Daniel Silk

Our aerial imagery archive is now available in bulk from the Registry of Open Data on AWS. Data is collated by region and survey and is cloud-optimised: bit.ly/aws_registry_l…. Run through our tutorials then grab the data #opendata.

The new LDS user interface is now live! data.linz.govt.nz Check out the awesome new features and ways of working with spatial data: 🎉Pin your favourite datasets 🎉Crop data on export 🎉Create multiple mapviews #opendata

@EmmaVitz For what it’s worth, there is *a lot* of LiDAR capture/processing underway: linz.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapSeries…

People really don't understand that a. You can include parts of the country that have low population density and still cover 67% of the buildings. b. I do not personally decide where LINZ surveys for LiDAR, although I sure wish I did.

67% of all of the buildings in New Zealand are in these patches. I just got done extracting the elevation for all of them because data science in NZ is artisanal and you gotta churn your own data butter 🤪

@EmmaVitz I would like to think that you baked a cake. Churning data butter is what happens before the free and open LiDAR and building outlines are even published. I don’t think we (LINZ) should be baking cakes instead of ensuring there is enough butter to go around.

@adamdsteer @RowanWinsemius @stevage1 @cbed32 @o_Whereabouts designed them and teatowelkeepsakes.com.au printed them, came together super well!

What is the best swag item you have ever received? (Conference, company, school etc) #gischat

@alexgleith @FOSS4G_Oceania The power of a clickbaity talk title.

The long tail of recorded conference presentations is pretty powerful. We recorded the Melbourne @FOSS4G_Oceania and published the videos and now @influink's video on PostGIS has 7.5 k views! Even my terrible one has over a thousand! Compare that to about 300 people in person.

@JasusRua @LINZLDS @HuttCityCouncil @OpenTopography Lots on the way: linz.govt.nz/data/linz-data…

@LINZLDS @HuttCityCouncil @OpenTopography Well done but how about some more rural area’s - still some big holes to fill in the national coverage

Hutt City LiDAR! Thanks @HuttCityCouncil. Check out our visualisation showing the extent of this dataset. DEM/DSM available at data.linz.govt.nz/x/gh5wap. Point cloud via @OpenTopography #opendata

Congratulations to @LINZLDS for LINZ Basemaps Winner - Open Source Software Project Kaupapa Pūmanawa Herekore

Over the past few weeks, we’ve published 7 urban (for most it’s their first ever urban capture) and 2 rural imagery datasets across Canterbury and Otago. Thanks @ECan. Available from LDS @ data.linz.govt.nz/x/FSPhok and @ basemaps.linz.govt.nz #OpenData

I just published a post on all the latest happenings with @STACSpec, see cholmes.medium.com/stac-updates-f…. Lots of cool ecosystem updates, and announcing new sponsors of our latest funding initiative! Thanks @Microsoft, @planet, @LINZLDS, @Element84, @DEarthAfrica + @GeoscienceAus...

A rare tweet from me but #SuperSaturday is a huge deal. Get vaccinated tomorrow or, if you already have been, encourage whanau or friends to. Shot Aotearoa.

@nzosa Awesome. Would it be possible to link to the source code on that page too?

Finalists announced! 🏆Congratulations to the finalists for 2021 | Me whakamihi i ngā whiringa toa mō te taua 2021. Can't wait to celebrate all your wonderful open source work in Oct! nzosa.org.nz/finalists/

The first ever #opendata urban imagery for Masterton, Carterton and South Wairarapa is on LDS data.linz.govt.nz/x/vM4eSM. Captured in 2021. Thanks Masterton, Carterton and South Wairarapa district councils. Also @ basemaps.linz.govt.nz (Image: Martinborough Memorial Square)

Feast your eyes on 9263 km2 of new rural 2021 imagery for the Wellington region at 0.3m pixel resolution. This provides updated imagery for the region last published in 2017. Thanks @greaterwgtn you’re looking awesome data.linz.govt.nz/layer/105727 #opendata

Wow. @MapHustle that is brilliant. Get the data @ data.linz.govt.nz #opendata

We're looking for a Senior Developer in the Topo team to work on our #opendata publishing processes. Think creating tools/infrastructure with Python/TypeScript for national-scale aerial imagery and elevation datasets hosted in AWS. #gisjobs careers.linz.govt.nz/jobs/LINZ-1524…

@jhelebrant @LINZLDS It's Riverside Market and a number of other new buildings now. The market is a really nice spot: riverside.nz

@LINZLDS Impressive. I still remember my holiday visit of NZ so checked the data immediately. And found out, that Google maps still show Container Mall, which was closed in 2018 (Wikipedia says) 😜

Feast your eyes on 524 km2 of new urban imagery for Christchurch City at 7.5cm pixel resolution. Available to you now on LDS. This provides updated imagery for many areas published 4 years ago. data.linz.govt.nz/layer/105041 #opendata. Image: Memorial Avenue Gateway Bridge

Great excitement here today with the launch of LINZ's new Basemap service. This is #opendata at its finest. Check out the Aerial Imagery Basemap and get mapping!! bit.ly/31YyIQM

We’re hiring developers! Come work with us on open source geospatial things.

Woah @LINZLDS are looking for *19* developers to start immediately, in what’s IMO probably one of the more interesting govt in-sourcing projects around. jobs.govt.nz/jobs/LINZ-1473…