Spatialists.ch

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Spatialists.ch is a new geospatial news curation site created by @rsm. It tries to offer a focused lens on interesting news and noteworthy advancements within our field, with a bias towards – but definitely not limited to – #SwissGIS news.

Spatialists is not a full-fledged blog with long articles, commentary and opinion as was common mid-2000s to 2010s. Instead, it follows the pattern of a microblogging-style news curation service to deliver interesting content to professionals in our field in a concise and easily digestible form.

Content

Spatialists has published roughly three short articles per week, so far. The most recent posts include:

Interested?

You can get Spatialists news through any of these channels[1]:

You can check out last week’s newsletter. Again, you can subscribe to receive such geospatial news by e-mail here, if you like.

Always happy to receive feedback and input, of course.

  1. Spatialists follows the POSSE practice, i.e. „Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere“ in order not to depend on any particular social network to reach its audience. ↩︎

  2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastodon_(social_network) ↩︎

  3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse ↩︎

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This is an inspiring initiative and a nice, inclusive blog title (“Spatialists” as a plural). Feel free to mention it regularly here in the GEOWebforum !

I’ve just read your latest blog post about EMBAG/LMETA EMBAG/LMETA does not make open geodata – spatialists.ch – geospatial news .

You wrote there:

To conclude, from my layperson’s perspective: The EMBAG/LMETA does not advance OGD for geodata, as previous regulations specific to the geospatial field take precedence.

I’m also „IANAL“ but I actually do think that it was the intention of EMBAG/LMETA to promote also open geodata. I mean, otherwise the whole EMBAG would be useless by design - which it certainly isn’t!

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See also EMBAG/LMETA does not make open geodata – spatialists.ch – geospatial news | Spatialists

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Spatialists.ch is a geospatial news curation site created by @rsm. It offers a curated set of news about interesting and noteworthy developments within the geospatial field, with a bias towards – but not limited to – Switzerland and #SwissGIS news.

Here is a brief look back after two months since launch and one month since the announcement of Spatialists.ch in this forum. To date, we have published 36 short posts, that is on average 4 posts per week. Some recent posts include the following topics:

Local:

Technology and industry trends

Ecosystem and legal context:

Remote sensing:

Tips:

Cartography:

Interested?

If you are interested, you can get Spatialists news through these channels:

You can check out a preview of this week’s newsletter here. Again, you can subscribe to receive such geospatial news by e-mail here, if you like.

Always happy to receive feedback and input, of course.