Ah yes, that's tricky. You may be able to find a fairly high 'normal' car that you could buy second-hand and fit a hoist to, but it might be tricky.

What sort of wheelchair do you have? And what sort of car? My electric wheelchair folds and fits in my normal car (VW Passat), with a hoist to lift it in. The hoist cost a bit, but far cheaper than a special vehicle. I have some friends whose wheelchairs don't fold, but still fit in taller cars.

What satellite are these images from?

Gabriella Edghill will be presenting on "UK Power at Risk: Using open-source software to assess power loss risk from flooding" at the 'London "Geo" Meetup #2' on 8th April, Wednesday at Geovation, 65 Goswell Road, London. Event starts at 6PM

For the upcoming 'London "Geo" Meetup #2', we have our 2nd speaker Gabriella Edghill, from Rebalance Earth presenting on "UK Power at Risk: Using open-source to assess power loss risk from flooding"

RSVP and more details here: lgm.jsonsingh.com

#OSM
#OSGeo
#Geospatial
#Opensource
#London
#meetup

PyData Southampton - 22nd Meetup, Tue, Mar 17, 2026, 7:00 PM | Meetup **Venue**: Carnival House, 100 Harbour Parade, Southampton, SO15 1ST **📢 Want to speak 📢: [submit your talk proposal](https://bit.ly/pydataSoton-talks)** **Main Talks**

I'm looking forward to PyData Southampton next week - talks on Azure AI Foundry, astronomical image alignment and AI for sign language.

Sign up at www.meetup.com/pydata-south... and come along at 7pm Tues 17th at Carnival's HQ, Southampton

@pydatasoton.bsky.social #pydata #python #ml #ai

It's an email on a personal domain not something @gmail.com or anything, but it works for everything else. I'll DM you the email if you want to look into it.

I get this error when I try and subscribe - any idea why?

The nursing and midwifery building at the University of Southampton had a sign at the front for many years saying "Deliveries at rear"

Southampton, UK, English and I call it a Fire Engine or if I want to be really fancy and am talking to actual firefighters or my friend who works in Air Traffic Control, a Fire Appliance.

This article is in the paper copy of the FT today, which is nice :)

Quite chuffed that my little data analysis project has ended up in a national newspaper. And I think it's an important topic too.

#uk #health #pharmacy #data #datanalysis

Number of late-night pharmacies in England plummets [FREE TO READ] Decline comes after cash-strapped chemists reduced opening hours to cut costs

Did you know that the number of pharmacies in England open after 9pm has decreased by 95% in just three years?

I did some data analysis on this, inspired by needing an out of hours pharmacy over Christmas, and it has been featured in the Financial Times today: as.ft.com/r/4333cab1-6...

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...where it took me 30mins via a couple of outside streets to get from one conference room to another. Etc.

Totally - I've found this a big problem. I can list off the conferences where it took 20mins from the conference room to get to an accessible toilet, the one where I had to ask a security guard every time I wanted to go to the toilet...

Yes though I was brought up bringing it to the boil on the hob. Only started using a kettle once I met my wife

Welcome to FOSS4G:UK 2025 YouTube video by FOSS4G:UK

We have now uploaded all the recorded sessions from #FOSS4GUK 2025 in Leeds. 📹🦉

We would now invite everyone else to our youtube channel if you would like to catch up on the 35 recorded session.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCKv...

Very proud of my former student (now colleague!), Gabi, who just gave her first conference presentation at #foss4guk in Leeds.

#geospatial #gis #osgeo #postgis

The new 'gdal raster neighbours' function is pretty cool - it does convolution across a raster, with configurable kernels and other options. Not yet released, but available in dev builds. See gdal.org/en/latest/pr... for details.

Looking forward to #foss4guk this week in Leeds.

I'll be attending with a colleague, running a workshop on producing live vector tiles from PostGIS and my colleague will be giving a talk.

Now just to hope that the trains work better than last year: I got stuck in Bristol TM because the lift broke!

Debated about buying some heavy water today...for my #emfcamp talk/demo but a) it's very expensive and b) it'd probably get me put on a list. I'm consoling myself by buying high wattage halogen lamps instead.

PostGIS Day | November 20 Learn how others are making use of PostGIS, pick up some tips and tricks, and share stories about bringing this excellent tool into your organizations.

@pwramsey.bsky.social and I are hosting PostGIS Day again this year! The call for papers and registration is open now. Join us!

www.snowflake.com/postgis-day-...

This is one of the weirder comments that I've made on BlueSky, but...we have that Z80 chopping board!

(Partially prompted by reading Exploding the Phone, a good book about phone phreaking in the US, and realising that from that and various other similar books - eg. Kevin Mitnick's - I know significantly more about the US phone network than the network in my own country!)

Does anyone know any good books about the UK telephone network? Ideally I'd be interested in a history of the network, exchange development, memories of working on the network, big events (eg. phONEday etc) - but I can't seem to find anything like this

Orbio Earth just open-sourced their full methane detection pipeline—models, tools, synthetic-plume engine & validation notebooks—for Sentinel-2, Landsat 8/9, and EMIT. #Methane #ClimateTech #OpenSource - orbio-earth.github.io/Project-Euca...

I'm also quite surprised that I hadn't come across this previously, having been working in geospatial for quite a long time. Every day is a day for learning!

So, TIL that a MultiPolygon is invalid if any of its polygon parts touch at more than a single point. Eg. a MultiPolygon where two 'polygon parts' share an edge is invalid.
I can see why this is the case - those two polygon parts should be merged, but it's a bit annoying.

#gis

I won't be able to make this as my wife is in the US at the time and so I'm needed at home - but I've had a great time at PyCon UK in the past, and I'm already looking forward to watching the videos of some of these talks.

Gabi, a MSc student I've been supervising, will also be giving a talk about developing a system to look at secondary flooding impacts, specifically loss of power and loss of road access, on businesses in the UK. She'll be covering use of pgRouting, complex PostGIS SQL queries etc. #foss4guk