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This. And I have near-whole-country-coverage of LiDAR open data at my fingertips... #gischat
Sharing my favourite recording from FOSS4G SotM Oceania in Hobart late last year. Such a cool keynote from Andrea Jalandoni on the application of photogrammetry, lidar, hillshades, false colour imagery etc for rock art research.
youtu.be/YJfrPuUuJ4A?...
Using photogrammetry, lidar, hillshades and false colour imagery to better visualise rock art!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJfr...
Image of the US Embassy building in Vanuatu prior to the M 7.3 earthquake that caused the first storey to collapse.
Before for comparison.
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An exciting job opening in our Geoscience Australia #DigitalEarthAU program: a Director role developing and managing the high-performance ICT systems and data pipelines that power our continental-scale #EarthObservation and #geospatial data science! ๐ฐ๏ธ๐๐ฉโ๐ป
www.apsjobs.gov.au/s/job-detail...
Was at a small concert in a small town one night and the opening act said "this one's for all the geographers out there" and started singing about latitudes and contours: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Zbi...
#gischat
Very cool!!
Stunning.. is it a series of layered elevation cross sections with ON1 providing some AI-generated clouds for good measure? What's the vertical exaggeration?
Open source software users: what would help you feel comfortable contributing to documentation for a project? What do you need to know? What are your roadblocks? Does any particular project do a good job of cultivating or welcoming documentation contributors? #gischat
(5/5) With this sponsorship, we hope to increase the sustainability of the GDAL project and ensure its continued success. Huge thanks to all of the code maintainers, contributors, sponsors and the team at @numfocus.bsky.social!
(4/5) Over this past decade or so, we have funded a number of improvements to the GeoTIFF, GeoPackage, SQLite, FileGDB, PostgreSQL and CSV drivers, recognising the critical role GDAL/OGR plays in ensuring interoperability in the geospatial software ecosystem.
(3/5) In 2019, we funded the creation of the Cloud Optimised GeoTIFF driver. A lot of groundwork had been funded by other orgs, but the driver wrapped it all up in a bow, reducing the number of commands to run and flags to set to get a nice default COG output.
(2/5) We have been using GDAL since the mid 2000s, directly funding features since ~2015, and in 2018 we were the third largest funding contributor to the GDAL Barn Raising (gdalbarn.com). Each year we run millions of GDAL commands to ensure our data holdings are standardised in open formats.
(1/5) My employer, Toitลซ Te Whenua Land Information New Zealand (linz.govt.nz) is now sponsoring GDAL (gdal.org/en/latest/sp...).
I believe we are the first government mapping agency to directly sponsor the project. Would be great to have some peers join us!
#osgeo #foss4g #gdal #gischat
#gischat !
Then we have STAC Items which are also GeoJSONs and STAC Collections which are not GeoJSONs
geo-robots.txt to tell the robots what your .jsons contain ๐ In your specific case can you ask what you should expect to find?
Exactly! Lower barriers to entry + great examples should be something to aim for year-on-year. ๐
Oof I am terrible at naming things but I like all of these! Keen on the open in #OpenDataCountdown!
Data catalogs are cool and all but many of our orgs have thousands of datasets in them and an annual call-to-action of some kind might help to showcase the good stuff?
@briannaritapagan.bsky.social @satellitesci.bsky.social @opencholmes.bsky.social I think we need a #30DayMapChallenge but for open data providers to promote their best work. Preferably analysis-ready / cloud-native / open-format etc. Each October leading into the map challenge?
I walk an irrationally long way to cross over that bridge rather than any of the quadrillion existing sets of lights. These proposals are just sad.
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Thanks heaps Robbi, much appreciated! Eagerly awaiting the recording of your Hobart talk so I can share with colleagues.
Map showing New Zealand coverage (more than 70% of the country) of 1m resolution LiDAR-derived elevation surfaces available as national standardised, cloud-optimised digital elevation models.
Map showing New Zealand's authoritative national imagery basemap, showing the North Island, South Island, Stewart Island and Chatham Islands with 10m resolution Sentinel-2 derived satellite imagery.
๐ Hi! I'm a geospatial product owner leading a cloud-native data engineering team in Wellington, New Zealand. We help process nationally standardised & open datasets - like aerial imagery and elevation data.
๐ Looking forward to seeing a bunch of awesome people in Aotearoa for FOSS4G 2025!
