Ten years of teaching GIS and remote sensing, and the hardest concept is still the same one: students learn buttons, not data models. Once someone truly gets what a raster is — a grid of measurements with a CRS stapled on — half of remote sensing follows on its own.
Fellow geo educators: how do you teach the leap from software clicks to spatial thinking?
#GIS #GISchat #RemoteSensing #Teaching #HigherEd
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Hi everyone! I'm a Geospatial Software Engineer & GIS DevOps specialist. Interested in #OpenSource, #GIS, #QGIS, #PostGIS, #Python, #Docker, #Linux, and spatial infrastructure. Happy to connect! #Introduction #GISchat #DevOps
QGIS-Tip: New Plugin „Ribbon Toolbar“ https://geoobserver.de/2026/09/25/qgis-tipp-neues-plugin-ribbon-toolbar/ #qgis #plugin #switch2qgis #gistribe #gischat #fossgis #foss4g #OSGeo #spatial #geospatial #opensource #gis #geo #geoObserver pls RT
DeepMind & Google Research: Googles neues KI-Wettermodell / Google’s new AI weather model https://geoobserver.de/2026/07/31/deepmind-google-research-googles-neues-ki-wettermodell/ via @PeterWBattaglia #waether #deepmind #google #ai #gistribe #gischat #fossgis #foss4g #OSGeo #spatial #geospatial #gis #geo #geoObserver pls RT
Update „Geo Hound“: 2.0 https://geoobserver.de/2026/07/30/update-fuer-geo-hound-neue-version-2-0/ via @MapScaping #gistribe #gischat #fossgis #foss4g #OSGeo #spatial #geospatial #mapping #qgis #switch2qgis #gis #geo #geoObserver pls RT
ArcGIS Flight Simulator: Cédric Despierre Corporon built a browser-based #FlightSimulator on the #ArcGIS Maps SDK for #JavaScript, streaming Swiss terrain and buildings from #swisstopo alongside global #OSM data. While obviously not a full flight sim, this is a genuinely...
https://spatialists.ch/posts/2026/07/27-arcgis-flight-simulator/ #GIS #GISchat #geospatial #SwissGIS
Mein Tool des Monats / My tool of the month: formatterorg https://geoobserver.de/2026/07/27/mein-tool-des-monats-formatterdotorg/ #gistribe #gischat #fossgis #foss4g #OSGeo #spatial #geospatial #geos #gis #geo #geoObserver pls RT
GDAL Released: v3.13.2 https://geoobserver.de/2026/07/23/gdal-released-v3-13-2/ via @GdalOrg @EvenRouault@mastodon.social #gdal #ogr #qgis #switch2qgis #fossgis #foss4g #opensource #gistribe #gischat #spatial #geospatial #gis #geo #geoObserver pls RT
Buchtipp: „Künstliche Intelligenz in Geodäsie und Geoinformatik“ / Book recommendation: ‘Artificial Intelligence in Geodesy and Geoinformatics’ https://geoobserver.de/2026/07/24/buchtipp-kuenstliche-intelligenz-in-geodaesie-und-geoinformatik/ #ai #ki #gistribe #gischat #fossgis #foss4g #OSGeo #spatial #geospatial #opensource #gis #geo #geoObserver pls RT
I wanted to explore the topographic relief cartographic style that I did for Santorini, Greece, last year¹ and tried it on the Faroe Islands 🇫🇴.
One new thing is that I worked with @mapterhorn@mastodon.social terrain tiles instead of processing the raw NASADEM data.
Feedback and comments are requested! 🙏
¹ https://en.osm.town/@seav/115501954665215610
#maps #cartography #Mapstodon #gischat
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I’m continuing experimenting with this topographic map style and here’s one for the French Caribbean island of Saint-Barthélemy. France’s IGN provides DEM with a horizontal resolution of 1 metre so I wondered how my map workflow would look like for smaller islands.
Feedback and comments are welcome! 🙏
#maps #cartography #Mapstodon #gischat #France #Caribbean
Sentinel-2 Paint: Mit Satellitenbildern malen? / Painting with satellite images? https://geoobserver.de/2026/07/21/sentinel-2-paint-mit-satellitenbildern-malen/ #gistribe #gischat #fossgis #foss4g #OSGeo #spatial #geospatial #mapping #DataViz #gis #geo #geoObserver pls RT
Wo ist „Downtown“ in Deiner Stadt? / Where is ‘downtown’ in your town? https://geoobserver.de/2026/07/22/wo-ist-downtown-in-deiner-stadt/ #gistribe #gischat #fossgis #foss4g #OSGeo #spatial #geospatial #mapping #DataViz #gis #geo #geoObserver pls RT
I rarely use Google Maps anymore, but has anyone else been seeing this kind of thing? SEO spam I'm used to, but these just seem like messing around for its own sake.
Seems virtually anyone can add fake stuff to the map? But to correct the map, all you can do is submit a form and wait?
So we get the fake mapping that people are scared of in #OpenStreetMap but with none of the transparency about who did it, and nobody has any real power to address issues they see. 😒
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Gut befeuert: Die Lighthousemap / Well-lit: The Lighthousemap https://geoobserver.de/2026/07/17/gut-befeuert-die-lighthousemap/ #gistribe #gischat #fossgis #foss4g #OSGeo #spatial #geospatial #opensource #DataViz #osm #openstreetmap #gis #geo #geoObserver pls RT
a coworker asked me how to style a basemap vector tile (you know one of the kind of issues they were developed...). I could not figure how to do that with their access to arcgis pro (agol is supposed to works easily, no idea).
It was one copy paste, 3 clicks in #QGIS and very transparent.
One day govt sector will wake up and rise!!!
#gischat
Aufruf: Hochwasser-Daten für den Geobasis_Loader gesucht! / Call for submissions: Flood data wanted for the Geobasis_Loader! https://geoobserver.de/2026/07/14/aufruf-hochwasser-daten-fuer-den-geobasis_loader-gesucht/ #qgis #plugin #switch2qgis #gistribe #gischat #fossgis #spatial #geospatial #opensource #opendata #gis #geo #geoObserver pls RT
OSM-Zeitreise / OSM Time Travel: „before/after map“ https://geoobserver.de/2026/07/13/osm-zeitreise-die-before-after-map/ #osm #openstreetmap #gistribe #gischat #fossgis #foss4g #OSGeo #spatial #geospatial #mapping #DataViz #gis #geo #geoObserver pls RT
QGIS-Tipp: 3.44.12 „Solothurn“ and 4.2.0 „Belém do Pará“ https://geoobserver.de/2026/07/09/qgis-tipp-3-44-12-solothurn-and-4-2-0-belem-do-para/ #qgis #switch2qgis #gistribe #gischat #fossgis #foss4g #OSGeo #spatial #geospatial #opensource #gis #geo #geoObserver via @JuergenEFischer @qgis pls RT
