The useR! 2026 conference, bringing together R enthusiasts from the academic and commercial sectors, starts next week! I’m really looking forward to this event, especially since it’s taking place in Warsaw and will feature many experts in spatial data science. On Monday, I have the pleasure of teaching the "Introduction to Spatial Data Science" workshop. See you there!

#rstats #rspatial #gischat #user2026

SOME SHARED SPATIAL/GIS ROLES & OPPORTUNITIES
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w/e June 26th, 2026 | GLOBAL but North America focused (as currently based there)
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https://open.substack.com/pub/earthstuff/p/some-shared-spatialgis-roles-and-696
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• I am NOT associated with HR/recruiting in ANY way
• Therefore, these are NOT endorsements, and there are no ‘referrals’ or the like for me
• I am simply sharing SOME roles I have seen – in the hope that they are of use to someone
• As such, I am not (and indeed can not) in any way ‘vet’ these roles (i.e., PLEASE do your ‘due diligence’ / use your judgement (with the hideous prevalence of ‘ghost jobs’, ‘fishing’, fraudulent so-called recruiters, etc))
• Further, roles listed are in no specific order (i.e., simply as I ‘encountered’ them during the week)
• There is ZERO cost to access this list of spatial / GIS roles
• I am not (really) ‘mining’ US Federal government roles - with the ‘hiring freeze’, uncertainty, etc
• You can subscribe to the (free) weekly LinkedIn newsletter www.linkedin.com/build-relation/newsletter-follow?entityUrn=7397678824928366594 or also for free at earthstuff.Substack.com - if so inclined

#fridayjobs #gischat #jobsonfriday #GIS #spatial #mapping #cartography #geography #job #jobopenings #hiring #newjob #employment #roles #GISJobs #NotARecruiter #fridayspatialjobs #scholarship #PhD #PostDoc #CareersInSpatial #career #openroles #Geomatics #GIS #Innovation #Growth #caveatNONemptor #LetsGetYouHired #GISCareer #GISStudents #PhD #postdoc #hiringalert #GISjobs #careeropportunity #NowHiring #spatialanalysis #GIS #Geospatial #GISSpecialist #Geomatics #OpenToWork

What's New In #ArcGISDashboards (June 2026) https://tinyurl.com/wjsn8ywy

#dataviz #dashboard #GIS #esri #arcgis #mapping #GISchat #geospatial @esri @esrifederalgovt @esrislgov @arcgisapps @esritraining

UPDATED Vantor Open Data imagery for Venezuela earthquake response. 260GB total to date.

https://developmentseed.org/stac-map/?href=https%3A%2F%2Fvantor-opendata.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fevents%2FVenezuela-Earthquake-Jun-2026%2Fcollection.json

Note two nice features in STAC Map:

- Temporal slider on right
- Generate permalinks inside of images, such as:

https://developmentseed.org/stac-map/?href=https%3A%2F%2Fvantor-opendata.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fevents%2FVenezuela-Earthquake-Jun-2026%2FB130001101BF9600.json&bbox=-66.71897408399941%2C10.620612599652347%2C-66.71177348516991%2C10.626040202695592&viz=asset%3Avisual

#opendata #gischat #venezuela

My latest article for Inquirer.net is now up and I take a look at map projections, and specifically at the Mercator projection popularly used by mapping services such as Google Maps. GIS professionals in particular might remember EPSG:900913 from the late 2000s. 🗺️

https://technology.inquirer.net/147648/why-africa-looks-smaller-than-it-really-is-on-google-maps

(Inquirer.net is the digital arm of the Philippine Daily Inquirer, the country's largest newspaper.)

#TechINQ #GoogleMaps #Mercator #maps #Mapstodon #gischat #Africa