Mastodawn

Greetings to the MapServer team, and thank you for all your great work!

We held a #MapServer user meeting at #FOSSGIS2026 in Göttingen today. It was the first MapServer meeting at #FOSSGIS for many years.

It was a pleasure to see so many power users and discuss MapServer features.

We plan to meet again at #FOSSGIS2027. Many thanks to Henning Jensen for taking the initiative. Stay tuned!

https://pretalx.com/fossgis2026/talk/UYAZTD/.
#OSGeo #foss4g @mapserver

Seth G 5d ago

Ian Turton 5d ago

Never underestimate the ability of the open source community to procrastinate upto the second extended deadline.

Maybe I do have time to submit a talk

#foss4geu

https://fosstodon.org/@foss4geurope/116284461025218642

FOSS4G Europe (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image ‼️ Our #FOSS4GE2026 Call for Papers for the General Track of just got extended! We've decided to provide more time for anyone in the community working with Free and Open Source Solutions for Geospatial to submit a paper and showcase their work in Timișoara. Your work can be covering but not limited to software, governance, policies, use cases and applications, data, transitions or education. 📅 New deadline: 28.03.2026 👉 Submit a paper to the General Track: https://talks.osgeo.org/foss4g-europe-2026/cfp

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Seth G 5d ago

MapServer project 5d ago

Includes a security fix to prevent external SLD files being used to crash MapServer - https://github.com/MapServer/MapServer/security/advisories/GHSA-cv4m-mr84-fgjp You can also disable external SLD by adding the following to your Mapfile:

Seth G 5d ago

MapServer project 5d ago

New MapServer 8.6.1 release available now. See https://mapserver.org/development/changelog/changelog-8-6.html#changelog-8-6-1 #mapserver #osgeo

MapServer 8.6 Changelog — MapServer 8.6.1 documentation

Seth G 6d ago

Paulo Mar 22

Just published a tutorial about using GRASS for a viewshed workflow that employs an observer-relevant surface to selectively represent obstructions that effectively block line of sight at pedestrian height. This derived layer is then used to perform a cumulative viewshed analysis. Check it out here: https://ecodiv.earth/post/intervisibility/ #grassgis #osgeo #ahn #viewshed @grassgis

Seth G 6d ago

Daniel P. Huffman Mar 22

Was thinking recently about Stuart Brown's video on the "Chicken-o-meter," and wondering if there are examples of this strategy in #datavis. Where quantitative data are communicated w/ a discrete set of iconic/associative symbols, rather than continuously varying size/color/etc. https://youtu.be/B8HT8aUb5q4?si=3JS_cqH9EvbYXaUs

Seth G Mar 20

GDAL Mar 20

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

[gdal-dev] GDAL 3.12.3 is released

Seth G Mar 20

MapServer project Mar 20

The 2026 MapServer User Survey will be closing at the end of the month, so if you've not had a chance to respond here's the link https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfNLqslbM6IhocnwTst9c29eaD89yD81hdUKW2ctn2uZK0Z3g/viewform #mapserver #osgeo #gischat

2026 MapServer User Survey

The MapServer Project Steering Committee (PSC) would love to get your feedback on MapServer. Your input will help us understand how the project is being used and guide the development of its future roadmap. The survey will be open until the end of March 2026. Providing your name and email is entirely optional. All responses, including names and emails (if provided), will remain confidential. No identifying information will be published, and results will be aggregated and anonymised. Thank you for your valuable time and feedback. To make the survey more effective, please help us by sharing it widely.

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Seth G Mar 17

mundialis GmbH & Co. KG Mar 17

Our Satellite Image of the Month for March shows southern Brazil (Rio Grande do Sul) using SAR data from Sentinel-1A. More details here: https://www.mundialis.de/en/satellite-image-of-the-month-march-rio-grande-do-sul-brazil/

#EO #OSGeo #OpenData

Seth G Mar 15

Mattias Wadman Mar 15

fq 0.17.0 released 🥳 jq languages fixes and some minor decoder fixes and improvements.
https://github.com/wader/fq/releases/tag/v0.17.0
#fq #jq

Release v0.17.0 · wader/fq

Changes fromjson now works more like jq and as one would expect for decode value. fromjson used to be implement as normal format decode which returns decode values which in turn when decoding from...

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