Mastodon ist jetzt offiziell „Digital Public Good“ – also digitales öffentliches Gut – und steht damit auf einer UN-Liste neben Projekten wie Wikipedia oder LibreOffice. Das Fediverse bekommt damit Rückenwind als gemeinwohlorientierte Alternative zu Big Tech. Anerkannt wurde Mastodon von der Digital Public Goods Alliance (DPGA), einer Initiative der UN. Die Kriterien: Open Source, Datenschutz, kein Konzerninteresse. Für alle, die digital unabhängig und demokratisch kommunizieren wollen, ist das ein starkes Signal.

#Mastodon #Fediverse #DigitalPublicGood #UN #DigitaleDemokratie #BigTechAlternativen

https://blog.campact.de/2025/06/mastodon-ist-als-digitales-oeffentliches-gut-anerkannt/

@neocarto Apologies, I am not the admin for that group but I inquired with them!

Just encountered a new kind of error message on my phone 😬🥵

"Thethering switched off due to high device temperature"

I guess it is time to move the phone into the shade when working on the patio... 🤷‍♀️

@floledermann Worth noting that using CSV can also allow extracting a much bigger dataset. For instance with "out center" it's possible to get a CSV extract of all shops (shop=*) in the USA 🇺🇸

@neocarto
Hi, we are running this Google group / mailing list, which is rather quiet at the moment. But it would be the place where new activities are announced.
https://groups.google.com/g/icaviz/

Today I learned that you can export CSV directly from Overpass, *and* you can query features that are within a given polygon relation (not just bounding box).

So my multi-step process to extract cities in Austria from OSM just got reduced to a single #Overpass query 🎉

#OpenStreetMap

The curse of the Minimum Viable Product:

Once you've made something that basically works, no-one wants to give you time to make it as good as you know it should be.

#agile

Ready?

This is so cool: visualise 100 million books by ISBN, totally client side using shaders, runs smooth-ish on a phone

https://phiresky.github.io/blog/2025/visualizing-all-books-in-isbn-space/

I've been toying a bit with using LLM's for generating solutions for simple spatial analysis tasks (clustering etc.).

Oh boy! 😔 This stuff will *cost lives* as it will inevitably be used in real-world applications in contexts that are not robust to bullshitting.

Not to speak of the countless hours wasted by experienced folks to fix the stuff junior "developers" come up with.

Productivity boost my a**. This will cause maintenance/debugging/cleanup work of unprecedented scale.

#llm #chatgpt

I am toying with the idea to build a (physical) globe 🌍 myself. Preferably using #QGIS and maybe Inkscape for final touches (or other OS tools).

I would like to design the globe as far as possible in QGIS and then use an appropriate projection to output the lobes. Then glue to a sphere using wallpaper glue etc. - I imagine it difficult to get the labels right.

Surprisingly, I can find few resources on how to approach such a project.

Any pointers or own experience?

#gischat #cartography

Great to see the new QGIS map gallery :qgis: 🤩

https://hub.qgis.org/map-gallery/

#QGIS #Maps #GISChat

Die Aufzeichnungen der News-Infographics-Analytics-Maps #NIAM2025 sind online! 16 tolle Vorträge rund um Karten, (Daten-)Journalismus, Daten, Visualisierung:

https://news-infographics-analytics-maps.media/2025.html

Viel Spaß beim Anschauen!

But whatever, let's use LLMs to perform government tasks! 🥳 🤡

Stupidity of #ChatGPT, exhibit #1001: I gave the very first assignment in my JavaScript tutorial for absolute beginners to ChatGPT. The task is to create a simple text-based adventure game using only alert(), prompt() and if-statements.

ChatGPT came up with a nicely looking solution – but the room where you need to use a key to exit cannot be reached from the path where you can acquire the key 🥺 .

So next week, my students who never programmed before will already be smarter than the LLM.

Just a reminder that the names of your bibtex citations get included in the PDF (both as the link anchor name and in the metadata), so if you name a paper `morons_who_copied_us`, reviewers and readers will be able to see that...

Und das ist das #NTTS2025 Poster. Beeswarm Diagramm der Mieten in Deutschland 2022 für Gemeinden im Vergleich zu einer Karte. #datavis Animation unter https://destatis.de/beeswarm

the thing i hate most about tech is that it often doesnt allow solved problems to remain solved.

i want permacomputing stuff. i want a computer like a cast iron pan. needs its care yes but its not much and not often.

About 450 labels in place so far. Mostly just maritime things left to do. I may never tire of seeing #maps with all layers turned off except the labels.

@pinakographos The broken (AN)T-ARC-TI-(CA) label lets me assume this is not the CRS the final map will be shown in?