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	<title>AI in QGIS</title>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2026 00:12:06 +0000</pubDate>
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	<title>Geospatial Makers Start Building!</title>
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	<title>Vibe Coding and the Fragmentation of Open Source</title>
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	<description><![CDATA[Why Machine-Writing Code is the Best (and Most Dangerous) Thing for Geospatial:   The current discourse surrounding AI coding is nothing if not polarized. On one side, the technofuturists urge us to throw away our keyboards; on the other, skeptics dismiss Large Language Models (LLMs) as little more than &#8220;fancy autocomplete&#8221; that will never replace...]]></description>
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	<title>A5 Pentagons Are the New Bestagons</title>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2026 21:06:09 +0000</pubDate>
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	<description><![CDATA[How can you accurately aggregate and compare point-based data from different parts of the world? When analyzing crime rates, population, or environmental factors, how do you divide the entire globe into equal, comparable units for analysis?   For data scientists and geospatial analysts, these are fundamental challenges. The solution lies in a powerful class of...]]></description>
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	<title>The Sustainable Path for Open Source Businesses</title>
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	<title>Free Software and Expensive Threats</title>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 26 Dec 2025 21:35:38 +0000</pubDate>
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	<title>Mapping Your Own World: Open Drones and Localized AI</title>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2025 04:46:00 +0000</pubDate>
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	<title>From Data Dump to Data Product</title>
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	<title>Reflections from FOSS4G 2025</title>
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