New national drought platform: The Federal Government has launched a new National #Drought Platform providing standardized, up-to-date information and forecasts on drought risks across Switzerland. The platform integrates #remotesensing data for #vegetation health and data on...
https://spatialists.ch/posts/2025/05-09-new-national-drought-platform/ #GIS #GISchat #geospatial #SwissGIS

Configuration Reporter for #ArcGISEnterprise https://tinyurl.com/bdzf2ckn

#ArcGISAdmin #enterpriseGIS #GIO #esri #arcgis #WebGIS #GISchat #geospatial #mapstodon @esri @arcgisxprise @esrifederalgovt @esrislgov @esritraining @urisa

Snap Map: Spatial social: Apparently, #Snapchat, like other #socialmedia companies, has been exploring geospatial use-cases. TechCrunch compiled some interesting usage numbers.
https://spatialists.ch/posts/2025/05-08-snap-map-spatial-social/ #GIS #GISchat #geospatial #SwissGIS

What's new in #ArcGIS #Survey123 (May 2025) https://tinyurl.com/55xknm4x

#forms #surveys #DataCollection #GIS #esri #mapping #geographyteachers #GISchat #geospatial #mapstodon @esri @arcgissurvey123 @esrifederalgovt @esrislgov @esritraining @arcgisapps @urisa

New article! Wenping Jiang and colleagues how to create small-scale Swiss-style relief
shading using a end-to-end relief shading neural network model #GISchat https://doi.org/10.1080/15230406.2025.2484209 Data and code at https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.26103955.v4

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Tile and glyph map experiments: David O’Sullivan explores innovative visualizations of complex #multivariate data on #maps, using a case study with three variables. His article showcases creative #mapping techniques pushing the boundaries of traditional GIS #visualization.
https://spatialists.ch/posts/2025/05-07-tile-and-glyph-map-experiments/ #GIS #GISchat #geospatial #SwissGIS

New blog post by Tim Appelhans: State of the (open source) web map – Part I: The base(map)

A thoughtful dive into the open source web mapping tools. Recommended.

Read here: https://tim-salabim.codeberg.page/sotwm/sotwm.html

New article! Mina Sadeghi and colleagues proposed a new IDW: Adaptive Inverse Distance Weighting (AIDW), with an example modelling of transient population data #GISchat https://doi.org/10.1080/15230406.2025.2492670

In 1 week, @esricanada webinar: Made in #Canada - Your Guide to the #Community #Map of Canada https://tinyurl.com/4r9sbfxa

#CommunityMaps #data #sharing #collaboration #GIS #esri #esriCanada #mapping #arcgis #geography #GISchat #geospatial #mapstodon @esri @esrislgov @arcgisonline @esritraining @urisa

GPS: 25 Jahre auch zivil ungestört / 25 years also undisturbed in civilian life https://geoobserver.de/2025/05/07/gps-25-jahre-auch-zivil-ungestoert/ #gps #gistribe #gischat #fossgis #foss4g #OSGeo #spatial #geospatial #gis #geo #geoObserver pls RT

Suuper pre-print from the big guys in spatial data and analysis: "Spatial Data Science Languages: commonalities and needs"
A great and almost necessary read if you work with spatial data. https://arxiv.org/html/2503.16686v1 #GIS #GISChat

A little glimpse of technical debt:

We're trying to help another agency migrate their GIS data to our system. This should not be difficult.

BUT.

Every question I ask about the existing system is answered in one of two ways:

1. A former third party contractor was responsible for that, and they didn't give us any information.
2. We were hoping *you* could tell *us*!

When you outsource everything, don't be surprised when nobody knows anything.

#Mapping the way to digital #accessibility https://tinyurl.com/mrbc49zv

#compliance #WCAG #ACR #design #bestpractices #govtech #GIS #esri #arcgis #apps #GISchat #geospatial #mapstodon @esri @esrifederalgovt @esrislgov @esritraining @urisa

I got a wee bit frustrated with Esri's fluky and slow geocoding so I added a couple of articles to ArcNews #gischat

Pennsylvania - The Keystone State

Made with #QGIS and #Blender

Nicht zu fassen / Unbelievable: Comic-Sans-Maps ;-) https://geoobserver.de/2025/05/06/nicht-zu-fassen-comic-sans-maps/ #gistribe #gischat #fossgis #foss4g #OSGeo #spatial #geospatial #mapping #DataViz #gis #geo #geoObserver pls RT

“Dis, pourquoi?” on toponyms and maps: Over the past two weeks, #RTS’s “Dis, pourquoi?” dedicated its episodes to an in-depth look at #toponymy and at #maps and #cartography, featuring Frédéric Giraut of the University of Geneva for the former and Pascal Marguerat and Raphaël Bovier of...
https://spatialists.ch/posts/2025/05-05-dis-pourquoi-on-toponyms-and-maps/ #GIS #GISchat #geospatial #SwissGIS

ayayay!
"tmap.mapgl: two new tmap modes: mapbox and maplibre"

https://r-tmap.github.io/tmap.mapgl/
#rstats #RStatsCommunity #GISChat