Creator of @OpenGlobus, love computer and 3D graphics, GIS enthusiast, software engineer

Joined April 2018
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We're happy to welcome two new contributors to OpenGlobus! 👏 Mochammad Fadhlan Al-Ghiffari - fixed a camera rotation issue, improving globe navigation and positioning. 👏 Mussab Abdalla - brought GeoTIFF support to OpenGlobus, opening up new possibilities for working with geospatial raster data. It's great to see new people getting involved and helping OpenGlobus grow. Thank you both for your contributions! 🚀 #OpenSource #WebGL #GIS #Geospatial #Web #JavaScript #TypeScript #3dmaps
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A little something I've been building with #OpenGlobus! The idea is to bring multiple drone recordings into a single 3D environment. You can follow their movements, explore what happened during an operation, and analyze and measure what you see. Thanks @UnifiedAerial (unifiedaerial.com/) for the data and feedback! #Geospatial #UAV #AugmentedReality
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Happy 28th birthday to GDAL ! From the first commit on 1998-10-17 from a small rural town outside of Ottawa Canada, to almost every geospatial software installation on the planet (and satellites and other planets!) in 28 years. The ultimate example of sharing & community. #foss4g
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Now the OpenGlobus timeline can position the Sun using local time. Try the live example 👇 sandbox.openglobus.org/examp… #OpenGlobus #TimeZones #WebGL #Geospatial #GIS #3DVisualization
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Dockable dialogs just landed in OpenGlobus! You can now dock plugin windows, arrange them however you like, and keep your workspace tidy. Live example: sandbox.openglobus.org/examp… #OpenGlobus #WebGL #GIS #JavaScript
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September 11th Memorial with 2,977 Lights over New York Harbor. One light for every life lost.
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I’ve always wanted to build a flight simulator. Somehow, I ended up building this instead. OpenGlobus projectors can be attached to drones, driven by camera telemetry, and used to project video onto terrain, up to 64 at once. Useful for camera coverage and AR. #OpenGlobus #WebGL #terrain #uav #uas #drones #AugmentedReality #geospatial #visualization #maps #JavaScript
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Mars!!! 128 million miles away. Listen to the sounds.
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Re-intro 🧵 at 10k followers: I’m a Nat Geo-published cartographer in Los Angeles, I make maps all day, most for cash and some because they needed to exist I’m here to spam my fav material culture and demand you make one single map: youshouldmakemaps.com/ My design files: evanapplegate.com/map-design… Practical carto tips: xitter.cf/youwillmakemaps/status…
Thread of posts on how to make computer-mediated maps xitter.cf/youwillmakemaps/status…
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what your neurons look like when you're learning something new:
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Fewer than 300 people in human history have ever seen this with their own eyes. Earth spinning beneath them. Nothing between their face and the infinite void except a helmet visor. 🌍🚀 It’s called an extravehicular activity (EVA)—a spacewalk. You leave the station, secure yourself to the spacecraft, and spend hours working in the vacuum of space. And the strangest part? Silence. Sound cannot travel through the vacuum. But the incredible images never show what happens before the hatch opens. 1️⃣ Hours of preparation with pure oxygen Astronauts follow procedures designed to reduce the risk of decompression sickness as suit pressure changes. 2️⃣ Hundreds of hours of underwater training Wearing a spacesuit in a giant pool, astronauts rehearse every movement until it becomes second nature. 3️⃣ Every movement is planned and timed Nothing is improvised. From opening the hatch to securing tools and completing each task, the sequence is meticulously rehearsed. What looks effortless, spontaneous, and almost magical is actually the result of years of training and obsessive preparation. The conversation. The perfect demonstration. The spacewalk. What you see is only the final few minutes of an enormous human effort. 🌌
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Two people I'd never met opened a browser tab, found something broken, and fixed it. That's still the part of open source I find slightly magical. Welcome, Olaf Staave and Lakshay Nandwani 👇
Welcome @OlafStaave and @lakshay241104 two new OpenGlobus contributors. Lakshay took an open issue and fixed it - unknown color names no longer rendering inconsistency (#1055). Olaf also shipped free-flight camera controls - WASD across the globe (#1039): sandbox.openglobus.org/examp… Welcome to contribute! #OpenSource #Geospatial #WebGL #javascript #3DVisualization #GrandCanyon
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🚨 James Webb Space Telescope has captured the Sombrero Galaxy in extraordinary detail.
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The sun looks just like a pixel compared to some of the biggest stars in the known universe.
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The eclipse as seen by weather satellites: EUMETSAT Meteosat-12 GeoColour RGB + NOAA GOES-East GeoColor imagery The moon's shadow is moving across the surface at thousands of mph
Obligatory shitty eclipse picture. Totality was INSANE! I now believe what they say that any degree of partiality renders it pointless. Everything changes to dark in mere seconds.
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scientific fact
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Shadows look simple: light is blocked, and a shadow appears. But rendering them accurately across scales from mountains to the room apartments is anything but simple. Moving forward! #OpenGlobus #ComputerGraphics #WebGL #Geospatial #3DVisualization #Shadows #Sun #JavaScript #TypeScript #Weather #Terrain
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Upcoming OpenGlobus v1 update! AR on the web should be simple. Just place a camera or video stream (or any other HTML) behind the OpenGlobus canvas and render your geospatial data on top. You decide what becomes transparent and what stays fully visible. This approach is used in remote vehicle navigation, drone operations, situational awareness, industrial inspection, and many other applications that combine live video with geospatial context in real time. Live examples: sandbox.openglobus.org/examp… sandbox.openglobus.org/examp… #OpenGlobus #AR #WebGL #OpenSource #JavaScript #Maps #3Dmaps #uav #drones
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tonight’s full moon from my telescope 🔭
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