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Rudo @rudokemper.com · 04/09/2026

@1nativesoilnerd.bsky.social I thought you might find this interesting!

Rudo @rudokemper.com · 04/09/2026

The hope is that it helps answer questions like: Who collected data here, and when? What species were they documenting? Which institutions hold species records or observations from our territory? Are culturally sensitive species being published? And more.

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Rudo @rudokemper.com · 04/09/2026

So we ended up creating this map search page, where the community org can easily upload their territory boundaries and return useful information about the different datasets, publishers, and species records collected in their territory.

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Rudo @rudokemper.com · 04/09/2026

The questions led to a desire to understand who has collected biodiversity data in their territory as a whole. I haven’t really worked much with GBIF before, but I found it a little hard to answer that question through their portal, and I couldn't find any other third party resources for searching.

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Rudo @rudokemper.com · 04/09/2026

🧵 This past week, I was supporting an Indigenous community organization in understanding the ramifications of using iNaturalist, and in particular when their data ends up being published to GBIF. It ultimately culminated in a small map search tool for exploring GBIF records within a territory.

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GBIF Map Search — Summarize biodiversity records by map area

Draw a map area or drop a GeoJSON boundary to summarize GBIF occurrence records — species, datasets, publishers, years, and more. Runs entirely in your browser.

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Rudo @rudokemper.com · 09/08/2026

For any other #FairfaxCounty parents annoyed trying to find classes in the inefficient FCPA catalog: I built a simple browsable static page that allows you to search and filter all classes everywhere at once. rudokemper.com/fairfax-FCPA... #Fairfax #NorthernVirginia

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Fairfax FCPA Activities

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Rudo @rudokemper.com · 03/06/2026

Job posting: conservationmetrics.com/careers/lead.... Please share if someone comes to mind!

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Hiring: Lead Data Platform Engineer

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Rudo @rudokemper.com · 03/06/2026

This is a particularly exciting moment for the project as we move from active R&D toward broader adoption by Indigenous partners around the world.

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Rudo @rudokemper.com · 03/06/2026

It's a hands-on lead role covering platform architecture, governed data access, deployment workflows, identity systems, and AI-enabled access to community-owned data.

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Rudo @rudokemper.com · 03/06/2026

Conservation Metrics is hiring a Lead Data Platform Engineer to help shape the future of Guardian Connector! We're looking for someone who enjoys tackling hard architectural problems, making thoughtful technical trade-offs, and building systems that support Indigenous data sovereignty at scale. 🧵

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Rudo @rudokemper.com · 13/02/2026

Happy to keep improving this tool if anyone has any feedback :)

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CoMaps @comaps.app · 28/01/2026

Today's #DataPrivacyDay and a great opportunity to get back control over your personal data! Exporting your bookmarks/favorites from Google Maps can make a good start. Thanks to Rudo Kemper, you can convert your saved locations into a file import to CoMaps! rudokemper.com/google-maps-...

a share pic reading "celebrate data privacy day", with a photo of a wooden map with little flag pins in it

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Rudo @rudokemper.com · 07/10/2025

I had the opportunity to work on generating some stream data in #QGIS for a partner in the Ecuadorian Amazon today. I had forgotten how much fun it is to do remote sensing stuff 🙂

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GBIF @gbif.org · 26/09/2025

❤️ Have you shared your perspectives on the survey led by the GBIF #TaskGroup on Indigenous data governance? This week, task group chair @1nativesoilnerd.bsky.social shared initial results of the survey at the Living Data, Living Lands event at #ClimateWeekNYC. 🔗gbif.link/Indigenous...

Photograph of Lydia presenting findings at a conference event

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Rudo @rudokemper.com · 07/09/2025

Btw excited to meet you there! Let's try to grab a coffee apart from organized events?

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Rudo @rudokemper.com · 07/09/2025

In my experience there is like barely anything posted, and so you book your tickets only weeks before, and then suddenly there is a deluge of stuff and the FOMO sets in about the things you will miss 😆 it's tradition!

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Rudo @rudokemper.com · 07/08/2025

This is amazing. Do yourself a favor and check out this report from @awana.digital jam-packed with incredible community mapping impact stories and powerful visuals!

