6 months, 158,000 map training datapoints, and an entire rebuild of the AI later: today is the launch of our QGIS AI Map Tracing Plugin! Check it out in the QGIS plugins window as "Bunting Labs AI Vectorizer" #GISChat

Copernicus 100m 2019 3-D forest cover map of Aotearoa / New Zealand. Inspiration from Milos Popovic, PhD "3D map with rayshader and ggplot2 in R" tutorial on youtube. #DataVisualization #RProgramming #R #SpatialAnalysis #GeospatialMapping  #3DMapping #DataScience

Hawaiian islands🏝...slowly getting through the Polynesian triangle...  #RProgramming #ggplot2 #SpatialAnalysis #GeospatialMapping #hawaii #islands Source Copernicus 100m R code - Milos Popovic

If you're feeling bored you might want to try the game "What Heritage Building Is That?" All the heritage buildings are in Dunedin, Ōtepoti. . . . Give it a try and see how you do. Answers below. Source: OpenTopography

Wellington City DSM turned Millennium Falcon

Aboriginal people made pottery and sailed to distant offshore islands thousands of years before Europeans arrived theconversation.com/aboriginal-peo… via The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand

Presented at the MIGARS Conference organized by IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society. Inspiring to engage with the #remotesensing community in NZ & witness the work being done here. Moreover meeting delegates from 15 countries provided a valuable opportunity to create global connections!

Thrilled to see this latest research driven by doctoral candidate Ben Jones published today. "Regional implementation of coastal erosion hazard zones for archaeological applications". Journal of Cultural Heritage, 67: 430-442. authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S12…

It is a very proud moment when student you supervise makes it to BBC :) Well done Jaxon and the team.University of Auckland | Waipapa Taumata Rau School of Environment, The University of Auckland bbc.com/future/article…

📢 The Science System Advisory Group is seeking your feedback on the role of the science, innovation and technology system in New Zealand. ‼️ Submissions close 11.59pm Friday 17 May. Have your say👉ssag.org.nz/submit/

My attempt at instagram-style inspo posting using the smallest amount of geospatial data. Guess the cityscape.

I’m excited to share the final paper in my Ph.D. trilogy...titled “Braiding Archaeology, Geomorphology, and Indigenous Knowledge to Improve the Understanding of Local-Scale Coastal Change.” cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Nominated for 2025 Paper of the Year for #CPCoastalfutures: Braiding archaeology, geomorphology and indigenous knowledge to improve the understanding of local-scale coastal change ➡️ bit.ly/3Q7Nj5y Thepastfromabove - Ben Jones Dan Hikuroa Murray Ford #coastal

Absolutedly chuffed Mark Dickson, Emma Ryan and Murray Ford Dan Hikuroa

I rewatched the #lordoftherings trilogy and at the same time followed John Nelson great map tutorial to make a LOTR inspired map of Aotearoa New Zealand. I also played around with chatgpt's illustration function to make some map icons. #maps #newzealand #aotearoa #lotr #gandalf