Adam H. Sparks Apr 10

Someone else feels my pain.

"Rain Radar - When GIS Is Not GIS" https://az.id.au/dev/rain-radar-when-gis-is-not-gis/

#BoM #Australia #WeatherData #NoAPI #NoOpenAccess

@az

Az - Rain Radar - When GIS Is Not GIS

Y'know, everything can be GIS if you've got that grindset. If you're CRS-pilled and not OGC-maxxing. But here I look at how to turn rain radar observations into a handy forecast dashboard and then get on my soapbox about the BoM.

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@adamhsparks @az

Oh my honey drenched Pastafari!

The author's prescient.

On #BOM infrastructure
" ... an excuse to give four times their budget to an external consultancy who’ll do it properly like:

IBM with the 2016 Census,

#Accenture with the Department Of Health And Aged Care’s GPMS,

IBM with Queensland Health’s payroll system,

Deloitte with Defence’s myClearance system,

KPMG with the One Defence Data project,

Deloitte with DWER’s report on automated welfare compliance systems.

"

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