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https://spatialists.ch/posts/2026/01/31-five-levels-of-ai-use/index.html Five levels of AI use – Spatialists – geospatial news From “Spicy Autocomplete” to “Dark Factory”, Dan Shapiro proposes SAE-inspired five levels of #AI use in #programming as a framework for how organizations... spatialists geospatial newsfive levelsai use https://spatialists.ch/posts/2025/02/12-the-format-that-shall-not-be-named/index.html The format that shall not be named – Spatialists – geospatial news A blog for geospatial professionals spatialists geospatial newsformatshallnamed https://spatialists.ch/posts/2025/10/18-secure-operation-of-arcgis-server-and-other-it-assets/index.html Secure operation of ArcGIS Server and other IT assets – Spatialists – geospatial news A recent case of a compromised #ArcGIS Server instance offers some lessons in #IT #infrastructure management, even beyond the geospatial sector. Safeguarding... spatialists geospatial newssecureoperationarcgisserver https://spatialists.ch/posts/2026/01/22-geofeeds-mcp/index.html GeoFeeds MCP – Spatialists – geospatial news #GeoFeeds is a non‑curated aggregator tracking nearly 90 geospatial and adjacent blogs created by Bill Dollins and James Fee, now enhanced with an #MCP... spatialists geospatial newsmcp https://spatialists.ch/posts/2025/09/10-vector-tiles-coming-to-duckdb/index.html Vector tiles coming to DuckDB – Spatialists – geospatial news #DuckDB’s #spatial extension is about to support #Mapbox Vector Tiles (#MVT) with the newly merged ST_AsMVT and ST_AsMVTGeom functions. The two new functions... spatialists geospatial newsvector tilescomingduckdb https://spatialists.ch/posts/2025/10/26-launch-of-the-public-data-lab/index.html Launch of the Public Data Lab – Spatialists – geospatial news The #DIZH Public Data Lab (#PDL) has officially launched in Zurich, bringing together experts from academia, public administration, and the #opendata community... public data labspatialists geospatial newslaunch https://spatialists.ch/subscribe.html Subscribe by email – Spatialists – geospatial news spatialists geospatial newssubscribeemail https://spatialists.ch/posts/2026/04/14-gnss-explainer/index.html GNSS explainer – Spatialists – geospatial news Shri Khalpada offers a clear and engaging explainer of #GNSS technology, walking through how #GPS, #Galileo and similar #positioning systems pinpoint location... spatialists geospatial newsgnssexplainer https://spatialists.ch/posts/2025/06/26-tool-tip-geo-hound/index.html Tool tip: Geo Hound – Spatialists – geospatial news Discovering #OGC and other geoservices endpoints in web maps is now effortless with the Chromium-based #GeoHound extension. It identifies and collects... spatialists geospatial newstool tiphound https://spatialists.ch/posts/2025/09/14-spatial-resolution/index.html Spatial resolution? – Spatialists – geospatial news “Spatial resolution” is one of the most often misunderstood terms in #EarthObservation and #geospatial. A Planet Stories article demystifies the underlying... spatialists geospatial newsresolution https://spatialists.ch/posts/2025/02/17-sgs-action-plan-2025/index.html Just out: SGS Action Plan 2025 – Spatialists – geospatial news The SGS board has just published the Action Plan 2025 for the Swiss Geoinformation Strategy. action plan 2025spatialists geospatial newssgs https://spatialists.ch/posts/2026/04/12-call-for-cng-mentors-and-mentees/index.html Call for CNG mentors and mentees – Spatialists – geospatial news The Cloud-Native Geospatial (#CNG) #Mentorship Program pairs geospatial professionals for six months of one-on-one career, technical, or project-focused... spatialists geospatial newscallcngmentorsmentees https://spatialists.ch/posts/2025/06/10-jrg-2025/index.html JRG 2025 – Spatialists – geospatial news The program of the fourth Journée Romande de la Géoinformation (#JRG) is published and registration is open. The event takes place on November 13 in Ecublens. spatialists geospatial newsjrg2025 https://spatialists.ch/posts/2025/09/04-on-ones-own/index.html On one’s own – Spatialists – geospatial news An analysis drawing on ecosyste.ms data reveals that a large share of #opensource projects are maintained by just one person, for example nearly half of the... spatialists geospatial news https://spatialists.ch/posts/2025/03/26-open-doors-at-swisstopo/index.html Open doors at swisstopo – Spatialists – geospatial news The Federal Office of Topography #swisstopo is opening