The best programmers: Many geospatial professions involve – varying degrees of – #programming. In a new article, Matthias Endler has collected fundamental #traits that the best #programmers he knows seem to share.
https://spatialists.ch/posts/2025/04-15-the-best-programmers/ #GIS #GISchat #geospatial #SwissGIS

Thrilled to share our latest publication "Visualizing uncertainties in landslide susceptibility modelling using bivariate mapping" https://nhess.copernicus.org/articles/25/1425/2025/

What’s inside:
A new way to jointly visualize susceptibility & uncertainty in landslide prediction
Practical, open-source tools for implementation in R and QGIS

Loved the interdisciplinarity of this project

#ArcGIS GeoAnalytics for #Microsoft Fabric Resources https://tinyurl.com/m3dt2usk

#location #business #spatial #intelligence #analysis #geospatial #GIS #esri #GISchat #mapstodon @esri @microsoft @msftnews @esrifederalgovt @esrislgov @esritraining @urisa

New package on CRAN: {valh}, an interface between R and the Valhalla API
https://github.com/riatelab/valh

Valhalla is a routing service based on OpenStreetMap data.
https://valhalla.github.io/valhalla

Co-authored by @mthv

Updated the GitHub repo with a list of Geospatial Conferences 2025

Covers events on GIS, remote sensing, and more.

Browse the list and improve it here: https://github.com/Nowosad/conferences_2025

I finished watching all 4 episodes of #Adolescence on Netflix. And being the map geek that I am and knowing that every episode was shot in one continuous take, I just had to determine what route the characters took from the family house to a fictional Wainwrights hardware store in Episode 4.

Family house in #OpenStreetMap: https://osm.org/go/evoF7q6j--?m=

Today, @qgis.nl & #ITC @utwente.bsky.social organised a workshop to bring together the #qgis community and #academia to discuss the way forward with #AI #MachineLearning #DeepLearning. Nice plugin presentations and useful discussions! #gischat

ohsome-planet: Export OSM data and its history to GeoParquet: The GIScience Research Group at Heidelberg University and HeiGIT have released version 1.0.0 of #ohsome-planet, a tool for #cloudnative access to #OpenStreetMap (#OSM) data using the #GeoParquet format. Originally developed as an internal tool, it...
https://spatialists.ch/posts/2025/04-11-ohsome-planet-export-osm-data-and-its-history-to-geoparquet/ #GIS #GISchat #geospatial #SwissGIS

Just pushed the 3000th issue of the daily geospatial links digest

https://geoinquiets.github.io/rafagas/2025/04-11.html

We've translated 8463 links since 2015-06-04 by @Raf, but he actually started circa 2011.

Sharing here a few basic metrics from the CSV we generate along the digest for anyone to leverage.

#torchGeo Release v0.7.0

https://www.osgeo.org/community-news/torchgeo-release-v0-7-0/

torchGeo is a #PyTorch domain library designed to make it simple for #machineLearning experts to work with #EO data, providing datasets, samplers, transforms, and pre-trained models specific to #geospatial data.

Fantastic new article looking at whether schematic maps (e.g. the London Tube map) can help with pedestrian route planning, from Ruyu Dai and colleagues, #GISchat https://doi.org/10.1080/15230406.2025.2478186

Gerhard Mercator — the namesake of the Mercator projection — here’s an image I took last year from the original Globus “Atlas der Welt” (1595) housed in the Gerhard #Mercator Treasure Chamber in #duisburg . #Gis #gischat

Smarter, Cheaper Search is Here!

We're excited to announce Stadia Maps Geocoding & Search v2.

14M+ New Places & Addresses
Faster & More Accurate Results
Autocomplete Costs Cut by 80%!
Forward Geocoding & Place Details Now Available for Everyone

Explore the Update → https://stadiamaps.com/news/introducing-stadia-maps-geocoding-search-v2/?utm_campaign=geocoding_v2_announcement&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

GIS folks: is there a viable #QGIS plugin for freehand drawing features that will work in 3.x.x?

It looks like "BeePen" is only good for annotations, and "Freehand Editing" was last updated 12 years ago.

If not, would there be interest in one?

#GISChat @qgis

We're proposing a new section "Machine Learning of Spatial Data" for the #rstats CRAN Task View: Analysis of Spatial Data.

https://github.com/cran-task-views/Spatial/pull/89

Feedback is welcome -- are we missing key packages or ideas?

Feel free to reply or DM.

Just learned about #gbfs General Bikeshare Feed Specification #bike #geo #gis #gischat https://gbfs.org/

It's been a pleasure contributing to the "Spatial Data Science Languages" preprint spear-headed by @edzer together with @martinfleis @paleolimbot @robinlovelace @nowosad @josi @loreabad6
https://fosstodon.org/@martinfleis/114261790590024080

New versions of @movingpandas and #Trajectools have just landed:

#MovingPandas 0.21.3 https://github.com/movingpandas/movingpandas/releases/tag/v0.21.3

Trajectools 2.5 https://codeberg.org/movingpandas/trajectools/releases/tag/v2.5

Please update your MovingPandas install to get all the improvements in #QGIS Trajectools https://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/processing_trajectory/#plugin-versions

Something going on with #geopandas on #Windows today that broke @movingpandas unit tests? https://github.com/movingpandas/movingpandas/actions/runs/14266650165/job/39992053542

Starting tomorrow, only two spaces left! Want to learn how to visualise and analyze spatial data in the social sciences? My course Introduction to QGIS: Spatial Data and Spatial Analysis course starts tomorrow, with NCRM https://www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/show.php?article=13700 #GISchat