Digital Geography Lab
@digigeolab.bsky.social
Interdisciplinary #geography #research lab led by @tuulitoivonen.bsky.social, University of #Helsinki. Spatial big data analytics on a human scale for fair and sustainable societies.
https://www.helsinki.fi/en/researchgroups/digital-geography-lab
https://www.helsinki.fi/en/researchgroups/digital-geography-lab
Together with Metsähallitus Parks and Wildlife Services we propose operationalizing the use of mobile big data for visitor monitoring and the management of outdoor recreation.
Read more from our blog post: lnkd.in/dGYn2gvW
Read more from our blog post: lnkd.in/dGYn2gvW
November 24, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Together with Metsähallitus Parks and Wildlife Services we propose operationalizing the use of mobile big data for visitor monitoring and the management of outdoor recreation.
Read more from our blog post: lnkd.in/dGYn2gvW
Read more from our blog post: lnkd.in/dGYn2gvW
#30DayMapChallenge Day 20 - Water: An Australian River Alphabet
Inspired by Katie Holten's Irish Tree Alphabet 🌳
Unsure of any Australian river names beginning with 'X' and 'Z'.
River centrelines: www.hydrosheds.org
River catchments: ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/s...
(c) Rory Taylor
Inspired by Katie Holten's Irish Tree Alphabet 🌳
Unsure of any Australian river names beginning with 'X' and 'Z'.
River centrelines: www.hydrosheds.org
River catchments: ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/s...
(c) Rory Taylor
November 20, 2025 at 9:23 AM
#30DayMapChallenge Day 20 - Water: An Australian River Alphabet
Inspired by Katie Holten's Irish Tree Alphabet 🌳
Unsure of any Australian river names beginning with 'X' and 'Z'.
River centrelines: www.hydrosheds.org
River catchments: ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/s...
(c) Rory Taylor
Inspired by Katie Holten's Irish Tree Alphabet 🌳
Unsure of any Australian river names beginning with 'X' and 'Z'.
River centrelines: www.hydrosheds.org
River catchments: ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/s...
(c) Rory Taylor
📢 GREENTRAVEL Virtual Reality Technical Report Released!
📄Read more here: blogs.helsinki.fi/digital-geog...
📖 Check the report out here: helda.helsinki.fi/items/395be1...
#UrbanResearch #VirtualReality #ActiveTravel #SmartCities #StreetGreenery
📄Read more here: blogs.helsinki.fi/digital-geog...
📖 Check the report out here: helda.helsinki.fi/items/395be1...
#UrbanResearch #VirtualReality #ActiveTravel #SmartCities #StreetGreenery
November 17, 2025 at 2:05 PM
📢 GREENTRAVEL Virtual Reality Technical Report Released!
📄Read more here: blogs.helsinki.fi/digital-geog...
📖 Check the report out here: helda.helsinki.fi/items/395be1...
#UrbanResearch #VirtualReality #ActiveTravel #SmartCities #StreetGreenery
📄Read more here: blogs.helsinki.fi/digital-geog...
📖 Check the report out here: helda.helsinki.fi/items/395be1...
#UrbanResearch #VirtualReality #ActiveTravel #SmartCities #StreetGreenery
#30daymapchallenge 17: A new tool
Helsinki enjoyed a grand total of 12 minutes of sunshine in November (1.–13.11). No better time to remember that yes, the sun does still exists.
This map shows Helsinki's shadiest / sunniest places. New tool? #GRASSGIS solar modelling.
By @tadusko.bsky.social
Helsinki enjoyed a grand total of 12 minutes of sunshine in November (1.–13.11). No better time to remember that yes, the sun does still exists.
This map shows Helsinki's shadiest / sunniest places. New tool? #GRASSGIS solar modelling.
By @tadusko.bsky.social
November 17, 2025 at 6:30 AM
#30daymapchallenge 17: A new tool
Helsinki enjoyed a grand total of 12 minutes of sunshine in November (1.–13.11). No better time to remember that yes, the sun does still exists.
