of map-related content, which I invariably end up linking to here. With some exceptions, they fall into one of two categories, each of… More

J’espère avoir donné envie à des gens de se lancer dans OSM (via les liens dans des notes anonyme) moi tant pis je supprime mon compte OSM dans une semaine. J’ai découvert OSM grâce à la vidéo dont j’ai mis le lien dans des notes anonyme peut être que des gens s’inscriveront et resteront, moi à peine j’arrive mes contributions disparaissent sans savoir pourquoi. Bye

The Swiss Territorial Data Lab (#STDL) is a collaborative initiative within Switzerland’s geoinformation strategy, running from 2020 to 2025, dedicated to advancing data-driven solutions for public administration using #geodata and #datascience. Their 2025 report highlights organizational and methodological insights gained over the past years, with further technical resources available at tech.stdl.ch.

Burlingame, CA, USA City of Burlingame Category: Government

GIS Coordinator - City of Burlingame, Burlingame, CA, USA posted on 2025-08-05

Recap of the top real-time GIS topics at the Esri User Conference 2025. Explore how real-time location intelligence can help your organization.

Collect public input and manage responses efficiently using Reporter and Manager apps—each tailored to streamline the feedback loop.

Explore columnstore indexes, when to use them, best practices, and how they boost ArcGIS Online analytics.

Postdoc Research Fellow - Office of Postdoctoral Studies - University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS, United States posted on 2025-08-05

Sur la Via Ardèche, soit c’est de l’asphalte (du goudron noir ou gris clair), soit c’est du “Compactée” comme on peut le voir là : osm.wiki/Tag:surface%3Dcompacted

This amazing tiled map of New York brings a new meaning to a tile service. The design and implementation is by Allison Eden Studios

Wplace turns the entire world into your canvas. It’s an interactive map where anyone can paint - one pixel at a time - and watch as a shared, global artwork comes to life.If you’ve ever contributed to r/place, the concept will feel instantly familiar. r/place was a wildly popular collaborative experiment on Reddit, where millions of users battled for pixels and created a massive

Opener Woah, I didn’t realize how quickly this would be something I’d like. I know my account has been around since 2022, but I seriously started mapping in mid-2025. ~10k Edits pretty quickly, and turns out I enjoy editing the map. Maybe I’m looking for a job around this kind of work… Who knows. ALPR’s Automated License Plate Readers… Man these things are poping up everywhere. I stumbled on Deflock.me recently. I don’t agree with their “Why” but, I don’t agree these things are good for society… I get that we don’t have a “right to privacy” in public spaces, but man…. this seems one flew over the coo koo’s nest. Is pervasive surveillance at this scale really that surprising? My county alone has 95 ALPR’s (mostly by flock) running 24/7/365 rain snow or shine…. That’s 1 camera per 22 sq.mi. or 1 camera per 7700 people. Its not right… 95 Cameras over 2130 square miles, and estimated 730,000 people.

Qiusheng Wu, Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Deptartment of Geography and Sustainability at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Each month, we’re highlighting the community leaders who volunteer their expertise to guide CNG’s direction. Our Editorial Board Spotlight series features a different board member sharing their perspectives on geospatial trends and tools, what’s capturing their attention through reading or their current work, and the challenges they believe our community should focus on. 1. What geospatial trend or tool excites you right now? I’m particularly excited about the growing convergence of geospatial data and AI, especially through open-source tools that lower the barrier to entry. Tools like the Segment Anything Model (SAM), combined with geospatial wrappers such as segment-geospatial and GeoAI, are enabling rapid experimentation in image segmentation and...

Tampa, FL, USA Strategic Staffing Solutions Category: Contract & Freelance

More like time-warp hacking. This technique mis-uses georeferencing to smoosh geography into a temporal boundary. Confused? Read on, friends!

The focus of our book and this blog is geospatial data–how to find it, how to assess its quality, and understanding and teaching about societal issues such as copyright, location privacy, and ethics. Since the dawn of GIS in the 1960s, data has been central to successful vibrant use of GIS–seeing what was, what is, […]

Ötztaler Sagenweg Deze route met metalen sculpturen is al uitgezet, maar de sculpturen zelf waren nog niet gemarkeerd en benoemd. Tijdens een wandeling heen en terug heb ik de route e n de scultpuren met mijn Garmin GPS 64s getrackt. In de middag deze data maar eens ingevoerd.

While JavaScript Maps SDK transitions to components, we are evolving how custom experiences are built. Learn about the future of view models.

Learn how to use the Migration toolset to identify topology errors and apply automated data corrections to your utility network data.

The Sunday Times reports [Apple News+ link] that a small family business selling map-themed picnic blankets has reached a settlement with the Ordnance Survey. Rubbaglove’s PACMAT series was launched in partnership with the OS, but… More

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Everything you need to visit Cambridge.

Every town, every mountain, and every quiet river had its own poem waiting to be discovered. Meet MultiVerse - an interactive map where a single click anywhere in the world generates a unique poem inspired by that location. From the bustling streets of Tokyo to the silent hills of the Scottish Highlands, MultiVerse lets you explore not just geography, but language, emotion, and

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Cústame escribir isto pero teño a necesidade de facelo. Vou parar un tempo (non sei se definitivo) porque estou sufrindo unha certa obsesión con OSM, absorbéndome moitísimo tempo e esforzo e creo que comezo a ter algúns problemas psicolóxicos ou de conduta. Ata soño polas noites co mapa. Tamén me decatei que cando alguén cambia as miñas edicións dun xeito errado sufro unha leve ansiedade e ata aquí cheguei. Non quero enfermar. Un saúdo á comunidade galega e berciana e moita forza.

Touch Mapper is an open source project (GitHub) for generating 3D printed tactile maps for the visually impaired. The maps use OpenStreetMap data and produce a file that can be printed on almost any 3D… More

Aggiornamento alla voce del diario dello scorso anno con gli ultimi estratti di Geofabrik. Ecco una lista aggiornata al 20 luglio 2025 degli utenti che hanno mappato sul suolo italiano per almeno 90 giorni consecutivi: Giorni consecutivi Intervallo Utente 1496 2020-11-10 – 2024-12-14 SekeRob 494 2023-07-06 – 2024-11-10 Đuro Jiří 479 2022-02-21 – 2023-06-14 gurciln 343 2021-10-09 – 2022-09-16 totera 303 2010-07-17 – 2011-05-15 xybot 252 2020-04-16 – 2020-12-23 rosario_bianco1 215 2022-09-28 – 2023-04-30 hecktor 202 2020-02-22 – 2020-09-10 Jrachi 196 2023-11-19 – 2024-06-01 fayor 186 2023-11-23 – 2024-05-26 Map47 168 2018-02-12 – 2018-07-29 ...

I like technology and adapting it for the sake of technology . I am not addicted to yet we can not escape it. I only carry my phone when necessary , a computer works so much better , a mix of the old and the new ,technology moves very quickly . I’d prefer a GPS to a 5G modem ,API are not as readily available now

24/07/2025-30/07/2025 [1] | Areas supplied and not supplied by hydrants in Schrems, Lower Austria © Supaplex030 | Map data © OpenStreetMap Contributors. Mapping Requests for comments have been made on these proposals: library:users=* to indicate which groups of people a library is intended for. wikimedia_commons=* to extend the existing tag to also allow Wikimedia PageIDs. Voting on a proposal, to make announcing proposal RFCs and voting on the tagging mail list optional, is underway. Mapping campaigns Kalytis  shared his months-long project of indoor mapping a brand new hospital, Paris-Saclay, and started a discussion on the OSM Fr forum about mapping the complexity of the environment including emergency exits and maps as background pictures to map in JOSM. Kingsley Amankwe concluded the 30-Day National Youth Service Corps Mapping Challenge by announcing the publication of a book titled Service Through Mapping: The Kwara Legacy Project. Community In partnership...

Harry Wood shared these pics of the giant floor map at the National Maritime Museum.

延吉 222401 X167延吉-横道（原X123延吉-三道湾，横道以北升为S504） X168延吉-德新（原X124延吉-石井） X169延吉-图们 X170仁坪-维新 X171三道湾-明月 图们 222402 X172图们-汪清（原X130） X173凉水-西大坡（原X141） X174石岘-百草沟 敦化 222403 X175雁鸣湖-额穆（青沟子至额穆段原X120敦化-青沟子） X176大石头-贤儒 X177大石头-新合 X178敦化-官地（原Y001土腰子-沙河沿） X179黑石-官地 珲春 222404 市域无县道 龙井 222405 X180胜地-白金（原X128） X181铜佛寺-头道 和龙 222406 X182头道-土山子（原X134头道-福洞） X183和龙-兴化（原X132） X184西城-东城（原Y006八家子-东城、Y020） 汪清 222424 X186罗子沟-百草沟 X188大兴沟-大石头 安图 222426 X185 新合-西城 X187 永庆-二道白河

https://archive.org/details/AMTK-NEC-employee-timetable-20250505-si This is the most up to date Northeast Corridor Employee Timetable (ETT) I’ve requested, published May 5, 2025. It contains Amtrak’s maximum authorized speeds on the Northeast Corridor. The Acela 2’s planned speeds (mostly focusing on changing 150 to 160 mph) have not yet been integrated into the rules by Amtrak, despite the observed or assumed compatibility with 160 mph service by track class, catenary structure or demonstration in recent test runs. The current runs remain just that: test runs. There are currently 4 sections of 150 mph (for Type A trains and on the “main” or “inner” two tracks) on the Northeast Corridor: New Jersey: Midway & CP Clark Rhode Island #1: MP 154.3 & MP 171.7, except Cv MP 159.7 & MP 160.5 and Cv MP 170.5 & MP 170.9 Rhode Island #2: MP 174.5 & MP 180.5, except Cv MP 180.1 & MP 180.2 and Cv MP 180.2 & MP 180.5 Massachusetts: MP 194.5 & MP 205 ...

Welcome to my diary, “Where did I macro-mapped” This will be available in English and not Italian cuz: 1. I need to speak better english 2. I will (not now but not far away) wanna macro-mapping in the USA (i heard that they have absolute good imagery!) 3. Wanna move from Italy and go to Wisconsin, USA. — Where did I micro-mapped? I micro-mapped Tre Ponti Est (service plaza/rest area/or whatever you call it) look it in 3d, look it in 2d changeset I also micro-mapped the nearby service plaza/rest area, Tre Ponti OVEST, look it in 3d, look it in 2d, changeset 1, changeset 2 — (If you are looking from when I published. UTC+2 02/08/2025 23:30 or Wisconsin Time 02/08/2025 16:30, The Tre Ponti Ovest is not available cuz of cooldown aka [waiting server](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/waiting#:~:text=waiting%20(countable,%2C%20service.)

