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DuckDB 1.5 arrives with significant updates for #geospatial: GEOMETRY becomes a built-in data type, storage switches to #WKB with shredding for better compression, #CRS awareness is now part of the type system, and more! Here is a rundown of the most relevant new features in #DuckDB 1.5.

Geneva’s #SITG is experimenting with an open community model: thematic #geoinformation circles that anyone can propose, join, and self-organize. Already, participants range from the WHO and France’s national mapping agency to university researchers and private companies.
Done mapping all 25 #barangays of Minalabac, Camarines Sur, #Philippines 🇵🇭 in #OpenStreetMap, creating/updating their #Wikidata items, and linking the two with each other.
Wanna play around? Here is the Overpass Turbo query: https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/2mza
And here is the Wikidata Query Service (#WDQS) query: https://w.wiki/K6ne
Previously: https://en.osm.town/@seav/114750346738105697
🛰️ Geometry- and Physics-Aware Dataset Creation for Shadow Removal in High-Resolution Satellite Imagery https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU26/EGU26-21279.html
🌳 Establishing an Earth observation Super-resolution and Validation Framework for Improved Climate Hazard Assessment and Response in Forestry https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU26/EGU26-21127.html
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RE: https://masto.deoan.org/@neurovagrant/116262215385487973
Location privacy is f-ing hard ...

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