This map shows Helsinki's shadiest / sunniest places. New tool? #GRASSGIS solar modelling.
By @tadusko.bsky.social
Helsinki enjoyed a grand total of 12 minutes of sunshine in November (1.–13.11). No better time to remember that yes, the sun does still exists.
This map shows Helsinki's shadiest / sunniest places. New tool? #GRASSGIS solar modelling.
By @tadusko.bsky.social
#30DayMapChallenge Day 10 - Air: Common Swift (Apus Apus) sightings in Finland in 2025 from eBird (+one Taylor Swift (Private Jet))
November 10, 2025 at 4:13 PM
#30DayMapChallenge Day 10 - Air: Common Swift (Apus Apus) sightings in Finland in 2025 from eBird (+one Taylor Swift (Private Jet))
#30DayMapChallenge Day 4 - My Data
The 2025 citybike season in Helsinki has come to an end last week. As an avid user of the bike sharing system, Robert Klein has plotted his more than 350 trips of this year's season on a map.
#bikesharing #cycling #mobility
The 2025 citybike season in Helsinki has come to an end last week. As an avid user of the bike sharing system, Robert Klein has plotted his more than 350 trips of this year's season on a map.
#bikesharing #cycling #mobility
November 4, 2025 at 1:51 PM
#30DayMapChallenge Day 4 - My Data
The 2025 citybike season in Helsinki has come to an end last week. As an avid user of the bike sharing system, Robert Klein has plotted his more than 350 trips of this year's season on a map.
#bikesharing #cycling #mobility
The 2025 citybike season in Helsinki has come to an end last week. As an avid user of the bike sharing system, Robert Klein has plotted his more than 350 trips of this year's season on a map.
#bikesharing #cycling #mobility
#30DayMapChallenge Day 1 - Points
Creating a #centroid is not as trivial as you might think!
If you are dealing with regional population data, the locational difference between a regular geometric centroid and a population-weighted centroid can be vast!
Map by @waeiski.bsky.social
#GIS #QGIS
Creating a #centroid is not as trivial as you might think!
If you are dealing with regional population data, the locational difference between a regular geometric centroid and a population-weighted centroid can be vast!
Map by @waeiski.bsky.social
#GIS #QGIS
November 1, 2025 at 3:25 PM
#30DayMapChallenge Day 1 - Points
Creating a #centroid is not as trivial as you might think!
If you are dealing with regional population data, the locational difference between a regular geometric centroid and a population-weighted centroid can be vast!
Map by @waeiski.bsky.social
#GIS #QGIS
Creating a #centroid is not as trivial as you might think!
If you are dealing with regional population data, the locational difference between a regular geometric centroid and a population-weighted centroid can be vast!
Map by @waeiski.bsky.social
#GIS #QGIS
📢 Come join us!! We are looking for a project planner to coordinate our new UrbanISE VR Proof of Concept, funded by @erc.europa.eu and based at the @helsinki.fi.
🏙️ Work at the forefront of applied Virtual Reality research in cities!
📝 Read more and apply here: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
🏙️ Work at the forefront of applied Virtual Reality research in cities!
📝 Read more and apply here: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
Project planner to The Digital Geography Lab
Project planner to The Digital Geography Lab
jobs.helsinki.fi
October 30, 2025 at 2:08 PM
📢 Come join us!! We are looking for a project planner to coordinate our new UrbanISE VR Proof of Concept, funded by @erc.europa.eu and based at the @helsinki.fi.
🏙️ Work at the forefront of applied Virtual Reality research in cities!
📝 Read more and apply here: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
🏙️ Work at the forefront of applied Virtual Reality research in cities!
📝 Read more and apply here: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
Our collaboration with Metsähallitus is moving ahead even more efficiently and with greater impact as we have signed MoU with Metsähallitus Parks & Wildlife Finland to deepen our research cooperation and streamline the two-way sharing of data and knowledge.
blogs.helsinki.fi/digital-geog...
blogs.helsinki.fi/digital-geog...
