#Rspatial
I cannot emphasize enough how excited I am about {geoarrowwidget} and {deckglgeoarrow}. 3.2 **million** points in 4 seconds.

#rspatial #rstats
September 24, 2026 at 9:14 PM
Some lecture notes on spatial and temporal modelling, illustrated using R - darrenjw.github.io/spatio-tempo... - #rstats #rspatial #quarto
Spatial and temporal statistics
darrenjw.github.io
January 1, 2026 at 12:31 PM
My personal library's looking healthy 😁
September 4, 2025 at 4:16 PM
New patches algorithm in the terra R package (implemented by Andrew Brown)

Faster performance and designed to work with large rasters

🔗 github.com/rspatial/ter...

#RStats #RSpatial #Geospatial
March 4, 2026 at 3:04 PM
#Rstats #RSpatial #Duckdb ⬇️⬇️⬇️
Announcing {freestiler}: a high-performance vector tiling engine for R and Python.

Generate vector tiles for your maps directly from R/Python spatial data, @duckdb queries, and local spatial files.

Check out the docs here: walker-data.com/free...

Some highlights:
March 9, 2026 at 7:21 PM
New R package: gridmappr by Roger Beecham

It automates creating small multiple gridmap layouts by optimally placing geographic points into grid cells (inspired by Jo Wood’s Observable notebooks).

👉 github.com/rogerbeecham...

#RStats #RSpatial #DataViz #GISchat
October 15, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Want to work with the AlphaEarth Embedding data from R? 🛰️🌍

Felipe Carlos has developed an R package that makes it easier to search and retrieve AlphaEarth embeddings for your area of interest.

m3nin0-labs.github.io/alphaearth/

#rstats #RemoteSensing #EarthObservation #RSpatial
September 23, 2026 at 2:02 PM
Mediterranean Sea Bathymetry.
Data: AWS Terrain Tiles, retrieved with {elevatr}.
Credits to @milos-makes-maps.bsky.social for its amazing R tutorials on #dataviz, and to @tylermorganwall.bsky.social for the #rayshader R package.
#rstats #maps #rspatial #gis #gischat
December 4, 2024 at 4:05 PM
Want to tilt and stack your #maps in #rstats?

install.packages("layer") works again!

Thank you so much @egorkotov.bsky.social for reviving our layer 📦

#rspatial #mapping #dataviz
🌐 #layer #rstats package for tilting your map layers is back on 🚀 CRAN! get it now marcosci.github.io/layer/ cran.r-project.org/package=layer
January 29, 2025 at 8:50 PM
🌲 New R package: forestdata makes it easy to download forestry and land cover data from multiple sources (Copernicus, ESRI, EU-Trees4F, and more). Supports sf, SpatRaster, and tidy outputs.

Explore it here: cidree.github.io/forestdata/

#rstats #rspatial #forestry #landcover
July 16, 2025 at 2:05 PM
We just published a JOSIS paper on what spatial data science languages have in common and what they still need. Insights from across the R, Python & Julia ecosystems.

URL: doi.org/10.5311/JOSI...

#SpatialDataScience #GISchat #OpenSource #RSpatial #GeoPython #JuliaGeo
January 11, 2026 at 4:01 PM
Yes! State-of-the-art image segmentation now available in #rstats #rspatial

Thanks @kylewalker.bsky.social !
Introducing {geosam}: an R toolkit for Meta's Segment Anything Model 3

- Detect objects in satellite imagery with text prompts
- Interactive Shiny tools with draw & click-to-identify
- Works with Mapbox, Esri, MapTiler
- Use regular images too!

walker-data.com/geosam/
December 17, 2025 at 5:36 PM
🚀 Book in progress: Spatial Data Visualization with tmap

A guide to creating thematic maps in R with the tmap package.
Covers everything from loading data to interactive and animated maps, with reproducible code.

Read online: tmap.geocompx.org

#rstats #rspatial #geocompx #gischat #maps
September 14, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Attention data journalists (and others 😃) who want to use geospatial data with R for story telling: #RStats #RSpatial #DDJ #RShiny #GIS

⬇️⬇️⬇️
The latest version of the {mapgl} #rstats package is now released, supporting scrollytelling-style story maps!

Build richly interactive map stories from your R data pipelines using @Mapbox or @maplibre as your backend.

Learn how in the new vignette: walker-data.com/mapg...
January 14, 2025 at 3:06 PM
The geobounds package by Diego Hernangómez gives you direct access to the open global geoBoundaries dataset. 🗺️

URL: dieghernan.github.io/202602_geobo...

#RStats #RSpatial #GISchat
March 30, 2026 at 2:05 PM
Looks promising #Rspatial
Working with big spatial data sets in #rstats? You should try {duckspatial}. The dev version of #duckspatial (soon on CRAN) uses #duckdb to perform super fast and memory efficient spatial operations cidree.github.io/duckspatial/...
In a benchmark against, {sf}....
December 31, 2025 at 1:41 PM
The shapefiles are gone! 🎉

The {spData} package has officially dropped all datasets in the shapefile format, moving toward modern and efficient geospatial data standards. 🚀🌍

Upgrade your workflows with {spData}: https://buff.ly/4htZ5D3

#rspatial #rstats #GIS #Geocompx
February 2, 2025 at 3:00 PM
New R Coding for Ecology chapter on measuring landscape patterns with landscapemetrics and motif 📊🌍

doi.org/10.1007/978-...
Preprint: doi.org/10.48550/arX...
Code: github.com/Nowosad/land...

#LandscapeEcology #RSpatial #GIS
January 18, 2026 at 4:01 PM
⛰️ Want to see geomorphometry in action?

Book chapter "Geomorphometry Using Open-Source Programming Languages" comes with a companion collection of code and practical examples in #Rspatial #Geopython #Juliageo.

💻 Code: github.com/geomorphomet...

#Geomorphometry #OpenSource #GISchat
September 27, 2026 at 2:03 PM
December 20, 2024 at 12:01 AM
#30DayMapChallenge Day 26: Map Projections
World Topography & Bathymetry
Craster Parabolic Projection (+proj=crast)
Data: AWS Open Data Terrain Tiles {elevatr}
#rstats #dataviz #maps #rspatial #gis #rayshader
November 26, 2024 at 11:47 AM
Loveeee seeing {h3o} being used for new use cases!!

#rspatial
A new R package for redistributing counts to flexible spatial grids 🗺️

Christopher D. Higgins’ `{pycnogrid}` implements pycnophylactic interpolation for H3, A5, S2, ISEA, raster, and local hexagonal grids, while preserving the original totals.

higgicd.github.io/pycnogrid/ar...

#rstats #RSpatial
{pycnogrid}: Flexible pycnophylactic interpolation to discrete global and local grid systems
Christopher D. Higgins
higgicd.github.io
September 16, 2026 at 2:54 PM
Have you ever wondered what the prefix st_ in the majority of the r package sf functions stand for?
Spatial Type.
#rstats #rspatial
February 12, 2026 at 2:07 AM
⛰️ Want to see geomorphometry in action?

Book chapter "Geomorphometry Using Open-Source Programming Languages" comes with a companion collection of code and practical examples in #rspatial #geopython #juliageo.

📖 Chapter […]

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September 27, 2026 at 2:01 PM
At work I use R, Python, and ArcGIS to run spatial analysis and make maps. 🗺️ #rspatial
September 21, 2026 at 11:01 AM