#2219: accessibility, digitizing, landscape
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A new system has been developed to make interactive maps more accessible, recognizing the elements in the map view and extracting text that can be read aloud by the user's device
https://sparkgeo.com/blog/map-to-speech-a-method-for-making-web-maps-more-accessible/ -
This QGIS plugin utilizes machine learning to speed up digitizing workflows for georeferencing, vectorizing, and metadata extraction from raster maps
https://buntinglabs.com/ -
A global map demonstrating the fragmentation of landscapes based on the effective mesh size (meff), which accounts for human settlements, and the worldwide transportation networks, including roads and railways
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/17445647.2024.2307539
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