October 27, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Our collaboration with Metsähallitus is moving ahead even more efficiently and with greater impact as we have signed MoU with Metsähallitus Parks & Wildlife Finland to deepen our research cooperation and streamline the two-way sharing of data and knowledge.
blogs.helsinki.fi/digital-geog...
blogs.helsinki.fi/digital-geog...
Do you ever use your mobile phone when spending time outdoors?
The answer is probably yes. In that case, you leave digital footprints about your visit. 🦶
How are these data useful for the sustainable management of nature areas?
👉 Watch our video for that and more! www.youtube.com/watch?v=_U5G...
The answer is probably yes. In that case, you leave digital footprints about your visit. 🦶
How are these data useful for the sustainable management of nature areas?
👉 Watch our video for that and more! www.youtube.com/watch?v=_U5G...
Mobile Big Data For Understanding People in Nature
What are digital footprints and how can they be useful for managers of nature recreation areas? In this video, researchers from the Digital Geography Lab, University of Helsinki, explain how digital…
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October 21, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Do you ever use your mobile phone when spending time outdoors?
The answer is probably yes. In that case, you leave digital footprints about your visit. 🦶
How are these data useful for the sustainable management of nature areas?
👉 Watch our video for that and more! www.youtube.com/watch?v=_U5G...
The answer is probably yes. In that case, you leave digital footprints about your visit. 🦶
How are these data useful for the sustainable management of nature areas?
👉 Watch our video for that and more! www.youtube.com/watch?v=_U5G...
Reposted by Digital Geography Lab
In our new @ijgis.bsky.social paper, @ollejarv.bsky.social and I analysed 9M geolocated tweets from the Greater Region of Luxembourg within the #BORDERSPACE project at the @digigeolab.bsky.social, funded by the Research Council of Finland and @koneensaatio.fi.
September 18, 2025 at 9:29 AM
In our new @ijgis.bsky.social paper, @ollejarv.bsky.social and I analysed 9M geolocated tweets from the Greater Region of Luxembourg within the #BORDERSPACE project at the @digigeolab.bsky.social, funded by the Research Council of Finland and @koneensaatio.fi.
Our lab is growing! We're super happy to introduce Anna Saarinen, who joins DGL to support coordination and management of the Geoportti Research Infrastructure!! 🌟
Learn more about Anna here 👉 👉 blogs.helsinki.fi/digital-geog....
Welcome Anna! We're very excited to be working with you 💚
Learn more about Anna here 👉 👉 blogs.helsinki.fi/digital-geog....
Welcome Anna! We're very excited to be working with you 💚
September 10, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Our lab is growing! We're super happy to introduce Anna Saarinen, who joins DGL to support coordination and management of the Geoportti Research Infrastructure!! 🌟
Learn more about Anna here 👉 👉 blogs.helsinki.fi/digital-geog....
Welcome Anna! We're very excited to be working with you 💚
Learn more about Anna here 👉 👉 blogs.helsinki.fi/digital-geog....
Welcome Anna! We're very excited to be working with you 💚
Reposted by Digital Geography Lab
Hei #sinitaivas tarvitsemme osanottajia tulevaan työpajaamme!
Jos aluekehitys, aluepolitiikka ja muuttoliikkeet kiinnostavat etenkin kun kyseessä on #Suomi ja tarkemmin itäiset ja pohjoiset osat, niin mukaan vaan!
#Finland #Finnish #Region #Europe #EU
Jos aluekehitys, aluepolitiikka ja muuttoliikkeet kiinnostavat etenkin kun kyseessä on #Suomi ja tarkemmin itäiset ja pohjoiset osat, niin mukaan vaan!
#Finland #Finnish #Region #Europe #EU
Hei sinä Itä- tai Pohjois-Suomalainen!
