This week is how to best identify the location of residential dwelling building footprints in Australia. Important if your trying to calculate how far they are away from services #gischat

For our research group the quick IO and compression has enabled us to iterate and develop much faster. We just output to gpkg and gdb when we need to. In combination with geopandas It has made big geodata processing much smaller in my experience. Leaves ESRI far behind in the research space.

Geographically complex

Intro to FORTRAN66 in a Digital Cartography course at Dundee Uni in the late 1980's. Writing essays using Word Perfect on the new PCs had just turned up at the library. It was a brave new world. #gischat

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Great to focus on a part of the globe where this investment will have significant benefit. Questions 😁. Will the underlying data that goes into these base maps also be openly available? Will Overture Maps be involved? Thinking GERS?

1. The people. Geographers have an understanding of the world that generally makes them good to be around.
2. The creativity. Creating code or a map is just good for the soul.
3. The value. Producing a product that helps people.

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