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@ultrazool @geospacedman @concretedog @ianturton On driving innovation, an opensource licence (especially GPL) and varied consultancies really help this. The @pwramsey quote
"You get what you pay for [with open source], everyone gets what you pay for, and you get what everyone pays for.”
explains it well. #BritishGeologicalSurvey paid @northroadgeo for features in their SLYR plugin and @lutraconsulting for #MerginMaps work. We needed the tools, but everyone can use it. 3/n
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@ultrazool @geospacedman @concretedog @ianturton On driving innovation, an opensource licence (especially GPL) and varied consultancies really help this. The @pwramsey quote
"You get what you pay for [with open source], everyone gets what you pay for, and you get what everyone pays for.”
explains it well. #BritishGeologicalSurvey paid @northroadgeo for features in their SLYR plugin and @lutraconsulting for #MerginMaps work. We needed the tools, but everyone can use it. 3/n
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@ultrazool @geospacedman @concretedog @ianturton Control and portability are my main arguments for #opensource in #gis.
#BritishGeologicalSurvey swapped from ESRI to #QGIS for field data capture last year. With in-house developers, we could write a Python plugin to do exactly what we want and the licence allows us to share with whomever we want. ArcGIS Field Maps were too simplistic and locked-in. #ResearchSoftwareEngineer movement means Universities increasingly have developers, too. 1/n
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> "An advanced city is not one where even the poor use cars, but rather one where even the rich use public transport."
I thought about this quote a lot in Harare. The cars are in charge here and many roads don't even have pavements. 4x4s abound because roads outside town are unpaved.
Public transport are brightly-decorated but bashed up combi-vans (like Kenyan matatus). Work policy was that we shouldn't use them, which meant I felt stranded in our suburban lodge.
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The Finisher is a documentary about ultra-runner Jasmin Paris completing the Barkley Marathons last year. It's inspirational and mind-blowing that someone can push themselves so hard.
Resharing now as was discussing Sarah Cox's Children in Need challenge with a neighbour on the school run and looked up the link for them. Jasmin Paris lives nearby, in #Midlothian.
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Here are some views of downtown #Harare. There are tall, often glass-clad, buildings and wide roads laid out in a US-style grid. It's not a place to walk between cafes.
The centre is Africa Unity Square, but there are no pictures as we were told you can be arrested for taking photos there. It has been a site of anti-government protest.
The tallest, glassiest building is the Reserve Bank.
The National Art Gallery has many sculptures in the style of the local Shona people.
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Kuimba Shiri was also a good spot to watch the sunset. The day we visited, a wedding party of 50+ were there. They took a boat ride out onto the lake and as the sun dipped over the horizon, the sound of their singing carried across the water.
I was tempted to remove the plastic bag for the photo, but then this is reality. There are problems with pollution in Lake Chivero, which is a reservoir dammed in the 1950s and an important source of drinking water for #Harare.
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After the lions, we went to Kuimba Shiri Bird Park. This is also just outside #Harare, on the north shore of Lake Chivero. There is an open air restaurant where ostriches and ponies roam around the tables, as well as an aviary with many bird species.
The falconry display is great. The highlight was a secretary bird that repeatedly stamped on the head of a rubber snake. This is how they hunt. They have long bony legs to minimise harm from bites.
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Another example of #rubberducking in the wild. This is from "Arctic Chill" by Arnaldur Indriðason. Erlendur, a detective, is visiting his terminally ill old boss and mentor in hospital.
> Erlendur began to report the progress of the investigation. Marion listened with eyes closed again. Erlendur did not know whether his old boss was asleep. [...] Erlendur took his time. It helped him, too, to go through the case slowly.
In this case, Marion does give a clue with his last words.
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@scottishlass The ##BritishGeologicalSurvey are expecting more seismic activity from the #Oasis gigs this weekend/ next week. Their 2009 concert was the most powerful Murrayfield concert that they have measured so far.
https://www.bgs.ac.uk/news/oasis-revealed-as-scottish-capitals-most-seismic-concert/
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@Kurt I've done that now. Deleted/disabled all the Samsung and Google (I didn't know about adb uninstall). Installed #trackercontrol to block what I couldn't remove (h/t @mdione). Added F-Droid (Aurora store is also new to me) for VLC, GCompris, OSMAnd. I got APKs for Scratch, Scratch Jr and Audible (with Internet blocked except for when adding books).
Performance seems fine. I'd have liked the purity of LineageOS but this will do.
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@robintw GeoPackages!
+ They can hold vector and raster data.
+ They are fully functioning SQLite databases.
+ They can include style information.
+ They can be emailed / SCP'd around the world.
+ You can synchronise and combine data from multiple users with @merginmaps.
+ It's an OGC standard so they work with ESRI tooling as well.As that last point suggests, geopackages aren't exclusive to QGIS, but QGIS gives the tools to make the most of them.
