Robin Hawkes - Spatial Awareness (Page 11)

Better bombing with machine learning

A thought-provoking piece by Frederik Ramm (founder of Geofabrik) on how machine learning and spatial data could be used for malicious purposes. For example, generating building outlines automatically from satellite imagery. In fact, he goes a step further to suggest that machine-made data like

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How does the Bay Area commute?

In this article Jon Bate explores whether it’s possible to work out where the service areas of the transit agencies in the San Francisco Bay Area should be using commute data from the US Census. The journey to how he got there is

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Parallel PostGIS and PgSQL 12 (Part 2)

I promised an article on parallel queries in PostGIS from Paul Ramsey, so here it is. I’m particularly excited about the performance improvements from the by-default parallelisation of spatial queries in PostGIS 3.0.0 when coupled with PostgreSQL 12. I can’t

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Flightradar24 interview on the MapScaping Podcast

Does a podcast count as an article? 🤔 Who knows. Either way, this episode of the MapScaping Podcast has a great interview with Ian from Flightradar24. Unfortunately his surname wasn’t mentioned but his insight into the potential of realtime air traffic data was fascinating.

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QGIS TimeManager 3.2

Anita Graser has updated her TimeManager plugin for QGIS to support video export on Windows. If you work with temporal spatial data then definitely check it out — I’ve seen some great animations created using this. The new #QGIS TimeManager 3.2 release (https:

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PostGIS 3.0.0alpha2

I have to admit that I fell behind with PostGIS updates until recently. The new functionality in PostGIS 2.5 is great and the 3.0.0 release is shaping up to be even better. I’m looking forward to the improved support for

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Three updates to Mapbox Studio

Mapbox have added multiple new features to their Studio product — draft editing, a monochrome & custom style generator, as well as streamlining the style editor. The new draft workflow is incredibly useful as it means you no longer need to publish styles to production

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Mapbox GL JS quietly reaches v1.0.0

Normally reaching version 1.0 is a big deal but Mapbox didn’t make much of a fuss for Mapbox GL JS, probably because the bump in version was mostly down to moving to a new pricing model. Instead of charging for map ‘views’

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Zurich's Hills in contour lines

Raluca Nicola has been cranking out some amazing 3D maps lately. The latest is an interactive monochrome contour map of Zurich’s Hills created using the ArcGIS API for JavaScript. Behold my #Monochrome #Map: Zurich's Hills in contour lines: https://t.co/

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Monochrome map of Oregon's Newberry Caldera

I’ve been a fan of Daniel Coe and his maps for quite a while now. His latest work is a divergence from his recent work(s of art) with LIDAR data and rivers. I've been wanting to make a map of

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Generative unicode terrain

Matt DesLauriers strikes again with a set of quirky generative visualisations created using images from Google Earth. Make sure to check out his other stuff — always a great source of inspiration. unicode terrain view doodling#generative #javascript pic.twitter.com/vvRY5eqjyK — Matt DesLauriers

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Ordnance Survey Moon map

Certainly not your usual map from Ordnance Survey, but a cool one nonetheless. This detailed map of the Apollo 11 lunar landing site was created in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Moon landing. It was made in QGIS and some details on