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Rudo @rudokemper.com · 13/07/2025

Given ongoing FOSS governance concerns with #OrganicMaps, I modified my "Convert Google Maps saved places" tool to explicitly support @comaps.app instead: rudokemper.github.io/google-maps-...

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Convert Google Maps saved places to CoMaps

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Rudo @rudokemper.com · 12/05/2025

Delighted to announce a hiring opp at Conservation Metrics! Come join our team in building a FOSS data sovereignty platform for communities to securely centralize, access, and derive insights from their data, stored on premises which they own entirely. conservationmetrics.com/hiring-fulls...

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Rudo @rudokemper.com · 01/05/2025

Check out this great piece by Tanya Ruka and Victor Temprano about how and why @nativeland.bsky.social is centering Indigenous data sovereignty in the terms of service of our API! nativeland.substack.com/p/native-lan...

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Native Land Digital API: Indigenous Data Sovereignty Treaty & Agreement - Important Update.

Kia ora koutou!

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Rudo @rudokemper.com · 30/04/2025

Excited to hear how it went! And to take notes on planning a future sabbatical with my own fam :)

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Rudo @rudokemper.com · 11/04/2025

Turns out this *does* exist in QGIS (somebody on Mastodon pointed it out)! It's called "Stream Digitizing" and you can activate it by clicking the arrow next to the "Digitize with Segment" button in the Digitize toolbar, or simply pressing R.

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Rudo @rudokemper.com · 11/04/2025

Fallout 4 on the Steamdeck for me :) but yeah, sometimes find the itch to want to try to do something productive. Vibe-coding a QGIS plugin sounds like a fun way to do it!

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Rudo @rudokemper.com · 08/04/2025

I wouldn't mind trying my hand at starting a QGIS plugin for this, and inviting others to collaborate. I'm inspired by seeing others like @opencholmes.bsky.social creating their own plugins recently. But probably could only do this at a hobby level of effort. (Typing with a newborn in my arm 😉)

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Rudo @rudokemper.com · 08/04/2025

Ah cool! Yeah, I figured there are some good workflows involving use of tools outside of QGIS. I recall coming across a browser-based georeferencing tool, for example. But I was just so surprised that freehand drawing wasn't already baked into QGIS!

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Rudo @rudokemper.com · 08/04/2025

GIS folks: is there a viable #QGIS plugin for freehand drawing features that will work in 3.x.x? It looks like "BeePen" is only good for annotations, and "Freehand Editing" was last updated 12 years ago. If not, would there be interest in one? #GISChat @qgis.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy

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Rudo @rudokemper.com · 21/03/2025

Oh cool! Great to be connected here, excited to follow your collecting journey

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Earth Genome @earthgenome.org · 20/03/2025

Amazon Mining Watch is now available with 2024 data, to detect and compare mining driven environmental harm across the Amazon. amazonminingwatch.org/en

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Rudo @rudokemper.com · 20/03/2025

I think I ended up completing my collection of cloth #Ultima maps, plus the map for Shroud of the Avatar which is actually quite beautiful! 🗺️ High resolution: www.easyzoom.com/embed/32d1e3... @richardgarriott.bsky.social am I missing anything essential? 😄

All cloth Ultima maps (plus a few paper ones)

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Kiri Carini @kiricarini.com · 20/02/2025

A project I've been working on for the last 6 months. I feel really strongly about making geospatial technology and data available and understood by as many people as possible. And that requires getting creative with the ways we share information. This is my small contribution to that effort.

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Development Seed @developmentseed.org · 11/02/2025

What if you could ask a map a question—and get a real, reliable answer? We’ve been exploring how LLMs can make geospatial data more accessible by translating natural language into structured queries. But AI alone isn’t enough—trusted data sources and human oversight are key. 🔗 ds.io/language-in...

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Language Interfaces for Maps — Development Seed

When maps understand what you mean, not just what you click

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Rudo @rudokemper.com · 02/02/2025

Moreso a storytelling than a gameplay thing, but I'd say a slight narrative shift to bring it more in-line with later Ultima lore could be really nice, but without being unfaithful to the original (e.g. don't cut out space stuff because that was an integral part of the game).

