Great vídeo from @hansakwast "Introduction to the Geospatial Abstraction Library (GDAL) with the new CLI"

https://youtu.be/M0OS2TN4qLA

Practical examples to manipulate raster and vector files with #gdal 's new commands.

Thank you Hans!

#GIS #gischat

Introduction to the Geospatial Abstraction Library (GDAL) with the new CLI

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Oh my arc gis. I really wish there would be a really good alternative tbh. Like do you remember in version 10.5 of arc map when it grasched if you doubleclicked the save my edits dialouge without saving your edits. absolute cinema. #gischat

Look if you want to hire a lidar specialist at least capitalise lidar correctly. And what even is a level 2 specialist?

More seriously, there's a role going in Australia. I've flown with a pilot who used to contract with them. Stories.. proceed with care. No salary listed - so take that as you will as a flag ;)

#gischat #jobHunting #whatEvenIsThisIndustry? #lidar

Map-first STAC search and visualization: @developmentseed has released #stacmap, an #opensource, map-first visualizer for exploring and searching #STAC collections through a simple, browser-based interface. It already supports natural-language queries (albeit experimentally) and also stac-#geoparquet.
https://spatialists.ch/posts/2026/01/06-map-first-stac-search-and-visualization/ #GIS #GISchat #geospatial #SwissGIS
Map-first STAC search and visualization – Spatialists – geospatial news

#DevelopmentSeed has released #stacmap, an #opensource, map-first visualizer for exploring and searching #STAC collections through a simple, browser-based interface. It already supports natural-language queries (albeit experimentally) and also stac-#geoparquet.

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Want to learn how to visualise and analyze spatial data in the social sciences and build your #GIS skills? My GIS courses are coming up in Feb-Mar 2026:
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https://nickbearman.com/training-courses.html #GISchat

Vatican - viewed from space using cloudless satellite imagery

#Cartography #Maps #GisChat #QGIS

Because of discussing data, I was thinking about a series I wrote from 2018/19 based on work I was doing (some funded, a lot unfunded) on managing and exploiting vast datasets. Here's part 1, it links to the other parts.

#gischat

https://www.spatialised.net/an-open-source-point-cloud-data-infrastructure-introduction-and-land/

An open source point cloud data infrastructure: introduction, and land.

Important note: hosting billions of points as EPT datasets became financially unsustainable. So the live point clouds referred to on this page no longer work. They’ll back as soon as funding …

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