New research powered by WorldPop open data reveals 63M women across 34 African countries will miss all essential maternal care by 2025.

Using 1km² geospatial modelling and building footprint data, the VeriXiv preprint exposes stark inequalities - from 5% in #Malawi to 74% in #Chad - and highlights a largely invisible priority population.

Learn more: https://www.worldpop.org/blog/researchers-reveal-63-million-women-at-risk-of-zero-maternal-health-services/

#GeospatialData #MaternalHealth #GlobalHealth #HealthEquity #OpenData

Strait of Hormuz crisis drives demand for commercial geospatial intelligence

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://spacenews.com/strait-of-hormuz-crisis-drives-demand-for-commercial-geospatial-intelligence/

Excited to share that Octavian Iercan, CEO of Quarticle, will be attending ITC London on Jan 26–27.

Connect with him or visit our booth to see how Quarticle is transforming insurance with geospatial intelligence.

#InsurTech #ITCLondon2026 #GeoIntelligence #LocationIntelligence #GeospatialData

Hello #Fediverse! Time for a proper #Introduction.

I’m a hobbyist developer and engineer (outside the tech industry) who loves building tools for education and personal use. I’m currently focused on:

🐍 #Python & #Django – Working through a 30-day library challenge right now!

💻 #Linux – Running #Fedora on my System76 laptop.

🏠 #HomeLab – Managing an #OpenMediaVault setup on a Ugreen DXP2800, plus lots of #Docker and #Portainer tinkering.

🗺️ #Geospatial – Exploring data science projects.

Current Projects:

DITS: A custom issue tracker application.

Devnexus: A lite weight TUI issue and pull request application

mgl_website: My MickGeekLabs.org website and blog

Byte_Board_Blog: My personal blog project.

Pushing code to my local #Gitea (MickGeekLabs) and GitHub.

When I’m not debugging, I’m likely hanging out with my 16-year-old ginger tabby cat. 🐈

Looking forward to connecting with the #SelfHosted, #Python, and #Dev community here!

#Introduction #NewHere #Tech #HomeServer #FedoraLinux #DjangoDev #GeospatialData

Wow. New #buildings height dataset based on Planetscope data #geospatialdata #opendata
"We introduce GlobalBuildingAtlas, a publicly available dataset providing global and complete coverage of building polygons, heights and Level of Detail 1 (LoD1) 3D building models. This is the first open dataset to offer high quality, consistent, and complete building data in 2D and 3D form at the individual building level on a global scale." https://mediatum.ub.tum.de/1782307

BUT Look in comments for caveats

LAC Hub - HOT had a good year, including our collaboration in Oaxaca and Toluca, Mexico

mstdn @mapeoabierto_la
bsky @hotosm.org
xitter @MapHubLAC @CodeandoMexico

#informaltransport #populartransport #Americas #NorthAmerica #Mexico #Oaxaca #Toluca #SalinaCruz #mapping #GIS #GeospatialData #OpenStreetMap #HOTOSM #publictransit #TrufiAssociation

Urban - or rural? The answer matters more than you may think. 🏙️🌾
Countries are learning to map it better than ever.
🚀📊 Our DEGURBA training is building skills that power smarter policies - now and for the future.

Read more: https://www.worldpop.org/blog/skills-for-smarter-planning-how-degurba-capacity-building-is-empowering-countries/

#LMICs #DEGURBA #CapacityBuilding #GeospatialData #Urbanisation #DataForDevelopment #SDGs #NationalStatistics #Cameroon #Zambia

🌍 Malawi’s first automated census-mapping workshop is complete!

🛠️ Geospatial tools are transforming how the 2028 census is planned.

🔗 Read more: https://www.worldpop.org/blog/first-automated-census-mapping-workshop-in-malawi-a-success/

#Malawi #DataForDevelopment #Census2028 #GeospatialData

Data powers resilience. 🌍

WorldPop joined CARICOM’s 50th stats meeting in Curaçao to advance people-centred, climate-ready data.

Read more: https://www.worldpop.org/blog/worldpop-strengthens-regional-partnerships-at-caricoms-50th-statistics-meeting-in-curacao/

#DataForDevelopment #ClimateResilience #GeospatialData