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Nicolas Mainville @carbonick.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Just in case you had missed this... By Friday, the landing pages on the United States Forest Service website for key resources, research and adaptation tools had gone dark, leaving behind an error message or just a single line: “You are not authorized to access this page.” 🌐🧪🌎

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Trump orders USDA to take down websites referencing climate crisis

Forest service website among many sites affected as agencies scramble to comply with president’s orders

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Gregor @gmaclennan.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Come work with me on some cutting-edge decentralised tech with real-world applications that is directly helping communities around the world protect biodiversity and fight deforestation.

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Awana Digital @awana.digital · 23/01/2025

.🥳 Have you tried CoMapeo yet? We are excited for you to try our next-gen territorial monitoring & mapping tool, co-designed with #EarthDefenders. 🌱Download it and map your world, together. New features coming soon! 👉🏾Find it on the Playstore or visit comapeo.app

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Rudo @rudokemper.com · 14/01/2025

Check out this article about some great territorial defense work being done by the Krahô community with support by @luandro.bsky.social and @awana.digital in Brazil

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Rudo @rudokemper.com · 10/01/2025

Oh, I also didn't play WoU, I don't even consider those to be canonical 😅

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Rudo @rudokemper.com · 10/01/2025

As somebody who started to play beginning with Ultima 7 and 8, I just couldn't get into the lore of Ultima 2 and 3. They felt too distant from the gameworld I started in. I played and finished all of the others though, including I and 0.

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 10/01/2025

This short film explores how Indigenous communities are combining ancestral wisdom with cutting-edge technology to map and monitor their territories. From ancient traditions to modern tools, these approaches can help protect their biodiversity and heritage. @nature.org

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Mapping and Monitoring in Indigenous Territories (English)

YouTube video by LifeMosaic

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Rudo @rudokemper.com · 31/12/2024

I make a thingy that holds community stuff, keeps it safe, and goes “hey, look!” if something weird happens.

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Jiri (Jirka) Panek (he/him) @jirkapanek.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Today, I got this email: "Congratulations on the successful approval by the ICA Executive Committee of your proposed new working group on #ParticipatoryMapping " Let's start the fun/work on #PGIS #PPGIS #Pmaping # participation begin! Want to join? DM me! @oliverescobar.bsky.social

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Rudo @rudokemper.com · 19/12/2024

It's no surprise I became a geographer and mapmaker later in life 🗺️ So recently, I decided to start collecting them, and here is my current collection, ranging from IV to IX, including the Underworld and Ultima Online offshoots. Thought to share for anyone who might appreciate this!

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Rudo @rudokemper.com · 19/12/2024

As a kid, I loved poring over atlases, and so when I started to play Ultima (around the time of VII / VIII), I was fascinated by these beautiful cloth maps that came with the box. Amazingly, they matched the game world with a highly accurate level of detail, and I would use them while playing.

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Rudo @rudokemper.com · 19/12/2024

⚠️ Nerdy post ahead When I was young, one of my favorite PC game series was Ultima by @richardgarriott.bsky.social. I loved the world-building and philosophical aspects, and I actually learned a lot of English from playing them. And then there were the maps; both in-game, and these physical copies.

A collection of cloth and paper maps from the Ultima series, ranging from Ultima IV to Ultima IX (including Ultima Underworld I and II, and Ultima Online).

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Oliver Wipfli @oliverwipfli.ch · 15/12/2024

The PMTiles MapLibre GL JS plugin supports now tile pyramids with multiple maxzooms. That's nice when you want to put for example z14 data for Switzerland and z8 data for the rest of the world into one .pmtiles file. Thanks @bdon.org for working on this... github.com/protomaps/PM...

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js: maplibre protocol has option to throw on missing tile [#321] by bdon · Pull Request #505 · protomaps/PMTiles

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Rudo @rudokemper.com · 09/12/2024

This methodology for social mapping from UCL is a really interesting case study in meeting people where they are in terms of tech they use daily. Should we be worried about storing potentially sensitive place data on Meta servers, though? tinyurl.com/ucl-kapta

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Is this the first-ever WhatsApp Map?

Researchers from the UCL Department of Geography introduce WhatsApp Maps, a pioneering approach that empowers communities to actively contribute to mapping through trusted digital networks.

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