Robin Wilson

At #foss4guk today I announced our release of cloud-native version of the UK LiDAR-derived DEM data from the Environment Agency: 1m resolution DTM and DSM data that you can easily download, mosaic, query etc! Data available at source.coop/rebalance-ea..., and slides at rtwilson.com/downloads/Ro...

Enjoying #foss4guk already - my colleague Gabi has already done her presentation, on locating UK commercial addresses. I'm going to talk tomorrow on cloud native UK DEMs and my colleague Olivia on MCP servers for geospatial data. #gis

I created a cool web app using Ordnance Survey data - British Placename Mapper (placenames.rtwilson.com). It allows you to search for place names that match various criteria (starts with 'great', ends with 'burgh' etc) and plot them on an interactive map. #gis #geospatial #mapping

Just finished my slides for #foss4guk 2026 in Leeds in 10 days time. I was starting to run out of time, as work has been very busy recently, but I'm pleased with how they've turned out. I even managed to keep to time in my first practice - which is unusual! Looking forward to seeing everyone soon!

If you attended the lace making workshop at #emfcamp and would like some help, support or follow-up then my wife Olivia is running a Zoom help session at 8pm UK time on Sat 1st August. Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Our talk and workshop line-up is live! Please favourite things to help our scheduling robot make sensible decisions. www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2026 Keep an eye on the list - Family Workshops, Music, and installations will be announced in the coming weeks.

[deep sigh] After being let down again, I call upon the powers of the network: Does anybody have an inflatable planetarium they would be willing to bring (or lend) to @emfcamp.bsky.social?

In case you missed it FOSS4G UK 2026 is happening this year in Leeds! The conference will take place on 12th and 13th of October. We are actively looking for sponsors to take part, please contact osgeouk@gmail.com uk.osgeo.org/foss4guk2026/

FOSS4G UK is always a great conference - I'm already thinking about what talk I could submit...

For the upcoming 'London "Geo" Meetup #2', we have our 2nd speaker Gabriella Edghill, from Rebalance Earth presenting on "UK Power at Risk: Using open-source to assess power loss risk from flooding" RSVP and more details here: lgm.jsonsingh.com #OSM #OSGeo #Geospatial #Opensource #London #meetup

I'm looking forward to PyData Southampton next week - talks on Azure AI Foundry, astronomical image alignment and AI for sign language. Sign up at www.meetup.com/pydata-south... and come along at 7pm Tues 17th at Carnival's HQ, Southampton @pydatasoton.bsky.social #pydata #python #ml #ai

This article is in the paper copy of the FT today, which is nice :) Quite chuffed that my little data analysis project has ended up in a national newspaper. And I think it's an important topic too. #uk #health #pharmacy #data #datanalysis

Did you know that the number of pharmacies in England open after 9pm has decreased by 95% in just three years? I did some data analysis on this, inspired by needing an out of hours pharmacy over Christmas, and it has been featured in the Financial Times today: as.ft.com/r/4333cab1-6...

2025 GDAL User Survey is now active for the entire month of December! Visit gdal.org/survey/ & tell the project how you use it, where you get help, what it should do in the future, & how/if it should use LLMs going forward. (optionally) give us your email, we'll even enter you to win a GDAL t-shirt!

We have now uploaded all the recorded sessions from #FOSS4GUK 2025 in Leeds. 📹🦉 We would now invite everyone else to our youtube channel if you would like to catch up on the 35 recorded session. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCKv...

Very proud of my former student (now colleague!), Gabi, who just gave her first conference presentation at #foss4guk in Leeds. #geospatial #gis #osgeo #postgis

The new 'gdal raster neighbours' function is pretty cool - it does convolution across a raster, with configurable kernels and other options. Not yet released, but available in dev builds. See gdal.org/en/latest/pr... for details.

Looking forward to #foss4guk this week in Leeds. I'll be attending with a colleague, running a workshop on producing live vector tiles from PostGIS and my colleague will be giving a talk. Now just to hope that the trains work better than last year: I got stuck in Bristol TM because the lift broke!

