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Urban Planning, GIS and Cartography musings

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lecartographe.bsky.social
Carte : L’heure vraie en France 🇫🇷
Quand il est 12 heures à Saumur, il est 12h29 à Nice et seulement 11h58 à Bordeaux. Et entre Brest et Nice c'est presque 1 heure. #ManuelGeographie de Pernet aux Éditions Hachette - 1956 #HeureVraie #LeCartographe #France #Carte
January 4, 2026 at 3:51 PM
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datawrapper.de
Happy New Year! 🎉 While the Data Vis Dispatch is still on holiday break, we’ve rounded up the best-of-2025 lists celebrating data journalism, visualizations, and the people behind them. See something we missed? Send it our way, and we’ll happily include it!

www.datawrapper.de/blog/data-vi...
A preview of four articles from Nexo Jornal, including data visualization. These snippets are from a portfolio published by Nexo Jornal featuring all of their visual work from 2025. A compilation of the most clicked maps on maps.com. Shown is a selection of three, including a map about the aurora and one about shipwrecks. Published by maps.com. This is a compilation of charts published by McKinsey & Company, each explaining an important topic related to the year 2025, such as electric vehicles or the usage of AI. Three visualizations that won or received an honorable mention in the 2025 Swiss Viz Award. The topics they cover include women in labor and biodiversity. Published by Swiss Viz.
December 30, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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giswqs.bsky.social
🚀 The QGIS Timelapse Plugin v0.2.0 has been released! 🎉 You can now overlay vector datasets (like administrative boundaries and roads) on your satellite imagery. 🌍✨
December 28, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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jjvincent.bsky.social
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
December 27, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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giswqs.bsky.social
Create a timelpase animation for any location around the globe in second. Try it out:

Plugin page: qgis.gishub.org
GitHub: github.com/opengeos/qgi...
Video tutorial: youtu.be/D_nkIL1JVU8

#QGIS #geospatial #python #EarthEngine
QGIS Plugin Repository | GeoAI Tools
qgis.gishub.org
December 27, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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davidho.bsky.social
You want to know about this site that lets you explore data collected by the HMS Challenger from 1872–1876, an expedition that laid the foundation of oceanography. 🌊

challenger-expedition.sams.ac.uk/explore
A map displaying various ocean regions related to the Challenger Expedition, with marked locations for stations across the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans. Each region is labeled, noting the number of stations available for exploration.
December 22, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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esa.int
Galileo 14th launch successful! 🛰️

On 17 December at 05:01 GMT/06:01 CET), Galileo satellites 33-34 were launched from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana on an Ariane 6 rocket.

🔗 esa.int/Applications/Satellite_navigation/Galileo_s_first_Ariane_6_launch_strengthens_European_resilience
Ariane 6 launching from Guiana Space Centre.
December 17, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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esa.int
🚀 Good morning all! It's launch day for #Ariane6 #VA266 and Galileo. Watch the launch coverage now on #ESAwebTV2. Liftoff expected at 05:01 GMT/06:01 CET.
📺 watch.esa.int/two/
Watch live: Galileo launch on Ariane 6
On 17 December, two Galileo satellites will be launched on an Ariane 6 rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana in the 14th launch of operational satellites for th...
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December 17, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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casaucl.bsky.social
CASA staff Philyoung Jeong and Dr Duncan Smith have published a new working paper on accessibility to cycle routes in London, examining new cycling indicators for tracking cycle network development, gaps in the network and challenges faced by vulnerable cyclists.
discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10...
December 15, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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giswqs.bsky.social
I’ve created a custom QGIS plugin repository where I share the QGIS plugins I develop. This allows you to install and test the latest plugin versions early, before they are released to the official QGIS Plugin Repository.

🔗 Explore the repository: qgis.gishub.org

#QGIS #Geospatial #OpenSource
December 14, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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hetanshah.bsky.social
Poignant comment on what we lose from the demise of the letter - as sparked by the news that Denmark’s postal service will stop carrying letters from the end of the year www.ft.com/content/feca...
There are other reasons to rue the letter's slow demise - including the potential loss to historians, biographers and archives. Letters convey personality and motivations, offering a contemporary record of events without the distortions of hindsight or edited memoirs. The deceased in future may leave behind troves of electronic correspondence. Compared with today's popular Letters Live charity events, though, where actors read out remarkable letters of the past, it is hard to see future audiences being as enthralled by live readings of WhatsApp messages.
December 13, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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alexselbyb.bsky.social
Correlation is not causation. Well, not always.
www.economist.com/business/202...
Chart from The Economist showing visits to adult websites in Britain falling after ID checks were introduced, while VPN sessions increased
December 11, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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rsimmon.bsky.social
I just published a new installment of “A Gentle Introduction to GDAL” — Python & the Command Line.

