Matt Travis
mtravis.bsky.social
Matt Travis
@mtravis.bsky.social
Geo and open data enthusiast. Part-time cyclist; fair weather surfer. Thoughts are definitely my own.
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The Call for Talks & Workshops for #FOSS4GUK is now closed ✋

We have received many great proposals - thank you everyone.

We aim to provide you with an individual response as soon as possible, so everyone who is presenting can purchase an early bird ticket. 🐦🎟️

uk.osgeo.org/foss4guk2025...
July 21, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Register your place for @uk.osgeo.org FOSS4G UK event in Leeds on the 1-2 October 2025!

Call for speakers is OPEN so there is still time to submit your proposal

Read more🔗https://bit.ly/3SWe9PI
June 17, 2025 at 9:15 AM
We now have a logo! Tickets to coming soon. #foss4guk #osgeo #leeds
Congratulations to Subhasis Chakraborty for creating the #FOSS4G:UK 2025 logo. We are looking forward to meet you in October. 👏 @uk.osgeo.org
Did you know? Owls are linked to the coat of arms of the Savile family, who were gifted land in Yorkshire [including Leeds] by William the Conqueror. 🦉📜
May 16, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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Is anyone up to test my geoparquet downloader qgis plugin? We want to change the directory in the latest release, which means migrating users from the old plugin to the 'new' one. If you could try out github.com/user-attachm... and let me know how it works I'd appreciate it.
github.com
March 2, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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Nobody needs an excuse to go to Leeds, but with FOSS4G-UK coming, it's a no-brainer... uk.osgeo.org
OSGeo: UK
uk.osgeo.org
February 12, 2025 at 4:28 PM
It's been great to see this open source project develop over the years. Bravo @jameslmilner.bsky.social
After 2.5+ years, Terra Draw v1 is finally released 😌
✏️ Draw on web maps with the 10 built in modes (Point, Line, Polygon, Rectangle etc!)
🗺️ Supports Leaflet, @maplibre.org, @openlayers.org, Google Maps, Mapbox

Check it out: github.com/JamesLMilner... #geojson #maplibre #leafletjs #openlayers
January 14, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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January 10, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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This really works!! 😲 From Corvus on Mastodon:

"In case you weren't aware, you can just type 'bored' in the coordinates panel of QGIS and get a tile puzzle of whatever you have on your map canvas."

#GIS #QGIS
December 28, 2024 at 8:00 PM
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Promising initial results with the GeoParquet Downloader QGIS plug-in by @opencholmes.bsky.social. Many traditional GIS workflows can benefit from seamless desktop access to cloud-native data stores. This is GOOG/MSFT/OSM buildings from Source Cooperative in Leonardtown, MD.
December 9, 2024 at 6:25 PM
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My Overture/Source Coop/Cloud downloader QGIS plug-in is live! It lets you download a GeoParquet or GeoPackage for just your view port from hosted GeoParquet files.

Check it out at plugins.qgis.org/plugins/qgis... and install it by searching for 'GeoParquet Downloader' in the QGIS plugin manager.
December 5, 2024 at 12:35 AM
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Got this working with my (still unannounced except for here) QGIS plugin. Not as fast as Overture since the files themselves aren't spatially partitioned (yet), but a big improvement from the previous release, as it's GeoParquet and works! Cool to see it on Hugging Face.
December 4, 2024 at 4:31 AM
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🚋🇭🇺The newest tram in Hungary's capital has been unveiled: a full-size rail vehicle made of 1.8 million colourful LEGO blocks, the first of its kind in the world.
Video. Take a look at Budapest’s new tram made of 1.8 million LEGO bricks
Video. The newest tram in Hungary's capital has been unveiled: a full-size rail vehicle made of 1.8 million colourful LEGO blocks, the first of its kind in the world.
www.euronews.com
November 26, 2024 at 8:15 AM
This week #foursquare released their POI data to the world. All 100 million records! Great blog post from @marklit.bsky.social on how to query and export the data using #fused #duckdb and #h3
tech.marksblogg.com/foursquare-o...
Foursquare's 104M Points of Interest
Benchmarks & Tips for Big Data, Hadoop, AWS, Google Cloud, PostgreSQL, Spark, Python & More...
tech.marksblogg.com
November 24, 2024 at 11:48 AM
@lindastevens.bsky.social Hey Linda, would you mind adding me to the CNG starter pack. Trying to grow my network and reconnect here. Thanks!
November 23, 2024 at 8:45 AM