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19 July 2024
17:43
GeoNode: Improve
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GeoNode: Improve
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GeoNode: Future
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GeoNode: Future
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GeoNode: Patches
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GeoNode: Patches
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GeoNode: Contribute
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GeoNode: Contribute
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GeoNode: Extend
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GeoNode: Extend
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GeoNode: Arch
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GeoNode: Arch
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GeoNode: Testing
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GeoNode: Testing
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GeoNode: Env Dev
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GeoNode: Env Dev
17:43
GeoNode: Management Commands
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GeoNode: Management Commands
17:43
GeoNode: Backups
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GeoNode: Backups
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GeoNode: Other Languages
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GeoNode: Other Languages
17:43
GeoNode: Ssl
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GeoNode: Ssl
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GeoNode: Troubleshoot
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GeoNode: Troubleshoot
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GeoNode: Customize Geonode
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GeoNode: Customize Geonode
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GeoNode: Production Geonode
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GeoNode: Production Geonode
17:43
GeoNode: Install Geonode
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GeoNode: Install Geonode
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GeoNode: Share Map
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GeoNode: Share Map
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GeoNode: Find Map
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GeoNode: Find Map
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GeoNode: Create Map
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GeoNode: Create Map
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GeoNode: Add Data
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GeoNode: Add Data
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GeoNode: New Account
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GeoNode: New Account
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GeoNode: Tutorials
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GeoNode: Tutorials
14:27
GeoTools Team: GeoTools 31.3 released
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 GeoTools 31.3 released The GeoTools team is pleased to announce the release of the latest maintenance version of  GeoTools 31.3: geotools-31.3-bin.zip geotools-31.3-doc.zip geotools-31.3-userguide.zip geotools-31.3-project.zip This release is also available from the  OSGeo Maven Repository and is made in conjunction with GeoServer 2.25.3  We
13:17
Adam Steer: Mapping a small farm part 3: using an aerial orthophoto
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Part 1 of this series looked at how to fly drones and collect imagery for mapping over a small property. Part 2 showed use cases for a digital elevation model. This story focusses on the georeferenced imagery produced in the process. It will look at three use cases – and explain some of the limitations:… Read More »Mapping a small farm part 3: using an aerial orthophoto

11:19
30 Days of Crashes in New York City
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Between June 16th and July 15th, 149 people were injured by cars in the planned New York congestion zone and 4 people were killed.At the beginning of June New York Governor Kathy Hochul canceled New York City’s planned congestion zone. Under the planned congestion zone vehicles traveling into or within the central business district of Manhattan would have been charged a fee. In response to

11:00
Mappery: Armchair
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It is a bit unusual, but we found this one on LinkedIn. Chris Chambers received this armchair as a birthday gift.
MapsintheWild Armchair
2:00
Camptocamp: Optimizing Trail Management: Mergin Maps for Greater Annecy
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Grand Annecy turned to Camptocamp to find the tool best suited to their needs.

18 July 2024
10:00
The 2024 European Election Map
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Zeit has created an interactive map which visualizes the results in the 2024 European Union elections in 83,000 municipalities. The map in Explore Europe's Most Detailed Electoral Map colors each electoral area in Europe based on the politics of the leading candidate in the election.The map allows you to compare the 2024 European Union election results with the results from 2014 and 2019. By

17 July 2024
19:47
SIG Libre Uruguay: Va una más…
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edición 2024 del concurso: Proyectos de Geografía con estudiantes y gvSIG Batoví
19:45
gvSIG Batoví: edición 2024 del concurso: Proyectos de Geografía con estudiantes y gvSIG Batoví
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Habiendo finalizado con éxito la etapa de capacitación de la iniciativa Geoalfabetización mediante la utilización de Tecnologías de la Información Geográfica, lanzamos la convocatoria a participar de la edición 2024 del concurso: Proyectos de Geografía con estudiantes y gvSIG Batoví. Organizan Ceibal, la Dirección Nacional de Topografía del Ministerio de Transporte y Obras Públicas (MTOP), la Inspección Nacional de Geografía y Geología de la Dirección General de Educación Secundaria (DGES), junto con la Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM). Pueden acceder aquí a la convocatoria y bases.

Este año contamos con la colaboración de la Dirección General de Educación Técnica Profesional (DGETP), la Asociación Nacional de Profesores de Geografía (ANPG) y la Universidad Central “Marta Abreu” de Las Villas (Cuba).

Agradecemos el apoyo de todas las instituciones que hacen posible la realización de esta propuesta.
11:00
Mappery: The Cure for Anything is Salt Water
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Darrell Fuhriman sent me these pics from the Salt Pub in Ilwaco, Washington.

“They decorated with old nautical charts, including a lamp shade and wallpaper on the stairs and entryway. “

The stairs reference a quote by author Isak Dinesen. “The cure for anything is salt water — sweat, tears, or the sea.”

MapsintheWild The Cure for Anything is Salt Water

10:29
Battles of World War II & American Wars
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HistoryMaps has been very busy in the last few weeks, releasing new interactive maps visualizing the:Battles of World War IIBattles of the American RevolutionBattles of the American Civil War Nono Umasy's HistoryMaps website is a fantastic resource for anyone interested in world history, offering hundreds of interactive timelines and maps that explore historical events across the scope of

16 July 2024
14:34
GeoSolutions: FOSS4G North America: GeoSolutions Sponsoring FOSS4GNA – Workshops, and Presentations
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11:00
Mappery: Origin of the Species
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Reinder took this pic in a neighbourhood orchard “. along the river Saône in Lyon, named after a local heroine Mere Guy”

“In the 2nd arrondissement, the orchard created at Place Général Delfosse was named in honor of Mere Guy. A pioneer of the Meres de Lyon, she opened her restaurant in 1759 on the banks of the Rhône at Mulatière. She serves fish provided by her husband, a traditional fisherman, including her signature dish: eel matelote.” (Apologies for my translation)
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The map shows the origins of the various species in the orchard
MapsintheWild Origin of the Species

8:19
Your Urban Heat Island Score
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Climate Central has mapped out the urban heat island hot-spots in 65 major U.S. cities. Each city map on Climate Central's Urban Heat Hot Spots shows an Urban Heat Island (UHI) Index score for each census tract, revealing where UHI boosts temperatures the most and least in each city.As well as providing individual UHI maps for 65 cities Climate Central has also released a national interactive

7:10
Adam Steer: Mapping a small farm part 2: microhydrology
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This is the first sequel to Mapping a small farm part 1. To summarise the first story, it walks through flight planning and practice, then data processing to get some first cut products, and a bit of mapping to show ideas about how accurate we think the product is. The products we’re interested in now… Read More »Mapping a small farm part 2: microhydrology
2:00
Ian Turton's Blog: Adding a spell check to QGIS
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Adding a Spell Check to QGIS
(Or what to do on a rainy bank holiday in Glasgow)

This Monday was a local bank holiday in Glasgow (or at least the university) as a remnant of when the whole town took a train to Blackpool in the same two weeks so that the ship builders and steel works could stop in a coordinated fashion. As is required in the UK the weather was awful so I stayed in and being bored looked at my long list of possible projects. I picked one that has been kicking around on the list for a while adding a spell checker for QGIS. As a dyslexic I have spell checking turned on in nearly every program I enter text into including vim, InteliJ and my browser. So I have always felt that what QGIS really needed was a way to spell check maps before I printed them at A3 and put them on the wall.

Back in 2019 North Road wrote a iblog post about custom layout checks and ended it with a throw away comment “It’d even be possible to hook into one of the available Python spell checking libraries to write a spelling check!”. I came across this when I was trying to see if there was an easy way for my students (many of whom have English as a second language) to avoid handing in projects with glaring (i.e. I can see them) spelling errors in the title. So I stuck the link on my backlog, until the proverbial rainy day came along.
Implementation
Obviously I’m the last person who should be allowed to write spell checking software, but the joy of open source is that for things like this someone else has almost certainly already done it. So a quick duck-duck-go found me installing pyspellcheck which seemed like it would do what I want. It has a pretty easy interface in that once you’ve created a spell checker object, you can just pass in a list of words and it will return a list of (probably) misspelled words and a method to give the most likely correction and another method to give you list of other possibilities. Armed with this I could create a method to find and check all the text elements of a print layout.
```
@check.register(type=QgsAbstractValidityCheck.TypeLayoutCheck)
def layout_check_spelling(context, feedback):
 layout = context.layout
 results = []
 checker = SpellChecker()

 for i in layout.items():
 if isinstance(i, QgsLayoutItemLabel):
 text = i.currentText()
 tokens = [word.strip(string.punctuation) for word in text.split()]
 misspelled = checker.unknown(tokens)
 for word in misspelled:
 res = QgsValidityCheckResult()
 res.type = QgsValidityCheckResult.Warning
 res.title = 'Spelling Error?'
 template = f"""
 '{word}' may be misspelled, would
 '{checker.correction(word)}' be a better choice?
 """
 possibles = checker.candidates(word)
 if len(possibles) > 1:
 template += """
 Or one of: 
 <ul>
 """
 for t in possibles:
 template += f"<li>{t}</li>\n"
 template += '</ul>'
 res.detailedDescription = template
 results.append(res)
 return results
```
And in theory, that was that! But I’m pretty sure that my students (and everyone else) probably didn’t want to cut and paste that into the console every time they wanted to spell check a map. So, I looked at how to package this up for QGIS. I built a plugin (using the plugin builder tool), but then things got a little tricky as I can’t see any way for a plugin to add itself to the print layout rather than the main QGIS window (please let me know if it is possible), and it seemed unintuitive to make people press a button in one window to effect another one, besides the whole point of being a QgsAbstractValidityCheck was that the method is automatically run on print. So I didn’t need most of the plugin code or did I? On further thought I did, there is a need for some GUI as the user can pick which language they want to use in the spell check. pyspellcheck can spell check English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, German, Italian, Russian, Arabic, Basque, Latvian and Dutch (so if those are your language then please test this for me). I also thought that providing the option to supply a different to the default personal dictionary might be useful. So that made use of the dialog that pops up when you hit the plugin.

But it turns out you can’t register a class method as as a QgsAbstractValidityCheck since it gets confused when QGIS calls it later. So I had to move my checker method outside the plugin class. But then I couldn’t access the language and dictionary that was set in the GUI! Some more searching gave me the following code:
```
 _instance = plugins['qgis-spellcheck']
 checker = _instance.checker
```
Whereby I can pull out the named plugin and grab it’s spell checker, which was created in the plugin’s __init__ method. I seem to have a small issue that the user’s profile is not set when that runs which messes up where the personal dictionary is put (again if you know how to fix this let me know).
Future Work
Ideally, I’d like the spell checker to scan and highlight the text in the boxes as I typed but I fear that is beyond my understanding of the QGIS/Qt interface. Next highest on my wish list is for the list of spelling issues to be non-modal so I can cut and paste fixes into the text box, rather than having to memorise the correct spelling, close the window and then type it in (again answers on a github issue).

I’m sure all sorts of things will come up once people start using it, so as usual issues and PRs are welcome at [https:]
15 July 2024
11:00
Mappery: Mitchell Library, Sydney
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Another one from Anna Barca

“From the map room in First floor in the Mitchell Library building in the State Library of Sydney. I love looking at those historical art works and think about how maps were made in “the old days” and what was then the focus of the drawings.” (Me too!)
MapsintheWild Mitchell Library, Sydney

8:16
Trains, Balloons and Automobiles
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I have died and arrived in train spotting heaven.The Train Positions map combines a live real-time map of Dutch trains with the locations of traffic webcams. The result is that you can track the positions of trains in real-time and actually see them pass locations on live webcams.Unfortunately a lot of the webcams featured in the Train Positions map are currently offline or have poor views of

14 July 2024

20:46

QGIS Blog: Plugin Update – June, 2024

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In the month of June, 23 new plugins were published in the QGIS plugin repository.

