Want to learn how to visualise and analyze spatial data in the social sciences and build your #GIS skills? Last chance to sign up for my Intro QGIS course starting tomorrow with InStats instats.org/seminar/intr... Or check out my Advanced QGIS course starting next week: instats.org/seminar/adva...

“Now Scientific American has updated and re-released what it calls the “classic graphic” that shows that a human on a bicycle—able to coast, or freewheel, without pedaling—remains the world’s most energy effecient traveler.” @carltonreid.com on the re-release of the iconic graph in @forbes.com.

I feel like stuff like this is too often overlooked in discussions around technology-based mitigations of climate change. If we use tech innovations to make it easy and convenient for people to use the “greener” alternative that already exists, they’ll use it.

Living in the Future benefit: the combination of Google Maps public transit directions and phone-tap onboard payment makes it SO EASY to take public trams/buses/metros when traveling now. It’s fantastic not to have to resort to taxis just for lack of easy access to the local transit ticketing system

We are pleased to release the programme for our AGI Greater Manchester Network Event 📅Thursday 23 October 🕘 15:00-17:00 📍 Jacobs' offices Central Manchester Read more and register🔗https://bit.ly/3IM4b20

We have now uploaded all the recorded sessions from #FOSS4GUK 2025 in Leeds. 📹🦉 We would now invite everyone else to our youtube channel if you would like to catch up on the 35 recorded session. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCKv...

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...

Want to learn how to visualise and analyze spatial data in the social sciences and build your #GIS skills? My Intro QGIS and Advanced GIS courses are coming up, starting next week, with @instats instats.org/seminar/intr... instats.org/seminar/adva... nickbearman.github.io/training-cou... #GISchat

Hi data people, check out Exploropleth! exploropleth.github.io/exploropleth/. It's free, open source software that shows how binning methods affect maps. There's also a teaching worksheet and a journal article in CaGIS: exploropleth.github.io @arpitnarechania.bsky.social & @alexendert.bsky.social

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...

🗺️ 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...

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...

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

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

🗺️ 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

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...

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

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.

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

Great discussions at #SDSL2025 about integrating #SpatialDataScience libraries in desktop and cloud environments, featuring @movingpandas , @qgis#sdsl2025#SpatialDataScience#trajectools and the @carto Trajectory Analytics extension from the @emeraldseu project

@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-...

🗺️ 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...

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

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

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...

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

🗺️ 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

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:

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

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”.

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

Come join the conversations when we all meet up in Leeds. It's going to be AMAZING! Tickets are now on sale.

Registration for #FOSS4GUK 2025 on 1st and 2nd October is open! Full price tickets are £110, to cover a full programme of over 40 talks and workshops over the two days. Plus just £20 for a great social event and £15 for a unique conference t-shirt uk.osgeo.org/foss4guk2025... #GISchat

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!

Important #qgi2sweb release today, with a big @openlayers update and initial Qt6 support, ready for @qgis#qgi2swebv4. Thanks to Andrea Ordonselli for his continued amazing work since taking over development and management of the plugin.

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

We are happy to announce another Bronze sponsor for #FOSS4GUK 2025 in Leeds, which you will well know. 🦉 Mapbox is a global team of builders. They are developers and geographers, data scientists and drivers, designers and AI visionaries.

The last but not least of our community partners for #FOSS4GUK 2025 in Leeds are Women+ in Geospatial. 👩‍🎓👩‍💻👩‍🔬 #Inspire current and future generations of geospatial women. #Unite a strong, diverse geospatial community. #Empower women+ to grow personally and professionally.

🚀 We’re all set up at useR! 2025! 📍 Penn Pavilion, Duke University, Durham, NC 🗓️ August 8–10 The Digital Research Academy booth is open — and yes, the pins and swag are looking fantastic! 🎁✨ Find us, say hi, and let’s chat! #RSEng #Reproducibility #ResearchTraining #PeerLearning #OpenScience

Another wonderful community partners for #FOSS4GUK 2025 in Leeds is the AGI, Association for Geographic Information (AGI). 🗺️ www.agi.org.uk They lead, connect, and develop a community of individual and corporate members who use and benefit from geographic data and technologies.

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

Please welcome back Nautoguide Ltd. as Bronze sponsor for #FOSS4GUK 2025 in Leeds. 🧑‍💻🗺️🦉 Nautoguide have generously sponsored our events in 2016 in Southampton and 2019 in Edinburgh. 🙏🙏🙏 If you love maps and data, you'll love Nautoguide. ⛵🧭 nautoguide.com

Please share our appreciation for Sparkgeo - Applied Geospatial who we welcome as a Bronze sponsor to #FOSS4GUK in Leeds.🙏🙏🙏🦉 sparkgeo.com Sparkgeo sponsors #foss4g events and contributes to the development of open-source geospatial software.🌐