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Nick Bearman

@nickbearman.bsky.social

GIS Trainer & Consultant; now also at http://fosstodon.org/@nickbearman, Cartographic Editor @carto-giscience.bsky.social‬; cartography, open data, QGIS, R, http://linktr.ee/nickbearman

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Nick Bearman@nickbearman.bsky.social · 6d ago

Starting on Tuesday, 2pm (UK/London) or sign up and watch the recording. Want to learn how to visualise and analyze spatial data in the social sciences? Check out my #QGIS courses Not sure? Check out my FREE What is GIS? seminar at instats.org/seminar/what... to find out more.

What is GIS? 2.0 (Free Seminar) - Livestreamed Research Training | Instats

PhD-level seminar on What is GIS? 2.0 (Free Seminar) with Nick Bearman . Live Q&A plus on‑demand access. Join via your university’s Instats membership or enroll directly.

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Instats@instats.bsky.social · 6d ago

Last chance to register for Introduction to QGIS & Spatial Data 2.0 #Geography #ComputerScience #Statistics #DataScience #SocialTheory #SocialSciences #Geoscience #InformationScience #EarthScience #QGIS #Research #ResearchTraining #Instats

Nick Bearman@nickbearman.bsky.social · 4w ago

All finished, and the recording is now available via instats.org/seminar/what... and please do post any questions you have!

What is GIS? 2.0 (Free Seminar) - Livestreamed Research Training | Instats

PhD-level seminar on What is GIS? 2.0 (Free Seminar) with Nick Bearman . Live Q&A plus on‑demand access. Join via your university’s Instats membership or enroll directly.

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Nick Bearman@nickbearman.bsky.social · 4w ago

🗺️ FREE GIS seminar for researchers TOMORROW! Learn about GIS, spatial data analysis, visualization & software tools with Dr. Nick Bearman. Perfect for PhD students, researchers & academics looking to add a spatial dimension to their work! instats.org/seminar/what... @instats.bsky.social #GIS

Screenshot of Posit Cloud (formerly RStudio Cloud) interface for a project titled 'intro-r-spatial-analysis' by user Nick Bearman. The interface is divided into several sections: 1) Left side shows an R script editor with code visible on lines 231-250, including commands for calculating crime rates, joining population data to LSOA crimes, and creating a map using the tmap package with tm_shape() and tm_polygons() functions using a 'brewer.greens' color scale; 2) Upper right shows the Environment panel listing data objects including 'breaks', 'crimes', 'crimes_sf'; 3) Lower right displays a Plots panel showing a choropleth map with geographic boundaries filled in varying shades of green representing 'Rate of Crimes per 10,000 population' with a legend showing five categories ranging from 6-87 to 884-2,624; 4) Bottom shows Console/Terminal tabs with R console output. The interface includes standard RStudio menus (File, Edit, Code, View, Plots, Session, Build, Debug, Profile, Tools, Help) and toolbar buttons.
Nick Bearman@nickbearman.bsky.social · last mo.

Lots of exciting content to check out here, including a CaGIS interview with Valentin Meo and yours truly on Deepfake Geography :-)

The Cartography and Geographic Information Society@carto-giscience.bsky.social · last mo.

CaGIS Volume 53 Issue 4 is now available online and the printed copy is on its way to our subscribers! www.tandfonline.com/toc/tcag20/5... #GISchat We have 8 great papers looking at visualisation, spatial modelling and AI in GIS. Check out the thread below:

Front cover, for Cartography and Geographic Information Science, Volume 53, No 4, July 2026, The Journal of the Cartography and Geographic Information Society. Includes Figure 6 by Yang et al.: (in this issue) System interface (an example of “Statue of Liberty” map color design). a) Conversation view: users can input their initial design intents and customizations in natural language. b) Color design view: users can fine-tune the intermediate results generated by the LLM. c) Map view: users can evaluate the results with reasoning and refine the color assignments based on their preferences.
AGI Geocommunity@geocommunity.bsky.social · last mo.

Registration for GeoCom 2026 is Open! Our flagship event for the UK geospatial sector will be held on the 12th November 2026, returning once again to the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), in London Register🔗https://www.agi.org.uk/agi-flagship-geocom/

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OSGeo:UK@uk.osgeo.org · 2mo ago

FOSS4G:UK 2026’s AMA session starts in 24 hours! 🎉 Join OSGeo:UK team tomorrow (June 12th) at 12 PM for an open conversation about the conference, the programme, sponsorship, community involvement, and more. Bring your questions and chat with the team behind FOSS4G:UK 2026.

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The Cartography and Geographic Information Society@carto-giscience.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Check out the CaGIS Interview with Mahdi Nazari Ashani to hear all about running a SLM in a browser youtu.be/YZ-BFNHtwMo and checkout the full demo of AWebGIS at youtu.be/7-QYALy4F2E plus the CaGIS article for #free at doi.org/10.1080/1523... #GISchat

The Cartography and Geographic Information Society@carto-giscience.bsky.social · 4mo ago

New article! Fantastic article from Mahdi Nazari Ashani and colleagues, showing how a SLM (Small Language Model) running a GIS can be run solely in a web browser tab with no data shared externally doi.org/10.1080/1523... #GISchat See their code at github.com/mahdin75/awe...

Figure 6: Example of autonomous GIS operation where the fine-tuned SLM translates natural language queries into executable functions (addWFS and SetStrokeColor), updating the map visualization in real-time. The screenshot shows the AWebGIS App interface with three main sections: 1) A left sidebar containing 'Analysis Tools' and 'Layer Manager' panels, with options to 'Add WMS', 'Add WFS', 'Import', and 'Add Base', plus layer options for 'states', 'wfs', 'OpenStreetMap', and 'base'; 2) A central map display showing a base map of North America with the United States outlined in red stroke, including state boundaries and the Great Lakes region; 3) A right sidebar with 'Chat Assistant' and 'Activity Log' tabs, showing a conversation thread with timestamps. The chat displays natural language commands such as 'Can you add 'states' layer from [http://localhost:8080/geoserver/cite/wfs](http://localhost:8080/geoserver/cite/wfs)?' (08:19 PM), followed by 'Executed: addWFS('states', '[http://localhost:8080/geoserver/cite/wfs](http://localhost:8080/geoserver/cite/wfs)', 'states')' (08:18 PM), then 'Set the color of the strokes to 'red' for 'states'' (08:19 PM), and 'Executed: SetStrokeColor('states', 'red')' (08:18 PM). At the bottom, the Active Model shows 'T5 Tiny-fine-tuned, Local' with a prompt to 'Ask me to perform GIS operations...' The interface includes top navigation buttons for 'GitHub', 'Print Map', and 'Full Screen'.