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Carl Churchill

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Carl Churchill @cchurchili.bsky.social · 3d

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

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Carl Churchill @cchurchili.bsky.social · 19d

"The French are pretty much still holding out"

describes many things tbf

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Carl Churchill @cchurchili.bsky.social · 19d

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 · 21d

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 · 21d

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 · 21d

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

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

Medieval diagram - Wikimedia Commons

commons.wikimedia.org

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Carl Churchill @cchurchili.bsky.social · 22d

The mapping soundtrack atm

Reposted by Carl Churchill

Robert Simmon @rsimmon.bsky.social · 28d

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?

Equal earth map reprojected from a GeoTIFF source file with areas off the map correctly filled with white (no data). (Original GeoTIFF is transparent.)

Equal earth true color map reprojected from a VRT source file with areas off the map incorrectly filled with data from the other side of the international dateline.

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Carl Churchill @cchurchili.bsky.social · Sep 8

Ive learned to expect consistently amazing (and harrowing) reporting from @shannonosaka.bsky.social

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Carl Churchill @cchurchili.bsky.social · Aug 31

The accent on an 'i' will be the death of me

Carl Churchill @cchurchili.bsky.social · Aug 20

im just so jazzed about blender + satellite mosaics

Carl Churchill @cchurchili.bsky.social · Aug 17

llegando...

Carl Churchill @cchurchili.bsky.social · Aug 13

To one and all a happy anniversary of the beginning of the world in the Maya long count calendar (give or take a day or 2).

Carl Churchill @cchurchili.bsky.social · Aug 13

Im proud to say I took this as someone who lives in new york and was totally useless and lost

(oh yeah I live in new york. Yk, new york *city*)

Carl Churchill @cchurchili.bsky.social · Aug 9

Great lakes through and through

Carl Churchill @cchurchili.bsky.social · Aug 9

which language??

Carl Churchill @cchurchili.bsky.social · Aug 1

Há Lula no Brooklyn

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Lula Molusco Cinéfilo @luciob.bsky.social · Aug 1

O de Washington DC:

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Carl Churchill @cchurchili.bsky.social · Jul 29

shoutout to whoever did USGS art in the 90s

Carl Churchill @cchurchili.bsky.social · Jul 28

*sickos*

Haha yesss

Carl Churchill @cchurchili.bsky.social · Jul 19

Guess!

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Carl Churchill @cchurchili.bsky.social · Jul 19

you can do anything in blender yk

Carl Churchill @cchurchili.bsky.social · Jul 19

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Carl Churchill @cchurchili.bsky.social · Jul 11

My favorite map here is Laris's

Robert Simmon @rsimmon.bsky.social · Jul 11

Four maps of the flooding in Kerr County, TX. Each newsroom drew on varied data sources & focused on a different aspect of the disaster.

Refined combination of color-coded rainfall data & shaded relief by Laris Karklis, @washingtonpost.com

wapo.st/3IpvrTu

#dataviz #cartography #ddj

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Map of rainfall and topography for July 4 showing what led to the flooding in Kerr County, Texas. About 12 inches of rain fell on steep hillside that funneled into narrow stream valleys.

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Carl Churchill @cchurchili.bsky.social · Jul 7

Nobody likes it when someone posts something cool and then is all coy about how they did it -

Volumes are tricky to deal with, but if you start with a texture coordinate, linked to the volume object, you can use its vector to get a image texture to work when hooked up to the volumes color.