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This is amazing. Do yourself a favor and check out this report from @awana.digital jam-packed with incredible community mapping impact stories and powerful visuals!

Given ongoing FOSS governance concerns with #OrganicMaps, I modified my "Convert Google Maps saved places" tool to explicitly support @comaps.app instead: rudokemper.github.io/google-maps-...

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Sharing this technical blog post about our use of the FOSS data orchestration engine Windmill to build and manage backend data workflows for Indigenous community organizations! www.windmill.dev/blog/conserv...

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Native Land Digital API: Indigenous Data Sovereignty Treaty & Agreement - Important Update. Kia ora koutou!

Check out this great piece by Tanya Ruka and Victor Temprano about how and why @nativeland.bsky.social is centering Indigenous data sovereignty in the terms of service of our API!
nativeland.substack.com/p/native-lan...

Excited to hear how it went! And to take notes on planning a future sabbatical with my own fam :)

Turns out this *does* exist in QGIS (somebody on Mastodon pointed it out)! It's called "Stream Digitizing" and you can activate it by clicking the arrow next to the "Digitize with Segment" button in the Digitize toolbar, or simply pressing R.

Fallout 4 on the Steamdeck for me :) but yeah, sometimes find the itch to want to try to do something productive. Vibe-coding a QGIS plugin sounds like a fun way to do it!

I wouldn't mind trying my hand at starting a QGIS plugin for this, and inviting others to collaborate. I'm inspired by seeing others like @opencholmes.bsky.social creating their own plugins recently. But probably could only do this at a hobby level of effort. (Typing with a newborn in my arm 😉)

Ah cool! Yeah, I figured there are some good workflows involving use of tools outside of QGIS. I recall coming across a browser-based georeferencing tool, for example.

But I was just so surprised that freehand drawing wasn't already baked into QGIS!

GIS folks: is there a viable #QGIS plugin for freehand drawing features that will work in 3.x.x?

It looks like "BeePen" is only good for annotations, and "Freehand Editing" was last updated 12 years ago.

If not, would there be interest in one?

#GISChat @qgis.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy

Oh cool! Great to be connected here, excited to follow your collecting journey

Amazon Mining Watch is now available with 2024 data, to detect and compare mining driven environmental harm across the Amazon.

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All cloth Ultima maps (plus a few paper ones)

I think I ended up completing my collection of cloth #Ultima maps, plus the map for Shroud of the Avatar which is actually quite beautiful! 🗺️

High resolution: www.easyzoom.com/embed/32d1e3...

@richardgarriott.bsky.social am I missing anything essential? 😄

A project I've been working on for the last 6 months. I feel really strongly about making geospatial technology and data available and understood by as many people as possible. And that requires getting creative with the ways we share information. This is my small contribution to that effort.

Language Interfaces for Maps — Development Seed When maps understand what you mean, not just what you click

What if you could ask a map a question—and get a real, reliable answer?

We’ve been exploring how LLMs can make geospatial data more accessible by translating natural language into structured queries. But AI alone isn’t enough—trusted data sources and human oversight are key.
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Moreso a storytelling than a gameplay thing, but I'd say a slight narrative shift to bring it more in-line with later Ultima lore could be really nice, but without being unfaithful to the original (e.g. don't cut out space stuff because that was an integral part of the game).

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Come work with me on some cutting-edge decentralised tech with real-world applications that is directly helping communities around the world protect biodiversity and fight deforestation.

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Check out this article about some great territorial defense work being done by the Krahô community with support by @luandro.bsky.social and @awana.digital in Brazil

Oh, I also didn't play WoU, I don't even consider those to be canonical 😅

As somebody who started to play beginning with Ultima 7 and 8, I just couldn't get into the lore of Ultima 2 and 3. They felt too distant from the gameworld I started in.

I played and finished all of the others though, including I and 0.

YouTube video by LifeMosaic Mapping and Monitoring in Indigenous Territories (English)

This short film explores how Indigenous communities are combining ancestral wisdom with cutting-edge technology to map and monitor their territories. From ancient traditions to modern tools, these approaches can help protect their biodiversity and heritage. @nature.org

Governance of Indigenous data in open earth systems science - Nature Communications Using the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) as an example, this perspective discusses actions that recognize the sovereign rights of Indigenous Peoples and support better research across ...

New publication alert! Check out our paper on the “Governance of Indigenous data in open Earth systems science” co- led by myself and Dr. Katie Jones. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I make a thingy that holds community stuff, keeps it safe, and goes “hey, look!” if something weird happens.

Today, I got this email: "Congratulations on the successful approval by the ICA Executive Committee of your proposed new working group on #ParticipatoryMapping " Let's start the fun/work on #PGIS #PPGIS #Pmaping # participation begin! Want to join? DM me! @oliverescobar.bsky.social

It's no surprise I became a geographer and mapmaker later in life 🗺️

So recently, I decided to start collecting them, and here is my current collection, ranging from IV to IX, including the Underworld and Ultima Online offshoots.

Thought to share for anyone who might appreciate this!

As a kid, I loved poring over atlases, and so when I started to play Ultima (around the time of VII / VIII), I was fascinated by these beautiful cloth maps that came with the box. Amazingly, they matched the game world with a highly accurate level of detail, and I would use them while playing.

A collection of cloth and paper maps from the Ultima series, ranging from Ultima IV to Ultima IX (including Ultima Underworld I and II, and Ultima Online).

⚠️ Nerdy post ahead

When I was young, one of my favorite PC game series was Ultima by @richardgarriott.bsky.social. I loved the world-building and philosophical aspects, and I actually learned a lot of English from playing them.

And then there were the maps; both in-game, and these physical copies.