Pete Gadomski
@gadom.ski
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Geospatial open source
@developmentseed.org
https://github.com/gadomski
https://www.gadom.ski/
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Karen K. Ho
1 day ago
I'm not going to ask if you're doomscrolling. Everything is hard right now. But you still need to eat some food, drink a glass of water, as well as time to rest and recover. Try not to stay up too late tonight. Sleep deprivation will make everything you need to do harder, including helping others.
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Endless Screaming
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Effin' Birds
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As I (slowly) experiment with LLM-based code tools, I'm finding that the global configuration file is a good distillation of how I think about coding. I wonder if your `CLAUDE.md` (or its equivalent) will become something like a "profile" for coders?
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Source Cooperative
about 2 months ago
If you missed the conversation between
@geoskeptic.bsky.social
&
@jed.co
on how open tech standards evolve, using
#stac
as a case study, you can watch it here
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFFe...
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This Hat Celebrates Alex Pretti
about 2 months ago
ICE are thug scum.
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i made a small extension for Visual Studio Code that auto-magically configures json-schema validation for STAC JSON Search for "STAC Validator" in the marketplace, or check it out here:
marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemNa...
about 2 months ago
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Moon-Watcher
about 2 months ago
Who has made this π€£
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TFW you're working a Microsoft contract and need to use multiple VMs to access services
#winception
about 2 months ago
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Kiri Carini
2 months ago
Had a great week spending time IRL with my
@developmentseed.org
team in Lisbon. I work with the smartest, kindest people and Iβm feeling energized to finish the year strong and looking forward to 2026. π«Ά
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Slides for my
@foss4gna.bsky.social
NA talk, "Cloud-Native Geospatial Metadata with stac-geoparquet" are at
www.gadom.ski/presentation...
I subtitled the talk "Practical STAC", because
#stac-geoparquet
was motivated by real-world problems found while managing large
@stacspec.bsky.social
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stac-geoparquet
https://www.gadom.ski/presentations/2025-11-04-stac-geoparquet.html
3 months ago
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Kicking off
@foss4gna.bsky.social
2025 with an excellent, delightfully in-the-weeds discussion of remote sensing for disaster response from Katie Picchione I always love this conference and its wonderful mix of the technical and the personal
3 months ago
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K. Chen
3 months ago
It's incredibly normal to feel uncomfortable being near people who are different from you. And your job as a human being is to feel a little ashamed of that, grow the fuck up, and get over it.
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#foss4g-na
is next week! I'll be talking Tuesday about
#stac-geoparquet
and running a workshop Monday with
@wildintellect.com
on
#eoAPI
. Quite a few of my
@developmentseed.org
colleagues will be there as well! Stop by, say hi, and let's have a chat!
3 months ago
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This Hat Celebrates Alex Pretti
4 months ago
If a government tells you that you canβt call it authoritarian, itβs authoritarian.
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A short meditation on coding, framed around quotes from "What I Talk About When I Talk About Running" by Haruki Murakami:
www.gadom.ski/posts/what-i...
We don't code to create code, we code to animate people and other machines... But the pipeline into creating code is breaking down...
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What I Talk About When I Talk About Coding
A meditation on the craft of coding
https://www.gadom.ski/posts/what-i-talk-about-when-i-talk-about-coding/
4 months ago
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Development Seed
5 months ago
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
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Blog post up for stac-map:
developmentseed.org/blog/2025-09...
A very imperfect prototype of a map-first
#STAC
app, it includes: - stac-geoparquet visualization and download - Experimental natural language collection search Uses
#deck.gl
,
@duckdb.org
,
#geoarrow
, and
github.com/stac-utils/r...
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A Map-First Tool for Exploring STAC Data β Development Seed
stac-map makes exploring STAC GeoParquet as simple as zooming around a map.
https://developmentseed.org/blog/2025-09-02-stacmap/
5 months ago
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On a slightly different note than usual, my wife and our friend are doing an epic relay of the
#colorado-trail
I made a progress tracking website (
www.gadom.ski/ct-relay/
) and some of the technical bits were interesting enough to make a light write-up:
www.gadom.ski/posts/ct-rel...
