Blog – Gispo

Interactive maps: Why you should use Kepler to produce interactive maps

20.6.2022

We at Gispo are always looking for different ways to publish and […]

Kartdagarna 2022 – Opening up GIS in Sweden

21.4.2022

Kartdagarna is a popular get-together within the Swedish GIS and mapping community. […]

Exploring cities with Gispo urban analytics

16.3.2022

Introduction Spatial data about cities is vast, both in terms of volume […]

How long does it really take to reach the nearest transit stop?

9.3.2022

The Helsinki metropolitan area is, in global comparison, very well served by […]

Optimizing school inspectors’ routes

11.2.2022

During Autumn 2021 Gispo was one of the companies co-operating with University […]

Driving insights from point cloud data with WhiteboxTools and QGIS

17.1.2022

Point cloud data is expensive to acquire. Lidar data is too often […]

#30DayMapChallenge with Gispo

30.11.2021

It’s the last day of November and so #30DaymapChallenge comes to its […]

Analyzing school accessibility on QGIS

30.9.2021

Improving access to education is one of the major challenges faced by […]

Analysing urban walkability using OpenStreetMap and Python

24.8.2021

Urban walkability can be understood and measured in many different ways. Because […]

Cooking with Gispo: QGIS Plugin Development in VS Code

16.8.2021

In this guide we’ll set up a full working QGIS plugin development […]

Reducing data friction with Data Packages

27.5.2021

Everyone who has been sending data from one user to another and […]

How big is the QGIS community?

10.5.2021

As with all open source projects, estimating the number of users and […]

How to handle point clouds in QGIS 3.18?

9.3.2021

Open source GIS community did it again! QGIS 3.18 was upgraded in […]

United Nations calls for open source

23.2.2021

“We must undertake a concerted global effort to encourage and invest in […]

PostgreSQL Foreign Data Wrapper for JSON data from Snowplow API

29.1.2021

This is not the first time I find myself wondering about the […]

#30DayMapChallenge 2020 – bigger and better!

15.12.2020

Before the blog actually starts, here is an unofficial theme music and […]

Cloud free satellite images for UN field operations

27.10.2020

Clouds are usually the biggest obstacle for leveraging satellite imagery in cloud-prone […]

Visualizing big spatial data: hexbins with QGIS & PostGIS

9.9.2020

Visualizing spatial data with high volumes in an informative way can be […]

Geogiffery in 2020 with QGIS Temporal Controller

8.8.2020

How to make animated maps with QGIS? With the native temporal support! […]

Utilizing CI in QGIS plugin development

16.6.2020

Testing is essential part of writing good piece of software. Writing unit […]

Importing spatial data to PostGIS

12.5.2020

If you’re new to PostGIS and want to try it out, one […]

Globe Builder – Because the World is not flat

17.2.2020

My colleague Topi crafted a beautiful map for the #30DayMapChallenge showing the ecoregions of […]

The power of community: #30DayMapChallenge

8.1.2020

New year has started, but it is still nice to reflect how […]

Mapping agencies and open source geospatial software – why not?

15.7.2019

So, mapping agencies are going full-steam on PostGIS, the geospatial database choice […]

Open source is not scary

5.7.2019

To many “open source” seems quite alien and abstract – what “open […]

Learn spatial SQL and master GeoPackage with QGIS

25.2.2019

For some reason, tutorials related to spatial SQL seem to focus on […]

Automating GIS processes with graphical modeler in QGIS

23.1.2019

It’s all about saving time, right? QGIS’s graphical modeler can definitely help […]

Land administration sector in search for applicable modern technological solutions

7.1.2019

he National Land Survey of Finland (NLS), Aalto University, Finnish Location Information […]

The bittersweet truth: it’s impossible to keep up with the pace of FOSS4G-technology

20.9.2018

If anything, we brought from Tanzania’s FOSS4G 2018 (Free and Open Source […]

City of Leon on it’s way to master QGIS

25.6.2018

Blog: Part 1/2 30 city officers from the municipality of León (México) carried through […]

How many cartographers does it take to walk a dog?

16.5.2018

This is Fedja. Fedja is a 3-year old, happy, friendly, and fluffy […]

Fixing the Master Plan Data Model

11.5.2018

Tampere began improving the master plan data model as a KIRA-digi trial project in […]

Locating the Glide Paths of Flying Squirrels

11.5.2018

In 2015, Gispo produced an analysis of potential flying squirrel glide paths […]

Espoo infrastructure asset management

10.5.2018

Cities have roads, parks, playgrounds and other infrastructure assets that are maintained, […]

Turku Future Hackathon

7.5.2018

The City of Turku offered an opportunity to conceptualise and implement applications […]

Advancing zoning digitalization in Helsinki

27.4.2018

In 2018 the city of Helsinki received KIRA-digi funding for the advancement of digitalization […]

It’s all about the basics: greetings from Land & Poverty 2018

9.4.2018

This year, we got to participate in the Land and Poverty 2018 conference organized […]

Painting the future of global geospatial information management: Gispo at the 5th High Level Forum of the UN-GGIM

11.12.2017

Gispo participated at the Fifth High Level Forum of the United Nations initiative […]