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@latlong.blog
A weblog exploring and documenting geospatial technology, data and standards on the Web. Edited by Oliver Roick in Melbourne, Australia. https://latlong.blog
Leaflet 2.0 alpha is out. It's big upgrade to the popular mapping library that introduces breaking changes.
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May 19, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Leaflet 2.0 alpha is out. It's big upgrade to the popular mapping library that introduces breaking changes.
latlong.blog/2025/05/leaf...
latlong.blog/2025/05/leaf...
Tippecanoe Command Generator — A neat user interface to compose commands to create map tiles with Tippecanoe
maptiling.streamlit.app/Tippecanoe_C...
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Tippecanoe Command Generator
An app to help generate map tiling settings using tippecanoe and other open source tools.
maptiling.streamlit.app
April 30, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Tippecanoe Command Generator — A neat user interface to compose commands to create map tiles with Tippecanoe
maptiling.streamlit.app/Tippecanoe_C...
maptiling.streamlit.app/Tippecanoe_C...
The SparkGeo team has tested AI coding assistant Lovable and asked it to create a simple interactive map showing Canadian cities and their population—with mixed results.
latlong.blog/2025/04/maki...
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Making an AI-Generated Web Map with Lovable — Lat × Long
The SparkGeo team has tested Lovable and asked it to create a simple interactive map showing Canadian cities and their population.
latlong.blog
April 26, 2025 at 1:36 AM
The SparkGeo team has tested AI coding assistant Lovable and asked it to create a simple interactive map showing Canadian cities and their population—with mixed results.
latlong.blog/2025/04/maki...
latlong.blog/2025/04/maki...
The good folks at Heigit have released ohsome-planet, a handy tool to turn OpenStreetMap history data from PBF into GeoParquet files.
giscienceblog.uni-heidelberg.de/2025/03/25/f...
giscienceblog.uni-heidelberg.de/2025/03/25/f...
First release of ohsome-planet: OSM history data in GeoParquet format – GIScience Blog
giscienceblog.uni-heidelberg.de
April 2, 2025 at 4:53 AM
The good folks at Heigit have released ohsome-planet, a handy tool to turn OpenStreetMap history data from PBF into GeoParquet files.
giscienceblog.uni-heidelberg.de/2025/03/25/f...
giscienceblog.uni-heidelberg.de/2025/03/25/f...
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Are you on the @foss4g.org mailing list? If not, you just missed the most important email of the year! Registration is now open. Also the call for papers, community vote for the logo, the travel grant program and... we're excited!
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March 31, 2025 at 5:52 AM
Are you on the @foss4g.org mailing list? If not, you just missed the most important email of the year! Registration is now open. Also the call for papers, community vote for the logo, the travel grant program and... we're excited!
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I love a good deep dive into often-overlooked map-related challenges. Here Hanbyul Jo wonders why Mapbox chose to vertically display labels in Hangul, whether the choice improves legibility, and since when Koreans horizontally read and write Hangul instead of vertically.
hanbyul.xyz/words/vertic...
hanbyul.xyz/words/vertic...
Overthinking about vertical writing of Hangul labels on maps - hanbyul.xyz
It comforts me to think about one thing in unnecessary detail.
hanbyul.xyz
March 29, 2025 at 12:08 AM
I love a good deep dive into often-overlooked map-related challenges. Here Hanbyul Jo wonders why Mapbox chose to vertically display labels in Hangul, whether the choice improves legibility, and since when Koreans horizontally read and write Hangul instead of vertically.
hanbyul.xyz/words/vertic...
hanbyul.xyz/words/vertic...
Five geospatial projects are amongst the mentoring organisations for Google Summer of Code 2024. OSGeo, 52North, OpenStreetMap, Organic Maps and the Open Transit Software Foundation offer internships this year.
