Nice post. This reminds me of the ESRI Enterprise Geodatabase system.
You can build one into a PostgreSQL database, but you can't edit data with non-ESRI tools because it handles IDs and relations in its own way. It's built like that because the same structure is used in their other GeoDatabase formats, but it has the convenient side-effect of locking the data into their tools.
The World's 2.75B Buildings in QGIS!
The United Nations (UN) believes there are 4B buildings on Earth. This week, a dataset called "GlobalBuildingAtlas" (GBA) was published by researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) that attempts to estimate this number at being closer to 2.75B
#gis #qgis #gba @tu_muenchen
tech.marksblogg.com/building-f…
Benchmarks & Tips for Big Data, Hadoop, AWS, Google Cloud, PostgreSQL, Spark, Python & More...tech.marksblogg.com
Hey #GIS #GISChat people, @gvwilson from Toronto wants to commission some GIS data manipulation work, any takers?
mastodon.social/@gvwilson/1140…
Looking for someone (very) familiar with the TopoJSON data format to do some (paid) extraction and reformatting work. Feels like one of those "straightforward if you know what you're doing, hellride if you don't" kinds of jobs.Mastodon
Forensic Architecture's cartographic analysis of the Gaza genocide, provided to South Africa for use at the International Court of Justice.
Via @ayoub , but let me repeat for emphasis: READ THIS
(a thread with some findings from the summary)
forensic-architecture.org/inve…
#Gaza #Genocide #ICJ #ICC #SouthAfrica #Israel #Geography #GIS
En.osm.town is an independent Mastodon server for OpenStreetMap people. Funding graciously provided by the OpenStreetMap Foundation.
You can find out more at en.osm.town/about or contact the admin @compass
#FeaturedServer #OpenStreetMap #OSM #Maps #Mapping #Map #Geospatial #GIS #Cartography #Cartographers #Cartographer #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse
New free and open #QGIS text book in #Spanish 🇪🇸 by Federico Gazaba @federicogazaba :
"Introduccion a los Sistemas de Informacion Geografica con Qgis"
github.com/federicogazaba/intr…
For more books, check: qgis.org/en/site/forusers/book…
#osgeo #gis #textbook #gischat
Introduccion a los Sistemas de Informacion Geografica con Qgis - federicogazaba/introduccion-a-los-sig-con-qgisGitHub
This Christmas, I've finally bitten the bullet and done some serious contributing to @openstreetmap (and also joined the OSM Foundation while I was at it). Honestly, I think it's one of the great wonders of the #OpenSource internet, so I wrote a blog post about why I'm contributing (and you should too)
andreasthinks.me/posts/OSM_for…
#GIS #openstreetmap #GeoSpatial #christmas #DataScience #data
…and maybe you should too!andreasthinks.me
🚨 Time to update your #shapefiles, #gischat!!
The State Department will use the Turkish government’s preferred spelling, #Türkiye, instead of #Turkey, a spokesman said on Thursday. The decision was made in response to a request from the Turkish Embassy.
t.co/wRS2DgCEe7?s=09 #gis #geodata
The department will use the Turkish-language spelling in “most formal, diplomatic, and bilateral contexts” after a request from the country’s embassy, a spokesman said.Christine Chung (The New York Times)
#introduction time 👋
- I'm a writer, programmer and researcher based in Melbourne.
- My day job involves a lot(!) of #dataviz and my main tools of the trade are #d3js, #python, #R and #GIS software. But I also play around with p5.js and SQL on occasion.
- Outside of that, I'm looking to learn more about digital librarianship and curatorship, digital humanities, early internet and the #indieweb, live art coding, generative art and cool web design.
- I was also a #music journalist for a few years and I'm a classically trained singer, so I'm always keen to hear new recs
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