[Geospatial] Invitation: Geospatial/GIS meetup @ Wed Oct 15, 2025 12pm - 12:50pm (PDT) (geospatial at lists.ucr.edu)

[Janet Reyes]

Geospatial/GIS meetup
Wednesday Oct 15, 2025 ⋅ 12pm – 12:50pm
Pacific Time - Los Angeles



Hello everyone,Our next Geospatial/GIS meetup will be on Wednesday, October  
15 from 12:00-12:50 pm.The meetup will take place on Zoom, and will be  
recorded.Dr. Ahmed Eldawy will give a presentation on Natural Language  
Maps: Generative AI for Spatial Data Generation, Querying, and  
Visualization.Maps are powerful, but making sense of them has traditionally  
required specialized expertise in GIS software, complex query languages,  
and significant manual effort. Advances in large language models (LLMs) and  
generative AI are beginning to change this dynamic, opening new ways of  
working with spatial data that are far more intuitive. Instead of relying  
on specialized tools, users can now describe the data they need or write  
complex geographic questions, and intelligent systems can translate those  
intentions into concrete results. This talk will highlight recent progress  
in three key directions: generating realistic spatial datasets from textual  
descriptions, answering complex questions that combine spatial reasoning  
with external knowledge, and automatically creating styles that make map  
visualizations more effective and interpretable. Taken together, these  
advances illustrate a new paradigm where geospatial data can be explored  
and understood through a natural and accessible interface.Ahmed Eldawy is  
an Associate Professor in Computer Science at the University of California  
Riverside. His research interests lie in the broad area of databases with a  
focus on big data management and spatial data processing. Ahmed led the  
research and development in many open source projects for big spatial data  
exploration and visualization including UCR-Star, an interactive repository  
for geospatial data. His work is supported by the National Science  
Foundation (NSF) and the US Department of Agriculture  
(USDA).The meetup will start with announcements of general interest.To  
register, please respond to this calendar invitation, or register  
through Eventbrite. Registration is appreciated but not required.Here’s the  
Zoom  
information:https://ucr.zoom.us/j/91599392166?pwd=LmLhdsfq1EJapb95yLlVeGalMUCBa3.1Meeting  
ID: 915 9939 2166Passcode: 743342Feel free to forward this invitation to  
anyone who may be interested.I hope you will be able to join  
us!Best, -Janet ReyesGeospatial Information Librarian

Organizer
Janet Reyes
janetre at ucr.edu

Guests
Janet Reyes - organizer
Athena Bravo
Ariana Firebaugh Ornelas
Andrew Haglund
Aaron Huang
Akshay Jayaram
Aakash Nagare
Angelica Ortiz
Ajit Singh
Ariel Texis Muñoz
Bhawana Acharya
Barbara Martinez Neda
Bani Badwal
Boluwatife Daodu
Bach Tran
Cynthia Curiel Raygoza
citlaliroji at hotmail.com
ckurnia at esri.com
Chun-Yu Lin
Danelle Angeline Baronia
Daisy Herrera
Daniel Khan
Deja Simon-Jennings
Dana Van
Emily Agurcia
Emily Candido
Fan Bu
geospatial at lists.ucr.edu
gerald.winkel at redcross.org
Gary Qin
Ipek Aytac
Jacqueline Alba
Joy Banik
Jenny Chen
Justin Huft
John Jiang
Joseph Farago-Spencer
Julia Torres
Kathalinne Bella Gonzalez
kiran at mapsolgeo.com
Kritika Gupta
Kristle Robles
laragard at yahoo.com
Laura Chansavang
lmusa at geoinovo.com
Lynda Vernia
Mark Long
Mia Ashby
Megan Asaka
Marlene Figueroa
Mario Mendoza
Mariana Reyes
Matt Vaughn
Nan Li
Natalie Chan
Nícolas Roque dos Santos
Niloofar Shoja Razavi
Noa Noh
Nirali Tailor
Mike Cohen
RJ B
Rocio Gomez
Rajesh Neupane
Ryan Sendejas
Shiva Shashank Adlagatta
Soumya Agarwal
sarahpz596 at gmail.com
Saloni Bonde
Sarah Kim
Stephanie Gutierrez
Suryaa Charan Shivakumar
sufuma at gmail.com
Tiffany Larrabee
Ulices Ramirez Lopez
Valery Chan
wallacetaps at gmail.com
Worku Nida
William Porter
William Troxel
Xuanlin Du
Xing Shi
Zhiyi Wang
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