Digital Geography Lab

Digitaalisilla jalanjäljllä ymmärrystä puistojen ja luontoalueiden käytöstä -tapahtumaa mainostava juliste. Tapahtuma 11.2.2026, klo 13–15 Tiedekulmassa Helsingissä.

Vielä ehtii 🚨 Ensi keskiviikkona 11.2. klo 13–15 Tiedekulmassa huippututkimusta ja huippukeskustelua luonnon virkistyskäytöstä, kävijäseurannasta ja digitaalisista jalanjäljistä. Lopuksi pullakahvit!

Ilmoittautumislinkki -> www.lyyti.fi/reg/Digitaal...

Spencer Wood from the Outdoor Recreation & Data Lab at the University of Washington (UW) joins DGL as a visiting fellow this academic spring term 👋

Thank you to the University of Helsinki to supporting this visit through the 2025 US Visiting Fellowship Programme!!

Welcome to DGL Spencer ❤️.

✨We're growing!! ✨

🎓 Researcher Juulia Lehtinen has rejoined DGL to pursue Doctoral Research under the supervision of Tuuli Toivonen as part of the GREENTRAVEL project.

Learn more about Juulia's work here: blogs.helsinki.fi/digital-geog...

Welcome Juulia!! ❤️ 🎉

Digitaaliset jalanjäljet tarjoavat uusia mahdollisuuksia tuottaa ajantasaista ja monipuolista tietoa luonnon virkistyskäytöstä.

Tule kuulemaan ja keskustelemaan aiheesta tapahtumassamme!

📅 ke 11.2.2026
📍 Tiedekulma

🔗 Lue lisää: tapahtumat.helsinki.fi/fi-FI/page/6...

What do big data tell about the use of urban green areas in Helsinki? Check out our blog post for a summary of our findings in English!
blogs.helsinki.fi/digital-geog...
#bigdata #gis #greenspace #Helsinki

Screenshot of a web map. Uutela outdoor recreation area and its green space card is clicked open.

Tuotimme myös 50:stä eniten havaintoja keränneestä viheralueesta ’kortteja’. Kurkkaa tästä kartasta, miltä esim. Keskuspuisto ja Mustikkamaa näyttävät massadatojen näkökulmasta: digitalgeographylab.github.io/Helsingin-ka...

Kuvakaappaus hankkeen loppuraportin kannesta, lukee "Viheralueiden käyttö Helsingissä". Kuvassa Töölönlahti kesällä.

Mikä on Helsingin sometetuin viheralue? Missä lenkkeillään, mistä otetaan lintukuvia? Missä käydään ympäri vuoden ja mitkä ovat kesäkohteita? Mm. näitä sivusimme yhteishankkeessamme massadatoista ja Helsingin viheralueiden käytöstä. Lisää tietoa blogistamme! blogs.helsinki.fi/digital-geog...

#30DayMapChallenge Day 28 - Black Friday

Black Friday or Bird Friday?

We think that birdwatching is better than impulsive shopping - even in November.
Our map shows the 1512 observations in Finland that eBird users have posted over the past Black Fridays (2015-2024).

@matabatchi & Sini Ruohomäki

Together with Metsähallitus Parks and Wildlife Services we propose operationalizing the use of mobile big data for visitor monitoring and the management of outdoor recreation.

Read more from our blog post: lnkd.in/dGYn2gvW

#30DayMapChallenge Day 20 - Water: An Australian River Alphabet

Inspired by Katie Holten's Irish Tree Alphabet 🌳
Unsure of any Australian river names beginning with 'X' and 'Z'.

River centrelines: www.hydrosheds.org
River catchments: ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/s...

(c) Rory Taylor

📢 GREENTRAVEL Virtual Reality Technical Report Released!

📄Read more here: blogs.helsinki.fi/digital-geog...
📖 Check the report out here: helda.helsinki.fi/items/395be1...

#UrbanResearch #VirtualReality #ActiveTravel #SmartCities #StreetGreenery

We also made a new tool!

Play around on this interactive demo webmap over all of Helsinki: tadusko.github.io/hki_shademap/

A map of Helsinki's urban core. It shows which areas are in the shade on a clear day in mid-June. Hietaranta beach and Töölönlahti bay are highlighted with photos, since they are have some of the sunniest spots on the map.

#30daymapchallenge 17: A new tool
Helsinki enjoyed a grand total of 12 minutes of sunshine in November (1.–13.11). No better time to remember that yes, the sun does still exists.

This map shows Helsinki's shadiest / sunniest places. New tool? #GRASSGIS solar modelling.

By @tadusko.bsky.social

#30DayMapChallenge Day 10 - Air: Common Swift (Apus Apus) sightings in Finland in 2025 from eBird (+one Taylor Swift (Private Jet))

#30DayMapChallenge Day 4 - My Data

The 2025 citybike season in Helsinki has come to an end last week. As an avid user of the bike sharing system, Robert Klein has plotted his more than 350 trips of this year's season on a map.

