Sunset over Santa Cruz, CA

liar liar, planet on fire

1. Impressive initial attack 2. No wind. Firefighters contained the #GulchFire off of North Rodeo Gulch Road in Soquel within 20 to 30 minutes of their arrival this afternoon. CAL FIRE, Santa Cruz County Fire, also special thanks to Central Fire District of Santa Cruz County and Scotts Valley Fire for bringing

Folks interested in the future of #GDAL and all that uses GDAL (#QGIS, looking at you): Please give a look at the draft "RFC 100: Support float16 type". Feedback should go to the GDAL mailing list thread. github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pul…

A meme for everything. "Googlers poke fun at a policy against making election memes — by making memes" web.archive.org/web/2024110713…

Thank you to julia ferraioli for your amazing blog post on the issues around Open Source AI. Everyone: if you are l in and around machine learning, go read this! juliaferraioli.com/blog/2024/on-o…

Alice is demonstrating me on Twitter. It's long past time for a migration. I should just go back to RSS and public blogs. And maybe IRC

This evening in Santa Cruz, CA

Been working on a list of events in the history of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and spatial data processing. It's licensed CC0 to try to make it useful for what ever purpose. Thank you to all who made suggestions. github.com/schwehr/gis-hi… #gischat #gisday #gis

🌏 Google Earth now has a new homescreen, helping you organize 🗂️ your 🗺️ mapping projects, check it out in this 📽️ 1 min video ✨ 👉 youtu.be/zTYBIIViVG4

Excited to share that we're expanding our partnership with Global Fishing Watch - to bring transparency to our oceans. 🎣 With our PlanetScope data, Global Fishing Watch is monitoring millions of square kilometers of coastlines to map fishing vessels around the world, supporting

Watermelon...

Sad to learn of the loss of David Wells. He was an enthusiastic supporter of the hydrographic community. mcadamsfh.com/tribute/detail…

Sunset over Santa Cruz, CA.

Over in the sky place, I'm kurtschwehr. Thanks to late stage capitalist for taking this picture 26 years ago.

It takes just a few lines of code to combine @ESRI ArcGIS Maps JavaScript code and Earth Engine. Can be used for example to query EE raster processing on-the-fly: observablehq.com/@gena/esri-and…. The animation code here is from ESRI docs, I only added a static S2 composite (not animated)

One of the best math books I've ever read: MIT's "Mathematics for Computer Science" Its writing style is brilliant, and it covers everything: - Linear algebra - Series - Logic - Probability - Number theory - Graphs You can find the PDF here: courses.csail.mit.edu/6.042/spring18…

2024 was a landmark year for Google Earth Engine! With increased interoperability between Google Cloud services, we’ve unlocked powerful new workflows and use cases for our users. Check out a round-up of last year’s top Earth Engine launches ↓ cloud.google.com/blog/topics/su…

Mostly I am now where the sky is blue. But a nice sunset in Santa Cruz, CA this evening.

What's old is new. I wonder which decoding library they are using.