I'm prepping for tomorrow's FOSS4GNA version of Hand Drawn Maps, making sure the camera works with this computer. Join me tomorrow for some map fun! #gischat

If you're presenting research at @foss4gna.bsky.social, join our special issue with @stacksjournal.bsky.social as an author! You can also participate as a reviewer whether or not you're presenting! The call for posters is still open #gischat #geosky #opensource #geospatial www.foss4gna.org/journal

I am incredibly proud of the quality of the workshops and the support that #maptimeDavis community has for each other. I am especially thankful to our organizing Council team for all the careful thought they put into making it happen. New Fall Quarter lineup: maptimedavis.github.io #gischat #geosky

TOP TEN CAT BREEDS 1. Super Bingus 2. Tender Loaf 3. Crime Bean 4. Le Squishe 5. Load-bearing Tater 6. Royal Softling 7. Electric Spiceweasel 8. Pantaloosian 9. Tammy 10. Dinky Porch Pebble

"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?" Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.

I really don’t feel like posting anything except hummingbirds. Sorrynotsorry.

📦 New R package: sfhotspot by Matt Ashby Identify & analyze spatial clusters of points (places/events) entirely with sf objects. Includes tools for counts, change over time, kernel density, Getis–Ord Gi*, etc. 🔗 GitHub: github.com/mpjashby/sfh... #RStats #GISchat #Geocomputation #RSpatial

🚨 Applications are now open! We are excited to announce that the @geospatialwomen.bsky.social Mentorship Programme is now accepting applications for our 25/26 cohort, open until 7th September! 🔗 Interested? Apply here: lnkd.in/ek7veWdG #gischat #remotesensing #geospatial #eo #gis #mentorship

Zines are a great tool for science communication. Earlier this year, I put one together with @kiricarini.com of @developmentseed.org. The zine provides a visually interesting jumping off point for folks learning cloud-native geospatial data!

I submitted this design to the @foss4gna.bsky.social design contest. (We're having a hootenanny instead of the traditional gala this year because we're not really gala people.) Don't you want this as a sticker? You can submit a design too! www.foss4gna.org/contest #gischat

You guys, I just love this garden so damn much. Six months ago, this was a dying lawn!

Motherfucker I can barely access Microsoft teams from my computer

These boundaries don't line up...which one should we use? Let me propose some light reading www.usgs.gov/data/nationa...

Check out this #SOTMUS retrospective blog post: openstreetmap.us/news/2025/07... A big thank you to Alyssa Castronuovo, OSM US program coordinator, for capturing the experiences of folks who attended the conference. Thanks for sharing your reflections. #StateofMapUS #OSM #OpenStreetMap #SOTMUS

📢 We’re hiring and looking for a Geospatial & AI Engineer. This is a remote-first position; however, you must reside in an ESA member country to be eligible to apply. This role focuses on backend engineering & cloud-native pipelines. AI/LLM skills are a plus, but not a must. grnh.se/al8eavv03us

iNaturalist Animals and Plants xkcd.com/3118/

Hey #gischat - you've got just 24 hours left to submit a talk or get early bird pricing for @foss4g.org - it won't be extended again! Community voting will start on over 200 talks and 40 workshop proposals from next week. 2025.foss4g.org

A map of Ireland mad entirely out of yarn! #gischat www.thejournal.ie/woollen-map-...

This is so gorgeous!

My 7yo wanted to read Red Fish Blue Fish today, then I showed him this video, and he lost his MIND, he is now convinced this guy is the best rapper ever. (Tbf, it is really good) youtu.be/I8-EXMxufG8?...

Recently, my book THEY CALLED US ENEMY was banned – again – in Tennessee. Book bans are out of control. Huge parts of American history are being restricted. To join me in standing up for the freedom to read, go to pen.org/action. @penamerica.bsky.social @topshelfcomix.bsky.social @idwpublishing.com

🆕 #CNG2025 session recording @kylebarron.dev from @developmentseed.org introduces Obstore, a python library he wrote to access data on the cloud. Watch his talk to hear about the motivations for writing Obstore & its details ▶️ youtu.be/Wxh1G2oCZiU

Evergreen reminder that wind turbines are not even remotely a leading cause of human-driven bird mortality. This is classic concern trolling in the interest of fossil fuels - if they really cared about birds they'd focus on domestic cats and building glass. And what's not shown here: climate change.

I am pleased to announce the release of PDAL 2.9.0 github.com/PDAL/PDAL/re... Goodies include GDAL VSI support by Norman Barker, FileSpec support by Thomas Swamy, filters.supervoxel by Bram Ton, SPZ read/write, `ogr` option for filtering, and greatly enhanced readers.tindex support by Isaac Bell.

