Marcus Blake

Fun making #GISArt today... Distance to your nearest GP from every address in Australia.

@abcnewsradio One of the problems with a the lack of social infrastructure in suburbs is the lack of good data. The Centre for Australian in to Access is trying to combat this. greateraccessforall.com

On the theme of spooky 👻 @levijohnwolf, @rsfrankl and myself have a brand new episode of #theGLaDpodcast🎧🎧🎧This one, no less, on Digital Twins. You love them, you hate them, you can't ignore them... 📢gladpodcast.podbean.com/e/episode-18-t…

Amid Australia’s chaotic climate politics, the rooftop solar boom is an unlikely triumph theguardian.com/environment/co…

Achieving #HealthForAll requires concrete changes in economic policy. My latest article with @DrTedros on the cover of the @TheLancet outlines next steps on how to align health, economic, and environmental priorities at national and international levels. Read it here ➡️ thelancet.com/journals/lance… and more on the underpinning Council @Economy4Health recommendations here ➡️ who.int/publications/i…

An unexpected diversion in this talk; Ian spoke very positively about @WalthamstowAcad which he had recently visited; I'm proud to be a school governor there

Light pollution at night may increase risk of Alzheimer’s, study finds theguardian.com/us-news/articl…

How bad maps win elections - Gerrymandering explained youtu.be/cwBslntC3xg?si… via @YouTube

Did we mention that @FOSS4G_Oceania is happening in Tasmania this year? It's definitely not being held at Boring Creek!

@bogind2 @MapMakinMeyers @lyonwj Yep you can use geopandas.GeoSeries.to_wkt to convert it to a geometry datatype.

@MapMakinMeyers @lyonwj I think that makes it a regular parquet. Does it load as a layer without geometry?

parquet files can be read in qgis *I AM ABOUT TO ASK A SUPER DUMB QUESTION* can geoparquet files be opened in qgis? Currently working with them, and the data wont open. Geometry cant be written? Or something weird on the export? Trying to help someone figure it out

#Postgres dump files, #geoparquet files in AWS S3 & #Docker containers for the August 2024 Geoscape #GNAF & admin boundaries release are up, for both GDA94 & GDA2020: github.com/minus34/gnaf-l… hub.docker.com/r/minus34/gnaf…

Australia has a poverty problem – so why is there no agreed measure of it? | Poverty | The Guardian theguardian.com/australia-news…

Given SEIFA is going on 40 years old, perhaps @ABSStats should look at some more nuanced approaches. For example, the Alkire-Foster (AF) Method. Technical introduction to the AF Method | OPHI ophi.org.uk/research/af-me….

GP shortfall to worsen with regional and remote areas most at risk, report warns theguardian.com/australia-news…

the new PySAL is out today! This release introduces the new Graph class and includes a *ton* of new stuff all across the metapackage github.com/pysal/pysal/re…

Overture Maps launched the Address Theme with over 200M addresses from 14 countries. 🌍 Our goal is to build a single, conflated, global address dataset and we invite our community to provide feedback on the schema. Read our blog for details: hubs.la/Q02H_5hx0

I've been taking a look at the @NUSingapore @fbiljecki Global StreetScapes dataset this morning for my city. Fascinating stuff. 🧵 ual.sg/post/2024/07/1…

Overture Maps Foundation Releases General Availability of its Open Maps Datasets overturemaps.org/overture-maps-… from @OvertureMaps Download process docs.overturemaps.org/getting-data/ + release notes docs.overturemaps.org/release/latest/ (no persistent link) #geospatial #osm #opendata 1/2

The most important geospatial concept? The Modifiable Areal Unit Problem. It can be the difference between reliable and deceptive results. Here’s what you need to know about it:

The most important geospatial concept? Spatial Autocorrelation. It can make the difference between spurious and accurate results. Here’s what you need to know about it: