A remote-sensing PhD student talking about interesting things...
Welcome to anyone coming here from April Cools! I usually blog about things like cool geospatial tools, books I ve read, Python packages I ve created and more. But today, time for something different I quite like making decorated birthday cakes (I ll show some of my favourites at the end of this post), but they generally take [ ]
A friend was using GDAL s ogr2ogr command to import some data to PostGIS recently, and as part of the import they were doing a reprojection of the data. They got the following error: PROJ: Cannot open https://cdn.proj.org/uk_os_OSTN15_NTv2_OSGBtoETRS.tif: schannel: the certificate or certificate chain is based on an untrusted root They ve had various SSL errors on [ ]
Some data analysis I ve done has been featured in the Financial Times today see this article (the link may not work any more unless you have a FT subscription sorry). The brief story is that I had terrible back pain over Christmas, and spoke to an out-of-hours GP on the phone who prescribed [ ]
I don t seem to have time or energy for long posts these days, but here s another quick post which might save you some time and frustration. Recently, I ve been trying to import OpenStreetMap data into a PostGIS database to use with pgRouting. I wanted to import data for the whole of England which has [ ]
A Discord server I use has a channel called #til, standing for Today I Learned. It s a place to post interesting or surprising things you recently learned. I took my posts to that channel from the last couple of years, tidied them up and have listed them below. Hopefully you ll find something interesting there: TIL [ ]
I really haven t got much time or energy at the moment (I spent most of the Christmas break with an extremely painful back, which was exhausting and frustrating), but I wanted to post a very brief list of books I read this year. I read a total of 44 books this year, which includes re-reads [ ]
I ve got into a bit of a habit of writing occasional posts with links to interesting things I ve found (probably because it s a relatively easy blog post to write). This is another of those posts this time, written in June 2025. So, let s get on with some links: Why COUNT(*) can be slow in [ ]
I recently gave a careers talk to students at Solent University, and through that I got to know a MSc student there who had previous GIS experience and was now doing a Data Analytics and AI MSc course. Her GIS experience was mostly in the ESRI stack (ArcGIS and related tools) and she was keen [ ]
I did a post a while back which was just a lot of links to things I found interesting, mostly in the geospatial/data/programming sphere. Since then I ve collected a lot more links so here are some of them. The theme, such as there is, seems to be this would have really helped me about [ ]
As always, this post is very delayed apologies. In fact, I was encouraged to write this by a friend who I see at PyData Southampton (Hi, if you re reading this!). I mentioned my talk in passing to her, and she asked if I d blogged about it yet. I admitted that I hadn t, and promised [ ]