LightningMaps.org is a global #crowdsourcing project that lets you watch #lightning strikes in real time, drawing data from more than 500 volunteer-operated sensors. The site offers configurable web and mobile maps, showing not only each lightning strike as it happens, but also the location of participating stations and the spread of thunder across the landscape.

“You’ve been involved with OpenStreetMap for at least 15 years,” the interviewers begin, marking the start of the session. I gasp a little. Wow—15 years? Imagine all the… fights and drama? So I get a little curious and start tracing this person’s digital footprints across the whole OSM universe. See if I can learn a thing or two. “Upgraded road 11390 to secondary to make it stand out from all the other roads.. Because it has bus routes and stands out for transit traffic.” “This reasoning sounds quite arbitrary to me. Also what degree of transit traffic is necessary so that the road has to ‘stand out’? General convention followed elsewhere outside of cities – and as currently documented – is to use this tag of this type and that tag for that type. The way this road stands out is now inconsistent to how other roads of these types stands out. I think it should be restored.” “Hmm. That is a fun rule that’s easy to implement and validate. But what are you expecting...

Our friend Derick shared this picture of a Secret Highlands distillery bottle

No Time to Discourse is an interactive map of procedurally generated climate disasters that reimagines a United States reshaped by endless ecological catastrophes. It is a map that invites you to explore a dystopian future America where every click reveals a new story of survival, loss, and adaptation. The result is a picture of a future that feels both imagined and disturbingly plausible.What

Disclaimer: This is just the start of a diary article, details about mapping objectives, progress and obstacles/questions will follow Description of the area The Ndomba Sector (Collectivé de Ndomba) is the easternmost sector of the Kabeya-Kamuanga Territory. While the eastern and southern borders of the sector are as well the borders of the territory (which have already been mapped for years), the western border of the sector is the River Lubi. Roads and paths This sector is still very remote, despite of the fact that the big City of Mbuji-Mayi and the highway Route National 1 (RN1) are close by in the south-east and south. The main reason for the remoteness is that a number of meandering rivers hinder or limit the asccess from almost all directions. The main access road from the south and from Mbuji-Mayi has been the one which leaves RN1 at 6° 06 28.3 N / 23° 26 03`` E just west of the village of Tschibombo - only 20 kilometers west of Mbuji-Mayi. This road follows the border...

GSoC 2025 Midterm Update: Temporary Road Closures Database and API Project Overview I’m excited to share the midterm progress on my Google Summer of Code 2025 project: Temporary Road Closures Database and API for OpenStreetMap. This project aims to create a centralized platform where users can submit and retrieve real-time information about temporary road closures, enabling OSM-based navigation apps to provide better routing around construction, accidents, and other events. Mentor: Simon Poole and Ian Wagner Organization: OpenStreetMap Project Duration: 12 weeks (175 hours) 🎉 Midterm Evaluation Status: PASSED I’m thrilled to announce that I’ve successfully passed the midterm evaluation! The project is progressing well and is currently on schedule with several components ahead of the original timeline. Progress Summary Completed Components (Weeks 1-8) 1. Geospatial Database & Core Infrastructure PostgreSQL + PostGIS setup with Docker containerization ...

Several things coming up at Chicago’s Newberry Library in October: An exhibition, Mapping Outside the Lines, runs from 9 October 2025 to 14 February 26 at the Newberry’s Trienens Galleries. For centuries, mapmakers have experimented… More

OpenStreetMap powers maps and services used by millions of people around the world every day. To better support the community that makes this possible, the OpenStreetMap Foundation is seeking a dedicated mid- to senior-level software engineer with a passion for open data, collaborative software, and digital commons. The ideal candidate is proficient in modern Web development (frontend and backend), experienced with open source collaboration, and comfortable working in public repositories with community feedback. Your main responsibilities will focus on the openstreetmap.org website and its underlying API-a critical part of the infrastructure powering a global mapping movement. Your work will directly support an ecosystem of tools used by tens of thousands of contributors monthly, producing map data relied upon by millions worldwide. You will collaborate closely with the OSMF’s Core Software Development Facilitator (CSDF). This position is made possible through funding...

Barry spotted this in a thrift shop and shockingly, managed to resist buying. He said “Anyone want a giant mappy bag for idk, laundry, or their map collection? Local charity shop find. Didn’t buy. Resisting temptation”

Treasure Guessr is a new daily challenge game that requires you to identify a different location every day on an interactive map.The premise of Treasure Guessr is simple: you're shown a small map of a mystery location, and your task is to pinpoint that location on a larger interactive map. Of course, this sounds easier than it really is - after all, the world is huge, and most of us only

京杭运河镇江段是重要的航运水道，桥梁多为大型公路桥或铁路桥，跨越宽阔的水面。主要桥梁自西向东（大致方向）包括： 高资河桥/高资桥： 位于丹徒区高资街道附近。 润扬大桥（公路桥）： 虽然不是直接横跨运河主航道，但其南汊桥（悬索桥）跨越长江，其引桥和接线工程会跨越或邻近运河相关水道（如运粮河等），是区域重要通道。 镇江西高速桥： 沪蓉高速（G42）跨越运河的桥梁。 镇江西互通连接线桥： 连接镇江市区与高速公路的桥梁。 戴家门桥/润兴路大桥： 位于润州区，是市区西部跨越运河的重要通道（S243省道）。 檀山路桥： 连接镇江主城区与丹徒新区的主干道檀山路跨越运河的桥梁。 九华山路桥： 九华山路跨越运河的桥梁。 官塘桥： 位于官塘桥路，是市区南部跨越运河的重要通道。 沪宁城际铁路桥/京沪高铁桥： 高速铁路专用桥梁。 沪宁铁路桥： 京沪铁路（老线）跨越运河的桥梁。 丁卯桥路桥： 丁卯桥路（金港大道市区段）跨越运河的桥梁，是连接镇江主城区与丁卯、大港的重要通道。 谏壁公路桥/越河街桥： 位于谏壁镇，连接越河街，靠近谏壁船闸。 谏壁闸桥： 位于著名的谏壁船闸枢纽处，通常指船闸交通桥或附近跨越节制闸的桥梁，是连接运河两岸的关键节点。非常重要。 雩山桥： 位于丹阳市访仙镇附近（雩山脚下）。 陵口大桥： 位于丹阳市陵口镇，是跨越运河的公路桥。 二、 镇江市区古运河上的主要桥梁 古运河从平政桥（京口闸）进入市区，向东南流经市区，在谏壁汇入大运河主航道。这段河道较窄，桥梁密集且更具历史人文气息。主要桥梁自北向南（入江口到东南方向）包括： 平政桥： 位于古运河入江口（京口闸遗址附近），历史悠久，是古运河的起点标志之一。 新西门桥： 连接新西门内外。 中山桥： 市中心重要桥梁，连接大西路和中山路。 解放桥： 位于解放路上，靠近伯先公园。 虎踞桥： 历史悠久的古桥（现为复建），位于南门大街北端。 南水桥： 位于正东路西端。 珍珠桥： 跨越珍珠路。 塔山桥： 位于塔山路。 丁卯桥： 古桥名，现为区域地名（丁卯片区），该处古运河上有现代桥梁（如丁卯桥路桥跨越的是主运河，非此段古运河）。 谷阳桥： 位于谷阳路上。 丹徒闸桥： 位于古运河汇入谏壁大运河主航道之前的节制闸（丹徒闸）上。 需要注意的关键点 区分主运河与古运河：...

Obstore solves the friction we kept hitting in cloud-native workflows.

Mesa, AZ, USA City of Mesa Category: Geography

NOAA’s hurricane forecasts will continue to be able to use data from the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP). Michael Lowry reports that in a last-minute reversal, the U.S. Department of Defense will continue to allow… More

Cincinnati, OH, USA GCWW Category: Information Technology

USA GeoAcuity Category: Developer

Co-Creation Workshop for Road Network Mapping in Karnali, Nepal Date: 28 March 2024 Title: Planning & Co-Creation Workshop on Mapping Road Network of Karnali Venue: Care Nepal, Sanepa Organizer: Open Mapping Hub Asia Pacific Led By: Rabi Shrestha, Sr. Field Mapping Expert & Prajwal Sharma, Jr. Field Mapping Expert The rugged terrain of Nepal’s Karnali Province tells a story of resilience, isolation, and untapped potential. As the only province where road access remains severely limited—particularly in districts like Jumla—the need for a comprehensive and accurate road network is more urgent than ever. With this in mind, a collaborative Planning and Co-Creation Workshop was conducted to collectively address the challenges, gaps, and opportunities for mapping the road network of Karnali through open-source tools and community engagement. Setting the Stage: Opening Remarks and Partner Introductions The session opened with warm words from Pramila Madam of Start Fund...

Ich hab selber recht umfangreiche Notizen über Obstbäume und arbeite aktuell daran die halbautomatisch mit OSM abzugleichen. Ich habe mir dafür auch einen Spezialisierten Editor geschrieben: “Treewarden”.

The Nominatim QA tool added a new layer “Suspicious addr:state value” If addr:state is the same addr:province. Depending on country addr:province might not be needed If addr:state is the same as the country code if addr:state is the same as the country name (in any language) https://nominatim.org/qa/#map=3.52/34.84/5.81&layer=addr_state_not_country The layer is updated every day. Give it a go. But not USA and Canada because I was too eager and made many edits today already.

‘ve found myself drawn to a particular challenge: properly mapping the Rhondda Valleys in South Wales. It’s a task that’s proving both fascinating and frustrating in equal measure, but one that’s teaching me invaluable lessons about the complexities of local geography. My approach has been quite straightforward - I’ve chosen to focus primarily on Ystrad, the area I know most intimately. This isn’t just because it’s familiar territory, but because understanding one place thoroughly seems like the best foundation for expanding outwards. Every quirk I discover, every mapping technique I develop, and every local peculiarity I uncover in Ystrad becomes a tool I can apply to neighbouring areas. One of the most surprising aspects of this mapping project has been discovering just how much the “official” maps get wrong. I’ve taken to photographing street name signs and house numbers wherever I go - a habit that’s revealed some genuinely baffling discrepancies between reality and what...

Reinder sent this to us, he said “Some brand of jeans does join in celebrating 750 years of Amsterdam, by projecting this map kind of thing on the window.” I am wondering whether there is a connection between the 750 years of Amsterdam and the end of season sale?

