Great story on ABC #4Corners now on how online gambling companies operate, the damage they do to the community & how they keep the major political parties in the pockets.

Definitely depends what you're up to! People are definitely experimenting with serving features directly from Parquet files for visualization (e.g., medium.com/center-for-c... )

is Scott Morrison in jail yet? Impressive to outdo John Howard for evil

This evening, President Trump is ordering 400 members of the Texas National Guard for deployments to Illinois, Oregon, and other locations within the United States. No officials from the federal government called me directly to discuss or coordinate.

Watch | Israeli occupation forces have released new drone footage from Gaza, revealing the mass destruction and the erasure of every means of life in the Strip.

Amsterdam, we salute you! #Auspol

The claim seems widely overstated because in the end it is about selecting the partitioning in order to push as much computation into storage layer as possible. Selecting the partitioning is mostly about access pattern just like db indexes

Oh yes I'm using gdalwarp here. User draws on wmts and it looks at a .vrt file to match which geotiffs it overlays. That way I don't have to display the tifs. Thinking of adding more crs options for the output and choice between geotiff and jpg2000. Just prototyping this

Found a rich seam here: github.com/cloudnativeg...

Got the gdal clip working. First time hearing about ALB, security groups, ECS, services, task definitions, cloudfront, a bunch of other bs. I think I can scale this (so says Claude 🤷‍♂️)

- FGB is great! Lookups with small ranges work well but full scans are much slower (particularly if zipped!) - SedonaDB, DuckDB, and pyarrow with fsspec can all do partial Parquet reads from http (give geoarrow.org/data a try!)

Hacking together a Clip-Zip-Ship tool: draw custom polygon over wmts imagery service in web mercator, converts to UTM zone 19 coordinates and clips the corresponding geotiff (4band, 15cm, 16bit) and delivers to user. Next: Select town as clipping boundary, give 100m buffer

If you sozip that FGB, it becomes 2GB as well. Bonus points. Try accessing that GeoParquet remotely on a simple web server. You can't. Not without a backend. Uncompressed FGB? No problem.

I cannot say enough about DataFusion...in order to build an engine that considers spatial types at every level we needed to customize types, functions, optimizer rules, joins, Parquet pruning, and more. DataFusion not only made this possible but documented even the most obscure bits. So cool!

Interesting...I think of GeoParquet and GeoArrow as tech that allows more people to avoid the cloud (i.e., use your laptop to do things that everyone thought they needed "the cloud" for five years ago). When your 14 GB .fgb files become 2GB GeoParquets, you can fit a whole lot more of them locally!

my most charitable opinion is that I also don't love that basically all software engineering currently requires using bespoke tooling and renting clock time from 1 of 3 corps but that does mean that everyone everywhere needs tools for dealing with those corp's tech... not just the hyperscalers

🚨 “They put black people in one van and immigrants an another… Trucks and military style vans were used to separate children from their parents.” THIS. IS. HAPPENING. People need to see this. We all need to see it. Nobody gets a pass here. Please share with your networks. 1/2

You might also be interested in the R-multiverse built on top of R-universe. ropensci.org/commcalls/r-...

R-Universe by @rOpenSci is an extremely useful project. My latest R package, {pmtiles}, is not a good fit for CRAN as it bundles a pre-compiled Go library. With R-Universe, I was able to get installable cross-platform binaries built in hours! #rstats walkerke.r-universe....

"Do things like "GeoParquet" and "GeoArrow" really matter to practitioners who aren't working for a handful of hyper-scaling organizations?". 🤔 First I've heard my employer called that 😆 sgillies.net/2025/09/17/l...

Sean Gillies is leaving the GDAL Project Steering Commitee https://sgillies.net/2025/09/17/leaving-the-gdal-psc.html

Introducing {pmtiles}: an #rstats package to create, view, and interact with PMTiles. PMTiles is one of the most exciting geospatial innovations in recent years. Map tiles are stored & served from a single file, making massive geospatial data visualization widely accessible.

Trump's UN speech was one of his most unfiltered and extended climate denial riffs ever, full of falsehoods, lies and distortions. “I’m really good at predicting things...I don’t say that in a braggadocios way, but it’s true. I’ve been right about everything.” www.eenews.net/articles/con...

