Dr John A StevensonRE: https://fosstodon.org/@merginmaps/115882726288837536
Woohoo! The case study on how #BritishGeologicalSurvey are using #QGIS and #MerginMaps for our new field data capture system has been published.
@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
@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
tortoise at KillBait3.3 Magnitude Earthquake Felt Across Perthshire Homes
A 3.3 magnitude earthquake was felt widely in Perthshire, UK, originating near Pubil in Glen Lyon at approximately 07:25 on Monday. The British Geological Survey recorded the tremor at a shallow depth of 3 kilometers. Residents in areas including Callander, Tyndrum, Grandtully, Crieff, and Pitlochry... [More info]
@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/
Chris Bond#954 H.G. Dines - The Metalliferous Mining Region of South-West England: Volume 1. Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1988, 3rd impression with amendments.
#HGDines #BritishGeologicalSurvey #HMSO #Mining #Geology #Devon #Cornwall #BookOfTheDay
@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.
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."
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
GitHub - BritishGeologicalSurvey/tactool: TACtool is a desktop GUI tool for targeting and co-ordinating sampling points for microanalysis, using spatially resolved imagery, enabling their import directly into sampling systems such as a laser ablation system. The use of this tool dramatically improves analytical traceability and workflow efficiency in the lab.
TACtool is a desktop GUI tool for targeting and co-ordinating sampling points for microanalysis, using spatially resolved imagery, enabling their import directly into sampling systems such as a las...
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.