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Link: a5geo.org A5, the newest geospatial-indexing option, has reached 1.0.

Link: nlebovits.github.io tylertoo is a handy new tool from Nissim Lebovits that creates PMTiles from GeoParquet sources.

Link: developmentseed.org Kiri Carini and Martha Morrisey’s primer on geospatial embeddings is, hands down, the best I’ve encountered.

Link: www.spatialnode.net With Portolan, stac-zap and stac-fastapi-collection-discovery we’ve recently covered various approaches to facilitate searching across several STACT catalogues.

Link: blog.openstreetmap.org Eugene Alvin Villar writing for the OpenStreetMap Blog: Maptober is here!

Link: developmentseed.org Cool new prototype from Development Seed: stac-zap builds on top of stac-map and integrates free-text search across STAC catalogues.

Link: carto.com Candice Julka, CARTO: Ubilabs is now CARTO’s exclusive partner and reseller for the DACH region, bringing CARTO’s Agentic GIS platform to organizations in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.

Link: www.earthgenome.org Earth Genome has added a new AI-driven feature for creating reference layers in Earth Index, a similarity-search application allowing conservationists to identify locations of environmental harm.

Link: map-projections.net (via: weeklyosm.eu) An incredible collection of 355 map projections by Tobias Jung.

Link: www.mapbox.com A major reason I started using Apple Maps for day-to-day navigation a couple of years ago was that its maps just look better.

Link: developmentseed.org deck.gl-raster, the deck.gl module for rendering Cloud-Optimised GeoTIFF and Zarr data sources, now also supports deck.gl’s GlobeView.

Link: www.portolan-sdi.org Here’s another example of how to publish a Portolan catalogue from existing data: Chris Holmes mirrored an existing catalogue of Shapefiles and published the Portolan version in just three hours, complete with custom styles and a

Link: docs.overturemaps.org Dana Bauer, Seth Fitzsimmons, Victor Schappert, Jennings Anderson, Roel Bollens, Tristan Diet, writing on the Overture blog: Two weeks ago we quietly published v2.0.0 of the Overture schema to PyPI.

Link: zarr.readthedocs.io zarr-python is transitioning into an umbrella project for several Zarr-related Python packages that were previously maintained separately.

Link: www.benjoffe.com (via: mapstodon.space) Why are you even reading this blog if you’re not into map projections and the mathematics behind them?

Link: somethingaboutmaps.wordpress.com Daniel Huffman has collected use cases where generative AI tools could help with static map-making.

Link: 9eo.org Chris Holmes shares his personal origin story of Portolan, which is rooted in his experiences building spatial data infrastructures twenty years ago.

Link: openstreetmap.us Layercake, the GeoParquet distribution of thematic data layers derived from OpenStreetMap, has a snazzy new data explorer and export tool.

Link: research.google (via: weeklyosm.eu) Google’s research team ran an A/B test on Google Maps to find out whether diverting traffic away from congestion-prone routes reduces congestion in San Francisco.

Link: spatialists.ch Stefan Keller, Spatialists: There has been an increase in attention surrounding pedestrian routing, as two prominent OpenStreetMap-based1 routing engines, OSRM and Valhalla, have started to calculate routes not just along paths, but a…

Link: 9to5mac.com (via: weeklyosm.eu) Ryan Christoffel, 9to5Mac: Apple confirmed to 9to5Mac that the ads rollout in Maps began in the last few days.

Link: bertt.wordpress.com Bert Temme put the recently released Portolan CLI through its paces and published a new data catalogue, starting with a dataset hosted an ArcGIS.

Link: www.osgeo.org From the OSGeo press release: Ian has been a member of our community from the very beginning, as an original voting member who gathered in Chicago in February 2006 to establish OSGeo.

Link: www.theguardian.com Eromo Egbejule, The Guardian: The United Nations has voted to adopt a resolution for the world to formally phase out the traditional Mercator map of the globe in favour of one that more accurately displays Africa’s size.

Despite recent technological advances, publishing geospatial data is still hard.