Bizarre scenes in eastern Germany after days of mixed precipitation. A layer of black ice and frozen snow several centimeters thick is causing chaotic conditions on the roads. Images via WarnWetter-App @dwdderwetterdienst.bsky.social #Winter #Weather #Snow #Ice

AI knowledge, or, no ledge to high to confidently stand on.

“pandoc for the people”, the pandoc wasm web-app, is now available at https://pandoc.org/app/ It allows to run any kind of document conversion that pandoc supports in the browser. The documents never leave the computer, thus ensuring *full privacy*. Conversions to pdf are done via Typst […]

Show me any WebGIS/Webmapping feature that didn't exist 20 years ago. Some days it feels like everything new is just new because it was written in a different framework. (Except for 3D stuff.)

Happy Birthday OSGeo! Celebrating 20 years of Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial 2026-02-04 Thank you to everyone who has been part of this endeavour over the last 20 years. We invite you to celebrate with us, to share memories & to look ahead to […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

Wondering where @EvenRouault would put HDF5 on a scale from WKT to GML.

The International Cartographic Association's Commission on Map Design https://mapdesign.icaci.org threatened to post AI slop everyday and they followed through. R.I.P.

I’m launching #QwastTube: a #PeerTube‑based, privacy‑friendly alternative to my YouTube channel. If you care about digital sovereignty and open‑source GIS, this is for you. I’m still importing videos, but it’s already live: 👉 https://videos.qwast-gis.com […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

One of my colleagues is offering a PhD position in #Cartography at @ruhr-uni-bochum.de#cartography https://jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/74eb910d75b2ea24d0e1a84d335dee32d03be2db0 Please pass it on 🙏 #academicjobs #geographyjobs

Those new LLM written plugins for #qgis are really faaaantastic. I mean, doesn't this fill you with confidence? > For geographic CRS (EPSG:4326), metric operations are automatically converted to EPSG:3857 for accuracy.

Just remembered this was a game changer for me a decade ago, so here is a monday tip for commandline lovers: If you have `grep`ped and `sed`ed yourself through your data and now want to join the resulting lines into a columnar format, use `paste`: $ grep | sed | foo | bar a b c d e $ grep | […]

Oh, und vom 25.–28. März bin ich auf der #fossgis in Göttingen. Kenn ich da jemanden, der sich mit mir treffen will? (und nachdem ich grad dabei bin, die Unterkunft zu buchen: falls jmd nen Tipp hat, der sich nicht auf den üblichen Hotel-Seiten findet, nehm ich gerne ;-)

LLMAA

Anyone got a random Teledyne CARIS HOB file sample for me? #gis #hydrography

You are absolutely right! This README I wrote is borderline useless because it talks about three million irrelevant details and tangents instead of telling you, a human person with a brain, the actual information worth reading.

Super interessanter #hamburg-Atlas: https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783986122799/html

Look at the latest ~100 QGIS plugins. Felt like a quarter was AI developed.

Trying to get pandoc and https://github.com/Wandmalfarbe/pandoc-latex-template to call figures the German term "Abbildung" makes me appreciate that I did not have to deal with f+king LaTeX for years.

Der erste Vortrag ist von Reena Pauly: Wie strukturieren Menschen ihre Wahrnehmung dynamischer Karten? Empirische Einblicke aus Online-Studien Jetzt live auf https://streaming.media.ccc.de/niam2026 #niam2026

Die #2026niam läuft! Ein spannender Tag voller Vorträge rund um verschiedenste Aspekte der Kartographie. Wir streamen live auf https://streaming.media.ccc.de/niam2026 (habt Nachsicht, wenn es noch etwas hakelt 🤗 )

Ich hab immer wieder massive Probleme mit dem Gendern. Ist es jetzt der, die oder das Query?

Traditionell.

The selling point of this 1924 map is that you will save time and money by not getting lost on the roads when you leave your neighborhood.

