Had a great week spending time IRL with my @developmentseed.org team in Lisbon. I work with the smartest, kindest people and I’m feeling energized to finish the year strong and looking forward to 2026. 🫶

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 systems

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

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.

#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!

If a government tells you that you can’t call it authoritarian, it’s authoritarian.

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...

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

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...

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...

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

I might build a visualization tool soon It will likely go poorly

“Altman is backing a tool called The Orb, built by Tools for Humanity, that says it will offer “proof of human” in a world where AI makes it harder to distinguish what, and who, is real online.” phew so the guy who helped create the problem happens to also have the solution what are the chances

Overheard at my post work 🚲🍺: "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 ✔️

not every decade-old tech post holds up, but this one does: macwright.com/2012/06/13/p...

We’re hiring a senior-level Frontend Engineer! This role is about building tools that help people use Earth data to tackle real-world problems — from climate and conservation to disaster response and open science. Remote, open-source, and meaningful. Details + apply: grnh.se/39qfi0m13us

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

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...

Thanks a lot @gadom.ski for the presentation, stac-geoparquet works really well and simple for our purposes so far.

I might build a visualization tool soon It will likely go poorly

🆕 #CNG2025 session recording @gadom.ski from @developmentseed.org presents on the concept of Right-Sizing @stacspec.bsky.social for smaller-scale geospatial data applications. ▶️ youtu.be/Cd5ENsBaQZk

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 🐍🤝🦀 ❤️ to @developmentseed.org for the support

Many things are 🦆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 🍺 and they were going to go hit balls onto to green after course close (sort of against the rules but who the f cares) 💜

These people are the enemy.

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

#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

#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

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

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!

I know lots of awesome women in geospatial so it’s still kind of jarring to me when I see a group photo from an event and it’s 95% men. There’s not a simple solution to making things more balanced but it’s a good reminder for myself to keep amplifying and giving space to other women.

For better or for worse, I'm experimenting with videos 😬 ... 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?...

🚢 rustac v0.8.0 released! github.com/stac-utils/r... 🏎️ Includes obstore integration for high-throughput multi-cloud download and upload: developmentseed.org/obstore 🐍🤝🦀 Part of the Python @stacspec.bsky.social ecosystem (powered by Rust)

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 🐌

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

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

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.

I had an absolute blast at @cloudnativegeo.org 2025 conference #cng2025 in Snowbird. Well done @jed.co and team 👏 My slides on "Right-sizing #STAC": www.gadom.ski/presentation... Now, back to building Rust+Python for STAC! 🦀🤝🐍 Photo credit: Iz Merrill, izmerrill.com

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

We brought ~100 zines and they went in a day 🤯 Thank you to everyone for sharing how use them in their classrooms and in their boardrooms ❤️ If you haven't gotten a hard copy yet, you can find the zine online at zines.developmentseed.org #cng2025

. @gadom.ski getting pretty excited about Cloud-Native Geospatial Metadata #cngconference

Great talk by @opencholmes.bsky.social on the Global Spatial Data Ecosystem, emphasizing Data over Infrastructure. Great framing for what is to come in this CNG conference @cloudnativegeo.org

My zine baby out in the wild! 🥹

@developmentseed.org bringing the swag to @cloudnativegeo.org 2025!! Stop by, grab a zine and stickers, and have a chat!

Stoke is high for @cloudnativegeo.org 2025 conference. In preparation, I have: - Released rustac v0.7.0 (the power of Rust for the Python #stac ecosystem): github.com/stac-utils/r... - Completely overpacked a check bag to make sure @kiricarini.com's Zines are well protected #swagmule

We’re headed to the Cloud-Native Geo Forum next week and couldn’t be more excited! 👋 Say hi @yayyyimee.bsky.social @briannaritapagan.bsky.social @gadom.ski @kylebarron.dev, Sean & Ali. 🌀 Snag a zine too! 🔗 Get the rundown of our talks & sessions on the blog: developmentseed.org/blog/2025-04...

For my @cloudnativegeo.org talk next week, a teaser: for some scenarios (not all) we might not need to have a database pyplot.xkcd for the win, amiright?

zine courier duties are the best duties really looking forward to this one

🎉 22 years of DevSeed! From open data scrappy to global partner, we’ve always led with purpose. 🛠️ Action-oriented 🩷 Build w/ love & pride 🌍 Open & collaborative 💫 Impatient for change Grateful to everyone on this journey w/ us. Fave memory or project? Drop it below — we’re feeling nostalgic

rustac: the power of Rust for the #STAC ecosystem I started stac-rs in late 2021 as a hobby project implementing STAC in Rust. It's now grown into a Real Thing™ 😬? But the name was confusing (github.com/stac-utils/r...), so I've renamed the repo and packages to "rustac"