Here follows the quick overview in reverse chronological order. If any of the names or short descriptions catches your attention, you can find the direct link to the plugin page in the table below:

Heritage Inventory

Digitally register, manage, and visualise heritage resource data with this inventory worksheet plugin.

Commuting Analysis

This plugin analysis and visualises commuting data.

Supervised Classifier

A plugin to classify selected raster file with reference

Field Stats

This plugin calculates basic stats, graph histogram and boxplot

Curvilinear Coordinator

Plugin for river data conversion from Cartesian to curvilinear orthogonal system

Konwerter PL-ETRF2000 PL-2000

Konwerter wspó?rz?dnych punktu uk?adu PL-ETRF2000 do uk?adu PL-2000

EIS QGIS Plugin

Comprehensive mineral prospectivity mapping and analysis framework

mgwr_plugin

A QGIS plugin for Multiscale Geographically Weighted Regression (MGWR)

D2S Browser

This plugin allows you to browse your data on a D2S instance.

WAsP scripting

Scripts for fetching, creating and saving WAsP map files

CSMap Plugin

DEM?GeoTIFF???CS????????QGIS????????

Fast Line Density Analysis

A fast line density visualization plugin for geospatial analytics

Unsupervised Classifier

Plugin for unsupervised classification of satellite images

BathyFlowDEM

Anisotropic interpolation for bathymetric data

Hankaku Converter

This plug-in converts string attribute values to full-width (Zenkaku) and half-width (Hankaku) characters to each other.

Spot Height Extractor

This plugin extracts spot heights from an elevation model.

Power Clipboard

Plugin to easy copy/zoom to XY/YX coords.

Pan Europeo

Ponders very large and distinct rasters with different utility functions

trainminator2

Plugin de labellisation

?????(DigitalTwin)

QGIS plugin for DigitalTwin

Band Stacker

A plugin to stack bands from selected raster layers

Georeferencer Extension

Extension to the Raster Georeferencer Plugin

CartoGrapher

This plugin provides commonly used methods to produce a generalized map.

11:00
Mappery: Explosion de la Liberté
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Anne L. shared these pictures last year. What could be better to celebrate Bastille Day this year? The Liberty Explosion is made with 200 stamps representing Marianne, the Symbol of the French Revolution for the Liberty, and the explosion takes the shape of the Phrygian cap.

Happy Bastille Day!
MapsintheWild Explosion de la Liberté
13 July 2024
11:00
Mappery: How goes the World?
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Reinder spotted this atlas in a bookshop in Lyon, “saw this Asia-Australia centered atlas cover in Librairie Passages, in Lyon, France.”

Centering the world map on Asia and Australia (which places the Americas to the east) reminds us thatthe adoption of the Prime Meridian through Greenwich was a choice by European cartographers not some inalienable geographic rule.
MapsintheWild How goes the World?

8:42
The D-Day Map Room
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The Map Room at Southwick House in Portsmouth was where Allied Supreme Commander General Eisenhower and General Montgomery spent much of early 1944 planning for D-Day. The walls of the Map Room were hung with huge maps of the English Channel. Maps that are still in place in the Map Room at Southwick House to this day.In particular one wall of the Map Room is covered by a very large map of

12 July 2024
19:35
KAN T&IT Blog: IOT Solution Congress en Brasil, nuestra experiencia
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El pasado mes de junio se llevó a cabo el IOT Solutions Congress en la ciudad de San Pablo, Brasil, donde más de 5.000 personas se reunieron para ver las soluciones más avanzadas en la industria del Internet de las Cosas (IOT).

El Internet de las Cosas es un concepto tecnológico que se resume como una red de dispositivos interconectados, ya sea a través de internet u otro tipo de redes, con el fin de enviar y recibir información en tiempo real y de forma automatizada.

Como muchas tecnologías innovadoras, el IOT tiene una amplia variedad de aplicaciones y usos, y esto se vió reflejado en la diversidad de las empresas que se acercaron al evento de San Pablo para conocer más sobre el tema. Se destacó la presencia de empresas de la industria petroquímica, minera, agrícola, de la construcción y organismos gubernamentales.

En esta ocasión KAN participó del evento con un stand y con un espacio en el Startup Stage, donde Ariel Anthieni (CEO) dió una charla sobre las aplicaciones y beneficios de los Gemelos Digitales (Digital Twins) con un enfoque particular en el monitoreo de tránsito de las ciudades.

Un Gemelo Digital es una réplica digital altamente precisa de objetos de todo tipo, desde vehículos y turbinas hasta ciudades enteras, cuyo fin es el de crear simulaciones que puedan optimizar el uso de dichos objetos. El mayor valor que otorga un Gemelo Digital es que utiliza datos reales para llevar a cabo estas simulaciones.

Primero se recolectan los datos utilizando dispositivos de telemetría IOT (sensores térmicos, caudalímetros, acelerómetros, etc.), luego se procesa esta información y finalmente se vuelca sobre el modelo virtual. Utilizando este modelo se pueden realizar diferentes tipos de simulaciones, analizar cada uno de los distintos escenarios y buscar mejoras para optimizar los recursos que se disponen.

Por ejemplo, utilizando sensores de vibración y un gemelo digital, se puede analizar el uso real de una bomba de agua, simular distintos escenarios y establecer cuándo debe hacerse el mantenimiento preventivo óptimo según los datos obtenidos.

Para el caso de las ciudades, Ariel explicó en su charla que los Gemelos Digitales permiten ayudar a los organismos gubernamentales a ver de forma anticipada el impacto que determinadas políticas públicas pueden tener en la organización de la ciudad.

Ariel lo explica en dos ejemplos sencillos: Conociendo el movimiento real de los colectivos en las ciudades, se puede simular el impacto que tendrán en sus recorridos si una avenida principal es clausurada completamente. Esto permite al gobierno buscar la reorganización óptima y desplegar eficazmente a los equipos de tránsito que llevarán a cabo la tarea.

Otro ejemplo se ve en la ciudad de Japón, donde el gobierno utiliza Gemelos Digitales para realizar simulaciones de terremotos y tsunamis para mejorar su capacidad de respuesta y recuperación ante los desastres naturales.

En conclusión, KAN cumplió con su cometido en el congreso de IOT logrando mostrar una solución vanguardista dentro de la industria IOT y dejando en claro que es una de las startups a seguir.
19:23
Free and Open Source GIS Ramblings: Trajectools 2.2 released
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If you downloaded Trajectools 2.1 and ran into troubles due to the introduced scikit-mobility and gtfs_functions dependencies, please update to Trajectools 2.2.

This new version makes it easier to set up Trajectools since MovingPandas is pip-installable on most systems nowadays and scikit-mobility and gtfs_functions are now truly optional dependencies. If you don’t install them, you simply will not see the extra algorithms they add:

If you encounter any other issues with Trajectools or have questions regarding its usage, please let me know in the Trajectools Discussions on Github.
13:47
WhereGroup: Volumendifferenzen, Zonenstatistik und mehr: wie Geoinformationssysteme (GIS) beim Wiederaufbau des Ahrtals helfen
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Geoinformationssysteme unterstützen beim Wiederaufbau im Ahrtal nach der katastrophalen Flutkatastrophe 2021. Mit QGIS machen wir Daten sichtbar für diese Herkulesaufgabe, um Maßnahmen für den Wiederaufbau abzuleiten.

11:22
Your Future Climate Twin
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If you want to know how climate change will affect New York City in 60 years time you just need to travel to Arkansas today. In the town of Ola, Arkansas you can experience today the climate that New York is expected to have in 2080, when summer temperatures will be 12.1°F warmer and 5.3% wetter.The concept of climate analogs is often used in climate science to describe a location whose current

11:00
Mappery: World Time in EC1
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Another pic from Marc-Tobias’ visit to London
MapsintheWild World Time in EC1
8:17
gvSIG Team: Acceptance Speech for the National Geographic Science Award
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Honorable Mr. Jesús Gómez, Undersecretary of Transport and Sustainable Mobility, distinguished authorities, ladies and gentlemen,

It is an immense honor and a profound satisfaction for me to receive, on behalf of the gvSIG Association, the first National Geographic Science Award ever given in Spain. We humbly confess that being the first to receive it, with so many deserving individuals and entities, further elevates the importance we place on this award. Additionally, it ensures that you will hear the best acceptance speech for the award to date.

This award represents an extraordinary recognition of the trajectory and dedication of a group passionate about geography, technology, and knowledge, understood as drivers of change.

Let us begin with the term that names this award, geography. Tim Marshall, in his excellent essay “Prisoners of Geography,” concluded that while geography does not dictate the development of all events, since great ideas and leaders are part of the push and pull of history, all must act within the confines that geography sets. Former U.S. President Barack Obama told us that geography was much more than putting names on a map; it was about understanding reality. Those who have listened to us over the years well know that in the gvSIG Association, we have always affirmed that reality manifests in the territory. Everything exists to the extent that it is in a place and how it relates to what is around it. Therefore, the geographic or spatial dimension of things is a fundamental attribute for managing reality. It was in the past, it will be in the future, and undoubtedly, it is in the present.

This leads us to talk about the second concept that excites us, technology. With more than two decades into the 21st century, we must all be aware that technology permeates every productive, economic, academic, and social process to the point of becoming an indispensable tool. Without fear of being wrong, I could say that there are more technological devices in this room than people. We cannot imagine that management of reality we spoke of without technology. We know that Spain and the European Union are significantly betting on science, technology, and innovation as fundamental pillars for their growth and sustainable development. For our part, in the gvSIG Association, we have always talked about technology as a strategic sector and will continue to insist on it as long as necessary. Geographic information management technologies, encompassed under the concept of geomatics, are those that allow us to analyze, understand, and manage the territory, geography.

Geomatics is applied in managing infrastructures of all kinds, in sectors such as the environment, security, energy, mobility, education, health, agriculture, tourism,… it is transversal to countless themes and applicable to countless geographies.

Thus, we should begin to be aware that being dependent on a strategic sector is a manifest weakness. Who would want our administrations, our universities, our companies, those that work in and with the territory, to be technologically dependent? Herein lies much of the importance and success of the gvSIG project: building and developing technologies for managing spatial data, its geographic dimension, with free software. Betting on technological sovereignty by promoting solutions that grant all rights and freedoms to their users. That avoid any dependence not only on technologies but on the owners of these. Not only that, the gvSIG Association has fostered its own industrial fabric, specialized in geomatics, making the Valencian Community and Spain a reference center internationally. Today, not only are gvSIG-branded technologies used worldwide, but today, Spanish companies carry out some of the largest projects related to geographic information systems around the globe. I conclude this section by reaffirming that betting on our own and free technologies can be, undoubtedly is, a strategic decision of the highest order.

We link this to the last concept related to the gvSIG Association’s activity, knowledge. And at this point, it might be worthwhile to take a look back at the history of our entity.

