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

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

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-...

Interesting talk! I wish I could attend this FOSS4G, but unfortunately I can’t. I assume it will be recorded, but if you could include the slides or resources at the following link (if exist), that would be amazing: talks.osgeo.org/foss4g-2025/...
thank you so much

fgdb.youssefharby.com

👀 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

Add support for right-to-left scripts - MapLibre GL JS MapLibre GL JS is a TypeScript library that uses WebGL to render interactive maps from vector tiles in a browser.

Very nice, please don't forget to add the support for RTL labels with : maplibre.org/maplibre-gl-... I am just wondering why this is not by default on, on @maplibre.org and @mapbox.com

Do you think that #esri will create an EsriParquet ?

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

image of globe with protomaps basemap viewer

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...

Spatial SQL Tools Explained: The Ultimate Guide YouTube video by Matt Forrest

Busy week but managed to get this video up today. Let me know what you think!

youtu.be/u1hIU0AsOFc?...

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...