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Jakob Miksch<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/osm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>osm</span></a> finally uses <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/vectortiles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vectortiles</span></a> 🥳<br><a href="https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2025/07/22/vector-tiles-are-deployed-on-openstreetmap-org/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blog.openstreetmap.org/2025/07</span><span class="invisible">/22/vector-tiles-are-deployed-on-openstreetmap-org/</span></a></p>
Martin Fleischmann<p>GitHub is deprecating command palette. I am sad - <a href="https://github.blog/changelog/2025-07-15-upcoming-deprecation-of-github-command-palette-feature-preview/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.blog/changelog/2025-07-</span><span class="invisible">15-upcoming-deprecation-of-github-command-palette-feature-preview/</span></a></p>
Jakub Nowosad<p>🚨 Final part of our Spatial ML with R series ! 🚨</p><p>We explore spatial cross-validation with sperrorest &amp; blockCV — tools outside the usual ML frameworks 📦<br /> <br />URL: <a href="https://geocompx.org/post/2025/sml-bp6/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">geocompx.org/post/2025/sml-bp6/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> </p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/rstats" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>rstats</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/SpatialML" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SpatialML</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/rspatial" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>rspatial</span></a></p>
Dani Arribas-Bel<p>New PhD project out, a collab between IBM Research, SDR-UK's own Geographic and Imagery Data Services to explore using vision foundation models &amp; high resolution imagery of the Liverpool City Region. If this sounds like you (or a friend!), all info at: <a href="https://geods.ac.uk/2025/07/02/phd-funding-multi-scale-urban-remote-sensing-with-ai/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">geods.ac.uk/2025/07/02/phd-fun</span><span class="invisible">ding-multi-scale-urban-remote-sensing-with-ai/</span></a></p>
Jakub Nowosad<p>Applying for a MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship? I’ve written about my experience:</p><p>📄 The application process: <a href="https://jakubnowosad.com/posts/2024-07-22-msca-bp1/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">jakubnowosad.com/posts/2024-07</span><span class="invisible">-22-msca-bp1/</span></a><br />📊 8 months into the project: <a href="https://jakubnowosad.com/posts/2025-04-13-msca-bp2/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">jakubnowosad.com/posts/2025-04</span><span class="invisible">-13-msca-bp2/</span></a></p><p>Hope it&#39;s useful! </p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/MSCA" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MSCA</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Postdoc" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Postdoc</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/HorizonEurope" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>HorizonEurope</span></a></p>
Kilian Evang<p>'On November 28th, 2012, Randall Munroe published an xkcd comic that was a calendar in which the size of each date was proportional to how often each date is referenced by its ordinal name (…) "In months other than September, the 11th is mentioned substantially less often than any other date. It's been that way since long before 9/11 and I have no idea why." After digging into the raw data, I believe I have figured out why.'</p><p><a href="https://drhagen.com/blog/the-missing-11th-of-the-month/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">drhagen.com/blog/the-missing-1</span><span class="invisible">1th-of-the-month/</span></a></p>
Martin Fleischmann<p>Yesterday we kickstarted the <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/lps25" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>lps25</span></a> with the a workshop on vector data cubes using Xvec package built on top of Xarray, Shapely and <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@geopandas" class="u-url mention">@<span>geopandas</span></a></span>. If you did not manage to be there but are still interested, the workshop material is available at <a href="https://github.com/martinfleis/lps25" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">github.com/martinfleis/lps25</span><span class="invisible"></span></a>. It covers the concept of VDC using both coordinate geometry and variable geometry with applications (and a combination of the two) using real-world data and use cases.</p>
Jakub Nowosad<p>📍 Registration is open for Spatial Data Science across Languages (SDSL) 2025 – Sept 17–18 (+19), Salzburg, Austria.</p><p>Connect R, Python, Julia &amp; more in spatial science.</p><p>🔗 <a href="https://forms.gle/E9fpG88V2VQQKmjk9" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">forms.gle/E9fpG88V2VQQKmjk9</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> -- Apply for on-site by mid-July – limited spots.</p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/SDSL2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SDSL2025</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/SpatialDataScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SpatialDataScience</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>OpenSource</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/RSpatial" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>RSpatial</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Geopython" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Geopython</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Juliageo" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Juliageo</span></a></p>
Martin Fleischmann<p>The term workshop-driven development (c) <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mapstodon.space/@darribas" class="u-url mention">@<span>darribas</span></a></span></p>
Martin Fleischmann<p>I’m in the middle of a workshop-driven development preparing material for deep dive into vector data cubes for ESA’s Living Planet Symposium in Vienna coming up in slightly over a week. Who’s going to be around? I wanna meet people.</p>
Dorothy Bishop<p>this is weird, and not in a good way.<br>Springer Nature is starting series of MDPI-like journals<br><a href="https://the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io/website/posts/discover_nature/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">the-strain-on-scientific-publi</span><span class="invisible">shing.github.io/website/posts/discover_nature/</span></a></p>
GeoPandas<p>Today is the day! GeoPandas 1.1.0 is out, available on PyPI and conda-forge. This release brings feature parity with shapely 2.1 thanks to a long list of new methods, allows sparse and dense arrays as outputs of spatial index queries and comes with coverage simplification, among many other improvements and fixes. See the full list of changes at <a href="https://geopandas.org/en/stable/docs/changelog.html#version-1-1-0-june-1-2025" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">geopandas.org/en/stable/docs/c</span><span class="invisible">hangelog.html#version-1-1-0-june-1-2025</span></a> </p><p>If we have broken anything, please let us know :).</p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/geopython" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>geopython</span></a></p>