Let us not forget that if we are here today, receiving this important recognition, it is because one day a public administration, the Generalitat Valenciana, decided to take the first step. The gvSIG project came to light in 2004, with a first version of a software product that today is part of a complete catalog of geomatics solutions. Today, not only is it talked about, but legislation in Spain and Europe promotes reuse, sharing, interoperability among administrations, and the development of our own technologies. At the beginning of this century, it was not so. The Generalitat Valenciana not only took the first step but knew how to share the achievements with the entire international community and energize what would end up being the gvSIG Association.

Today, it continues to bet on the project, using gvSIG technologies in more and more areas, from agriculture to road safety, from industry to sustainable mobility, contributing to its development and also reusing all the technological improvements that are continuously consolidated in the project. Just last week, the Danish Agency for Digital Government published a report highlighting the Generalitat Valenciana as the main success case for the promotion of free software technology by a public administration. It spoke of gvSIG.

Therefore, this award, this recognition, is largely shared with the Generalitat Valenciana and, in particular, with its Directorate General of Information and Communication Technologies.

At the end of 2009, the gvSIG Association was born. A group of people, companies, and entities decided to scale the impact of the project. To ensure its sustainability on the one hand, to consolidate an incipient industrial fabric on the other. The premise might seem simple, but it was not easy to implement. Bringing the values of free software to the economy. Developing a new business model – a concept much talked about – based on collaboration, shared knowledge versus speculation with acquired knowledge, solidarity versus rivalry. From the dates, you may guess that we were born in the midst of a crisis, in difficult times, with few resources but with great enthusiasm. In those early years, we made the English proverb “A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor” our own. It was necessary to dream, and believing in our dreams has brought us here. After this time, we do not forget to keep dreaming.

Today, in 2024, the gvSIG Association is an entity recognized worldwide. The technology derived from a project born, let us not forget, on the periphery of Europe is used in more than 160 countries. We participate and collaborate with the main forums and organizations that promote Geographic Sciences, open knowledge, and interoperability. We have received international awards from entities such as NASA or the European Commission, which last year recognized gvSIG as the most important free software project in Europe. We have developed a suite or catalog of free technologies that allow addressing any need for information management with a geographic dimension, for any organization. We collaborate on R+D+I projects with dozens of universities, scientific publications citing the use of gvSIG are multiplying. gvSIG’s social networks have a notable influence with thousands of followers. And regarding that new business model we talked about… we have promoted the consolidation of Spanish companies and developed projects in more than 30 countries for entities of all kinds, from the United Nations to small municipalities, from large private sector energy companies to NGOs. We are, in short, an international reference center.

Our history, therefore, pivots around knowledge. Developing it to share it, to reduce asymmetries between territories, to generate quality economy, to reaffirm Antonio Machado’s saying that “in matters of culture and knowledge, you only lose what you keep; you only gain what you give.”

I want to recall an anecdote that well reflects this phrase. An example of those other values, not quantifiable, that occur around the model of knowledge, development, and business we promote in the gvSIG Association.

At an event organized by Itaipú Binacional in Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil, we were invited to give training courses both to the staff of the hydroelectric plant and, openly, to university students who wanted to attend. In the first training course, a male and a female student sitting in the front row asked the trainer (in this case, it was me) if he could put them in touch with the event organizers to ask for affordable accommodation. Then they told me their story…

At the University of Asunción, Paraguay, where they were studying, the students collectively requested the faculty to give them training in gvSIG, as they considered it a strategic investment for the country to have engineers trained in free software technologies, with all the advantages that entails. The faculty, familiar only with non-free products, refused. Among all the students, it was decided to collect funds to allow one male and one female student to make the long journey to Foz do Iguaçu, receive training, and thus, upon returning, be able to replicate the training for all the students. Today, several of those students hold responsible positions in the country.

If we have come this far, it is because many people think there can be other approaches, other ways of doing things. Therefore, to conclude, I want to thank all the people who were, are, or will be in the gvSIG project: workers, entities, communities… and especially to the colleagues for their effort and commitment, who have always put themselves at the service of the project and never put the project at their service. Our future will be full of maps, standards, algorithms, and lines of code, but above all, of people working towards a common goal. Thank you very much.
11 July 2024
11:00
Mappery: Globes holding stuff in place
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From Reinder, he spotted “Two globes at Waterlooplein-market in Amsterdam preventing the wind from blowing all the stuff away.”
MapsintheWild Globes holding stuff in place

8:55
Europeans Profiting from American Deaths
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Around a third of the guns used in mass shootings in the United States were manufactured in Europe. In European Weapons, American Victims the German newspaper Tagesspiegel investigates how German and Austrian arms manufacturers are profiting from exploiting America's love affair with guns.Guns are the major cause of children's deaths in the United States, ahead of both traffic accidents and
10 July 2024
16:07
John Snow's Proximity Mapping
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I've probably seen over 100 modern interactive visualizations of John Snow's famous map of cholera victims during the 1854 cholera outbreak in Soho. John Snow's map shows the locations of cholera deaths clustered around a water pump in Broad Street. The map helped to disprove the prevailing miasma theory on the spread of diseases and establish that cholera was actually spread by contaminated

11:00
Mappery: Fantasy Islands on Forest Bikes
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Marc-Tobias sent me these pics from his recent visit to London. Forest Bikes is a newish e-bike rental scheme in London. The bikes seem to be decorated with maps. Could they be real places, or is it a fantasy?

Note the contour lines

That is almost certainly the British Isles just below the handlebars.

If anyone from Forest Bikes wants to comment…
MapsintheWild Fantasy Islands on Forest Bikes
09 July 2024
14:39
GeoSolutions: GeoSolutions at geOcom 2024
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11:00
Mappery: The Australian Bar
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Reinder sent this. You might think this is from Australia but no, it is afloat on the River Rhone. You might also be wondering why it gets featured on Mappery, well look at the zoomed in image.

MapsintheWild The Australian Bar

9:15
AI Satellite Search
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boats identified by AIIn recent years machine learning and artificial intelligence has revolutionized the way we analyze the world from above. The ability to automatically detect and identify objects in satellite images has unlocked a myriad of possibilities, including monitoring deforestation, tracking wildlife, and enhancing disaster response.Some recent examples of machine learning being used

08 July 2024
14:32
Mapgears: Recap from the 56th International Snowmobile Congress
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We once again attended the 56th edition of the International Snowmobile Congress, held this year in the picturesque state of Wisconsin. It was a great opportunity to engage with key figures in our industry.
As Bronze Sponsors, we reinforced our commitment to the snowmobiling community. Throughout the congress, we had meaningful face-to-face discussions with clients and explored potential partnerships with new associations interested in joining the evTrails family.
These events are always a highlight for us, enabling us to not only network within the industry but also to gain valuable insights into the needs and preferences of trail managers, particularly regarding smart mapping and related technologies.
We were thrilled to receive positive feedback from many clients who visited our booth, expressing their appreciation for our trail system and how it simplifies their daily responsibilities as trail managers. Additionally, we showcased our latest feature, Drive Up, which enhances the rider’s navigation experience through seamless driving mode integration.
The congress also provided us with invaluable client feedback on potential enhancements to our app and solutions. We returned home inspired by numerous ideas for new features that we are eager to develop and share with you.
Meanwhile, enjoy these photos of our team participating in the diverse activities at the 56th International Snowmobile Congress!

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11:00
Mappery: Armidale Information Centre
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Anna Barca spotted this map on the staircase at the Armidale Information Centre. She said “The use of the staircase to display local attractions (mainly National Parks) is clever, turning a boring wall into a amazing eye-catching source of information.”

Good spot Anna and welcome to the Mappery community with your first map in the wild.
MapsintheWild Armidale Information Centre

10:17
France Defeats the Far-Right
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first round (left) and second round (right) election resultsThe left of center New Popular Front has emerged as the most popular party after France's second round of voting in its national parliamentary election. Le Pen's National Rally party has fallen from its first round triumph to a third placed position, behind both the New Popular Front and President Macron's center-right coalition.

9:04

QGIS Blog: Plugin Update – April to May, 2024

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Between April and May there were 33 new plugins published in the QGIS plugin repository.

Here follows the quick overview in reverse chronological order. If any of the names or short descriptions catches your attention, you can find the direct link to the plugin page in the table below:

Swiss GeoAdmin Bulk Geocoder

Bulk geocoding of Swiss building addresses using the geocoding service of geo.admin.ch, the portal of swisstopo.

EDAC Tools

A toolbox containing various Python-based tools developed by the Earth Data Analysis Center (EDAC) at the University of New Mexico.

CompareClassA

Compare two datasets of GPKG pointZ geometry based on french legislation formatting “class A”.

Stats By Polygon

This plugin creates plots for statistics of raster bands based on selected polygon feature.

UMap

This plugin enables any user to transform a stack of digital bathymetric data terrain models into a bathymetric community map.

SkyGIS

This is a plugin to download files from Skydeck, process it in QGIS and upload the results back to Skydeck portal.

Amazon Location Service

QGIS Plugin for Amazon Location Service.

CIGeoE Copy Paste Features 3D

Copy and paste features from one layer to another of the same type preserving original Z coordinate.

CIGeoE Translate To Fit To Adjacent Polygon

Do a polygon translation to the nearest polygon, by making it coincide their nearest vertices.

CIGeoE Toggle Vertex Visibility

Toggle vertex’s marker visibility.

CIGeoE Reverse Line

Reverses a selected line.

UA Coordinates Transformation

????????????? (???????????) ????????? ??????????? ???? ????? ???????? API ????????? ??????????? ??????.
Translation: Transformation of vector layer coordinates through the official API of the State Geodetic Network.

GeoBasis_Loader

GeoBasis_Loader (Open Data GeoBasisdaten).

Viper (QGIS snake clone)

Snake clone using vector layers and QGIS canvas.

jpdata

Download and load various data of Japan.

S2 Toolkit

Tools for the S2 Geometry.

PL-2000

Konwerter wspó?rz?dnych punktu uk?adu PL-ETRF2000 do uk?adu PL-2000.
Translation: PL-ETRF2000 point coordinate converter to PL-2000 system.

Luftbildfinder NRW

Find and display aerial images (German State of North Rhine-Westphalia) – Luftbilder finden und laden für NRW.

UDef-ARP Plugin

UDef-ARP for QGIS.

Route Builder

“Route Builder” is a QGIS plugin with a set of tools that calculates shortest routes in street networks using data from OpenStreetMap (OSM) and using the A* (A Star) algorithm. Users can define a region, define origin and destination points (O/D) using the coordinates collected by the plugin, these coordinates of the nodes and thus calculate the shortest route between them.

Transition-QGIS

Access a Transition transit planning server data and functionalities from QGIS.

PG service parser

View, edit or copy PG service entries.

Skråfotos

Opslag på Dataforsyningens Skråfotos.
Translation: Notice on Dataforsyningens Skråfotos.

OD_LSA_Loader (Open Data Land Sachsen Anhalt Loader)

OD_LSA_Loader (Open Data Land Sachsen Anhalt Loader) – Plugin Deprecated

QuickWebViewer

Publish your QGIS project online as web map.

ActiveBreak

ActiveBreak is a plugin for QGIS that emits messages at the top of the canvas at time intervals from the start of work, reminding the user to take an active break, take their lunch and/or reminders indicating to save their QGIS project.

QGIS Shoreline Change Analysis Tool

A plugin for Shoreline Change Analysis (SCA).

eMapTools

This plugin propose retention trees and riparian buffer zones based on ecological values.

NextGIS OGRStyle

Capture OGR Style in ONE click to paste them into a spreadsheet.

landXMLtoDB_Free

Provides LandXML to Database tools, etc, storing to PostGIS initially, later to Oracle and MS SQL.

