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This week is how to best identify the location of residential dwelling building footprints in Australia. Important if your trying to calculate how far they are away from services #gischat
The @foss4g.org 2025 conference website is live!
And I'm leading sponsorship, so if you'd like your company's logo up there on that website showcasing your support for the open geospatial community, then please get in touch!
Check it out: 2025.foss4g.org
For our research group the quick IO and compression has enabled us to iterate and develop much faster. We just output to gpkg and gdb when we need to. In combination with geopandas It has made big geodata processing much smaller in my experience. Leaves ESRI far behind in the research space.
#GISchat #GeoSky
A human being with some clarity of thought IMO....
Tilda Swinton decries ‘internationally enabled mass murder’ at Berlin film festival | Film | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/film/2025/fe...
Interested in how the ABS is looking at the Zone Design Problem? This paper provides some insight. Things have moved on since Openshaw & Rao's ZDES #gischat
Emulating human expertise in rezoning: a case study of the Australian statistical geography standard
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
🎙️ New #GLaDpodcast episode! @darribas.bsky.social, @levijohnwolf.bsky.social and I are joined by the amazing @geoffboeing.com (@priceschool.usc.edu) to talk streets, disasters, urban form & open source software. It's a pretty good one, if I do say so myself. #geosky
open.spotify.com/episode/4H6K...
More open address datasets released by councils in England www.owenboswarva.com/blog/post-ad...
New blog post with download links for Council Tax lists from Birmingham City Council and Lichfield District Council, including full addresses, CT bands, and UPRNs.
#FOI #openaddresses #opendata
Nice piece of National Data Infrastructure. It would great if Australia invested similarly in its digital assets.
The important point this raises is that countries commonly under invest in these data assets. It is under appreciated how important they are.
Ministry to digitalise property data to speed up homebuying process www.theguardian.com/money/2025/f...
A deep dive into #GeoParquet Downloader #QGIS Plug-in by Chris Holmes
https://medium.com/radiant-earth-insights/a-deep-dive-into-geoparquet-downloader-qgis-plug-in-017c0b1facb1
#GISChat
Worth a read…
‘He smashed his iPad and headphones. My lyrics got torn up’: inside Elton John and Brandi Carlile’s explosive duets album
A question that has been crossing my mind the last few days. Are the Overture products better that anything the Australian Governments produce or pay to produce? Addresses no...but the road network perhaps?
Overture Maps Explorer (Beta) explore.overturemaps.org#15.4/-35.308...
Geographically complex
Intro to FORTRAN66 in a Digital Cartography course at Dundee Uni in the late 1980's. Writing essays using Word Perfect on the new PCs had just turned up at the library. It was a brave new world. #gischat
‘Net zero hero’ myth unfairly shifts burden of solving climate crisis on to individuals, study finds
+1
Great to focus on a part of the globe where this investment will have significant benefit. Questions 😁. Will the underlying data that goes into these base maps also be openly available? Will Overture Maps be involved? Thinking GERS?
For those into leading edge geospatial ETL. Free "DuckDB in Action" Book motherduck.com/duckdb-book-...
1. The people. Geographers have an understanding of the world that generally makes them good to be around.
2. The creativity. Creating code or a map is just good for the soul.
3. The value. Producing a product that helps people.
#gischat
This sums things up nicely and provides some hard figures. Climate change increases costs.
Australians should be angry about another year of climate inaction. But don’t let your anger turn into despair | Greg Jericho | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/business/gro...
Maningrida 2518 person. No addresses
When you're building a residential dwelling reference frame in Australia....interesting to note just how many places do NOT have addresses. Maningrida 2518 persons. Lots of buildings. No addresses. CARA greateraccessforall.com
Mastodon’s founder cedes control, refuses to become next Musk or Zuckerberg - Ars Technica arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
‘I was terrified about parental backlash’: taking contested history into schools
Just published in JOSS: 'antimeridian: A Python package for correcting geometries that cross the 180th meridian' https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.07530
Quite possibly one of the coolest jobs I've seen! Cartographic Technician for the NPS in Yosemite! nps.usajobs.gov/job/826382000