Tom MacWright<p>the story's all kind of in the title of this rant <a href="https://macwright.com/2025/05/29/putting-an-untrusted-chat-layer-is-a-disaster" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">macwright.com/2025/05/29/putti</span><span class="invisible">ng-an-untrusted-chat-layer-is-a-disaster</span></a></p>
Rafagas Links<p>Spatial data science languages: commonalities and needs, especially for R, Python and Julia, identification of challenges and proposed ideas for future development <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/data" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>data</span></a>-science</p><p><a href="https://arxiv.org/html/2503.16686v1" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">arxiv.org/html/2503.16686v1</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Gabe Schuyler<p>Announcing: <a href="https://justaqrcode.com" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">justaqrcode.com</span><span class="invisible"></span></a>.</p><p>Tired of "free" QR code generators that are full of ads and trackers, that share your data, and that want to sell you something? Me too. Here's my act of resistance: I made a one-page site that works entirely in your browser to generate a simple QR code. And that's all it does. You can download the HTML page and run it locally, even. Read the source; nothing up my sleeves. Just a QR code.</p><p>My offer to you -- I will continue to pay for the domain name and web hosting for it, myself. If you find it valuable, you can pay it back by creating your own useful thing for the world and releasing it for free. Let's take back the friendly web, one vexingly-monetized utility at a time!</p><p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/QRcode" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>QRcode</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Free" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Free</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/FriendlyWeb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FriendlyWeb</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Resistance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Resistance</span></a></p>
Martin Fleischmann<p>After last year&#39;s success, we have opened a registration to 2025 instalment of **Spatial Data Science in Python** as a standalone course open to anyone leading to a European micro-credentials certification. This time, we changed the schedule to allow you attend even if you are working full-time or based over the pond.</p><p>This course is perfect for anyone looking to dive into the world of spatial data analysis using Python, regardless of prior experience in the field. </p><p>🔗 <a href="https://martinfleischmann.net/sds/micro/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">martinfleischmann.net/sds/micr</span><span class="invisible">o/</span></a></p>
Martin Fleischmann<p>Call for papers! A special issue on Open Urban Data Science in CEUS, edited by Filip Biljecki, <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mas.to/@gboeing" class="u-url mention">@<span>gboeing</span></a></span>, <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@hugoledoux" class="u-url mention">@<span>hugoledoux</span></a></span>, and me, is now accepting submissions. We are looking for full-length papers on open software tools around spatial data science, cities, and related topics. Submissions are treated as single-blinded, so you can include all the links to public repositories. More details at the journal site - <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/special-issue/322127/open-urban-data-science" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">sciencedirect.com/special-issu</span><span class="invisible">e/322127/open-urban-data-science</span></a>. If you have any questions, I’m happy to answer!</p>
Eugene Alvin Villar 🇵🇭<p>Finally! <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mapstodon.space/@leaflet" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>leaflet</span></a></span>, the venerable lightweight JS tilemap display library, is gearing up for a 2.0.0 release! 🎉</p><p><a href="https://leafletjs.com/2025/05/18/leaflet-2.0.0-alpha.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">leafletjs.com/2025/05/18/leafl</span><span class="invisible">et-2.0.0-alpha.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/Mapstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mapstodon</span></a> <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/gischat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gischat</span></a> <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/Leaflet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Leaflet</span></a> <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/LeafletJS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LeafletJS</span></a></p>
Anita Graser 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇪<p>And here&#39;s <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@martinfleis" class="u-url mention">@<span>martinfleis</span></a></span> et al.&#39;s new street network generalization tool:</p><p><a href="https://uscuni.org/neatnet/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">uscuni.org/neatnet/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.16198" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">arxiv.org/abs/2504.16198</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/giscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>giscience</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/gischat" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>gischat</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/mobility" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>mobility</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/MobilityDataScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MobilityDataScience</span></a></p>
Anita Graser 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇪<p>Another interesting new paper on street network analysis, HT <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mas.to/@gboeing" class="u-url mention">@<span>gboeing</span></a></span> </p><p>💯 it&#39;s surprisingly hard to count intersections </p><p><a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/tgis.70037" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10</span><span class="invisible">.1111/tgis.70037</span></a></p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/giscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>giscience</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/gischat" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>gischat</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/mobility" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>mobility</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/MobilityDataScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MobilityDataScience</span></a></p>