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... for connection and collaboration. Get your ticket soon, and come join an incredible group of people in Utah - you won't regret it. But you likely will regret NOT going, not being there at this inflection point for the CNG movement, and connecting with such an awesome group of people.

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The first Cloud-Native Geospatial Conference is happening in three weeks! I'll be giving the opening keynote, and I'm working to make it one of my best talks ever. The agenda (2025-ut.cloudnativegeo.org#agenda) is incredible, but there's also going to be lots of space between the talks...

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The AI tools also really make it much easier to 'drop in' and just spend 20-30 minutes but make some concrete progress.

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Plugin Builder — QGIS Python Plugins Repository

Do it! The vibe coding for QGIS is amazing these days. My recent learning is to start with plugins.qgis.org/plugins/plug... to start with a good structure. And newborns sleep a lot 😀 - I got through a lot of Breath of the Wild after putting mine (now 6) down. But qgis coding is just as fun...

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Pete Gadomski @gadom.ski · 02/04/2025

Day 1 in the books from the Satellite Tasking API #STAPI sprint 2025 in Lisbon! We've got four sprint groups: - spec - frontend - software - vendor implementations Watch github.com/stapi-spec/ for all the changes! Organized by @element84.com, hosted by @developmentseed.org, and sponsored by #aws

Matt Hanson and Olaf Veerman kicking off the STAPI sprint 2025

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Tom Augspurger @tomaugspurger.net · 19/03/2025

I'll be at the Cloud Native Geospatial Conference (2025-ut.cloudnativegeo.org), talking about using GPUs for geospatial workloads. Let me know if you have any experience or interest in this and would like to chat.

2025-ut.cloudnativegeo.org

CNG Conference 2025

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Bill Greer @billfgreer.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

SatCamp Tickets are Live! Join us for SatCamp 2025: Resilience Through Uncharted Terrain! 📍 Boulder, CO | Sept 24-26 🎟️ Register now: satcamp.xyz Let’s shape the future of geospatial together! 🌍🔥 #SatCamp2025

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SatCamp 2025

SatCamp is a conference unlike anything you have ever attended. September 24-26, 2025. Boulder, Colorado, USA.

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Pete Gadomski @gadom.ski · 04/03/2025

As we push adoption of stac-geoparquet, we've found some cases where we might want to store multiple collections in the metadata. I made a light RFC here, if you're intersted: github.com/stac-utils/s... #stac

[RFC] Multiple collections in metadata · Issue #88 · stac-utils/stac-geoparquet

The spec currently describes how to store a single collection in the metadata: stac-geoparquet/spec/stac-geoparquet-spec.md Lines 72 to 77 in 121f648 ## Including a STAC Collection JSON in a STAC G...

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Chris Holmes @opencholmes.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Just download that zip, and in QGIS go to Plugins -> Manage and Install Plugins -> Install from ZIP. Ideally you have v0.6 or earlier of GeoParquet Downloader plugin installed. It should pop up a message & guide you to know what's happening. Please let me know if it works, or what went wrong.

Chris Holmes @opencholmes.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Is anyone up to test my geoparquet downloader qgis plugin? We want to change the directory in the latest release, which means migrating users from the old plugin to the 'new' one. If you could try out github.com/user-attachm... and let me know how it works I'd appreciate it.

Alex @wildintellect.com · 26/02/2025

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🌶️ pixi.sh is the easiest and fastest way to install #QGIS on Ubuntu (maybe Mac too) right now if you need access to GeoParquet and DuckDb formats and python libraries for plugins 🧵 #gischat

3 lines of terminal commands for using pixi to install qgis

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Ivor @ivybo.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

We've published 118,678,424 open-data field boundaries so far. The boundaries have been collected from different open data portals, in different formats, and are now published in a single format. If you're creating farmer software solutions and need field boundaries, use them to your advantage...

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Hamish @polemic.nz · 21/02/2025

All open source is political. Even Rouault – archetypal GIS "random person maintaining the code that supports all modern digital infrastucture" – commited to GDAL github.com/OSGeo/gdal/p... - will now print "Trans rights are human rights" with `--version`. #gischat 🏳️‍⚧️👏🏼🏅

Add a GDAL_RELEASE_NICKNAME define by rouault · Pull Request #11865 · OSGeo/gdal

GDAL is an open source MIT licensed translator library for raster and vector geospatial data formats. - Add a GDAL_RELEASE_NICKNAME define by rouault · Pull Request #11865 · OSGeo/gdal

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(unless you love SQL and have your lat/long coordinates memorized). A big thanks to all the new contributors!

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I think my favorite (pictured in the gif) is the ability to select multiple @overturemaps.bsky.social layers and then have the plugin download them all at once. I'm pretty confident it's now the easiest way to get a bunch of Overture data for your area of interest.

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It's so cool to see the plug-in get better as different people 'scratch their own itch' and add what they think is useful.

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New Features of GeoParquet Downloader QGIS Plugin

Just published a post on new features in the GeoParquet Downloader QGIS Plug-in I've been working on, see cholmes.medium.com/new-features... The most exciting thing to me is that a majority of the new enhancements have come from outside contributors.

cholmes.medium.com

Many new improvements have landed recently, from a variety of contributors, turning this plug-in to a true open source project

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Chris Holmes @opencholmes.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

I'm incredibly pumped that we'll be launching 'phase 2' of the TGE initiative that lead to Fields of The World (fieldsofthe.world) and fiboa (github.com/fiboa). And I'd like to invite you to join us! See tgengine.org/tge-innovati... for the full post, and read on for some more information.

