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Probably my favorite new feature in #QGIS 3.42 Münster: raster labeling 🤩 It sounds basic but it will be sooo useful for our workflows https://youtu.be/v6Ejov4u7xk?si=2Sjhn1OAe_0IKdAL #GISChat

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Check out this great new video about Our World in Data from @socsci.ox.ac.uk featuring our founder, @maxroser.bsky.social! www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCz6...

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A survey undertaken over the last 20 years of the Irish seabed is coming to its last lap. The INFOMAR programme has been compiling an in-depth survey of the seabed all around the coast

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Very interesting article: www.ft.com/content/3dac...

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Yup, it's that time of the year again, when reporters need to find a scientist to give them a quote for their article. To save time, I've come up with this.

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NEW: The largest map I've made at the @financialtimes.com, highlighting the tragic events in Valencia. @barneyjopson.bsky.social report looks into the failed implementation of risk reduction plans, building on known flood zones and failure to heed warnings on the day ft.com/content/6199... #dataviz

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Sharing this to the world in case someone wants to try this on its own: mhinfographics.com/2024/12/19/t...

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The year 2024 saw contrasting wildfire activity across the globe: Records in parts of South America and intense fires in North America, near-to-average in Europe and Oceana, below average in most parts of Asia. Read our full summary here: atmosphere.copernicus.eu/cams-global-...

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The mean color of all forest pixels from MODIS data: old.reddit.com/r/dataisbeau... Based on Blue Marble MODIS colors (cc @rsimmon.bsky.social)

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So... Given the old school #gischat vibes here, who'd like to see the "30 days of QGIS" advent calendar make a comeback? 🎄

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#DYK that penguin 💩 can be seen from space? My latest ⬇️ earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/15357... #earthobservation

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If you have strong feelings about these three map formats, then you may enjoy the special US election edition of our newsletter The Crunch! 📊 www.theguardian.com/news/2024/no... #dataviz #data

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Are you like me and stay AWAKE at night thinking about how to get #QGIS to render overlapping symbols like its 3D when its not? Turns out the fix is dirt simple: Just arranging by descending y position for each point! #maps

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Last talk of the morning #NACIS24 practical cartography day session was me! How to read scientific data formats with GDAL, and make maps out of them: medium.com/@robsimmon/a... 🗺️

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📣 We are pleased to announce that the much awaited #ERA5 and ERA5-Land post-processed daily statistics have been released as datasets in the new Climate Data Store, replacing the legacy ERA5 daily statistics application. Forum announcement: forum.ecmwf.int/t/new-datase... Direct links 👇

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Interesting read: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

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The story behind the wonderful @nytimes.com map detailing buildings destroyed across Ukraine since the Russian invasion. Featuring infofails, sketches, small multiples, and the full spread in the print edition. By @mhernandez.bsky.social mhinfographics.com/2024/06/22/v... #dataviz #cartography 📊

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Today in ✨Please Stop Using “Visible from Space” to Mean Absolutely Enormous✨ news: trucks full of greens at the Wakulima market, Nairobi. (Source imagery from the Maxar Open Data Program, CC BY-NC.)

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So cool to see declassified reconnaissance satellite imagery – likely from a KH-9 – featured by Christoph Koettl in the @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2024/05/10/w... It’s an awesome dataset: www.usgs.gov/centers/eros...

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Place names with 'bear' overlaid on black bear habitat in North America:

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An additional use of satellite imagery in news is to document events. Here’s the aftermath of a strike on Saudi oil facilities on the front page of The NY Times. Read more about remote sensing in data journalism in my article for @datavizsociety.bsky.social nightingaledvs.com/from-space-t...

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Interesting read: petapixel.com/2024/03/08/g...

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I have a map featured on maps.com today! www.maps.com/carbon-cycle... It’s one of my favorites because the lightness and saturation of the data over land and water are matched—the only difference is hue (green vs. blue). So you can directly compare each region, but also instantly distinguish them!

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Very interesting article and #GIS adjacent: undark.org/2024/01/22/s...

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Good article: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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This gdal & ogr2ogr cheat sheet by Derek Watkins is an invaluable resource for working with geospatial data (GeoTIFFs & shapefiles) on the command line: github.com/dwtkns/gdal-...

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My analysis of finding the most remote building in Ireland: www.spatialoverlay.xyz/ireland/most... #remoteness #QGIS #Ireland

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