> ..roll out in three phases: stabilising critical systems, modernising platforms, and enabling innovative healthcare models.. seems reasonable > ..a collaboration between Health New Zealand and global experts in AI and process engineering.. Ah ok expensive disaster.

Here we gooooo #gischat

Just one of the many cool side events happening at FOSS4G next week. #gischat

Ok #gischat less than a week until @foss4g.org - the open, inclusive, educational and fun geospatial conference happening in Auckland from 17th-23rd November. 2025.foss4g.org - can I fit everything we're doing into one skeet (takes a breath)...

My word of the year is "Fractional". Mate, just say part-time.

Choose your fighter: medical efficacy study [in mice]; safety standard [based on 1950s white male]; sociological research outcome [using AI agents in place of humans]

New Zealand used to have a spine on international issues. This is very disappointing, and the weeks of "wait and see" coyness from the PM is a bonus insult. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

I find it interesting that the majority of GIS innovation happens outside of the USA. Tell me I'm wrong. #gischat

Hey #gischat don't forget to register for FOSS4G 2025. The schedule is up at 2025.foss4g.org. Just a few highlights: - 4 amazing keynotes - 44 workshops, 140 presentations, 50 lightning talks, 2 community days - business 2 business, geochicas and gala dinner events - movie screening + much more

Auckland is showing up

It's only a constitutional crisis if one or more branches actually dissented. No, the USA has a constitutional conspiracy.

Bit tired of the sci-fi fever dreams from people who don't have to fold their own damn laundry.

Good morning Auckland!

Earth Sciences NZ, our new center of excellence for environmental science in New Zealand, uses this image as their logo / hero image on their website. It's.. wrong. Wrong in a 6-fingered AI generated human way. Not an auspicious start to the agency's future. #gischat

Can't beat Auckland

Hey #gischat - you've got just 24 hours left to submit a talk or get early bird pricing for @foss4g.org - it won't be extended again! Community voting will start on over 200 talks and 40 workshop proposals from next week. 2025.foss4g.org

Oh hai

We've just launched the new #foss4g2025 Auckland website! 2025.foss4g.org. Early bird tickets still available and CfP closing soon, so get in quick. Sales & submissions are going strong so get in quick, it's going to be a fun one. #gischat #osgeo

Matariki / mid-winter soltice swim done ✅. Hard to beat Auckland, any day of the year.

Never not a deeply interesting, insightful and relevant discord.

Exploring home with the new LINZ Auckland 2024 LiDAR capture (data.linz.govt.nz/layer/d3VcCb...)

Logo trends are interesting. Forget the omni-app rainbow, or tech blue-on-white, AI is all about the stark monochrome.

Newmarket has never quite figured out what it's for - and maybe the mall is bad for street retailers - but I don't recall them thriving during the rebuild. The mall was and remains the biggest draw to the strip.

Wondered if there was a Māori name for Rosebank Peninsula. Got Google's confidently incorrect (and confusingly plausible) answer.

Infrasnature

Hey Auckland, there's a lunar eclipse tonight! Full effect around 8pm. Low on the horizon to the east, should look pretty spooky. www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/in/n...

Ahhh the "Fremen mirage" enters the chat. Musk thinks we are too soft, and will therefore destroy the very things that make western civilisation powerful.

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...

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 🏳️‍⚧️👏🏼🏅

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.

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.

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)

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

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

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

Worth tuning in #gischat!

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.

Christchurch, Wellington, Auckland, Dunedin

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

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

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

(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

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

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

shapefiles are pretty good actually

Hello hello whats this then 😁

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/

Go strong, te hīkoi mō te Tiriti.

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.