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The Cartography and Geographic Information Society @carto-giscience.bsky.social · 6h

Great new article! Victor Irekponor & Taylor M. Oshan
address reproducibility in spatially varying coefficient (SVC) models, and introduce svc-viz, a open source Python tool to-do this #GISchat doi.org/10.1080/1523... github.com/marquisvicto...

A three-panel visualization showing bandwidth selection and spatial analysis for local intercept estimation. The top panel displays an AICc curve starting around 2000 at spatial unit 0, dipping to a minimum near bandwidth 220 (marked by a green vertical line), with an orange dashed line indicating another reference point, then rising steadily to about 5000 at spatial unit 3000. The middle panel shows a choropleth map of the contiguous United States with counties colored on a diverging red-to-blue scale, where darker red regions (values around -2) appear concentrated in the Southwest, particularly Texas and surrounding areas, lighter colors (near 0) cover much of the central and eastern US, and blue regions (positive values up to 4) appear in the Pacific Northwest and parts of the Northeast. The bottom panel presents a caterpillar plot showing coefficient estimates with confidence intervals across approximately 3000 spatial units, displayed as vertical bars in gray and colored segments (red for negative, blue for positive values), with most estimates clustering near zero but showing notable variation and wider intervals toward the right side of the plot.

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The Cartography and Geographic Information Society @carto-giscience.bsky.social · 1d

New article! Fascinating new method of reconstructing maritime route networks for nearshore waters, using step-by-step density-based clustering from Jiale Pan and colleagues doi.org/10.1080/1523...

Figure 10 (left) showing ship channels for cargo, within the Great Lakes and Figure 11 (right) showing routes within those channels.

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Nick Bearman @nickbearman.bsky.social · 3d

🗺️ FREE GIS seminar for researchers TOMORROW! Learn about GIS, spatial data analysis, visualization & software tools with Dr. Nick Bearman. Perfect for PhD students, researchers & academics looking to add a spatial dimension to their work! Tue 7th 1pm (UK/Ldn) Sign up at instats.org/seminar/what...

Students working on laptops creating maps.

Screenshot of a Zoom window with participants.

Nick Bearman @nickbearman.bsky.social · 3d

I’ve just returned from a fantastic 2 days in Leeds for FOSS4G:UK 2025. FOSS4G is an amazing group, and I am so proud to be part of the Local Organising Committee. We were in the great venue Horizon Leeds, with two days of workshops and talks.
nickbearman.com/blog/2025-10...

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Steven Feldman @stevenfeldman.bsky.social · 9d

Wishing all my friends at @uk.osgeo.org #foss4guk in Leeds a great conference

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The Cartography and Geographic Information Society @carto-giscience.bsky.social · 10d

Great new article from Michala A. Garrison, Schyler A. Reis, Shiyu Zhang and Carolyn S. Fish, evaluating “narrative transportation” – how engrossed one becomes in a story when used in storytelling maps, and the impact of including maps and photos doi.org/10.1080/1523... #GISchat

Alternative options in the survey, including low or high narrative text, and the addition of maps and photos.

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The Cartography and Geographic Information Society @carto-giscience.bsky.social · 10d

New paper from Yunfei Ma, Yuan Zhang and colleagues, Where is Huaqiangbei? looking at how Huaqiangbei, one of Shenzhen’s largest business districts, has evolved over time doi.org/10.1080/1523...
#GISchat

A map showing the current footprint of Huaqiangbei (left) along with a breakdown of the categories of shops from 2018 to 2020.

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Nick Bearman @nickbearman.bsky.social · 10d

🗺️ FREE GIS seminar for researchers! Learn about GIS, spatial data analysis, visualization & software tools. Perfect for PhD students, researchers & academics looking to add a spatial dimension to their work! 7th Oct, 1pm (UK/London) Sign up at instats.org/seminar/what... @instats.bsky.social

Nick Bearman @nickbearman.bsky.social · 15d

Want to learn how to visualise and analyze spatial data in the social sciences and build your #GIS skills? My GIS seminars are coming up over in Oct-Nov 2025:
What is GIS? A FREE GIS seminar for researchers!
Intro to QGIS & Advanced QGIS
Intro to R & Advanced R
nickbearman.github.io/training-cou...

A screenshot of QGIS showing a world map in green.

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The Cartography and Geographic Information Society @carto-giscience.bsky.social · 15d

New paper! Marjan Ghanbari, Mohammad Karimi and colleagues analyse intra-city function regions using spatial analysis interaction, using a case study of Chicago, doi.org/10.1080/1523... #GISchat

An example of the spatial interaction model, with interactions between two regions (origin area and destination area) and within each area.

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OSGeo:UK @uk.osgeo.org · 20d

This is the final regsitration call for #FOSS4GUK in Leeds on 1st and 2nd October. 🚨🚨

We have about 20 tickets left. Day tickets are also available. 🎟️🎟️🎟️

uk.osgeo.org/foss4guk2025...

We close registration 21st Sept and we really would like you to meet all of our amazing sponsors in Leeds.

