New geospatial data in Google BigQuery: #Google is adding geospatial content to its #DWH solution #BigQuery. Additions encompass annotated Street View #imagery, Places (#POI) data, and #traffic data, among others.
https://spatialists.ch/posts/2025/04-14-new-geospatial-data-in-google-bigquery/ #GIS #GISchat #geospatial #SwissGIS
Buchtipps: Kinder & Kartografie https://geoobserver.de/2025/04/14/buchtipps-kinder-kartografie/ #gistribe #gischat #fossgis #foss4g #OSGeo #spatial #geospatial #opensource #gis #geo #geoObserver pls RT @BDVI_Bbg @bdvi_verband @sfkeller
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=
Tool tip: Mapshaper: #Mapshaper is a lightweight yet powerful geospatial toolkit offering #topology-aware #simplification (via Douglas-Peucker and Visvalingam algorithms), spatial operations, and more. Available across Windows, macOS, and Linux, it includes a...
https://spatialists.ch/posts/2025/04-12-tool-tip-mapshaper/ #GIS #GISchat #geospatial #SwissGIS
Cuadro Físico Meteoro y Geológico de la Tierra y Reloj Cosmográfico. (Physical, Meteorological, and Geological [1879] Chart of the Earth and Cosmographic Clock.)
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https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~366459~90133720:Cuadro-Fisico-Meteoro-y-Geologico <-- shared David Rumsey Map Collection holding, and download the high resolution digital copy of the map…
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[the level of detail - with the ballon and other cartographic affectations…]
#GIS #spatial #mapping #cartography #maps #oldmaps #global #world #geography #geology #flora #fauna #terrestrial #FridayFeeling #gischat #Spain #rivers #mountains #humanity #globe #earth
@DavidRumseyMapCenter
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.
New article! Fascinating discussion on Geography for AI sustainability and sustainability for GeoAI, including Figure 3, below, which shows how Carbon Intensity of data centres varies globally, https://doi.org/10.1080/15230406.2025.2479796 #GISchat #OpenAccess
Want to learn how to use R to visualise and analyze spatial data? My course Introduction to Spatial Data and Using R as a GIS course is coming up in May 2025 https://www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/show.php?article=13706, with a follow-up course on Advanced R as a GIS in June, https://www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/show.php?article=13707 with NCRM #GISchat
geobasisloader_de und 17000 https://geoobserver.de/2025/04/10/geobasisloader-de-und-17000/ #plugin #geobasisloader #qgis #switch2qgis #opendata #GDI #lvermgeo #gistribe #gischat #fossgis #foss4g #OSGeo #spatial #geospatial #opensource #gis #geo #geoObserver pls RT
Why are that many maps which tag Greenland as "no data"? There is a lot of data from Greenland, right? Low population doesn't mean "no data".
For instance this one ;) https://bird.makeup/users/terriblemaps/statuses/1908258332923547920
A new VerySpatial podcast is out! A VerySpatial Podcast – Episode 758, listen to it here: https://veryspatial.com/2025/04/a-veryspatial-podcast-episode-758/
#GIS #GISChat
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
Greg Cocks 
