Marcus
@mapmaker23.bsky.social
Geographer @ Centre for Australian Research into Access (CARA)
http://greateraccessforall.com
http://greateraccessforall.com
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The @foss4g.org 2025 conference website is live!
And I'm leading sponsorship, so if you'd like your company's logo up there on that website showcasing your support for the open geospatial community, then please get in touch!
Check it out: 2025.foss4g.org
And I'm leading sponsorship, so if you'd like your company's logo up there on that website showcasing your support for the open geospatial community, then please get in touch!
Check it out: 2025.foss4g.org
March 11, 2025 at 11:35 PM
The @foss4g.org 2025 conference website is live!
And I'm leading sponsorship, so if you'd like your company's logo up there on that website showcasing your support for the open geospatial community, then please get in touch!
Check it out: 2025.foss4g.org
And I'm leading sponsorship, so if you'd like your company's logo up there on that website showcasing your support for the open geospatial community, then please get in touch!
Check it out: 2025.foss4g.org
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OPEN DATA ALERT World Bank created a Global Biodiversity Species Global Grid database, based on data from GBIF and machine-based pattern recognition to generate species occurrence maps 🧪🌍https://blogs.worldbank.org/en/opendata/a-new-world-bank-database-to-support-a-new-era-in-biodiversity-c
A new World Bank database to support a new era in biodiversity conservation
The World Bank's new biodiversity database includes over 600,000 species, providing critical, high-resolution data to enhance conservation strategies and support global initiatives like the 30x30 fram...
blogs.worldbank.org
February 13, 2025 at 10:16 AM
A human being with some clarity of thought IMO....
Tilda Swinton decries ‘internationally enabled mass murder’ at Berlin film festival | Film | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/film/2025/fe...
Tilda Swinton decries ‘internationally enabled mass murder’ at Berlin film festival | Film | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/film/2025/fe...
Tilda Swinton decries ‘internationally enabled mass murder’ at Berlin film festival
Actor speaks out against ‘the unacceptable complacency of our greed-addicted governments’ as she picks up a Golden Bear award for lifetime achievement
www.theguardian.com
February 14, 2025 at 11:50 PM
A human being with some clarity of thought IMO....
Tilda Swinton decries ‘internationally enabled mass murder’ at Berlin film festival | Film | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/film/2025/fe...
Tilda Swinton decries ‘internationally enabled mass murder’ at Berlin film festival | Film | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/film/2025/fe...
Interested in how the ABS is looking at the Zone Design Problem? This paper provides some insight. Things have moved on since Openshaw & Rao's ZDES #gischat
Emulating human expertise in rezoning: a case study of the Australian statistical geography standard
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Emulating human expertise in rezoning: a case study of the Australian statistical geography standard
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Emulating human expertise in rezoning: a case study of the Australian statistical geography standard
Large geographical areas must be rezoned into smaller areas to support spatial statistical analyses providing community-level insights. The rezoning process is influenced by qualitative and subject...
www.tandfonline.com
February 12, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Interested in how the ABS is looking at the Zone Design Problem? This paper provides some insight. Things have moved on since Openshaw & Rao's ZDES #gischat
Emulating human expertise in rezoning: a case study of the Australian statistical geography standard
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Emulating human expertise in rezoning: a case study of the Australian statistical geography standard
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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🎙️ New #GLaDpodcast episode! @darribas.bsky.social, @levijohnwolf.bsky.social and I are joined by the amazing @geoffboeing.com (@priceschool.usc.edu) to talk streets, disasters, urban form & open source software. It's a pretty good one, if I do say so myself. #geosky
open.spotify.com/episode/4H6K...
open.spotify.com/episode/4H6K...
Episode 20: Street Smart — A Conversation with Geoff Boeing
The GLaD Podcast · Episode
open.spotify.com
February 3, 2025 at 3:14 PM
🎙️ New #GLaDpodcast episode! @darribas.bsky.social, @levijohnwolf.bsky.social and I are joined by the amazing @geoffboeing.com (@priceschool.usc.edu) to talk streets, disasters, urban form & open source software. It's a pretty good one, if I do say so myself. #geosky
open.spotify.com/episode/4H6K...
open.spotify.com/episode/4H6K...
