Overview of my professional life in 2021. Highlights of living and working in the Open Source Geospatial and OSGeo(.nl |.org )-world in 2021. Organized by "Theme". Like 2020, 2021 was again a "special year" in pandemic terms. How to cope? Like Paul Ramsey writes: I feel like sharing some of my …

I use Ansible already for years to provision server instances and for subsequent CI/CD. A recent example is the Geonovum OGC API Testbed . Here (selective) Docker Containers are automatically deployed on GitHub pushes using Ansible called from within a GitHub Workflows. Now investigating how Terraform could play a …

Overview of my professional life in 2020. Highlights of living and working in the Open Source Geospatial and OSGeo(.nl |.org )-world in 2020. Organized by “Theme”. Yes, 2020 was a “special year” in pandemic and political terms. So much has been written and opinions expressed, that I don’t see a need to add to more …

Overview of my professional life in 2019. Inspired by the concise bullet-point-style of Tom Kralidis’ Cheers to 2018 , on which I based my previous Cheers to 2018. Highlights of living and working in the Open Source Geospatial and OSGeo(.nl |.org )-world in 2019. Organized by “Theme” i.s.o. by month. TL;DR. My 2019 …

Never too late to look back. Inspired by the concise bullet-point-style of Tom Kralidis’ Cheers to 2018 , my personal highlights of living and working in the Open Source Geospatial and OSGeo(.nl|org)-world in 2018. I’ll post 2019 reso’s later. Not just personal projects, but also events from the OSGeo.nl Local Chapter …

One of my new year’s resolutions for 2018 was to “blog more”. Not being very active on the well-known social media: a bit tired of Twitter, never really into Facebook, bit of LinkedIn. OSGeo mailing lists , GitHub and Gitter is where you can find me most (thanks Jody, for reminding!). And I read many blogs, especially …

During June 21-24, 2016 I attended the very first GeoPython Conference in Basel Switzerland . This event was organized by the Institute of Geomatics Engineering of the FHNW – University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland and PyBasel , the local Python User Group Northwestern Switzerland. In …

My blog has been quiet for some time. As many of us I’ve been busy doing projects, all involving Open Source Geo (OSGeo) software. Partly development, writing software, I love it, but also more and more in “what comes next”: deploying and maintaining “the application” with all of its dependencies. For this I have been …

TL;DR: see this GitHub issue for summary (Dutch but the pictures there and Figure 1 tell the story). Somewhere around 1995, building my first website, it was already quite a feat to embed images. Non-aware of image-formats I played with (animated!) GIF and JPEG. Naively image-editing I noticed that my JPEGs became …

As far as Open geo-data is concerned, the Netherlands goes through prosperous times: country-wide datasets for detailed topography (BRT , BGT ), buildings and addresses (BAG ), 0.5m elevation data (AHN2 ) and many more are available for download. Even 3D-versions for several of these datasets are upcoming. These and …