Providers of geospatial data throughout the world: please move away from your dysfunctional APIs and download portals and embrace cloud optimized geospatial formats for both raster and vector. It will be less work for you and much better usability for us. #geoparquet #stac #cog

In @geobon.org BON in a Box, a pipeline was working for every country except Austria. It turns out it's an issue created by the Jungholz region being connected to the rest of Austria by a single point, on top of a mountain. A topolitical (?) situation leading to an interesting technical challenge.

Discovery of the day. A bounding box over Antarctica on the new @maplibre.org globe looks like a Pokemon ball.

I'm always going back and forth between terra in R, rasterio and rioxarray in Python, or GDAL, but when all else fails, my old friend GRASS @[email protected] is always there to do the job without memory issues, weird crashes or missing GDAL dependencies.

McGill University just released its Biodiversity Atlas, to which I and the @qcbs.ca have collaborated. It's nice to see universities taking biodiversity issues seriously and defining indicators of progress at the very local scale. reporter.mcgill.ca/the-mcgill-b...

Leading an initiative for biodiversity monitoring and reporting at the sub-national level? Come and share the most interesting aspects of it, the challenges that you have faced and means to overcome them, at our #livingdata2025 session!

livingdata2025.com/sessions.html

I never know what to answer to this when working on my own projects.

Les inscriptions sont toujours ouvertes pour des ateliers du @qcbs.ca, notamment l'atelier d'introduction aux SIG, mardi et mercredi prochain
qcbs.ca/fr/ateliers-...

Registrations are still open for @qcbs.ca workshops, including Introduction to GIS next Tuesday and Wednesday
qcbs.ca/training-wor...

This week the Quebec Centre for Biodiversity Science held its annual conference.

Our theme “mobilizing science in support of conservation” created a buzz among the 300 attendees from across our network of universities and partners in conservation and gov.

Thank you to all who made it happen.

Spending a very stimulating week at @esa.int in Frascati, Italy for the #biospace25 conference, focused on observing biodiversity from space. I'm here thanks to @biodiversite-quebec.ca to learn about EO solutions for biodiversity, and working with @geobon.org colleagues to showcase BON in a Box.

🚀 New video tutorial series!

Learn how to install #BONinaBox, GEO BON’s open tool for biodiversity modeling & indicator calculation! 🌍📊

▶️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3T3...

📢 Join our free workshops in March & April to build & run analysis pipelines!
Register here 👉 boninabox.geobon.org/events

📣Call for session proposals - #LivingData2025 🐦

Living Data 2025 is a joint conference jointly hosted by
@gbif.org, TDWG, OBIS and @geobon.org at the Instituto Humboldt from 21-24 October in #Colombia.

Learn more here: 🔗https://livingdata2025.com/calls.html
#Biodiversity #DatosVivos2025

I'm really liking the @maplibre.org globe projection view. When combined with Titiler and COGs in our STAC catalog, we can finally visualize custom layers without the distortions created by the Mercator projection. Performance is A+ as well!

⚠️ Dates limites pour le colloque 2025 du CSBQ :

1️⃣ Soumissions (présentations/affiches) : 12 janvier, minuit 👉 registration.qcbs.ca/fr/colloque

2️⃣ Concours photo : 19 janv. 2025, minuit

Pour plus d'infos:
qcbs.ca/fr/colloque-...

🎉 I just wrapped up teaching the Introduction to GIS Programming course this semester at the University of Tennessee! All course materials and lecture recordings (26 hours) are freely available online.

Explore #geospatial 🌍 data visualization and analysis using #opensource Python packages:

Could include @geobon.org

Wow! I was an avid user of Idrisi during grad school and taught multiple courses with it. To see it being now free and open access is amazing, packed with features and merged with Terrset's modelling power. Check out Terrset liberaGIS!

www.clarku.edu/centers/geos...

Hello Bluesky 🦋

We’re a global biodiversity observation network, connecting scientists, policymakers, and communities. From genes to ecosystems, our mission is to provide the data and tools needed to monitor & conserve biodiversity.

Become a GEO BON member - it's free!
members.geobon.org/register/

Reposting for weekend readers:

🧪 🧪 We are hiring a new limnology professor at UQAM! Come join us in the GRIL in Montreal. Posting is below / Nous embauchons un nouveau prof en limnologie à l'UQAM! Rejoignez-vous à nous dans le GRIL 🧪 🧪 --> bio.uqam.ca/wp-content/u...
Please re-post.

Very interesting! We're also in the process of moving to @protomaps.com PMTiles and @maplibre.org for @biodiversite-quebec.ca. Small note: there is a typo on your charts. It's Tippecanoe, not Tippacanoe.

Bienvenue à

Centre de la science de la biodiversité du Québec
@qcbs.ca

et
Biodiversité Québec
@biodiversite-quebec.ca

!

Bienvenue à @biodiversiteqc.bsky.social, sous le ciel bleu !

C’est quoi Biodiversité Québec, ce projet interdisciplinaire plus grand que nature auquel j’ai eu le privilège de collaborer ?

biodiversite-quebec.ca/fr/decouvert...

First post on #bluesky is of the view just before landing in Cali for #cop16Colombia. The sky is always blue above the clouds.