New home for INTERLIS content: Stefan Ziegler’s blog has found a new home: After 12 years of blogging, this #INTERLIS community resource is now at blog.interlis.guru. Update your #RSS feed reader if you follow this essential resource for the Swiss geodata community (which...
https://spatialists.ch/posts/2026/05/08-new-home-for-interlis-content/ #GIS #GISchat #geospatial #SwissGIS

Geoinformation chatbot for the canton of Berne: The canton of Berne has launched a #chatbot on their geoinformation portal that lets users ask questions about available cantonal #geodata and its #metadata in natural language — in German, French, English, and more. It is not (yet?) a ‘talk to the...
https://spatialists.ch/posts/2026/05/08-geoinformation-chatbot-for-the-canton-of-berne/ #GIS #GISchat #geospatial #SwissGIS

#Wayfinding assumptions challenged: A new study challenges the assumption that pedestrians wish for turn-by-turn #navigation, showing many prefer a simple route preview, without losing performance or spatial awareness. Paired with contrasting ideas from #3D navigation design, it’s a...
https://spatialists.ch/posts/2026/05/20-navigation-assumptions-challenged/ #GIS #GISchat #geospatial #SwissGIS

New article! Xini Hu and colleagues look at how we can create a map color style design to enhance the emotional expressiveness of maps #GISchat https://doi.org/10.1080/15230406.2026.2652401

VeganGuide: Vegane & Vegetarische Lokationen / Vegan & Vegetarian Eateries https://geoobserver.de/2026/05/20/veganguide-vegane-vegetarische-lokationen/ #VeganGuide #vegan #gistribe #gischat #fossgis #foss4g #OSGeo #spatial #geospatial #opensource #osm #openstreetmap #gis #geo #geoObserver pls RT

I got a request for adding a @leaflet plugin to the list, and rejected it on the basis that LLMs ""hallucinate"" data so fucking hard. Users of "GeoAI" should be ashamed of this kind of shit.
#gischat #LLM #GeoAI

QGIS- & GeoBasis_Loader-Webinar: Mitschnitt online! / Recording now available online! https://geoobserver.de/2026/05/19/qgis-geobasis_loader-webinar-mitschnitt-online/ #qgis #plugin #switch2qgis #gistribe #gischat #fossgis #foss4g #OSGeo #spatial #geospatial #opendata #osm #openstreetmap #gis #geo #geoObserver pls RT

New article! How can we calculate off-road trafficability? Renan Fabres Dalmonech and colleagues use multicriteria decision analysis to develop a robust spatial model #GISchat https://doi.org/10.1080/15230406.2026.2653182