Even Rouault

@EvenRouault
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Open-source geospatial software developer (GDAL, PROJ, QGIS, MapServer, ...).
Creator of https://sozip.org
My opinions reflect the ones of my employer, not necessarily mine.
There's hardly any greater satisfaction in life than being able to do a binary identical round-trip of ISO-8211 encoded file -> XML -> ISO-8211 including fields whose data struct code is concatenated
[gdal-dev] GDAL 3.12.3 is released

will they get the message
Sad reality of open source in 2026: when a new contributor asks if they can contribute and their github profile looks fancy, actively discourage them to avoid loosing your time afterwards
Comprehensive documentation page by Dan Baston at https://gdal.org/en/latest/user/geometry_validity.html about GDAL / GEOS geometry validity rules, and how that relates to the new GDAL CLI commands
Geometry Validity — GDAL documentation

Prediction: AI is actually going to make the "GDAL business model" to grow even more. "ChatGPT, design me a new file format to convey geographic data for [application domain here]"
I love when a NVIDIA employee protests against chardet full AI-driven rewrite causing "unacceptable legal risks" to chardet's users. Aren't they the ones that sell that hardware that make the whole thing possible: https://github.com/chardet/chardet/issues/331 ? A bit like a rifle maker protesting against mass shooting...
v7.0.0 presents unacceptable legal risk to users due to copyright controversy · Issue #331 · chardet/chardet

Hiiiiii. I'm just a random user at a big company. I don't have legal advice, and I don't even have moral advice. I have opinions (that do not represent those of my employer NVIDIA Corporation). Som...

GitHub
I just realized that one of the recent PROJ contributor was actually using LLM. Is it rational that I feel disappointed that it is not his code but coming from a bot (I was so amazed to see someone else than me hacking into the CRS-to-CRS pipeline generator). Maybe it is not rationale, but who said that humans act rationally ? (speaking about rationality, just discovered yesterday https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newcomb%27s_problem which is quite funny)
Newcomb's problem - Wikipedia

I'm officially an old timer. I'd say more than half of contributions to GDAL and PROJ those past weeks have been largely LLM driven.
PROJ is now officially past the point where I can predict its behavior. Someone should rewrite it using LLM, or perhaps directly integrate a LLM inside it to replace all the current heuristics by fuzzier ones.