Even Rouault

EvenRouault@mastodon.social

Open-source geospatial software developer (GDAL, PROJ, QGIS, MapServer, ...). Creator of <a href="https://sozip.org" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no">https://sozip.org</a> My opinions reflect the ones of my employer, not necessarily mine. LLMs contribute to global warming and brain rot. I also think ultra-capitalism should be abolished. You probably think I should shut up about my political opinions, that's not professionnal, and bla bla, but I won't.

Posts

Post #3270454
One the few advantages of software security being mostly AI detection driven nowadays is that there is no more any reason to treat vulnerability reports privately, including reproducer. If someone reports to you an issue, 100 other people have found it already.
Post #3270453
AI coding agents try so many sub-commands (rg, grep, sed, awk, etc.) that apparently the fork()+exec() paradigm to spawn processes is not fast enough when they need hundreds of spawns per second! That said the attempt at https://lwn.net/ml/all/20260528095235.2491226-1-me@linux.beauty/ to improve that isn&#39;t very convincing. A mere 3% improvement
Post #3270452
I suspect the complexity of accessing Nasa products on S3 through their Earthdata login system is just to have statistics of which part of their datasets is used. Or just to annoy users maybe
Post #3270451
Anyone knows which consortium has won the HORIZON-CL6-2026-03 tender (6 million euros for Open-source geospatial software)? https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/HORIZON-CL6-2026-03-GOVERNANCE-06
Post #3270450
#GDAL #Icechunk read-only driver queued at https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/14755
Post #3270449
Is GDAL really a big beast ? It can, but you can also tame it: - Minimal build with only Zarr, Icechunk and VSI support: libgdal.so.39.3.14.0: 14.6 MB - vs equivalent Python/Rust stack &quot;du venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/icechunk venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/zarr venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/numcodecs&quot;: 87.3 MB
Post #3270448
Not promising at all to satisfy dreams, but what is the GDAL driver that you have dreamed about and that has never materialized? (humoristic answers accepted)
Post #2823524
We officially got our first vibe coded pull request where the bot proudly identified itself with ridiculous emoji as instructed in CONTRIBUTING.md . Deep sigh... What a fucked up world. https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/14586
Post #2823523
J&#39;écoute Arthur Mensch expliquer à l&#39;assemblée nationale qu&#39;il faudrait que la France produise 40 GW d’électricité pour l&#39;IA (1 kW par personne) ) à horizon de 5 ans. Si je lis correctement https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89lectricit%C3%A9_en_France, la production actuelle nucléaire française est de 63 GW. Donc en gros il faudrait augmenter la production nucléaire de 63% rien que pour faire des &quot;tokens&quot;. A écouter à https://youtu.be/kKWOkWv6pJ...
Post #2823522
17 pull requests submitted by one &quot;person&quot; in a hour to GitLab (by a GitLab employee). What can go wrong ? https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/merge_requests/?sort=created_date&amp;state=opened&amp;first_page_size=50
Post #2823521
Nothing better than preparing my #FOSS4GE2026 workshop to file new fix/improvement issues #dogfooding
Post #2823520
Let&#39;s see if bots get the message: https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/14612
Post #2823519
Wondering if I&#39;m not breaching code of conduct writing in a OGC venue that something is over-engineered 😂 https://github.com/opengeospatial/geotiff/issues/56#issuecomment-4496478301
Post #2823518
I&#39;d be interested in testimonies of other &quot;semi-maintainers&quot;. I consider myself as a &quot;semi-maintainer&quot; of OpenJPEG (maybe &quot;25%-maintainer&quot; would be more accurate), given there is no complementary half/75%. That is I only care about fixing issues that directly affect me/my customers, occasionally merging a &quot;trivial&quot; pull request or doing minimal work to keep CI working. But I&#39;m generally not willing to dig in...
Post #2823517
What am I doing ? dd if=test-dataset/repo of=/dev/stdout bs=1 skip=39 | zstdcat -d &gt; repo.bin &amp;&amp; flatc --raw-binary --json repo.fbs -- repo.bin &amp;&amp; cat repo.json
Post #1853696
Japanese geodetic datum JGD2011 just got renamed JGD2024. It is the &quot;same&quot; (same code, etc). What could go wrong ? Maybe just call it &quot;JGDNOW&quot;, or &quot;JGDCURRENT&quot; or &quot;JGDWHOCARES&quot; to be really future proof
Post #1853690
If you are a student filing low quality LLM assisted bug reports to one of my projects, I will email your supervisor (I just dit!). Besides that, I&#39;m generally a sympathetic guy
Post #1124845
RE: https://mastodon.social/@gdal/116353864267753547 It is so great to have community members that take with so much serious the challenge of georeferencing the Hello World picture from Artemis II. A promise is a promise: GDAL 3.13 will add that georeferencing automatically 🥳
Post #1045578
The new &quot;gdal&quot; command line utility that will make its prime appearance in GDAL 3.11 has now a quite substantial number of commands ported to it: https://gdal.org/en/latest/programs/index.html#gdal-application
Post #991790
The main skill of a human compared to a LLM ? The ability to say &quot;I don&#39;t know&quot; and deal with that inability