RRR-reader

Reads RRR files.

Spatial Analyzer

Spatial Analysis Tools.

Japan GSI Point Collector

This plugin collects xyz points from gsi website. The selection should be within Japan boundary.

We would like this opportunity to highlight two plugins, Viper (QGIS snake Clone) and Active Break.

Viper allows to emulate in QGIS canvas the popular game Snake, providing a fun time and a bit of nostalgia for the “older” users. However it goes further than that, as it serves the purpose of teaching about geospatial concepts such as geometry objects (points, polygons) with their properties and methods, spatial indexing in the form of R-Tree, but also programming in QGIS, as well as other aspects.

On a more serious tone, if it can be said that, we present Active Break, a plugin that “simply” presents messages at specific time intervals, which can be personalized by the user and range from the more technical such as “save your project”, personal or motivational like quotes from hundreds of people on multiple subjects, or perhaps the most important, routinely reminders to take a break, relax or go have lunch. This considering the long hours we spent daily in front of the computer, with all the physical and mental health, as well as social implications. Congratulations on both authors!

8:00
Free and Open Source GIS Ramblings: New MovingPandas tutorial: taking OGC Moving Features full circle with MF-JSON
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Last week, I had the pleasure to meet some of the people behind the OGC Moving Features Standard Working group at the IEEE Mobile Data Management Conference (MDM2024). While chatting about the Moving Features (MF) support in MovingPandas, I realized that, after the MF-JSON update & tutorial with official sample post, we never published a complete tutorial on working with MF-JSON encoded data in MovingPandas.

The current MovingPandas development version (to be release as version 0.19) supports:
- Reading MF-JSON MovingPoint (single trajectory features and trajectory collections)
- Reading MF-JSON Trajectory
- Writing MovingPandas Trajectories and TrajectoryCollections to MF-JSON MovingPoint
This means that we can now go full circle: reading — writing — reading.
Reading MF-JSON
Both MF-JSON MovingPoint encoding and Trajectory encoding can be read using the MovingPandas function read_mf_json(). The complete Jupyter notebook for this tutorial is available in the project repo.

Here we read one of the official MF-JSON MovingPoint sample files:
```
traj = mpd.read_mf_json('data/movingfeatures.json')
```
Writing MF-JSON
To write MF-JSON, the Trajectory and TrajectoryCollection classes provide a to_mf_json() function:

The resulting Python dictionary in MF-JSON MovingPoint encoding can then be saved to a JSON file, and then read again:
```
import json
with open('mf1.json', 'w') as json_file:
    json.dump(mf_json, json_file, indent=4)
```
Similarly, we can read any arbitrary trajectory data set and save it to MF-JSON.

For example, here we use our usual Geolife sample:
```
gdf = gp.read_file('data/demodata_geolife.gpkg')
tc = mpd.TrajectoryCollection(gdf, 'trajectory_id', t='t')
mf_json = tc.to_mf_json(temporal_columns=['sequence'])
```
And reading again
```
import json
with open('mf5.json', 'w') as json_file:
    json.dump(mf_json, json_file, indent=4)
tc = mpd.read_mf_json('mf5.json', traj_id_property='trajectory_id' )
```
Conclusion
The implemented MF-JSON support covers the basic usage of the encodings. There are some fine details in the standard, such as the distinction of time-varying attribute with linear versus step-wise interpolation, which MovingPandas currently does not support.

If you are working with movement data, I would appreciate if you can give the improved MF-JSON support a spin and report back with your experiences.
07 July 2024
11:00
Mappery: Nikko on a Shopping Bag
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Maarten Pullen sent me this picture of a shopping bag with a map of Nikko, Japan.

“Yesterday I stumbled upon a plastic bag from Nikko, Japan, with several tourist spots on it. I wrote a little blog post (in Dutch, but can be translated) about the background of the map
[https:]

Here is a rough translation of the first part of Maarten’s blog post:

“For some time now I have been following Maps in the Wild, a collective that collects maps for aesthetic purposes in the broadest form. The core idea is that printed maps have less functional use thanks to digitization and are therefore used more for aesthetic reasons.

Or it’s just an excuse to collect a lot of eye-catching cards, which is also a good idea in my opinion.

A plastic bag from Japan came from the attic. And suddenly I realized that you can also translate it. And it also turned out to have a schematic map, showing, among other things, a bridge, temples, a ski resort and a waterfall (or Onsen?).

I got the bag in 2010 in Nikko, Japan”

And that is a perfect Map in the Wild! Thanks Maarten
MapsintheWild Nikko on a Shopping Bag
6:11
OPENGIS.ch: Rapid Mapping the Ticino Floods and Landslides with QField Rapid Mapper
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QField Rapid Mapper is a project for the QField mobile app, which allows emergency responders, civil protection, military, and citizens to assess and report damages from natural catastrophes by quickly sharing geolocated images, videos and audio. QField Rapid Mapper offers real-time data collection, mapping and sharing to help enhance disaster response and coordination.
QField and QFieldCloud are open-source, and OPENGIS.ch is donating the needed QFieldCloud infrastructure and expertise to help map the floods in Ticino in 2024
Join the effort
OPENGIS.ch Supports Flood Mapping Efforts in Ticino
After discussing with the Protezione Civile Locarno e Valle Maggia and the Centro di Competenza per la geoinformazione (CCGEO), we are proud to announce that OPENGIS.ch is donating the necessary QFieldCloud infrastructure and dedicated projects for a rapid crowdsourcing POC to aid in mapping the 2024 floods in Ticino. This crowdsourcing initiative aims to provide essential support to professionals and volunteers working on flood and landslide assessment and recovery.

[https:]]
Empowering Response with Advanced Technology What is needed?
Photographing damaged houses and infrastructure is the most critical aspect of this mapping initiative. These images provide crucial information for assessing the extent of the damage, planning rescue and reconstruction operations, and ensuring that resources are allocated effectively. It’s also important to document any submerged or damaged vehicles, as they offer additional insights into the disaster’s impact. During these activities, it’s essential to be careful and respect the privacy and property of others, avoiding capturing license plate numbers or entering destroyed buildings without permission. Using QField Rapid Mapper can contribute to a faster and more coordinated emergency response while ensuring respect for those affected.

The QFieldCloud infrastructure enables efficient, real-time data collection and sharing, ensuring that accurate and up-to-date information is available to all stakeholders involved in the flood response. This effort underscores our commitment to leveraging technology for social good and environmental resilience.
How You Can Get Involved
1. if you don’t have a QFieldCloud account yet, sign up at [https:]]
2. fill out the quick participation form at [https:]]
By participating, you will have access to powerful tools for field data collection and can contribute valuable information to the ongoing efforts in Ticino. All the data collected will be released under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 public domain license.
Join the Effort
Using QField and QFieldCloud, you can help create detailed maps crucial for understanding the impact of the floods and planning effective recovery strategies. Your contributions will make a significant difference in managing and mitigating the effects of this natural disaster.
Join the effort
Visit our QField Rapid Mapper project page for more information on how QField and QFieldCloud can assist in flood mapping and other field data collection projects.

Together, we can make a difference. Join us in mapping the floods in Ticino and support the community’s recovery efforts.
06 July 2024
12:00
GRASS GIS: Nix development environment and package
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You can now develop and run GRASS GIS with Nix A new option for creating a GRASS development environment and a unique way of running GRASS directly from the Git source code was implemented using the Nix package manager. This idea was presented by Ivan Mincik during the GRASS GIS Community Meeting in Prague. The Nix development environment provides a stable and reproducible environment for all developers and can significantly simplify the onboarding process of new contributors.
11:00
Mappery: King David’s Tower 7 – Stefan Illes 3D Map of Jerusalem
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This 3D map of Jerusalem in the 19th century is massive and spectacular. It was brilliantly lit to take you through a day in the life of the city from the sun rising in the east through the day to sunset.

“Stefan Illés, an Austro-Hungarian Catholic, arrived in Jerusalem in 1864 and worked as a bookbinder at the Franciscan publishing house. Illés built a model of Jerusalem that was exhibited in the Ottoman Pavilion at the World Expo in Vienna in 1873. The model, which was highly acclaimed, was displayed throughout Germany and Switzerland. In 1878, it was purchased by a distinguished family from Geneva. Illés’s impressive model is cartographically accurate and is considered a reliable scientific source for the history and geography of Jerusalem in the 19th century.”

And that finishes my maps in the wild selection from King David’s Tower. There were loads more maps showing the evolution of the city through the different eras of history from the Egyptian period through Assyrian, Babylonian, Persian, Islamic, Crusader and Ottoman eras to the modern day. Well worth a visit.
MapsintheWild King David’s Tower 7 – Stefan Illes 3D Map of Jerusalem

9:41
The Car Free Cities Atlas
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The cyclists of Helsinki have the best access to protected bike lanes of any citizens in the world. 94% of people in the city live within 300m of a protected bikeway. This means that Helsinki scores number one out of the 1095 cities ranked in the Atlas of Sustainable City Transport.The new Atlas of Sustainable City Transport ranks and maps cities around the world based on how easy

2:00
PostGIS Development: PostGIS 3.5.0alpha2
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The PostGIS Team is pleased to release PostGIS 3.5.0alpha2! Best Served with PostgreSQL 17 Beta2 and GEOS 3.12.2.

This version requires PostgreSQL 12 - 17, GEOS 3.8 or higher, and Proj 6.1+. To take advantage of all features, GEOS 3.12+ is needed. SFCGAL 1.4-1.5 is needed to enable postgis_sfcgal support. To take advantage of all SFCGAL features, SFCGAL 1.5 is needed.
3.5.0alpha2
- source download md5
- NEWS
- PDF docs: en ja, zh_Hans, fr
This release is an alpha of a major release, it includes bug fixes since PostGIS 3.4.2 and new features.
05 July 2024
11:00
Mappery: King David’s Tower 6 – The Madaba Map
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The Madaba mosaic map is one of the oldest surviving maps of Jerusalem.

“A famous Byzantine mosaic map, discovered in 1896 in the town of Madaba in Jordan. The mosaic, dated to the sixth century, emphasizes Christian sites throughout the biblical lands. The map bears the names of the sites in Greek. In the center of the map, greatly enlarged, is a map of Christian Jerusalem”

Cartographers have superimposed an image of the Madaba map onto a modern map of the old city of Jerusalem and found that the mosaic was remarkably accurate
MapsintheWild King David’s Tower 6 – The Madaba Map

8:58
2024 UK Election Maps
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The Labour Party has swept to power in the UK and the ruling Conservative Party has lost over half of their seats. At the time of writing the new Prime Minister Keir Starmer has 410 seats in the new government (with 11 seats to declare). This means that he has won well over the 326 seats needed to form a majority government.The BBC election map includes a cartogram view which does a very good

04 July 2024
11:00
Mappery: King David’s Tower 5 – Jerusalem Monopoly
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An early version of Monopoly based in Jerusalem from the period of the British Mandate.
MapsintheWild King David’s Tower 5 – Jerusalem Monopoly

8:04
The Riskiest Places to Live in America
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Los Angeles County is a dangerous place to live. According to the National Risk Index the residents of Los Angeles County are more likely to suffer from a natural hazard than anywhere else in the United States. The residents of Los Angeles County are more likely to experience an earthquake than any other US location. They also have one of the highest chances of experiencing a landslide and

2:00
PostGIS Development: PostGIS 3.5.0alpha1
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The PostGIS Team is pleased to release PostGIS 3.5.0alpha1! Best Served with PostgreSQL 17 Beta2 and GEOS 3.12.2.

