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Welcome home Reid, Victor, Christina, and Jeremy! 🫶 The Artemis II astronauts have splashed down at 8:07pm ET (0007 UTC April 11), bringing their historic 10-day mission around the Moon to an end.

Microsoft refreshed their 1.4B Global Building footprint and height dataset on the 15th. tech.marksblogg.com/ms-buildings-2…

maps that make you go hmmmm.... with ai

Linux Mint 22.3 “Zena” released! blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4981

Denmark is ready !

More #openaddresses goodness: Ealing Council has released its Council Tax address list as open data owenboswarva.com/blog/post-addr… Ealing is the sixth London borough to unlock its CT list. Thanks @EalingCouncil! I've geocoded the property locations as usual #FOI #UKhousing #opendata

Some legends are destined to be retold. Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis is a reimagining of Lara Croft’s iconic 1996 debut. Coming to PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S in 2026! Wishlist now: playtr.games/wishlistnow

Starlink Mobile (coming out of beta) pcmag.com/news/starlink-… internet data from satellite directly

Vibe-coding went wrong..

@MapMakinMeyers you need Linux Mint.... not windozes :/s (sudo) linuxmint.com/download_all.p… Long term support release (LTS), supported until April 2029.

Too Early Too Many Windows.

Our 9-part Python + AI live series in October covered LLMs, embeddings, RAG, vision models, structured outputs, safety, tool-calling, agents and MCP. Grab the recordings, slides, and code from: blog.pamelafox.org/2025/10/watch-…

Advance Generative AI coming to ESRI products esri.com/about/newsroom… Hallucination geo-data coming soon?

@MapMakinMeyers how much is the new logo? was it ai generated (with no soul)

Just gonna leave this here for y'all

@pokateo_maps @pokateo_ @joshspatial update charging for geoprocessing - if you can figure the estimated costing pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/lat… remember #QGIS can do 95% of the tasks at no cost.

@pokateo_ @joshspatial ESRI love's your 1-billion point clouds (1TB each) on their cloud storage - incoming money whilst it sits there...

❓ #gischat: how do you see the field of GIS changing over the next 5 years?

@MatthewHMalone +benchmarking was playing DOOM on LAN...

👴 I've been in this game a while. #GIS

We are happy to announce the deployment of #VectorTiles on OSM Foundation servers & the publication of the layer on the OSM website. We have been working hard to bring you a fresh look to OSM data, paired with exciting technological upgrades. For details: blog.openstreetmap.org/2025/07/22/vec…

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@MapMakinMeyers They are just sending the smoke back to Canada... context "Smoke from Canadian wildfires is drifting south and making it difficult for Americans to enjoy summer" bbc.com/news/articles/…

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87% there, extended campaign until July 15th 2025.

@steveliles map zappy stuff at apple x.com/leovallet

i know someone who worked at apple, but i never met up with him during the time he was there, so 🤷‍♂️