Debated about buying some heavy water today...for my #emfcamp talk/demo but a) it's very expensive and b) it'd probably get me put on a list. I'm consoling myself by buying high wattage halogen lamps instead.

@pwramsey.bsky.social and I are hosting PostGIS Day again this year! The call for papers and registration is open now. Join us! www.snowflake.com/postgis-day-...

Orbio Earth just open-sourced their full methane detection pipeline—models, tools, synthetic-plume engine & validation notebooks—for Sentinel-2, Landsat 8/9, and EMIT. #Methane #ClimateTech #OpenSource - orbio-earth.github.io/Project-Euca...

I won't be able to make this as my wife is in the US at the time and so I'm needed at home - but I've had a great time at PyCon UK in the past, and I'm already looking forward to watching the videos of some of these talks.

The bubble mixture recipe for big bubbles on this blog is awesome - easy to make and works far better than others I've tried in the past! juliawise.net/misc-parenti... Thanks @juliawise.bsky.social

Just reviewed the list of talks/workshops for #foss4g2025 in Auckland - there are loads of really cool submissions. Such a shame I won't be able to be there, but I'll look forward to the videos. You can review them too at 2025.foss4g.org/attend/call-... Very simple to review, just 4 options!

We are finally ready to announce that EMF 2026 will happen on July 16-19, 2026, at Eastnor Castle Deer Park, Herefordshire. Expect more updates soon as we start spinning up the organisation again.

Surprised to find out today that my talk on UK railway signalling at #emfcamp from a few years ago has now had over 3,500 views! It's at www.youtube.com/watch?v=cryU... if you'd like to watch it.

🚨 Alert. Alert. The closing date for presentation submissions for #FOSS4GUK is rapidly approaching. Submit your talks here: uk.osgeo.org/foss4guk2025... It can be opinions, about projects, new ideas, breaking down technical concepts. Whatever topic you want, just involve open geospatial!

Thinking of proposing a workshop at FOSS4G UK 2025 on on-the-fly tile generation for webmaps. Could cover MVT generation using PostGIS and pg_tileserv, raster tile generation using Titiler etc, or both? Any preferences? Or particular things I should cover? #foss4g #foss4guk #osgeo #gis

Just bought my ticket for @uk.osgeo.org's FOSS4G UK conference in October. Excited to attend on behalf of Rebalance Earth, and with some colleagues. Now just to write my workshop proposal... #gis #foss4g

New-ish post on my blog: it's another links post - that's all I seem to be able to get round to writing at the moment. Anyway blog.rtwilson.com/more-links-j... has links on a range of topics including #python #geospatial #gis #stac #postgres and #3dprinting. Enjoy!

USGS, which operates the Landsat satellites, just announced that Landsat 7 was officially decommissioned today. Landsat 8 and 9 continue operations. www.usgs.gov/news/nationa...

Registration for #FOSS4G:UK 2025 is open! Early bird tickets are £80, until the end of July, which is the same date when the call for presentations closes. NB conference t-shirts and tickets for the social evening optional. uk.osgeo.org/foss4guk2025... www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/foss4guk-2...

Just released another #3dprinting model - a lacemaking pin pusher. These are devices used by lacemakers to push little pins into their lace pillow (to hold the lace) without hurting their fingers. Available at makerworld.com/en/models/14... and probably coming to #emfcamp for a workshop!

Ever needed to simplify street networks? I did. And it is a pain. So we wrote an algorithm that does that for us. And can do for you, as it is available as a Python package called `neatnet`. Here's a short blog about it - martinfleischmann.net/simplificati... and package - uscuni.org/neatnet

New blog post: Learning resources for GIS in Python with cloud-native geospatial, PostGIS and more: blog.rtwilson.com/learning-res... I recently sent a list of learning resources to a MSc student I'm working with, and (with her permission) am sharing. #python #gis #remotesensing #geospatial

Quite chuffed, I've got to 200 downloads of 3D models I've created and published on MakerWorld: makerworld.com/en/@robintw Check them out - there are some models of bits of my body (from CT scans), railway signalling things, craft stuff, jokes and more! #3dprinting