Elizabeth spotted this notice board at the Muswell Hill Methodist Church

It doesn’t really show the lands that we know of from the bible?

Toby spotted this map of currencies and photos from around the world in a Vietnamese restaurant in Porto

Ana Letica shared these pix from Verbatim Books in San Diego. They sell maps as well!

Obviously not this clock maker who managed to fit everything else in!

Via Ken

A map of the Two Bays walking trail that came with a pair of Nike running shoes.

Ken said “It’s a brave move to target your product to a niche group but #mapsondrinks sells. If it’s got a map on it we’ll try it” I am not sure I would buy/try every type of booze with a map, maybe just the whiskies.

You may have noticed that https://github.com/microsoft/torchgeo is now https://github.com/torchgeo/torchgeo. This is not an accident! TorchGeo now belongs to YOU, please join our monthly Technical Steering Committee meetings! TorchGeo...

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Full release notes at Release v0.8.0 · torchgeo/torchgeo · GitHub

TorchGeo is a PyTorch domain library, similar to torchvision, providing
datasets, samplers, transforms, and pre-trained models specific to
geospatial data.

Robert Simmon said “I have lived next to the lake for 7 years and never noticed this map before!”

Credits : Bru-nO (Pixabay Content License)

Thanks to funding from the Bordeaux Metropolis, I had the chance to work on CMYK (Cyan Magenta Yellow blacK) support in QGIS. The metropolis’ goal is to remove the last barrier preventing their complete migration from ArcGIS to QGIS.

The developments are now complete and will be available in QGIS version 3.40, scheduled for release in October 2024, before becoming the next LTR in February 2025. It should be noted, however, that CMYK support will only be complete in QGIS versions built with Qt 6 (still unofficial version) for reasons explained in the article. On Windows, this version can currently only be installed using OSGeo4W (qgis-qt6-dev version).

Ken must have been visiting Miami

TorchGeo 0.8 includes 28 new pre-trained model weights and a number of improvements required for better time series support, including a complete rewrite of all GeoDataset and GeoSampler internals, encompassing 8 months of hard work by 23 contributors from around the world.

You may have noticed that https://github.com/microsoft/torchgeo is now https://github.com/torchgeo/torchgeo. This is not an accident!

Note

TorchGeo now belongs to YOU, please join our monthly Technical Steering Committee meetings!

Jo said that this is one of his favourite maps, I can see why.

Geospatial FM shared this. The Šargan Eight narrow gauge railway. 15.5km of it was restored in 2000 after built 1921, whole route connected Belgrade and Sarajevo

Ken drew my attention to the EUFA logo on the Europa League Cup. I think the purpose was that Arsenal haven’t won much in the last 20 years while this year’s cup was being held by the Spurs manager Ange Postecoglou who subsequently got sacked (twice within a few months!)

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Dear all,

the CRO is pleased to announce the list of new OSGeo Carter Members:

Doug Greenfield spotted this tapestry in Venice airport.

Ken spotted this in a hotel foyer. There should be an eco message here.

Elizabeth spotted this Happy Drum (correct spelling) in Delhi International Airport – different notes for each continent.

Ken said “For anyone wanting a map to spark a discussion about design decisions I offer this recently seen #mapsinthewild. My opinion… I don’t even know where to begin.” Is it the cartography or the purpose of the map that is the problem?

Este 13 de noviembre se celebró el acto de clausura de la VIII edición del Curso-Concurso de Geoalfabetización mediante Tecnologías de la Información Geográfica (TIG), una iniciativa internacional que impulsa el aprendizaje geográfico y territorial a través de herramientas digitales abiertas.

El primer premio fue para el equipo de los Liceos 2 y 3 de Salto, con el proyecto “Mapeando los riesgos: cartografía digital de la siniestralidad vial y la accesibilidad urbana de Salto”, destacado por su enfoque innovador, su análisis territorial y su aporte a una comprensión más sostenible del entorno urbano.

A pirate map spotted by Anita Graser

Ken posing in his James Nihues carto ski jacket

Kenneth Wong shared this “Found this map at Mishima Taisha Shrine. The deeper you explore the map, the more intricate details you could uncover”

Some might argue that it isn’t really “in the wild” but who cares? it’s beautiful.

David Nuttall said “I haven’t been to the beach in a while…. but when I do go…. I am likely to “draw” a map!!!”

I think this came from Ken but if it was someone else who shared it apologies for forgetting!

Javier Jimenez Shaw shared this with us, he said “The equator is a bit off”

Ken said “New airline launch. “What shall we put on the tail”…”umm, a globe””

Ken spotted this on X (didn’t think I knew anyone who was still there). Crystal Palace fans displayed this massive banner plotting their route to the final of the UEFA Conference League.