ICYMI githistory.xyz is a great way to navigate #git commits and visualise how a file has been changing across commits Just replace github.com with github.githistory.xyz in the URL and enjoy! #rstats

Lonboard v0.11 is released! - Choose between a tooltip and side panel for inspecting data - Supports GeoArrow box arrays from 0.2 spec - fixes some DuckDB and CSS bugs - Ensures compatibility with geoarrow-pyarrow v0.2 See full changelog: github.com/developments...

they're trying to sell off the island in Mono Lake.

Relevant, as the National Day of Protest is coming up on Saturday. Know your free speech rights.

The video of this is deeply unsettling!!!! This weekend is gonna be a big bad moment I think!!!!!

Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it. To understand Los Angeles today, we must remember LA Times reporter Ruben Salazar. In 1970, LASD shot and killed Salazar with a tear gas canister while he was covering protests. So-called "less lethal" munition. Salazar was on break inside a bar.

Bluesky uploads are extremely slow on scene, so @melbuer.bsky.social has taken over this account to help share video from a better internet connection. Brush planted in the street dividers has been caught on fire due to stun grenades thrown by federal authorities in Paramount, CA.

Random thought for #gischat: what should be the mass noun for geospatial people? There's a murder of crows and a business of ferrets. But what's a group of geo people?

Want to help #gdal, rasterio, and packages that use either of those? If you have github action skills, maybe you could help fix the rasterio action that tests rasterio with GDAL at head? github.com/OSGeo/gdal/i...

There are still a few spaces left in my Drawing Bees online course starting tomorrow evening. It's a fun way to spend a few spring evenings. www.eventbrite.com/e/drawing-be... 🌿🎨

Lots of people on my feed are concerned about the destruction of NOAA by the Trump administration and Elon Musk, but much of what I’ve seen people post about is the national weather service. That’s vital, but NOAA does so much more than that! My latest, for @ucsusa.bsky.social 🧪🌎🦑🐠

See you all out there today! Let’s make some good trouble. ✊

🎉 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

My Hand Drawn Maps workshop video from last Friday's #maptimeDavis is now up on YouTube. There's a link to the written workshop reader and the spot we chose to draw on Google Maps. Please understand that we're geo people and not great with video production. #gischat www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIAo...

it's important this go as viral as the original story for morale purposes if nothing else. despite the image they project these people are NOT unaccountable. consequences CAN be forced. focused anger and outrage MATTERS.

With today's Zarr Python release, switch to the new obstore-based backend for **3x faster** reading from S3, Google Cloud Storage, and Azure than the default fsspec backend. zarr.readthedocs.io/en/stable/us... developmentseed.org/obstore/late...

OMG we had a blast doing this. We had 12 people plus me teaching. They chose to draw the UC Davis Wastewater Treatment Facility of all places! #gischat

rustac can do things: - It can read and write stac-geoparquet quite quickly - It has a light STAC API server - It has a command-line interface for searching, serving, validating, translating - ...and more The Python package, pypi.org/project/rust... exposes a lot of this in a Python API

"Fundamentals: What is Cloud-Optimized Scientific Data? Why naively lifting scientific data to the cloud falls flat." earthmover.io/blog/fundame... Thank you @tegnicholas.bsky.social

Our team is excited to lead an Earth Foundation Models tutorial workshop at IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS) Symposium in Brisbane, Australia. 🔗 For more details and registration: 2025.ieeeigarss.org/tutorials.ph...

@foss4gna.bsky.social is looking for suggestions for keynote speakers. Past speakers have generally fit a narrow demographic. Let's get some new faces on stage this year! The suggestion form is about halfway down the homepage at www.foss4gna.org #gischat

Today @wildintellect.com and I practiced the set up for next week's Hand Drawn Maps workshop at maptimeDavis. We learned a lot. I hope people enjoy watching me draw. #gischat

Great news! The FOSS4G North America call for presentations is now open! #FOSS4GNA will be held Nov 3-5, 2025 in Reston, VA. Submit your presentation proposal for consideration by May 15, 2025. Check out the web site to learn more: www.foss4gna.org/#FOSS4GNA #geospatial

It's time for #gischat ! What geospatial topic could you talk about for 10 minutes with no preparation? Remember to use the hashtag in your replies!

Weather radars continuously register the movements of billions of animals in the air! We have now published datasets covering large parts of Europe, providing an overview of the aerial habitat in a way no other method can. Data is available on Alofdata.eu , see our blogpost: go.nature.com/3F0wQ0L