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Jimmy Rocks 🗺️
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Maps, Data, Code, Open Source, Music, Birbs
#GIS #Geospatial #Mapping #FOSS4G #OpenStreetMap #Cartography
The Spatial Data Science Conference has some really cool cups this year! #SDSC25
October 15, 2025 at 1:54 PM
May 20, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Spinnable World Maps! – How did I not know about this website before today?
vcg.isti.cnr.it/~tarini/spin...
January 20, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Anyone have any good Turkey (bird) maps? #🦃
November 28, 2024 at 2:58 PM
I (poorly) photoshopped this image to say “It’s now safe to turn off Jimmy’s computer.” — I’m sure my family was appreciative
November 28, 2024 at 12:10 AM
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Happy #PostGISDay, to those who observe.
November 21, 2024 at 12:37 PM
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Foursquare just open sourced their 100 million place point of interest dataset! Some notes on poking around with it using DuckDB (it's Parquet files on S3) simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/20/...
Foursquare Open Source Places: A new foundational dataset for the geospatial community
I did not expect this! > [...] we are announcing today the general availability of a foundational open data set, Foursquare Open Source Places ("FSQ OS Places"). This base layer …
simonwillison.net
November 20, 2024 at 6:08 AM
I love this silver sharpie for this!
Life tip: Nobody is stopping you from putting a dot on the top of your USB cables

It takes 1 second and saves you trying both sides and somehow only plugging it in right when you look at it
November 18, 2024 at 12:52 AM
This is super cool! @iandees.bsky.social is also behind this great project: pypi.org/project/esri...
November 18, 2024 at 12:50 AM
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Check out my dot-density map of Poland's🇵🇱 population by powiat (admin level 2).

1 dot = 10,000 people, randomly placed within their powiat.

Can you spot the most populated regions? 🧐

Learn to create maps like this with my YouTube tutorial!
youtu.be/aUA1Sb6IBVQ

#maps #dataviz #rstats #Poland
November 17, 2024 at 9:49 AM
It it fitting that this song just over 10 minutes long: youtu.be/YjNytMN4QL0 #metric #doomscroller #doomscrolling
Metric - Doomscroller (Official Video)
YouTube video by metricmusic
youtu.be
November 18, 2024 at 12:47 AM