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More open address datasets released by councils in England www.owenboswarva.com/blog/post-ad...
New blog post with download links for Council Tax lists from Birmingham City Council and Lichfield District Council, including full addresses, CT bands, and UPRNs.
#FOI #openaddresses #opendata
New blog post with download links for Council Tax lists from Birmingham City Council and Lichfield District Council, including full addresses, CT bands, and UPRNs.
#FOI #openaddresses #opendata
January 30, 2025 at 8:45 AM
More open address datasets released by councils in England www.owenboswarva.com/blog/post-ad...
New blog post with download links for Council Tax lists from Birmingham City Council and Lichfield District Council, including full addresses, CT bands, and UPRNs.
#FOI #openaddresses #opendata
New blog post with download links for Council Tax lists from Birmingham City Council and Lichfield District Council, including full addresses, CT bands, and UPRNs.
#FOI #openaddresses #opendata
Nice piece of National Data Infrastructure. It would great if Australia invested similarly in its digital assets.
Network Model Public View opendata.nationalhighways.co.uk/maps/4b64217... new multilayered dataset from National Highways (England)
(In this initial release, speed limit and smart motorway information has been removed pending data validation.)
#geospatial #transportdata #opendata
(In this initial release, speed limit and smart motorway information has been removed pending data validation.)
#geospatial #transportdata #opendata
February 10, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Nice piece of National Data Infrastructure. It would great if Australia invested similarly in its digital assets.
The important point this raises is that countries commonly under invest in these data assets. It is under appreciated how important they are.
Ministry to digitalise property data to speed up homebuying process www.theguardian.com/money/2025/f...
Ministry to digitalise property data to speed up homebuying process www.theguardian.com/money/2025/f...
Ministry to digitalise property data to speed up homebuying process
Project aims to enable faster information exchange among involved parties to modernise ‘cumbersome’ process
www.theguardian.com
February 9, 2025 at 1:50 AM
The important point this raises is that countries commonly under invest in these data assets. It is under appreciated how important they are.
Ministry to digitalise property data to speed up homebuying process www.theguardian.com/money/2025/f...
Ministry to digitalise property data to speed up homebuying process www.theguardian.com/money/2025/f...
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A deep dive into #geoparquet Downloader #qgis Plug-in by Chris Holmes
https://medium.com/radiant-earth-insights/a-deep-dive-into-geoparquet-downloader-qgis-plug-in-017c0b1facb1
#gischat
https://medium.com/radiant-earth-insights/a-deep-dive-into-geoparquet-downloader-qgis-plug-in-017c0b1facb1
#gischat
A deep dive into GeoParquet Downloader QGIS Plug-in
Last month I released my first QGIS plug-in, and promised I’d write an in-depth post about it. I’ll give an overview and dig into some of…
medium.com
February 6, 2025 at 11:18 AM
A deep dive into #geoparquet Downloader #qgis Plug-in by Chris Holmes
https://medium.com/radiant-earth-insights/a-deep-dive-into-geoparquet-downloader-qgis-plug-in-017c0b1facb1
#gischat
https://medium.com/radiant-earth-insights/a-deep-dive-into-geoparquet-downloader-qgis-plug-in-017c0b1facb1
#gischat
Worth a read…
‘He smashed his iPad and headphones. My lyrics got torn up’: inside Elton John and Brandi Carlile’s explosive duets album
‘He smashed his iPad and headphones. My lyrics got torn up’: inside Elton John and Brandi Carlile’s explosive duets album
February 7, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Worth a read…
‘He smashed his iPad and headphones. My lyrics got torn up’: inside Elton John and Brandi Carlile’s explosive duets album
‘He smashed his iPad and headphones. My lyrics got torn up’: inside Elton John and Brandi Carlile’s explosive duets album
A question that has been crossing my mind the last few days. Are the Overture products better that anything the Australian Governments produce or pay to produce? Addresses no...but the road network perhaps?