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A Colorado Trail relay
A 'simple' web map to follow an adventure
https://www.gadom.ski/posts/ct-relay/
6 months ago
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Aiming for end of the month to announce, but here's what we're working on:
developmentseed.org/stac-map/
I'm getting some (much needed) help on the frontend (h/t
@indraneel.org
), but the core idea is this: - map-first
@stacspec.bsky.social
viz - stac-geoparquet as first-class The rest is open
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6 months ago
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I might build a visualization tool soon It will likely go poorly
7 months ago
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darthβ’οΈ
6 months ago
βAltman is backing a tool called The Orb, built by Tools for Humanity, that says it will offer βproof of humanβ in a world where AI makes it harder to distinguish what, and who, is real online.β phew so the guy who helped create the problem happens to also have the solution what are the chances
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Overheard at my post work π²πΊ: "I told my manager what was going on in Slack, and all they gave me was a check mark. How rude is that?" Whew... I have Thoughts... Managing remote is hard. I'm starting to feel old over here bc I empathize with that manager and their check mark βοΈ
6 months ago
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not every decade-old tech post holds up, but this one does:
macwright.com/2012/06/13/p...
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Gravity Always Wins
On how software naturally degrades as time goes on, and maybe we should embrace that.
https://macwright.com/2012/06/13/programming
7 months ago
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Development Seed
7 months ago
Weβre hiring a senior-level Frontend Engineer! This role is about building tools that help people use Earth data to tackle real-world problems β from climate and conservation to disaster response and open science. Remote, open-source, and meaningful. Details + apply:
grnh.se/39qfi0m13us
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James Milner
7 months ago
I'd love to follow more folks who are building open geo stuff in the web ecosystem - who am I missing? Appreciate maybe that is a small niche for BlueSky
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If you're building a
@stacspec.bsky.social
catalog, make sure to include a rich, informative text description As we're experimenting with STAC natural language search at
@developmentseed.org
, I'm seeing the "description" field as the first entrypoint for the language model...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Thanks a lot
@gadom.ski
for the presentation, stac-geoparquet works really well and simple for our purposes so far.
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I might build a visualization tool soon It will likely go poorly
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CNG
7 months ago
π
#CNG2025
session recording
@gadom.ski
from
@developmentseed.org
presents on the concept of Right-Sizing
@stacspec.bsky.social
for smaller-scale geospatial data applications. βΆοΈ
youtu.be/Cd5ENsBaQZk
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[CNG 2025] Right-Sizing STAC β Pete Gadomski
YouTube video by Cloud-Native Geospatial Forum
https://youtu.be/Cd5ENsBaQZk
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My
@cloudnativegeo.org
talk, "Right-sizing STAC", is up:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cd5E...
I explore of stac-geoparquet, searching it both through a server and directly from the client. Part of the
@stacspec.bsky.social
Python+Rust ecosystem ππ€π¦ β€οΈ to
@developmentseed.org
for the support
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[CNG 2025] Right-Sizing STAC β Pete Gadomski
YouTube video by Cloud-Native Geospatial Forum
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cd5ENsBaQZk
7 months ago
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Many things are π¦ed in the world, and... Just talked to a dad who was walking the 4 blocks to our local short golf course with his (10yr?) daughter He was carrying a tall boy πΊ and they were going to go hit balls onto to green after course close (sort of against the rules but who the f cares) π
7 months ago
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Joe Stieb
8 months ago
These people are the enemy.
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Theory: data either wants to fan out or fan in Folks like
@overturemaps.bsky.social
are trying to fan in data to a "correct" dataset
@stacspec.bsky.social
is all about fanning out to allow search and discovery Tools, especially visualizations, will have a hard time crossing between the two
8 months ago
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#stac-geoparquet
will be useful at large scales, too I did some exploration into converting ~25GB of newline-delimited JSON into ~4GB of partitioned, queryable stac-geoparquet:
stac-utils.github.io/rustac-py/la...
Video:
youtu.be/7ZcQR5JgAtg
Part of the
#python
@stacspec.bsky.social
ecosystem
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ITS_LIVE case study - rustac
The power of Rust for the Python STAC ecosystem
https://stac-utils.github.io/rustac-py/latest/notebooks/its-live/
8 months ago
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#stac-geoparquet
will be useful at large scales, too I did some exploration into converting ~25GB of newline-delimited JSON into ~4GB of partitioned, queryable stac-geoparquet:
stac-utils.github.io/rustac-py/la...
