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robintw

@robintw@mastodon.me.uk

Freelancer in geospatial software engineering and data science. PhD in remote sensing of air quality. Geek. Dad. Python. And various other things.

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robintw, to random
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Fascinating page of UI/UX patterns for including maps in apps/web pages/etc at https://www.mapuipatterns.com/

Found via @geomob newsletter (I recommend you subscribe, and not just because one of my projects was mentioned this month!)

robintw, to money
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Really chuffed that I'm starting to get some people donating to me via https://www.buymeacoffee.com/rtwilson as a thank you for geospatial things I've created like the FreeGISData site (https://freegisdata.rtwilson.com/), British Placename Mapper (https://placenames.rtwilson.com/) and my blog (https://blog.rtwilson.com/). It's a relatively small amount of money but it puts a big smile on my face :)

robintw, to python
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Good set of posts here on the differences between odc-stac and stackstac for merging multiple STAC items into xarray datasets: https://discourse.pangeo.io/t/comparing-odc-stac-load-and-stackstac-for-raster-composite-workflow/4097

robintw, to python
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Useful notebook showing old-fashioned (and slow!) ways of using GeoPandas, and the modern (faster!) ways of doing things: https://github.com/martinfleis/efficient-geopandas-workshop/blob/main/GeoPython2023.ipynb

robintw, to random
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My Free GIS Data website has now been updated, and all broken links have either been fixed or removed. Blog post about it at https://blog.rtwilson.com/free-gis-data-site-update-all-links-now-working/, and main site at https://freegisdata.rtwilson.com/

robintw, to random
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Cool looking new STAC CLI - see https://github.com/stac-utils/stac-rs/tree/main/stac-cli

Lets you create STAC items, search STAC APIs, validate STAC items etc.

Written by @gadomski

robintw, to python
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GeoPandas has released an alpha of v1.0.0 - time to check it works with your code.

Details at https://martinfleischmann.net/geopandas-1.0-is-coming.-what-will-change/, changes include switching default loader from fiona to pyogrio (nice! I often forget to use pyogrio and it'll save me time), requiring Shapely 2.0, removing built-in datasets, and deprecating some stuff.

robintw, to random
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Does anyone I know work for a company that might want to sponsor Electromagnetic Field - a really cool tech & nerd festival held in a field in May. See https://www.emfcamp.org/sponsor for details, it would be much appreciated

robintw, to random
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Useful blog post about resampling rasters with - I didn't know it could (now) do summing of values when resampling: https://spatialthoughts.com/2024/04/02/aggregate-and-align-rasters-gdal/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=aggregate-and-align-rasters-gdal

robintw, to uk
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I've created a new web app - British Placename Mapper at https://placenames.rtwilson.com/ - you can search for placenames in various ways (starts with 'great', ends with 'burgh' etc) and show them on an interactive map. Try a few of the examples and send me any cool maps you come up with!

(Re-posting for those who sensibly weren't using social media on a bank holiday weekend!)

robintw, to uk
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Ever wondered about UK place names? My new web app lets you search place names (starting with 'south', ending with 'burgh', containing 'sea' etc) and plot them on a map - and then share those maps with friends.

Have a look at https://placenames.rtwilson.com/, or try one of the examples, like this map of different suffixes: https://placenames.rtwilson.com/#W3sidGV4dCI6ImJ1cmdoIiwiY29sb3IiOiIjZTMxYTFjIiwiY2hlY2tlZCI6dHJ1ZSwibWF0Y2hUeXBlIjoiZW5kc3dpdGgifSx7InRleHQiOiJoYW1wdG9uIiwiY29sb3IiOiIjMWY3OGI0IiwiY2hlY2tlZCI6dHJ1ZSwibWF0Y2hUeXBlIjoiZW5kc3dpdGgifSx7InRleHQiOiJiYWNoIiwiY29sb3IiOiIjMzNhMDJjIiwiY2hlY2tlZCI6dHJ1ZSwibWF0Y2hUeXBlIjoiZW5kc3dpdGgifV0=

Edent, to Health
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🆕 blog! “The tooth, the whole tooth, and nothing but the tooth”

You know that ice-breaker game "Two Truths And A Lie"? When I'm forced into some mandatory office fun, I always say... I've sat in the seat of a space shuttle. I still have two of my baby teeth. I used to be a voice-over artist. Well, one of those truths is about to come crashing […]

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/03/the-tooth-the-whole-tooth-and-nothing-but-the-tooth/
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robintw,
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@Edent If the actual data is there too in DICOM files then there are plenty of FOSS tools that will read that. I 3D printed bits of my spine from a CT scan!

Edent, to random
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🆕 blog! “Chapter 10 - The Men Who Stole The World”

Welcome to NaNoWriMo, where I - and thousands of other plucky souls - try to write a 50,000 word novel in a month. You are reading "Tales of the Algorithm". A compendium of near-future sci-fi stories. Each chapter is a stand-alone adventure set a few days from now. Everything you read is possible - there's […]

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/11/chapter-10-the-men-who-stole-the-world/
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robintw,
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@Edent is there an issue with your blog RSS feed at the moment? The first few of these appeared in my RSS reader (and I really enjoyed them!) but the last few haven't

robintw,
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@Edent http://shkspr.mobi/blog/feed/

robintw,
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@Edent I don't know if you just did something, but it has started working now and the posts are appearing in my feed reader. Thanks!

robintw, to Mac
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Does anyone know what's going on with the QGIS 3.34 downloads for MacOS? I just tried to download it, clicked 'Download QGIS 3.34' button on the page, and got QGIS 3.32 instead.

Have the Mac installers not been updated yet? If so, I think the text on the download button may have been updated a bit prematurely.

Any ideas anyone?

robintw,
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@underdarkGIS Thats fine, thanks. In the meantime, would it be possible for the button text on the website to be updated to say 3.32 not 3.34? I suspect it might confuse a number of people. I didn't actually realise it wasn't 3.34 until I tried looking for some of the new features and couldn't find them!

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