Maps and football, what’s not to like? Well maybe the invasion type graphics!

I’m big on reuse, repair and recycling which is one of the reasons I volunteer at Glasgow Repair Cafe – I blame being exposed to “Stig of the Dump” at an impressionable age. As a result I struggle to throw out broken things let alone things that still work. However, space limitations mean that I do occasionally have to tidy out some stuff. I discovered that I have way too many old laptops that will come in useful sometime recently. So I installed a light weight linux on two of them and donated one of them to the repair café (where we have several laptops that really should be retired as they lack some keys), the other one is an old ThinkPad which I will use in my workshop/garage so that I don’t get sawdust in my work laptop.

Just in case you didn’t know where it comes from the distillers of Longitude 77 put a map on the label. Via Elizabeth

L’Imaginere shared this map of streets on the pavement in Ath, somewhere to the east of Lille.

You can find it on an OSM project called “A Map of Maps” which says “On this map you can find all maps OpenStreetMap knows – typically a big map on an information board showing the area, city or region, e.g. a tourist map on the back of a billboard, a map of a nature reserve, a map of cycling networks in the region, …). If a map is missing, you can easily map this map on OpenStreetMap.” What a great project!

Você sabia que o GeoServer pode armazenar toda a sua configuração (workspaces, stores, layers, styles) em um banco de dados PostgreSQL, em vez de gravar arquivos XML no diretório data_dir?

Isso é possível com dois módulos da comunidade: JDBCConfig e JDBCStore. Apesar de frequentemente usados juntos, eles têm funções diferentes e complementares.

1. O que é o JDBCConfig

O JDBCConfig é um módulo que permite ao GeoServer salvar toda a configuração do catálogo(metadados) dentro de um banco relacional, como o PostgreSQL.

Desde siempre, en Geomatico hemos hecho agilismo. En nuestra búsqueda por ofrecer el mejor servicio a las empresas con las que colaboramos, creemos que una de las mejores maneras de hacerlo es aplicando metodologías ágiles.

El agilismo llegó a Geomatico antes que el propio Geomatico. Ya en 2009 asistíamos a Open Spaces sobre agilismo, cuando todavía no estaba tan bien visto utilizarlo.

Durante años fuimos profundizando en la metodología y aprendiendo de la experiencia de aplicarla en la vida real. Han sido muchas las herramientas que hemos probado y muchas las discusiones sobre qué son realmente los puntos de historia, qué significa una historia de 10 puntos frente a una de 3, y cómo conciliar todo eso con nuestra realidad en la gestión económica de los proyectos.

David Sherren sent us this pic which he took in The Old Customs House, Gunwharf Quays, Portsmouth. He said “Anyone who is familiar with Portsmouth Harbour will know that it is not actually joined to Gosport by a land bridge, as appears to be the case on this decorative chart!” I have to confess I am not familiar with Portsmouth Harbour but now I want to go there to view the map and check its lack of veracity.

Walter Schwartz sent us this pic from his trip to Nepal, he said “We visited a modest 24-student school for ages 3 to 11 in a small village outside the mountain town of Lumle, Nepal. The principal’s office features a desk with a world map desk pad and a display globe. The value of maps in education is ubiquitous.”

We agree with Walter hence the title of this Map in the World.

GeoServer 3 is a major upgrade led by a consortium of Camptocamp, GeoSolutions, and GeoCat and backed by a successful crowdfunding activity.

This is a major investment in the future of GeoServer and we are pleased to provide a project update. The GeoServer 3 code sprint completed last week, and we have quite a list of accomplishments to share.

• Photos
• GeoServer 2.28.0
• GeoServer 2025 Q4 Developer Update

Reinder shared this pic with us – “at Van Piere bookshop in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. Oh – and how about the ‘map bag’ …? 

Esta charla forma parte de una serie de eventos geoespaciales que se desarrollan dentro de la Semana Geoespacial y son previas a la conferencia IDE (Infraestructura de Datos Geoespaciales) de Chile, que se celebrará el 4 de noviembre de 2025.

Este webinar, en el que participaron casi sesenta (60) asistentes, fue impartido por Ariel Anthieni, CEO de Kan Territory & IT y presidente de Geolibres Argentina, junto con Carmen Díez, Técnica SIG de Urbanismo, y Carlos López Quintanilla, CEO de PSIG, ambos pertenecientes a la junta directiva de la Asociación QGIS España, encargados de la Presidencia y Tesorería, respectivamente.

