Nick Bearman

I’d like to introduce gitRmap: a semi-automated map of locations that you can add your own points to.

From 14th - 17th April, I was fortunate to be able to attend GISRUK 2026, at the University of Birmingham.

NCRM: Generative AI Tools for Quantitative Research David Bann and Liam Wright have put together a great guide to Generative AI Tools for Quantitative Research on the NCRM resources site.

QGIS 4.0 is now available!

I’ve just returned from a fantastic 2 days in Leeds for FOSS4G:UK 2025.

It was great to be able to attend a couple of days of the RGS-IBG Annual International Conference at the University of Birmingham last week.

This blog post isn’t about GIS, mapping, conferences or travel, so feel free to skip it if you want.

Last week I was fortunate to be able to attend GISRUK 2025, in Bristol, UK.

For four days in April I was lucky enough to be able to attend the Open Science Retreat, in Batenberg, Switzerland.

I had been invited to attend the Open Science Retreat (OSR), in Batenberg, Interlaken, Switzerland and this is my journey.

tmap version 4 has now been released, and is now available on CRAN.

I was very lucky to be able to attend FOSS4G 2024, in Belém, Brazil on 2nd - 8th December 2024.

It was great to attend FOSS4G:UK South West 2024 in Bristol on 12th Nov, at OSGeo:UK’s now regular Bristol Venue, The Engine Shed.

I’ve been thinking for a bit of time that I need to redo my website as some of the pages had evolved a bit, and were getting a bit too long.

In July I spent three days at Geovation in London attending the OGC Open Standards Code Sprint.

We finally have an end date for ArcMap!

A couple of weeks ago I spent a fantastic week in Cape Town, South Africa, attending the 2023 International Cartographic Conference.

Along with many other people from the geospatial community, I was up in London earlier this week for ESRI UK Annual Conference, GeoBusiness and Spatial Data Science Conference.

I recently attended my first international FOSS4G conference in Florence (Firenze), Italy, in August 2022.

On PostGIS day last week, Thurs 17th Nov, we ran FOSS4G:UK Local 2022.