Tim Foster

@fozy
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Cyclist, Mapper, Ecologist, Geekster. He has thoughts, they are his own. 🇺🇦

🚨 #GNOME 50 will be released on March 18!

😍 Star or/and boost this post if you're excited! With 5 more days to go we just asked our developers to drop their final GNOME 50 release of their projects.

#Linux #Opensource

Best of Blender Artists: 2026-11

Every week, hundreds of artists share their work on the Blender Artists forum. I'm putting some of the best work in the spotlight in a weekly post here on BlenderNation.

https://www.blendernation.com/2026/03/13/best-of-blender-artists-2026-11/?mtm_campaign=social&mtm_kwd=mastodon

#blender #blender3d #b3d

Waterfall ‘recycling’ at Neist on the Isle of Skye today. The strong westerly wind blowing the falling water back onto the cliffs #IsleOfSkye #Scotland

Relief map of Ben Cruachan and Loch Awe

Labelled peaks (and two rail stations by the loch side)

Using OS Open ZoomStack data crown copyright and database rights

#blender #qgis

Following the death of David Harding, town artist during the construction of #Glenrothes , retrieving this 2023 news story on the subsequent travails of the public art there.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-64346303

#ScottishArt

New town's artist upset after council loses his work in Glenrothes

David Harding said Fife Council had a "cavalier attitude" to his work from the 60's and 70s.

BBC News

Here’s a little something I put together this week: Pinhead Map Icons. I was tired of digging through a bunch of different sources to find good cartographic icons, so I compiled all the public domain sources I could find into one unified set. You’ll see familiar faces from the likes of iD, OSM Carto, and National Park Service maps, plus some newcomers. Let me know what you think!

https://pinhead.ink/

Pinhead Map Icons

Quality public domain icons for your map pins

Animation along the length of the Rheilffordd yr Wyddfa, Snowdon Mountain Railway

Narrow gauge railway up Yr Wyddfa, or Snowdon, the highest peak in Wales

Mixture of OS Open ZoomStack, crown copyright and database rights, and data copyright #OpenStreetMap contributors

Got a 5m raster by making a TIN of the contour vertices

#blender #b3d #QGIS

#BBC Hodgkinson smashes own indoor record and sets sights on world best https://w.st/UkdtA
Keely Hodgkinson aims for 800m world record after national best

Keely Hodgkinson says she is aiming for a new world record after breaking the British 800m mark at the UK Athletics Indoor Championships in Birmingham.

BBC Sport