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daniel:// stenberg:// @bagder.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

The European Open Source Awards marks a celebration and one of a kind recognition of open source excellence in Europe.

Open Call for Nominations: https://europeanopensource.academy/open-call-nominations-european-open-source-awards-2026

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David Ho @davidho.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy · Jun 21

Happy solstice everyone, and may you know that the tilt of the Earth and not the distance from the Sun is the reason for the seasons.

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daniel:// stenberg:// @bagder.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15d

The EU’s €2T budget overlooks a key tech pillar: Open source

https://thenextweb.com/news/eu-budget-open-source

The EU’s €2T budget overlooks a key tech pillar: Open source

Daniel Stenberg, president of the European Open Source Academy and founder of cURL, fears the EU's next big budget will sideline open source.

thenextweb.com

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Edzer Pebesma @edzer.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19d

Spatial Data Science across languages now has a website: https://spatial-data-science.github.io/ Thanks @martinfleis !

Spatial Data Science across Languages

spatial-data-science.github.io

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MapTiler @maptiler.bsky.social · May 26

Run offline maps on #RaspberryPi with MapTiler Server. Ideal for deployment in remote areas, during emergency response, or at industrial sites. Now maps can be accessed anywhere, even on single-board computers without an internet connection. Find out more via link in the comment section.

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Edzer Pebesma @edzer.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · May 26

@eliocamp did you compute the contours on the sphere?

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Elio Campitelli @eliocamp.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · May 26

Spent all day fixing a bug in metR that broke tanaka contours when projecting contours. Now it's fixed and can keep designing my poster.

#rstats

Figure with 6 panels showing a polar stereographic view of Antarctica with pink and blue filled contours with a relief effect that makes the positive values look like they go out of the screen and the negative values go back into the screen.

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Edzer Pebesma @edzer.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · May 2

@juliasilge Thanks! When I start positron from the command line in some directory, the directory shown is always ~ (i.e., my home directory); this is on linux. How do you start positron, or how could I do this differently? Maybe clicking some kind of project file?

Edzer Pebesma @edzer.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · Apr 24

It works when running "Preview", but not when I click "run cell".

Edzer Pebesma @edzer.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · Apr 24

#rstats is anyone here using #positron? I discovered that the latest version works for me! Super happy about that. Now I'm trying to find out how it will load data files from the current working directory when started with a .qmd file from there, instead of trying to read from my home directory.

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Jakub Nowosad @nowosad.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · Apr 3

🚀 Last week, we hosted "Advances in Spatial Machine Learning 2025", a two-day workshop tackling open challenges in the field.

From validation to uncertainty analysis, we explored key topics with top researchers.

Now, we're working on synthesizing […]

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Edzer Pebesma @edzer.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · Apr 12

@nowosad https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/gpboost/index.html

gpboost: Combining Tree-Boosting with Gaussian Process and Mixed Effects Models

An R package that allows for combining tree-boosting with Gaussian process and mixed effects models. It also allows for independently doing tree-boosting as well as inference and prediction for Gaussian process and mixed effects models. See <https://github.com/fabsig/GPBoost> for more information on the software and Sigrist (2022, JMLR) <https://www.jmlr.org/papers/v23/20-322.html> and Sigrist (2023, TPAMI) <doi:10.1109/TPAMI.2022.3168152> for more information on the methodology.

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Jakub Nowosad @nowosad.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · Apr 8

🚧 We're proposing a new section "Machine Learning of Spatial Data" for the #rstats CRAN Task View: Analysis of Spatial Data.

https://github.com/cran-task-views/Spatial/pull/89

Feedback is welcome -- are we missing key packages or ideas?

Feel free to reply or […]

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Open Infrastructure Map @openinframap.org · Apr 9

Designer wanted! We're looking for someone to design a logo and icons for Open Infrastructure Map. This is a paid contract.

More info & how to apply: https://github.com/openinframap/openinframap/discussions/216

#OpenStreetMap #design #webdesign

An image of the globe showing infrastructure

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Anita Graser 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇪 @underdarkgis.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · Apr 5

It's been a pleasure contributing to the "Spatial Data Science Languages" preprint spear-headed by @edzer together with @martinfleis @paleolimbot @robinlovelace @nowosad @josi @loreabad6
https://fosstodon.org/@martinfleis/114261790590024080

#SpatialDataScience #gischat

Martin Fleischmann (@[email protected])

352 Posts, 359 Following, 552 Followers · Researcher in urban morphology & geographic data science. Open source software developer (GeoPandas, PySAL).