Five Geospatial Projects Amongst Mentoring Organisations for Google Summer of Code 2024 — Lat × Long
OSGeo, 52North, OpenStreetMap, Organic Maps offer internships this year.
latlong.blog
March 4, 2024 at 7:27 AM
Five geospatial projects are amongst the mentoring organisations for Google Summer of Code 2024. OSGeo, 52North, OpenStreetMap, Organic Maps and the Open Transit Software Foundation offer internships this year.
Protomaps Transitions to New Funding Model. Access to a commercial API and professional services can be purchased through GitHub sponsorships.
Transitioning Protomaps from Open Core to Open Source
The Protomaps Project has gained several new repositories in the past year, including the serverless implementations for AWS and Cloudflare, and a new basemaps repository, which generates a full plane...
protomaps.com
March 3, 2024 at 1:03 AM
Protomaps Transitions to New Funding Model. Access to a commercial API and professional services can be purchased through GitHub sponsorships.
Development Seed’s data team in Ayacucho, Peru has spun to form GeoCompas. The new company focusses on OpenStreetMap editing, data labelling and annotation for AI projects, but also development of data processing pipelines and web services.
GeoCompas: Acceleration Services for your next AI project — Development Seed
The DevSeed Data Team spins out into their own company.
developmentseed.org
February 8, 2024 at 6:11 AM
Development Seed’s data team in Ayacucho, Peru has spun to form GeoCompas. The new company focusses on OpenStreetMap editing, data labelling and annotation for AI projects, but also development of data processing pipelines and web services.
An AI-driven approach to generating audio descriptions for interactive web maps.
sparkgeo.com/blog/map-to-...
sparkgeo.com/blog/map-to-...
February 2, 2024 at 6:20 AM
An AI-driven approach to generating audio descriptions for interactive web maps.
sparkgeo.com/blog/map-to-...
sparkgeo.com/blog/map-to-...
Element84 are hosting a three-hour workshop on user-centred design with a specific focus on geospatial applications. The workshop is scheduled for 19 March. Tickets are 75USD.
Meeting User Needs in Geospatial Applications
Explore the transformative impact of user-centric design within the geospatial domain.
www.eventbrite.com
February 1, 2024 at 6:43 AM
Element84 are hosting a three-hour workshop on user-centred design with a specific focus on geospatial applications. The workshop is scheduled for 19 March. Tickets are 75USD.
Placemark's code is now open source, available on GitHub under the MIT license.
macwright.com/2024/01/19/p...
macwright.com/2024/01/19/p...
January 23, 2024 at 7:54 AM
Placemark's code is now open source, available on GitHub under the MIT license.
macwright.com/2024/01/19/p...
macwright.com/2024/01/19/p...
You can serve PMTiles directly from a cloud object storage but sometimes, you want to control who accesses data and how often—and you need a server for that. Craig Kochis wrote examples of how to serve PMTiles using a NodeJS server application.
ckochis.com/serve-protom...
ckochis.com/serve-protom...
Serve Protomaps Tiles with NodeJS | Craig Kochis
Serve Protomaps Tiles with NodeJS
ckochis.com
January 9, 2024 at 5:58 AM
You can serve PMTiles directly from a cloud object storage but sometimes, you want to control who accesses data and how often—and you need a server for that. Craig Kochis wrote examples of how to serve PMTiles using a NodeJS server application.
ckochis.com/serve-protom...
ckochis.com/serve-protom...
I tried to estimate the cost of hosting Protomaps on AWS before; now there's a handy tool for that.
Cost Calculator | Protomaps DocsGitHubMastodonTwitterGitHubMastodonTwitter
Technical Documentation for Protomaps
docs.protomaps.com
January 4, 2024 at 6:23 AM
I tried to estimate the cost of hosting Protomaps on AWS before; now there's a handy tool for that.
Webinar on cloud-native technologies and their applications in the pacific region
Webinar: Cloud-Native Geospatial - Pacific Perspectives
In this webinar, moderated by Geospatial Data Scientist, Wei Ji Leong from Development Seed, we explore applications of cloud-native geospatial in the Pacifi...
