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World GIS Day in Melbourne, Wednesday 15th November 2023. Check out the Melbourne GeoRabble web page for Open Houses! A day of spatial followed by an evening GeoRabble. Jump online to register for individual Open Houses and the GeoRabble event! georabble.org/2023/10/06/geo… Enjoy!

Overture's Global Entity Reference System Hopes to Improve Data Interoperability. It's Not There Yet. latlong.blog/2023/11/overtu…

Estimating the Cost of Hosting a Global PMTiles Dataset latlong.blog/2023/11/estima…

React components for building Google Maps user interfaces. If you work in React and use the Google Maps JavaScript API, this library will save you a couple lines. cloud.google.com/blog/products/…

I've started posting updates on Bluesky. Follow along if you wish. I also have a couple of invites to give away: latlong.blog/2023/11/lat-lo…

Sad news from Placemark today. The platform is shutting down in January, and the code will be released as open-source software: placemark.io/post/placemark…

The very popular SatSummit is back next year on the 16 and 17 May, as always in Washington DC. 2024.satsummit.io

The recordings from this year’s PostGIS day are available on Youtube; just in time so you can add them to your festive tech playlist. youtube.com/playlist?list=…

Brian Timoney contemplates why talented GIS professionals seek employment in other areas, tracing the problem to broad scoped roles and lower pay compared to similar roles in other industries. mapbrief.com/2023/12/06/wha…

A new STAC extension proposes an API for collection management. github.com/stac-api-exten…

Webinar on cloud-native technologies and their applications in the pacific region youtube.com/watch?v=kTfhpO…

I tried to estimate the cost of hosting Protomaps on AWS before; now there's a handy tool for that.

You can serve PMTiles directly from a cloud object storage but sometimes, you want to control who accesses data and how often—and you need a server for that. Craig Kochis wrote examples of how to serve PMTiles using a NodeJS server application. ckochis.com/serve-protomap…

Lat × Long If you want to do this in a serverless manner, have a look at serverlessmaps.com

Placemark's code is now open source, available on GitHub under the MIT license. macwright.com/2024/01/19/pla…

Element84 are hosting a three-hour workshop on user-centred design with a specific focus on geospatial applications. The workshop is scheduled for 19 March. Tickets are 75USD. eventbrite.com/e/meeting-user…

An AI-driven approach to generating audio descriptions for interactive web maps. sparkgeo.com/blog/map-to-sp…

Development Seed’s data team in Ayacucho, Peru has spun out to form GeoCompas. The new company focusses on OpenStreetMap editing, data labelling and annotation for AI projects, but also development of data processing pipelines and web services. developmentseed.org/blog/2024-02-0…

Protomaps Transitions to New Funding Model. Access to a commercial API and professional services can be purchased through GitHub sponsorships. protomaps.com/blog/open-core…

Five geospatial projects are amongst the mentoring organisations for Google Summer of Code 2024. OSGeo, 52North, OpenStreetMap, Organic Maps and the Open Transit Software Foundation offer internships this year. latlong.blog/2024/03/five-g…