Nyall Dawson

@nyalld
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QGIS developer, cartographer, and proprietor of North Road Consulting (https://north-road.com)
This person https://github.com/abinayasiva29-web just earned the dubious honor of being the first user completely banned from the qgis repo for repeatedly wasting our time with ai slop. 👍
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Beginner learning open source. abinayasiva29-web has 13 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.

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Once upon a time @EvenRouault spent his valuable time writing world class geo software. Now he's been forced to become a glorified kindergarten teacher, wasting time herding badly behaved slop pushers into line. I can't imagine how demoralising this is, but I know we'll ALL suffer as a result 😭.
So f***ING sick of reading AI written bug reports. It's an instant "ignore" from me 🤮
My morning shower thought: I don't actually know what WGS stands for 🤔
it's one of THOSE days 😭 https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/65113
actually run tests by nyalldawson · Pull Request #65113 · qgis/QGIS

AI tool usage AI tool(s) (Copilot, Claude, or something similar) supported my development of this PR. See our policy about AI tool use. Use of AI tools must be indicated. Failure to be honest mig...

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Have officially entered into the "grumpy old open source maintainer" phase of my life. I held off as long as possible, but too much 💩 from people who should know better made this inevitable 🤮
Seems like ESRI's hold over r/gis is finally weakening: https://www.reddit.com/r/gis/comments/1mq9ue2/how_strong_is_qgis/ 🥳
Chicken coop framing complete! 🥳 Next steps: roof, snake mesh, cladding, web cam, Arduino based water monitor & feed monitor, ....
Thanks triplej, that was the perfect soundtrack to build a chook shed to 💯
Is the Natural Earth dataset effectively dead now? There hasn't been any updates for the last 3 years https://github.com/nvkelso/natural-earth-vector 😭
GitHub - nvkelso/natural-earth-vector: A global, public domain map dataset available at three scales and featuring tightly integrated vector and raster data.

A global, public domain map dataset available at three scales and featuring tightly integrated vector and raster data. - nvkelso/natural-earth-vector

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