Have you ever dreamed of playing GeoGuessr in real life? Well, hold on to your hats, because the new reality show Destination X (airing in the US and the UK) is an interactive geoguessing game that you can actually play yourself - right from your own home.In Destination X, contestants are whisked away on a bus with blacked-out windows, dropped at secret locations across Europe, and

I wanted to share some analysis on a currently undefined part of the PWG Schema (Silver Tier specifically) that I originally posted on the OSM-US Slack. Note that this was discussed previously on the OSM forum, but the analysis here was conducted independently before reading that to. The key question here: What footway= type, other tags and geometry (separate way from the incoming sidewalk or not) should be specified for the connector ways between the sidewalk centerline and curb nodes? Currently, the page states only “highway=? + ?=?”; its hard to see how highway= could be anything but highway=footway as nothing else seems more suitable and inventing a new highway type would be a major backward-compat break for little benefit; therefore, the decision then would be what footway=* tag to use. Survey of options Surveying the possible options (with pros and cons): A. (No tag): No footway=* tag at all (+) What OpenSidewalks schema does (albeit developed before footway=path...

原先要在 COSCUP 2025 時講一場，但由於演講場數夠就不佔時段。後來在中研院人社中心的演講有幾頁講 Overture PO 狀況。 信心指數沒有參考性可言。 你會批評 OpenStreetMap 資料的狀況，Overture 也會發生，並沒有神奇藥芳能避免。Overture POI 整體狀況，由於也是群眾編輯機制產生，因此 OpenStreetMap 會發生的問題，Overture POI 也會出現，例如資料過時，新的店家與舊的店家在同一地址都存在 Overture POI 資料集。 個人曾熱衷 Facebook Place Editor，修掉不少不正經的打卡點，如空姐的大腿等。如今 Place Editor 社群散掉了，沒什麼人在修正了。 地址對，圖徵在空照圖像，Overture POI 可能是正確的。不少台北的 POI 點預設點位置常出現在舊莊山區，好像選擇台北的預設位置。 至於對圖客來說，Overture 有用嗎？我覺得如果剛好 Overture POI 是正確的，那就可以複製其資訊過來。

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#StackOverflow published the results of their 2025 user #survey. The data features roughly 50,000 responses from 166 countries on user #demographics, #technology, #AI, work, and more.

Some websites allow users to post content with links to other sites and have previews for these links displayed alongside with the posts. Those are typically social media sites, and we’ll refer to them as “social media” in this diary entry. Examples of such sites include: - forums based on Discourse, particularly OpenStreetMap Community Forum - microblogging platforms based on Mastodon, particularly en.osm.town There are many more of course, with some more widely known examples, such as Facebook and Twitter. We’re primarily interested in the listed above because they are directly related to OpenStreetMap. A preview usually includes a page title followed by a longer description and an image. Typically when a submitter makes a post with a link, the social media site runs a bot to download the linked web page and scan it for metadata. The metadata usually includes textual attributes and links to preview images. The bot then downloads the images and assembles the final preview to...

Following a suggestion by @andygol, I decided to refresh the Highway Tag Usage Scheme used by the Ukrainian OSM community. The original work on this scheme began back in 2013 — see the discussion in the Highways of Ukraine topic. I’d like to share the progress made so far and invite the community to contribute further improvements. Previous version: New version: This update is mostly a visual redesign of the scheme. I’ve also slightly refined some of the wording in Ukrainian. The core structure and the logic of how road types relate to each other remain unchanged for now. However, I’m open to suggestions if anyone sees opportunities for improvement. The scheme is available in PDF, SVG, and PNG formats. If you have feedback or ideas, please join the discussion here: https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/highway/133408

I continued on with the Happy Valley work, and found that I was able to do a portion of Johnny Hill Road. I’ll be continuing on at this new pace.

It’s that time of year! We’re excited to issue the call for maps for contributions for the 2026 GeoHipster calendar. Entries are subject to these rules and guidelines for entry are listed below. So, send us your maps! (The deadline is 2025-10-15.) Guidelines: I hereby declare that this submission is my own work and to […] The post 2026 Calendar Submissions appeared first on GeoHipster.

Discover the incredible NISAR mission — a powerful collaboration between NASA and ISRO that’s set to transform how we monitor our planet. In this video, learn 5 key facts about […] The post What is NISAR? 5 Things to Know About U.S.-India Satellite, NISAR appeared first on Geospatial World.

Raf sent us this bottle of white wine from Catalunya, Spain.

Over the years, there have been a number of interactive maps that have plotted movies and TV shows based on where they were shot or set. There have also been several attempts to map novels by their settings.StoryTerra takes this idea further - it maps movies, television dramas, and novels all in one place!Zoom in on any location in the world on StoryTerra, and you can discover which movies and

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Acabei de criar meu perfil e estou animado para começar a contribuir com mapeamentos na região de Sapezal, Mato Grosso BR. Quero ajudar a tornar os mapas ainda mais precisos e úteis para todos — especialmente nas áreas urbanas, estradas e pontos de interesse locais. Estou explorando o editor iD e aprendendo bastante com os recursos disponíveis. Se você tiver dicas ou quiser trocar ideias, estou por aqui! Vamos juntos construir mapas melhores para o mundo!

Explore how artist Yufeng Zhao used millions of #Google #StreetView images to create a searchable map of every word written on #NewYork City’s streets — revealing hidden patterns and the power of urban data at the intersection of art and technology.

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Explore how GIS keeps wildfire response moving from risk modeling and crew coordination to long-term recovery. See how wildfire data becomes actionable across the full lifecycle, and why usability in the field is just as critical as analysis at command. La entrada How GIS supports every phase of wildfire response strategy se publicó primero en Fulcrum.

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Fundamentally, Allen Carroll’s Telling Stories with Maps: Lessons from a Lifetime of Creating Place-Based Narratives is a book about using Esri’s ArcGIS StoryMaps service for creating digital narratives with maps. It’s of little use to… More

Covered one side of Johnny Hill Drive between Hefler and Garland Street.

Joseph Elfelt is a software developer in the geo world as a result of a life-long interest in maps and self-teaching. His interest in maps began as a child looking at his father’s collection of USGS topographic maps for a large part of Minnesota. After college, Joseph moved to Seattle and went to work for […] The post I curate a list of 5,000+ ArcGIS server addresses at all levels of USA government. appeared first on GeoHipster.

Elizabeth spotted these at a map stall in Washington DC, Minneapolis alongside Munich!

It’s currently a rather brisk -31 °C at Syrtis Major on Mars. Despite the chill, there’s only a light northerly wind of around 5 km/h. However, if you’re driving on Mars today, you might want to be cautious - visibility is extremely low!This weather report is brought to you by the Mars Explorer Weather Map, NASA’s new dashboard for visualizing atmospheric conditions on Mars.Since the

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Few philanthropic endeavors have left as enduring a mark on American culture as Andrew Carnegie’s library-building mission. During his lifetime, the Scottish-American steel magnate funded the construction of 2,509 public libraries worldwide, including 1,681 in the United States. Today, you can explore these historic institutions through the Carnegie Libraries Mapping Project 

분리수거함 위에 지붕이 있는 경우는 어떻게 편집해야 하나요? https://ifh.cc/v-bFfdNa 여러 재질에 따른 분리수거함들과 그 위에 지붕이 있습니다. 일단은 저는 분리수거함 유형의 점을 만들고 지붕 크기만큼 지붕을 그렸습니다. (다음 지도는 본인이 직접 찍은 사진안 분리수거함의 위치입니다. 분리수거함과 지붕 옆에도 초록색 대형 일반쓰레기 수거함이 있습니다)

F4 map에서는 지붕 모양 hipped-and-gabled가 mansard로 표현됩니다. 왜 그런 건가요? F4 map에서 경복궁 대다수의 지붕 모양이 실제로 OSM에서 태그된 hipped-and-gabled가 아닙니다. 때문에 중국 자금성의 지붕 모양은 hipped-and-gabled가 아니라 지붕의 모양의 조각들을 따로따로 생성한 것 같습니다.

There has been a recent surge of interest in mapping walking infrastructure in Melbourne. This is very exciting because many parts have been lacking for a long time. I have been adding some things piecemeal over the years. Recently I have made a more concerted effort to get footpath and crossing data into the Map. Several other users have been doing a huge amount to make this happen. Here I wanted to briefly share a summary of my approach to mapping these footpaths and crossings. As is custom for OSM, this is not prescriptive at all; just a description of how I am approaching this task. It is based on consistency of edits and consistency with existing and new data. Footpaths highway=footway footway=sidewalk I am also including the surface where known. Most footpaths are built of concrete, especially in older suburbs. The next most common would be asphalt, but there are still some unpaved footpaths - even in built-up areas. I think this is important to include for...

It’s been a summer full of side projects here. Which is a very good sign — I used to do many, many side projects, but for the last couple of years, poor health has left me with reduced energy, and my output dropped off significantly. It’s nice to feel inspired again, in so many directions … Continue reading A Sketch of Isle Royale →

#NASA’s #JPL demonstrates autonomous #EarthObservation satellite operation: a #cubesat using “dynamic targeting” to decide, on its own, where to collect the most useful #EO data in real-time. This innovation could make future satellites smarter and more responsive to changing conditions during each orbit.

ENG: osm.org/user/momiji-takinogawa/diary/407163 タスポが使えるたばこ自販機はauthentication:taspo=yesとタグ付けしてみることにしました。運転免許証、マイナンバーカード、パスポートで年齢確認をする自販機はそれぞれauthentication:JP:driving_licence=yes, authentication:JP:individual_number_card=yes, authentication:passport=yesとしてみます。 日本人への通じやすさの点でauthentication:JP:my_number_card=yesとも迷いましたが、どうも次期デザインのカードでは「マイナンバーカード」の愛称を使うのを止めるかもという話もでていますので。

In Japan, when you buy tobaccos from a vending machine, you first have to prove that you are 20+ years old. Since 2008, The Japan Tobacconist Federation has been issuing “taspo” smart cards to adult smokers. You can apply these cards to cigarettes vending machines to activate them. Back in 2008, 97% of the vending machines supported taspo for age verification. Due to technical limitations, taspo system was announced to be shut down in March, 2026, and some vending machines are now retrofitted with new age verification modules that accept a driver’s license card, “My Number Card” (which is officially called Individual Number Card in English), and/or passports (ref: list of government-recognized age verification modules for cigarettes vending machines). I started to tag taspo-compatible vending machines with authentication:taspo=yes, and those with the other verification methods with authentication:JP:driving_licence=yes, authentication:JP:individual_number_card=yes, or...

