Tomo Bacinger<p>Mimal the Elf, also known as Chef.</p><p>The Elf is a figure created by the outlines of several Midwestern US states. Minnesota forms the Elf's hat, Iowa creates the head/face, Missouri forms the body, Arkansas makes up the legs, and Louisiana creates the boots. Tennessee and Kentucky are included to represent a frying pan and a piece of fried chicken, respectively, completing the Chef image.</p><p>Made with <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/QGIS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>QGIS</span></a> and <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Blender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Blender</span></a></p><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Cartography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cartography</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Maps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Maps</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/GisChat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GisChat</span></a></p>
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Mario Angst<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mapstodon.space/@fionag11" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>fionag11</span></a></span> now I am interested in how... does GIS hell look like?</p><p>(as a non GIS person, in my mind, it looks like the horrible ArcGIS course I once took during my PhD, which consisted entirely of clicking through a 60 page printed out tutorial of screenshots of the GUI)<br><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/gischat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gischat</span></a></p>
Jakob Miksch<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/python" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>python</span></a> library for <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/realestate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>realestate</span></a> assesment <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/gis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gis</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/openstreetmap" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>openstreetmap</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/gischat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gischat</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.openavmkit.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">openavmkit.com/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Jakob Miksch<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/maplibre" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>maplibre</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/vectortile" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vectortile</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/geodata" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>geodata</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/gis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gis</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/gischat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gischat</span></a> <br><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10791" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">arxiv.org/abs/2508.10791</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Derek Law<p>Unlocking the Power of <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Image" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Image</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Analysis" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Analysis</span></a> in <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/ArcGISPro" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ArcGISPro</span></a> <a href="https://tinyurl.com/pbv8csw8" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">tinyurl.com/pbv8csw8</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/imagery" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>imagery</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/data" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>data</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/RemoteSensing" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>RemoteSensing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/GIS" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GIS</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/esri" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>esri</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/arcgis" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>arcgis</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/GISchat" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GISchat</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/geospatial" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>geospatial</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://bird.makeup/users/esri" class="u-url mention">@<span>esri</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://bird.makeup/users/arcgispro" class="u-url mention">@<span>arcgispro</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://bird.makeup/users/esrifederalgovt" class="u-url mention">@<span>esrifederalgovt</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://bird.makeup/users/esrislgov" class="u-url mention">@<span>esrislgov</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://bird.makeup/users/esritraining" class="u-url mention">@<span>esritraining</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://bird.makeup/users/urisa" class="u-url mention">@<span>urisa</span></a></span></p>
Tom Chadwin<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/@strypey" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>strypey</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://cloudisland.nz/@miramarmike" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>miramarmike</span></a></span> Paging <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/gischat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gischat</span></a> to see if anyone might want to help out with this?</p>
Ian Turton<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://med-mastodon.com/@luckytran" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>luckytran</span></a></span> it is a good colour scheme for colour blind people, probably works well if printed in black and white and is good on a variety of computer screens. These things are very important to cartographers and are the subject of large books, many papers and conference sessions.</p><p>See <a href="https://colorbrewer2.org/#type=sequential&scheme=GnBu&n=5" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">colorbrewer2.org/#type=sequent</span><span class="invisible">ial&scheme=GnBu&n=5</span></a> for a link to demonstration and links to papers etc. </p><p><a href="https://mapstodon.space/tags/gischat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gischat</span></a> <a href="https://mapstodon.space/tags/cartography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cartography</span></a> <a href="https://mapstodon.space/tags/notJustRandomColours" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>notJustRandomColours</span></a></p>
J9C :arcgis: :python: :osm:<p>🗓️ The FOSS4G North America 2025 meeting schedule is now live and early registration is now open. <a href="https://mapstodon.space/tags/FOSS4GNA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FOSS4GNA</span></a> will be held Nov 3-5, 2025 in Reston, Virginia, US.</p><p><a href="https://www.foss4gna.org/schedule" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">foss4gna.org/schedule</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://mapstodon.space/tags/geospatial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>geospatial</span></a> <a href="https://mapstodon.space/tags/FOSS4GNA2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FOSS4GNA2025</span></a> <a href="https://mapstodon.space/tags/gischat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gischat</span></a> <a href="https://mapstodon.space/tags/FOSS4GNA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FOSS4GNA</span></a> <a href="https://mapstodon.space/tags/opensource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>opensource</span></a> <a href="https://mapstodon.space/tags/FOSS4G" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FOSS4G</span></a></p>
CaGIS<p>New article from Musang Yoo & Hyeongmo Koo looking at spatial autocorrelation and it's impact on spatial cross-validation, <a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/15230406.2024.2422593" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">doi.org/10.1080/15230406.2024.</span><span class="invisible">2422593</span></a> <a href="https://mapstodon.space/tags/GISchat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GISchat</span></a></p>
CaGIS<p>New article from Zhiwei Wei & Nai Yang, who use a negative spatial auto-correlation index to improve tag map layout across multiple different scales, check out the paper at <a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/15230406.2024.2391479" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">doi.org/10.1080/15230406.2024.</span><span class="invisible">2391479</span></a> and their project at <a href="https://github.com/TrentonWei/Multi-scale-TagMap" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/TrentonWei/Multi-sc</span><span class="invisible">ale-TagMap</span></a> <a href="https://mapstodon.space/tags/GISchat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GISchat</span></a></p>
