Great new initiative by @lutraconsulting and @northroadgeo:
Make #QGIS an open platform for building geospatial #digitaltwins
Full details:
https://www.lutraconsulting.co.uk/crowdfunding/qgis-3d-for-open-source-digital-twins
A new VerySpatial podcast is out! A VerySpatial Podcast – Episode 761, listen to it here: https://veryspatial.com/2025/05/a-veryspatial-podcast-episode-761/
#GIS #GISChat
New blog post: Spatial Machine Learning with tidymodels
This post shows how to apply the tidymodels framework to spatial data workflows in R. Part 3 in a series about #sml.
radinfra_de: Radinfrastruktur in Deutschland https://geoobserver.de/2025/05/28/radinfra-de-radinfrastruktur-deutschland/ #osm #openstreetmap #radinfrastruktur #gistribe #gischat #fossgis #foss4g #OSGeo #spatial #geospatial #gis #geo #geoObserver pls RT
Hit 300 followers!
I’m a #Geospatial analysis nerd, solving strategic spatial problems across Europe with #QGIS & #GIS and tinkering in #OpenStreetMap.
If you love puzzles made of pixels and place, stick around and please follow or retoot so other map magicians can find us.
@oslandia and partners are launching the "Security Project for QGIS": a mutual effort to increase @qgis cybersecurity
Join to learn more: https://framaforms.org/webinar-security-project-for-qgis-1747206395
Overture on open, interoperable geodata: #Grid features an interesting interview with Jennings Anderson, a #Meta Software Engineer and #OpenStreetMap (#OSM) researcher, who shares his perspective on the #Overture Maps Foundation (#OMF) — an initiative aiming to integrate diverse open...
https://spatialists.ch/posts/2025/05-27-overture-on-open-interoperable-geodata/ #GIS #GISchat #geospatial #SwissGIS
In Geospatial / Geospatial Analytics: What creative and fun use case do You bring to events?
Loving my new vintage hat. Anybody want to guess the age of the map? #gischat
New article from Sichen Jin, Alex Endert and Clio Andris from Friendly Cities Lab and GT Visualization on SNoMaN: a great new visual analytic tool for spatial social network mapping and analysis, https://doi.org/10.1080/15230406.2024.2413600, Check out the video at https://figshare.com/articles/media/SNoMaN_a_visual_analytic_tool_for_spatial_social_network_mapping_and_analysis/27907907?file=50810777 #GISchat
Great new article from Paweł Cybulski and Florian Ledermann, looking at The impact of point symbol similarity on visual search on maps, Also a great interactive notebook showing the similarity and ink ratio on a scatter plot at https://observablehq.com/@floledermann/icon-similarity #GISchat https://doi.org/10.1080/15230406.2024.2409166
Fantastic new article from Jakub Woźniak & Tymoteusz Horbiński evaluating how maps in video games help players understand space, #GISchat, https://doi.org/10.1080/15230406.2024.2409914
Great new article from Krzysztof Zagata and colleagues, looking at how the impact of a mini-map helps navigation in video games, https://doi.org/10.1080/15230406.2024.2410472, #GISchat, below are heatmaps of usage of mini-maps for difference scenes, split by Players of League of Legends, gamers who don't play LoL, and non video gamers.
New article! Chenglong Wang and collagues present TransMI: a transfer-learning method for
generalized map information evaluation, a new way of using deep learning to evaluate and guide map creation https://doi.org/10.1080/15230406.2024.2306827 #GISchat
Great new article from Pei Dang and colleagues on using #llm Large Language Models for #Wayfinding, comparing their performance with humans, and evaluating the impact of spatial perception and spatial memory, #GISchat, https://doi.org/10.1080/15230406.2024.2405596
The #QGISUC25 starts in just one week. We're excited to meet all the organizers, speakers, and participants.
Looking for some interesting reading for the trip to Sweden? Check out our recently published open access paper about the #QGIS project: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666389925001138
I asked ChatGPT what the distances from London to Kuala Lumpur and Tokyo were and then to draw a map to show the distances. What a wonderful time to be alive. #gischat
Easily obtain OSM and OMF data: #Python and CLI tools #QuackOSM and #OvertureMaestro offer easier access to data from #OpenStreetMap (#OSM) and the Overture Maps Foundation (#OMF) through #PyArrow, #GeoParquet, or #DuckDB. These tools can simplify large-scale geospatial data...
https://spatialists.ch/posts/2025/05-23-easily-obtain-osm-and-omf-data/ #GIS #GISchat #geospatial #SwissGIS