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So recently, I decided to start collecting them, and here is my current collection, ranging from IV to IX, including the Underworld and...

So recently, I decided to start collecting them, and here is my current collection, ranging from IV to IX, including the Underworld and Ultima Online offshoots.

Thought to share for anyone who might appreciate this!

As a kid, I loved poring over atlases, and so when I started to play Ultima (around the time of VII / VIII), I was fascinated by these...

As a kid, I loved poring over atlases, and so when I started to play Ultima (around the time of VII / VIII), I was fascinated by these beautiful cloth maps that came with the box. Amazingly, they matched the game world with a highly accurate level of detail, and I would use them while playing.

It's no surprise I became a geographer and mapmaker later in life 🗺️

⚠️ Nerdy post aheadWhen I was young, one of my favorite PC game series was Ultima by @richardgarriott.bsky.social. I loved the...

⚠️ Nerdy post ahead

When I was young, one of my favorite PC game series was Ultima by
@richardgarriott.bsky.social
. I loved the world-building and philosophical aspects, and I actually learned a lot of English from playing them.

And then there were the maps; both in-game, and these physical copies.

This methodology for social mapping from UCL is a really interesting case study in meeting people where they are in terms of tech they use...

This methodology for social mapping from UCL is a really interesting case study in meeting people where they are in terms of tech they use daily.

Should we be worried about storing potentially sensitive place data on Meta servers, though?

http://tinyurl.com/ucl-kapta

A conversation with @jbryant made me realize how @qgis plays a somewhat underappreciated role in all of our work supporting Indigenous...

A conversation with @jbryant made me realize how @qgis plays a somewhat underappreciated role in all of our work supporting Indigenous communities in participatory mapping. So I'd like to shout out QGIS for being an amazing FOSS tool that we benefit from daily!

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Honored to have spent the week at #COP16 in Cali, Colombia with my co-conspirators, technical collaborators, and good friends from Awana...

Honored to have spent the week at #COP16 in Cali, Colombia with my co-conspirators, technical collaborators, and good friends from Awana Digital. The week before, we established integration between #CoMapeo and #GuardianConnector.

Stoked for this dialogue with great friends and partners at #COP16 in Cali next week!

Stoked for this dialogue with great friends and partners at #COP16 in Cali next week!

Sharing this phenomenal video by #LifeMosaic #ForestPeoplesProgramme on why mapping and monitoring are so important for Indigenous...

Sharing this phenomenal video by #LifeMosaic #ForestPeoplesProgramme on why mapping and monitoring are so important for Indigenous communities #gischat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-bVeQUdkjc

Inspired by Google's move to remove @organicmaps from the Playstore without warning, I finally decided to move my > 3,000 Google Maps...

Inspired by Google's move to remove @organicmaps from the Playstore without warning, I finally decided to move my > 3,000 Google Maps saved places to Organic Maps. To facilitate doing this for others' benefit, I made a quick webpage to convert your Google Maps GeoJSON data to GPX and KMZ files that render well in Organic Maps.

https://rudokemper.github.io/google-maps-places-to-organic-maps/

Waking up in the redwoods 🌲: an early morning at DWeb Camp 2024. #dwebcamp @dweb

Waking up in the redwoods 🌲: an early morning at DWeb Camp 2024. #dwebcamp @dweb

I was really impressed by the long-term (15+ years!) methodologies for territorial management being developed and implemented for this...

I was really impressed by the long-term (15+ years!) methodologies for territorial management being developed and implemented for this critically important region in the northern Brazilian Amazon, and the inspiring leadership of the caciques and the Indigenous organization APITIKATXI. I left invigorated with new ideas to improve our ecosystem of tools, to better serve the mission here and elsewhere.

Honored to have spent a week in Missão Tiriyó, Parque Indígena Tumucumaque (Brazil) via Conservation Metrics together with our allies...

Honored to have spent a week in Missão Tiriyó, Parque Indígena Tumucumaque (Brazil) via Conservation Metrics together with our allies from Iepé and Digital Democracy to contribute to a 3-week workshop on territorial management for a group of ~60 dedicated young Tiriyó and Kaxuyana leaders from villages across the Rio Paru d'Este. During this first week out of three, we covered a number of digital tools for mapping, monitoring, documenting cultural heritage, and data management.

A few photos from the past week in #Suriname, where our team got the opportunity to learn from and support the #Wayana Indigenous community...

A few photos from the past week in #Suriname, where our team got the opportunity to learn from and support the #Wayana Indigenous community on their biocultural indicators for wellbeing, and building a digital platform where they control all of their data.

Sharing a few impressions from a recent visit to the beautiful island of #Malaita in the Solomons, to work with our partners Mai Maasina to...

Sharing a few impressions from a recent visit to the beautiful island of #Malaita in the Solomons, to work with our partners Mai Maasina to support the 'Are'are community on mapping and monitoring, and discuss an Indigenous data sovereignty protocol for the Malaita communities.

Quick #Terrastories update: in addition to the Explore interface, the main application now also uses @protomaps as a default basemap for...

Quick #Terrastories update: in addition to the Explore interface, the main application now also uses @protomaps as a default basemap for online, and PMTiles for offline.

You can still use a Mapbox map if you want to, and offline we will ship Tileserver-GL for backwards compatibility with MBTiles for some time.

I was advised that we could benefit from adding some hashtags! #️⃣🍲 #hiring #Python #FastAPI #DevOps #Docker #GCP #Azure #Celery...

I was advised that we could benefit from adding some hashtags! #️⃣🍲

#hiring #Python #FastAPI #DevOps #Docker #GCP #Azure #Celery #remotejobs #remotework

I am delighted to share that we are hiring a Platform Software Engineer for the biocultural monitoring program at Conservation Metrics!...

I am delighted to share that we are hiring a Platform Software Engineer for the biocultural monitoring program at Conservation Metrics!

Please help me by sharing this job posting widely in your networks 📢

Link: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/3798639896/

I was reminded by a forum post that I recently put together this proof-of-concept of Stellarstories, an experimental idea to extend...

I was reminded by a forum post that I recently put together this proof-of-concept of Stellarstories, an experimental idea to extend Terrastories to storytelling about the cosmos. It's just a basic demo of what it could look like, using the highly customizable d3-celestial library.

Link: https://stellarstories-7ac5cce9eed2.herokuapp.com/

I've been admiring the Field Mapping Tasking Manager being built by HOTOSM. While this tool is oriented to OSM mapping workflows,...

I've been admiring the Field Mapping Tasking Manager being built by HOTOSM.

While this tool is oriented to OSM mapping workflows, it's self-hostable, and the overall functionality (and specific components like the modal to generate offline tiles) can be useful for many of us.

https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/spwoodcock/diary/402887?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social-media-usage&utm_content=ap_khl0gunamp

Really thought-provoking interview from Jen Castro at Digital Democracy.Because of this aspect of permanent digital data, it’s our job to...

Really thought-provoking interview from Jen Castro at Digital Democracy.

Because of this aspect of permanent digital data, it’s our job to consistently ask questions like: "What happens in the future? Where does it go? How do you want it to behave? 20 years from now, 100 years from now? We don’t want this information to become a weapon against you."

https://cchange.xyz/jen-castro/