Die #niam2026 wird auf https://streaming.media.ccc.de/niam2026 gestreamt und ich kann gar nicht sagen, wie großartig das ist :party_parrot: :party_parrot: :party_parrot: :party_parrot: :party_parrot: Danke @joliyea und @c3voc!

Praktisch, im Mieterverein eingestiegen und die Mitgliederverwaltung ist direkt bei uns auf http://127.0.0.1:9990/

Hamburgs schönste Buchhandlung ist wieder da: Dank der Stiftung Denkmalpflege Hamburg und der Hermann Reemtsma Stiftung ist der Pavillon der Bücherstube Stolterfoht wieder in dem Zustand, in dem ihn Greta Stolterfoht 1949 bezog.

I looked back at 2025 and collected some music recommendations: https://hannes.enjoys.it/blog/2026/01/2025-music/

2026 starts with good spam at least

#mood #qgis

I cannot recommend KDE Plasma enough. It follows decades of desktop UI/UX standards, has great defaults and is super configurable in intuitive ways. Maybe something to try in your holidays?

Habemus #niam2026 Programm! 🥳 https://www.news-infographics-analytics-maps.media/2026.html?nocache124 Oder mit etwas mehr Komfort direkt in Pretalx: https://pretalx.news-infographics-analytics-maps.media/2026/schedule/ Danke an unsere Sponsoren! Kartenabteilung der SBB: @stabi_berlin […]

Why does #qgis show more details on the algorithms being run from a model if that model is launched from the model designer, as opposed to being launched from the Processing toolbox? Can I make it should all that information when I launch models from the Processing toolbox too?

What if: Those "AI scrapers" are really a DDOS to force all the good old small, sources of trustworthy and honest actual information off the web. So they can shove their AI regurgitation down your throat.

One of those for file in *.shp; do echo "ISO-8859-15" > "${file/shp/cpg}"; done days

Swiss Cartography AI Slop Spotted In The Wild!

Yay, alles angenommen für die #fossgis2026! Vortrag: Python in QGIS – ein Blick auf die Schnittstellen und ihre Sicherheit* Demosession: Moderne Cloud-Daten in QGIS* LT: QGIS-Plugins unter QGIS4/Qt6 lauffähig machen *: Mit meiner Kollegin Isabelle Korsch

I did not expect the bunny to load in #qgis, chapeau @lutraconsulting!

Gesucht: Günstiger Caterer für Getränkeversorgung für ~100 Personen in Berlin. Hat jemand einen guten Tipp?

#mapscaping, more like #crappasting. I think I like this one best so far: https://mapscaping.com/population-within-a-area/ Shout when you realise its glory.

Wir freuen uns ab sofort über Einreichungen und Anmeldungen für die Konferenz *News-Infographics-Analytics-Maps* der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Kartographie e.V.: 🧑‍🏫 https://pretalx.news-infographics-analytics-maps.media/2026/cfp 🎫 https://pretix.eu/niam/niam2026/ 🌐 […]

Hi, my name is @cartocalypse and I just wasted about a day in bug hunting all because I removed elements from a list while iterating over the list.

MapScaping is a bloody AI slop spammer, just look at https://mapscaping.com/blog/ F*** everything about this kind of pollution of the internet. Avoid, unsubscribe, block.

Heute absolut überlegen gefühlt, als Gruppe WanderInnen nach einem Aussichtsturm gefragt hat, den sie wohl verpasst hätten. Hatten "KI" für ihre Planung genutzt (für die POI-Auswahl, also egtl ok!). Hab ihn auf OsmAnd natürlich sofort gefunden (als "Aussichtspunkt/Foo") und den Weg beschrieben […]

Finally watched Wargames the other day and it was ... boring and bad. Didn't expect that! Subscribe for more disappointing movie reviews many years too late.

Unterschreibt hier meine Petition für Elektroschocks bei Lautstärkenpegelüberschreitung im Ruheabteil

TIL #nextcloud share file download URLs support HTTP Range so you can use them to share and access cloud optimized files in #qgis for example.