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Jakub Nowosad<p>Have you read Geocomputation with R?📘<br>If you found it helpful, we’d really appreciate a quick review — it helps others find the book too! </p><p>Goodreads: <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/214736719-geocomputation-with-r" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">goodreads.com/book/show/214736</span><span class="invisible">719-geocomputation-with-r</span></a><br>Amazon: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/1032248882" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">amazon.com/dp/1032248882</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br>Book: <a href="https://r.geocompx.org/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">r.geocompx.org/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/rstats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rstats</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/gis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gis</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/geocompx" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>geocompx</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/rspatial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rspatial</span></a></p>
Jakub Nowosad<p>Chapter 13: Transport Systems Analysis 🚶🚴🚌</p><p>Model transport networks! 📌 Analyze travel patterns, desire lines, routes, and accessibility using open data and reproducible geospatial workflows in R.</p><p>🔗 <a href="https://r.geocompx.org/transport" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">r.geocompx.org/transport</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> </p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/rstats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rstats</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/rspatial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rspatial</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/geocompx" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>geocompx</span></a></p>
Jakub Nowosad<p>🌲 New R package: forestdata makes it easy to download forestry and land cover data from multiple sources (Copernicus, ESRI, EU-Trees4F, and more). Supports sf, SpatRaster, and tidy outputs.</p><p>Explore it here: <a href="https://cidree.github.io/forestdata/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">cidree.github.io/forestdata/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/rstats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rstats</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/rspatial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rspatial</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/forestry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>forestry</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/landcover" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>landcover</span></a></p>
Chris Toney<p>New CRAN release of gdalraster, R bindings to GDAL. v2.1.0 adds incremental new features and enhancements, minor bug fixes and several internal improvements:<br><a href="https://github.com/USDAForestService/gdalraster/releases/tag/v.2.1.0" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/USDAForestService/g</span><span class="invisible">dalraster/releases/tag/v.2.1.0</span></a></p><p>Vector read benchmarks: <a href="https://usdaforestservice.github.io/gdalraster/articles/vector-read-benchmarks.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">usdaforestservice.github.io/gd</span><span class="invisible">alraster/articles/vector-read-benchmarks.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/rspatial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rspatial</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/gdal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gdal</span></a></p>
Jakub Nowosad<p>Chapter 12: Spatial Statistical Learning 📊🌍</p><p>Boost your spatial models! 📌 Learn about spatial autocorrelation, cross-validation, and machine learning with `mlr3`, using a real-world landslide prediction case study.</p><p>🔗 <a href="https://r.geocompx.org/spatial-cv" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">r.geocompx.org/spatial-cv</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> </p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/rstats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rstats</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/rspatial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rspatial</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/geocompx" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>geocompx</span></a></p>
𝚖𝚊𝚌𝚔𝚊 𝚜𝚣𝚎𝚌𝚑𝚗𝚘<p>Adding <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23rspatial" target="_blank">#rspatial</a> tag in case anyone else can help 😁</p>
Jakub Nowosad<p>New R package alert: 📦 mbg for model-based geostatistics</p><p>Run spatial ML &amp; geostatistical models to estimate continuous surfaces from point data + raster covariates.</p><p>Built on sf, terra, data.table, caret, and R-INLA.</p><p><a href="https://cran.r-project.org/package=mbg" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">cran.r-project.org/package=mbg</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/rspatial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rspatial</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/rstats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rstats</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/geostatistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>geostatistics</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/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><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="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rstats</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/SpatialML" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SpatialML</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/rspatial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rspatial</span></a></p>
Hugh Graham<p>Okay - further to my early rants about CDSE data, it aint as bad as I thought 😅 it also prompted me to properly sort out my approach to scaling/offsets which had been driving me mad! So if anyone cares for another way to download data from CDSE, with <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/rspatial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rspatial</span></a> / <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/gdal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gdal</span></a> I made a gist:</p><p><a href="https://gist.github.com/h-a-graham/86cd3403445cf163ce958efa2d29c621" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">gist.github.com/h-a-graham/86c</span><span class="invisible">d3403445cf163ce958efa2d29c621</span></a></p><p>There are still some improvements to be made for sure. </p><p>FYI <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@Micha_Silver" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>Micha_Silver</span></a></span></p>
Jakub Nowosad<p>Chapter 11: Writing Geoalgorithms 💻🧩🔁</p><p>Focuses on developing reusable and reproducible code for spatial tasks in R. Demonstrates algorithm design using examples like calculating polygon centroids.</p><p>🔗 <a href="https://r.geocompx.org/algorithms" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">r.geocompx.org/algorithms</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> </p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/rstats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rstats</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/rspatial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rspatial</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/geocompx" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>geocompx</span></a></p>
