James Williamson, Labrador GIS Specialist

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A distribution map of the known archaeological sites on the island of Newfoundland. It shows how archaeological research has focused on the heavily populated coast, away from the boreal interior.

a scene in the animated lord of the rings movie. Gandalf the grey is standing in a lush green forest, wearing grey robes, and a blue pointy wizard's hat while wielding a staff. He's pointing up as if to think of something, and the image is captioned "It's never too late to start something over, including a new version of yourself."

Good morning✌️🍀

A Relative Elevation map for the Churchill River. This is interesting because it shows how the river runs through a rugged area between two different relatively low areas, while going from the Smallwood Reservoir to the shores of Lake Melville.
#Labrador #HVGB #qgis #maps #REM

The healthiest thing we can do for the internet is get as many regular users as possible running their own websites. You could buy a domain and such, but a super easy starting point is to get a free subdomain of neocities.org, which is like geocities but existing now.

A Tanaka map of the topography around Hopedale, Nunatsiavut, Labrador.
data: NRCAN- NTS

#qgis #maps #topography #visualisation #3d #gis #Nunatsiavut #Labrador

We're proud to announce that #Finland just launched theit new Topographic Data System built on #QGIS

https://positio-magazine.eu/2025/06/finland-launches-modern-topographic-data-system-built-on-open-source-qgis/

#osgeo #gischat #gis #OpenSource

Another Photo of Hopedale, Nunatsiavut, Labrador, from a few years ago.

#drones #Hopedale #Nunatsiavut #geospatial

Cape Spear, Newfoundland

#drones #NL #geospatial

This was a wonderful event!

The American Army Base in Hopedale, Nunatsiavut, Labrador

#drones #geospatial #heritage #hopedale #labrador

A joy plot view of Hopedale, Nunatsiavut, Labrador. With data from the Canadian MRDEM.

The watercourses of Newfoundland

with data from NRCAN and the NTS

#gis #qgis #spatial #rivers #maps

The Rivers of Labrador. It's pretty thick with them.

Data from the NTS

#maps #Labrador #QGIS #spatial #gis #nrcan #nts

A map of the Hexagonal churches of England, prepared for the Month of Maps in 2024.

#England #churches #hexagons #gis #qgis #geospatial #maps

A map of the National Parks of Canada, with data from NRCAN and Natural Earth.
There is an amazing variation between the parks, in terms of their sizes and purposes.

#parks #canada #maps #geospatial #gis #qgis

A map of Hopedale, Nunatsiavut in Labrador, Canada.

Data from OSM and NRCAN

#osm #nationaltopographicsystem #nts #Hopedale #Nunatsiavut #gis #qgis #maps

The roads, trails, ferries and transport paths (and some boundaries) of Auckland, New Zealand in a lightening map.

#qgis #geospatial #osm #gis

A map of the Mexican Restaurants of North America, with data from OSM and Natural Earth.

Really, I made this because I miss burritos soo much.

#OSM
#QGIS
#NaturalEarth
#MexicanRestaurants

The watersheds of Labrador from NRCAN and Natural Earth data.

A map of Hopedale in Nunatsiavut.

A geological age map of Newfoundland and Labrador. The data used here came from the Department of Natural Resources NL, Natural Earth, and NRCAN

Data from NRCAN and Natural Earth!

A topographic relief map of Labrador.

First post! A topographic relief map of Labrador.