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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 14h

Happy birthday, Sci-fi Queen Sigourney.

And she's far from finished with sci-fi, as she'll be appearing in Avatar: Fire and Ash (Dec. 2025) and The Mandalorian & Grogu (May 2026).

Sigourney Weaver in The Mandalorian & Grogu (2026)

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Anita Graser 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇪 @underdarkgis.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 9h

@rjhale1971 wtf? storage costs too high or what's the reasoning process?

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QGIS @qgis.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Update on QGIS 4.0 Release Schedule and LTR Plans

Following the earlier announcement that QGIS is moving to Qt 6 and launching QGIS 4.0, we want to share an important update about the QGIS 4.x roadmap. After extensive discussion on the developer mailing list, the QGIS community has agreed to […]

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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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FOSSGIS Verein @fossgisev.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 2d

Die Karte zeigt die Standorte der FOSSGIS-Konferenzen:
2006, 2018 Bonn
2007, 2014, 2023 Berlin
2008, 2020 Freiburg
2009 Hannover
2010 Osnabrück
2011 Heidelberg
2012 Dessau
2013, 2021 Rapperswil
2014 Berlin
2015, 2025 Münster
2016 Salzburg
2017 Passau
2019 […]

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Bild zeigt einen Text zum Thema schon gewußt, im Rahmen der Social Media Kampagne zum 25. Jubiläum. Ein oranges Dreieck enthält das FOSSGIS-Vereinslogo sowie den Schriftzug 25. Jahre, ein weiteres Dreieck symbolisiert das OSM-Grün und das andere das OSGeo-grün.
Eine Karte vom D-A-CH-Raum zeigt die Standorte als Punkte, daneben die Aufzählung Orte mit Jahreszahlen:
2006, 2018 Bonn
2007, 2014, 2023 Berlin
2008, 2020 Freiburg
2009 Hannover
2010 Osnabrück
2011 Heidelberg
2012 Dessau
2013, 2021 Rapperswil
2014 Berlin
2015, 2025 Münster
2016 Salzburg
2017 Passau
2019 Dresden,
2022 Marburg/online
2024 Hamburg
2025 Münster
2026 Göttingen

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Michael Szell @mszll.datasci.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d

Nice project: A computational framework for quantifying route diversification in road networks
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02582

Interactive: https://divercitymaps.github.io/

Overview of DiverCity and global patterns in urban road networks. (a) Example of a trip with low
DiverCity (2.18) in Mumbai. Near-shortest routes significantly overlap, leading to low route diversity. (b) Example of
a trip with high DiverCity (9) in Tokyo, characterized by multiple spatially diverse near-shortest routes. For panels
(a) and (b), inset bar plots show the travel time of each alternative route, with NSRs in blue and non-feasible routes
(exceeding the near-shortest threshold, shown as a dashed line) in red.

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

Starting out with geographic data in Python? 🌍🐍

Chapter 1 of Geocomputation with Python introduces vector & raster models + core tools (geopandas, shapely, rasterio).

👉 https://py.geocompx.org/01-spatial-data

#geopython #python #gischat

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FOSSGIS Verein @fossgisev.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 5d

Der @FOSSGISeV war ursprünglich die
GRASS-Anwendervereinigung e.V. (GAV) @grassgis .
Die Gründungsversammlung zur GAV fand am 15.04.2000 statt, die Eintragung als gemeinnütziger Verein erfolgte am 18.01.2001.
Im Jahr 2008 nannte sich der Verein in FOSSGIS e.V […]

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FOSSGIS Verein @fossgisev.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 5d

Auch wenn die GAV in ihrer ursprünglichen Form nicht mehr existiert, hat sie entscheidend zur Verbreitung Freier GIS-Software in Deutschland beigetragen. Ihre Initiativen und ihr Engagement haben den Grundstein für den heutigen FOSSGIS e.V. sowie die starke […]

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Hans van der Kwast :qgis: @hansakwast.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 4d

Just wrapped up teaching #qgis for Hydrological Applications to #ErasmusMundus #FloodriskManagement MSc students at @tudresden's beautiful #Tharandt campus 🍁.

