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JupyterGIS breaks through to the next level

by arjxn-py on 10/24/25, 4:13 AM with 28 comments

  • by niam on 10/24/25, 12:20 PM

    This looks great.

    I do yearn for a day though when we're using something like Marimo over Jupyter as a default for these kinds of things. Particularly in GIS where there's more utility in being able to use a notebook-like interface for an executable routine (rather than an analysis or experiment, which is (and should probably remain) the primary use case for Jupyter).

  • by boxerab on 10/24/25, 2:58 PM

    Looks nice. Hopefully this is one more geospatial jenga piece removed from the current dominance of buggy, ancient closed source software like Google Earth and ESRI.

  • by anentropic on 10/24/25, 11:35 AM

    There's something wrong with the scrolling on this page, like something "puts the brakes on" (Chrome, macOS)

  • by driggs on 10/24/25, 2:29 PM

    > One of the most significant updates is a new browser-based processing toolbox powered by a WebAssembly (WASM) build of the Geospatial Data Abstraction Library (GDAL).

    > Available tools include:

    > Buffer, Convex Hull, Dissolve, Bounding Boxes, Centroid, Concave Hull

    Why would they want to calculate these from WASM in the browser instead of calling out to the Python kernel?

  • by Stevvo on 10/24/25, 10:55 AM

    The Jupyter notebooks in ArcGIS pro are incredibly useful. Unfortunately it's in Arcgis Pro. I'm thrilled to have the similar setup that's not tied to a slow subsription software. Coding assistants also work pretty well at doing GIS in python.

  • by arjxn-py on 10/24/25, 6:44 AM

    You can try JupyterGIS live on this deployment powered by JupyterLite - https://jupytergis.readthedocs.io/en/latest/lite/lab/

  • by erremerre on 10/24/25, 9:56 AM

    I don't see any advantage working on JupyterGIS over working in QGIS.

  • by tasuki on 10/24/25, 9:18 AM

    > Collaborative GIS Environment: Work together on geographic data projects in real-time.

    What does this mean? How is it collaborative in real-time? (I don't even know how Jupyter is collaborative... as in, several people can open a Jupyter Notebook and make changes simultaneously, and things don't break for either of them?)

  • by rossant on 10/24/25, 6:08 AM

    Looks great! What visualization backend is used? Is it GPU accelerated?

  • by TheChaplain on 10/24/25, 6:16 AM

    Question from the ignorant, how does this relate to OpenStreetMap?