Kiinnostaako sinua kotiseutusi aluekehitys ja tulevaisuus? Tule mukaan työpajaamme!
🗓️ Syyskuun 12. päivä 2025
⏰ Kello 11:00 – 12:30
Osallistumistiedot blogissamme:
blogs.helsinki.fi/digital-geog...
#Savo #Lappi #Kainuu #Alue #Tulevaisuus #Mikkeli
Kiinnostaako sinua kotiseutusi aluekehitys ja tulevaisuus? Tule mukaan työpajaamme!
🗓️ Syyskuun 12. päivä 2025
⏰ Kello 11:00 – 12:30
Osallistumistiedot blogissamme:
blogs.helsinki.fi/digital-geog...
#Savo #Lappi #Kainuu #Alue #Tulevaisuus #Mikkeli
September 4, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Hei sinä Itä- tai Pohjois-Suomalainen!
Kiinnostaako sinua kotiseutusi aluekehitys ja tulevaisuus? Tule mukaan työpajaamme!
🗓️ Syyskuun 12. päivä 2025
⏰ Kello 11:00 – 12:30
Osallistumistiedot blogissamme:
blogs.helsinki.fi/digital-geog...
#Savo #Lappi #Kainuu #Alue #Tulevaisuus #Mikkeli
Kiinnostaako sinua kotiseutusi aluekehitys ja tulevaisuus? Tule mukaan työpajaamme!
🗓️ Syyskuun 12. päivä 2025
⏰ Kello 11:00 – 12:30
Osallistumistiedot blogissamme:
blogs.helsinki.fi/digital-geog...
#Savo #Lappi #Kainuu #Alue #Tulevaisuus #Mikkeli
September 4, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Hei sinä Itä- tai Pohjois-Suomalainen!
Kiinnostaako sinua kotiseutusi aluekehitys ja tulevaisuus? Tule mukaan työpajaamme!
🗓️ Syyskuun 12. päivä 2025
⏰ Kello 11:00 – 12:30
Osallistumistiedot blogissamme:
blogs.helsinki.fi/digital-geog...
#Savo #Lappi #Kainuu #Alue #Tulevaisuus #Mikkeli
Kiinnostaako sinua kotiseutusi aluekehitys ja tulevaisuus? Tule mukaan työpajaamme!
🗓️ Syyskuun 12. päivä 2025
⏰ Kello 11:00 – 12:30
Osallistumistiedot blogissamme:
blogs.helsinki.fi/digital-geog...
#Savo #Lappi #Kainuu #Alue #Tulevaisuus #Mikkeli
Reposted by Digital Geography Lab
What a cool conference #ERSA2025 was! Many sessions from @mobi-twin-project.bsky.social project, lots of new people, interesting research, and great food!
It was my first time at #ERSA and hopefully one of many to come!
It was my first time at #ERSA and hopefully one of many to come!
September 2, 2025 at 6:56 AM
What a cool conference #ERSA2025 was! Many sessions from @mobi-twin-project.bsky.social project, lots of new people, interesting research, and great food!
It was my first time at #ERSA and hopefully one of many to come!
It was my first time at #ERSA and hopefully one of many to come!
Reposted by Digital Geography Lab
Wrapping up the second day of #ERSA2025 we have @ollejarv.bsky.social from @digigeolab.bsky.social presenting his work on using #BigData describing #mobility of people to assess #CrossBorder integration in #Europe.
August 28, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Wrapping up the second day of #ERSA2025 we have @ollejarv.bsky.social from @digigeolab.bsky.social presenting his work on using #BigData describing #mobility of people to assess #CrossBorder integration in #Europe.
Summer in Helsinki always brings smiles to our faces, as do the scholars that visit and collaborate with us 😊 We're thrilled to introduce Francesc Comalada, a PhD Researcher who visits us this autumn from the Catalan Institute of Water Research!
Learn more here 👉 blogs.helsinki.fi/digital-geog...
Learn more here 👉 blogs.helsinki.fi/digital-geog...