CaGIS<p>A novel way of comparing artificial land use in European cities, whilst adjusting for size. Check out a graphic below, the article at <a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/15230406.2024.2433573" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">doi.org/10.1080/15230406.2024.</span><span class="invisible">2433573</span></a> and the interactive tool at <a href="https://land-use.shinyapps.io/UE_Land_use_2018/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">land-use.shinyapps.io/UE_Land_</span><span class="invisible">use_2018/</span></a>. Thanks Axel Pécheric, Rémi Lemoy and Marion Le Texier! <a href="https://mapstodon.space/tags/GISchat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GISchat</span></a></p>
CaGIS<p>Fascinating new article! Silvia Klettner explores the The significance of the cartographic sign, evaluating influence of symbol shape on intuitive judgements, <a href="https://mapstodon.space/tags/GISchat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GISchat</span></a>, <a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/15230406.2024.2334454" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">doi.org/10.1080/15230406.2024.</span><span class="invisible">2334454</span></a></p>
CaGIS<p>Fantastic new article from @VaientiBeatrice and colleagues, using Deformation Analysis to identify copying processes in historical maps, <a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/15230406.2024.2424891" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">doi.org/10.1080/15230406.2024.</span><span class="invisible">2424891</span></a> <a href="https://mapstodon.space/tags/GISchat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GISchat</span></a> <a href="https://mapstodon.space/tags/OpenAccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenAccess</span></a></p>
CaGIS<p>New article! Tianshu Chu, Haowen Yan and colleagues explore a new way of generalizing road networks by making use of the PageRank algorithm to select the most 'important' roads, <a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/15230406.2024.2439311" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">doi.org/10.1080/15230406.2024.</span><span class="invisible">2439311</span></a> <a href="https://mapstodon.space/tags/GISchat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GISchat</span></a>, An example of the class-based method and the new PageRank method for 4 cities in China.</p>
CaGIS<p>New <a href="https://mapstodon.space/tags/article" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>article</span></a> from Linfeng Jiang and colleagues, looking at a new way of visualising road connectivity: using CiteSpace, a bibliometric tool, with the literature replaced by the traffic trajectory and the keywords replaced by the roads, <a href="https://mapstodon.space/tags/gischat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gischat</span></a>, <a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/15230406.2024.2310884" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">doi.org/10.1080/15230406.2024.</span><span class="invisible">2310884</span></a></p>
CaGIS<p>New article: A systematic literature review from Mariana Vallejo-Velázquez & Ourania Kounadi on spatial perception and knowledge via structured digital sketch maps, <a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/15230406.2024.2434629" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">doi.org/10.1080/15230406.2024.</span><span class="invisible">2434629</span></a>, <a href="https://mapstodon.space/tags/OpenAccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenAccess</span></a> <a href="https://mapstodon.space/tags/GISchat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GISchat</span></a></p>
CaGIS<p>Issue 52-05 of Cartography and Geographic Information Science is now available and the printed copy should be with all our subscribers! This time we have 8 papers including a systematic review of digital sketch maps, some great new spatial methods, a couple of really interesting applications and some new applications of spatial statistics. Check it out at <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/tcag20/52/5" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">tandfonline.com/toc/tcag20/52/5</span><span class="invisible"></span></a>, and the thread below! <a href="https://mapstodon.space/tags/GISchat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GISchat</span></a></p>
Derek Law<p>Best practices when integrating <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/data" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>data</span></a> from <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/cloud" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>cloud</span></a> data warehouses w/ <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/ArcGISPro" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ArcGISPro</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/ArcGISEnterprise" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ArcGISEnterprise</span></a> <a href="https://tinyurl.com/k2s5m7d8" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">tinyurl.com/k2s5m7d8</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/DataMgmt" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DataMgmt</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/ETL" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ETL</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/GIO" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GIO</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/ArcGISAdmin" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ArcGISAdmin</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/GIS" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GIS</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/esri" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>esri</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/arcgis" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>arcgis</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/GISchat" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GISchat</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/geospatial" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>geospatial</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://bird.makeup/users/esri" class="u-url mention">@<span>esri</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://bird.makeup/users/esrifederalgovt" class="u-url mention">@<span>esrifederalgovt</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://bird.makeup/users/esrislgov" class="u-url mention">@<span>esrislgov</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://bird.makeup/users/arcgispro" class="u-url mention">@<span>arcgispro</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://bird.makeup/users/arcgisxprise" class="u-url mention">@<span>arcgisxprise</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://bird.makeup/users/esritraining" class="u-url mention">@<span>esritraining</span></a></span></p>
jomo<p>Germany has a lot of roads called "Sackgasse" (dead-end road).</p><p>However, some of them have no dead ends at all. What a scam!</p><p>I've challenged myself to find them and used the resulting <a href="https://mstdn.io/tags/Overpass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Overpass</span></a> query as an example in my workshop today at <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://bonn.social/@FrOSCon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>FrOSCon</span></a></span>.</p><p><a href="https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/29ZE" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">overpass-turbo.eu/s/29ZE</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br>(the query may need a minute to execute)</p><p>I have added a lot of comments to explain how it works, and I have added it to the example queries in the <a href="https://mstdn.io/tags/OSM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OSM</span></a> wiki.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.io/tags/opensteetmap" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>opensteetmap</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.io/tags/gis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gis</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.io/tags/gischat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gischat</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.io/tags/mapstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mapstodon</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.io/tags/froscon2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>froscon2025</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.io/tags/froscon20" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>froscon20</span></a></p>
Olivier Leroy<p>I just want a description of the columns that is not in XML ..... </p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Gischat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gischat</span></a></p>
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