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Adam Steer<p><a href="https://mapstodon.space/tags/foreverJobSearch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>foreverJobSearch</span></a> <a href="https://mapstodon.space/tags/gischat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gischat</span></a></p><p>gis/geospatial roles all across government: nope nopity no you dont have the ESRI keyword</p><p>next minute on the QGIS forum: oh hi, I'm from [government] how do we [thing]</p><p>..ah OK. Skills and capability are not the issue. Gotcha.</p>
Javier Jimenez Shaw<p><a href="https://mapstodon.space/tags/gis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gis</span></a> <a href="https://mapstodon.space/tags/gischat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gischat</span></a></p>
Mike Dolbow<p>Howdy <a href="https://mapstodon.space/tags/gischat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gischat</span></a> folks - I'm seeing a lot of <a href="https://mapstodon.space/tags/AGOL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AGOL</span></a> maps lately with "cartoony" borders for political boundaries like states and counties. They look hand-drawn, with lots of obvious gaps and tilts. But they appear so often that I suspect there's a common source.</p><p>There's nothing "wrong" with them usually, because they are effective to convey the information at the typical scale. But they bug me just from an aesthetic perspective. Anyone know the source(s)?</p>
blub<p>Oh bei <a href="https://norden.social/tags/Wikidata" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wikidata</span></a> Coordinate Me 2025 kann man helfen die Koordinaten für allerlei Dinge zu finden :blobcatthumbsups: <br><a href="https://m.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Coordinate_Me_2025/de" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">m.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:E</span><span class="invisible">vents/Coordinate_Me_2025/de</span></a></p><p><a href="https://norden.social/tags/wikipedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wikipedia</span></a> <a href="https://norden.social/tags/wiki" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wiki</span></a> <a href="https://norden.social/tags/openstreetmap" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>openstreetmap</span></a> <a href="https://norden.social/tags/gischat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gischat</span></a> <a href="https://norden.social/tags/gisfolk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gisfolk</span></a> <a href="https://norden.social/tags/semanticweb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>semanticweb</span></a> <a href="https://norden.social/tags/geschichte" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>geschichte</span></a> <a href="https://norden.social/tags/infrastruktur" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>infrastruktur</span></a> <a href="https://norden.social/tags/opendata" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>opendata</span></a></p>
Derek Law<p>Working with ‘Places’ <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Data" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Data</span></a> in <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://bird.makeup/users/esri" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>esri</span></a></span> Basemaps <a href="https://tinyurl.com/353hjubm" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">tinyurl.com/353hjubm</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/location" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>location</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/spatial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>spatial</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/business" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>business</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/intelligence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>intelligence</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/geospatial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>geospatial</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/GIS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GIS</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/esri" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>esri</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/arcgis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>arcgis</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/mapping" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mapping</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/maps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>maps</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/ArcGISOnline" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ArcGISOnline</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/GISchat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GISchat</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/mapstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mapstodon</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://bird.makeup/users/esrifederalgovt" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>esrifederalgovt</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://bird.makeup/users/esrislgov" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>esrislgov</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://bird.makeup/users/arcgisonline" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>arcgisonline</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://bird.makeup/users/arcgispro" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>arcgispro</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://bird.makeup/users/esritraining" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>esritraining</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://bird.makeup/users/urisa" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>urisa</span></a></span></p>
Eugene Alvin Villar 🇵🇭<p>Done mapping all 20 <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/barangays" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>barangays</span></a> of Rosario, Cavite, <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/Philippines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Philippines</span></a> 🇵🇭 in <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/OpenStreetMap" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenStreetMap</span></a>, creating their <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/Wikidata" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wikidata</span></a> items, and linking the two with each other.</p><p>Wanna play around? Here is the Overpass Turbo query: <a href="https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/23my" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">overpass-turbo.eu/s/23my</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>And here is the Wikidata Query Service (WDQS) query: <a href="https://w.wiki/DySX" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">w.wiki/DySX</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>Previously: <a href="https://en.osm.town/@seav/114262897070010378" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.osm.town/@seav/114262897070</span><span class="invisible">010378</span></a></p><p><a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/OpenData" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenData</span></a> <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/LinkedOpenData" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LinkedOpenData</span></a> <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/gischat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gischat</span></a> <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/Mapstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mapstodon</span></a> <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/tootSEA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tootSEA</span></a></p>
🌎 Don Meltz<p>Is there a reason python cannot/does not use null values in a simple addition formula?<br>It seems like such a simple ask. What's the logic behind that decision?</p><p>!Test1! + !Test2!, if there are any null values in either column, throws an error.</p><p><a href="https://mapstodon.space/tags/GISchat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GISchat</span></a></p>
Nick Bearman<p>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 <a href="https://www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/show.php?article=13706" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">ncrm.ac.uk/training/show.php?a</span><span class="invisible">rticle=13706</span></a>, with a follow-up course on Advanced R as a GIS in June, <a href="https://www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/show.php?article=13707" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">ncrm.ac.uk/training/show.php?a</span><span class="invisible">rticle=13707</span></a> with NCRM <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/GISchat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GISchat</span></a></p>
