Swiss #CadastralSurveying data is now available in #IFC format via geodienste.ch by KGK-CGC, enabling seamless integration into #BIM workflows. Currently four cantons offer their data, including 3D terrain and building models from swisstopo, with more expected to follow.
✨ Raster/grid logic is rather simple: six numbers define a grid, and from them you can compute cells, coordinates, cropping, snapping, etc.
All of this is explain in a blog post by Michael Sumner.
https://www.hypertidy.org/posts/2025-12-21_vaster-grid-logic/vaster-grid-logic
DuckDB 1.5 arrives with significant updates for #geospatial: GEOMETRY becomes a built-in data type, storage switches to #WKB with shredding for better compression, #CRS awareness is now part of the type system, and more! Here is a rundown of the most relevant new features in #DuckDB 1.5.
Geneva’s #SITG is experimenting with an open community model: thematic #geoinformation circles that anyone can propose, join, and self-organize. Already, participants range from the WHO and France’s national mapping agency to university researchers and private companies.
Done mapping all 25 #barangays of Minalabac, Camarines Sur, #Philippines 🇵🇭 in #OpenStreetMap, creating/updating their #Wikidata items, and linking the two with each other.
Wanna play around? Here is the Overpass Turbo query: https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/2mza
And here is the Wikidata Query Service (#WDQS) query: https://w.wiki/K6ne
Previously: https://en.osm.town/@seav/114750346738105697
geoObserver
Spatialists
Jakub Nowosad
Dragons8mycat
Shaded Maps
Eugene Alvin Villar 🇵🇭