New updates to Intro to GIS and Spatial Analysis by Manuel Gimond 🚀 The spatial analysis section now includes expanded coverage of spatial patterns. Explore the update: https://mgimond.github.io/Spatial/chp11_0.html #gischat #spatialAnalysis #openeducation

🗺️ fastfocal: fast moving-window and point extraction for rasters in R, optimized for large windows and common focal stats via FFT. Built on terra. https://cran.r-project.org/package=fastfocal #rstats #giscience #rspatial

"Géomatique et cartographie avec R" has been updated! :rstats: 🗺️ :osm: https://rgeocarto.github.io/ - Données vectorielles avec {sf} (vector data processing) - Données raster avec {terra} (raster data processing) - Cartographie avec {mapsf} (thematic […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

We just published a JOSIS paper on what spatial data science languages have in common and what they still need. Insights from across the R, Python & Julia ecosystems. URL: https://doi.org/10.5311/JOSIS.2025.31.462 #SpatialDataScience #gischat #opensource #rspatial #geopython #juliageo

New version of {maplegend} ! 📦 {maplegend} is an R package for creating, well, map legends. 🙂 This version improves the display of legends in plots and introduces two new features: a histogram legend type, and arguments to set decimal and big value separators […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

Day 03 of #30DayMapChallenge with a density choropleth and quantiles! 👏 Thanks to @Benjamin Novak's tutorial in @yan-holtz.bsky.social gallery r-graph-gallery.com/web-map-chor... 🌚 Used data from the Observatoire Statistique Tranfrontalier #rstats #dataviz #map #ggplot2 #gis

The first major version of {mapsf} has arrived on CRAN! 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. This release includes a revamped theming […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

New package on CRAN: {valh}, an interface between R and the Valhalla API Valhalla is a routing service based on OpenStreetMap data. https://valhalla.github.io/valhalla Co-authored by @mthv #gischat #rspatial #rstats #openstreetmap

Introducing {maposm}, an R package that extracts, modifies and merges sets of layers from OpenStreetMap for cartographic purposes. On github: https://github.com/riatelab/maposm The package is not on CRAN, but it is on r-universe: https://riatelab.r-universe.dev/maposm #rstats #rspatial #gischat

Hmm, there's something missing on this map... And no, it's not New Zealand :-) #gis #gischat