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The Cartography and Geographic Information Society @carto-giscience.bsky.social · 21d

New Paper! Yuanfang Chen and colleagues present a new way of contact-tracing, the PSTP-STRA method doi.org/10.1080/1523... #GISchat

This map shows spatiotemporal risk values for two villages (Xiaoguo village and Liujia Zuo village) as of January 6, 2021. The risk values are displayed using a color-coded legend ranging from 0 (white) to 6-24 (red), with intermediate categories of 0-2 (light gray), 2-4 (light blue), and 4-6 (orange).

The map displays various geometric shapes and structures scattered across the area, with the highest risk concentrations (shown in red and orange) appearing to be concentrated around the central area between the two villages. Lower risk areas are shown in lighter colors.

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Anita Graser 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇪 @underdarkgis.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 21d

Great discussions at #sdsl2025 about integrating #SpatialDataScience libraries in desktop and cloud environments, featuring @movingpandas , @qgis #trajectools and the @carto Trajectory Analytics extension from the @emeraldseu project

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Elizabeth Garrett Christensen @sqlliz.bsky.social · 22d

@pwramsey.bsky.social and I are hosting PostGIS Day again this year! The call for papers and registration is open now. Join us!

www.snowflake.com/postgis-day-...

PostGIS Day | November 20

Learn how others are making use of PostGIS, pick up some tips and tricks, and share stories about bringing this excellent tool into your organizations.

www.snowflake.com

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Nick Bearman @nickbearman.bsky.social · 22d

🗺️ FREE GIS seminar for researchers! Learn about GIS, spatial data analysis, visualization & software tools with Dr. Nick Bearman. Perfect for PhD students, researchers & academics looking to add a spatial dimension to their work! 7th Oct, 1pm (UK/London) Sign up at instats.org/seminar/what...

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Doug Greenfield @douggreenfield.bsky.social · 22d

A lovely ocean tides map using the Spilhaus projection for some Wednesday mappy goodness #MapoftheWeek mapoftheweek.substack.com/p/a-world-of...

A World of Tides

The most recent issue of ArcUser, a magazine for Esri GIS software users spotlights cartographer Dave Taylor’s striking Oceanic Oscillations map.

mapoftheweek.substack.com

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AGI Geocommunity @geocommunity.bsky.social · 28d

Helping to make standards fun and useful join Jo Cook at FOSS4G:UK 2025 in Leeds on the 1-2 October

Read more and register your place🔗https://bit.ly/3SWe9PI

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The Cartography and Geographic Information Society @carto-giscience.bsky.social · Sep 4

Fantastic paper from Yan Lin and colleagues, Practicing community-based research in GIScience, using GIS with an Indigenous community, presenting a case study on environmental health concerns related to mining legacies in the U.S., using goats wearing GPS collars #GISchat doi.org/10.1080/1523...

A map showing goat ranges, overlaid on a 250 buffer of mining sites

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Digital Research Academy @digiresacademy.bsky.social · Sep 5

This week in Aachen 🚀 Researchers came together to learn how to teach.
In 3 days of Train-The-Trainer: skills grew, ideas were tested, and creativity in teaching shone.
Highlight: trainers supporting trainers & researchers learning from each other.
👉 What training shaped your career?
#OpenScience TT

A group of 10 people including DRA members- Heidi, Joyce on the right and Danny and Julia on the right are sitting at the table and facing the camera

TTT participants standing and posing for the photo

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Nick Bearman @nickbearman.bsky.social · Sep 4

🗺️ Want to learn how to visualise and analyze spatial data in the social sciences and build your #GIS skills?
Unlock powerful new ways to understand our world
Oct 2025 courses @instats.bsky.social Intro QGIS & Advanced GIS
nickbearman.github.io/training-cou...
#GIS #SocialScience #Research #DataViz

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Kyle Walker @kylewalker.bsky.social · Sep 1

Saw a post from an influencer telling followers to "stop using R for anything -- use Python like a normal person"

As a 10+ year R & Python user, the irony is that 2025 is the best time EVER to be using R.

Here's why:

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Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) @rgsibg.bsky.social · Aug 26

Today, we are thrilled to kick off our Annual International Conference, held in-person at @unibirmingham.bsky.social and online! 🌍

Watch the Conference’s Chair, Professor Patricia Noxolo, share what shaped this year’s theme, Creative geographies. #RGSIBG25

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Carsten Kullmann @maethorath.bsky.social · Aug 28

First day of panels at the @rgsibg.bsky.social #RGS2025 for me. It’s quite fun to go to a geographers’ conference and start every conversation with “You know, I’m actually not a geographer”.

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Nick Bearman @nickbearman.bsky.social · Aug 28

At the #RGSIBG25 conference and want to find out about GIS? Come along to our Best of GISRUK session in Arts LR5, 13:10 to hear the 3 Best papers from the GISRUK conference, inc. low traffic neighbourhoods, parks and GIS vs The City Council #GISchat @gisruk.bsky.social @rgsibg.bsky.social

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The Cartography and Geographic Information Society @carto-giscience.bsky.social · Aug 27

Great to be at #RGSIBG2025 Come at chat to me about publishing in CaGIS @nickbearman.bsky.social

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