This version requires PostgreSQL 12 - 17, GEOS 3.8 or higher, and Proj 6.1+. To take advantage of all features, GEOS 3.12+ is needed. To take advantage of all SFCGAL features, SFCGAL 1.5.0+ is needed.
3.5.0alpha1
- source download md5
- NEWS
- PDF docs: en ja, zh_Hans, fr
This release is an alpha of a major release, it includes bug fixes since PostGIS 3.4.2 and new features.
2:00
Camptocamp: Camptocamp at GeOcom 2024
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From June 17 to 21, Camptocamp helped organize and host the annual meeting of users and developers of the geOrchestra data infrastructure solution, to which we've been an active contributor for many years.
2:00
Camptocamp: The 3D technology serving public transport in Rennes Métropole
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In continuation of developments linked to the Rennes Métropole territorial cooperation platform 'Coopter', Camptocamp is proud to present to you the latest application in our triptych: the TRAMBUS application.
03 July 2024
11:00
Mappery: King David’s Tower 4 – The Islamic World in the 10th Century
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This carved stone map shows the extent of the Islamic World in the 10th Century, quite a remarkable expansion in three centuries. It’s a beautiful piece, spoilt (IMO) by the heavy black markers.
MapsintheWild King David’s Tower 4 – The Islamic World in the 10th Century

9:59
Climate Change by Electoral District
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With the UK on the eve of a general election one political issue that has been conspicuous by its absence during the election campaign is climate change. I don't blame the political parties themselves too much for this. They spend a fortune on opinion polls and focus groups. Presumably they therefore know that the voting public are not concerned by climate change.They should be!A new map from

02 July 2024
18:13
OGC announces Christy Monaco as new Chief Operating Officer
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The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is excited to announce that Ms. Christy Monaco will soon join OGC’s senior leadership as the Consortium’s Chief Operating Officer (COO). Christy commences her new role on September 1, 2024.

Christy brings to OGC a deep understanding of the geospatial industry, including historical and current trends, gained from her experience leading operations, technological transformation, organizational change, and resource management in the government and non-profit sectors of the geospatial and intelligence communities.

“I am thrilled to be joining Peter and the amazing team at OGC,” commented Christy Monaco. “For thirty years, OGC has brought together the geospatial community to ensure interoperability of data and technology during a period of tremendous growth and change. In our increasingly interconnected world, new opportunities abound for OGC, its partners, and stakeholders to address rapidly evolving global challenges and drive innovation. I’m truly excited to take on this new role as we shape the future of geospatial technology together.”

As OGC’s COO, Christy will use her experience with federal agencies, partnership-building, event management, and member success to help grow and shape the Consortium as it looks to its next chapter and works with new and established partners and stakeholders to bring accelerated, practical, and implementable solutions to the world of geospatial.

“We are very excited to have Christy join our executive team,” commented Peter Rabley, OGC CEO. “Christy will work with me and the rest of the team to enhance and grow the support and value that OGC provides to our members through our Policy & Advocacy, Innovation, and Standards.”

Previous to her appointment at OGC, Christy was the Vice President of Programs at the U.S. Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF), where she led content development for the Foundation’s events and programs, including the Foundation’s annual GEOINT Symposium. Christy also oversaw the Foundation’s education & professional development initiatives and marketing & communication activities.

About Christy Monaco
Ms. Christy Monaco is the new Chief Operating Officer (COO) at the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), starting September, 2024. Previous to joining OGC, Christy was the Vice President of Programs at the U.S. Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF), a role she held since December of 2020. She previously served for over 30 years in the U.S. Intelligence Community, during which she held a number of positions including with the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI), the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA). A government executive for over half of her federal career, in 2022 she was recognized by President Biden as a Meritorious Executive in the Defense Intelligence Senior Executive Service for her contributions at NGA. Christy currently resides in Alexandria, Virginia.

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15:57
GeoSolutions: GeoNode 4.3 release
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11:00
Mappery: King David’s Tower 3 – Between Heaven and Earth
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This display showed maps of Jerusalem from different periods, I like the way the maps are juxtaposed against the view through the window.
MapsintheWild King David’s Tower 3 – Between Heaven and Earth

8:45
Tory Candidates Violently Attacked
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Election riot on 26 June 1865 in NottinghamDisturbing reports of violence, carried out by supporters of the Liberal Party, have been reported across the whole of the UK. In Shoreham a gang of 300 Liberal supporters attacked poll clerks. In Grantham Liberals set polling booths on fire. In Alfreton a crowd of thousands attacked properties 'associated with Conservatives'.These acts of electoral

6:04
GeoTools Team: GeoTools 28.2 Released
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The GeoTools team is pleased to share the availability GeoTools 28.2 : geotools-28.2-bin.zip geotools-28.2-doc.zip geotools-28.2-userguide.zip geotools-28.2-project.zip This release is also available from the OSGeo Maven Repository and is made in conjunction with GeoServer 2.22.2 and GeoWebCache 1.22.1.Update 2024-07-1: CVE-2024-36404 patch geotools-28.2-patches.zip Fixes
6:04
GeoTools Team: GeoTools 27.4 Released
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The GeoTools team is pleased to share the availability GeoTools 27.4 : geotools-27.4-bin.zip geotools-27.4-doc.zip geotools-27.4-userguide.zip geotools-27.4-project.zip This release is also available from the OSGeo Maven Repository and is made in conjunction with GeoServer 2.21.4.Update 2024-07-1: CVE-2024-36404 patch geotools-27.4-patches.zip Fixes and improvements
6:02
GeoTools Team: GeoTools 27.5 Released
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The GeoTools team is pleased to share the availability GeoTools 27.5:geotools-27.5-bin.zipgeotools-27.5-doc.zipgeotools-27.5-userguide.zipgeotools-27.5-project.zipThis release is also available from the OSGeo Maven Repository and is made in conjunction with GeoServer 2.22.3 and GeoWebCache 1.22.2.Update 2024-07-1: CVE-2024-36404 patch 
01 July 2024
21:37
KAN T&IT Blog: Expo Curitiba 2024 ¡conociendo la ciudad del futuro!
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Queremos compartir la experiencia de nuestro CEO, Ariel Anthieni, en Expocuritiba 2024, la Feria Internacional de Ciudades Inteligentes. Durante los días 17 al 22 de marzo, Ariel tuvo el privilegio de representar a nuestra empresa en este evento único que reunió a destacados actores en el ámbito de las ciudades inteligentes en la hermosa ciudad de Curitiba, Brasil.

Curitiba es reconocida a nivel mundial como un ejemplo de ciudad inteligente debido a sus innovadoras políticas urbanas que han transformado la calidad de vida de sus habitantes. Su eficiente sistema de transporte público, sus áreas verdes bien planificadas y su enfoque en la sostenibilidad la convierten en un modelo a seguir para otras ciudades.

Durante el evento, Ariel tuvo el honor de cruzar unas palabras con Rafael Greca, el alcalde de Curitiba. Se sorprendió gratamente por su calidez e increíble predisposición para conversar y conocer a quienes estábamos allí.

Nuestro CEO participó activamente en las diferentes actividades de la feria, incluyendo la asistencia a charlas y conferencias con reconocidos expertos en el campo de la innovación urbana, la visita a espacios temáticos y la exploración de soluciones tecnológicas innovadoras para el desarrollo sostenible de las ciudades. Tuvo la oportunidad de presentar al MapViewer, un visor digital diseñado por Kan Territory & IT para la supervisión y gestión virtual de las ciudades. Este permite monitorear y controlar diferentes aspectos de ese lugar, como el flujo del transporte público, la actividad de los centros de salud y otros servicios esenciales, a través de la recopilación y visualización de datos geoespaciales.

Ariel también destacó que el MapViewer utiliza un enfoque de catastro multifiduciario, capaz de manejar información de múltiples fuentes y tipos, como datos catastrales, topográficos y de infraestructura, proporcionando así una vista integral de la ciudad. Además, habló sobre la evolución digital de esta tecnología, introduciendo el concepto de «gemelos digitales«, que son representaciones virtuales de una ciudad. Con esta herramienta, los administradores y planificadores urbanos pueden simular escenarios hipotéticos y tomar decisiones más informadas para el desarrollo sostenible.

Sin dudas, su actividad en Expocuritiba 2024 fue una oportunidad invaluable para conocer las últimas tendencias en tecnología urbana, establecer contactos estratégicos y compartir conocimientos con otros líderes en el ámbito de las ciudades inteligentes.

Felicitamos a Ariel por su destacada participación en este evento tan significativo y esperamos seguir contribuyendo al desarrollo de ciudades más inteligentes y sostenibles en el futuro. Muchísimas gracias Lucía Bellocchio por haberlo hecho posible ¡Hasta el próximo año!
11:00
Mappery: King David’s Tower 2 – The Clover Map
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Bunting’s Clover Map is an archetypal map of the world from a time when only three continents were known to Europeans – Europe, Africa and Asia.

Die ganze Welt in einem Kleberblat
Woodcut Map showing three continents: Europe, Asia and Africa in the form of a clover leaf with the representation of Jerusalem in the center. America on the lower left corner.
From: Buenting, Heinrich. Itinerarium Sacrae Scripturae. (Travel book covering the entire Holy Scripture) Helmstadt, Jacobus Lucius, 1585. Part I, between pp. 4-5
[https:] FL7074006

Coincidentally I bought a wooden puzzle based on this clover map in a craft market. Apparently the solution requires over 250 moves, I am still working on it! (this is the solved state)

MapsintheWild King David’s Tower 2 – The Clover Map

10:41
France Surrenders to Facism
sur Google Maps Mania

The far-right National Rally has won 33% of the vote in the first round of France's parliamentary elections. You can view the results in each constituency in Le Monde's French elections: Map of the first round's results.Le Monde's map is a sea of brown, revealing that the National Rally has managed to become the most popular party in electoral districts across the whole country. There is a

9:04

QGIS Blog: Plugin Update – February to March, 2024

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From February to March of this year, 58 new plugins were published in the QGIS plugin repository.

Here follows the quick overview in reverse chronological order. If any of the names or short descriptions catches your attention, you can find the direct link to the plugin page in the table below:

Indonesian Multi-scaled Grid System

This plugin automate the determination of Indonesia’s Environmental Support and Capacity.

NDVI to Variable Nitrogen Application Map

This plugin was developed for producing variable nitrogen application maps based on index (e.g. NDVI, EVI) values.

Dynamic Flow

Compare two datasets of GPKG pointZ geometry based on french legislation formatting “class A”.

Stats By Polygon

Dynamic Flow is a QGIS plugin to estimate the spatio-temporal 3D gradient flow from the point observation of the attributes values such as aggregated cell-phone mobility data.

On-the-Fly-Shortest-Path

Interactively find shortest path between points over a line network and calculate the Fiber Loss Budget of a fiber optic network (backbone or FTTH)

SMODERP2D

This plugin calculates hydrological and erosion processes on individual plots or small catchments.

Multifilter

Filter multiple layers

NDVI and EVI Index Calculator

This plugin calculates NDVI and EVI index from Sentinel 2 B02, B04 and B08 Bands.

GeoZone

QGIS plugin for adding and modifying zone data in compliance with the GeoZone schema, facilitating sharing with partners or uploading to a central web repository.

