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Geospatial Engineering @ ROLLiN' (IAG) - reducing the impact of natural perils & motor vehicle accidents with open data & open source

Sydney, AU
Joined January 2009
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Ticket prices go up to their final "running late" price today. So, if you're not yet registered, there's no better time than now! 📖 Program: 2024.foss4g-oceania.org/#/pr… 🎟️ Registration: ti.to/osgeo-oceania/foss4g-s… 🏫 Workshops: ti.to/osgeo-oceania/foss4g-s…
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🌟#georabble Melbourne - Calling for speakers🌟 If you have recently joined the spatial industry OR have mad stories to tell of how Students + Young and Emerging Professionals are pathing the way of the future:
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👏🥰 v1.5.2 is released! This maintenance release includes bug fixes and minor improvements. We strongly recommend 1.5.X users to upgrade to 1.5.2. Please read our release notes: sedona.apache.org/1.5.2/setu… and maven coordinates: sedona.apache.org/1.5.2/setu… #geospatial #bigdata
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Did you know that with 2 Python libraries, 6 lines of code and around 15 seconds, you can load satellite data from anywhere in the world? This is so much easier than it used to be!
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Happy GIS day!!! How are you celebrating? Check out osgeo-oceania.org/events-cal… for your nearest event or perhaps hone your baking skills.
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TICKETS FOR GEORABBLE SYDNEY – GIS DAY OPEN! georabble.org/2023/11/07/tic…
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Please consider nominating yourself or someone you know to one of the OSGeo Oceania board positions. We can continue to cause happy little ripples across oceania and continue to grow our open geospatial family. (Thanks to @o_Whereabouts for the map.)
Nominations for four OSGeo Oceania board positions are now open until November 19th, 2023. If you are committed to opensource and open data then please consider nominating. Talk to one of the board members at osgeo-oceania.org/about/2023… if you are keen
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World GIS Day in Melbourne, Wednesday 15th November 2023. Check out the Melbourne GeoRabble web page for Open Houses! A day of spatial followed by an evening GeoRabble. Jump online to register for individual Open Houses and the GeoRabble event! georabble.org/2023/10/06/geo… Enjoy!
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Excellent map by @neocartocnrs shows why it's better to not to add scale bar to your world map. Source: buff.ly/3s14pdg
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Apache Sedona is a cluster computing system for processing large-scale spatial data. Apache Sedona 1.5.0 has been released. Release notes: bit.ly/3rZ8Xk6 Download links: bit.ly/470iare #opensource
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SYDNEY GEORABBLE CALL FOR SPEAKERS – WORLD GIS DAY NOV. 15 georabble.org/2023/10/24/syd…
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Pleased to announce our official Melbourne GeoRabble sponsor..... Vicmap! Melbourne GeoRabble scheduled for Wednesday 15th November The Clyde Hotel. Further details to be announced. Head online to get further information about our sponsor: land.vic.gov.au/maps-and-spa…
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A couple of news about @ApacheSedona (the most scalable spatial data processing engine): -The number of download for Sedona has surpassed 20 Million Downloads. -Sedona has a fresh new logo - check it out -Last week, we released the biggest Sedona release (more than 150 PRs) with lots of spatial data processing goodies in. -The number of contributors now reached 107 Sedona is Today being widely deployed and used in operational production by users of major cloud data platforms, such as AWS EMR, Databricks, Snowflake, and @wherobots That is good news for the Apache Sedona Community in particular and the spatial data+ai community in general - That shows that the spatial data processing and analytics landscape keeps growing at a staggering rate. #spatial #analytics #database #apachesedona #opensource #spatialcomputing Apache Sedona Github Repo: lnkd.in/gMfRdrZd
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Save the Date! GeoRabble Melbourne is coming to town. Wednesday 15th November 2023 - World GIS Day. If you are interested in speaking at the event please drop us a line at [email protected]. More news to follow soon!
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Replying to @pokateo_maps
Here is my meme to prove my point😀
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We’re excited to welcome our newest keynote for this October's FOSS4G SotM 2023, Carrol Chan. Carrol will deepen our understanding of how our assumptions shape the OSM ecosystem, the mapping communities in the Pacific and examples of current practices.
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Three more days to go for the inaugural GeoRabble in the Hunter! linkedin.com/feed/update/urn…
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Call for Speakers - GeoRabble in the Hunter. georabble.org/2023/08/14/cal…
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Save the Date! GeoRabble in the Hunter! Happy to announce, in collaboration with Newcastle City Council the next GeoRabble will be on Wed, August the 23rd @ Newcastle City Council Start spreading the news all of you Rabblers in the Hunter, Newcastle and Central Coast.
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