its doors to the public on May 24. spatialists geospatial newsopen doorsswisstopo https://spatialists.ch/follow.html Follow the RSS feed or in the Fediverse – Spatialists – geospatial news A blog for geospatial professionals spatialists geospatial newsrss feedfollowfediverse https://spatialists.ch/posts/2025/10/15-30-day-map-challenge/index.html 30 Day Map Challenge – Spatialists – geospatial news ‘Tis the season again: the #30DayMapChallenge by Topi Tjukanov returns this November, inviting #cartographers, spatial data scientists, and GIS enthusiasts to... spatialists geospatial news30 daymap challenge https://spatialists.ch/posts/2025/03/27-the-origins-of-giscience-in-switzerland-with-rob-weibel/index.html The origins of GIScience in Switzerland with Rob Weibel – Spatialists – geospatial news Robert Weibel, Professor of Geographic Information Science at the University of Zurich, retired at the end of January 2025 after a distinguished career... spatialists geospatial newsoriginsgiscienceswitzerlandrob https://spatialists.ch/posts/2025/04/16-writing-good-tutorials/index.html Writing good tutorials – Spatialists – geospatial news How do you convey complicated technical GIS and geospatial information to a potentially diverse audience clearly and helpfully? – Two blog posts, 10 years... spatialists geospatial newswriting goodtutorials https://spatialists.ch/posts/2026/01/25-vectormap-swiss-vector-maps/index.html Vectormap: Swiss vector maps – Spatialists – geospatial news Building on his Master’s thesis, Fabian Rechsteiner launched Vectormap, a project focused on making Swiss #geodata accessible as modern, high-performance... spatialists geospatial newsvector mapsvectormapswiss https://spatialists.ch/posts/2025/09/01-swissgeo-prototype-online/index.html SWISSGEO prototype online – Spatialists – geospatial news Update from the #SGS action #SWISSGEO: The first prototype of the Swiss geospatial platform aiming to unite various map, service, and data offerings from Swiss... spatialists geospatial newsprototypeonline https://spatialists.ch/posts/2025/03/17-open-data-at-a-glance/index.html Open data at a glance – Spatialists – geospatial news #ASIT has published an #opendata guide for #geodata. The guide covers the essentials and strikes a very nice balance with respect to covering the topic in... spatialists geospatial newsopen dataglance https://spatialists.ch/contribute.html Contribute – Spatialists – geospatial news A blog for geospatial professionals spatialists geospatial newscontribute https://spatialists.ch/posts/2025/07/08-improve-geodata-with-crowdsourcing/index.html Improve geodata with crowdsourcing – Spatialists – geospatial news Graham Park explores how cross-referencing data from #crowdsourcing, like the #STRAVA global heat map, can significantly enhance #OpenStreetMap. He also... spatialists geospatial newsimprovegeodatacrowdsourcing https://spatialists.ch/posts/2025/12/10-elementary-geodata-for-a-digital-switzerland/index.html Elementary geodata for a digital Switzerland – Spatialists – geospatial news swisstopo has published the concept “Elementary geodata for a digital Switzerland” developed by a working group comprising various stakeholders. The document... spatialists geospatial newselementarygeodatadigitalswitzerland https://spatialists.ch/posts/2026/03/23-sogi-osig-communication/index.html SOGI-OSIG communication – Spatialists – geospatial news The #SOGI-#OSIG has started a survey on the organisation’s communication activities. The survey is available in German and in French. Administered by the BFH,... spatialists geospatial newssogicommunication https://spatialists.ch/posts/2025/07/01-differential-privacy-being-wrong-on-purpose/index.html Differential privacy: Being wrong on purpose – Spatialists – geospatial news How do you protect the #privacy of the subjects of #statistics and #data? – By adding controlled #noise. The blog Ironic Sans has an interesting and somewhat... spatialists geospatial newsdifferential privacywrongpurpose https://spatialists.ch/posts/2026/03/10-geo-enabling-apache-hop/index.html Geo-enabling Apache Hop – Spatialists – geospatial news Stefan Ziegler has been geo-enabling the open-source #ETL tool #ApacheHop, building #GDAL/#OGR reader and writer plug-ins and adding an interactive preview for... spatialists geospatial newsenablingapachehop https://spatialists.ch/posts/2025/03/25-why-cloud-native/index.html Why cloud-native? – Spatialists – geospatial news Kyle Barron, cloud engineer at Development