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Avondalian code-wrangler-wrangler • maps / data / product • 63D3 ADE1 5625 3865 • OSGeo Oceania • http://Koordinates.com • http://KartProject.org • Opiskellen suomea • Ex @polemic on the bird app
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The FOSS4G 2025 logo competition is running! You don't need to be a designer (we'll help the winner with professional design support) so get submitting ASAP 2025.foss4g.org/logo-competi...

submitted 13 hours ago • 0 comments

All open source is political. Even Rouault – archetypal GIS "random person maintaining the code that supports all modern digital infrastucture" – commited to GDAL github.com/OSGeo/gdal/p... - will now print "Trans rights are human rights" with `--version`. #gischat 🏳️‍⚧️👏🏼🏅

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Got my copy along with Hannu Rajaniemi's latest Darkome from Timeout in Mt Eden. Just finished The Sunforge and I'm still reeling. High up on the re-read list.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Quote post with a beach photo from your library. Waikahoa Bay, Jan 2025. Peak summer season. We've been going for 10 years and the full fishing ban in the marine reserve is making a difference. Dolphins turned up for the first time to catch fish and play around the rocks.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Is there a more liminal space than the storage facility hallway. (also hooray for finally emptying out the unit after a year-long renovation project)

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Experimenting with GeoDeep (github.com/uav4geo/GeoD...) – incredibly quick & easy way to get started in ML for geo. Classifying trees, roads and cars with built-in/free models. Data CC-BY LINZ source from data.linz.govt.nz/layer/95497-... #gischat

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

The counter-punch is "well obviously it is always now".

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Clearing out the office bookshelf and came across these GIS gems from 2005! There is a lot of GDAL still relevant today, and a 3d example! #gischat

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

Worth tuning in #gischat!

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

TIL, NZ geographical quirk: Lake Otamangakau in Tongariro National Park technically connects the Whanganui River to Lake Taupō (and therefore onwards to the Waikato River). Huge trout too, apparently.

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Christchurch, Wellington, Auckland, Dunedin

submitted 49 days ago • 19 comments

Getting @kartfordata.bsky.social onto Bluesky. I think it's pretty neat, you should check it out #gischat

submitted 51 days ago • 1 comment

I like a good Poirot tale but it's remarkable how many more innocents die because he's on the case.

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

gdalinfo or ogrinfo, I'll always try the wrong one first. It's like the USB thumbdrive flip of GIS. #gischat

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

(1/5) My employer, Toitū Te Whenua Land Information New Zealand (linz.govt.nz) is now sponsoring GDAL (gdal.org/en/latest/sp...). I believe we are the first government mapping agency to directly sponsor the project. Would be great to have some peers join us! #osgeo #foss4g #gdal #gischat

submitted 84 days ago • 2 comments

An emerging problem with "JSON for geo" we've now got piles of .json floating around and you can't figure out what it is without opening it running heuristics against increasingly vague schemas & conventions. "Is this file an MVT style, GeoJSON, a STAC catalog, a 3DTile doc?" #gischat

submitted 86 days ago • 1 comment

Look I'm not saying web designers should be forced to use refurbished 22 inch dell business monitors but hear me out

submitted 87 days ago • 0 comments

#gischat

submitted 92 days ago • 0 comments

shapefiles are pretty good actually

submitted 98 days ago • 1 comment

Hello hello whats this then 😁

submitted 100 days ago • 1 comment

Just released a new version of our QGIS Kart Plugin - now with Processing extensions so you can start building workflows on top of your versioned Kart repositories. plugins.qgis.org/plugins/kart/

submitted 101 days ago • 0 comments

Go strong, te hīkoi mō te Tiriti.

submitted 101 days ago • 0 comments

I'm on the hunt for QGIS users in Aotearoa New Zealand – if you or your business uses QGIS let me know! There are a few of you out there and a big opportunity to network, learn and grow.

submitted 102 days ago • 1 comment

Definitely the best way to deal with government waste is by creating new government waste-reduction departments.

submitted 107 days ago • 0 comments