#swissgis — Public Fediverse posts

GenAI for cartographers: @pinakographos shares candid, hands-on experiments with #generativeAI in #cartography, weighing its extractive nature against genuinely useful, time-saving applications. This is a refreshingly honest take on where #genAI fits into cartographic workflows without undercutting human creativity.
https://spatialists.ch/posts/2026/09/14-genai-for-cartographers/ #GIS #GISchat #geospatial #SwissGIS

The road to Portolan: Chris Holmes shares the personal story behind #Portolan, a serverless #SDI built to make #cloudnative formats like #GeoParquet, #COG, and #Zarr the default way to share geodata. It’s a bet that combining cloud-native tooling with AI can deliver on...
https://spatialists.ch/posts/2026/09/13-the-road-to-portolan/ #GIS #GISchat #geospatial #SwissGIS

The road to Portolan: Chris Holmes shares the personal story behind #Portolan, a serverless #SDI built to make #cloudnative formats like #GeoParquet, #COG, and #Zarr the default way to share geodata. It’s a bet that combining cloud-native tooling with AI can deliver on...
https://spatialists.ch/posts/2026/09/13-the-road-to-portolan/ #GIS #GISchat #geospatial #SwissGIS

The road to Portolan: Chris Holmes shares the personal story behind #Portolan, a serverless #SDI built to make #cloudnative formats like #GeoParquet, #COG, and #Zarr the default way to share geodata. It’s a bet that combining cloud-native tooling with AI can deliver on...
https://spatialists.ch/posts/2026/09/13-the-road-to-portolan/ #GIS #GISchat #geospatial #SwissGIS

The road to Portolan: Chris Holmes shares the personal story behind #Portolan, a serverless #SDI built to make #cloudnative formats like #GeoParquet, #COG, and #Zarr the default way to share geodata. It’s a bet that combining cloud-native tooling with AI can deliver on...
https://spatialists.ch/posts/2026/09/13-the-road-to-portolan/ #GIS #GISchat #geospatial #SwissGIS

The road to Portolan: Chris Holmes shares the personal story behind #Portolan, a serverless #SDI built to make #cloudnative formats like #GeoParquet, #COG, and #Zarr the default way to share geodata. It’s a bet that combining cloud-native tooling with AI can deliver on...
https://spatialists.ch/posts/2026/09/13-the-road-to-portolan/ #GIS #GISchat #geospatial #SwissGIS

Sentinel-2: swissEO S2-SR update: swisstopo’s #swissEO S2-SR product just got a major upgrade: Version 200 delivers full 13-band #Sentinel2 coverage as individual #COGs, latency cut to under a day, #STAC-accessible orbit forecasts, and a new AI-based cloud and terrain shadow mask...
https://spatialists.ch/posts/2026/09/12-sentinel-2-swisseo-s2-sr-update/ #GIS #GISchat #geospatial #SwissGIS

Sentinel-2: swissEO S2-SR update: swisstopo’s #swissEO S2-SR product just got a major upgrade: Version 200 delivers full 13-band #Sentinel2 coverage as individual #COGs, latency cut to under a day, #STAC-accessible orbit forecasts, and a new AI-based cloud and terrain shadow mask...
https://spatialists.ch/posts/2026/09/12-sentinel-2-swisseo-s2-sr-update/ #GIS #GISchat #geospatial #SwissGIS

Sentinel-2: swissEO S2-SR update: swisstopo’s #swissEO S2-SR product just got a major upgrade: Version 200 delivers full 13-band #Sentinel2 coverage as individual #COGs, latency cut to under a day, #STAC-accessible orbit forecasts, and a new AI-based cloud and terrain shadow mask...
https://spatialists.ch/posts/2026/09/12-sentinel-2-swisseo-s2-sr-update/ #GIS #GISchat #geospatial #SwissGIS

Sentinel-2: swissEO S2-SR update: swisstopo’s #swissEO S2-SR product just got a major upgrade: Version 200 delivers full 13-band #Sentinel2 coverage as individual #COGs, latency cut to under a day, #STAC-accessible orbit forecasts, and a new AI-based cloud and terrain shadow mask...
https://spatialists.ch/posts/2026/09/12-sentinel-2-swisseo-s2-sr-update/ #GIS #GISchat #geospatial #SwissGIS

Sentinel-2: swissEO S2-SR update: swisstopo’s #swissEO S2-SR product just got a major upgrade: Version 200 delivers full 13-band #Sentinel2 coverage as individual #COGs, latency cut to under a day, #STAC-accessible orbit forecasts, and a new AI-based cloud and terrain shadow mask...
https://spatialists.ch/posts/2026/09/12-sentinel-2-swisseo-s2-sr-update/ #GIS #GISchat #geospatial #SwissGIS

Cloud-native in Switzerland: Switzerland’s #CNG community is gathering on 29 October at Meta’s offices in Zurich for talks and demos, while a KGK-CGC workshop already dug into practical experience with #CloudNativeGeospatial data formats. Slides and a curated list of resources...
https://spatialists.ch/posts/2026/09/12-cloud-native-in-switzerland/ #GIS #GISchat #geospatial #SwissGIS

Cloud-native in Switzerland: Switzerland’s #CNG community is gathering on 29 October at Meta’s offices in Zurich for talks and demos, while a KGK-CGC workshop already dug into practical experience with #CloudNativeGeospatial data formats. Slides and a curated list of resources...
https://spatialists.ch/posts/2026/09/12-cloud-native-in-switzerland/ #GIS #GISchat #geospatial #SwissGIS

