Fantastic new article from Lars De Sloover and colleagues from Department of Ggeography Ugent comparing impacts of Euclidean distance and dynamic time warping with spatiotemporal analysis of COVID-19 dynamics across Europe #GISchat doi.org/10.1080/1523...

Thrilled to share Exploropleth - our new #GIS #dataviz tool. 💡 @Mapmakers, you can simultaneously explore & compare 16+ data binning methods on a choropleth map, directly in your browser! 🎓 @Instructors, you can use the tool to teach how choropleth maps can mislead people! exploropleth.github.io

New article! A fantastic new tool Exploropleth: exploratory analysis of data binning methods in choropleth maps, from @arpitnarechania.bsky.social Alex Endert & Clio Andris doi.org/10.1080/1523... #GISchat website exploropleth.github.io video of the tool in action: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNV8...

MapLayNet can learn a concept hierarchy of map layout via an unsupervised data similarity measure. The resulting layout embedding can be further explored for more cartographic tasks.

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

New paper from Jian Yang and colleagues, presenting MapLayNet, a way of understanding maps as a graph and classifying how they are laid out, with the aim of better map layout retrieval and design recommendation #GISchat #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1080/1523...

New article from our ICC 2023 special issue, Shengkai Wang and colleagues evaluate the effectiveness of X-ray vision: Seeing through walls: indoor spatial learning with X-ray vision-enabled mixed reality #GISchat #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1080/1523...

If you are at the ICC in Vancouver, stop by the CaGIS booth and say hello!

Issue 52-05 of CaGIS is now available! 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. www.tandfonline.com/toc/tcag20/5... #GISchat

A fantastic article from Alberto Giordano, Tim Cole and Heather Swienton, presenting a novel approach to mapping place, using a Holocast survivor testimony doi.org/10.1080/1523... #GISchat #OpenAccess Buchenwald detail from Representational model of Gilberto Salmoni’s holocaust testimony

Great new paper from Nai Yang and colleagues, presenting MapColorAI: designing contextually relevant choropleth map color schemes using a large language model, check out the screenshot below, video at figshare.com/articles/dat... and paper at doi.org/10.1080/1523... #GISchat

Great new article from Zhekun Huang &colleagues, using Topology Adaptive Graph Convolutional Networks to identify multi-lane highways from road data doi.org/10.1080/1523... #GISchat Below, which shows in purple correctly classified Multi Lane Roads, and in yellow or blue incorrectly classified MLR

Great new article from Liu Hanyou and Mao Xi looking at new ways of translating names of geographical entities by identifying relationships between places, such as the example below doi.org/10.1080/1523... #GISchat #OpenAccess

Fantastic new paper in CaGIS from Mona Bartling analysing user mobile map adaption in a VR navigation study, doi.org/10.1080/1523... #GISchat #OpenAccess #ReproducibleResearch Featuring a preregistration report aspredicted.org/K5N_C5V and supplied Rmd files osf.io/xfu34

Great new article from Xinyu Niu and Haizhong Qian, presenting new ways of generalising multi-scale buildings using iterative methods #GISchat doi.org/10.1080/1523...

New article! Gang Chen and colleagues introduce NIM: an AR story map framework for representing spatiotemporal contexts in history, doi.org/10.1080/1523... #GISchat

Fascinating article from Nai Yang, Junpeng Lv and colleagues, exploring and testing different non-contact ways of interacting with computer based maps, including eye tracking, voice, head movement and facial expression control, doi.org/10.1080/1523... #GISchat

New issue 52-04 is now out! Check out our latest issue at www.tandfonline.com/toc/tcag20/5..., with 8 great articles covering the use of AI, mini-maps and maps in games, point symbology, spatial social networks and trail terrain metrics. Highlights below:

New fascinating article from Lily Houtman exploring design techniques and challenges for thematic maps on mobile phones, inc. the image below, a mockup of a typical technique used doi.org/10.1080/1523... #GISchat #OpenAccess

Why are rainbow color schemes so popular, and do they work? A new article in CaGIS from Izabela Gołębiowska, Luca Dall’ Acqua, Jeannette Noetzli & Arzu Çöltekin. Check out the #OpenAccess article: doi.org/10.1080/1523... and video: youtu.be/LRjydpwJsyw #GISchat

Why are rainbow color schemes so popular, and do they work? A new article in CaGIS from Izabela Gołębiowska, Luca Dall’ Acqua, Jeannette Noetzli & Arzu Çöltekin. Check out the #OpenAccess article: doi.org/10.1080/1523... and video: youtu.be/LRjydpwJsyw #GISchat

New article! How to choose the best hue range for sequential color schemes on choropleth maps? Taisheng Chen and colleagues investigate, and present results of their evaluation, doi.org/10.1080/1523... #GISchat

New article! Angeliki Grammatikaki and colleagues present a new automated workflow to represent landmark trees in digital 3D maps, and a related user study doi.org/10.1080/1523... #GISchat #OpenAccess

New article! Wenping Jiang and colleagues how to create small-scale Swiss-style relief shading using a end-to-end relief shading neural network model #GISchat doi.org/10.1080/1523... Data and code at doi.org/10.6084/m9.f...

New article! Mina Sadeghi and colleagues proposed a new IDW: Adaptive Inverse Distance Weighting (AIDW), with an example modelling of transient population data #GISchat doi.org/10.1080/1523...

Why are rainbow color schemes so popular, and do they work? A new article in CaGIS from Izabela Gołębiowska, Luca Dall’ Acqua, Jeannette Noetzli &Arzu Çöltekin. Check out the #OpenAccess article: doi.org/10.1080/1523... and video: youtu.be/LRjydpwJsyw #GISchat

CaGIS Vol 52 Issue 3 is now out! Check out all our articles at www.tandfonline.com/toc/tcag20/5..., and the thread below for more details: #GISchat

👋 Hello! #welcome to all those joining #bluesky recently. I mainly post new articles in the Cartography and Geographic Information Science Journal and other fun carto stuff! Mostly run by @nickbearman.bsky.social #GISchat