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CNG @cloudnativegeo.org · May 28

This week we begin rolling out recordings from #CNG2025. First up: @opencholmes.bsky.social on "Towards a Global Spatial Data Ecosystem." As Chris states: "We have the tools and people we need to make a huge impact...as long as we do it together"
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[CNG 2025] Towards a Global Spatial Data Ecosystem – Chris Holmes (Keynote)

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rcheetham.bsky.social @rcheetham.bsky.social · May 12

Japan Earth Observer (JEO) newsletter #5 is out. There is news on Japan's space, EO, and geospatial industry in April + a deep dive on space-related items in the defense budget; JMoD is going shopping for satellites www.japanearthobserver.com/jeo-5-jmod-g...

JEO 5 - JMoD Goes Shopping

A monthly news roundup and a deep-dive on the Japan Ministry of Defense (JMoD) space-related budget.

www.japanearthobserver.com

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Darren Wiens @darrenwiens.github.io · Apr 29

File under "things you can do, but probably shouldn't".

An app that converts time slices of a netcdf to pngs and then combines those into a video overlaid on map, 100% in browser.

smoke-video.netlify.app

#geosky #geography #gischat

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Darren Wiens @darrenwiens.github.io · Apr 27

Example app showing how to create time lapse videos, in browser, at dynamic resolution, all from the same files. Click somewhere to generate a video.

cog-video.netlify.app

#geosky #geography #gischat

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Kyle Barron @kylebarron.dev · Apr 21

With today's Zarr Python release, switch to the new obstore-based backend for **3x faster** reading from S3, Google Cloud Storage, and Azure than the default fsspec backend.

zarr.readthedocs.io/en/stable/us...
developmentseed.org/obstore/late...

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Chris Holmes @opencholmes.bsky.social · Apr 9

Register at lu.ma/cng2025

CNG Conference 2025 · Luma

Join us for 2.5 days of talks, demos, and workshops. Please keep checking back as details may change as we design the best learning experience for you. There…

lu.ma

Chris Holmes @opencholmes.bsky.social · Apr 9

... for connection and collaboration.

Get your ticket soon, and come join an incredible group of people in Utah - you won't regret it. But you likely will regret NOT going, not being there at this inflection point for the CNG movement, and connecting with such an awesome group of people.

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Chris Holmes @opencholmes.bsky.social · Apr 9

The first Cloud-Native Geospatial Conference is happening in three weeks! I'll be giving the opening keynote, and I'm working to make it one of my best talks ever. The agenda (2025-ut.cloudnativegeo.org#agenda) is incredible, but there's also going to be lots of space between the talks...

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Chris Holmes @opencholmes.bsky.social · Apr 9

The AI tools also really make it much easier to 'drop in' and just spend 20-30 minutes but make some concrete progress.

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Chris Holmes @opencholmes.bsky.social · Apr 9

Do it! The vibe coding for QGIS is amazing these days. My recent learning is to start with plugins.qgis.org/plugins/plug... to start with a good structure. And newborns sleep a lot 😀 - I got through a lot of Breath of the Wild after putting mine (now 6) down. But qgis coding is just as fun...

Plugin Builder — QGIS Python Plugins Repository

plugins.qgis.org

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Pete Gadomski @gadom.ski · Apr 2

Day 1 in the books from the Satellite Tasking API #STAPI sprint 2025 in Lisbon!

We've got four sprint groups:
- spec
- frontend
- software
- vendor implementations

Watch github.com/stapi-spec/ for all the changes!

Organized by @element84.com, hosted by @developmentseed.org, and sponsored by #aws

Matt Hanson and Olaf Veerman kicking off the STAPI sprint 2025

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Tom Augspurger @tomaugspurger.net · Mar 19

I'll be at the Cloud Native Geospatial Conference (2025-ut.cloudnativegeo.org), talking about using GPUs for geospatial workloads.

Let me know if you have any experience or interest in this and would like to chat.

CNG Conference 2025

2025-ut.cloudnativegeo.org

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Anita Graser 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇪 @underdarkgis.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · Mar 14

🥳 @qgis 3.42 has landed in #condaforge
https://anaconda.org/conda-forge/qgis

My favorite way to install #qgis

#conda #gischat #python #opensource

Qgis | Anaconda.org

anaconda.org

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Bill Greer @billfgreer.bsky.social · Mar 5

SatCamp Tickets are Live! Join us for SatCamp 2025: Resilience Through Uncharted Terrain!
📍 Boulder, CO | Sept 24-26
🎟️ Register now: satcamp.xyz
Let’s shape the future of geospatial together! 🌍🔥 #SatCamp2025

SatCamp 2025

SatCamp is a conference unlike anything you have ever attended. September 24-26, 2025. Boulder, Colorado, USA.

satcamp.xyz

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Pete Gadomski @gadom.ski · Mar 4

As we push adoption of stac-geoparquet, we've found some cases where we might want to store multiple collections in the metadata. I made a light RFC here, if you're intersted: github.com/stac-utils/s...

