African Union joins calls to end use of Mercator map that shrinks continent’s size Member states back Correct the Map campaign that urges governments and organisations to use more accurate map

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Sam Neill's candid thoughts on Jacinda Ardern's leadership | 30 with Guyon Espiner | RNZ YouTube video by RNZ

youtube.com/watch?v=yx4z...

This week is how to best identify the location of residential dwelling building footprints in Australia. Important if your trying to calculate how far they are away from services #gischat

The @foss4g.org 2025 conference website is live!

And I'm leading sponsorship, so if you'd like your company's logo up there on that website showcasing your support for the open geospatial community, then please get in touch!

Check it out: 2025.foss4g.org

For our research group the quick IO and compression has enabled us to iterate and develop much faster. We just output to gpkg and gdb when we need to. In combination with geopandas It has made big geodata processing much smaller in my experience. Leaves ESRI far behind in the research space.

#GISchat #GeoSky

Tilda Swinton decries ‘internationally enabled mass murder’ at Berlin film festival Actor speaks out against ‘the unacceptable complacency of our greed-addicted governments’ as she picks up a Golden Bear award for lifetime achievement

A human being with some clarity of thought IMO....

Tilda Swinton decries ‘internationally enabled mass murder’ at Berlin film festival | Film | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/film/2025/fe...

Emulating human expertise in rezoning: a case study of the Australian statistical geography standard Large geographical areas must be rezoned into smaller areas to support spatial statistical analyses providing community-level insights. The rezoning process is influenced by qualitative and subject...

Interested in how the ABS is looking at the Zone Design Problem? This paper provides some insight. Things have moved on since Openshaw & Rao's ZDES #gischat

Emulating human expertise in rezoning: a case study of the Australian statistical geography standard
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Episode 20: Street Smart — A Conversation with Geoff Boeing The GLaD Podcast · Episode

🎙️ New #GLaDpodcast episode! @darribas.bsky.social, @levijohnwolf.bsky.social and I are joined by the amazing @geoffboeing.com (@priceschool.usc.edu) to talk streets, disasters, urban form & open source software. It's a pretty good one, if I do say so myself. #geosky

open.spotify.com/episode/4H6K...

More open address datasets released by councils in England www.owenboswarva.com/blog/post-ad...

New blog post with download links for Council Tax lists from Birmingham City Council and Lichfield District Council, including full addresses, CT bands, and UPRNs.

#FOI #openaddresses #opendata

Nice piece of National Data Infrastructure. It would great if Australia invested similarly in its digital assets.

Ministry to digitalise property data to speed up homebuying process Project aims to enable faster information exchange among involved parties to modernise ‘cumbersome’ process

The important point this raises is that countries commonly under invest in these data assets. It is under appreciated how important they are.

Ministry to digitalise property data to speed up homebuying process www.theguardian.com/money/2025/f...

A deep dive into GeoParquet Downloader QGIS Plug-in Last month I released my first QGIS plug-in, and promised I’d write an in-depth post about it. I’ll give an overview and dig into some of…

A deep dive into #GeoParquet Downloader #QGIS Plug-in by Chris Holmes

medium.com/radiant-earth-insights/a...

#GISChat

Worth a read…

‘He smashed his iPad and headphones. My lyrics got torn up’: inside Elton John and Brandi Carlile’s explosive duets album

A question that has been crossing my mind the last few days. Are the Overture products better that anything the Australian Governments produce or pay to produce? Addresses no...but the road network perhaps?
Overture Maps Explorer (Beta) explore.overturemaps.org#15.4/-35.308...

Geographically complex

Intro to FORTRAN66 in a Digital Cartography course at Dundee Uni in the late 1980's. Writing essays using Word Perfect on the new PCs had just turned up at the library. It was a brave new world. #gischat

‘Net zero hero’ myth unfairly shifts burden of solving climate crisis on to individuals, study finds

+1

Great to focus on a part of the globe where this investment will have significant benefit. Questions 😁. Will the underlying data that goes into these base maps also be openly available? Will Overture Maps be involved? Thinking GERS?

Free "DuckDB in Action" Book Download a free PDF of the DuckDB in Action book published by Manning. The book is rich with technical guidance on data analytics and data engineering with DuckDB and MotherDuck.

For those into leading edge geospatial ETL. Free "DuckDB in Action" Book motherduck.com/duckdb-book-...

1. The people. Geographers have an understanding of the world that generally makes them good to be around.
2. The creativity. Creating code or a map is just good for the soul.
3. The value. Producing a product that helps people.

#gischat

Australians should be angry about another year of climate inaction. But don’t let your anger turn into despair | Greg Jericho I’ve been writing about climate change for years. I know my graphs won’t change minds, but facts matter

This sums things up nicely and provides some hard figures. Climate change increases costs.

Australians should be angry about another year of climate inaction. But don’t let your anger turn into despair | Greg Jericho | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/business/gro...

Maningrida 2518 person. No addresses

When you're building a residential dwelling reference frame in Australia....interesting to note just how many places do NOT have addresses. Maningrida 2518 persons. Lots of buildings. No addresses. CARA greateraccessforall.com

Mastodon’s founder cedes control, refuses to become next Musk or Zuckerberg Mastodon shifts to nonprofit ownership, calls for $5M in donations to expand.

Mastodon’s founder cedes control, refuses to become next Musk or Zuckerberg - Ars Technica arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

‘I was terrified about parental backlash’: taking contested history into schools

Just published in JOSS: 'antimeridian: A Python package for correcting geometries that cross the 180th meridian' https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.07530

Cartographic Technician .This position is located in Yosemite National Park, in the Physical Sciences & Landscape Ecology Branch. <p>The typical seasonal entry-on-duty period for Yosemite National Park is <strong>May-</stron...

Quite possibly one of the coolest jobs I've seen! Cartographic Technician for the NPS in Yosemite! nps.usajobs.gov/job/826382000