Participantes de la charla virtual IDE Chile.

Keith Hodgson sent us this pic of Glenshiels Chocolate along with this lovely message:

“Greetings Friends of maps

On a recent camping holiday in Scotland, we stayed at Glenshiels. A local small firm made chocolate with an outlet and cafe attached to the small building that housed the works. Being a lover of good, dark chocolate, several bars were bought. Once eaten, the inside of the packaging revealed a bonus in the form of a map of the area. Something to share after the delicious chocolate.

Love your site, thanks for all you do keeping it going.”

And our thanks to you Keith for your kind words, a bar of that chocolate would also be appreciated!

Mark Iliffe is running the New York marathon today. Here he is with his participant number. If you are an armchair marathon follower, look out for him.

Good luck Mark

Reinder spotted this plan at the municipal archives in The Hague: in English it says ‘Map of the good city’ Den Haag. 

The conversation around Looking for better ways to convert between QGIS VectorLayer and (Geo)DataFrame is continuing over at https://fosstodon.org/@underdarkGIS/115442614331293320

What I’ve learned so far:

• QgsVectorLayer.as_geopandas() has landed in QGIS master on 13 Oct 2025.
• There’s also QgsVectorLayer.field_to_numpy() which will be useful for many applications and has landed on 29 Oct 2025.
• QgsArrowIterator is in the works right now.

Exciting times for spatial data science tooling

Kenwood is a stately home and park near to where I live. They have a Halloween event on at the moment with an array of displays and activities around the park.

This isn’t normally a graveyard

El Ayuntamiento de Cullera ha dado un paso más en su proceso de transformación digital con la incorporación de un panel táctil interactivo en el cementerio municipal, que permite a cualquier persona localizar fácilmente la ubicación exacta de sus familiares y allegados.

Esta nueva herramienta se basa en la plataforma gvSIG Online, desarrollada por SCOLAB, y forma parte de un proyecto de digitalización que utiliza tecnologías geoespaciales para mejorar la gestión y el acceso a la información de todo el municipio.

Este viernes 17 de octubre estuvimos de cumpleaños. Agresta celebraba sus 25 años y, por suerte, teníamos invitación. Agresta es un nombre que nos acompaña desde hace tiempo, pero que tuvimos la oportunidad de desvirtualizar en el 9º Congreso Forestal celebrado en Gijón este 2025. Es una cooperativa del sector forestal, y precisamente sobre esas dos ideas —cooperativismo y sector forestal— giró el evento del viernes.

La primera parte estuvo dedicada al cooperativismo. Agresta es una cooperativa orgullosa de serlo, y organizó una mesa redonda con varias invitadas del mundo cooperativo. Hablaron sobre la importancia del cooperativismo, sus fortalezas y su situación actual, tanto a nivel nacional como internacional. Nos quedamos con esta maravilla:

We love a floor map and Ken spotted this beauty with flight routes at Salt Lake City Airport

Another floor map, this time from Kenneth Wong “a giant map of Yokohama on Yokohama Landmark Tower’s observation deck

An enormous map spreading out the floor is always a cool thing to me” – I agree

Ken spotted this carton of beer in his local supermarket.

Clare spotted this Mobile Library Map when rewatching Matilda the Musical. “Just rewatched Matilda the Musical and spotted the map
inside the Mobile Library when Matilda rushes out. It was acquired on pinboards from a reuse site – from the Studios!!
Amazing to think of all the art created for film and TV that may only get 0.1s on screen”

Plugin developers who want to use (Geo)Pandas-based functionality in their plugins regularly face the challenge of converting QGIS vector layers to (Geo)DataFrames. There is currently no built-in convenience function.

In Trajectools, so far, I have been performing the conversion manually, looping through all features and taking care of tricky column types, such as datetimes and geometries:

Ken shared this abstract Mammoth mountain ski trail map – $125 seems a fair price but you couldn’t really take it on the slopes with you.

I spotted this piece by Stephen Graham in a local gallery. I’m not sure that I’d like to have it hanging in my home but then I feel out of love with pop art nearly fifty years ago! I do like the way my photo picks up the old buildings reflected in the gallery window, almost the counterpoint.

Kenneth Wong stayed in Kyoto last year and shared these maps from two different hotels. He commented “Two hostels I stayed in Kyoto last Nov. Both have a gigantic city map hung near reception. Comparing the differences of their approaches to map the town and show the tourist spots would be a great cartography article” I am a R-Star fan.

Another one from Cartonaut, does anyone know who the artist is?

