I had the opportunity to work on generating some stream data in #QGIS for a partner in the Ecuadorian Amazon today. I had forgotten how much fun it is to do remote sensing stuff 🙂

❤️ Have you shared your perspectives on the survey led by the GBIF #TaskGroup on Indigenous data governance? This week, task group chair @1nativesoilnerd.bsky.social shared initial results of the survey at the Living Data, Living Lands event at #ClimateWeekNYC. 🔗gbif.link/Indigenous...

This is amazing. Do yourself a favor and check out this report from @awana.digital jam-packed with incredible community mapping impact stories and powerful visuals!

Given ongoing FOSS governance concerns with #OrganicMaps, I modified my "Convert Google Maps saved places" tool to explicitly support @comaps.app instead: rudokemper.github.io/google-maps-...

Sharing this technical blog post about our use of the FOSS data orchestration engine Windmill to build and manage backend data workflows for Indigenous community organizations! www.windmill.dev/blog/conserv...

Delighted to announce a hiring opp at Conservation Metrics! Come join our team in building a FOSS data sovereignty platform for communities to securely centralize, access, and derive insights from their data, stored on premises which they own entirely. conservationmetrics.com/hiring-fulls...

Check out this great piece by Tanya Ruka and Victor Temprano about how and why @nativeland.bsky.social is centering Indigenous data sovereignty in the terms of service of our API! nativeland.substack.com/p/native-lan...

GIS folks: is there a viable #QGIS plugin for freehand drawing features that will work in 3.x.x? It looks like "BeePen" is only good for annotations, and "Freehand Editing" was last updated 12 years ago. If not, would there be interest in one? #GISChat @qgis.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy

Amazon Mining Watch is now available with 2024 data, to detect and compare mining driven environmental harm across the Amazon. amazonminingwatch.org/en

A project I've been working on for the last 6 months. I feel really strongly about making geospatial technology and data available and understood by as many people as possible. And that requires getting creative with the ways we share information. This is my small contribution to that effort.

What if you could ask a map a question—and get a real, reliable answer? We’ve been exploring how LLMs can make geospatial data more accessible by translating natural language into structured queries. But AI alone isn’t enough—trusted data sources and human oversight are key. 🔗 ds.io/language-in...

Just in case you had missed this... By Friday, the landing pages on the United States Forest Service website for key resources, research and adaptation tools had gone dark, leaving behind an error message or just a single line: “You are not authorized to access this page.” 🌐🧪🌎

Come work with me on some cutting-edge decentralised tech with real-world applications that is directly helping communities around the world protect biodiversity and fight deforestation.

.🥳 Have you tried CoMapeo yet? We are excited for you to try our next-gen territorial monitoring & mapping tool, co-designed with #EarthDefenders. 🌱Download it and map your world, together. New features coming soon! 👉🏾Find it on the Playstore or visit comapeo.app

Check out this article about some great territorial defense work being done by the Krahô community with support by @luandro.bsky.social and @awana.digital in Brazil

This short film explores how Indigenous communities are combining ancestral wisdom with cutting-edge technology to map and monitor their territories. From ancient traditions to modern tools, these approaches can help protect their biodiversity and heritage. @nature.org

New publication alert! Check out our paper on the “Governance of Indigenous data in open Earth systems science” co- led by myself and Dr. Katie Jones. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I make a thingy that holds community stuff, keeps it safe, and goes “hey, look!” if something weird happens.

Today, I got this email: "Congratulations on the successful approval by the ICA Executive Committee of your proposed new working group on #ParticipatoryMapping " Let's start the fun/work on #PGIS #PPGIS #Pmaping # participation begin! Want to join? DM me! @oliverescobar.bsky.social

⚠️ Nerdy post ahead When I was young, one of my favorite PC game series was Ultima by @richardgarriott.bsky.social. I loved the world-building and philosophical aspects, and I actually learned a lot of English from playing them. And then there were the maps; both in-game, and these physical copies.

The PMTiles MapLibre GL JS plugin supports now tile pyramids with multiple maxzooms. That's nice when you want to put for example z14 data for Switzerland and z8 data for the rest of the world into one .pmtiles file. Thanks @bdon.org for working on this... github.com/protomaps/PM...

This methodology for social mapping from UCL is a really interesting case study in meeting people where they are in terms of tech they use daily. Should we be worried about storing potentially sensitive place data on Meta servers, though? tinyurl.com/ucl-kapta

A conversation with @johnwbryant.bsky.social made me realize how #QGIS plays a somewhat underappreciated role in all of our work supporting Indigenous communities in participatory mapping. So I'd like to shout out QGIS for being an amazing FOSS tool that we benefit from daily! Captions in alt text.

Where the bsky Rights of Nature people at? Had this posted on the other site, but the Rappahannock Tribe of VA has became the first tribal nation in the US to adopt a Tribal Constitution that recognizes the constitutional rights of nature. nativenewsonline.net/sovereignty/...

I created a #StarterPack for folks who work with technology in conservation and ecology. This is not an exhaustive list so please let me know if I forgot anyone or if you would like to be included! I am excited for this community to grow here! @wildlabsnet.bsky.social go.bsky.app/8HJvopG

Honored to have spent a week recently at #COP16 in Cali, Colombia with my co-conspirators, technical collaborators, and good friends from @awana.digital. The week before, we established integration between #CoMapeo and #GuardianConnector.

Proud to have a few of my photos from collaborations with CIPDP Chepkitale (Ogiek) in Mount Elgon, Kenya featured in this top-notch report by #ForestPeoplesProgramme! Congratulations to all involved.