I added another set of buildings on Hamel Street and Garland Street. Had to also fix some naming issues on Hamel Street

LalGeo Maps is an interactive map which allows users to create map visualizations using natural language queries. For example if you type "Show US states by population'"into LalGeo Maps then it will produce a choropleth map of the United States coloring and numbering the states by population size. This map comes with a legend that says "Data provided by the U.S. Census Bureau.

We love camper vans with nappy decoration. This one comes from Raf, photo taken near Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona

Stardour, a stealth-mode Indian space-tech startup, has successfully completed the test fire of India’s first hydrogen and oxygen propulsion engine, developed in-house by Stardour and tested at the prestigious Indian […] The post Stardour Successfully Test-Fires India’s First Hydrogen-Oxygen Propulsion appeared first on Geospatial World.

A collection/showcase of the different buildings and areas that I have mapped in 3D (through much trial and error). Each location has a link to view on OSM where you can see what building parts and tagging I’ve used to represent these buildings. The heights I have tagged on building parts are mainly calculated by working out the ratio of a building’s height and width in a photo (I used paint.net to measure these dimensions in pixels) and applying this to the width that can be measured from aerial imagery. Rue de la Providence, Charleroi 🇧🇪 Mapped 23rd July 2025 - location on osm.org / location on F4map A heavily graffitied derelict industrial building on brownfield land outside Charleroi Parry Place, London 🇬🇧 Mapped 23rd July 2025 - location on osm.org / location on F4map An anarchist message painted on top of some shops in Woolwich, censored in order to keep this diary post family-friendly Grand Prix Plaza, Las Vegas 🇺🇸 Mapped 21st July 2025 - location on osm.org /...

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Moscow, ID, USA University of Idaho Category: Geology

Depuis 2019 que je suis sur OSM, mais depuis 2023 que je contribue activement ici. Je suis actuellement diplôme de Licence Pro Eco-Tourisme & d’un BTSa DATR (Développement & Animation des Territoires Ruraux). A la fois passionné d’Histoire et particulièrement sensible aux questions environnementales, je suis toujours à l’affut des nouvelles solutions open source, comme Panoramax. Aime le théâtre & les Jeux de Rôles (dont je n’en fais pas assez) et philosopher.

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Responding to my post about Joanathan Bessaci’s map cutout art, Fred DeJarlais wrote to point out that the California Map Society’s journal, Calafia, featured another artist using a similar technique, Mark M. Garrett, in its… More

I added several more houses sheds and garages to the Happy Valley Goose Bay area. I think that i will try to add more to other areas shortly, and speed up my time to a street a day so that I can start on other communities sooner.

17/07/2025-23/07/2025 [1] | Vector Tiles are deployed on OpenStreetMap.org | Map data © OpenStreetMap Contributors. About us Raquel Dezidério Souto, our editor for Brazilian Portuguese, Artur Fernandes, Gabrielle Lima, Myllene Lopes, Paloma Caetano and Tatiana Vianna have compiled ► statistics on how often weeklyOSM has mentioned each of the 102 OSM-related software products selected for analysis. The statistics are based on 10 years of publication, corresponding to issues #272 to #768 (2015–2025). There are links to the project and other useful information for those who want to explore new possibilities or improve their mapping practices. Mapping The proposed tagging scheme for windmills and watermills was rejected with 10 votes in favour, 9 against, and two abstentions. Community Charlie Plett has finished mapping the administrative divisions of the Spanish Empire in OpenHistoricalMap and shared a time-lapse animation. In the latest episode of the Geomob podcast, Ed...

Recently Malaga’s bus route number 37 was extended to Residencia Santa Clara in the hills outside the city. This part of the route had been suspended for a few years, and I knew that some stops had been relocated in the meantime. So I took the bus to the last stop to update the mapping in OpenStreetMap. As I walked back towards the city down a steeply sloping road (pausing to tag it as sidewalk=no), I wondered if I had just visited the city’s highest bus stop. I could probably have confirmed this fairly quickly with the help of a relief map - there were only a few realistic candidates. But I happened to be looking at the OSMnx Python package for unrelated reasons. And I had already downloaded Digital Terrain Model files covering the city of Malaga. Obviously destiny wanted me to take a library intended for analysing important questions about urban road networks, and use it to devise an over-engineered answer to my trivial question about bus stops. Bus stops in Malaga are...

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Mike Long, Co-Founder of Spatialty, won the 2025 Esri SAG Award for his innovative contributions at Austin's CapMetro transit agency. His leadership in developing a geospatial platform integrated various operational systems, enabling automated data flows and enhancing real-time data access. This work improves transit operations and long-term planning efficiency.

CNN reports that two NOAA officials who led the internal “Sharpiegate” inquiry—which found that NOAA leadership violated its ethical standards and scientific integrity policy when they backed Trump’s Sharpie-adjusted hurricane forecast map—were placed on administrative… More

The Pudding has created an amazing data journalism project that allows you to search New York for any word or combination of words. Called All Text in NYC, it’s a remarkable tool that lets you dive into the city’s written landscape - mined entirely from Google Street View images. From shop signs in Queens to murals in the Bronx, it captures the way language is woven into the physical space of

I have ever been to Glastonbury but from the pictures it looks to be a massive site the equivalent of a medium sized town. Getting from stage to stage could be challenging so someone came up with the bright idea to try a bit of Becksploitation and to produce a diagram in the style of […]

FediFollows published a list of recommended geospatial #Fediverse / #Mastodon accounts. The list features, among others, geospatial conferences, news channels, blogs, software, organizations, government bodies, geospatial professionals, #OSM-related accounts, and discussion groups.

Explore how drones and remote sensing power faster, safer environmental field surveys across forests, wetlands, and contaminated zones. Ground teams combine environmental science with modern surveying techniques and quantitative data from GPS devices and GPS tracking to validate every environmental field survey. Learn how teams improve accuracy, reduce risk, and cover more ground without slowing down field workflows. La entrada Remote sensing and drones in environmental field surveys se publicó primero en Fulcrum.

Candles shelf decorated with globes at Les Topettes perfume shop in Barcelona, from Raf

Due to the demise of Glitch, I’ve recently moved several of my map projects over to GitHub. In the process of migrating my map memory game - Tube Recall - I decided it was the perfect time to give the game a complete redesign..🎮 What is Tube Recall?Tube Recall is a fast-paced, memory-testing game where your goal is simple: name as many London Underground stations as you can. There are 269

A 'simple' web map to follow an adventure

A group of industry leaders at the 2025 #NORTH51 conference is charting a new course for the geospatial sector with their “#GEOFESTO” — a #manifesto outlining five key principles to drive #innovation and #impact in a rapidly changing world.

News of the weird…or possibly normal. . I hit two “almost a problem” problems with the longest running install of this system: Things: Weird things: Not so weird things: Health Things: I leave you with a Cat pic. The post Updates on the TN911 side of things appeared first on North River Geographic Systems Inc.

Today we are excited to announce the release of stac-fastapi-indexed! stac-fastapi-indexed is an implementation of the STAC API specification. Like several similar projects, it draws on the indispensable stac-fastapi package. This project implements a new approach to data management to reduce hosting overheads. STAC and STAC API The STAC and STAC API specifications have proven […] The post Introducing stac-fastapi-indexed: Low Overhead STAC Metadata Support appeared first on Sparkgeo.

Tell Us About YourselfI’m Qianyi Cao, with a background in Geographic Information Science and currently part of the Erasmus Mundus MSc in Cartography program across TU Munich, TU Vienna, and TU Dresden. My academic path blends map design, geospatial science, and cross-cultural storytelling. I’m passionate about using cartography as a bridge — one that connects […] The post Maps and Mappers of the 2025 Calendar – June – Cao Qianyi appeared first on GeoHipster.

Nick Pannell wants the Ordnance Survey to change the route of the Abbot’s Way path through Dartmoor National Park in Devon, England. Pannell says his own research shows that medieval monks took a more northerly… More

A discussion of geo and 'zines with members of the Geozone collective (for our 20th anniversary)

Marc-Tobias sent us this pic of a shop with a sign that says “Your Location” plus the coordinates. I haven’t said where he took this pic because I thought you might enjoy looking up the coordinates.

Running together at CNG Conference 2025 On the last day of CNG Conference, we held a facilitated discussion to identify what our community needs to thrive. As Chris Holmes noted in his opening keynote, the geospatial field has reached a pivotal moment. We have more data, better tools, and greater computational power than ever before. The question now is how we use these resources to address real-world challenges. The six themes below emerged from our discussions and will shape our collective work in the coming year. These challenges are deeply interconnected. Progress in one area often enables progress in others. And with AI rapidly changing the landscape, we need to stay adaptable and collaborative. We invite governments, funders, educators, enterprises, and entrepreneurs to join our community in this ongoing effort. Geospatial education isn’t helping people get good jobs The problem Workforce and talent development...

Uptown News has mapped pothole reports made to San Diego's “Get It Done” service system, revealing that January to April is pothole season. By analyzing when pothole repair requests are submitted throughout the year, the newspaper demonstrates a sharp increase in reports during the months of January, February, March, and April compared to the rest of the year.Admittedly, the animated timeline in

The rapid progress in #AI sparks diverse and thought-provoking discussions about its role in #programming and skill development. Three recent articles offer interesting, yet differing, perspectives.

Yesterday, the #OpenStreetMap Foundation (#OSMF) launched #vectortiles on #OSM, delivering a sharper and faster map powered by a new backend. Developers may use the OSMF-hosted tiles under the Vector Tile Usage Policy and apply their own map styles.

Vector tiles have been deployed on OpenStreetMap (see the “Shortbread” layer in the map layers menu). This technical upgrade was first announced last year; it’ll provide, they say, “a visual layer that is sharper and… More

Raf sent us this photo of a local shop in Pamplona with a half globe in its sign

MapaPhoto In my never-ending quest to find alternatives to GeoGuessr, I want to like MapaPhoto - however, this latest 'geoguessing' game has just one too many annoying quirks to satisfy my wanderlust.MapaPhoto’s basic game concept is solid. If you’ve ever played GeoGuessr or any of its many imitators, you’ll be familiar with the idea: identify the location shown in a given image by

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College Station, TX, USA Texas A&M University Category: Applications Developer

GIS Data Editor $30.00 - $40.00/hr - Thinkfind, Fort Worth, TX posted on 2025-07-22

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Mark Wallinger’s World Turned Upside Down, a 13-foot globe on the LSE campus with the South Pole on top, generated controversy (and vandalism) after its unveiling in 2019 for how it handled contested borders: it… More

The new Standard integrates dynamic data from systems such as sensors, drones, and satellites into modern geospatial applications using RESTful APIs. The post OGC Announces Publication of OGC API – Connected Systems and Updates to Supporting Standards appeared first on Open Geospatial Consortium.

