City2Graph: A Python library for Heterogeneous Graph Neural Networks and spatial analysis in urban systems https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0198971526000943 Looks very interesting!

"Portugal's government said on Thursday it had approved a 33% windfall tax on extraordinary profits earned in 2026 ​by oil and refining companies benefiting from an energy ‌price surge triggered by the Iran war. [Its a] solidarity mechanism. The measure ‌will ⁠also support investments aimed at […]

Very nice new tool showing #bike routes in #Austria with lots of configurability: https://radatlas.at/ There is a family-friendly option, but there isn't more than a handful of routes suited for families with small children. In other countries you have a real […] [Original post on datasci.social]

TIL: If your QGIS 3D view keeps loading tiles and loading and loading, try increasing the 3D memory in the options.

Feeling very honored to be nominated for the Hedy Lamarr Preis 2026 next to all these other great researchers 🙏 https://www.wienholding.at/news/7-forscherinnen-fuer-hedy-lamarr-preis-der-stadt-wien-nominiert

@kgjenkins @underdarkGIS if you tine stamp the PDFs, you can turn the pages with the time controller.

Every fuckhead with a 3rd house or a private jet could fill so many mutual aids, prevent so much suffering, donate so much to charity, and still just fly commercial and rent an Airbnb for vacation. But they don't.

https://github.com/scubbx/qgis-qkies QGIS Qkies

GitHub - scubbx/qgis-qkies: The perfect snack: QGIS Qkies - spoken: "[qgis qgies]"

The perfect snack: QGIS Qkies - spoken: "[qgis qgies]" - scubbx/qgis-qkies

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why is everything fucked up these days?? the news back in the day:

Most of my afternoon today was spent in #QGIS with one of my Masters students Dee Patel. We're preparing my long-term bird monitoring data around Christchurch, NZ, for analysis. Today we gridded up my four standard bike transects into 1 km sections, surrounded […] [Original post on mastodon.nz]

The @EUCommission has just published guidance documents clarifying how the Cyber Resilience Act #CRA affects (among other things) #OpenSource. This is the result of the extensive engagement of many open source community members […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@neuronakaya/116979362480115721 Reading this after just listening to Inpatient's Dr Meyers is surreal 😔

@underdarkGIS Great idea! I already use QGIS as a general-purpose tabular data viewer, so why not a PDF viewer as well?

New Open Basemaps for Austria For many years now, we have been enjoying the basemap.at service with it's various basemap options (color, gray, with/without labels, ...) in WMTS and vector tiles. Basemap.at Standard WMTS in QGIS (instructions here) For a few weeks now, there is an additional […]

I never thought of #QGIS as a PDF viewer 😂 ... but, honestly, by now everything beats #Adobe Reader

🎼 🎶 🎸 🎙️ Inpatient (Ren x Chris Webby) - Asylum (Lyric Video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9T6ASpDtVI #music #Ren #ChrisWebby

It's nice to work hard on things in silence, and imagine they could become really useful someday.. https://docs.bikenetkit.org/GrowBikeNet/usage_05_custom_data_imports/ #BikeNetKit

OSGeo establishes a European legal foundation The Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) has established a legal foundation in Europe. The founding documents were signed yesterday. The new entity, Stichting Open Source Geospatial, has its statutory seat in Wageningen and operates under the […]

Backups for the win: "hacker deleted Romania's entire land registry database after a failed extortion attempt" https://cybernews.com/security/hacker-deletes-romanian-land-registry-database/ Bit of a deja-vu, right? #gischat

Nice to see more #QGIS User Groups on the map of the Easter Egg in QGIS 4.2🚀 Watch this super nice video by Ujaval Gandhi and his daughter on how to find the Easter Eggs in QGIS: https://youtu.be/pH9Am3FgRS0?is=7IIpQ0p3bufedXx-

Could Excel be conscious? We surveyed more than Jan 1 1900 people to find out.

The slides of my talk two days ago at #Complexity Science Hub #Vienna are now online [pdf]: https://michael.szell.net/downloads/talk_szell2026css.pdf The complex socio-technical system of #bicycle networks: From politics to planning software […] [Original post on datasci.social]

🎉Big milestone today: the #PCRaster Tools plugin for #QGIS just passed 100,000 downloads! From a small prototype to a full Processing Provider plugin, it now brings PCRaster’s map algebra and full environmental modelling framework (deterministic, stochastic […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

RE: https://flipboard.com/@spacecom/spacex-6lea8r50z/-/a-uqOOTanZQHe-8X_AdQQaMw%3Aa%3A1693190246-%2F0 I used to be excited about rocket launches. Fuck you, SpaceX, for taking that away from me by destroying the sky, the atmosphere, and dropping shit on me because of your terrible safety and […]

the future of geospatial data is lies, i guess https://github.com/tmcw/awesome-geojson/pull/75

Add Europe Beach Map to data by Flightmussy · Pull Request #75 · tmcw/awesome-geojson

Adds Europe Beach Map to the data section — 511 European beaches as a GeoJSON FeatureCollection (Point geometry per beach) with sea temperature, sand type, best season and Blue Flag status. Direct ...

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Full house at #CSH for @mszll 's talk on #bicycle networks from politics to planning software #GISChat #MobilityDataScience

📢 Call for Papers: The Open-Source Approach to Geospatial Applications (Geocarto International) How open-source software, data, and standards are transforming geospatial science—advancing transparency, reproducibility, and innovation across GIS, remote sensing […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

Quick recap of Belém, Salzburg, and what's coming next: http://anitagraser.com/2026/07/11/belem-salzburg-and-onwards/

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Every #FOSS4G gives me bad ideas and a bunch of TODOs. For last week, it was a tool to convert AIS in CSV format into OGC's Moving Features JSON, which I had to rewrite in Rust so it doesn't crash when out of memory when processing the AIS datasets, which can be multi-gigabyte. Anyhow […]

last preperations ongoing - only some weeks left for the Sensing Mountains 2026 - Innsbruck Summer School of Alpine Research in Obergurgl (Austria) #sensingmountains #earthobservation #remotesensing #closerangesensing #geoscience #bioscience #environment […] [Original post on techhub.social]