Seed and developer of Lonboard, offers interesting insights into the cloudnativegeo paradigm in a recent interview... spatialists geospatial newscloud native https://spatialists.ch/posts/2025/04/04-tool-tip-tippecanoe-command-generator/index.html Tool tip: Tippecanoe Command Generator – Spatialists – geospatial news If you create, or are curious about, #VectorTiles, you may have come across the command line utility #Tippecanoe (TIP-ə-kə-NOO). It’s probably no secret that... spatialists geospatial newstool tiptippecanoecommandgenerator https://spatialists.ch/posts/2025/09/08-prix-carto-2025-winners/index.html Prix Carto 2025 winners – Spatialists – geospatial news Discover the winners of the 2025 Prix Carto award of the Swiss Society for Cartography: Fabian Lang for his book “Schweizer Bergwelten”, Sachit Mahajan for the... spatialists geospatial news2025 winnersprixcarto https://spatialists.ch/posts/2025/06/07-gdal-modernization-webinar-and-faq/index.html GDAL modernization webinar and FAQ – Spatialists – geospatial news The #GDAL Project Steering Committee recently hosted a webinar highlighting the major #modernization of the GDAL command-line interface, featuring the... spatialists geospatial newsgdalmodernizationwebinarfaq https://spatialists.ch/posts/2025/09/12-basemapkit-basemaps-for-maplibre/index.html Basemapkit: Basemaps for Maplibre – Spatialists – geospatial news #Basemapkit is a new open-source library by Jonathan Lurie that provides customizable basemap styles for use with #Maplibre GL JS and #Protomaps #OSM #pmtiles.... spatialists geospatial newsbasemapsmaplibre https://spatialists.ch/posts/2026/02/23-geoinformation-job-market/index.html Geoinformation job market – Spatialists – geospatial news A new report commissioned by swisstopo analyses the #workforce situation in Switzerland’s #geoinformation sector and finds a field that’s largely stable while... spatialists geospatial newsjob marketgeoinformation https://spatialists.ch/posts/2026/03/18-zero-declination-please/index.html Zero declination, please – Spatialists – geospatial news Fun explorations: David O’Sullivan gets nerd-sniped by an #xkcd comic into creating a #map #projection where magnetic north and true north are perfectly... spatialists geospatial newszerodeclinationplease https://spatialists.ch/posts/2025/07/08-eth-zurich-to-build-an-eo-competence-center-for-chf-100-mio/index.html ETH Zurich to build an EO competence center for CHF 100 Mio. – Spatialists – geospatial news ETH Zurich has received a landmark 100 million Swiss Franc donation to launch the Swiss #GeoLab, an #EarthObservation center in Lucerne led by Thomas Zurbuchen... spatialists geospatial newseth zurichcompetence centerchf 100build https://spatialists.ch/posts/2025/05/07-tile-and-glyph-map-experiments/index.html Tile and glyph map experiments – Spatialists – geospatial news David O’Sullivan explores innovative visualizations of complex #multivariate data on #maps, using a case study with three variables. His article showcases... spatialists geospatial newstileglyphmapexperiments https://spatialists.ch/posts/2026/02/22-ai-ready-ogc-standards/index.html AI-ready OGC standards – Spatialists – geospatial news The #OGC ran an #AI-#DGGS pilot on disaster management and derived five pillars for geospatial AI readiness from it: tool-ability, machine-readable metadata,... spatialists geospatial newsai readyogc standards https://spatialists.ch/posts/2025/03/06-tool-tip-navigating-the-maze-of-coordinate-reference-systems/index.html Tool tip: Navigating the maze of coordinate reference systems – Spatialists – geospatial news Many people struggle with coordinate reference systems (#CRSs). Who can blame them? But there is a tool that can help you out if you find yourself experiencing... coordinate reference systemsspatialists geospatial newstool tipnavigatingmaze https://spatialists.ch/posts/2026/04/11-terraink/ Terraink – Spatialists – geospatial news Terraink is a free, open-source web app for creating artistic #cartographic posters from #OpenStreetMap data, with an impressive breadth of customisation... spatialists geospatial news https://spatialists.ch/posts/2025/02/16-the-missing-dimension/index.html The missing dimension: Why geospatial needs to prioritize time – Spatialists – geospatial news Time for change: Will Cadell argues geospatial tools must shift from static maps to dynamic 3D/4D platforms, prioritizing time-driven insights over location... spatialists newsmissingdimensiongeospatialneeds