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Elizabeth sent me this, I wasn’t sure but I think it just gets over the editorial bar.

If I were President of the World every major city would be required to create a 3D city map documenting the city for every year of its history. Unfortunately I am not yet the global overlord so my dreams of virtual time-travel go largely unfulfilled.But in Zurich, I can get close.Zurich Time Travel is an impressive 3D interactive map that reconstructs the city’s architectural evolution from 1850

Bentley Systems, the infrastructure engineering software company, successfully concluded its Innovation Day—Hyderabad on July 17, 2025. The full-day event brought together senior leaders from government agencies, engineering firms, and infrastructure […] The post Bentley Systems’ Innovation Day Spotlights Power of Digital Twins in India’s Infrastructure appeared first on Geospatial World.

I missed that a jigsaw puzzle version of Anton Thomas’s Wild World (previously) was released in January. The puzzle has 1,500 pieces and measures 39×20 inches when completed. Anton says that if you’re in the… More

We are delighted to share that the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has been honored with the ‘Best Geospatial Enabler Award’ at the National Geospatial Awards... The post OGC Wins ‘Best Geospatial Enabler Award’ at FOSSEE National Geospatial Awards 2025 appeared first on Open Geospatial Consortium.

Raf sent us this photo of a map representing Yu Garden and the surrounding area in Shanghai.

Now that all links to FEMA’s National Risk Index appear to have been purged by the Trump administration, you might want to bookmark CartoGuophy’s United States of Rising Hazards map instead.Before it was removed by the Republicans, FEMA’s National Risk Index map provided detailed information about the risk from 18 different natural hazards across the United States. For example, if you

What Properties Should Geospatial Embeddings Have?

I have long been an admirer of the Colorado Geospatial Portal. My history of being a GIS professional in that state extends back to the days before our state even had a portal, so I am very thankful for it and for the efforts of our state GIS Manager Jackie Phipps Montes in coordinating, assembling, […]

Im ersten Teil dieser Mini-Blogserie habe ich gezeigt, woher GNSS-Daten (umgangssprachlich GPS-Daten) stammen und wie sich diese in spezialisierten Tracking-Studien gezielt erfassen lassen. Heute nehmen wir solch eine Studie genauer unter die Lupe und zeigen, wie sich mit moderner Tracking-Technologie und passenden Befragungen Verhaltensexperimente durchführen lassen, die komplexe Fragen der Verkehrs- und Stadtplanung beantworten. Die …

Why using geography continuously across your business is essential. Democratizing geospatial intelligence empowers every department to make smarter, faster decisions and unlocks lasting competitive advantage.

A personal letter to BI and data leaders on why geography must become a core dimension in analytics. It's not just a map—it’s the missing link in your data stack.

Combine NielsenIQ’s market data with Mapidea’s geospatial intelligence to empower retail & FMCG teams with continuous, actionable insights driving smarter decisions & growth.

We have a had several pics of the Upside Down World outside LSE, these are different because I was there myself with some of my best geo-nerd mates. When you get to study this globe up close it prompts lots of conversation. Ed pointed out how big a portion of the globe is without any […]

The PostGIS Team is pleased to release PostGIS 3.6.0beta1! Best Served with PostgreSQL 18 Beta2 and soon to be released GEOS 3.14. This version requires PostgreSQL 12 - 18beta2, GEOS 3.8 or higher, and Proj 6.1+. To take advantage of all features, GEOS 3.14+ is needed. To take advantage of all SFCGAL features, SFCGAL 2.2.0+ is needed. 3.6.0beta1 source download md5 NEWS HTML Online en ja sv fr zh_Hans PDF docs: en ja, sv, zh_Hans, fr Cheat Sheets: postgis: en ja sv fr zh_Hans postgis_raster: en ja sv fr zh_Hans postgis_topology: en ja sv fr zh_Hans postgis_sfcgal: en ja sv fr zh_Hans address standardizer, postgis_tiger_geocoder: en ja sv fr zh_Hans This release is a beta of a major release, it includes bug fixes since PostGIS 3.5.3 and new features.

A fabric sold by the meter at El Barato shop in Reus, with a vintage map pattern. Sent by Raf.

Over the years, there have been many attempts to map the news. With the advent of AI and its ability to automatically detect locations mentioned in news articles, we're now seeing a resurgence in News Maps.The latest of these is Needle, which uses a large language model (LLM) to "best estimate general locations of stories posted in the past day, and pin them on the map." Using the map, you

In the past we have written about how one can study urban shrinkage with a specific emphasis on Detroit from both an agent-based modeling perspective and also from analyzing newspapers through natural language processing  Keeping with the theme of Detroit and urban shrinkage we (Xiaoliang Meng, Yichun Xie, Junyi Wu, Heather Khan Welsh,  Shi Zeng and myself) have a new paper entitled "Examining spatial expansion and stemming strategies of urban shrinkage: evidence from Detroit, USA" which was recently published in npj Urban Sustainability. In this paper we introduce a method for studying urban shrinkage by constructing multi-scale spatial structures based on urban network connectivity which we call gravity-networked spatial interaction zones-based spatial panel modeling or GSIZs-Spanel for short. We demonstrate this method by exploring the spatial processes and scopes of past urban shrinkage in Detroit between 2000 and 2020.  If this sounds of interest, below you can read the abstract...

What a week it’s been at the Esri User Conference! For the past five days, San Diego has been buzzing with the brightest minds in GIS. A large crew from Fulcrum was there, going to sessions, connecting with people at the booth, and, of course, socializing with peers after hours. It was a great week focused on pushing the boundaries of geospatial technology. La entrada Fulcrum at Esri User Conference 2025: redefining fieldwork with agentic AI se publicó primero en Fulcrum.

Raf sent us this shop in Suzhou, in the tourist area by the main canal.

This morning I was asked by an acquaintance if I could create a quick map of Mar-a-Lago featuring a number of red markers. The image above is the result. As no money was paid for this map feel free to reproduce it and share it on social media with no accreditation.The budget for this project was zero. To be honest there is nothing particularly exciting about the map - but I thought it might be

Landsat imagery and NDVI are used to monitor vegetation change, from invasive grass spread in rangelands to early stress detection in coastal marshes. The post Using Landsat and NDVI to Map Vegetation Change appeared first on Geography Realm.

Discover how our natural language interface prototype has the potential to make satellite imagery accessible to everyone. By translating plain English queries into structured STAC queries, we're simplifying access to valuable Earth observation data. Learn how our system uses NLP, serverless architecture, and geospatial standards to search for satellite images The post Making Satellite Data Searchable with Natural Language appeared first on Sparkgeo.

Environmental field data serves as the backbone of credible ESG reporting. Mobile workflows bring structure, transparency, and real-time validation to data collection, helping organizations meet environmental standards, track impact, and prove progress with clarity and precision. Robust corporate sustainability reporting and climate‑related disclosure depend on the same reliable field metrics. La entrada Credible ESG & corporate sustainability reporting starts with reliable field data  se publicó primero en Fulcrum.

The Journal: “A 12ft by 11ft wool map of Ireland, which took four years of knitting and crocheting to complete, is in search of a new home to go on public display.”

Support Specialist - Mapping & Staking - NISC, Lake Saint Louis, MO USA posted on 2025-07-17

Many of you attended our webinar “3D: a new dimension!” Vincent Picavet was on the mic : 3D challenges in 2025: digital twins, publishing data on the web, sharing data,...

Do you deal with sensitive geospatial data ? Are you concerned by cybersecurity threats ? Oslandia and partners ( e.g. OPENGIS.ch) launched the « Security Project for QGIS » :...

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The USHMM Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos is an interactive map documenting camps, ghettos, and Nazi-run sites of persecution across Europe and North Africa. This powerful digital tool brings to life one of the most staggering realities of the Holocaust: the sheer number and geographic reach of sites where millions were imprisoned, enslaved, and murdered between 1933 and 1945. Created by

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Visualizing historical tornado trends The post How to Overlay a Heatmap on a Real Map with Python appeared first on Towards Data Science.

GIS Specialist (Cityworks AMS Assignment) - City of Mesa, Mesa, AZ posted on 2025-07-16

A scatter gun of Geospatial & EO reflections from two weeks in Europe.

This is another hanging map coming from Embrun, France. Thanks, Mr Le Cartographe, for sharing.

PLUS: predicting earthquake responses using LLMs, better quality road extraction using AI, and more.

Light pollution maps typically use satellite data from NOAA’s VIIRS to visualize levels of light pollution around the world. Some maps, like Light Pollution Map, also allow users to click on different locations to view detailed information - such as light pollution levels using the Bortle Dark Sky Scale.My favorite dark sky map is actually the (identically named) Light Pollution Map. I like this

GIS/Cultural Resources Specialist - Center for Environmental Management Military Lands (CEMML), Pohakuloa Training Area, Hawaii posted on 2025-07-15

On August 26, Stefan Keller of FH OST will lead a free webinar focused on (geo)data manipulation and integration using #Apache #Hop, an open-source, low-code platform for building data workflows. The session will also touch on emerging trends in #AI and #LLMs within the data integration space.

The History of Cartography Project’s fifth and final volume, Cartography in the Nineteenth Century, has finally gone to press, though the massive book will take two years to work its way through the production pipeline.… More

9to5Mac notes two features coming to Apple Maps as of iOS 26 this fall: natural language search and commute notifications. Meanwhile, Apple Maps briefly failed to treat Ontario’s Highway 407 as a toll road earlier… More

To make dramatic progress in any endeavor, you need a vision, a target — a north star. Fulcrum is rolling out an industry-leading conception of Agentic AI that will help us navigate ongoing technological changes, bringing us and our customers to a fully hands-free, AI-guided experience for field workers. La entrada From fast fills to field agents: how Fulcrum is building real AI for the field se publicó primero en Fulcrum.

Another Raf’s contribution with the plots where the olives come from, in gold on top of the orthophotomap, is the label of Lacrima Olea, the Picual variety extra virgin olive oil home-grown and cold-pressed produced by Cooperativa de Godall, Catalunya

If you’ve ever wondered what’s capturing the attention of YouTube viewers in Brazil, Japan, or South Africa at this very moment, Trending Videos is a great place to start. This new web tool uses a 3D globe interface to deliver a geographic window into YouTube’s trending content across the world. The interactive globe allows users to spin, zoom, and click on any country to instantly access

A #Thoughtworks team introduces the concept of the “Expert Generalist” — professionals who blend deep expertise in some disciplines with a broad knowledge across multiple domains. The article makes a case for recognizing #expert #generalists as essential to breaking down the silos that often stifle #innovation in tech organizations.

