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A black line drawing of an owl is on the left. On the right is text that says hootenanny FOSS4G North America 2025 Reston, VA. The hoot part of hootenanny is emphasized with larger text.

I submitted this design to the @foss4gna.bsky.social design contest. (We're having a hootenanny instead of the traditional gala this year because we're not really gala people.) Don't you want this as a sticker?

You can submit a design too! www.foss4gna.org/contest

#gischat

You guys, I just love this garden so damn much. Six months ago, this was a dying lawn!

Motherfucker I can barely access Microsoft teams from my computer

MAPS.ME (MapsWithMe), detailed offline maps of the world for iPhone, iPad, Android MAPS.ME (MapsWithMe) are offline maps of the whole world. Map of the USA: New York, San Francisco, Washington. France Paris. Italy: Rome, Venice, Florence, Rimini. Spain: Barcelona, Madrid. Japan, Gre...

Organic maps is actually by the original author of mapsme before it was bought.

who hasn't had this issue #gischat

A visual comparison of about a dozen boundaries in the database

These boundaries don't line up...which one should we use?

Let me propose some light reading
www.usgs.gov/data/nationa...

Greetings from State of the Map US 2025 Another year another State of the Map US! Over 300 mappers gathered in Boston, Massachusetts in late June for OpenStreetMap US’s 13th annual conference, and to celebrate the organization’s 15th…

Check out this #SOTMUS retrospective blog post: openstreetmap.us/news/2025/07...

A big thank you to Alyssa Castronuovo, OSM US program coordinator, for capturing the experiences of folks who attended the conference. Thanks for sharing your reflections.

#StateofMapUS #OSM #OpenStreetMap #SOTMUS

📢 We’re hiring and looking for a Geospatial & AI Engineer. This is a remote-first position; however, you must reside in an ESA member country to be eligible to apply.

This role focuses on backend engineering & cloud-native pipelines. AI/LLM skills are a plus, but not a must.

grnh.se/al8eavv03us

if you don't do that the compiler won't find the system C libs it needs

GitHub - conda-forge/r-lasr-feedstock: A conda-smithy repository for r-lasr. A conda-smithy repository for r-lasr. Contribute to conda-forge/r-lasr-feedstock development by creating an account on GitHub.

oh I can help you, I just learned it recently github.com/conda-forge/...

ps the bot notifies the listed maintainer in the recipe repo

conda-forge has a bot, but I think it only rebuilds on new releases. In general the R world in conda-forge is generally behind and only as good as the community contribs. The bot test build will fail if deps change.

Its used both ways, log what you saw, or get help with ID. I suspect reporting is more common as Seek also from iNaturalist is more often for ID.

Comic. The Most-Observed Animal and Plant in Each State on iNaturalist. (Not the most common species in the state, just the one people have reported the most times.) [labeled map of the US] WA: Mallard/Western Sword Fern. OR: Mule Deer/Western Ponderosa Pine. CA: Western Fence Lizard/California Poppy. HI: Green Sea Turtle/‘Ōhi’a Lehua. ID: Mallard/Big Sagebrush. NV: Common Side-Blotched Lizard/Creosote Bush. MT: White-Tailed Deer/Common Yarrow. WY: American Bison/Sticky Geranium. UT: Mule Deer/Utah Juniper. AZ: Ornate Tree Lizard/Saguaro. CO: Mule Deer/Great Mullein. NM: Mule Deer/Creosote Bush. AK: Moose/Fireweed. ND: American Bison/Prairie Rose. SD: American Bison/Hoary Vervain. NE: American Robin/Common Milkweed. KS: Ornate Box Turtle/Amur Honeysuckle. OK: Pond Slider/Eastern Redcedar. TX: Northern Cardinal/Pinladies. MN, WI, IL: Common Eastern Bumble Bee/Common Milkweed. IA, MI: White-Tailed Deer/Common Milkweed. MO: Brown-Belted Bumble Bee/Amur Honeysuckle. AR: Three-toed Box Turtle/Chinese Privet. LA: Green Anole/Baldcypress. IN: American Robin/Amur Honeysuckle. OH: Eastern Pondhawk/Virginia Springbeauty. KY: Common Box Turtle/Amur Honeysuckle. TN: American Robin/Christmas Fern. MS: Northern Cardinal/Pale Pitcher Plant. AL: Gulf Fritillary/American Sweetgum. GA: Green Anole/American Sweetgum. FL: Brown Anole/White Beggarticks. NY: Eastern Gray Squirrel/White Snakeroot. PA: White-Tailed Deer/Garlic Mustard. WV: White-Tailed Deer/Great Rhododendron. VA: White-Tailed Deer/Eastern Poison Ivy. MD: White-Tailed Deer/Wineberry. DE: Fowler’s Toad/American Pokeweed. NC: Eastern Gray Squirrel/Christmas Fern. SC: Northern Cardinal/American Sweetgum. NJ: Spotted Lanternfly/Common Mugwort. VT: Common Eastern Bumble Bee/Eastern White Pine. NH: White-Tailed Deer/Eastern White Pine. MA: Common Eastern Bumble Bee/Eastern White Pine. CT: Common Eastern Bumble Bee/Striped Wintergreen. RI: American Herring Gull. ME: American Herring Gull/Canadian Bunchberry.

