140 session recordings from this year's FOSS4G Europe are available on Youtube and OSGeo's PeerTube mapstodon.space/@foss4geurop...
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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
Cross-Catalogue STAC Search latlong.blog/2026/08/cros...
Cross-Catalogue STAC Search | Lat × Long
MAAP's STAC Collection discovery tool enables true discovery of geospatial data sources through a simple API layer that routes searches across multiple STAC catalogues and returns combined results.
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The Cost of Checking Every AI Box. latlong.blog/2026/08/the-...
The Cost of Checking Every AI Box | Lat × Long
Silicon Valley's panic-driven rush to add generative AI to every product, regardless of necessity or suitability, risks causing real harm before this trend eventually fades like others before it.
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MapLibre GL JS 6.0 is available since last week. The update includes sixteen breaking changes, switching to ESM-only distribution, removing WebGL1 support, and updating TypeScript to ES2022 for better performance. latlong.blog/2026/07/mapl...
MapLibre GL JS 6.0: ESM-Only, WebGL2-Required, and Finally Mapbox-Free | Lat × Long
MapLibreGL released a major update with sixteen breaking changes, switching to ESM-only distribution, removing WebGL1 support, and updating TypeScript to ES2022 for better performance.
latlong.blog
OpenLayers 10.10 is out, improving tile rendering, WebGL vectors, and text handling while deprecating BingMaps source in favour of Azure Maps integration. latlong.blog/2026/07/open...
OpenLayers 10.10: WebGL Text Rendering and Smoother Tiles | Lat × Long
OpenLayers 10.10 improves tile rendering, WebGL vectors, and text handling while deprecating BingMaps source in favour of Azure Maps integration.
latlong.blog
Free (as in beer) base-map tile services you can use in your projects without authentication, signing up or creating authentication tokens. googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2026/07/free...
Free Map Tiles for Everyone
Maps Mania is a blog dedicated to tracking the very best digital interactive maps on the internet and the tools used to create them.
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maplibre-gl-shader-layer is a JavaScript library that enables custom WebGL-based tiled layers for MaplibreGL, ideal for visualising continuous geospatial data like climate and remote sensing indices with per-tile customisation. latlong.blog/2026/07/mapl...
maplibre-gl-shader-layer: Visualise Complex Geospatial Datasets in MapLibreGL | Lat × Long
maplibre-gl-shader-layer is a JavaScript library that enables custom WebGL-based tiled layers for MaplibreGL, ideal for visualising continuous geospatial data like climate and remote sensing indices w...
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Apple's new ad policy understands what maps are actually for. Maps are places not services. latlong.blog/2026/07/appl...
Apple's New Ad Policy Understands What Maps Are For | Lat × Long
Apple is restricting ads on Apple Maps to businesses with physical storefronts while banning home services, cryptocurrency ATMs, and bail bonds providers.
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The 2026 Geospatial Landscape, compiled by Matt Forrest, features almost 2,500 companies and organisations from 121 countries, searchable by organisation size, founding year and funding received. If you’re looking for a job in geospatial, start your search here. forrest.nyc/go/landscape...
The 2026 Geospatial Company Landscape
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Leaflet 2.0 alpha is out. It's big upgrade to the popular mapping library that introduces breaking changes. 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...
Tippecanoe Command Generator
An app to help generate map tiling settings using tippecanoe and other open source tools.
maptiling.streamlit.app
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...
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
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...
First release of ohsome-planet: OSM history data in GeoParquet format – GIScience Blog
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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! Check the mailout below, and subscribe! mailchi.mp/foss4g/foss4...
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...
Overthinking about vertical writing of Hangul labels on maps - hanbyul.xyz
It comforts me to think about one thing in unnecessary detail.
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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.
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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...
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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
An AI-driven approach to generating audio descriptions for interactive web maps. 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.
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Placemark's code is now open source, available on GitHub under the MIT license. 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...
Serve Protomaps Tiles with NodeJS | Craig Kochis
Serve Protomaps Tiles with NodeJS
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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
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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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...
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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...
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 ...
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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