 Directly access your Kobocollect data inside QGIS. 

Modern construction sites face constant, high-pressure risk, yet most safety systems still lag behind. AI, robotics, and site cameras now give field teams faster visibility, tighter coordination, and a better shot at preventing injuries before they happen. La entrada How AI, robotics, and site cameras are transforming construction safety se publicó primero en Fulcrum.

Photo: ESA/J. Mai (source) Recently the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Living Planet Symposium (LPS) was held in Vienna, Austria. This was likely the world’s largest gathering of the Earth Observation community. The LPS website claims there there were 6500+ registered participants and 4200+ presentations & posters in 250+ sessions, but those are conservative numbers… I counted 4428 presentations & posters in 453 sessions. Also it says there were 2300 “Children at the School Activities”, and I can confirm there were lots of kids at the conference (and on the metro). Awesome to see! I attended LPS on behalf of Radiant Earth and the Cloud-Native Geospatial (CNG) Forum. I was there to learn how CNG specs and tools are being adopted by the Earth observation community and to help build awareness. Given the size of the conference (it had 30 separate content tracks!), my first challenge was to determine what content would be presented where and...

A new contact page replaces the old contact, FAQ, link submission and review guidelines pages. Simpler and less repetitive. And instead of a contact form, there’s just an email address. So much spam was coming… More

Where is the question, but how? Geospatial is at a tipping point; this GEOFESTO is a philosophy for our community’s growth.

One in three U.S. counties now has no full-time local journalist - a staggering 75% decline over the past 23 years. This collapse means communities across the country lack "even one full-time reporter to cover all of the schools, the town councils, the economic development projects, basketball games, environmental decisions, local businesses, and local events."To document this crisis, Rebuild

Ohne harte Fakten bleibt jeder Veloweg ein Bauchentscheid und jede Taktverdichtung ein Ratespiel. GNSS-Tracking, besser bekannt als GPS-Tracking, schliesst diese Wissenslücke, indem es Bewegungsmuster in hoher räumlich-zeitlicher Auflösung liefert. Dieser Beitrag zeigt, welche Datenquellen es gibt, welche Technik dahintersteckt und wie eine Tracking-Studie geplant und durchgeführt werden kann. Daten sind das Grundgerüst jeder Verkehrs- und …

EOPF 101 is your guide to cloud-native Sentinel workflows.

GIS Technician - Slaughter & Willingham, PLLC, Oxford, MS, USA posted on 2025-07-13

What are the economics of using Google Earth Engine (#GEE) for Earth observation vs. a self-operated #EO pipeline? – Christopher Ren analyzes GEE’s pricing structure and finds it mis-priced when used as an imagery pipeline.

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World History Atlas is an impressively detailed, time-traveling cartographic project that lets users explore the ever-shifting borders of human civilization. Covering thousands of years of global history, this interactive map platform provides a deep spatial context to the rise and fall of empires, nations, and cultures.Think of it as a Google Maps for world history - except instead of zooming

A global dataset of 700 mud volcanoes was recently published by geologists from Sapienza University. The post GIS Data: Shallow Sea Mud Volcanoes appeared first on Geography Realm.

The art of Joanathan Bessaci includes maps cut out and layered to form images. I presently work with old Michelin maps dated from roughly 1920 to 1970. I use old French Michelin maps because I… More

Memories of Esri UC's past

FAO’s global dataset maps access to towns and cities of all sizes within reasonable travel times, identifying patterns of urban interconnectedness. The post Explore the City-Regions Dataset from FAO appeared first on Geography Realm.

Harry Kuril built a computer model to identify the places with a best chance to catch a glimpse of the aurora borealis during a short visit, assigning scores based on aurora intensity, cloud cover and… More

Th London partnership has opened doors to cities around the world that want to follow London's lead, building walkable, multimodal places.

Researchers mapped 540 million years of sea level change, showing major short-term shifts during ice ages driven by Earth's orbital cycles. The post Mapping Short-term Sea Level Changes Over 540 Million Years appeared first on Geography Realm.

von Laurin Bertozzi (sieber&partners), Daniela Herzig (EBP Schweiz), Patrick Saxer (EBP Schweiz) Workshop-Inhalte Im Workshop 3 BIM in der Bauausführung – Informationsbedürfnisse und veränderte Möglichkeiten haben wir uns folgendem Inhalt gewidmet:Die Bauausführung ist ein komplexes Zusammenspiel zwischen Bauherr:innen, Unternehmer:innen und Planer:innen – drei zentralen Akteur:innen mit jeweils unterschiedlichen Informationsbedürfnissen und -verantwortlichkeiten. Im Zuge der fortschreitenden …

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

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von Claus Maier (EBP) & Philipp Dohmen (QAECY) 30 Teilnehmende, eine Frage: Wie verwandeln wir vorhandene Daten in nutzbares Wissen für bessere Entscheidungen? Die Anwesenden schilderten ihr gemeinsames Problem: Unmengen von Daten liegen verstreut in Modellen und Ablagen vor. Doch wie können sie sinnvoll erschlossen und genutzt werden? Aus diesem Grund stiess das Thema des …

#wanderer is a new, #opensource, #decentralized #trail database where you can upload tracks (or import them from #STRAVA or #Komoot), create or share routes, and connect with communities through #ActivityPub-powered #federation.

Damien Saunder’s book about maps on record covers, Maps on Vinyl, got a writeup in the Guardian last week. Some designs address global social or environmental issues. Others map the mind, imaginary places, feelings, worldviews—or,… More

I may have done something terrible or something good. To get some of you up to speed: So I pulled every bike lane in Chattanooga as were defined in OpenStreetMap. I learned a few things – mainly was OSM was greatly out of date and greatly wrong in spots. That’s too be expected and is […] The post I want to ride my bicycle: Third Act appeared first on North River Geographic Systems Inc.

PLUS: Microsoft's climate model, mapping pollution from Flickr, and more.

Rakesh Verma, Co-Founder, Managing Director and Group Chairman of MapmyIndia, is honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Geospatial World Leadership Awards, presented during Geospatial World Forum 2025 in […] The post Rakesh Verma – Lifetime Achievement Award | Geospatial World Leadership Awards 2025 appeared first on Geospatial World.

Graham Park explores how cross-referencing data from #crowdsourcing, like the #STRAVA global heat map, can significantly enhance #OpenStreetMap. He also cautions against mapping informal, private, or temporary features, highlighting both the benefits and limitations of integrating independent data sources for #geodata improvement.

Groundwater stored over many years is a significant contributor to streamflow in Western United States mountains according to a published study. The post Water Can Take Years to Seep out of Mountains appeared first on Geography Realm.

DMVGIS Website launch: An Excellent Resource to drive and facilitate collaboration, coordination, and awareness of GIS in the DMV region. New Light Technologies (NLT) is thrilled to launch the DMVGIS website, your new online platform for the geospatial community in the DC, Maryland, and Virginia region. This website is designed to be a central hub for DMVGIS, offering a handy resource for GIS information, data, and events. It will also help facilitate professional networking, participant collaboration, and information sharing. Whether you're looking for the latest GIS news or details on upcoming events, this website will serve as the nexus of activity for our regional geospatial community.

Bubbles created by the movement of waves can influence how much carbon dioxide is absorbed by the ocean. The post Study Models How the Behavior of Waves Affects Blue Carbon Storage appeared first on Geography Realm.

ETH Zurich has received a landmark 100 million Swiss Franc donation to launch the Swiss #GeoLab, an #EarthObservation center in Lucerne led by Thomas Zurbuchen and Verena Griess. The center will tackle challenges from natural disasters to agricultural yield prediction, marking a major boost for environmental research.

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Presentation and feedback from the QGIS-fr Users Meeting in Avignon, last June.

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

GIS Manager - San Juan County, Aztec, NM posted on 2025-07-07

When Data is Easy, Geospatial Will Change Everything Geospatial technologies are transforming how we model the world, plan infrastructure, monitor change, and make decisions. But for that transformation to be realized at scale, one foundational element must be addressed: access to data. At Sparkgeo, we believe that improving access to geospatial data is essential for […] The post The Industry Data Access Survey appeared first on Sparkgeo.

Data justice is an emerging set of discussions and research, involving the collection, analysis, sharing, and use of data entirely in service of and with accountability to participants and their communities. As our book and this blog focuses on spatial data and associated societal issues, this concept is an important one for the readers of […]

Rob Painter, CEO of Trimble Inc., has been honored as the Business Leader of the Year at the Geospatial World Leadership Awards 2025, presented during Geospatial World Forum 2025 in […] The post Rob Painter – Business Leader of the Year | Geospatial World Leadership Awards 2025 appeared first on Geospatial World.

So I was flooded on linkedin the other day with “Congrats on your work anniversary” and it always makes me feel weird. I was also at a potential client’s location a few weeks ago and the comment was made “I heard you died”. All the congrats were for 19 years of working for myself – […] The post 15 years plus a Few Days……. appeared first on North River Geographic Systems Inc.

Ingo Simonis, Chief Technology Innovation Officer at #OGC, has published an article asking the question “Does #GeoParquet Replace OGC API-Features?”. The article positions GeoParquet (and #Apache #Iceberg) vis-à-vis OGC API-Features, the successor of WFS 2.0.

This is a guest post by Guilhem Allaman. Mid-June, the French-speaking QGIS Users Meeting was held in Avignon, Southern France – a… Read more Presentation and feedback from the QGIS-fr Users Meeting in Avignon

In the current issue of Environment and Planning B, we (Boyu Wang, Na Jiang and myself) have a new editorial entitled "Generative AI and Urban Modeling". The premise of this editorial is that Generative AI (GenAI) is impacting all aspects of our daily lives and as such has we were wondering how will it impact urban modeling? For example, in the editorial we discuss how  GenAI could speed up the overall urban modeling process. To demonstrate this we show how ChatGPT (and its built-in coding interface Canvas) can take published papers and build agent-based models from them (one being of an abstract space and another being spatially explicit). However, while model building is time consuming task, another challenge modelers face is how to incorporate decision making within them. To this end we also discuss how large language models (LLMs) have the potential to help with  agent-decision making in the form of generating  agent-personas or scheduling agent activities. We conclude the...