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Geospatial Technologies @geotech-msc.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · Mar 23

🌍 Calling all future geospatial innovators! 🛰️
📅 Application Deadline for Self-Financed Students: 31 May
👉 How to apply:
https://mastergeotech.info/how-to-apply/on-line-application/
Successful candidates will be contacted by a host institution representative […]

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Edzer Pebesma @edzer.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · Mar 11

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David Ho @davidho.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy · Feb 27

I think about this map a lot.

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-us-land-use/

This is a cartogram map of the United States depicting land use by different categories. The map distorts state shapes to represent proportional land usage. Key land use types include cow pasture/range (covering much of the central U.S.), private and federal timberland in the Pacific Northwest, corporate timberland in the Southeast, and urban housing/commercial areas in the Northeast. Other categories include agriculture (livestock feed, wheat exports, ethanol/biodiesel, cotton), protected lands (national parks, federal wilderness, state parks), and infrastructure (railroads, airports, highways). Additional specialized land uses include wildfires, golf courses, Christmas tree farms, and maple syrup production.

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Björn Brembs @brembs.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · Feb 21

"How disruptive would it be if GitHub started deleting repositories, or Google Scholar started hiding certain papers in response to U.S. government demands?"

https://www.thetransmitter.org/policy/science-must-step-away-from-nationally-managed-infrastructure/

Most people with some interest […]

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David August ❌👑 @davidaugust.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · Feb 21

Jan Boehmermann (Böhmermann) on Germany, its history and present:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8brq-0Wcjg8

#Germany #depol #elections #afd

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daniel:// stenberg:// @bagder.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · Feb 20

It's time to re-enjoy this golden quote about me and #curl, shown in the most awesome way.

curl is just the hobby of some guy that has no business providing a service to a billion people

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bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦 @bert-hubert.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · Feb 19

The legality (not wisdom) of putting European private data on US clouds hinges on the availability of the US Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board. Trump neutered this board, and the European parliament has taken notice & asked the European Commission what they think:

Thorn e enma intarnctin diericeinn thic wnnl + tha Drivarc aus Galan in Minmi e e Comnittee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs = European Parliament

The Chairman IUST-SEC/LIBE D (2025) 2901 Mr Michael McGrath Commissioner for Democracy, Justice, the Rule of Law and Consumer Protection European Commission Rue de la Loi/Wetstraat 200 D 300788 06.02.2025 1049 Brussels Dear Commissioner McGrath, The Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE Committee) closely follows all matters linked to the European Commission’s adequacy finding for the EU-US Data Privacy Framework mechanism. It was in view of the Commission’s assessment that the European Parliament adopted its resolution of 11 May 2023 on the adequacy of the protection afforded by the EU-US Data Privacy Framework (2023/2501(RSP)). Furthermore, during a LIBE Committee mission to Washington in May 2023, LIBE Members had an opportunity to discuss EU-US data transfers with Members of the US Congress, representatives of the US Departments of Justice and Commerce, as well as the Chair of the Federal Trade Commission. One of the issues considered in the above-mentioned resolution are the competences of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB), an independent body responsible for ensuring that privacy and civil liberties are safeguarded. The EU-US Data Privacy Framework established a new review mechanism, allowing individuals in the EU whose personal da

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Raúl Nanclares 🍜 @rnanclares.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · Feb 19

@CD_Newton Thanks to Edzer Pebesma I finally could get the process right. It's really simple, and works really well.
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library(sf)

data <- st_read('~/Downloads/bizkaia_elementos_test.gpkg') |> st_make_valid()

i <- st_intersection(data)
i2 <- […]

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screenshot showing a set of building parts before the self intersection process

screenshot showing a set of building parts after the self intersection process. Every polygon is splitted by the boundaries of all the intersecting polygons.

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petersuber @petersuber.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · Feb 15

Peter Barr explains why three UK #universities recently cancelled their #elsevier #readAndPublish agreements and why their are unsustainable.
https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=20250211161002365

PS: For my own objections to these deals overlap significantly with Barr's. See the […]

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