August 13, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Summer in Helsinki always brings smiles to our faces, as do the scholars that visit and collaborate with us 😊 We're thrilled to introduce Francesc Comalada, a PhD Researcher who visits us this autumn from the Catalan Institute of Water Research!
Learn more here 👉 blogs.helsinki.fi/digital-geog...
Learn more here 👉 blogs.helsinki.fi/digital-geog...
Our open course on #cartography and #GIS was run for the second year. Kamyar reflects back on this year and the course principles: how we focus not (only) on building technical capabilities, but on maps as means of visual storytelling:
Read more here! blogs.helsinki.fi/digital-geog...
Read more here! blogs.helsinki.fi/digital-geog...
August 6, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Our open course on #cartography and #GIS was run for the second year. Kamyar reflects back on this year and the course principles: how we focus not (only) on building technical capabilities, but on maps as means of visual storytelling:
Read more here! blogs.helsinki.fi/digital-geog...
Read more here! blogs.helsinki.fi/digital-geog...
📢 New Paper Out! Led by our very own Kerli Müürisepp 👉 “Spatial Integration or Isolation? Capturing the Rhythms of Daily Lives Across Neighbourhoods in Helsinki Using Mobile Phone Data” in Population, Space and Place!
📄 Read the open access article here: doi.org/10.1002/psp....!
📄 Read the open access article here: doi.org/10.1002/psp....!
June 4, 2025 at 11:27 AM
📢 New Paper Out! Led by our very own Kerli Müürisepp 👉 “Spatial Integration or Isolation? Capturing the Rhythms of Daily Lives Across Neighbourhoods in Helsinki Using Mobile Phone Data” in Population, Space and Place!
📄 Read the open access article here: doi.org/10.1002/psp....!
📄 Read the open access article here: doi.org/10.1002/psp....!
We are very happy to congratulate our very own @ollejarv.bsky.social for receiving the Research Council of Finland Award on his work on #CrossBorder #Mobility #Transnationalism #Segregation and #NatureRecreation using #BigData such as #SocialMedia and #MobilePhone data.
May 20, 2025 at 11:08 AM
We are very happy to congratulate our very own @ollejarv.bsky.social for receiving the Research Council of Finland Award on his work on #CrossBorder #Mobility #Transnationalism #Segregation and #NatureRecreation using #BigData such as #SocialMedia and #MobilePhone data.
Location Based Services conference #LBS2025 continues with @miladmzdh.bsky.social presenting his work on characterizing the attractiveness of regions in Europe.
May 9, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Location Based Services conference #LBS2025 continues with @miladmzdh.bsky.social presenting his work on characterizing the attractiveness of regions in Europe.
Rounding the day off was @waeiski.bsky.social who presented his work on regional student mobility and how Covid-19 has affected the regional structure of the flow network at #LBS2025.
Photo by Oleksandr Karasov.
Photo by Oleksandr Karasov.
May 8, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Rounding the day off was @waeiski.bsky.social who presented his work on regional student mobility and how Covid-19 has affected the regional structure of the flow network at #LBS2025.
Photo by Oleksandr Karasov.
Photo by Oleksandr Karasov.
Our visiting researcher Davi Gressler presents his work on assessing realized 15-minute trips in US cities and comparing that to trips that were longer but could have been made in 15 minutes using SafeGraph data.
#15MinuteCity #Segregation
#15MinuteCity #Segregation
May 8, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Our visiting researcher Davi Gressler presents his work on assessing realized 15-minute trips in US cities and comparing that to trips that were longer but could have been made in 15 minutes using SafeGraph data.
#15MinuteCity #Segregation
#15MinuteCity #Segregation
Next up is @tadusko.bsky.social presenting his work on the rise and fall of Flickr and use of its data in geographical analyses at #LBS2025 conference.
May 8, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Next up is @tadusko.bsky.social presenting his work on the rise and fall of Flickr and use of its data in geographical analyses at #LBS2025 conference.