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Hamish Campbell Sep 15, 2024

@zverik @alberto oh hey, nice to see someone trying out Kart. How did the experiment go?

Hamish Campbell Jun 26, 2023

Robert Coup Jun 26, 2023

We're doing an @foss4g #FOSS4G2023 workshop on Kart tomorrow morning https://talks.osgeo.org/foss4g-2023-workshop/talk/Z7TM9N/ Learn how to version your spatial data. (No registration required, just turn up!)

Spatial Data Versioning & Collaboration with Kart FOSS4G 2023 workshops

Kart (https://www.kartproject.org) is a powerful new open-source and cross-platform version control system for geospatial vector and table data. Designed to enable collaboration and cross-vendor workflows, Kart is built on the power of Git. Working copies are common GIS files and spatial databases, so you can edit data directly in GIS software without plugins. The workshop will introduce Kart and walk through installing; creating new repositories by importing open data sets; editing and committing data changes; reviewing history; cloning & pushing datasets; using and understanding different working copy formats. To participate, no experience with Kart, Git or other version control systems is required, but a basic knowledge of GIS concepts and data formats is recommended. A Windows, macOS, or Linux computer that has QGIS installed and can install Kart is required.

Hamish Campbell Jun 25, 2023

Making my way to Kosovo for #FOSS4G. Going to be talking Kart, OSGeo and all things GIS for a solid week. Looking forward to meeting a bunch of new people and seeing what the global conference is like. #FOSS4G2023

Hamish Campbell Jun 19, 2023

Bravo on the long game 😆 @aw

Hamish Campbell Dec 5, 2022

Todays feed cleanser: Kellen Cooks: Dreaming On Hudson. Uses alternative forms of mapping to help high schoolers understand their community better.

"This [map] is messy, places are messy, community is a messy thing to be".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eBofU5Q77M

Kellen Cooks: Dreaming On Hudson

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Hamish Campbell Dec 2, 2022

@dznz those are great points, although if you're attempting to shutter a company it's (a) super expensive and (b) you only get to use that dollar once, in one company. Presumably it would be unethical to sell the productive assets after all.

Ethical investing really means avoiding entire industries and products, and should be self-sustaining. Hopefully it has a supressing effect, but I'm not an economist and I agree its unsatifactory that unethical investors would seem to profit short-term.

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Hamish Campbell Dec 1, 2022

@dznz it's correct that it potentially underprices the asset and an owner can make outsized gains. But it reduces the potential capaital available to the company to invest in research & growth, and it increases the capital available to ethical enterprises to do the same.

Hamish Campbell Nov 25, 2022

Been a while since I've been on a plane, so I'm excited to be heading to Fiji for Pacific GIS&RS / #FOSS4G conference next week. Talking all things open source, mapping and Kart. Also looking forward to meeting other #gis #remotesensing and #osgeo people. Hopefully put some faces to names and share some interesting tech. Should be fun. #gischat #geospatial.

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Hamish Campbell Nov 15, 2022

@dznz I'll take "Cube" quotes for $100, Dan.

Hamish Campbell Nov 10, 2022

timlinux Nov 9, 2022

I have really wonderful news! #QGIS.org is going to fund a full-time document writer to help the really overtaxed documentation team. Please read the rest of this thread for details!