Paul Shapley's Open Source Geospatial Blog

 https://cesium.com/blog/2023/11/07/qgis-now-supports-3d-tiles/

Introducing the 'Murena 2' https://murena.com/shop/smartphones/murena-2/?wcpbc-manual-country=GB And in case your wondering...Yes I do use a Murena based Samsung Galaxy as my daily driver!

 All Grass GIS users worldwide will benefit funding to this group of people. https://grass.osgeo.org/news/2023_09_06_nsf_grant_awarded/

Going to be presenting at FOSS4G on Thursday in Swansea at the University of Wales Trinity St David and realised this institute was originally called 'West Glamorgan Institute of Higher Education (Wiggy) as we called it then back in the 80s where I was a student in Graphic Design.  On reflection... I wondered what happened to some of those lecturer's and in particular Bart O'Farrell. In homage to this great welsh artist and character I'm posting the only interview I can find of his career while it remains online. https://cornishbirdblog.com/bart-ofarrell-wizard-on-the-lizard-full-unedited-interview/

$  sudo apt install libboost- all -dev libqt 5 charts 5 -dev libxerces-c-dev libncurses-dev cmake-curses-gui libqt 5 opengl 5 -dev pybind 11 -dev $ git clone --recursive https://github.com/pcraster/pcraster.git $ cd pcraster && mkdir build && cd build $ cmake -G "Unix Makefiles" -D CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DPCRASTER_BUILD_TEST= OFF .. $ make -j 4 $ sudo make install $ echo "export PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:/usr/local/python" >> ~/.bash_profile $ sudo reboot https://jvdkwast.github.io/qgis-processing-pcraster/

Don't believe everything a map appears to show.  The Colour, the size and position of labels and the scale hierarchy of information can all be used to deceive you. https://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/exploration-survival/how-maps-lie/

  https://space.cloud68.co/s/rAMZAiqPjfw5afJ

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/foss4g-uk-local-2023-tickets-663598610307

  https://www.directionsmag.com/webinar/12432

Install QGIS-SERVER-3.22   (assuming 'qgis' and 'qgis-plugin-grass' already on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS) (if not) :~$ sudo apt install qgis qgis-plugin-grass (then) :~$ sudo apt install qgis-server [sudo] password for paul: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done qgis-server is already the newest version (3.22.16+dfsg-1~jammy3). 0 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 0 to remove and 19 not to upgrade. Check the version installed: :~$ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/qgis_mapserv.fcgi --version QGIS 3.22.16-Białowieża 'Białowieża' (exported) QGIS code branchRelease 3.22 Qt version 5.15.3 Python version 3.10.6 GDAL/OGR version 3.6.2 PROJ version 9.1.1 EPSG Registry database version v10.076 (2022-08-31) GEOS version 3.11.1-CAPI-1.17.1 SQLite version 3.37.2 OS Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS Now Install Apache2 :~$ sudo apt install apache2 [sudo] password for paul:  Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state informati

  https://uc2023.qgis.nl/schedule/

 https://r-universe.dev/search/

https://geocompr.robinlovelace.net/adv-map.html#animated-maps 

 Another interesting QGIS Server Client from Italy to follow Lizmap, QWC2 & Gisquick. Looking forward to more. Introduced last year. https://g3wsuite.it/en/g3w-suite-publish-qgis-projects/

The humble 'shapefile' is still in use and is still one of the most popular formats for data exchange since the 1990's but the world has moved on and it's time to kill it off. Here is the good and bad of 'shapefiles'. Thanks to  Jachym Cepicky http://switchfromshapefile.org/