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James Williamson, Labrador GIS Specialist

@northernmaps.bsky.social

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(He/Him) I am a GIS Specialist, working from Happy Valley-Goose Bay. I love maps, cartography and cool data visualisations. Currently finishing a PhD with MUNL on the historic landscape of the Exploits River Valley.

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rainbowR @rainbowr.org · Aug 13

🌈 rainbowR meet-up: Wednesday August 27th, 4pm UTC 🌈

- connect with other LGBTQ+ people who code in #RStats 🏳️‍🌈
- ask questions about R 🙋
- tell us about an R package you like 📦
- show us something R-related you’ve been working on 💻

➡️ Registration via rainbowr.org/meetups

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James Williamson, Labrador GIS Specialist @northernmaps.bsky.social · Aug 13

A distribution map of the known archaeological sites on the island of Newfoundland. It shows how archaeological research has focused on the heavily populated coast, away from the boreal interior.

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A.D.🍀🦩 @adwills.bsky.social · Jul 25

Good morning✌️🍀

a scene in the animated lord of the rings movie. Gandalf the grey is standing in a lush green forest, wearing grey robes, and a blue pointy wizard's hat while wielding a staff. He's pointing up as if to think of something, and the image is captioned "It's never too late to start something over, including a new version of yourself."

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James Williamson, Labrador GIS Specialist @northernmaps.bsky.social · Jul 7

A Relative Elevation map for the Churchill River. This is interesting because it shows how the river runs through a rugged area between two different relatively low areas, while going from the Smallwood Reservoir to the shores of Lake Melville.
#Labrador #HVGB #qgis #maps #REM

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lumberjack wharfie @lumberjackwharfie.bsky.social · Nov 12

The healthiest thing we can do for the internet is get as many regular users as possible running their own websites. You could buy a domain and such, but a super easy starting point is to get a free subdomain of neocities.org, which is like geocities but existing now.

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James Williamson, Labrador GIS Specialist @northernmaps.bsky.social · Jul 1

A Tanaka map of the topography around Hopedale, Nunatsiavut, Labrador.
data: NRCAN- NTS

#qgis #maps #topography #visualisation #3d #gis #Nunatsiavut #Labrador

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QGIS @qgis.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · Jun 26

We're proud to announce that #finland just launched theit new Topographic Data System built on #qgis

https://positio-magazine.eu/2025/06/finland-launches-modern-topographic-data-system-built-on-open-source-qgis/

#osgeo #gischat #gis #opensource

positio-magazine.eu

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James Williamson, Labrador GIS Specialist @northernmaps.bsky.social · Jun 25

Another Photo of Hopedale, Nunatsiavut, Labrador, from a few years ago.

#drones #Hopedale #Nunatsiavut #geospatial

James Williamson, Labrador GIS Specialist @northernmaps.bsky.social · Jun 22

Cape Spear, Newfoundland

#drones #NL #geospatial

James Williamson, Labrador GIS Specialist @northernmaps.bsky.social · Jun 22

This was a wonderful event!

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James Williamson, Labrador GIS Specialist @northernmaps.bsky.social · Jun 21

The American Army Base in Hopedale, Nunatsiavut, Labrador

#drones #geospatial #heritage #hopedale #labrador

James Williamson, Labrador GIS Specialist @northernmaps.bsky.social · Jun 19

A joy plot view of Hopedale, Nunatsiavut, Labrador. With data from the Canadian MRDEM.

James Williamson, Labrador GIS Specialist @northernmaps.bsky.social · Jun 19

The watercourses of Newfoundland

with data from NRCAN and the NTS

#gis #qgis #spatial #rivers #maps

James Williamson, Labrador GIS Specialist @northernmaps.bsky.social · Jun 17

The Rivers of Labrador. It's pretty thick with them.

Data from the NTS

#maps #Labrador #QGIS #spatial #gis #nrcan #nts

James Williamson, Labrador GIS Specialist @northernmaps.bsky.social · Jun 14

A map of the Hexagonal churches of England, prepared for the Month of Maps in 2024.

#England #churches #hexagons #gis #qgis #geospatial #maps

James Williamson, Labrador GIS Specialist @northernmaps.bsky.social · Jun 14

A map of the National Parks of Canada, with data from NRCAN and Natural Earth.
There is an amazing variation between the parks, in terms of their sizes and purposes.

#parks #canada #maps #geospatial #gis #qgis

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James Williamson, Labrador GIS Specialist @northernmaps.bsky.social · Jun 12

A map of Hopedale, Nunatsiavut in Labrador, Canada.

Data from OSM and NRCAN

#osm #nationaltopographicsystem #nts #Hopedale #Nunatsiavut #gis #qgis #maps

James Williamson, Labrador GIS Specialist @northernmaps.bsky.social · Jun 12

The roads, trails, ferries and transport paths (and some boundaries) of Auckland, New Zealand in a lightening map.

#qgis #geospatial #osm #gis

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James Williamson, Labrador GIS Specialist @northernmaps.bsky.social · Jun 11

A map of the Mexican Restaurants of North America, with data from OSM and Natural Earth.

Really, I made this because I miss burritos soo much.

#OSM
#QGIS
#NaturalEarth
#MexicanRestaurants

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James Williamson, Labrador GIS Specialist @northernmaps.bsky.social · Jun 9

The watersheds of Labrador from NRCAN and Natural Earth data.

James Williamson, Labrador GIS Specialist @northernmaps.bsky.social · Jun 8

A map of Hopedale in Nunatsiavut.

James Williamson, Labrador GIS Specialist @northernmaps.bsky.social · Jun 7

A geological age map of Newfoundland and Labrador. The data used here came from the Department of Natural Resources NL, Natural Earth, and NRCAN

James Williamson, Labrador GIS Specialist @northernmaps.bsky.social · Jun 6

Data from NRCAN and Natural Earth!

James Williamson, Labrador GIS Specialist @northernmaps.bsky.social · Jun 6

First post! A topographic relief map of Labrador.

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