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Hamish @polemic.nz · 15/08/2026

Karanga-a-Hape station first look - what an brill piece of #Auckland infra.

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Hamish @polemic.nz · 13/09/2025

Looking back... this has to be the largest march we've seen by a fair margin

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Hamish @polemic.nz · 13/09/2025

We should close Fanshaw St more often

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Hamish @polemic.nz · 12/09/2025

Auckland is showing up

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Hamish @polemic.nz · 08/08/2025

Good morning Auckland!

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Hamish @polemic.nz · 01/08/2025

Earth Sciences NZ, our new center of excellence for environmental science in New Zealand, uses this image as their logo / hero image on their website. It's.. wrong. Wrong in a 6-fingered AI generated human way. Not an auspicious start to the agency's future. #gischat

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Hamish @polemic.nz · 27/07/2025

Can't beat Auckland

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Hamish @polemic.nz · 21/06/2025

Matariki / mid-winter soltice swim done ✅. Hard to beat Auckland, any day of the year.

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Hamish @polemic.nz · 11/06/2025

Exploring home with the new LINZ Auckland 2024 LiDAR capture (data.linz.govt.nz/layer/d3VcCb...)

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Hamish @polemic.nz · 09/05/2025

Logo trends are interesting. Forget the omni-app rainbow, or tech blue-on-white, AI is all about the stark monochrome.

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Hamish @polemic.nz · 27/03/2025

Asked it again and.. wat.

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Hamish @polemic.nz · 27/03/2025

Wondered if there was a Māori name for Rosebank Peninsula. Got Google's confidently incorrect (and confusingly plausible) answer.

Google AI search result for "Maori name for rosebank peninsula" responding with "Te Atatū"

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Hamish @polemic.nz · 21/02/2025

Ohlol I was a couple rows behind you... what a gig!

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Hamish @polemic.nz · 13/02/2025

Quote post with a beach photo from your library. Waikahoa Bay, Jan 2025. Peak summer season. We've been going for 10 years and the full fishing ban in the marine reserve is making a difference. Dolphins turned up for the first time to catch fish and play around the rocks.

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Hamish @polemic.nz · 09/02/2025

Australian glass sizes enters the chat

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Hamish @polemic.nz · 08/02/2025

Is there a more liminal space than the storage facility hallway. (also hooray for finally emptying out the unit after a year-long renovation project)

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Hamish @polemic.nz · 04/02/2025

Experimenting with GeoDeep (github.com/uav4geo/GeoD...) – incredibly quick & easy way to get started in ML for geo. Classifying trees, roads and cars with built-in/free models. Data CC-BY LINZ source from data.linz.govt.nz/layer/95497-... #gischat

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Hamish @polemic.nz · 03/02/2025

Clearing out the office bookshelf and came across these GIS gems from 2005! There is a lot of GDAL still relevant today, and a 3d example! #gischat

The books "Web Mapping" and "Mapping Hacks" published 2005

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Hamish @polemic.nz · 20/11/2024

Hello hello whats this then 😁

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Hamish @polemic.nz · 19/11/2024

Just released a new version of our QGIS Kart Plugin - now with Processing extensions so you can start building workflows on top of your versioned Kart repositories. plugins.qgis.org/plugins/kart/

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Hamish @polemic.nz · 18/10/2024

Toying with PDAL and GDAL to automate thumbnail generation of LAZ point clouds of various New Zealand Aotearoa locations. Fits in a 6 stage PDAL pipeline, see gist.github.com/hamishcampbe.... #gischat

Point cloud visualisation of downtown Auckland, New Zealand

Point cloud visualisation of Dartmoor valley / Puketapu in Hawke's Bay, New Zealand

Point cloud visualisation of downtown Wellington, New Zealand

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Hamish @polemic.nz · 01/10/2024

Working on our regional-scale point coud vis capabilities at Koordinates. Several hundred GBs of data previewed. Scaling up to TBs soon. And of course with clip & ship downloads, format and CRS shift, API access, version control built it. #gischat

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Hamish @polemic.nz · 18/09/2024

It begs the question: if this is effective, why are we not preventing suburbs that don't already have high rates of alchohol-related harm from being subjected to increased harm? Image related.

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Hamish @polemic.nz · 10/09/2024

Do gifs work here? Modified my QGIS cursor/mask symbolizer to give a swipy map. Very cool to see this picked up by QGIS UC peeps and turned into a full blown tutorial. www.qgistutorials.com/en/docs/3/in... Open Source communities are amazing. #gischat

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Hamish @polemic.nz · 07/09/2024

Good morning Auckland

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Hamish @polemic.nz · 23/08/2024

Proper away game for the kids football team this morning. Looking broody, Auckland.

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Hamish @polemic.nz · 23/08/2024

Cartographers like to argue about north arrows, but what if your maps was only north arrows. Identical data, different projections, all north arrow. #gischat

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Hamish @polemic.nz · 19/08/2024

I really like OpenStreetMap "maximalist" design - and it's always fun to hunt down zoos and themeparks. Show me your favs! #gischat

Six Flags Great America, Illinois on OpenStreetMap

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Hamish @polemic.nz · 16/08/2024

Configured a Github action to render a map of my Kart repo data as a comment on commit. Because why not that's why. #gischat

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Hamish @polemic.nz · 26/01/2024

Waikahoa Bay, never gets old.

Waikahoa Beach with campground in the distance

Sunset over the hills behind Mimiwhangata

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Hamish @polemic.nz · 17/10/2023

My privilege to open #FOSS4GOceania2023 conference in Auckland today. It's been a lot of hard work getting to this point. Workshop day done, 1 of 3 days of talks done, 140 attendees, lots of social events - all for the pacific open source geospatial software community. Big week! #foss4g #osgeo

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Hamish @polemic.nz · 15/10/2023

NZHerald managed to get Auckland electorate maps for Kelston and Panmure-Ōtāhuhu wrong yesterday (blue instead of red). Panmure *still* wrong today, and they split Kelston into different red and blue bits.

NZHerald electorate results graphic from 15th October

NZHerald electorate results graphic from 16th October

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Hamish @polemic.nz · 10/08/2023

I too welcome ACTs policy of not letting important cultural factors – such as being a businessman, olympic hopeful, or prominant political figure – influence sentencing for serious crimes. Oh not *those* cultural factors? Nevermind then.

The ACT Party’s new justice policy, released this morning, would stop judges considering a person’s cultural background during sentencing.

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Hamish @polemic.nz · 06/08/2023

Piha beach, no caption required. First time back since the floods.

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