Charles Robbins shared this

En el marco de MundoGEO Connect 2026, se organiza la transmisión en vivo Suite gvSIG – la plataforma en software libre de gestión territorial que tendrá lugar el 29 de octubre a las 16h (hora de Buenos Aires), y se transmitirá por YouTube, Linkedin, Facebook e Instagram.

Novedades, integración con IA y casos de uso – regístrate gratis aquí para ver en directo. Yo no me lo perdería, vamos a contar cosas muy, muy interesantes sobre la evolución tecnológica de la Suite gvSIG.

Robert Simmon sent s these pics from his trip to Chile and Argentina – a lovely hand=-ainted map of the Laguna Nimez Nature Reserve in El Calafate, Argentina, paired with a small multiples chart showing the local birds. www.lagunanimez.com

GeoServer 2.27.3 release is now available with downloads (bin, war, windows), along with docs and extensions.

This is a maintenance release of GeoServer providing existing installations with minor updates and bug fixes. GeoServer 2.27.3 is made in conjunction with GeoTools 33.3, and GeoWebCache 1.27.3.

Thanks to Jody Garnett (GeoCat) for making this release.

Dave Smith spotted this – “For some reason, I find the lack of surrounding landmasses and slight rotation even more disorienting here than I would expect #mapsinthewild (also #toiletart)”

Andrew Tyrrell shared these pics, he said “Christmas Eve #MapsInTheWild on the Puffing Billy Railway in Melbourne. I wandered across this a few times and didn’t give it much thought. Then I realised it’s a minimalist map of the railway, just marking the line and the stations. A great map, but also a fantastic experience riding the train!”

We love this one

Ken didn’t think this was a map in the wild because there’s no map but there is a globe thingy os I reckon it qualifies. He said “That moment when the label on a bottle of wine does its job and makes the sale.”, what I would call a no brainer.

Following on from yesterday’s curtains here are some pics Reinder sent of the carpets in the Inntel Hotel in Utrecht. A bit dizzying but for lovers of maps in the wild, quite a treat.

Reinder shared these carto curtains from the Inntel Hotel in Utrecht

Imagine poder conversar com o seu GeoNode como se fosse um assistente técnico:

“Mostre os municípios com população acima de 50 mil.”
“Liste as camadas relacionadas a meio ambiente publicadas em 2024.”
“Quais áreas de risco estão dentro da zona urbana de Florianópolis?”

Essas consultas, que normalmente exigiriam acesso ao banco ou ao painel do GeoNode, podem ser respondidas em segundos por um chatbot integrado com IA.

A ideia deste post é mostrar como criar um assistente geoespacial inteligente, capaz de:

• Compreender perguntas em linguagem natural;
• Traduzir em chamadas à API do GeoNode (ou SQL/PostGIS);
• Retornar respostas estruturadas (tabelas, nomes de camadas, metadados, links);
• E até gerar mapas dinâmicos a partir das consultas.

1. O papel do GeoNode como fonte de conhecimento geoespacial

Doug Greenfield spotted this hand carved wooden map of Poland, Maine

Os mapas de calor (heatmaps) são uma das formas mais intuitivas de visualizar densidade de ocorrências geográficas, seja para representar crimes, atendimentos de saúde, pontos de coleta de resíduos ou eventos climáticos.

No GeoServer, podemos gerar mapas de calor usando o WMS Heatmap Rendering Transform, mas configurar isso manualmente para dezenas de camadas pode ser trabalhoso.

Neste post, vamos mostrar como automatizar esse processo com Python + IA, criando um pipeline que:

• Analisa automaticamente seus dados espaciais;
• Gera os parâmetros ideais do heatmap (raio, cores, intensidade);
• Publica o estilo e a camada automaticamente no GeoServer;
• Pode ser aplicado a qualquer dataset de pontos no PostGIS.

1. O conceito de heatmap no GeoServer

Elizabeth was enjoying this nice Argentinian wine when she noticed the cork.

GeoServer 2.28.0 release is now available with downloads (bin, war, windows), along with docs and extensions.

This is a stable release of GeoServer, recommended for production use. GeoServer 2.28.0 is made in conjunction with GeoTools 34.0, GeoWebCache 1.28.0, ImageIO-Ext 2.0.0, and ImageN 0.9.0.

The GeoServer team is making great progress on our 2025 roadmap plans, with CITE Certification Achieved, and GeoServer 3 underway, the project is going well.

Thanks to GeoServer 2025 sponsors:

We are really happy to the see the CITE Certified banner restored to the main GeoServer website for calendar year 2025. Andrea continues to work on certifying the new OGCAPI services:

• OGCAPI - Tiles: Passing tests on Team Engine 2.0 Engine

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