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Yeah, I agree it’d be easier. I just don’t have direct access…

Bill Dollins @geobabbler.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

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It turns out the demise of the geo-blog has been greatly exaggerated. Blog-like content has been hiding in plain sight and it may be needed now more than ever. blog.geomusings.com/2025/02/16/l...

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Long-Form Spatial Writing

I can’t remember the exact time that I met Paul Ramsey in person and had a conversation with him – it was either at the 2011 FOSS4G in Denver or the inaugural FOSS4GNA in DC the followi…

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A small no-dependency Python package for STAC, using Rust under the hood.

Ah, sweet! Yeah, I was remembering you had some nice CLI's, but looking at stac-utils.github.io/stacrs/latest/ and github.com/stac-utils/s... I didn't see mention. You might just throw a link / line in there, that people interested in using it in a CLI can get it at X.

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Join Fields of The World!

All our events start with an in-person kickoff and sprint, and we'd love for you to join us in St. Louis (March 17-20). But even if you can't make it in person do sign up forms.gle/Mf6qtk7KYxb6... and we'll keep you in the loop.

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As explained in the blog post announcing the next TGE innovation bridge initiative, we're starting an exciting phase to make substantial progress on all parts of Fields of The World (including fiboa)....

Join Fields of The World!

...but welcome anyone who is interested in high quality global field boundaries. We'll be doing most all collaborations online, and are looking for individuals who want to build with us, and organizations to serve as 'stakeholders' to participate and give feedback.

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We should see some major strides towards a vision of a sustainable, global field boundary dataset that's an open, digital public good. We'll be focusing on sustainable agricultural practices, reporting on deforestation regulations and food security...

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And I believe this iteration is going to be even more fun, as we have an incredible foundation to build on, and we'll be working towards producing agricultural field boundaries using AI and satellite imagery for users who will really benefit.

The first initiative was one of the best groups of collaborators I've ever worked with. Everyone at the wrap-up agreed one of the highlights was working with a group of people where there's no drama and everyone's contributing as best they can.

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Happy to pop any of these on your issue tracker if they're of interest.

And then my next step would be QGIS plugin that lets you do the search and then show previews / COG's.

Source Cooperative - Source Cooperative

Ideally in a way that doesn't DoS the API's, so I can just run it on a long running job and get the whole things and upload them to source.coop ;) And then CLI to point at a STAC-GeoParquet and treat it as a server (full CQL and other filters).

source.coop

Source Cooperative is a data publishing utility that allows trusted organizations and individuals to share data using standard HTTP methods.

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Oh, I love that stage! :) Looking... would you consider a CLI? That'll make it easier for me to pull into my current workflows (and also easier to contribute). The main CLI I want is for stac-geoparquet - point at a STAC API or Catalog, optionally filter, and generate stac-geoparquet locally.

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...and then eventually one would likely emerge. But all of s2 or all of landsat shouldn't be _that_ big in stac-geoparquet. Like no more than 100 gigabytes, and likely much less. So we can have some different attempts at sorting / partitioning.

And I'd encourage not worrying too much about partitioning and sorting. Once it's in Parquet it's way better than behind the API, and then we can have different people experiment. I've been trying some stuff out in github.com/cholmes/geop.... I'd see some time with different partition approaches...

GitHub - cholmes/geoparquet-tools: A collection of tools for GeoParquet, using PyArrow and DuckDB

A collection of tools for GeoParquet, using PyArrow and DuckDB - cholmes/geoparquet-tools

Cool. Yeah, direct pgstac export sounds great. Though do you think a complete crawl will dos an API? I've been half contemplating just doing that. Once it's done once and the data is in stac-geoparquet then no one else really needs to do it...

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In general I'd like to make more of a push for stac-geoparquet, as I think the core is really good, especially with stacrs in the mix. But there needs to be more data, and maybe make it a bit less obscure - put up a website or something. I'm contemplating a qgis plugin too, could try stacrs for it.

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Source Cooperative - Source Cooperative

Do you have a go to stac-geoparquet source for s2, landsat, etc? I always struggle to use Planetary Computer with its auth. I'm contemplating just putting some up on source.coop, but not sure if there's somewhere else? I guess ideally we'd get them onto Earth on AWS...

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Source Cooperative is a data publishing utility that allows trusted organizations and individuals to share data using standard HTTP methods.

Jed Sundwall @jed.co · 12/02/2025

This is a great package, I need to use it more. Love the stac-geoparquet support, especially leveraging DuckDB.

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We're seeking funding to take @source.coop to the next level.

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Chris Holmes @opencholmes.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

I just published a blog post sharing some videos on how to make a QGIS plugin with AI coding tools: cholmes.medium.com/learn-how-to... I've been having great fun with it, so wanted to help demystify the process for anyone curious, and hopefully inspire more people to add cool stuff to QGIS!

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Learn how to make QGIS Plugins with AI coding tools (video)

A couple of videos to help demystify the process of using AI coding tools like Cursor to create QGIS plugins.

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Chris Holmes @opencholmes.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

It was an amazing group of collaborators, all pulling in the same direction to lay real foundations for global field boundary datasets. We have some great momentum now, and I'm really excited that TGE has secured funding for to build on those foundations and accelerate towards the vision.

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Chris Holmes @opencholmes.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Helping start Fiboa (github.com/fiboa) and Fields of The Worlds (fieldsofthe.world) as part of TGE's first Innovation Bridge is easily the thing I'm most proud of contributing to last year. Read this great blog post summarizing what happened: tgengine.org/innovation-b...

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Innovation Bridge 2024 Wrapped: A collaboration to build a global dataset using AI and satellite imagery - Taylor Geospatial Engine