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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.
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
GDALGDAL 3.12.3 is released: https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/gdal-dev/2026-March/061446.html
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
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...
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)
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.