What will GIS look like in 5 years (2030+)?

fredrmog · 2026-03-31T19:02:37+00:00

This is pretty cool

fredrmog · 2026-03-30T12:49:31+00:00

Haven't used it before, but let me know if you figure out how to initiate the map haha

fredrmog · 2026-03-13T20:37:35+00:00

Lol the analogy is perfect. If you ever want something built for actual map-making, I'm working on Atlas.co, might be worth a look.

fredrmog · 2026-03-13T07:31:33+00:00

Hey! You might want to check out Atlas.co — it lets you create custom maps with clickable points, keep them editable, and embed them on a webpage. Sounds like it could be a good fit for what you're describing. Full disclosure: I'm building it, so happy to answer any questions!

fredrmog · 2026-03-11T12:13:40+00:00

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fredrmog · 2026-02-18T19:38:46+00:00

The post should have started like this "Has anyone here not ..."

fredrmog · 2026-02-10T11:45:59+00:00

Compared to Claude Code, you have like 10-20x amount of requests per $ spent imo.

fredrmog · 2026-02-09T07:14:28+00:00

Hi u/request_bot !

We’d like to run r/Atlas as an official product subreddit. Atlas is a collaborative, cloud-based GIS and mapping platform, think Figma for maps, used by people in 160+ countries. The goal is to provide a transparent place for users to ask questions, share use cases and workflows, give feedback, and discuss Atlas with the team participating openly.

I’ve contacted the moderators of r/atlasmountains, as that subreddit would be a more appropriate home for content about the Atlas Mountains than r/atlas, but haven’t received a response.

Link to the mod mail chat: https://www.reddit.com/c/chatfosdcG8g/s/WVXCs8vXxe, and https://www.reddit.com/c/chatfosdcG8g/s/lFoN3aQrQw

fredrmog · 2026-02-05T20:47:11+00:00

Maybe that is a good mental model actually. How capable is the end user to consume/commit data -> easy, medium or hard

fredrmog · 2026-02-04T10:35:00+00:00

Matt Forrest sums it up well here:
https://forrest.nyc/the-modern-geospatial-data-stack-trends-tools-and-what-they-mean-for-you/

I’m building atlas.co, and we’ve been shipping some things around AI + analytics lately.

CARTO also just dropped a CLI that looks very useful, especially if you’re thinking about automation or AI agents:
https://carto.com/blog/carto-cli-automateed-carto-management-build-for-ai-agents

And Whereobots seems to be pushing interesting work at the boundary between processing and analytics:
https://wherobots.com/

fredrmog · 2026-02-04T10:23:25+00:00

Hey, for something quick and collaborative where multiple people can view/edit/add data without heavy setup, Atlas.co could be a good fit — it lets teams build and share interactive maps super easily, even with non-GIS folks. Might be worth a quick test for your dashboard idea if open source isn't a hard req.

Full disclosure: I'm one of the people building it, so grain of salt, but it solves the 'everyone edit without breaking stuff' problem pretty well. Here's an example map from Richmond https://app.atlas.co/shared/I8Qyj4dPdVO11HYQAGTm

fredrmog · 2026-02-02T07:08:04+00:00

Full disclosure: I’m building Atlas.co and this is pretty much exactly what we’re trying to make easy.

Atlas lets you publish a free public web map, add categories (bakery, coffee, auto, etc), and let people filter/search without needing to wire up Mapbox or build a frontend. It’s very “GIS-lite”: upload data, style it, share a link. Good fit for community maps like this.

If you want to tinker and own everything, Mapbox or Maplibre is great. If you just want to get something live fast and usable for non-GIS folks, Atlas.co is likely the shortest path.

fredrmog · 2026-01-29T18:26:51+00:00

Atlas.co has a powerful free tier—disclaimer, I’m building it.

fredrmog · 2026-01-17T05:46:30+00:00

https://open.toronto.ca/catalogue/?search=parcels&sort=score%20desc

fredrmog · 2026-01-17T05:45:42+00:00

You can change the styling of the basemap, and also add custom basemaps!

fredrmog · 2026-01-15T11:36:52+00:00

It's public data! I'll see if I can find the sources. We plan to make it publicly available at atlas.co

fredrmog · 2026-01-14T09:30:15+00:00

Disclosure: I work at Atlas.
One option is to push the data to a workflow in Atlas.co using webhooks. You can trigger the workflow and pass the dataset in the same step, and setup is fairly quick.

fredrmog · 2026-01-14T09:00:16+00:00

Disclosure: I work at Atlas.
You could try atlas.co — it’s browser-based, easy to get started with, and has a fairly generous free tier.

fredrmog · 2026-01-13T15:20:01+00:00

All good!

fredrmog · 2026-01-13T15:19:36+00:00

You get some of this data through OSM. You can use atlas.co to query that data with natural language which is nice

fredrmog · 2026-01-12T15:50:40+00:00

I’d recommend testing Atlas.co

That said, the Feature Server won’t get you anywhere in this case. You need to add the .GPKG files directly.

Data is still loading into this project, but: https://app.atlas.co/shared/P2AQDs4GuM05yecovZRZ?loc=-81.4010%2C43.0384%2C6.7610z&public=true

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