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The Mukuvisi Woodlands are practically within #Harare. It's a large park with free-roaming game, including zebras, giraffes and elands. You can hike or bike along trails through the woods, and although you are nominally in with the animals, we only so the ones at the watering hole.
The crocodiles are enclosed - not roaming free.
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We had time for some tourism, too. One day we hiked up the hill Ngomokurira, which is about an hour's drive north of #Harare. Unlike the granite that I'm used to, this was untouched by glaciation and was almost free of cracks.
The surrounding countryside was dotted with houses and we could hear distant music and animals and drums. We met 20+ runners from Harare out on an 18 km run.
There are paintings in a cave near the summit. They are likely to be over 2,000 years old. #Zimbabwe
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Smartphones are ubiquitous, just as at home.
Some cellphone towers in #Harare are disguised as trees!
#WhatsApp is used everywhere: parking, taxis, restaurants, hotels. It's very convenient, although a shame that #Meta are harvesting everyone's metadata and could start pumping ads in at anytime. It would be better of it was on #signal.
I got a pay-as-go SIM with a neat interface for topping up based on dialing numbers with special codes. It was efficient I've not seen this at home.
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@zl2tod I don't know. The seisimology and volcanology groups at the #BritishGeologicalSurvey are both following the earthquakes, but I haven't spoken to anyone from either of them recently.
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Study by the #BritishGeologicalSurvey of #Santorini #earthquakes uses machine learning techniques to detect smaller earthquakes.
"These algorithms allowed researchers to first note increased seismic activity across the Santorini region on 26 January 2025. In comparison, standard detection schemes did not register the same increase until 31 January and only picked up around 2000 seismic events in the Santorini area; ten times less than the new approach has detected."
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Here's the YouTube playlist with all the available talks from the 2024 Society of Research Software Engineering Conference.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL27mQJy8eDHkMVbt_ecskGUUl-tEqO3JS
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Here's the YouTube playlist with all the available talks from the 2024 Society of Research Software Engineering Conference.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL27mQJy8eDHkMVbt_ecskGUUl-tEqO3JS
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Here's the YouTube playlist with all the available talks from the 2024 Society of Research Software Engineering Conference.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL27mQJy8eDHkMVbt_ecskGUUl-tEqO3JS
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Here's the YouTube playlist with all the available talks from the 2024 Society of Research Software Engineering Conference.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL27mQJy8eDHkMVbt_ecskGUUl-tEqO3JS
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Here's the YouTube playlist with all the available talks from the 2024 Society of Research Software Engineering Conference.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL27mQJy8eDHkMVbt_ecskGUUl-tEqO3JS
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SQLite for Everyone!
My talk from the 2024 Research Software Engineering conference is up on YouTube.
It's a 25-minute intro to the benefits relational databases and #SQL. The target audience is "past me", from when I was working with data as a research scientist and learning #python.
It includes a tour of useful tools including #sqlitebrowser, @qgis, @datasette and #etlhelper.
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SQLite for Everyone!
My talk from the 2024 Research Software Engineering conference is up on YouTube.
It's a 25-minute intro to the benefits relational databases and #SQL. The target audience is "past me", from when I was working with data as a research scientist and learning #python.
It includes a tour of useful tools including #sqlitebrowser, @qgis, @datasette and #etlhelper.
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SQLite for Everyone!
My talk from the 2024 Research Software Engineering conference is up on YouTube.
It's a 25-minute intro to the benefits relational databases and #SQL. The target audience is "past me", from when I was working with data as a research scientist and learning #python.
It includes a tour of useful tools including #sqlitebrowser, @qgis, @datasette and #etlhelper.
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SQLite for Everyone!
My talk from the 2024 Research Software Engineering conference is up on YouTube.
It's a 25-minute intro to the benefits relational databases and #SQL. The target audience is "past me", from when I was working with data as a research scientist and learning #python.
It includes a tour of useful tools including #sqlitebrowser, @qgis, @datasette and #etlhelper.
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SQLite for Everyone!
My talk from the 2024 Research Software Engineering conference is up on YouTube.
It's a 25-minute intro to the benefits relational databases and #SQL. The target audience is "past me", from when I was working with data as a research scientist and learning #python.
It includes a tour of useful tools including #sqlitebrowser, @qgis, @datasette and #etlhelper.
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We got our first external contribution to our TACtool software!
TACtool is a desktop GUI tool for planning micro-analysis (e.g. via microprobe or LA-ICP-MS). Users mark the target points, then TACTool produces a CSV of their coordinates to load into the machine.
https://github.com/BritishGeologicalSurvey/tactool
The merge request adds a user guide to loading the CSV into ESI laser control software.
#tactool #britishgeologicalsurvey #opensource #mineralogy #laicpms #microprobe #sem #geology
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The #britishgeologicalsurvey is a public sector organisation that provides geoscience data and expertise. It also undertakes significant research, so the data science job advertised above is technically a Research Software Engineering position, even if it isn't advertised as such.