Students completed 7 lessons based on the book I co-authored with @geomenke, earned QGIS certificates […]

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

Postdoc in the Spatial Data Science and GeoCommunication group at @univienna
https://jobs.univie.ac.at/job/University-Assistant-postdoctoral/1251977001/

#gischat #giscience #GISjobs

University Assistant postdoctoral

jobs.univie.ac.at

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Hans van der Kwast :qgis: @hansakwast.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 8d

🎥 Watch Back: #qgis Open Day session Ask the PSC: Everything You Need to Know About QGIS User Groups. With @mbernasocchi & @timlinux.
https://www.youtube.com/live/hBen1K8BtJU?si=yTl_fEPgWKsBhtbC

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OSGeo @osgeo.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 8d

Greetings from the #osgeo Community Sprint 2025 in Riga. https://www.osgeo.org/events/join-osgeo-community-sprint-2025-at-bids-25-riga-latvia/
If you are around, you are welcome to join us at 19:00 for our social event at Ala Pagrabs.
And if you have time to […]

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Jakub Nowosad @nowosad.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 7d

New post by David O’Sullivan:

“Raster really is faster (and vaster), but vector just seems more corrector.”

Part 1A of a series revisiting ideas from Geographic Information Analysis: fractals, raster vs vector, and R code.

👉 […]

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Anita Graser 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇪 @underdarkgis.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 8d

It's day 1 of #pydataparis, great venue & crowd. Looking forward to sharing some geospatial perspectives tomorrow

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Hans van der Kwast :qgis: @hansakwast.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 10d

🎥 I've published a video based on my #geomobnl talk in Eindhoven on 18 Sept on #digitalsovereignty & #opensource for geo, covering procurement, policy, and community-driven development.

Watch here: https://youtu.be/0u6tPM-USHY

💬 Feel free to share your comments.

#qgis #osgeo #ogc

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Anita Graser 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇪 @underdarkgis.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 11d

Exploring more recent music has been on my bucket list for a while ...

Fell head first into the #renrabbithole and loving it 🥰 🎶

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Anita Graser 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇪 @underdarkgis.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 11d

Pretty cool: [email protected] is the 1,955 most followed account according to https://most-followed-mastodon-accounts.stefanhayden.com/?q=qgis

#qgis #osgeo #gischat

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Anita Graser 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇪 @underdarkgis.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 12d

What do you wish Data Scientists knew about spatial?

I'll be at #pydataparis next week to spread the word

https://pydata.org/paris2025

#gischat #python #datascience #SpatialDataScience #pydata

PyData Paris 2025

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Anita Graser 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇪 @underdarkgis.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 12d

@dasgrueneblatt wenn ich mich nicht täusche, kann man alles mögliche über den "Alle Themen"-Link oben einblenden ... gut versteckt

Anita Graser 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇪 @underdarkgis.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 12d

Surprise ... "engineers who allegedly used AI to write a code snippet were perceived as less competent than those who didn’t (and female engineers were disproportionately penalized).

https://hbr.org/2025/09/ai-generated-workslop-is-destroying-productivity

人工智能生成的 "工作圈 "正在摧毁生产力？

AI-generated “workslop” is destroying productivity? (hbr.org) 02:07 ↑ 104 HN Points

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B H @barneyharris.sciences.social.ap.brid.gy · 12d

hivemind style question about spatial model sampling strategy: when modelling a highly spatially autocorrelated response such as the one shown here, I found the only way to produce models with correctable spatial autocorrelation (using eigenvectors) in the […]

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A map showing a response variable with various points used for sampling for a series of models.

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Hans van der Kwast :qgis: @hansakwast.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 13d

Want to start a QGIS User Group or grow one? Join us this Friday for a #qgisopenday session with PSC Chair @mbernasocchi & @timlinux! Learn how to launch, run, and connect your group globally 🌍

📅 26 Sept 2025
🕚 11H00 UTC
📺 Livestream and more info […]

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cartocalypse @cartocalypse.norden.social.ap.brid.gy · 14d

An image of Clippy, the paperclip with eyes from Microsoft Office, with a speech bubble saying "Looks like you forgot to set is_child_algorithm=True when using processing.run within a QgsProcessingAlgorithm again.". At the bottom of the speech bubble, there are 2 buttons saying "Crash now" and "Crash later".

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Josef Strobl @gistrobl.bsky.social · 14d

Young #GIScientist award >https://www.rundertischgis.de/nachwuchsfoerderung/foerderpreis/ Deadline Nov 15

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