#swissgis — Public Fediverse posts

Guidance on GIS accessibility: Massachusetts’ GIS Accessibility Guide is a practical, comprehensive resource covering #accessibility in #webmaps, #storymaps, and static maps. Besides a substantial collection of structured recommendations and links to resources, the guide also...
https://spatialists.ch/posts/2026/05/27-guidance-on-gis-accessibility/ #GIS #GISchat #geospatial #SwissGIS

H3/PostGIS: Hands-on example: Darafei Praliaskouski, member of the #PostGIS PSC, walks through an interesting hands-on case study of modelling #LoRa radio tower range in the mountains of Georgia using #H3 and PostGIS. The example covers data preparation, #DGGS indexing, and...
https://spatialists.ch/posts/2026/02/27-h3-postgis-hands-on-example/ #GIS #GISchat #geospatial #SwissGIS

H3/PostGIS: Hands-on example: @komzpa, member of the #PostGIS PSC, walks through an interesting hands-on case study of modelling #LoRa radio tower range in the mountains of Georgia using #H3 and PostGIS. The example covers data preparation, #DGGS indexing, and...
https://spatialists.ch/posts/2026/02/27-h3-postgis-hands-on-example/ #GIS #GISchat #geospatial #SwissGIS

AI-ready OGC standards: The #OGC ran an #AI-#DGGS pilot on disaster management and derived five pillars for geospatial AI readiness from it: tool-ability, machine-readable metadata, guardrails, reproducibility, and trust & security. Among the interesting follow-up work...
https://spatialists.ch/posts/2026/02/22-ai-ready-ogc-standards/ #GIS #GISchat #geospatial #SwissGIS

DuckDB extension for A5 DGGS: A community extension by Query.Farm brings native support for the (equal-area, pentagonal-cell-based) #A5 Discrete Global Grid System (#DGGS) to #DuckDB. In development since April, the extension includes a set of functions for coordinate...
https://spatialists.ch/posts/2025/10/19-duckdb-extension-for-a5-dggs/ #GIS #GISchat #geospatial #SwissGIS

Discrete Global Grid Systems: Geospatial foundation models and the rise of Discrete Global Grid Systems (DGGS) are reshaping how we think about, and interact with, spatial data. In an episode of the @geomob podcast, @luis_de_sousa offers an overview of, and introduction to #DGGS-s
https://spatialists.ch/posts/2025/09/05-discrete-global-grid-systems/ #GIS #GISchat #geospatial #SwissGIS