Anita Graser 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇪

Half of AI is radioactive toothpaste.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doramad_Radioactive_Toothpaste

When radioactivity was first discovered, people went mad for it. Started putting it in everything with no understanding of the dangers. Now, radioactivity is real, and there are lots of useful […]

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QGIS 4.0 Norrköping is released!

The wait is over! We are pleased to announce the new major release of QGIS 4.0. Installers for Windows, Linux, and Mac are already out. What's new? On the surface, existing users should expect to engage with a QGIS experience familiar to what they have come to […]

built-in #geometry datatype in @duckdb v1.5 without plugin - that is huge! #gis #gischat #spatial #geospatial
https://duckdb.org/2026/03/09/announcing-duckdb-150#geometry-becomes-a-built-in-type

@jakobmiksch @cartocalypse we've slapped an early adopter label on the splash. As always, production use cases should stick to LTRs. It never hurts to remind people of that :-)

"The Document Foundation maker of #LibreOffice] has called on the European Commission in an open letter not to rely solely on #Microsoft's proprietary [#XLSX format in the ongoing consultation on the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA). The EU Commission had published a call for feedback on the CRA […]

Boy I was wrong about the Fediverse I have never been an "online community first" person. The internet is how I stay in touch with people I met in real life. I'm not a "tweet comments at celebrities" guy. I was never funny enough to be the funniest person on Twitter.

Boy I was wrong about the Fediverse https://matduggan.com/boy-i-was-wrong-about-the-fediverse/

The chardet open source library relicensed from LGPL to MIT two days ago thanks to a Claude Code assisted "clean room" rewrite - but original author Mark Pilgrim is disputing that the way this was done justifies the change in license - my notes here: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Mar/5/chardet/

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Screenshots from webinar

The recording of Wednesday’s webinar “QGIS 4 for Water: What’s New, What’s Next?” is now available on the YouTube channel of the Australian Water School! With @geomenke, @yonas and myself.
📹 Watch it here: https://youtu.be/vnHxLHHz-ZQ
#QGIS #GIS #FOSS4G #OSGeo

Have you used the CAST R package?

We’re running a short survey on use cases, challenges, and feature needs.
Your input will guide CAST priorities during developer days in Mar 2026.

🔗 https://uni-muenster.sciebo.de/apps/forms/2Awr2HATpqZNdDmi/submit

#RStats #RSpatial #OpenSource

Excellent video tutorial on creating animated traces in #QGIS over on #reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/QGIS/comments/1rde0fm/comment/o7c29l7/

#GISChat #MovementDataAnalysis #MovementData #Mobility

Geospatial conferences in 2026
A curated and growing list of events in GIS and spatial data science

🔗 https://github.com/Nowosad/conferences_2026

Which ones are you planning to attend?

#Geospatial #GIS #SpatialData #Conferences

@edzer 🤔

GRASS - Bringing advanced geospatial technologies to the world GRASS is a powerful open-source geospatial processing engine that supports advanced modeling, time series analysis, and spatial data management.

GRASS packages for macOS + Linux are now on conda-forge. It allows for easier to install along other tools into the same environment for smoother data science workflows.

`conda install -c conda-forge grass`
https://grass.osgeo.org/download/conda/

Did a VPAT 508 for QGIS for the US Gov't nerds. Now I have some random student says hi US university needs the VPT International.......Which is longer than the 508. So I think I'm about to go "So when we work on this together for your University...." to see what happens next.

Making the Invalid Valid

I could argue I'm doing that on multiple levels these days. Except I want to talk Geometry, QGIS, and Forks in the Road. I haven't done just a "QGIS Tech Post" in a while. I talk about it and training and generalities but hardly dive into the specifics. So here is a […]

@tobiaswatzl.bsky.social @foss4geurope Thank you!

Call for abstracts: ML4EO 2026
Machine learning for Earth observation

📅 22–24 Jun 2026, Exeter, UK
📝 Abstract deadline: 31 Mar 2026
🔗 https://ml4eo.org/call-for-abstracts/

#ML4EO #EarthObservation #MachineLearning #RemoteSensing #OpenScience

Hey @foss4geurope, what's the best way to buy train tickets to Romania online? #öbb only sells the part from Vienna to Budapest

#QGISUC2026 🛏️🇨🇭 secured 🥳

#AreWeThereYet?

Do I know anyone working with the #ECMWF? #FollowerPower #GISChat

@rjhale1971 That's a very good size for having proper exchange with everyone who attended.

Who Owns Postgres? The MinIO Warning Sign | Vela Blog MinIOs shift reignited a critical platform question: who controls your core infrastructure. Why Postgres governance and licensing model matter for long-term ri…

about different types of #opensource software
#postgres is a prominent example of a "real' #opensource project and not just a shared source owned by a company which can be abandoned any time

https://vela.simplyblock.io/blog/who-owns-postgres-the-minio-warning-sign/

And the call for workshops submissions has been extended until 20 February 2026 (23:59 UTC +2)

The #FOSS4G Europe 2026 Call for Papers for the general track is open now! https://talks.osgeo.org/foss4g-europe-2026/cfp

#FOSS4GEU #OSGeo #OpenSource #GISChat

Überweisung des Bundes and Microsoft: Was macht das mit euch?

2023: 274.091.361,75 Euro
2024: 347.665.579,71 Euro
2025: 481.369.660,77 Euro

Man stelle sich vor, was mit 1.103.126.602,23 Mrd. € alles an Open Source Software in Deutschland hätte beschafft und entwickelt werden können. Vermutlich […]

useR! 2026 call for abstracts is open

Hoping to see many contributions on spatial data analysis in R!

🔗 https://user2026.r-project.org/call/

#useR2026 #RStats #RSpatial

OpenStreetMap OpenStreetMap is a map of the world, created by people like you and free to use under an open license.

https://OpenStreetMap.org has been disrupted today. We're working to keep the site online while facing extreme load from anonymous scrapers spread across 100,000+ IP addresses. Please be patient while we mitigate and protect the service. #OpenStreetMap #DDoS #Scrapers #AI

Reflect Orbital wants to destroy the night sky to deliver "sunlight as a service". SpaceX wants to destroy Low Earth Orbit to launch one million "AI datacentres"

The only way to formally protest these two ideas is to file a comment with the US FCC, which is horribly complicated, but the […]