Husband and father, neogeographer, hacker and hiker, mobile software engineer, curious, never stop exploring

Zürich, Switzerland
Joined December 2008
Checkout 🇨🇭SwissTrains for iOS, now available in the AppStore: appsto.re/ch/HNHGab.i
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whole #php2shell looks like a calculated PR stunt to me. paper websites are too polished, we have patchtheplanet.org movement, srsly? FBI, Reuters. Anyway PHP has been "dead" for 20 years anyway :o)
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QGIS is here to stay but this tool is just insane, ridiculously fast and running even in your browser web.rustgis.app/
RustGIS v0.3.0 is here! RustGIS is a fast, free and open-source GIS in pure Rust for mapping, analyzing and sharing geospatial data. It runs natively on Windows, macOS and Linux, and in your web browser. Your data stays on your machine unless you send it to an AI model you choose, and every action is a command you can script. This release puts the world's open data a search away, draws maps on the GPU, and brings RustGIS to Python and Jupyter. It is our biggest release yet: 150 pull requests from 16 contributors, 15 of them contributing for the first time. Thank you to everyone who helped! What's new in v0.3.0 - Open data, built in: search STAC catalogs, Planetary Computer, Overture Maps, Source Cooperative, OpenStreetMap, geoBoundaries, data.gov and other open-data portals, and browse S3 buckets. - Cloud-native by address: GeoParquet, FlatGeobuf and cloud-optimised GeoTIFFs open by their web address and are read in place, only the parts you need. - More formats and services: live PostGIS tables, DXF, LiDAR (LAS, LAZ, COPC), MBTiles, Zarr, WCS, OGC API Tiles and many more, plus an SQL pane powered by DuckDB Spatial. - A faster map: GPU rendering (beta), smooth zoom and pan, and a globe with your map draped over it under the stars. - Python and Jupyter: pip install rustgis to run the engine in Python and open the app in a notebook with rustgis.Map. - Process plugins: plugins that run as programs, with their own Python environments, in the background with progress and Cancel. - AI Assistant: sign in with ChatGPT to use your plan, and let external AI clients drive the app. Try it out - Launch the web app: web.rustgis.app - Download: downloads.rustgis.app - Documentation: rustgis.app - GitHub: github.com/opengeos/RustGIS - Release notes: github.com/opengeos/RustGIS/… #GIS #Rust #OpenSource #Geospatial #OpenData #Python #CloudNative
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Advertisements using maps always catch my eye.
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Instabuy 😍
Subway Builder is released!
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My latest map: Physical Features of the Circumpolar North. It is available for free at: shadedrelief.com/arctic
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You're looking at 620 cars' worth of people on a single train in a comprehensive regional rail system serving Zürich, which has a metro area of 2.1 million people. There are 35 metropolitan areas in the USA larger than Zürich's.
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free elevation contour generator! Select an area, click generate contours, and download as #geojson ... easy!
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Replying to @FilosofiaPolti
When is the new election?
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Here's how many Swiss trains (excluding the 18 local tram lines) serve a metro population the size of Providence's in three hours midday: There are 40 metro areas in the USA bigger than Zürich's.
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So @googlemaps appears to now have completely dropped the ski area data. Can't see it at all! What happened? #gischat
It's kind of nutty how Google Maps has a super sophisticated ski slope layer but no bus route layer.
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The perfect occasion to bring my old DSLR out of retirement #CometATLAS
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Lonboard 0.10 is now out! Animate trajectory data on an interactive map, all from Python! Also MovingPandas integration, draw bounding boxes on the map, @pyodide support, new ColumnLayer for rendering extruded cylinders, fewer required dependencies github.com/developmentseed/l…
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I enjoyed my secondment at the BBC. I can't believe my map made it onto the news!
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Cool! @Flickr Maps seems to be powered by @protomaps now - along with @openstreetmap right in the corner (@LeafletJS too!) That's a lot of geotagged photos! flickr.com/map
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My son trying to replicate that iconic flight from olympics. Without a surfboard :)
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Just installed Snapchat. I am too old for this sh..
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The Matterhorn East Face in tears today. A rockfall detached at approx. 4100 m shortly after 03:00h today leaving a widely visible trace in the seismic monitoring data networks.seismo.ethz.ch/en/n… Not a bother to alpinists (the classic route follows the ridge) this is a warning sign.
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With the eclipse approaching in less than a week, over half of U.S. cities along the eclipse's path are fully booked for the night of April 7th according to data from @airdna
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