#bikesharing #cycling #mobility

#30DayMapChallenge Day 1 - Points

Creating a #centroid is not as trivial as you might think!

If you are dealing with regional population data, the locational difference between a regular geometric centroid and a population-weighted centroid can be vast!

Map by @waeiski.bsky.social

#GIS #QGIS

Project planner to The Digital Geography Lab Project planner to The Digital Geography Lab

📢 Come join us!! We are looking for a project planner to coordinate our new UrbanISE VR Proof of Concept, funded by @erc.europa.eu and based at the @helsinki.fi.

🏙️ Work at the forefront of applied Virtual Reality research in cities!

📝 Read more and apply here: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

Our collaboration with Metsähallitus is moving ahead even more efficiently and with greater impact as we have signed MoU with Metsähallitus Parks & Wildlife Finland to deepen our research cooperation and streamline the two-way sharing of data and knowledge.

blogs.helsinki.fi/digital-geog...

What are digital footprints and how can they be useful for managers of nature recreation areas? In this video, researchers from the Digital Geography Lab, University of Helsinki, explain how digital… Mobile Big Data For Understanding People in Nature

Do you ever use your mobile phone when spending time outdoors?
The answer is probably yes. In that case, you leave digital footprints about your visit. 🦶

How are these data useful for the sustainable management of nature areas?

👉 Watch our video for that and more! www.youtube.com/watch?v=_U5G...

In our new @ijgis.bsky.social paper, @ollejarv.bsky.social and I analysed 9M geolocated tweets from the Greater Region of Luxembourg within the #BORDERSPACE project at the @digigeolab.bsky.social, funded by the Research Council of Finland and @koneensaatio.fi.

Our lab is growing! We're super happy to introduce Anna Saarinen, who joins DGL to support coordination and management of the Geoportti Research Infrastructure!! 🌟

Learn more about Anna here 👉 👉 blogs.helsinki.fi/digital-geog....

Welcome Anna! We're very excited to be working with you 💚

Hei #sinitaivas tarvitsemme osanottajia tulevaan työpajaamme!

Jos aluekehitys, aluepolitiikka ja muuttoliikkeet kiinnostavat etenkin kun kyseessä on #Suomi ja tarkemmin itäiset ja pohjoiset osat, niin mukaan vaan!

#Finland #Finnish #Region #Europe #EU

English: A map of Europe and its NUTS 2 regions with Eastern and Northern Finland highlighted. At the bottom there are the logos of Mobi-Twin research project and the European Union. Suomeksi: Kartta Euroopasta NUTS 2 -alueineen ja Itä- ja Pohjois-Suomen alue on korostettuna. Alareunassa on Mobi-Twin -tutkimushankkeen ja Euroopan Unionin logot.

Hei sinä Itä- tai Pohjois-Suomalainen!

Kiinnostaako sinua kotiseutusi aluekehitys ja tulevaisuus? Tule mukaan työpajaamme!

🗓️ Syyskuun 12. päivä 2025
⏰ Kello 11:00 – 12:30

Osallistumistiedot blogissamme:

blogs.helsinki.fi/digital-geog...

#Savo #Lappi #Kainuu #Alue #Tulevaisuus #Mikkeli

What a cool conference #ERSA2025 was! Many sessions from @mobi-twin-project.bsky.social project, lots of new people, interesting research, and great food!

It was my first time at #ERSA and hopefully one of many to come!

Olle explaining how to delineate functional border regions using mobile big data and kernel density estimation.

Wrapping up the second day of #ERSA2025 we have @ollejarv.bsky.social from @digigeolab.bsky.social presenting his work on using #BigData describing #mobility of people to assess #CrossBorder integration in #Europe.

Summer in Helsinki always brings smiles to our faces, as do the scholars that visit and collaborate with us 😊 We're thrilled to introduce Francesc Comalada, a PhD Researcher who visits us this autumn from the Catalan Institute of Water Research!

Learn more here 👉 blogs.helsinki.fi/digital-geog...

Cartographic Visualization in GIS 2025 Course information

Check out the course! 🌍 cartogis.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
#mooc #maps #opensource

Our open course on #cartography and #GIS was run for the second year. Kamyar reflects back on this year and the course principles: how we focus not (only) on building technical capabilities, but on maps as means of visual storytelling:
Read more here! blogs.helsinki.fi/digital-geog...

📢 New Paper Out! Led by our very own Kerli Müürisepp 👉 “Spatial Integration or Isolation? Capturing the Rhythms of Daily Lives Across Neighbourhoods in Helsinki Using Mobile Phone Data” in Population, Space and Place!

📄 Read the open access article here: doi.org/10.1002/psp....!

We are very happy to congratulate our very own @ollejarv.bsky.social for receiving the Research Council of Finland Award on his work on #CrossBorder #Mobility #Transnationalism #Segregation and #NatureRecreation using #BigData such as #SocialMedia and #MobilePhone data.