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Mapperz

@mapperz

27 years in #Map Data, breaks #GIS easily, Stack Exchange Mod 16+ Years, #QGIS #FME #Opendata DIYSolar, 3DPrint & random stuff... dabbles in geo ai..

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Joined February 2009
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Bert Temme@berttemmeAug 26
GeoParquet Visualizer do-me.github.io/geoparquet-v…
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Google withdraws new Earth AI tool after warnings over misinformation risks… bbc.com/news/articles/c9349y…
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Latest Natural Earth 6.0 data release: - 40,000+ populated places (lots of attributes) - Graticules (1, 5, 10, 15, 20, & 30 degrees) - Tropic lines, polar lines, & Int. Dateline - Geographic regions (physical names) shadedrelief.com/ne-draft/
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Initial perimeter for Bald Range has landed in FireMap, west of Summerland. Satellite hotspots give a general idea of where a fire is and the perimeter gives a precise area of where it’s been mapped. Data courtesy of @BCGovFireInfo #BC #Okanagan
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QGIS 4.2.0 is out. – at Viimsi, Eesti
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Tomb Raider
@tombraiderJun 2
Adventure beyond legend. Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis releases February 12, 2027, on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Steam, and the Nintendo Switch 2!
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Welcome home Reid, Victor, Christina, and Jeremy! 🫶 The Artemis II astronauts have splashed down at 8:07pm ET (0007 UTC April 11), bringing their historic 10-day mission around the Moon to an end.
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Microsoft refreshed their 1.4B Global Building footprint and height dataset on the 15th. tech.marksblogg.com/ms-build…
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Linux Mint@Linux_MintJan 13
Linux Mint 22.3 “Zena” released! blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4981
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Denmark is ready !
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More #openaddresses goodness: Ealing Council has released its Council Tax address list as open data owenboswarva.com/blog/post-a… Ealing is the sixth London borough to unlock its CT list. Thanks @EalingCouncil! I've geocoded the property locations as usual #FOI #UKhousing #opendata
Screenshot of sample of Ealing Council's address data, visualised in Google Earth

ALT Screenshot of sample of Ealing Council's address data, visualised in Google Earth

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Some legends are destined to be retold. Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis is a reimagining of Lara Croft’s iconic 1996 debut. Coming to PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S in 2026! Wishlist now: playtr.games/wishlistnow
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Vibe-coding went wrong..
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Our 9-part Python + AI live series in October covered LLMs, embeddings, RAG, vision models, structured outputs, safety, tool-calling, agents and MCP. Grab the recordings, slides, and code from: blog.pamelafox.org/2025/10/w…
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We are happy to announce the deployment of #VectorTiles on OSM Foundation servers & the publication of the layer on the OSM website. We have been working hard to bring you a fresh look to OSM data, paired with exciting technological upgrades. For details: blog.openstreetmap.org/2025/…
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norden.social/@jef/114897407…

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Attached: 1 image Linux and Windows packages of #QGIS release 3.40.9 "Bratislava" (LTR) and 3.44.1 "Solothurn" ready on https://qgis.org. Make maps not war!

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The comment section tells me everything I need to know about how the general public cares about the weather service.
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BREAKING: A Florida meteorologist just went on air and said he can’t accurately report the weather anymore, because Trump’s DOGE cuts gutted the satellite data he relies on. We’re not just defunding science, we’re sabotaging public safety. And for what? So a billionaire surveillance firm can get another contract while Americans can’t even get a hurricane warning on time?
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Announcing Gemma 3n preview: powerful, efficient, mobile-first AI developers.googleblog.com/en…
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Presenting my new GIS dashboard at a conference.
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Its happening y'all, DuckDB's spatial joins are about to get good, actually. github.com/duckdb/duckdb-spa…
Update to DuckDB V1.2.2 + Add Spatial Join Operator by Maxxen · Pull Request #545 · duckdb/duckdb...

Update to DuckDB V1.2.2 + Add Spatial Join Operator by Maxxen · Pull Request #545 · duckdb/duckdb...

This PR updates the workflow and pinned DuckDB version in the v1.2.2 branch to DuckDB v1.2.2. It also adds a new physical operator, the SPATIAL_JOIN. Spatial Joins Executing spatial joins in DuckDB...

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