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Data Viz, Maps & GIS. Tech Writer for MapTiler. FOSS4G UK 2019 Co-Chair. Honorary Fellow of the University of Edinburgh GeoSciences. Views are all mine.
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High-res terrain & 5m contours are now available for Czechia! 🇨🇿 The super-detailed landforms are perfect for hikers, cartographers, and explorers. Enjoy the detailed terrain on our maps now and stay tuned for upcoming updates on Alpine regions! https://maptiler.link/3PLHY3R

Animate flight paths with a 3D plane on a globe using the MapTiler SDK! Find out how: https://maptiler.link/3WwaQB7 #JavaScript #TypeScript #WebMaps #WebGL #Globe

Only one week till MWC Barcelona! Meet the MapTiler team & find out how our mapping solutions deliver stunning visual quality & reliable performance, & give you complete control over your data & privacy. Book a meeting with us, link in the first comment 👇 #MWC2025 #MWC25 #MWCBarcelona

🐎🌳 Today’s haiku: under autumn boughs – hoofprints cradle quiet earth, clouds linger, adrift. 🎨Inspired by View in a Park (c. 1730) by George Barret Sr. #Haiku #Poetry #BlueSkyPoets

Notice something different about these two maps? Keep watching! There it is! This is the SoFi Stadium, opened in 2020 in Los Angeles, California. It’s one of thousands of updates and developments available due to our newly refreshed aerial satellite data for the U.S. Link in the 1st reply

How was the flight on the Czech Air Force One, and how many places in the U.S. did our product manager, Jaroslav Polacek, manage to visit? Read his story - link in the first comment.

Search for major landforms with MapTiler Geocoding. Find mountain ranges, rivers, valleys, and peaks. Try it now: https://maptiler.link/3VLYi8e

We are bringing you a fully customizable globe and sky to add to your webmaps and apps! Try the new Sky and Light styling properties on our globe maps; currently in beta, they will be improved over the coming months. Find out more on our blog; the link is in the comments.

We will be at #MWCBarcelona in 2 weeks and would like to invite you to meet with the team. We’ll show you how our platform for creating, hosting, and styling maps can be tailored to your needs. Book a meeting with us, the link is in the first reply 👇 #MWC2025

Mappy #ValentinesDay from @MapTiler! Check out these beautiful heart-shaped lakes from our #Satellite map layer and also a manmade one captured from our recently updated U.S. Aerial Imagery too! ❤️ #Maps #AerialImagery #SatelliteImagery

Where are you tuning in from on World Radio Day? 📻 Explore radio stations from every corner of the globe with an interactive map! See how our maps make it easy to browse and listen to stations anywhere on Earth: https://radio.garden/ #InternationalRadioDay #RadioEverywhere

Big news — MapTiler has refreshed the aerial imagery for all 50 states of America. Now featuring stunning 15-60cm/px resolution, this update brings the most up-to-date data to our users, available for a wide range of use cases. Link in the replies. #AerialImagery #SatelliteMaps

🐑🌿 Today’s haiku: river bends slowly - 
sheep drift beneath the arching
stone, light spills like wine 🎨 Inspired by Landscape with a Rock Arch and River (c. 1626) by Claude Lorrain. #Haiku #Poetry #Art

Our next FOSS4G:UK will be an in-person event in Leeds on 1st & 2nd October 2025. More details soon at uk.osgeo.org. Start thinking about your submission for the Call for Talks - we want to hear what you have been up to with Free & Open Source 4 Geospatial! #GISchat

Launched earlier this year, MapTiler Inc. enables closer collaboration with U.S. based customers. With a representative now located in the U.S., we can respond faster to inquiries and provide more localized support. Read more and get in touch! https://maptiler.link/3CK0k2h

Very excited to announce early public beta of our new website at The Icelandic Met Office. @maptiler.bsky.social plays a key role in delivering maps for the new site. The weather charts use their Engine + Cloud + Weather SDK with the front-end handled by our friends at #Origo -> gottvedur.is

Create #3D globes in all the popular JavaScript frameworks like #React, #Angular, #Svelte, #Vue, and #Vite! Check out our code examples to get started: https://maptiler.link/42ovJSk #JavaScript #TypeScript #WebMaps #WebGL #Globe

Hey, NFL fans! 🏈 Want to see the stadium where tonight's big game is happening? See it from above on our satellite map before the action begins: https://maptiler.link/4aQrtNT #superbowl #nfl #football #kansascitychiefs #philadelphiaeagles

Jaroslav Polacek, our product manager, visited the U.S. as part of the official Czech presidential delegation. He spoke to business leaders, strengthened connections, and helped establish our presence. The first comment links to the full story.