CIGeoE Mirror View

Add one or more panels synchronized with the main panel.

SIOSE Tools

Herramientas SIOSE.

RioGIS 2

Export to WinCan.

Clasificación de redes hídricas

Este plugin clasifica las redes hídricas por medio de una etapa de enriquecimiento y otra de lógica difusa. Advertencia: Versión experimental, algunos procesos pueden ser largos de aplicar.

AutoStyler

Apply QML style files to new layers. QML files are stored in {qgis_home}\Styles directory. QML files will be applied to a vector layer when the QML file’s basename is found as a substring of the new layer’s name. QML files will be applied to a raster layer when the QML file’s label token is found as a substring of the new layer’s name. The label token is raster_style_{label}.qml.

Delta Shares

With this plugin you can load data from delta shares

Simple ETL

A simple ETL for spatial data

Flood Path Finder

Developed with Python by Emerson N. Santos – 2024

MongoDB Layer

This plugin gives the possibility to create a layer from MongoDB datasource

Power Pin PL

Plugin eksportuje pinezk? do serwiów typu geoportal. Pin to popular polish and world maps portal. Plugin export pin to popular geoportal like serives

Mineral Exploration Web Services

This plugin connects your QGIS User Profile to many openly hosted web services related to mineral exploration. These include Country and State geological surveys that provide mapped geology and data such as mineral occurence locations, geophysics, geochemistry etc.

OrfeoToolbox Provider

OrfeoToolbox Processing provider.

MitiConnect

MitiConnect integrates ecological connectivity in mitigation hierarchy based on landscape graphs.

Compare_attributes

Compare Attributes

Geo Cluster

This plugin allows you to cluster different territorial scopes.

Estonian Oblique Aerial Photographs

Get the oblique aerial photographs of Estonia at the clicked location on the map

Two distances intersection

Get the intersection of two distances (2D cartesian)

Show Corona CAST by click

This plugin opens a webpage showing the Corona CAST map in the clicked coordinates on the canvas

Roll

Design and analysis of 3D seismic survey geometries

moniQue

Monoplotting oblique images with uncertainty estimation.

Modular Layout Grid Guides

This plugin creates a modular layout grid for print layouts

easyPlugin

Plugin which creates a simple QGIS plugin templates ready for install, editing and testing

Samon

Saisie monoscopique sur la BD Ortho

SADI Processor

A plugin to Process Standardized Agricultural Drought Index.

SciPy Filters

Filter collection implemented with SciPy

Data Validator

Prototype for vector data validation

ZUMbox

Urban planning related tools

UA_NGO_PDF_Parser

This plugin parse pdf files with NGO data and create table with result

Marine Tools

Tools for marine habitat mapping

Map tools

QGIS plugin for little helpers in map production

Style Exporter

Plugin export styles of selected layers to individual file with name same as layers name.

Aino

AI assistant to download data from OSM

gis3d

This plugins generates a 3D model based on the inputs

Zonal Exact Extract

Zonal Statistics of rasters using Exact Extract library

Verkeersborden

Import dutch traffic signs.

NVDB Les

NVDB (Norwegian Administration Road Database) it’s a plugin to analyse and manipulate road objects, like (road references, trees, light poles, traffic signs, construction area, smart devices like IP Camera, tunnels, bridges, etc)

Fluvial Corridor Toolbox

CIGeoE Reshape Features 3D

Reshape a feature in 3D

Pixel Purity Index

Pixel Purity Index algorithm

C-GEO Wizualizacja GML demo

Wtyczka wczytuje oraz wizualizuje dane EGiB, GESUT, BDOT500 zapisane w plikach GML.

pqkmeans-clustering

This clustering algorithm is a quantized version of the K-Means algorithm that is memory and computationaly more efficient.

HedgeTools

HedgeTools is a plugin for QGIS designed to extract and characterize hedges, aiming to streamline field efforts by providing information about hedge health.

PyXel_Sync

SmartSDI

Wtyczka SmartSDI (Geo-System) PL: Pobieranie danych wektorowych: dzia?ki, budynki, adresy EN: Downloading vector data for Poland: parcels, buildings, addresses

Quick_search

Environmental Data Retrieval

Environmental Data Retrieval QGIS plugin

DigiAgriApp

Plugins to work with DigiAgriApp server

QTalsim

This plugin creates hydrological response units (HRUs) suitable for Talsim ( [www.talsim.de] ) and allows users to connect to a Talsim DB.

RubberSheetingEtc

Provides Rubber Sheeting and Two Point Transformations, storing to PostGIS, Oracle and MS SQL. The Rubber Sheeting algorithm uses supplied Shift Vectors and calculates the weighted average shift from the 10 nearest Shift Vectors. The Two Point Transformations handles themes with and without a CRS.

30 June 2024
14:52
Free and Open Source GIS Ramblings: New interactive trajectory plots for MovingPandas & experiments on their interpretation using ChatGPT 4o
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With the release of GeoPandas 1.0 this month, we’ve been finally able to close a long-standing issue in MovingPandas by adding support for the explore function which provides interactive maps using Folium and Leaflet.

Explore() will be available in the upcoming MovingPandas 0.19 release if your Python environment includes GeoPandas >= 1.0 and Folium. Of course, if you are curious, you can already test this new functionality using the current development version.

This enables users to access interactive trajectory plots even in environments where it is not possible to install geoviews / hvplot (the previously only option for interactive plots in MovingPandas).

I really like the legend for the speed color gradient, but unfortunately, the legend labels are not readable on the dark background map since they lack the semi-transparent white background that has been applied to the scale bar and credits label.

Speaking of reading / interpreting the plots …

You’ve probably seen the claims that AI will help make tools more accessible. Clearly AI can interpret and describe photos, but can it also interpret MovingPandas plots?
ChatGPT 4o interpretations of MovingPandas plots
Not bad.

And what happens if we ask it to interpret the animated GIF from the beginning of the blog post?

So it looks like ChatGPT extracts 12 frames and analyzes them to answer our question:

Its guesses are not completely off but it made up the facts such as that the view shows “how traffic speeds vary over time”.

The problem remains that models such as ChatGPT rather make up interpretations than concede when they do not have enough information to make a reliable statement.
11:00
Mappery: King David’s Tower 1 – Adrichem’s Map
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While we were in Israel we spent some time in Jerusalem, friends suggested that we visit the new museum about Jerusalem in King David’s Tower. It is a fantastic museum in an ancient location which reflects the different influences in the city over three millenia. Amongst the many exhibits were a lot of maps, ancient, modern, interactive, over the next few days I will share a few.

Adrichem was a 16th century Dutch cartographer, this map of Jerusalem shows remarkable detail

“A map of Jerusalem created by the Dutch cartographer Christiaan van Adrichem in 1584. In this beautifully illustrated map are drawings that represent events and figures from the Old and New Testaments. Toward the center of the map the Jewish Temple can be seen together with a drawing of the High Priest, the altar and the vessels used in the Temple. To the right of the Temple is the Royal Palace, pictures of King Solomon on his throne, and even Bathsheva bathing on her rooftop. Other drawings on the map, such as the Via Delarosa and images of the Crucifixion, depict the Christian history of Jerusalem.”
[https:]

MapsintheWild King David’s Tower 1 – Adrichem’s Map
29 June 2024
11:00
Mappery: Globe Escape Alert!
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Marc-Tobias spotted this little globe that had set out on a journey to freedom starting in Hannover, I wonder where it will end up?

Good luck little globe

MapsintheWild Globe Escape Alert!

9:53
The 2024 UK General Election Map
sur Google Maps Mania

2024 is a year of elections. Next Thursday it is the turn of the UK to go to the polls. Which means next Friday Maps Mania will be featuring a number of interactive maps, visualizing the collapse of the governing Conservative Party's vote.According to the latest opinion polls the Tories could be heading for a loss that might almost rival the collapse of the Canadian Conservative Party in the

28 June 2024
16:13
gvSIG Team: Discurso de aceptación del Premio Nacional de Ciencias Geográficas
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Excmo. Sr. Jesús Gómez, Subsecretario de Transportes y Movilidad Sostenible, distinguidas autoridades, señoras y señores

Es para mi un inmenso honor y una profunda satisfacción recibir, en nombre de la Asociación gvSIG, el primer Premio Nacional de Ciencia Geográficas que se otorga en España. Humildemente confesamos que ser los primeros en recibirlo, con la cantidad de personalidades y entidades que lo merecen, todavía acrecienta más la importancia que le damos a este galardón. Por otro lado, nos asegura que escucharan el mejor discurso de aceptación del premio de los habidos hasta la fecha.

Este galardón supone un reconocimiento extraordinario a la trayectoria y dedicación de un colectivo apasionado por la geografía, la tecnología y el conocimiento, entendidos como motores de cambio.

Empecemos por el término que da nombre a este galardón, la geografía. Tim Marshall, en su excelente ensayo «Prisioneros de la Geografía» concluía que si bien la geografía no dicta el desarrollo de todos los acontecimientos, puesto que las grandes ideas y líderes forman parte del tira y afloja de la historia, todos ellos deben actuar dentro de los confines que marca la geografía. El ex-presidente de los Estados Unidos, Barack Obama, nos decía que la geografía era mucho más que poner nombres en un mapa, que se trataba de entender la realidad. Los que nos han escuchado durante estos años bien saben que en la Asociación gvSIG siempre hemos afirmado que la realidad se manifiesta en el territorio. Todo existe en la medida que está en un lugar y en cómo se relaciona con lo que tiene alrededor. Por tanto, la dimensión geográfica o espacial de las cosas es un atributo fundamental para gestionar la realidad. Lo fue en el pasado, lo será en el futuro y, sin duda, lo es en el presente.

Lo que nos lleva a hablar del segundo concepto que nos apasiona, la tecnología. Con más de dos décadas en el S.XXI todos debemos ser conscientes que la tecnología impregna todo proceso productivo, económico, académico y social hasta el punto de convertirse en una herramienta imprescindible. Sin miedo a equivocarme podría afirmar que en esta sala hay más aparatos tecnológicos que personas. No podemos imaginar esa gestión de la realidad de la que hablábamos sin tecnología. Sabemos que España y la Unión Europea están apostando significativamente por la ciencia, la tecnología y la innovación como pilares fundamentales para su crecimiento y desarrollo sostenible. Por nuestra parte, en la Asociación gvSIG, siempre hemos hablado de la tecnología como un sector estratégico y seguiremos insistiendo mientras sea necesario. Las tecnologías de gestión de información geográfica, englobadas bajo el concepto de geomática, son aquellas que ni más ni menos nos permiten analizar, entender y gestionar el territorio, la geografía.

La geomática se aplica en la gestión de infraestructuras de todo tipo, en sectores como el del medio ambiente, la seguridad, la energía, la movilidad, la educación, la sanidad, la agricultura, el turismo,… es transversal a infinidad de temáticas y aplicable a infinidad de geografías.