#stac

[RFC] Multiple collections in metadata · Issue #88 · stac-utils/stac-geoparquet

The spec currently describes how to store a single collection in the metadata: stac-geoparquet/spec/stac-geoparquet-spec.md Lines 72 to 77 in 121f648 ## Including a STAC Collection JSON in a STAC G...

github.com

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Tom MacWright @macwright.com · Mar 4

damn this is a good article from @pketh.org pketh.org/the-human-to...

The Lo-Fi Art and Human Tools Era

At the dawn of the industry, we needed big companies to deliver quality software. You’d buy version 1.0 because the way it worked was revolutionary, and it let you do amazing new things. You’d buy ver...

pketh.org

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Chris Holmes @opencholmes.bsky.social · Mar 2

Reply to me here or on github.com/cholmes/qgis...

Thank you!

cc @marklit.bsky.social

Migrate users to new plugin directory by cholmes · Pull Request #96 · cholmes/qgis_plugin_gpq_downloader

This should hopefully close #94 when merged. I'm not totally sure this is the best approach, but is what the AI's (claude 3.7-sonnet) recommended. It replaces the existing directory with a ...

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Chris Holmes @opencholmes.bsky.social · Mar 2

Just download that zip, and in QGIS go to Plugins -> Manage and Install Plugins -> Install from ZIP. Ideally you have v0.6 or earlier of GeoParquet Downloader plugin installed. It should pop up a message & guide you to know what's happening. Please let me know if it works, or what went wrong.

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Chris Holmes @opencholmes.bsky.social · Mar 2

Is anyone up to test my geoparquet downloader qgis plugin? We want to change the directory in the latest release, which means migrating users from the old plugin to the 'new' one. If you could try out github.com/user-attachm... and let me know how it works I'd appreciate it.

github.com

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Alex @wildintellect.com · Feb 26

🌶️ pixi.sh is the easiest and fastest way to install #QGIS on Ubuntu (maybe Mac too) right now if you need access to GeoParquet and DuckDb formats and python libraries for plugins 🧵 #gischat

3 lines of terminal commands for using pixi to install qgis

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Ivor @ivybo.bsky.social · Feb 25

We've published 118,678,424 open-data field boundaries so far. The boundaries have been collected from different open data portals, in different formats, and are now published in a single format. If you're creating farmer software solutions and need field boundaries, use them to your advantage...

Chris Holmes @opencholmes.bsky.social · Feb 17

I'm incredibly pumped that we'll be launching 'phase 2' of the TGE initiative that lead to Fields of The World (fieldsofthe.world) and fiboa (github.com/fiboa). And I'd like to invite you to join us!

See tgengine.org/tge-innovati... for the full post, and read on for some more information.

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Hamish @polemic.nz · Feb 21

All open source is political. Even Rouault – archetypal GIS "random person maintaining the code that supports all modern digital infrastucture" – commited to GDAL github.com/OSGeo/gdal/p... - will now print "Trans rights are human rights" with `--version`. #gischat 🏳️‍⚧️👏🏼🏅

Add a GDAL_RELEASE_NICKNAME define by rouault · Pull Request #11865 · OSGeo/gdal

GDAL is an open source MIT licensed translator library for raster and vector geospatial data formats. - Add a GDAL_RELEASE_NICKNAME define by rouault · Pull Request #11865 · OSGeo/gdal

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Chris Holmes @opencholmes.bsky.social · Feb 20

(unless you love SQL and have your lat/long coordinates memorized).

A big thanks to all the new contributors!

Chris Holmes @opencholmes.bsky.social · Feb 20

I think my favorite (pictured in the gif) is the ability to select multiple
@overturemaps.bsky.social
layers and then have the plugin download them all at once. I'm pretty confident it's now the easiest way to get a bunch of Overture data for your area of interest.

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Chris Holmes @opencholmes.bsky.social · Feb 20

It's so cool to see the plug-in get better as different people 'scratch their own itch' and add what they think is useful.

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