Topic
GIS
- Open Buildings
Google has released a massive dataset of building footprints, extracted from high resolution satellite imagery: The dataset contains 1.8 billion building detections, across an inference area of 58M km2 within Africa,ā¦
- Weekend Reading: Honeycode, Imagery for Utilities, and BigQuery in Google Sheets
šÆ Amazon Honeycode AWS is making its entrance into the low-code app platform space. š² Using satellite imagery to prioritize vegetation management for utilities Geoff Zeiss on combining satellite imagery and spatialā¦
- Weekend Reading: Landgrid, Quantified Self, and Tesla Teardown
š Landgrid This is a product from Loveland Technologies, with a cohesive dataset of parcel boundaries provided as an API for application builders. More on their parcel data and how they do it here. š¤³š½ My Quantifiedā¦
- Why Hasnāt Open Source Software Disrupted Esri?
This is a great post from my friend Joe Morrison assessing the state of the open source software movement in GIS against the biggest corporate competitive friction point, Esri. Even as QGIS and comparable open sourceā¦
- Weekend Reading: Terrain Mesh, Designing on a Deadline, and Bookshelves
š MARTINI: Real-Time RTIN Terrain Mesh Some cool work from Vladimir Agafonkin on a library for RTIN mesh generation, with an interactive notebook to experiment with it on Observable: An RTIN mesh consists of only rigā¦
- Public Health Mapping for the Pacific Islands
Our friend and colleague Kurt Menke of Bird's Eye View GIS recently conducted a workshop in Hawaii working with folks from the Pacific Islands (Samoa, Marianas, Palau, and others) to teach Fulcrum data collection andā¦
- Discovering QGIS
This week we've had Kurt Menke in the office (of Bird's Eye View GIS) providing a guided training workshop for QGIS, the canonical open source GIS suite. #qgis workshop selfie @spatialnetworks ... a great group hard aā¦
- Sponsoring QGIS
We recently began a corporate sponsorship for the QGIS project, the canonical open source desktop GIS. I got back into doing some casual cartography work using QGIS back in December after a years-long hiatus of usingā¦
- Desktop GIS ā The Evergreen Topic
A good post from my colleague Bill Dollins about the state of the desktop GIS: I pretty much watch Esri from a distance these days but, even from my perch, I canāt see any workflow that doesnāt involve desktop softwarā¦
- Weekend Reading: Fulcrum in Santa Barbara, Point Clouds, Building Footprints
šØš½āš Santa Barbara County Evac with Fulcrum Community Our friends over at the Santa Barbara County Sheriff have been using a deployment of Fulcrum Community over the last month to log and track evacuations for flooā¦
- 24 Days of QGIS
Each year GIS developer and cartographer Nyall Dawson puts together a thread of daily tweets leading up to Christmas, each with a helpful tip for QGIS. You can see all of them at the hashtag #24daysofqgis. Here are aā¦
- Weekend Reading: Geocomputation, Customers, and Linear Growth
š Geocomputation with R Iāve had R on my list for a long time to dig deeper with. A while back I set myself up with RStudio and went through some [DataCamp]() stuff. This online book seems like excellent material inā¦