#dataviz #cartography #python #gdal

medium.com/@robsimmon/a...
A Gentle Introduction to GDAL Part 10: Python & the Command Line
Scripting directly on the command line with Bash or Zsh is relatively straightforward: work out a sequence of commands, then wrap them in a…
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December 3, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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esa.int
🔴 #LiveNow: the pre-launch media briefing for the launch of two #Galileo satellites on Ariane 6 #VA266, on #ESAWebTV until 12:00 CET. (Event in English)

📺 watch.esa.int/two

@euspa.bsky.social @ec.europa.eu @cnes.fr @transport.esa.int @thalesaleniaspace.bsky.social @thalesaleniaspace.bsky.social
Artist's view of an Ariane 6 flying into space over Earth.
December 9, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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joewdavies.bsky.social
Travel times to healthcare & primary schools across the EU at 100m resolution

You can:
•View drive times to 1 or 3 nearest services.
•Compare 2023 vs 2020 to spot changes.
•Show all grid cells or only populated ones.
•Size cells by population to gauge impacted people.

ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web...
December 8, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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kylewalker.bsky.social
The new SAM3 model from Meta is blowing my mind

Shown here: detecting putting greens, pools, and cars in Scottsdale from simple text prompts via Mapbox imagery

R, Shiny, mapgl for the UI; Python backend via @giswqs.bsky.social's segment-geospatial package (thanks Qiusheng!)
December 8, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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jbogdani.bsky.social
Discover Monochrome Hachures, a QGIS plugin that turns DEMs into stunning hachure maps! 🗺️ Inspired by @robhawkes’ tutorial, it automates slope-based line styling for beautiful terrain visualisation.

Check it out: github.com/lad-sapienza...

#QGIS #Cartography #Mapping
December 5, 2025 at 11:48 AM
pearoid.bsky.social
Very intereting listen: www.bbc.com/audio/play/m...
BBC Audio | Start the Week | Maps – lost, secret and revealing
James Cheshire, Jerry Brotton and Jenny Uglow, with Tom Sutcliffe.
www.bbc.com
December 5, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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alexselbyb.bsky.social
Show this to anyone who thinks everyone used to die at 40
pedsortho.bsky.social George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · Dec 2
The modal year of death from the evolution of Homo sapiens until the 1940s was 0 - 1 year old.
December 2, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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xkcd.com
Satellite Imagery

xkcd.com/3173/
Comic. [Two people in front of projected satellite image. A small portion of the image is pixelated squares.] PERSON 1: Wait, when was this imagery taken? Is this censorship the work of the contractor? One of our people? *Foreign actors!?* PERSON 2 with ponytail: Do we know who’s operating a facility at that location? PERSON 1: We can’t find *anything*. [caption] My hobby: Setting up big colored panels in the middle of nowhere as a prank on remote sensing people
December 2, 2025 at 12:13 AM
pearoid.bsky.social
Very exciting: www.esa.int/Applications...
Sentinel-1D delivers first images: from Antarctica to Bremen
The first high-resolution images have been received from Copernicus Sentinel-1D and were shared publicly for the first time at the European Space Agency’s Ministerial Council, held today in Bremen, Ge...
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December 1, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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hetanshah.bsky.social
The absolute truth from @nigella.bsky.social on panettone
I have a theory about panettone in this country: it exists not to be eaten but to be endlessly regifted. You know the drill: you get one (at the very least) and you put it up on a shelf in the kitchen - and there it stays, regal but rejected. Then, just as you're about to leave the house to go round to some friends, you realise you've bought nothing for them, so you take it with you. It's easy. It doesn't even need to be wrapped up. Your friends repeat this process. Then their friends do. And so it continues: pass the parcel, seasonal edition.
November 29, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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aasmith.bsky.social
Day 28 - Black
The Longest Nights (2025)

Polar night (+24 hr night) occurs just beyond the Arctic Circle. This is due to the Earth's gravitational pull on light. The ramp up from just beyond the Arctic Circle 67.4°N (24 hrs) to 67.5°N (11 days) is wild.

#30DayMapChallenge
A map showing the longest nights in North America.
November 28, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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hetanshah.bsky.social
Your universe is a photocopy of a photocopy of a…
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Al-generated content has surpassed human-written articles Graph
November 27, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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latlong.shop
#30daymapchallenge | Day 22 Data: Natural Earth | The Great Islands

Earlier this summer I finished this print version of my map from last year depicting our Great Lakes as islands. Been trying to learn more about lighting techniques in Blender—I think this was a big leap forward from 2024 version!
November 22, 2025 at 1:20 PM