Siendo así, deberíamos empezar a ser conscientes de que ser dependientes de un sector estratégico es una debilidad manifiesta. ¿Quién querría que nuestras administraciones, nuestras universidades, nuestras empresas, aquellas que trabajan en y con el territorio, fueran dependientes tecnológicamente? Aquí radica en gran parte la importancia y éxito del proyecto gvSIG, construir y desarrollar tecnologías para gestión de datos espaciales, de su dimensión geográfica, con software libre. Apostando por la soberanía tecnológica mediante el impulso de soluciones que otorgan todos los derechos y libertades a sus usuarios. Que evitan cualquier dependencia ya no de tecnologías, sino de los dueños de estas. No solo eso, la Asociación gvSIG ha impulsado un tejido industrial propio, especializado en geomática, convirtiendo a la Comunidad Valenciana y a España en un centro de referencia a nivel internacional. Hoy día no solo las tecnologías marca gvSIG se utilizan en todo el mundo, hoy día empresas españolas llevan a cabo por todo el planeta algunos de los más grandes proyectos relacionados con los sistemas de información geográfica. Concluyo este apartado reafirmando que apostar por tecnologías propias y libres puede ser, sin duda lo es, una decisión estratégica de primer orden.

Enlazamos con el último concepto que relacionaba con la actividad de la Asociación gvSIG, el conocimiento. Y en este punto quizá valga la pena hacer un recorrido por la historia de nuestra entidad.

No hay que olvidar que si hoy estamos aquí, recogiendo este importantísimo reconocimiento, es porque un día una administración pública, la Generalitat Valenciana, decidió dar el primer paso. El proyecto gvSIG ve la luz en 2004, con una primera versión de un producto de software que hoy forma parte de un completo catálogo de soluciones de geomática. Hoy no solo se habla, sino que se legisla, en España y en Europa, a favor de la reutilización, de compartir, de interoperar entre administraciones y de desarrollar tecnologías propias. En los comienzos de este siglo no era así. La Generalitat Valenciana no solo dio el primer paso, sino que supo compartir los logros con toda la comunidad internacional y dinamizar lo que acabaría siendo la Asociación gvSIG.

Hoy día sigue apostando por el proyecto, utiliza las tecnologías gvSIG en cada vez más áreas, desde agricultura a seguridad vial, desde industria a movilidad sostenible, contribuyendo a su desarrollo y, también, reutilizando todas las mejoras tecnológicas que continuamente se consolidan en el proyecto. Sin ir más lejos, la semana pasada La Agencia de tecnologías del gobierno danés publicó un informe en que ponía como principal caso de éxito del impulso de una tecnología en software libre por una administración pública a la Generalitat Valenciana. Hablaba de gvSIG.

Por tanto, este premio, este galardón, es en gran medida compartido con la Generalitat Valenciana y, en particular, con su Dirección General de Tecnologías de la Información y Comunicación.

A finales de 2009 nació la Asociación gvSIG. Un conjunto de personas, empresas, entidades decidimos escalar el impacto del proyecto. Para garantizar sus sostenibilidad por un lado, para consolidar un tejido industrial incipiente por otro. La premisa puede parecer sencilla, pero no era fácil de implementar. Llevar los valores del software libre a la economía. Desarrollar un nuevo modelo de negocio – un concepto del que tanto se habla – basado en la colaboración, en el conocimiento compartido frente a la especulación con el conocimiento adquirido, en la solidaridad frente a la rivalidad. Por las fechas ya intuirán que nacimos en plena crisis, en momentos complicados, con escasos recursos pero con mucha ilusión. Esos primeros años hicimos nuestro el proverbio inglés de «que ningún mar en calma hizo experto a un marinero». Era preciso soñar y creyendo en nuestros sueños hemos llegado hasta aquí. Pasado este tiempo, no nos olvidamos de seguir soñando.

Hoy, en 2024, la Asociación gvSIG es una entidad reconocida en todo el mundo. La tecnología derivada de un proyecto nacido, no lo olvidemos, en la periferia de Europa se utiliza en más de 160 países. Participamos y colaboramos con los principales foros y organizaciones que promueven las Ciencias Geográficas, el conocimiento abierto y la interoperabilidad. Hemos recibido premios internacionales de entidades como la NASA o la Comisión Europea, que el pasado año reconoció a gvSIG como el proyecto de software libre más importante de Europa. Hemos desarrollado una suite o catálogo de tecnologías libres que permiten abordar cualquier necesidad de gestión de información con dimensión geográfica, para cualquier organización. Colaboramos en proyectos de I+D+i con decenas de universidades, se multiplican las publicaciones científicas que citan el uso de gvSIG. Las redes sociales de gvSIG tienen una influencia notable con miles de seguidores. Y en relación a ese nuevo modelo de negocio del que hablábamos… hemos impulsado la consolidación de empresas españolas y desarrollado proyectos en más de 30 países para entidades de todo tipo, de Naciones Unidas a pequeños ayuntamientos, de grandes empresas privadas del sector de la energía a ONGDs. Somos, en definitiva, un centro de referencia a nivel internacional.

Nuestra historia por tanto pivota alrededor del conocimiento. Desarrollarlo para compartirlo, para reducir asimetrías entre territorios, para generar economía de calidad, para reafirmar a Antonio Machado cuando decía que «en cuestiones de cultura y saber, solo se pierde lo que se guarda; solo se gana lo que se da».

Quiero recordar una anécdota que refleja bien esta frase. Un ejemplo de esos otros valores, no cuantificables, que ocurren alrededor del modelo de conocimiento, desarrollo y negocio que impulsamos en la Asociación gvSIG.

En un evento organizado por Itaipú Binacional en Foz do Iguaçu, en Brasil, se nos invitó a dar cursos de formación tanto al personal de la central hidroeléctrica como, de manera abierta, a aquellos universitarios que quisieran asistir. En el primer curso de formación, un alumno y una alumna que se situaban en primera fila, preguntaron al formador (en este caso, era yo) si podía ponerles en contacto con los organizadores del evento para preguntar por un hospedaje económico. Entonces me contaron su historia…

En la Universidad de Asunción, Paraguay, donde ellos cursaban estudios, los alumnos en su conjunto habían solicitado al profesorado que les dieran formación en gvSIG, ya que consideraban que era una apuesta de futuro para el país el contar con ingenieros formados en tecnologías de software libre, con las ventajas que ello tiene. El profesorado, conocedor solo de productos no libres, se negó. Entre todos los estudiantes se decidió hacer una colecta que permitiera a uno y a una de ellos hacer el largo viaje a Foz do Iguaçu, formarse y así, al regresar, poder replicar la formación para todo el alumnado. Hoy día varios de esos alumnos tienen puestos de responsabilidad en el país.

Si hemos llegado hasta aquí es porque hay mucha gente que piensa que puede haber otros enfoques, otras maneras de hacer las cosas. Por eso, para acabar quiero agradecer a todas las personas que estuvieron, están o estarán en el proyecto gvSIG, trabajadores, entidades, comunidades… y muy especialmente a los compañeros y compañeras por su esfuerzo y compromiso, siempre se han puesto al servicio del proyecto y nunca han puesto el proyecto a su servicio. Nuestro futuro estará llenos de mapas, estándares, algoritmos y líneas de código, pero sobre todo de personas trabajando por un objetivo común. Muchas gracias.
14:36
GIScussions: W3W – It’sGetting.Better.AlltheTime
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Excuse the corny title and associated video but I couldn’t resist it.

What3Words’s accounts for 2023 have just been published and the cynics who have doubted W3W’s commercial model were confounded by the outstanding progress that the company has made in 2023. Here are a few highlights to save you reading through 45 pages.
- Revenues surged by 28% to break through the £1m barrier for the first time
- Employee numbers fell from 152 to 128
- Admin expenses fell by 54% to £21.7m – “primarily driven by the reduction in consumer acquisition activities and the fair value adjustment relating to convertible loan notes” (That’s less advertising and what might be described as “debt swap magic”)
- The loss for the year fell by 48% to £16.4m
- The Directors consider W3W to be a going concern with cash and cash equivalents of £14.8 and term deposits of £12.8 at the end of the year which gives them well over a year’s runway at current revenue and expenditure levels.
- Raised £6.9m via a cash convertible loan instrument – it’s good to see that smart investors with a long term horizon continue to support W3W
- W3W has cumulative losses of £136m so when they do start to make profits in the near future the tax authorities will not be a beneficiary for several years.
You might think that summary was a bit dry so I asked a friendly AI to give me a slightly more positive view:
What3Words absolutely smashed it in 2023!
Revenue rockets! They blasted past the £1 million mark for the first time, a whopping 28% increase. That’s impressive growth for any company, but for a young innovator like What3Words, it’s a sign of things to come!

Leaner, meaner, revenue machine! While the team size trimmed down slightly, they achieved amazing things. Admin expenses plummeted by 54%! This financial wizardry involved cutting back on marketing spend and some clever financial maneuvering. Talk about efficiency!

Losses slashed in half! The deficit shrunk by a mighty 48%, proving their business model is tightening its grip.

The future’s bright! With over £27 million in the bank and a year’s worth of runway at current spending, What3Words is well-positioned for continued success.

Smart money says “Yes!” Investors are clearly bullish! A cool £6.9 million was raised through a fancy loan thingy (cash convertible loan instrument, for those keeping score). This shows that big thinkers recognize the long-term potential of What3Words.

Taxman blues? Not anymore! With a hefty pile of past losses, What3Words gets a tax break for years to come. That’s more money to fuel their innovative ideas!

In short, 2023 was a phenomenal year for What3Words. They’re growing, they’re efficient, and they’ve got the financial backing to keep pushing boundaries. If you’re looking for a company on the rise, What3Words is a shining star!

PLEASE NOTE THAT THE ABOVE REVIEW IS NOT A FINANCIAL RECOMMENDATION!
12:39
GeoCat: GeoCat Bridge for ArcGIS Pro has arrived!
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We are super excited to report that the very first official release of GeoCat Bridge for ArcGIS Pro is now available to all our customers.
GeoCat Bridge for ArcGIS® Pro is an add-in for Esri’s leading desktop GIS application, that allows you to publish your maps and metadata to your open data space.

All users can try GeoCat Bridge for free using our demo server as your playground. You no longer need a trial license to discover the full potential of Bridge.

GeoCat Live or Enterprise customers can contact us to activate their complimentary GeoCat Bridge licenses, or migrate their old GeoCat Bridge for ArcMap license.

Some of the key features of GeoCat Bridge for ArcGIS Pro version 1.0 are:
- Publish ArcGIS feature and raster layers as GeoCat Map or GeoServer WMS, WFS, and WCS layers
- Publish layer metadata to a GeoCat Find or GeoNetwork catalog service (ISO 19139)
- Automatic links between the map and catalog service(s) to increase discoverability
- Automatic group layers
- Automatic metadata thumbnail generation, so the record looks good
- Convert ArcGIS layer symbology to SLD with GeoServer vendor options
- Preview generated SLD and export it as a style package, containing any referenced PNG or SVG images
- Browse GeoServer workspace contents and add WMS layers on-the-fly
- Create and delete GeoServer workspaces
- Publish whole maps as a workspace or publish selected layers to existing workspaces
For instructions and an overview of all the features this version has to offer, consult our documentation.
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Try out or buy GeoCat Bridge for ArcGIS Pro now and let us know what you think! We value your feedback and suggestions.

Stay tuned for future updates, as more features and improvements will be added!