Overture Maps Explorer (Beta) explore.overturemaps.org#15.4/-35.308...
Overture Maps Explorer (Beta) explore.overturemaps.org#15.4/-35.308...
Overture Maps Explorer (Beta)
explore.overturemaps.org
January 29, 2025 at 4:56 AM
A question that has been crossing my mind the last few days. Are the Overture products better that anything the Australian Governments produce or pay to produce? Addresses no...but the road network perhaps?
Overture Maps Explorer (Beta) explore.overturemaps.org#15.4/-35.308...
Overture Maps Explorer (Beta) explore.overturemaps.org#15.4/-35.308...
‘Net zero hero’ myth unfairly shifts burden of solving climate crisis on to individuals, study finds
January 19, 2025 at 9:45 AM
‘Net zero hero’ myth unfairly shifts burden of solving climate crisis on to individuals, study finds
For those into leading edge geospatial ETL. Free "DuckDB in Action" Book motherduck.com/duckdb-book-...
Free "DuckDB in Action" Book
Download a free PDF of the DuckDB in Action book published by Manning. The book is rich with technical guidance on data analytics and data engineering with DuckDB and MotherDuck.
motherduck.com
January 16, 2025 at 10:59 PM
For those into leading edge geospatial ETL. Free "DuckDB in Action" Book motherduck.com/duckdb-book-...
This sums things up nicely and provides some hard figures. Climate change increases costs.
Australians should be angry about another year of climate inaction. But don’t let your anger turn into despair | Greg Jericho | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/business/gro...
Australians should be angry about another year of climate inaction. But don’t let your anger turn into despair | Greg Jericho | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/business/gro...
Australians should be angry about another year of climate inaction. But don’t let your anger turn into despair | Greg Jericho
I’ve been writing about climate change for years. I know my graphs won’t change minds, but facts matter
www.theguardian.com
January 16, 2025 at 12:04 AM
This sums things up nicely and provides some hard figures. Climate change increases costs.
Australians should be angry about another year of climate inaction. But don’t let your anger turn into despair | Greg Jericho | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/business/gro...
Australians should be angry about another year of climate inaction. But don’t let your anger turn into despair | Greg Jericho | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/business/gro...
When you're building a residential dwelling reference frame in Australia....interesting to note just how many places do NOT have addresses. Maningrida 2518 persons. Lots of buildings. No addresses. CARA greateraccessforall.com
January 15, 2025 at 1:48 AM
When you're building a residential dwelling reference frame in Australia....interesting to note just how many places do NOT have addresses. Maningrida 2518 persons. Lots of buildings. No addresses. CARA greateraccessforall.com
Mastodon’s founder cedes control, refuses to become next Musk or Zuckerberg - Ars Technica arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
Mastodon’s founder cedes control, refuses to become next Musk or Zuckerberg
Mastodon shifts to nonprofit ownership, calls for $5M in donations to expand.
arstechnica.com
January 13, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Mastodon’s founder cedes control, refuses to become next Musk or Zuckerberg - Ars Technica arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
‘I was terrified about parental backlash’: taking contested history into schools
January 11, 2025 at 8:49 AM
‘I was terrified about parental backlash’: taking contested history into schools
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Just published in JOSS: 'antimeridian: A Python package for correcting geometries that cross the 180th meridian' https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.07530
January 8, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Just published in JOSS: 'antimeridian: A Python package for correcting geometries that cross the 180th meridian' https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.07530
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Quite possibly one of the coolest jobs I've seen! Cartographic Technician for the NPS in Yosemite! nps.usajobs.gov/job/826382000
Cartographic Technician
.This position is located in Yosemite National Park, in the Physical Sciences & Landscape Ecology Branch.
<p>The typical seasonal entry-on-duty period for Yosemite National Park is <strong>May-</stron...
nps.usajobs.gov
January 3, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Quite possibly one of the coolest jobs I've seen! Cartographic Technician for the NPS in Yosemite! nps.usajobs.gov/job/826382000