Stephanie Long, co-founder of Spatialty, has been recognized as Faculty Leader of the Year for 2025 at Austin Community College. This honor acknowledges her outstanding leadership in geospatial education, curriculum development, and mentorship. At Spatialty, she enhances consulting by providing tailored training and simplifying complex technology for clients.

Paloma Merodio Gómez is honored as the Geospatial Ambassador of the Year at the Geospatial World Forum 2025 in Madrid, Spain, for her visionary leadership in making geospatial knowledge a […] The post Paloma Merodio Gómez – Geospatial Ambassador of the Year | Geospatial World Leadership Awards 2025 appeared first on Geospatial World.

After a long development cycle, Giro3D 0.43 is available. The Globe entity We were talking about it in a previous article, the main feature of this release is of course...

GIS Analyst - GEOGRAPH Technologies, Easley, SC posted on 2025-07-03

PLUS: zero-shot map labelling, building Youtube maps using text, and more.

Noémie Grémeaux, Geomatics Project Manager at IGN France, has been awarded the Geospatial World Leadership Awards 2025 for Tech Innovation for Public Good. Her visionary work in advancing open geospatial […] The post Noémie Grémeaux Wins Tech Innovation for Public Good Award | Geospatial World Leadership Awards 2025 appeared first on Geospatial World.

How Much Does it Cost to Make a Map?

Terradepth, led by CTO Andrew Lunstead, focuses on helping people make better decisions about the ocean, an environment less understood than the surface of Mars due to data collection challenges. Their approach involves both developing high-endurance autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) for massive data gathering and the sensor-agnostic Absolute Ocean data platform . This platform, built on CesiumJS, provides an intuitive, world-view interface for managing and visualizing current and historical undersea surveys. Terradepth supports critical sectors like offshore energy, resource management, and defense. While accommodating data from any source, Terradepth has consolidated its cloud operations within AWS, including GovCloud for enhanced security. A significant innovation is leveraging edge computing with Absolute Ocean to drastically reduce the "scan to decision" time from months to mere hours, greatly enhancing the speed of critical operations

Before it was HIFLD, it was briefly FGDWG. Before that, it was a nameless thing in its infancy. In those early days, it bounced around between conference rooms in Norfolk, Dahlgren, and Chantilly. I was fortunate enough to be in the rooms where it was born and took shape.  I was a contractor supporting an … Continue reading HIFLD Open Is Dead*, Long Live HIFLD →

It’s been a while since I’ve had the chance to play with a new version of QGIS. The stars have aligned so I’m digging through the changelog and testing some things out. Not that I’ve been super attentive for a while – BUT I have noticed the DB Manager has been a bit stagnant. Which […] The post Playing with QGIS 3.44 Solothurn: SQL appeared first on North River Geographic Systems Inc.

IPUMS, University of Minnesota, has been honored with the Geospatial World Leadership Award 2025 for Research, Science & Technology Institution of the Year. With decades of pioneering work in harmonizing […] The post IPUMS, University of Minnesota: Research, Science & Technology Institution of the Year | Geospatial World Leadership Awards 2025 appeared first on Geospatial World.

How do you protect the #privacy of the subjects of #statistics and #data? – By adding controlled #noise. The blog Ironic Sans has an interesting and somewhat funny account of the ramifications of the application of #differentialprivacy in the context of the 2020 U.S. #Census.

Under the moniker “swisstopo historic”, #swisstopo produces a #podcast about the history of #cartography and #geoinformation, now in its fourth season with themes ranging from water on maps to national boundaries. Alongside the podcast, they also share blog posts, media coverage, and interactive storytelling pieces on geospatial history.

NatureServe has developed an updated 30-meter hexagon map of regional ecosystems in the contiguous United States and adjacent areas. The post High Resolution Ecosystem Map of the Contiguous United States and Adjacent Areas appeared first on Geography Realm.

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has officially approved OGC API – Records – Part 1: Core as a new standard. This modern, API-based specification enables seamless discovery, access, and search of geospatial metadata across federated systems. Supporting various catalog deployments, it bridges the gap between legacy CSW implementations and new open web technologies—paving the way for broader geospatial interoperability and innovation. The post OGC Membership approves OGC API – Records – Part 1: Core as an official OGC Standard appeared first on Open Geospatial Consortium.

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In this dynamic keynote from Geospatial World Forum 2025 in Madrid, Spain, Claire Milverton, CEO of 1Spatial, explores how automation and accurate data are driving the future of AI-enabled digital […] The post Automating for an AI-Enabled Future: Digital Twins & Underground Mapping | GWF 2025 appeared first on Geospatial World.

I have just gotten back from attending the 19th International Conference on Computational Urban Planning and Urban Management (CUPUM) in London and thought I would  share the two papers we presented at the conference. The first paper was with Qingqing Chen and Linda See and was entitled "Using New Sources of Data for Urban Climate Modeling Generated through MLLMs on Street View Imagery. "As the title might suggest, this paper was about how one can leverage multi-modal large language models (MLLMs) to extract information on building height, age and function from street level photographs. We demonstrate this using street view images from Mapillary and than ask ChatGPT to estimate the building height, age and function and compare the results to authoritative data sources. If this sounds of interest, below you can see the abstract to the paper, some if the figures (i.e., the work flow and prompts) while the results can be seen in the attached paper (see the link below). Abstract:Urban...

GIS Specialist - City of Chesapeake, Chesapeake, VA USA posted on 2025-06-30

In this keynote from Geospatial World Forum 2025 in Madrid, Spain, Seng Chuan Tan, President of WFEO, emphasizes the urgent need for resilient and sustainable infrastructure. He highlights how geospatial […] The post Building Resilient & Sustainable Infrastructure with Geospatial Technology | GWF 2025 appeared first on Geospatial World.

It was amazing attending the Living Planet Symposium last week (23–27 June 2025) in Vienna.

Interview with Zach Jaffe of Map I.T.

The time since I’ve last posted has been quite busy. I’ve completely recovered from my previous eye issues and have been able to start traveling again. In fact, I’m writing this post from a hotel room. In addition to my consulting work at Cercana, I took on a role as the CTO of Photometrics AI, … Continue reading Geospatial, AI/ML, and Infrastructure →

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Seasonal planning helps environmental survey crews collect accurate data while reducing delays, rework, and safety risks. Aligning field survey schedules with environmental conditions like bloom cycles, migration patterns, and dry periods keeps crews efficient and on track with regulatory requirements. The right planning approach, supported by historical data, GIS layers, and clear field workflows, turns short windows into reliable opportunities. La entrada Seasonal planning for environmental survey crews se publicó primero en Fulcrum.

This blog post outlines the process of creating multi-color 3D prints using the Bambu Lab X1 Carbon printer and the Topoprint software. I explain how to prepare multiple STL files for distinct landscape features, using OrcaSlicer for effective slicing. The final print, requiring extensive filament changes, showcases the Landwasserviadukt.

The QGISUC2025 team has done an awesome job recording and editing the conference presentations. All “presentation” type talks where the presenter has accepted to be published are now available in a dedicated list on the QGIS Youtube channel. I also had the pleasure of presenting our Trajectools plugin and you can see this talk here: …Read More

 If your concerned about sharing QGIS projects on the web there are many options apart from the 'qgis2web' plugin. This just utilises a docker image containing a demo project.Share your QGIS projects with QGIS Server • Gispo

Lake Chapala was formed at the intersection of three grabens. The post Lake Chapala: a Tectonic Lake at Mexico’s Triple-graben Intersection appeared first on Geography Realm.

When someone proposes an idea to you, smile and assure them that you understand (yes ...). Express your enthusiasm about it (... yes ...) with an even bigger smile. Then, offer to enhance and extend their great idea (... and ...). You can compare this creativity technique to rubber duck debugging, but always remember that you should not replace a human with an LLM.

GIS Analyst - Bat Conservation International Inc., Tucson, AZ, 85701 US posted on 2025-06-24

GIS Planner - City of West Palm Beach , 401 Clematis Street West Palm Beach, FL 33411 posted on 2025-06-24

When and where? Geomob Berlin will take place at 18:00 on Thursday the 25th of September, 2025. The location will be announced soon, please let us know if you are interested in hosting. 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: Michael Cruickshank, Anthropocene Analytics: Leveraging geospatial data and complex network models to efficient defend urban areas against the climate crisis. Léa Enguehard, Boreal forests research topics ...

When and where? Geomob Edinburgh will be held at 6:30pm (doors open at 6pm) on Tuesday, September 30th, 2025 at the office of Esri UK: Floor 2, Quatermile Three, 10 Nightengale Way, EH3 9EG Edinburgh Google Maps, OpenStreetMap Agenda Our format for the evening will be: 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 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, Esri. The speakers: Matthew Akerman, Fort William More speakers coming soon! We are always looking for speakers, volunteer to speak! The organizers: Geomob Edinburgh is organized by Gala Camacho Thanks Geomob would not be possible without speakers and sponsors. See the list of past speakers. Please get in touch if you would like to speak at a future Geomob event.

When and where? Geomob London will place at 6:00 PM on Wednesday the 22nd of October, 2025 at Geovation Hub at (Sutton Yard, 65 Goswell Rd, London EC1V 7EN) 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: Joe Leach, Unique property reference numbers, a very British love affair Rain Wu, Maps as desires James Cheshire, The Library of Lost Maps Nigel Edmead, The Open Geospatial Consortium Dustin Carlino, How did...

Summary thread Post by @[email protected] View on Mastodon When and where? Geomob Edinburgh was held at 6:30pm (doors open at 6pm) on Tuesday, June 24th, 2025 at room 1.26 in Paterson’s Land, The University of Edinburgh Holyrood Campus (Google / OSM) Thank you to The Community Access to Rooms project for providing this space for us, free of cost! This event is part of The Data Lab’s Geospatial Month - other events listed here. Agenda Our format for the evening will be: 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 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, Esri and on this special occasion also by Avineon Tensing. The speakers: Laura Munoz, Putting Marketing on the Map: My journey as a marketer in the geospatial edtech...

When and where? Geomob London will place at 6:00 PM on Wednesday the 28th of January, 2026 at Geovation Hub at (Sutton Yard, 65 Goswell Rd, London EC1V 7EN) 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: Siobhan Ryan, Avineon Tensing, TBD Would you like to speak? Please volunteer. The organizers: Geomob London is organized by Ed Freyfogle and Steven Feldman Thanks Geomob would not be possible without speakers and sponsors. See the list of past...

PLUS: Why satellite forecasting models keep getting it wrong, further problems with foundation models, and more.