iNaturalist Animals and Plants

xkcd.com/3118/

FOSS4G Auckland 2025 FOSS4G stands for Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial, a conference hosted in partnership with OSGeo.

Hey #gischat - you've got just 24 hours left to submit a talk or get early bird pricing for @foss4g.org - it won't be extended again! Community voting will start on over 200 talks and 40 workshop proposals from next week. 2025.foss4g.org

Women seek home for 12ft by 11ft woollen map of Ireland A group of up to 18 women in Co Wicklow, made up of skilled knitters, sewers and crocheters, started the project in 2019.

A map of Ireland mad entirely out of yarn! #gischat

www.thejournal.ie/woollen-map-...

This is so gorgeous!

YouTube video by Wes Tank ONE FISH, TWO FISH, RED FISH, BLUE FISH | Dr. Seuss Raps over Dr. Dre Beats

My 7yo wanted to read Red Fish Blue Fish today, then I showed him this video, and he lost his MIND, he is now convinced this guy is the best rapper ever. (Tbf, it is really good) youtu.be/I8-EXMxufG8?...

Recently, my book THEY CALLED US ENEMY was banned – again – in Tennessee. Book bans are out of control. Huge parts of American history are being restricted. To join me in standing up for the freedom to read, go to pen.org/action. @penamerica.bsky.social @topshelfcomix.bsky.social @idwpublishing.com

YouTube video by Cloud-Native Geospatial Forum [CNG 2025] Fast Cloud Storage Operations with Obstore – Kyle Barron

🆕 #CNG2025 session recording
@kylebarron.dev from @developmentseed.org introduces Obstore, a python library he wrote to access data on the cloud. Watch his talk to hear about the motivations for writing Obstore & its details
▶️ youtu.be/Wxh1G2oCZiU

Evergreen reminder that wind turbines are not even remotely a leading cause of human-driven bird mortality. This is classic concern trolling in the interest of fossil fuels - if they really cared about birds they'd focus on domestic cats and building glass. And what's not shown here: climate change.

Release 2.9.0 · PDAL/PDAL Changes of Note GDAL VSI Support @normanb added support for GDAL VSI in #4647. It is now possible to use VSI to control access to remote content. Any /vsi-prefixed file path will go through GDAL's...

I am pleased to announce the release of PDAL 2.9.0

github.com/PDAL/PDAL/re...

Goodies include GDAL VSI support by Norman Barker, FileSpec support by Thomas Swamy, filters.supervoxel by Bram Ton, SPZ read/write, `ogr` option for filtering, and greatly enhanced readers.tindex support by Isaac Bell.

ICYMI githistory.xyz is a great way to navigate #git commits and visualise how a file has been changing across commits

Just replace github.com with github.githistory.xyz in the URL and enjoy! #rstats

Lonboard v0.11 is released!

- Choose between a tooltip and side panel for inspecting data
- Supports GeoArrow box arrays from 0.2 spec
- fixes some DuckDB and CSS bugs
- Ensures compatibility with geoarrow-pyarrow v0.2

See full changelog: github.com/developments...

they're trying to sell off the island in Mono Lake.

Relevant, as the National Day of Protest is coming up on Saturday. Know your free speech rights.

The video of this is deeply unsettling!!!!

This weekend is gonna be a big bad moment I think!!!!!

Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it.

To understand Los Angeles today, we must remember LA Times reporter Ruben Salazar.

In 1970, LASD shot and killed Salazar with a tear gas canister while he was covering protests. So-called "less lethal" munition.

Salazar was on break inside a bar.

Bluesky uploads are extremely slow on scene, so @melbuer.bsky.social has taken over this account to help share video from a better internet connection.

Brush planted in the street dividers has been caught on fire due to stun grenades thrown by federal authorities in Paramount, CA.

Random thought for #gischat: what should be the mass noun for geospatial people? There's a murder of crows and a business of ferrets. But what's a group of geo people?