James Milner the spec lets you generate non-backwards-compatible files with only alt-crs coordinates and null geometry members for every features, and i suspect that many writers will do exactly that, and then all geojson readers will have to explicitly switch on these two flavors of spec

James Milner it also lets axis order be configurable(?) and links to a word document file that explains how exactly how docs.ogc.org/DRAFTS/21-045r…

it links to a spec that you can't read with ogc membership in the footnotes.

the ogc are just bad stewards of specs imho

My brother-in-law's article got picked up by USA TODAY

Geojson is the worst geospatial file format.

My BIL Dean DeCock from Truman State University wrote a deep dive on the unique combo of assists and scoring that make Caitlin Clark unique in the pantheon of WBB history to date. Give it a read on his site at decock.sites.truman.edu/caitlin-clark/

We were told “niches get riches”.

But the experience in GIS is that we are consistently underpaid compared to our IT counterparts.

Daniel invited me on his podcast to discuss this odd dynamic.

mapscaping.com/podcast/way-yo…

Mike Wulder Peggy March🫐🌎🇨🇦 I usually reach for Microsoft Planetary Computer 3DEP: planetarycomputer.microsoft.com/dataset/3dep-l…

Or LidarBC: lidar.gov.bc.ca/pages/download…

Also, check out the sample data in the Hobu COPC viewer: viewer.copc.io

For #WorldLidarDay , a thread of my LiDAR things:

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Support for the copc.io format has been added to Potree by Connor Manning and @[email protected] !

github.com/potree/potree/…

Linux, Windows and Mac packages of #QGIS point releases 3.28.13 'Firenze' (old LTR) and 3.34.1 'Prizren' (new LTR) ready on qgis.org. Make maps not war!

The way open source interacts with and derives support from the market economy grows and changes with every year, so I revisit the topic, over and over. This year's visit, at FOSS4GNA 2023, is now online. youtube.com/watch?v=1Ofunx…

That’s code, alright… ⁦James Banting⁩ demonstrating cloud native point clouds ⁦at the GoGeomatics.ca⁩ Expo in Calgary.

Presentation on map scarcity and the motivations for Protomaps as an open source project, recorded at NACIS last month, now online!

New basemap shown here thanks to collaborators Nathaniel V. KELSO and Geraldine Sarmiento

youtube.com/watch?v=_R5pM8…

Thank you to everyone - sponsors, presenters, attendees, organizers, volunteers - for a wonderful #foss4gna conference!

Today I called 999 to report flames shooting out the top of a freight locomotive.

Used what3words to communicate my location.

///logo.brass.offer

I ended up having to use NATO phonetics to spell it out.

Clear line, no wind, I was calm. Best conditions.

Geospatial Tech Radar 2023 by Element 84

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See anything familiar?

Guerilla Standards - @[email protected] talks about how standards are developed in practice, by the community of Implementors #foss4gna

Giving the PDAL workshop with Ogi Moore and michael_smith at #foss4gna

Because-it-looked-fun, Connor Manning from the hobuinc team built moonlidar.com with help from USGS Astrogeology to visualize the 6 billion point NASA Moon LOLA points using COPC.io and Cesium. Find Connor presenting about this at @FOSS4GNA next week