handshake ai (could be wrong on their name) is advertising hard on hiring gig workers to train AI while using QGIS. I am kind of curious to see what is the job (digitizing, object detection?)

#gisChat

New article! Zeyad Kelani and colleagues collate Point of Interest data (POI) from a variety of open sources for use in Drug and Substance Abuse work and find that these are comparable with commercial POI data sets https://doi.org/10.1080/15230406.2026.2632858 #GISchat

The geobounds package by Diego Hernangómez gives you direct access to the open global geoBoundaries dataset. 🗺️

URL: https://dieghernan.github.io/202602_geobounds/

#RStats #RSpatial #GISchat

A very detailed shaded map of Wroclaw, Poland. The full map is 20000 x 20000 pixels with 0.5 m resolution and is available at https://shadedmaps.github.io
Data source: https://www.geoportal.gov.pl [Head Office of Geodesy and Cartography].
#GIS #maps #dataviz #cartography #gischat
SOME SHARED SPATIAL/GIS ROLES & OPPORTUNITIES
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w/e March 27th (ish), 2026 | GLOBAL but North America focused (as based there)
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https://open.substack.com/pub/earthstuff/p/some-shared-spatialgis-roles-and-b4b
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[I was on holiday this week, so a much reduced list; back to it ‘full on’ next week 😊]
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• roles listed are in no specific order, just as I ‘encountered’ them during the week
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Falls du den Vortrag in #fossgis2026 verpasst hast, hier ist "Mercator ist dein Freund". Viel Spaß!

https://pretalx.com/fossgis2026/talk/XGZTEF/

#gis #gischat #fossgis

Mercator ist dein Freund FOSSGIS-Konferenz 2026

Die Mercator-Projektion wird heutzutage von vielen verachtet. Dies geht auf die Kritik von Arno Peters aus den (mindestens) 1970er Jahren zurück. Die Mercator-Projektion verfügt jedoch über einzigartige Eigenschaften. Dieser Vortrag erläutert die Vor- und Nachteile der Mercator-Projektion und vergleicht sie mit anderen Projektionen. Die Mercator-Projektion ist nicht schlecht. Mercator ist dein Freund. Man muss nur wissen, wann man sie einsetzt und wann nicht.

A very detailed shaded map of Dover, Delaware, US. The full map is 24000 x 23996 pixels with 0.5 m resolution and is available at https://shadedmaps.github.io
Data source: https://apps.nationalmap.gov [U.S. Geological Survey, National Geospatial Program].
#cartography #shadedmaps #GIS #gischat #shadedrelief