Utilities face growing pressure to identify and respond to environmental risk quickly and accurately. GIS platforms paired with mobile field data collection solutions empower utility teams by combining real-time location-based data with on-the-ground observations, enhancing environmental management strategies and compliance. By layering live and historical data while integrating field updates, this combination turns environmental risk from a reactive challenge into a proactive operational priority. La entrada How utilities use GIS to manage environmental risk se publicó primero en Fulcrum.

Should you map influence areas using distance or time? From retail site selection to public service planning, the way you define "reach" matters. In this article, we break down the difference between radial buffers and isochrones—when to use each, and why choosing the right method can dramatically improve the precision of your location-based decisions. Read now to avoid the most common mistake in spatial analysis.

Discover how combining market intelligence from NielsenIQ with geospatial analytics is helping retailers identify opportunities, outsmart competition, and move faster.

Mapidea partners with NielsenIQ to bring together powerful market data and geospatial intelligence—helping businesses make smarter, location-based decisions.

When we began writing this blog on geospatial data and society, few articles and discussions existed about geospatial data trust. Certainly beginning with John Pickles’ book Ground Truth from the mid-1990s, people began to discuss the ethical decisions that are made when using GIS, and that GIS use was not an impartial act, nor was […]

Please Look at the Data

This is a slightly different post to normal, in the sense its not really about papers but my take on agent-based modeling, urban analytics and the growth of Artificial Intelligence impacting both. First up, while I was in Santa Fe last October for the 2024 International Conference of the Computational Social Science Society of the Americas  I was interviewed by John Cordier from Epistemix for their Flux Podcast which resulted in this "From Micro-Behaviors to Macro-Patterns: Exploring Agent-Based Models with Andrew Crooks. Rather than me trying to sum it up I will just quote from the podcast episode "In this episode of The Flux, host John Cordier sits down with Andrew Crooks ..... They dive into the world of agent-based modeling (ABM) - what it is, why it matters, and how it helps us simulate and better understand human behavior in complex systems. From simulating traffic jams to modeling social influence on vaccine uptake, Andrew shares how data, geography, and synthetic populations...

Forest Disturbance Mapping via Remote Sensing -216M Acres in Eastern US - Conservation Science and Data Visualization, United States posted on 2025-06-20

Weekly newsletter on Earth Observation

  Open source geospatial 3D innovation has just reached another important milestone, thanks to a Cesium Ecosystem Grant for a new 3D globe view in QGIS. This is the second grant that the team of North Road and Lutra Consulting received from Cesium, and we’re proud of what we’ve delivered for our QGIS users. The new 3D globe will be available to all in QGIS v.3.44. This was an extremely interesting project to undertake, as it required a heavy research and experimentation process by our developers. There’s many potential approaches for implementing a large-scale, 3D globe, and each have their advantages and trade-offs. We were very lucky to have insight from Cesium’s Kevin Ring to advise us at the start […]

The big goal with the TN 911 project is to eliminate steps and still enter good data. I’d like to fill out as much of the database as I could with minimal work from the person putting in data. Hence I’ve riddled the database with triggers and made drop down lists of about everything I […] The post TN911: Adding Elevation appeared first on North River Geographic Systems Inc.

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Summary Thread Post by @[email protected] View on Mastodon When and where? Geomob London took place at 6:00 PM on Wednesday the 18th of June, 2025 at Geovation Hub at (Sutton Yard, 65 Goswell Rd, London EC1V 7EN) 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: Keir Clarke, Scrambled Maps Steve Karmeinsky, OpenStreetMap UK update Anne Lee Steele, How maps and spatial thinking can be used for art and advocacy ...

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eoAPI is catching on. Here’s what we’ve learned and what we’re building next.

Credits: Pixabay (Pixabay Content License) The Importance of Compliance A geographic data layer must comply with many rules and constraints. For example: Geometric Topological Arbitrary rules – no angles smaller...

Environmental compliance and environmental regulations are inherently tied to location: where rules apply, where inspections occur, and where records must point back to. This blog explores how GIS supports compliance efforts for regulatory requirements by providing spatial structure that helps teams stay coordinated on environmental impacts across projects. When GIS is integrated with structured field data systems, it gives teams the clarity to monitor conditions, document work accurately, and respond quickly to potential issues. La entrada Mapping environmental compliance: a GIS-driven approach se publicó primero en Fulcrum.

Waymo Scaling, Waymo Insights

Jesse and Sue have been working on a new video series on Virtual Heritage called Recreatus. This first video episode focuses on the broader context of Digital Heritage before we […]

With Assistant Professor Nelson Roque

Read about how the Amazon once flowed east to west and how the strength of Hurricane Isaac once change the course of the Mississippi river. The post Rivers that Flow Backwards appeared first on Geography Realm.

Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/introduction-to-mergin-maps-tickets-1387725035939 One of the big questions I get asked on QGIS is “What’s the mobile environment like?”. Which leads to a whole discussion on Qfield and Mergin Maps. I’m more familiar with Mergin Maps (Plus a Business Partner). After talking to the Mergin Maps team we’re doing training. It’s going to be a mashup […] The post Mergin Maps Training on July 10th 2025 appeared first on North River Geographic Systems Inc.

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I’ve got into a bit of a habit of writing occasional posts with links to interesting things I’ve found (probably because it’s a relatively easy blog post to write). This is another of those posts – this time, written in June 2025. So, let’s get on with some links: Why COUNT(*) can be slow in […]

Shortly after getting out of the Hospital I fell. I went down hard. It was embarrassing. Probably the worst thing is it took two people to help get me up. One person was pulling me up towards the left and one person was pulling me forward…which wasn’t helping my balance at all. I got up. […] The post I want to ride my bicycle Part 2 appeared first on North River Geographic Systems Inc.

Alan Leidner shares how 9/11 revealed the need for better underground data—and how that insight led to the global MUDDI Standard for smarter, safer cities. The post From Ground Zero to Global Change: Alan Leidner on the Power of Underground Data appeared first on Open Geospatial Consortium.

Constructed Landscapes

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Summary thread Post by @[email protected] View on Mastodon When and where? Geomob Barcelona took place at 6:00 PM on Wednesday the 11th of June, 2025 at CoWorkIdea, at Carrer de Torres i Amat, 21, First Floor. 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. The talks will be in English. We vote - using FeatureUpvote - 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 bar for discussion and #geobeers paid for by the sponsors. The speakers: Isaac Hoyes Ester, onocoy - High Precision Positioning Mick Larson, Giga - Building the largest open and live map of school locations and their connectivity status Toni del Hoyo, Cercador d’escoles ...

GIS Developer II - Innovate! Inc., Remote posted on 2025-06-10

Clark University has joined the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), reinforcing its legacy in GIS innovation and environmental sustainability through its Center for Geospatial Analytics. The post Clark University joins the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) appeared first on Open Geospatial Consortium.

Aerial imagery for disaster response, and DOGE

A project led by Dr Michael Goodchild that I had the honor of participating in has resulted in the publication of an article documenting some key work in GIS and society: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10879120. Entitled “Locational Data and the Public Interest”, it not only documents the work a group of people in academia, industry, law, nonprofits, and […]

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With Miles Kauffman

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.

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 Sokol 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 MarkLogic. They explain that MarkLogic'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...

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.

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 […]

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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...

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

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...

Chris Holmes giving the opening keynote at CNG Conference 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...

Edge computing for earth observation

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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.

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.

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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!

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.

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.

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 →

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. 

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

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

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.

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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.

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 …

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 […]

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.

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 …

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.

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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...

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.

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 →

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.

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:...

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Why I am reporting on the NEOM human rights situation and publicly traded engineering consultancies involved.

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

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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.

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 →

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 […] The post Building a Virtual Map Cube with FastAPI and Marzipano appeared first on Sparkgeo.

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.

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.

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.

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...

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 […] 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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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 →

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. […]

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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 →

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 […] 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 …

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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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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What we would like to see in geospatial

A sampling of Cercana's favorite parts of FedGeoDay 2025.

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 […] The post Exploring Lovable UI for AI-Powered Web Map Creation appeared first on Sparkgeo.

Our team will be in Snowbird to talk all things cloud-native.

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, …

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 →

The Mysteries of the Official QGIS Server Docker Image

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

An open letter to event organizers.

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 →

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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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 →

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 →

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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 →

PLUS: How accurate are population datasets, foundation models for generating 3D images and more.

This is a link to my presentation given at the 2025 GISSIG Conference in Rochester, NY

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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.

CapMetro's recent feature in an Esri case study highlights their development of a cloud-based geospatial infrastructure. Key efforts include automating data pipelines and migrating to Azure, aimed at enhancing operational efficiency and providing real-time spatial data for better decision-making in transit services.

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.

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

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

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.

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Administrative boundaries (level 1) – GAUL 2024 – https://data.apps.fao.org/catalog/iso/34f97afc-6218-459a-971d-5af1162d318aAdministrative boundaries (level 2) – GAUL 2024 – https://data.apps.fao.org/catalog/iso/60b23906-f21a-49ef-8424-f3645e70264e

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...

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 haven’t been widely disseminated and therefore may have slipped past …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 […]

Broken promises

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.

Interviews from the 2025 NC GIS Conference

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

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.

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.

..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 […] 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 […]

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.

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 […]

Happy 314 Day, St. Louis!

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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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

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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...

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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.

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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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

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 →

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.

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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"

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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.

Continuing the tech company basemap theme

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.

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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

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.

What Will be the Tableau of Geospatial?

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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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Are we finally getting somewhere?

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.

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 …

Slides and links for my February 2025 Pangeo Showcase talk

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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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 →

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

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...

For the month to 2025-01-27, a summary of:

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

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

Every coordinate tells a story; geofencing lets us bring those stories to life within defined boundariesContinue reading on Spatial Data Science »

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.

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 […] 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.

Tasks for the weekend.Continue reading on Spatial Data Science »

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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

Understanding your data’s coordinates is the first step to turning spatial information into actionable insights.Continue reading on Spatial Data Science »

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...

Automation is cost-cutting by tightening the corners and not cutting the customerContinue reading on Spatial Data Science »

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

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.

The post Taylor Geospatial Institute & AWS Announce Winners of Generative AI for Geospatial Challenge appeared first on Taylor Geospatial Institute.

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, …

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 →

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...

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.

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

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 →

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

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.

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.

Building new worlds with travel advisories

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 […]

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.

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.

T-Kartor and DEMINE Foundation need your support—whether it's through sharing our story, donating resources, or simply spreading awareness and keeping Ukraine on the agenda.

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.

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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.

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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...

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.

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...

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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 →

The indomitable Tee Bar pointed me towards an interesting article:

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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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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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.

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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.