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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. 🧵

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 🙂

@FrankauLux@polyglot.city @gombang@social.nancengka.com I made the switch: https://rudokemper.github.io/google-maps-places-to-comaps/

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

Sharing this technical blog post about our use of the FOSS data orchestration engine Windmill to build and manage backend data workflows for Indigenous community organizations! https://www.windmill.dev/blog/conservation-metrics-case-study

Delighted to announce a hiring opportunity at Conservation Metrics!

Come join our team in building a free and open-source data sovereignty platform for communities to securely centralize, access, and derive insights from their data, stored on premises which they own entirely.

https://conservationmetrics.com/hiring-fullstack-js-engineer/

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

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!

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. It's no surprise I became a geographer and mapmaker later in life 🗺️

⚠️ 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.

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?

http://tinyurl.com/ucl-kapta

A conversation with @jbryant@fosstodon.org made me realize how @qgis@fosstodon.org plays a somewhat underappreciated role in all of our work supporting Indigenous communities in participatory mapping. So I'd like to shout out QGIS for being an amazing FOSS tool that we benefit from daily!

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Honored to have spent the week at #COP16 in Cali, Colombia with my co-conspirators, technical collaborators, and good friends from Awana Digital. The week before, we established integration between #CoMapeo and #GuardianConnector.

Stoked for this dialogue with great friends and partners at #COP16 in Cali next week!

Sharing this phenomenal video by #LifeMosaic #ForestPeoplesProgramme on why mapping and monitoring are so important for Indigenous communities #gischat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-bVeQUdkjc