SVL provides open source Geospatial solutions and services to private enterprises and to Government entities; enabling the transition to open source GIS
thinking about my ex who always said please and thank you when he asked chatGPT a question and when I asked him why he said “when it becomes sentient and powerful it will remember who was polite”
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Surveyors and other professionals in Kenya won't skip reading this thread in case you're also experiencing the same with your professional organization.
@Kenyans@Tuko_co_ke@ntvkenya@citizentvkenya
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"The Global South is not a treasure chest for plunder. We deserve systems that are fit-for-purpose, not extractive & exploitative."
Amos Wemanya of @PowerShftAfrica talks to @DubaiEye1038FM
Machine Learning is becoming the default way to build technology, mostly thanks to open-source & open-science but I don’t think we’re anywhere close to singularity/AGI/terminator/AI God (if it even exists) (1/5)
#EnMAP has sent the first images - and already the first data from the 🇩🇪 environmental satellite show the power of the hyperspectral instrument! 💪
The first images show Istanbul on the Bosporus in Turkey with Europe to the west and Asia to the east.
I'm looking for a couple of keen EO/geospatial people interested in some work at an operational space agency. Training can be provided. For now a short term opportunity, with scope for extension. Ideally need to be based in Germany (at least Europe). DM me for more info. #eojobs
How @openstreetmap@OSM_Tech uses @fastly's CDN to push near-instant tile updates worldwide, by @hannahleetweets. Thank you Fastly for your support! https://t.co/8S40ynNAW7
Yesterday, our team held a successful training workshop with officials from Nakuru, one of the largest metropolitan centers in #Kenya, that recently attained city status. The Satellite Imagery for Social Good project seeks to provide #geospatial datasets of the new city.
#OSM
NASA awards researchers from Cornell University a USD 1 million grant to develop the first high-resolution carbon monitoring system that combines “bottom-up” ecological modelling with “top-down” satellite data for East Africa.
https://t.co/IOvWEVHCbS
In 1995, only two years after the birth of the worldwide web, @BillGates tried to explain ‘The Internet’ to Letterman.
Today, tech pioneers face the same redicule as they describe AI and blockchain
“When we started our first company, we rented a small office and slept on the couch. We showered at the YMCA. We had one computer — so the website was up during the day and I was coding at night.”
~Elon Musk (2014)