Video:
youtu.be/7ZcQR5JgAtg
Part of the
#python
@stacspec.bsky.social
ecosystem
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ITS_LIVE case study - rustac
The power of Rust for the Python STAC ecosystem
https://stac-utils.github.io/rustac-py/latest/notebooks/its-live/
8 months ago
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Max Lenormand
8 months ago
I'm looking for any info about how & why it was decided to use the Space Shuttle do create SRTM in 2000 A few questions I have: - How of the world had we mapped in 3D before 2000? - Why the Space Shuttle over a dedicate satellite (or pair of satellites) - How the data was processed
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Max Lenormand
8 months ago
I'm looking for primary sources as much as possible! Books, conferences, papers, people involved to talk to If you know anything please let me know!
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Kiri Carini
8 months ago
I know lots of awesome women in geospatial so itβs still kind of jarring to me when I see a group photo from an event and itβs 95% men. Thereβs not a simple solution to making things more balanced but itβs a good reminder for myself to keep amplifying and giving space to other women.
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For better or for worse, I'm experimenting with videos π¬ ... Here's my latest on using
@stacspec.bsky.social
geoparquet with
#pmtiles
for a full-static viz+search+discovery setup (no servers required). Lmk what you think!
youtu.be/mOR8ZIgflBo?...
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devlog 2: stac-geoparquet-pmtiles
YouTube video by Pete Gadomski
https://youtu.be/mOR8ZIgflBo?si=84PAYDT1BiD3iy1D
8 months ago
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π’ rustac v0.8.0 released!
github.com/stac-utils/r...
ποΈ Includes obstore integration for high-throughput multi-cloud download and upload:
developmentseed.org/obstore
ππ€π¦ Part of the Python
@stacspec.bsky.social
ecosystem (powered by Rust)
9 months ago
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sometimes i get asked "why are some open source developers so bad at supporting windows?" this is one of the reasons right here ... i can't develop on it locally, and "test by Github Actions" is π
9 months ago
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New
@developmentseed.org
blog post from myself and
@zacdezgeo.github.io
:
developmentseed.org/blog/2025-05...
Cloud-Native Geospatial isn't just for data, it's for metadata too
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Right-sizing STAC β Development Seed
A new way to query geospatial metadata without the overhead.
https://developmentseed.org/blog/2025-05-07-stac-geoparquet/
9 months ago
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New
@developmentseed.org
blog post from myself and
@zacdezgeo.github.io
:
developmentseed.org/blog/2025-05...
Cloud-Native Geospatial isn't just for data, it's for metadata too
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Right-sizing STAC β Development Seed
A new way to query geospatial metadata without the overhead.
https://developmentseed.org/blog/2025-05-07-stac-geoparquet/
9 months ago
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STAC Index
9 months ago
New STAC Catalog: Space2Stats
stacindex.org/catalogs/spa...
It contains geospatial statistics for the entire globe. The variables cover a wide range of geographic themes relevant to international development, including demographic, socio-economic, environmental, climate, and infrastructure.
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STAC Index
https://stacindex.org/catalogs/space2stats-database#/
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I had an absolute blast at
@cloudnativegeo.org
2025 conference
#cng2025
in Snowbird. Well done
@jed.co
and team π My slides on "Right-sizing
#STAC
":
www.gadom.ski/presentation...
Now, back to building Rust+Python for STAC! π¦π€π Photo credit: Iz Merrill,
izmerrill.com
9 months ago
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πΌππππππ π·πππππ
9 months ago
STAC vs Zarr. STAC or Zarr? STAC + Zarr?
@jsignell.github.io
@element84.com
dives into the purpose of the two and how they are complementary
#cloudnativegeo
#cngconference
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We brought ~100 zines and they went in a day π€― Thank you to everyone for sharing how use them in their classrooms and in their boardrooms β€οΈ If you haven't gotten a hard copy yet, you can find the zine online at
zines.developmentseed.org
#cng2025
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9 months ago
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πΌππππππ π·πππππ
9 months ago
.
@gadom.ski
getting pretty excited about Cloud-Native Geospatial Metadata
#cngconference
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