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The OpenStreetMap Foundation Board has submitted a comment on the OGC's proposal to make the Overture Map Foundation's Global Entity Reference System (GERS) a standard.
https://github.com/opengeospatial/requests/issues/3#issuecomment-3988672794
#OpenStreetMap #gischat #Overture #OGC #GERS
The current administration is legitimately evil. There’s no other way to describe it.
“500 metric tons of high-energy food, intended for child refugees in Afghanistan and Pakistan under the age of five, were incinerated, as were ten million dollars of contraceptives at a cost of $167,000.”
🔔 Quick reminder!
The Call for Contributions for the UseR! 2026 conference in Warsaw 🇵🇱 is still open.
Don't wait until the last minute—submit your proposal and share your knowledge!
Details and submission form is available here:
👉 https://user2026.r-project.org/call/
#rstats #useR2021 #RStatsES #RStatsFR #useR2026 #DataScience #Warsaw #OpenCall
What an exhilarating day! #52NThinkTank
Many thanks to Krzysztof Janowicz, Carsten Keßler, Serkan Girgin, Michael Gould, Antonio Krüger, @edzer and Christian Elfers for their time, and of course their critical questions, brilliant insights, intriguing scenarios and ongoing support!
Lots of food for thought.
The R Foundation is happy to be a partner on the project
"Enabling the next generation of R contributors"
awarded a large grant (£500k) under the Research Software Maintenance Fund run by the UK's Software Sustainability Institute.
Announcement: https://www.software.ac.uk/ssi-awards-funding-13-critical-projects-through-research-software-maintenance-fund-round-1
Congratulations to the project team!
We are pleased to announce that the Research Software Maintenance Fund (RSMF) has funded 13 projects to advance the sustainability and impact of research software. Through this initiative, the SSI, with funding from UKRI, helps sustain key research software so that critical tools remain reliable, accessible, and ready for future discovery. Richard Gunn, UKRI Digital Research Infrastructure Programme Director, commented:
High-performance tools for transport modeling - network processing, route enumeration, and traffic assignment in R. The package implements the Path-Sized Logit model for traffic assignment - Ben-Akiva and Bierlaire (1999) <doi:10.1007/978-1-4615-5203-1_2> - an efficient route enumeration algorithm, and provides powerful utility functions for (multimodal) network generation, consolidation/contraction, and/or simplification. The user is expected to provide a transport network (either a graph or collection of linestrings) and an origin-destination (OD) matrix of trade/traffic flows. Maintained by transport consultants at CPCS (cpcs.ca).
A recent #JOSIS publication by Pebesma et al. highlights common challenges and opportunities across #RStats, #Python, and #Julia in spatial #datascience. The paper makes interesting recommendations for fostering cross-language collaboration and advancing geospatial tooling for researchers, developers, and educators.
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