Leaflet 2.0 alpha is out. It's big upgrade to the popular mapping library that introduces breaking changes. latlong.blog/2025/05/leaf...

Tippecanoe Command Generator — A neat user interface to compose commands to create map tiles with Tippecanoe maptiling.streamlit.app/Tippecanoe_C...

The SparkGeo team has tested AI coding assistant Lovable and asked it to create a simple interactive map showing Canadian cities and their population—with mixed results. latlong.blog/2025/04/maki...

The good folks at Heigit have released ohsome-planet, a handy tool to turn OpenStreetMap history data from PBF into GeoParquet files. giscienceblog.uni-heidelberg.de/2025/03/25/f...

Are you on the @foss4g.org mailing list? If not, you just missed the most important email of the year! Registration is now open. Also the call for papers, community vote for the logo, the travel grant program and... we're excited! Check the mailout below, and subscribe! mailchi.mp/foss4g/foss4...

Apple Is Showing Indigenous Land on Maps latlong.blog/2025/03/appl...

I love a good deep dive into often-overlooked map-related challenges. Here Hanbyul Jo wonders why Mapbox chose to vertically display labels in Hangul, whether the choice improves legibility, and since when Koreans horizontally read and write Hangul instead of vertically. hanbyul.xyz/words/vertic...

Five geospatial projects are amongst the mentoring organisations for Google Summer of Code 2024. OSGeo, 52North, OpenStreetMap, Organic Maps and the Open Transit Software Foundation offer internships this year.

Protomaps Transitions to New Funding Model. Access to a commercial API and professional services can be purchased through GitHub sponsorships.

Development Seed’s data team in Ayacucho, Peru has spun to form GeoCompas. The new company focusses on OpenStreetMap editing, data labelling and annotation for AI projects, but also development of data processing pipelines and web services.

An AI-driven approach to generating audio descriptions for interactive web maps. sparkgeo.com/blog/map-to-...

Element84 are hosting a three-hour workshop on user-centred design with a specific focus on geospatial applications. The workshop is scheduled for 19 March. Tickets are 75USD.

Placemark's code is now open source, available on GitHub under the MIT license. macwright.com/2024/01/19/p...

You can serve PMTiles directly from a cloud object storage but sometimes, you want to control who accesses data and how often—and you need a server for that. Craig Kochis wrote examples of how to serve PMTiles using a NodeJS server application. ckochis.com/serve-protom...

I tried to estimate the cost of hosting Protomaps on AWS before; now there's a handy tool for that.

Webinar on cloud-native technologies and their applications in the pacific region

A new STAC extension proposes an API for collection management.

Brian Timoney contemplates why talented GIS professionals seek employment in other areas, tracing the problem to broad scoped roles and lower pay compared to similar roles in other industries. mapbrief.com/2023/12/06/w...

The recordings from this year’s PostGIS day are available on Youtube; just in time so you can add them to your festive tech playlist.

The very popular SatSummit is back next year on the 16 and 17 May, as always in Washington DC.

Sad news from Placemark today. The platform is shutting down in January, and the code will be released as open-source software:

React components for building Google Maps user interfaces. If you work in React and use the Google Maps JavaScript API, this library will save you a couple lines.

Estimating the Cost of Hosting a Global PMTiles Dataset

Overture's Global Entity Reference System Hopes to Improve Data Interoperability. It's Not There Yet.

The recordings from FOSS4G Oceania, which took place just last week in Auckland, are already up on Youtube.

State of the Map 2024 is scheduled for 6 to 8 September 2024 in Nairobi, Kenya.

Impressive: Lonboard renders three million points in under three seconds.

The most comprehensive reference on cloud-optimised geospatial data formats so far. The guide includes detailed descriptions of increasingly popular data formats. It's an essential bookmark if you deal with geospatial data on the Web in any form. guide.cloudnativegeo.org

Free spatial-analysis textbooks veryspatial.com/2023/08/spat...

A short and sweet overview of new(ish) cloud-friendly geodata formats and how to use them:

The Current State and Future of Source.Coop

A comprehensive overview of libraries, command-line and web tools, frameworks, and data providers that have already adopted the recently released GeoParquet 1.0 standard.

Geofencing business Radar introduced a new suite of APIs, including map tiles, geocoding, routing and search.

Why Is Map-Making Still Hard?

The answer is "no." Betteridge's law of headlines holds up.

FOSSGIS 2024, the German-speaking conference focussing open-source geospatial software, is scheduled for 20 to 23 March 2024 and will be hosted by the TUHH in Hamburg. fossgis-konferenz.de/2024/