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12:24
Adam Steer: Cartography as code: Cartopy
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This story calls back a long way to my mapping roots. I started out making scientific maps using the venerable Generic Mapping Tools (GMT) to plot bathymetry, ship tracks, sampling stations. Almost two decades later, I’m still making maps with code! However, this time it’s in Python – with some helpers. Here’s the end product… Read More »Cartography as code: Cartopy
11:00
Mappery: New York, mosaic
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Matt Malone spotted this fantastic mosaic-tiled map of NYC ? at LaGuardia Airport during his first trip there last October. As a geographer, he said he was required to take a picture and share it.
MapsintheWild New York, mosaic

10:22
1000+ Streets Called Washington
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George Washington has more streets named after him in America than any other person in history. There are 1,399 streets named for the Founding Father in the United States, including George Washington Memorial Parkway in Washington DC and a number of Washington Streets in the state of Washington.At the other end of the scale Babe Ruth has only 3 U.S. streets named in his honor. There are 11

27 June 2024
14:00
A recap of the 129th OGC Member Meeting, Montreal, Canada
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The 129th OGC Member Meeting was held in Montreal, Canada, from June 17-21, 2024. The meeting was hosted by OGC Strategic Member Natural Resources Canada, with additional support from Esri Canada, CAE, Safe Software, and Bentley Systems. The week saw more than 200 leaders and experts from industry, academia, and government come together—with a further 100 online—to learn about the latest innovations from OGC Members, advance Standards, network, and shape the future of geospatial technology. The meeting was also notable as it marked the beginning of OGC’s 30 year anniversary celebrations, which will culminate at an event in Washington, D.C., this December.

Under the theme “Standards enabling collaboration for global challenges” the 129th Member Meeting focused on discussing, aligning, supporting, and promoting geospatial solutions that address challenges as far reaching as climate change and related disasters, and application domains as diverse as marine, Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML), and beyond.

Alongside the many OGC Standards and Domain Working Group meetings, there also included a Methane Summit, a Sensor Summit, a two-day meeting of the Canada Forum, a Quantum Computing ad hoc, a Metadata Workshop, and the kickoff of Testbed-20.

Friday’s OGC Executive Planning Committee Meeting was hosted by CAE at their nearby factory, and included a memorable tour of their factory floor. Social occasions included a Monday evening reception and a Wednesday night dinner was held at Northern Italian restaurant, Le Richmond. During the dinner, Andreas Matheus from Secure Dimensions GmbH was presented the 2024 Gardels Award for his persistent efforts to ensure best practices in security and API design in OGC. Congratulations, Andreas!
Andreas Matheus (L) is presented the 2024 Gardels Award by OGC Chief Standards Officer, Scott Simmons (R).
In addition to the challenges and domains covered by the meeting theme, two additional areas of discussion that stood out during the week: Digital Twins & Sensors, and Ethics in Geospatial.

Digital Twins & Sensors. OGC members are increasingly demonstrating the use of digital twins of the built environment (e.g., city and building models) as the context and framework in which sensors are managed. Sensed information in the real world can be displayed on digital representations of that digital reality to enable better understanding of environmental conditions, human activity, and system responses to those factors. The Urban Digital Twins DWG, 3D Information Management DWG, and the Autonomy, Sensors, Things, Robots, and Observations DWG are each actively discussing and collaborating on this integration.

Ethics in Geospatial. The OGC Executive Planning Committee has established a new subgroup on Ethics in Geospatial to set strategy for how OGC might address/respond to the ethical use of geospatial data or the use of those data for ethical purposes. The group will organize an initial meeting this July. If you would like to contribute to the conversation, you can sign up to the OGC Ethics in Geospatial email list here.

Building on the success of the demonstration at the 128th Member Meeting in Delft, The Netherlands, members of the OGC GeoPose and Points of Interest Standards Working Groups, in collaboration with the Open AR Cloud team, XR Masters, and Augmented City, expanded the GeoPose demonstration to include a native browser developed by OGC member Ethar, Inc. With the Ethar implementation, the team successfully demonstrated that a GeoPose can be encoded into a QR code. You can read more about the demonstration on the Open AR Cloud blog post, which includes a video showing how GeoPose can be used for anchoring content indoors and how it can be recognized by different Augmented Reality Clients.
Opening Plenary
The Opening Plenary was hosted by OGC’s Dr. Rachel Opitz and featured a keynote presentation from Eric Loubier, Director General of the Canada Centre for Mapping and Earth Observation at Natural Resources Canada. Mr. Loubier highlighted the use of geospatial data and technologies to address the needs of Canadian citizens, with examples including flood and wildfire risk.

Introductory messages were then delivered by Louis-Martin Losier from Bentley Systems, Gordon Plunkett from Esri Canada, Hermann Brassard from CAE, and Dean Hintz from Safe Software. Finally, Prashant Shukle, Chair of the OGC Board of Directors, presented on “Canada and the OGC – 30 years of impact,” which reflected on the important parts that Canadian organizations have played in OGC’s 30 year history.

Special tribute was then paid to an instrumental figure in OGC’s history who sadly passed away in May this year, Dr. John Herring. John was OGC’s first Gardels Award recipient back in 1999, and also received an OGC Lifetime Achievement Award in 2021.
Chair of the OGC Board of Directors, Prashant Shukle, presents “Canada and the OGC – 30 years of impact” during the opening session. Future Directions
This Meeting’s Future Directions session focused on Artificial Intelligence in Geoinformatics. Four presentations were made to provide updates since this topic was last addressed.
- Leveraging AI for Geospatial Reality Data: Louis-Martin Losier, Jeroen Vermeulen, Arnaud Durante (Bentley Systems)
- Spatial Web: AI agents operating in hyperspace: George Percivall (GeoRoundtable / IEEE GRSS)
- A User-Centric Process to Build AI-Powered Geospatial Applications: Pablo Fuentes (makepath)
- Bringing Geospatial Awareness to Large Language Models Using Spatial Knowledge Graphs: Nathan McEachen (TerraFrame)
The four presenters then engaged in a fascinating panel discussion moderated by Dr. Gobe Hobona of OGC. OGC Members can access the presentations and a recording on this page in the OGC Portal.
Meeting Special Sessions
The Methane Summit focused on the observation, measurement, monitoring, and spatial analysis of methane emissions. Consistent reporting of these emissions in a spatial context is key to effective decision making regarding reduction of emissions and their environmental consequences. Hence, the session also resulted in the proposal of a new OGC Standards Working Group (SWG) for EmissionML as a means to encode emission data. OGC Members can access the presentations and a recording on this page in the OGC Portal.

Directly following the Methane Summit was a linked Sensor Summit to talk more specifically about sensor model and data standardization. The focus of this Summit was on new and emerging Standards activities in OGC, including SensorThings API version 2.0, OGC API – Connected Systems and its dependent updates to the SensorWeb Standards, and the UK SAPIENT sensor architecture. OGC Members can access the presentations and a recording on this page in the OGC Portal.

The OGC Canada Forum held sessions on both Monday and Tuesday. Day 1 included an opening and the Forum Overview, followed by a panel on “The Transformative Role of Industry in National Geospatial Strategy and Spatial Data Infrastructure.” Day 2 started with an Oxford debate on the impact of standards on innovation and then included a panel on “National Geospatial Strategy in a Time of Rapid Change and Growing Challenges.” The day wrapped up with a discussion on partnerships and a closing. OGC Members can access the presentations and a recording on this page in the OGC Portal.
(L-R) Claudine Couture, Linda van den Brink, Bradford Dean, Eldrich Frazier, and Eric Loubier discussing “National Geospatial Strategy in a Time of Rapid Change and Growing Challenges” during the Canada Forum.
The Quantum Computing ad hoc session was a follow-up from the previous Member Meeting to assess whether a new OGC Working Group should be established to assess the geospatial role of quantum computing technologies. OGC Members can access the presentations and a recording on this page in the OGC Portal.

On Friday of the meeting week, a full-day Metadata Workshop was organized by the Metadata and Catalogs Domain Working Group (DWG). The first half of the workshop set the stage with presentations on current and emerging metadata Standards as well as their practical use. The second half of the summit was focused on the candidate OGC GeoDCAT Standard, how GeoDCAT fits within OGC’s building block approach to Standards, and preparation for a metadata-centric OGC Code Sprint later in 2024. OGC Members can access the presentations and a recording on this page in the OGC Portal.

The next OGC Testbed has now begun! The Testbed-20 kickoff session helped participants better understand sponsor requirements and introduced both parties to the process by which OGC will manage the Testbed. As the largest Research & Development (R&D) Initiatives conducted under OGC’s COSI Program, OGC Testbeds exist at the cutting edge of technology, actively exploring and evaluating future geospatial technologies to solve today’s problems.

Testbeds provide an opportunity to engage with and lead the latest research on geospatial system design, concept development, and rapid prototyping. They also provide a business opportunity for stakeholders to mutually define, refine, and evolve service interfaces and protocols in the context of hands-on experience and feedback. The solutions developed in Testbeds eventually move into the OGC Standards Program, where they are reviewed, revised, and potentially approved as new international Open Standards that can reach millions of individuals.

Testbed-20 will drive innovation at the foundations of geospatial data ecosystems. While working across four tasks, participants will collaborate to create mechanisms that improve Integrity, Provenance, and Trust (IPT) in geospatial data systems and workflows; transform Standards for GEOINT Imagery Media for Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (GIMI); enhance the usability of, and investigate new applications for, GeoDataCubes; and explore options for High-Performance Geospatial Computing Optimized Formats.
The OGC Executive Planning Committee during their visit to the CAE Factory. Closing Plenary
Wrapping up the week, I opened Thursday’s Important Things session with a rapid, 7-minute summary of the entire meeting week. This presentation was followed by some introductory remarks from Ryan Ahola of Natural Resources Canada to identify issues with Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDIs) and domains requiring geospatial standardization. Member discussion focused primarily on ensuring that SDI planning and management be aware of the larger data ecosystems in which the SDI must exist. This topic then led into a more detailed discussion on the mechanics of communicating how users should look to transition from the legacy OGC Web Services to OGC API Standards, where appropriate. OGC Members can access the presentations and a recording, including of the 7-minute overview, on this page in the OGC Portal. Additionally, OGC Members can access as session notes on the “Important-Things-2024-06” Etherpad.

The Closing Plenary then saw a keynote from Jong Tae Ahn of the Republic of Korea’s Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport that briefed the long-term roadmap for spatial information standardization in Korea. The remainder of the session was dedicated to advancing Standardization activities in OGC. Slides and content from a large number of Working Group sessions were included. OGC Members can access the presentations and a recording on this page in the OGC Portal.
Thank you to our community
As always, it was such a pleasure seeing our community come together to talk about their recent achievements, learn from each other, and drive innovation and Standards development forward. I sincerely thank our members for investing their time and energy, as well as their dedication to making OGC the world’s leading and most comprehensive community of location experts.

The next OGC Member Meeting is scheduled for November 4-8 in Goyang in the Seoul Capital Area of the Republic of Korea. Join members of the OGC Community to learn about the latest happenings at OGC, advance geospatial standards, network with the leaders of geospatial, and see what’s coming next. Registration will open soon on ogcmeet.org. To hear about it when it opens, feel free to subscribe to the OGC Newsletter – a digest of all things OGC, sent every two weeks.

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11:30
WhereGroup: Mapbender-Anwendungen einfach direkt aus QGIS heraus erstellen
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Mit unserem neuen Plugin für QGIS ist es nun möglich, QGIS-Desktop-Projekte mit nur ganz wenigen Schritten als WMS und gleichzeitig als Mapbender Anwendungen zu veröffentlichen.
11:00
Mappery: Western Hemisphere
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This came from Moritz Schillinger

“This map painting is from David Hardy showing the western hemisphere (artist name Le Suisse Marocain – website [https:]] ). Not sure if it’s a Map in the Wild, it’s hardly recognizable. “

No worries about eligibility Moritz, our standards are very flexible.
MapsintheWild Western Hemisphere

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