Can we build homes fast enough for our growing population? #PeopleFirstSolutions #DataforGood #Walkthru #Earth #Urban

OpenSensor.Space is live DIY environmental monitoring that: - Runs on Raspberry Pi - Streams to cloud storage - Uses open formats - Minimal carbon footprint 1.3M+ data points and growing. Join the network: opensensor.space

We just launched Walkthru.earth Open, science-based indices measuring how livable and emotionally sustainable neighborhoods really are. Not GDP. Not efficiency. Human wellbeing. - Real-time environmental data - 50+ livability metrics - Everything open source walkthru.earth

I talked about GeoArrow at FOSS4G Auckland 2025! Here's my slides. GeoArrow on Web; Can We Live Without GeoJSON? yutannihilation.github.io/foss4g-2025-...

GeoArrow on Web; Can We Live Without GeoJSON? - Slidev

yutannihilation.github.io

👀 Sneak peek of my upcoming File Geodatabase Schema Explorer tool!

HAHAHA, I like @snapchat maps so much 😆

2025 and we are still using #shapefile switchfromshapefile.org

Do you think that #esri will create an EsriParquet ?

This is a huge milestone for cloud-native big scientific data!

Zarr@zarr.dev · 2y ago

🎉 Zarr-Python 3 is here! 🎉 - Full support for Zarr v3 spec - Chunk-sharding for more efficient data storage - Major performance boosts with async I/O & parallel compression 💻 pip install --upgrade zarr 💻 conda install --channel conda-forge zarr Blog post: https://buff.ly/3C3OwYw

New basemaps viewer! maps.protomaps.com - maplibre v5 globe mode! - view the daily basemap pmtiles build, remote tileset, or drag-and-drop a local tileset - change the theme and label language - list and download daily builds static site - source at github.com/protomaps/ba...

📺 We added two new items to our media page. Both were recorded last month at the Forward Data Conference in Paris. – Hannes' keynote talk “Changing Large Tables”: duckdb.org/media/changi... – An episode of The Joe Reis Show, touching on the challenges of lakehouses: duckdb.org/media/duckdb...

Busy week but managed to get this video up today. Let me know what you think! youtu.be/u1hIU0AsOFc?...

Spatial SQL Tools Explained: The Ultimate Guide

YouTube video by Matt Forrest

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Check out the Cloud-Native Geo starter pack. It is an excellent way to keep up with this growing community in the geospatial and GIS industry. If you are active in this community, send me a note so I can add you! go.bsky.app/R93GVJb

My Overture/Source Coop/Cloud downloader QGIS plug-in is live! It lets you download a GeoParquet or GeoPackage for just your view port from hosted GeoParquet files. Check it out at plugins.qgis.org/plugins/qgis... and install it by searching for 'GeoParquet Downloader' in the QGIS plugin manager.

Dan Baston from the GDAL project wrote up some interesting results of the first GDAL Users Survey which you can now read at gdal.org/en/stable/co...