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Carl Churchill

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Robert Simmon @rsimmon.bsky.social · 2d

*Sigh*. My intended python demo for NACIS is gonna get tripped up by a version of Python released last Tuesday (3.14), which is not currently compatible with numpy. (I would prefer not having to spend time explaining how to downgrade a fresh Python install.)

😢

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Carl Churchill @cchurchili.bsky.social · 2d

the issue with bluesky is that it took me 2 months to find this amazing trick by @southarrowmaps.co.nz and it has seemingly no engagement

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Andrew Tyrrell @southarrowmaps.co.nz · Jul 16

This animation shows the difference between rotating the orthographic camera (first half) which produces foreshortening, and adjusting the Y-value of the input normal to the displacement node (second half).

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Carl Churchill @cchurchili.bsky.social · 3d

Definitely bit off a lot on this latest upcoming blog post...

Carl Churchill @cchurchili.bsky.social · 10d

An #infographic of an Indigenous calendar cycle from #Colombia, I found today

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Carl Churchill @cchurchili.bsky.social · 26d

"The French are pretty much still holding out"

describes many things tbf

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Carl Churchill @cchurchili.bsky.social · 26d

This is also why, for a while, the French held out with their own alternative standards (as the article states)

Carl Churchill @cchurchili.bsky.social · 27d

So is colonialism to blame when QGIS craps itself? No....but also yes, in a extremely indirect but not entirely seperated way. History connects things like that

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Carl Churchill @cchurchili.bsky.social · 27d

my go-to example of how colonialism / history can effect mundane tech problems. This convention of 180W/180E is directly linked to the cultural power of the British empire and its enforcing of scientific standards.

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Carl Churchill @cchurchili.bsky.social · 27d

commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Medieva...

Wikimedia gallery of #medieval #dataviz !!!!!

Medieval diagram - Wikimedia Commons

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Carl Churchill @cchurchili.bsky.social · 28d

The mapping soundtrack atm

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Robert Simmon @rsimmon.bsky.social · Sep 9

I have a weird GDAL problem. I am trying to assign a spatial reference system to a JPEG world map and then reproject. Everything works if I use gdal_translate to make a GeoTIFF, but if I create a VRT as an intermediate step the corners of the reprojected image are filled. What gives?