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December 21, 2023 at 11:29 PM
Webinar on cloud-native technologies and their applications in the pacific region
A new STAC extension proposes an API for collection management.
GitHub - stac-api-extensions/collection-transaction: The Collection Transaction Extension supports t...
The Collection Transaction Extension supports the creation, editing, and deleting of Collections through POST, PUT, PATCH, and DELETE requests. - GitHub - stac-api-extensions/collection-transactio...
github.com
December 13, 2023 at 6:56 AM
A new STAC extension proposes an API for collection management.
Brian Timoney contemplates why talented GIS professionals seek employment in other areas, tracing the problem to broad scoped roles and lower pay compared to similar roles in other industries.
mapbrief.com/2023/12/06/w...
mapbrief.com/2023/12/06/w...
December 11, 2023 at 6:24 AM
Brian Timoney contemplates why talented GIS professionals seek employment in other areas, tracing the problem to broad scoped roles and lower pay compared to similar roles in other industries.
mapbrief.com/2023/12/06/w...
mapbrief.com/2023/12/06/w...
The recordings from this year’s PostGIS day are available on Youtube; just in time so you can add them to your festive tech playlist.
PostGIS Day 2023
Join us for a full day of talks about open-source Geospatial applications and tools. Presented live on November 16th, 2023. PostGIS Day is part of Geography ...
www.youtube.com
December 11, 2023 at 6:08 AM
The recordings from this year’s PostGIS day are available on Youtube; just in time so you can add them to your festive tech playlist.
The very popular SatSummit is back next year on the 16 and 17 May, as always in Washington DC.
Welcome — SatSummit 2024
SatSummit convenes leaders in the satellite industry and experts in global development for 2 days of presentations and in-depth conversations on solving the world's most critical development challenge...
2024.satsummit.io
December 1, 2023 at 6:07 AM
The very popular SatSummit is back next year on the 16 and 17 May, as always in Washington DC.
Sad news from Placemark today. The platform is shutting down in January, and the code will be released as open-source software:
Placemark is winding down
Thanks for joining me on this exploration - it's time to call this one an ending.
www.placemark.io
November 14, 2023 at 6:59 AM
Sad news from Placemark today. The platform is shutting down in January, and the code will be released as open-source software:
React components for building Google Maps user interfaces. If you work in React and use the Google Maps JavaScript API, this library will save you a couple lines.
Introducing React components for the Maps JavaScript API | Google Cloud Blog
cloud.google.com
November 9, 2023 at 7:44 AM
React components for building Google Maps user interfaces. If you work in React and use the Google Maps JavaScript API, this library will save you a couple lines.
Estimating the Cost of Hosting a Global PMTiles Dataset
Estimating the Cost of Hosting a Global PMTiles Dataset — Lat × Long
Using PMTiles, hosting and serving a global map dataset is significantly cheaper than comparable offers from commercial map data providers.
latlong.blog
November 8, 2023 at 8:38 AM
Estimating the Cost of Hosting a Global PMTiles Dataset
Overture's Global Entity Reference System Hopes to Improve Data Interoperability. It's Not There Yet.
Overture's Global Entity Reference System Hopes to Improve Data Interoperability. It's Not There Yet...
GERS hopes to increase data interoperability, but it's not useful outside of Overture data.
latlong.blog
November 2, 2023 at 8:56 AM
Overture's Global Entity Reference System Hopes to Improve Data Interoperability. It's Not There Yet.
The recordings from FOSS4G Oceania, which took place just last week in Auckland, are already up on Youtube.
FOSS4G SotM Oceania 2023
The FOSS4G SotM Oceania Conference 2023 was held in Auckland, New Zealand in from the 16th - 20th of October 2023
www.youtube.com
October 31, 2023 at 9:12 AM
The recordings from FOSS4G Oceania, which took place just last week in Auckland, are already up on Youtube.