Geez... I thought that was bad and then saw the other photo in the reddit thread. What a crazy and sad scene 😔

Love it! While I don't really miss my commute from SI to MN overall, the ferry part and occasional bike rides were always a points of relative calm :-) Enjoy!

And if you're there, be sure to check out this panel I'm honored to be part of about biodiversity and data in NYC - nycsodata25.sched.com/event/1yDsB/...

(if you need performance gains... but I also realize it can work fine to let things run for a while while you do other things too)

Its been a while since I've done big vector operations in R, but a while back I went pretty all-in on using PostgreSQL/PostGIS, in part for big vector analyses, finding it to be the most performant. There's definitely overhead in getting things set up but could be worth a try?

Have you had a smooth experience getting big datasets from open data lately? It seems like the backend workflow for readying data to download changed and it's struggling. Was trying to get shapefiles of forestry work orders and building footprints, and it goes to "export initiated" and just hangs 😒

Oh, that's neat - I've gone to using gdal directly via command line more, at least for larger datasets, when it meets my needs, but awesome that the functionality is in terra!
(And great to see ya here @mdsumner.bsky.social!)

Thanks again @postholer.com - that was so simple and effective! Can't believe it's been years of me trying to figure out an easy approach that did that.

Ooh, that's neat! I'll have to give that a whirl. The less setup and dependencies, the better

Looks like I'm finally finding a solution through python/gdal gis.stackexchange.com/a/325751/25195 Curious to hear other approaches too though.

That a *lot* of what I do isn't that complicated... Yeah, some of the how I do things is tough because of big datasets and such, but I think GIS sometimes is sometimes unnecessarily mystified and made to feel less accessible than it can be. The dominance of expensive software doesn't help #gischat