Cloud-native in Switzerland: Switzerland’s #CNG community is gathering on 29 October at Meta’s offices in Zurich for talks and demos, while a KGK-CGC workshop already dug into practical experience with #CloudNativeGeospatial data formats. Slides and a curated list of resources...
https://spatialists.ch/posts/2026/09/12-cloud-native-in-switzerland/ #GIS #GISchat #geospatial #SwissGIS

Cloud-native in Switzerland: Switzerland’s #CNG community is gathering on 29 October at Meta’s offices in Zurich for talks and demos, while a KGK-CGC workshop already dug into practical experience with #CloudNativeGeospatial data formats. Slides and a curated list of resources...
https://spatialists.ch/posts/2026/09/12-cloud-native-in-switzerland/ #GIS #GISchat #geospatial #SwissGIS

Cloud-native in Switzerland: Switzerland’s #CNG community is gathering on 29 October at Meta’s offices in Zurich for talks and demos, while a KGK-CGC workshop already dug into practical experience with #CloudNativeGeospatial data formats. Slides and a curated list of resources...
https://spatialists.ch/posts/2026/09/12-cloud-native-in-switzerland/ #GIS #GISchat #geospatial #SwissGIS

New home for INTERLIS content: Stefan Ziegler’s blog has found a new home: After 12 years of blogging, this #INTERLIS community resource is now at blog.interlis.guru. Update your #RSS feed reader if you follow this essential resource for the Swiss geodata community (which...
https://spatialists.ch/posts/2026/05/08-new-home-for-interlis-content/ #GIS #GISchat #geospatial #SwissGIS

New home for INTERLIS content: @edigonzales’s blog has found a new home: After 12 years of blogging, this #INTERLIS community resource is now at blog.interlis.guru. Update your #RSS feed reader if you follow this essential resource for the Swiss geodata community (which...
https://spatialists.ch/posts/2026/05/08-new-home-for-interlis-content/ #GIS #GISchat #geospatial #SwissGIS

OSM vector tiles in the Esri ecosystem: Riccardo Klinger demonstrates how to build an independent #basemap pipeline from #OpenStreetMap data using #GDAL/#OGR and integrate the resulting #vectorTiles into the #Esri ecosystem. Open-source and proprietary tools turn out to complement each...
https://spatialists.ch/posts/2026/04/03-osm-vector-tiles-in-the-esri-ecosystem/ #GIS #GISchat #geospatial #SwissGIS

Future of Interlis: The #Interlis Discourse Forum currently hosts a discussion among experts reflecting on strengths and weaknesses and the future of the #datamodeling and #dataexchange #standard. Meanwhile, materials for the upcoming Interlis User Group Meeting were published today, continuing the community’s dialogue on Interlis development and practice. https://spatialists.ch/posts/2025/10/29-future-of-interlis/ #GIS #GISchat #geospatial #SwissGIS

#VectorTiles coming to DuckDB: #DuckDB’s #spatial extension is about to support #Mapbox Vector Tiles (#MVT) with the newly merged ST_AsMVT and ST_AsMVTGeom functions. The two new functions are scheduled to be shipped next week in DuckDB version 1.4.
https://spatialists.ch/posts/2025/09/10-vector-tiles-coming-to-duckdb/ #GIS #GISchat #geospatial #SwissGIS

How much does it cost to compute pixels?: What are the economics of using Google Earth Engine (#GEE) for Earth observation vs. a self-operated #EO pipeline? – Christoph Ren analyzes GEE’s pricing structure and finds it mis-priced when used as an imagery pipeline.
https://spatialists.ch/posts/2025/07/12-how-much-does-it-cost-to-compute-pixels/ #GIS #GISchat #geospatial #SwissGIS

Interlis UML diagrams in VS Code: #geowerkstatt has updated their open-source plug-in “#INTERLIS 2” for Microsoft #VSCode. The plug-in now supports drawing the #UML class diagram of Interlis models. It still also offers: syntax highlighting, snippets, and #Markdown documentation.
https://spatialists.ch/posts/2025/05/26-interlis-uml-diagrams-in-vs-code/ #GIS #GISchat #geospatial #SwissGIS

Interlis User Group Meeting: Call for topics: This fall, the 5th #Interlis User Group Meeting will be held. Discussion topics and questions can be submitted via the Interlis Forum.
https://spatialists.ch/posts/2025/05/22-interlis-user-group-meeting-call-for-topics/ #GIS #GISchat #geospatial #SwissGIS

Interlis UML diagrams in VS Code: #geowerkstatt has updated their open-source plug-in “#INTERLIS 2” for Microsoft #VSCode. The plug-in now supports drawing the #UML class diagram of Interlis models. It still also offers: syntax highlighting, snippets, and #Markdown documentation.
https://spatialists.ch/posts/2025/05-26-interlis-uml-diagrams-in-vs-code/ #GIS #GISchat #geospatial #SwissGIS

Interlis User Group Meeting: Call for topics: This fall, the 5th #Interlis User Group Meeting will be held. Discussion topics and questions can be submitted via the Interlis Forum.
https://spatialists.ch/posts/2025/05-22-interlis-user-group-meeting-call-for-topics/ #GIS #GISchat #geospatial #SwissGIS