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The best Gis newsletters

7 newsletters, ranked by editorial quality and how recently they published. Looking for something more specific? Search instead.

joelmccune.com· irregular· Published yesterday

Personal blog by whitewater paddler and ArcGIS practitioner Joel McCune, mixing technical advice on ArcGIS Enterprise automation with reflections on decades of whitewater kayaking and canoeing. Readers get first-person essays on risk assessment on the river and practical security guidance for scripted GIS accounts.

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blog.topo-grapher.com· weekly· Published 2 days ago

Practical guides on bringing real-world terrain and elevation data into BIM authoring tools such as Revit, Rhino and SketchUp. Issues cover clean elevation data, coordinate systems and a worked campus masterplan example.

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christophermoravec.com· weekly· Published 7 days ago

A weekly newsletter by Christopher Moravec on applying AI to GIS and building robots, with step-by-step builds like a GIS agent over City of Portland data and a desk robot designed by AI. Readers get practical, hands-on walkthroughs with code, plus candid notes on what worked and what broke.

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kafkaesque.blog· irregular· Published 26 days ago

A personal blog newsletter by a GIS developer covering ground filtering of LiDAR data with a diffusion model (GrounDiff), distilled for laptop use in QGIS, plus an experiment using a language model to analyse thirty years of Knesset speeches. The issues mix technical progress notes, metric discussion and early-stage findings with honest caveats about limitations.

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alejandro-pino.com· irregular· Published 1 months ago

A personal notebook by Alejandro Pino blending reflections on music, organizing, and democracy with firsthand reporting from earthquake relief work in Sevilla, Colombia. Essays are discursive and opinionated, with a skeptical eye on AI and corporate hype.

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ekazakov.me· irregular· Published 2 months ago

A personal newsletter that announces GIS articles and tutorials, mainly about the NextGIS platform and QGIS, alongside occasional travel notes. Readers get short pointers to longer Medium guides on automation and collaborative geospatial workflows.

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blog.lupain.ai· irregular· Published 11 months ago

Lupain.AI's blog covers its geospatial platform, including an interactive flood risk map built on UP Project NOAH rain-return data and the engineering behind its browser-based map layer editor. Readers get product announcements, explanations of flood return periods, and some insight into how the platform is built, though the posts are fairly promotional.

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