Timothée Giraud<p>The first major version of {mapsf} has arrived on CRAN!</p><p>mapsf is a thematic mapping R package. Its goal is to be simple and lightweight while offering all the necessary features to create beautiful statistical maps.</p><p>This release includes a revamped theming system, an updated cheat sheet and improved PNG and SVG exports and solves some long-lasting display bugs. </p><p>More details in this blog post: <a href="https://rcarto.github.io/posts/mapsf_v1.0.0" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">rcarto.github.io/posts/mapsf_v</span><span class="invisible">1.0.0</span></a></p><p>New website: <a href="https://riatelab.github.io/mapsf" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">riatelab.github.io/mapsf</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/RStats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RStats</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/rspatial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rspatial</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/GISChat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GISChat</span></a></p>
Jakub Nowosad<p>🪡 A heads-up about the Geocomputation with R book: some copies were mistakenly printed in black &amp; white instead of full color. If you received one, please contact me or the publisher for a replacement. A new, correct copy will be sent to you!</p><p>Publisher: <a href="https://www.routledge.com/contacts/customer-service" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">routledge.com/contacts/custome</span><span class="invisible">r-service</span></a></p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/rstats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rstats</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/rspatial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rspatial</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/geocompx" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>geocompx</span></a></p>
Olivier Leroy<p>I finally manage to watch <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@paleolimbot" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>paleolimbot</span></a></span> presentation at <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@RConsortium" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>RConsortium</span></a></span> on "scaling the <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Rspatial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Rspatial</span></a> ecosystem" ! </p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjNEoIYr_ag" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=tjNEoIYr_a</span><span class="invisible">g</span></a></p><p>Quick subjective key points:</p><p>- Use the database Luke and learn a bit SQL (I was already converted)</p><p>- the diversity of R packages to do some workflows also represent the diversity of standards (s.f.) and steps to reach similar results </p><p>- wkt_filter seems very nice (I was using "query" and GDAL/SQL instead)</p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/GISChat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GISChat</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Rstats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Rstats</span></a></p>
Jakub Nowosad<p>Chapter 10: Bridges to GIS Tools 🌉🛠️📦</p><p>Shows how to connect R with external GIS tools like QGIS, GRASS, and SAGA. Also includes guidance on working with GDAL, spatial databases, and cloud-based services.</p><p>🔗 <a href="https://r.geocompx.org/gis" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">r.geocompx.org/gis</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> </p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/rstats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rstats</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/rspatial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rspatial</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/geocompx" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>geocompx</span></a></p>
Jakub Nowosad<p>🚀 New blog post! Part 5 of our series on spatial ML with <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/RStats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RStats</span></a> explores specialized packages: RandomForestsGLS, spatialRF, and meteo -- tools beyond caret, tidymodels, &amp; mlr3.</p><p>URL: <a href="https://geocompx.org/post/2025/sml-bp5/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">geocompx.org/post/2025/sml-bp5</span><span class="invisible">/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/SpatialML" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SpatialML</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/RSpatial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RSpatial</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/MachineLearning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MachineLearning</span></a></p>
R Consortium<p>TOMORROW! Scaling the r-spatial ecosystem for the modern composable data pipeline - with Dewey Dunnington, Senior Software Engineer at Wherobots</p><p>Tues, June 24, 1pm ET</p><p>Sign up now! <a href="https://r-consortium.org/webinars/scaling-the-r-spatial-ecosystem-for-the-modern-composable-data-pipeline.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">r-consortium.org/webinars/scal</span><span class="invisible">ing-the-r-spatial-ecosystem-for-the-modern-composable-data-pipeline.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/RStats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RStats</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/rspatial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rspatial</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenSource</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@paleolimbot" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>paleolimbot</span></a></span></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" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><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="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SDSL2025</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/SpatialDataScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SpatialDataScience</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenSource</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/RSpatial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RSpatial</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Geopython" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Geopython</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Juliageo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Juliageo</span></a></p>
Jakub Nowosad<p>Chapter 9: Mapping &amp; Visualization 🗺️🖼️📊</p><p>Introduces tools for making static, animated, and interactive maps in R. Covers the tmap package and web-based options for sharing geographic data visually.</p><p>🔗 <a href="https://r.geocompx.org/adv-map" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">r.geocompx.org/adv-map</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/rstats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rstats</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/rspatial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rspatial</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/geocompx" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>geocompx</span></a></p>
Sharon Machlis<p>From Brittany Barker: ‘My "GIS and Mapping in R" workshop for the Cascadia R Conference . . . is available at GitHub and includes four exercises that focus on using "sf", "terra", "ggplot2", and "leaflet" for geospatial analyses and creating static and interactive maps’<br><a href="https://masto.machlis.com/tags/RStats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RStats</span></a> <a href="https://masto.machlis.com/tags/RSpatial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RSpatial</span></a> <br>(Barker is an asst research professor at Oregon State University in Portland)<br><a href="https://github.com/bbarker505/CASCADIA_R_Intro_to_GIS_2025" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/bbarker505/CASCADIA</span><span class="invisible">_R_Intro_to_GIS_2025</span></a></p>
Nicolas Lambert 🌏<p>Is it possible to have an Antarctic-centered Peirce Quincuncial projection with <a href="https://vis.social/tags/Rstats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Rstats</span></a>? <a href="https://vis.social/tags/rspatial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rspatial</span></a></p><p>North pole: "+proj=peirce_q +lon_0=25 +shape=square"<br>South Pole: ? 🤷‍♂️</p>