Hi folks: I'm looking at NOAA people and programs affected by the shutdown. If that's you, or a project you work on, I'd love to hear from you. @chelseaeharvey.01 on Signal

Moving terabytes of cloud data in Python was too slow & messy—so we built Obstore. ⚡ Fast & stateless ☁️ Works with S3, GCS, & Azure 🐍 Rust-backed, no dependencies It’s already powering cloud-native geospatial tools. Read the blog: ds.io/obstore-blog

We built stac-map, a lightweight, map-first prototype for exploring STAC GeoParquet in your browser. Built w/ DuckDB, geoarrow, & semantic STAC search, explore STAC GeoParquet files directly in the browser. Try it: developmentseed.org/stac-map/ Blog: ds.io/stac-map @gadom.ski @indraneel.org

Lonboard's 0.12 release improved the support for GeoArrow data types, and is moving towards being fully GeoArrow-native. Shapely is no longer a required dependency! github.com/developments...

At #BiDS2025 this week! At two demos we're sharing how to make Sentinel data more accessible and actionable: 🔹 Sentinel Zarr Explorer 🔹 EOPF Toolkit + Notebook Competition with @thrivegeo.bsky.social Agenda: bids25-signup.esa.int/agenda We'd love to chat! #EarthObservation #BigData #CloudNative

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Something I jokingly said at work, but dang if it isn't actually true: "Everyone needs an emotional support R script." You know, those R scripts in your project where you test your freak code before you're confident it works? #RStats

xx <- ... is my garbage variable name. My instincts are to just use x, but my instincts also tell me I probably have used x in my actual code somewhere important

Untitled1 is the one true way

xx.R is in my global .gitignore

The Coalesced Chunk Retrieval Protocol (CCRP): ccrp.dev/docs/ccrp-in... Blog post: cloudnativegeo.org/blog/2025/09... Upcoming talk (October 1, 12PM ET): discourse.pangeo.io/t/pangeo-sho...

So exhausting..

Antarctic and Southern Ocean security in spotlight after unsuccessful funding deal www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

The other day my mum went away on holiday and later asked me to go check the stove at their house

Aero bar but with all the holes filled with chocolate

“More than a year of intensive work – conducted by an independent panel of five, with expertise in urban planning, law, local government, architecture and finance – was passed off as a matter of opinion.” @thesaturdaypaper.com.au #politas

no one ever warns you how much JavaScript you'll need to write when you're starting in data science

kicking python concurrent.futures butt with {mirai} #rstats gist.github.com/mdsumner/898... (there's no reason ThreadPoolExecutor should not be as fast, I'm genuinely looking for an answer to what I'm doing wrong there) /1

Ok, I got the solution. It's a bit hacky, but it works. The trick is to submit the job with `-h` so it's held and not run. Then you use `qstat -F json -f $id` to get all the info in json format, get the info and then delete.

It was a real pleasure to speak with @numpy.bsky.social creator Travis Oliphant about NumPy, SciPy, and #Python: the Documentary! New @nature.com 🧪🐍 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

📢 PSA: The R-Forge server is under attack from hackers and hence web access (e.g., for package installation) is currently down. #rstats The team at WU Wien is working on it. I'll report here when it is back up again.

I'm in the middle of preparing slides for an "Introduction to R" course. Thought I'd use a figure to explain element recycling in vectorized operations. #RStats #course #learn

Uhhh, folks? This is real bad. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

this URL will likely be changing. the slug is "enforcing-the-death-penalty-laws-in-the-district-of-columbia-to-deter-and-punish-the-most-heinous-crimes" b/c there's another memo on the 25th for that., but the idiots who run the WH WordPress site likely pasted the wrong memo first. abject morons

Have you ever started working in Python and then felt... stuck? Check out @juliasilge.com's recommendations from her talk, "How I got unstuck with Python", at posit::conf(2025)! The recording will be on the Posit YouTube channel soon 🤗 Slides: juliasilge.github.io/get-unstuck-...

This Soldier has 20 years of service in the United States military. He is now being investigated as a threat to National Security because he had posted a post against Israel and the genocide they are doing. He took an oath to the US not Israel. This is ridiculous and unacceptable!

if you wonder about coordinates in arrays and netcdf and Zarr and #xarray check out this awesome video and gallery, to see where xarray is going www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-NH... xarray-indexes.readthedocs.io excellent presentation by @deepakcherian.bsky.social of #earthmover