In #geospatial, hexagons are the bestagons. Not convinced? I wrote an article sharing 10 🌶️ examples + guides to help you make your maps less square 👇 carto.com/blog/h3-spatia…

Looks like duckdb is now pre-installed on Google Colaboratory

Bad week for populist sex pest leaders!

Fantastic opportunity for someone starting off in tech to work with a great company on the edge of #dartmoor #tech

Stack Overflow is down. Might as well down tools for the day!

🥳I'm putting together a new youtube channel of very short, single task videos on how to do stuff in QGIS so if anyone has something that they always forget/don't know how to do in QGIS, reply here and I'll add it to my big list of vids🥁 #qgis

Get ready for #foss4guk announcements. There's some good stuff coming! #opensource #geospatial FOSS4G:UK 2024 South West OSGeo:UK

Listen to the new podcast from the makers of STACKS. Its a conversation between Rose, Rob & Tommy on peatland landscapes & the role of art in addressing big environmental issues. Find it by searching STACKS in Apple Podcasts, Spotify or Podbean: open.spotify.com/show/3WfLb8T67…

Moved this project to github.com/opengeos/open-… to use Qiusheng Wu's nice infrastructure and join some semi-related projects. On his suggestion we named it more generically to potentially add tools for microsoft's and other open building datasets. Contributions welcome!

GeoParquet 1.0.0 release candidate 1 has been released. Read the post for details: cholmes.medium.com/geoparquet-1-0…

This week it's FOSS4G:UK 2024 South West and I am SO excited to be part of it! My keynote is all about getting people excited about geo and showing its value - I'm on at 9:45am and you can also find me if you're attending in-person in London, I'll be by the coffee ☕️ uk.osgeo.org/foss4guklocal2…

Tory mayoral candidate Susan Hall's rival suggestions for the London Overground lines.

Lonboard 0.7 is out! - A new CLI - On Conda Forge - Better docs page for examples - Type hints in Visual Studio Code - A new PointCloudLayer - Default styling in the top-level viz function - A "FlyTo" map action - Better GeoArrow integration Full release notes: github.com/developmentsee…

GeoParquet 1.1 is coming soon: cloudnativegeo.org/blog/2024/03/c… New from Chris Holmes on the CNG blog.

In just a few lines of Python code, query Overture Maps Foundation buildings and plot them with Lonboard. Making use of the latest work in GeoParquet. New example: developmentseed.org/lonboard/lates…

DuckDB Project Jupyter ApacheArrow See the full notebook example (developmentseed.org/lonboard/lates…) or the docs page (developmentseed.org/lonboard/lates…)

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Did you know that elephants can swim? Our newest extension, pg_lakehouse, transforms Postgres into a DuckDB alternative. pg_lakehouse makes it easy to join and move data between Postgres and data lakes like S3. blog.paradedb.com/pages/introduc…

Ollie Watkins goal with commentary by Alan Partridge #EURO2024 you're welcome