Switch on the globe projection while customizing your map so you can edit options like global light and Space color. Create beautiful globes that your users can explore; follow the link in the comments to find out more.

Tomorrow is the final day to submit/participate in my 3-x-book-giveaway contests! #1 BestWorstViz - what's the best worst viz you can make? #2 Book-marked - your pics of my used book! #3 Star-books - nominate a data viz star who should receive a book! visualisingdata.com/2025/01/3-x-...

Get inspired by how Groupon uses our interactive maps to highlight top deals. Visualize offers, locations, or any clustered data with dynamic maps. Learn how to build a similar experience: https://maptiler.link/3CE5NYn

We are proud to be one of the top 100 geospatial companies again! Our dedication to providing an innovative and high-quality service has kept us on the list since it was first compiled. We promise to continue doing our best to support the thousands of customers who have chosen us. #TeamMapTiler

Search and transform between coordinate systems with an API that offers enhanced security, reliability, and scalability for all your geospatial needs. Keep your app running smoothly thanks to our robust infrastructure. Learn more at https://maptiler.link/4iCpvUE

Check out The Weather Network's Radar Map. They customized one of our basemaps to keep the site on brand while letting their weather data stand out clearly. We've made our Customize tool easy to use so you can get the perfect look for your websites and apps!

Go global with the MapTiler SDK! Find out just how easy it is to add a 3D globe to a website or app! Read more: https://maptiler.link/3WxkZxn #JavaScript #TypeScript #WebMaps #WebGL #Globe

We’re hiring a Product Designer! Are you passionate about creating amazing user experiences? Join MapTiler and shape our data processing, conversion, and upload services! 🌍 Global impact 💻 Flexible remote options 📌 Apply here: https://maptiler.link/40DnH5w

Keep your location data secure and private by hosting maps on your own infrastructure. ✅ No third-party access ✅ Full control over your data ✅ Works offline Don't let privacy get out of your hands, take charge of your data today. Learn more: maptiler.com/server/ #DataPrivacy #DataProtectionDay

Need specific parameters for various tasks? Advanced task settings let you override global defaults, assign specific settings, and save them as files for future use. Learn more at https://maptiler.link/3ZxgvY2

MapTiler now offers high-resolution terrain and contours in Czechia! Explore subtle landforms like ridges, gullies, and small-scale hills. Available in Outdoor, Topo, and Winter maps, but also visible on all other styles if switched to 3D! Try yourself at https://maptiler.link/3PJc4Fh

Turn your flat map into a globe with a single line of code! The MapTiler SDK makes it so easy to display maps on a 3D planet, just as nature intended! Start here: https://maptiler.link/40mZi46 #JavaScript #TypeScript #WebMaps #WebGL

Try out the Static maps generator! Visualize and fine-tune your map idea before using Static maps via API in production; the generator helps you understand how the API call is constructed. Start exploring: https://maptiler.link/42mOcyF #MapStyling #WebMaps

3D Globe maps using a JavaScript SDK! Show your maps on a 3D globe with a single line of code! Read all about it here: https://maptiler.link/4jimwBb #WebMaps #Globe #WebGL

This looks amazing, I love @MapTiler's winter #cartography and it is great to see it in action like this!

3TB of aerial imagery cataloged, processed, and color-toned for your project! The most up-to-date aerial view of France is available via our maps API or as a data package for on-prem deployment. Find out more at https://maptiler.link/3P48Bkm

If you want to really go crazy the Mapthematics forums are loaded with insane projections: mapthematics.com/forums/viewf... Like the 'Liquid Earth' - equal area *and* relatively non-distorted land at the cost of oceanic graticules. (from user saga)

🎉 🌎 🪐 I'm thrilled to announce GeoJupyter, an effort to imagine and build rewarding new user experiences for working with geospatial data in JupyterLab! 🤗 I hope to see you in an upcoming community meeting or in our Zulip chat (see the post for links)! geojupyter.org/blog/2025010...

Useless Projection #6: The Asymmetric Monstrosity. A combination of the sinusoidal, Mollweide, Equal Earth, and cylindrical equal-area projections. It's all equal-area, so it's suitable for the classroom. (I now have a goal for this year: make an elaborate wall map in this projection).

Dunedin Botanic Gardens from today

This is a great blog post about customizing #webmaps, well worth a read!

Sign up to present a lightning talk on any geospatial related topic - it's free and open to anyone. Or just sign up to attend and see what others are doing with their GIS skills! #GISChat womeningis.wildapricot.org/lightning

Find continents, oceans, and other global features with MapTiler Geocoding. Search for features like the Atlantic Ocean, Mediterranean Sea, Europe, and Asia to get results with a simplified geometry. Try it now: https://maptiler.link/4fn2e6f