CaGIS<p>Why are rainbow color schemes so popular, and do they work? A new article in CaGIS from Izabela Gołębiowska, Luca Dall’ Acqua, Jeannette Noetzli &amp;Arzu Çöltekin. Check out the <a href="https://mapstodon.space/tags/OpenAccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenAccess</span></a> article: <a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/15230406.2025.2467316" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">doi.org/10.1080/15230406.2025.</span><span class="invisible">2467316</span></a> and video: <a href="https://youtu.be/LRjydpwJsyw" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">youtu.be/LRjydpwJsyw</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://mapstodon.space/tags/GISchat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GISchat</span></a></p>
Derek Law<p>In 1 week, <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://bird.makeup/users/esri" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>esri</span></a></span> webinar: What's New: <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Esri" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Esri</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Developer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Developer</span></a> Experience (May 2025) <a href="https://tinyurl.com/3s2d8utp" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">tinyurl.com/3s2d8utp</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/geodev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>geodev</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/esridev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>esridev</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/GIS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GIS</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/arcgis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>arcgis</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/GISChat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GISChat</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/geospatial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>geospatial</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/mapping" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mapping</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/mapstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mapstodon</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://bird.makeup/users/esridevs" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>esridevs</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://bird.makeup/users/esridevevents" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>esridevevents</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://bird.makeup/users/esritraining" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>esritraining</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://bird.makeup/users/esripartners" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>esripartners</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://bird.makeup/users/esristartups" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>esristartups</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://bird.makeup/users/urisa" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>urisa</span></a></span></p>
Ian Turton<p>Polygon coverage cleaning comes to JTS, hopefully this will make it into GeoTools in the near future. </p><p><a href="https://lin-ear-th-inking.blogspot.com/2025/04/coverage-cleaning-in-jts.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lin-ear-th-inking.blogspot.com</span><span class="invisible">/2025/04/coverage-cleaning-in-jts.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mapstodon.space/tags/gisChat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gisChat</span></a> <a href="https://mapstodon.space/tags/geotools" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>geotools</span></a> <a href="https://mapstodon.space/tags/jts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>jts</span></a> <a href="https://mapstodon.space/tags/gis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gis</span></a></p>
Josh Carlson<p>Any of y'all successful in moving Esri-heavy systems into something FOSS? We'll probably always have one foot in Esri, but I'd like to shift more weight onto something else, you know? Some of these workflows (inspections, field work) are critical to County departments, so I'm extremely hesitant to touch them.</p><p><a href="https://mapstodon.space/tags/gischat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gischat</span></a></p>
Josh Carlson<p>My job is moving more of their stuff from legacy systems and paper-based workflows to digital, and I think that's probably a good thing.</p><p>But. They're asking *me* to do it. And they want me to use our *Esri* stuff.</p><p>When I think about how deep into Esri software we are as a County, and how much of that I have personally facilitated, I don't like how I feel.</p><p>Wish I was proficient enough in alternatives to start turning things around, but that's a ways off, I think.</p><p><a href="https://mapstodon.space/tags/gischat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gischat</span></a></p>
tchaddad<p>Stumbled on this time capsule of <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/esri" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>esri</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/geospatial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>geospatial</span></a> history when looking through a media cabinet at the office <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/mapstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mapstodon</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/GISChat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GISChat</span></a></p>
CaGIS<p>New article from Paddy Gorry and Peter Mooney, presenting RADIAN - A tool for generating synthetic spatial data for use in teaching and learning, <a href="https://mapstodon.space/tags/OpenAccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenAccess</span></a> <a href="https://mapstodon.space/tags/GISchat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GISchat</span></a> <a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/15230406.2024.2377981" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">doi.org/10.1080/15230406.2024.</span><span class="invisible">2377981</span></a></p>
CaGIS<p>New paper from Wenbo Wang, Liangchen Zhou, A-Xing Zhu &amp; Guonian Lv, looking at isoline extraction from a global hexagonal grid, <a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/15230406.2024.2359709" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">doi.org/10.1080/15230406.2024.</span><span class="invisible">2359709</span></a>, <a href="https://mapstodon.space/tags/gisChat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gisChat</span></a></p>
CaGIS<p>New paper! Yue Chen, Haizhong Qian &amp; Xiao Wang propose a new way of merging urban blocks, taking into account functional semantics and grid features <a href="https://mapstodon.space/tags/gisChat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gisChat</span></a> <a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/15230406.2024.2353767" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">doi.org/10.1080/15230406.2024.</span><span class="invisible">2353767</span></a></p>
CaGIS<p>New paper! Yue Chen, Haizhong Qian &amp; Xiao Wang propose a new way of merging urban blocks, taking into account functional semantics and grid features <a href="https://mapstodon.space/tags/gisChat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gisChat</span></a> <a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/15230406.2024.2353767" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">doi.org/10.1080/15230406.2024.</span><span class="invisible">2353767</span></a></p>
CaGIS<p>New article from Ioannis Ioannidis and colleagues, looking at using remote sensing data to derive built-form indexes to analyze the geography of residential burglary and street thefts, <a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/15230406.2023.2296598" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">doi.org/10.1080/15230406.2023.</span><span class="invisible">2296598</span></a>, <a href="https://mapstodon.space/tags/GISchat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GISchat</span></a>, <a href="https://mapstodon.space/tags/OpenAccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenAccess</span></a></p>
CaGIS<p>Great new article from Lindsey Rotche and @DisasterYolanda on improving the cartography of human-centered avalanche susceptibility mapping (H-CASM), <a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/15230406.2023.2293886" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">doi.org/10.1080/15230406.2023.</span><span class="invisible">2293886</span></a>, <a href="https://mapstodon.space/tags/gischat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gischat</span></a></p>