mastodon 4.7.3Geographer & technologist working on digital tools for participatory mapping and data sovereignty.
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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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. 🧵
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/
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?
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
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?
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!
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 🙂
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/
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