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31  march     23h00
How to decorate a simple but effective child’s birthday cake
Robin Wilson    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...
23  march     16h23
How to bypass SSL for PROJ reprojection
Robin Wilson    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...
04  february     14h10
Pharmacy late-night opening hours analysis featured in the Financial Times
Robin Wilson    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...
31  january     10h33
How to fix osm2pgrouting error relation waysXXXX does not exist’ and speed up the import
Robin Wilson    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...
08  january     10h50
Today I Learned in 2024 and 2025
Robin Wilson    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...
05  january     16h25
Favourite books I read in 2025
Robin Wilson    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...
12  june     12h10
More links June 2025
Robin Wilson    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...
28  march     19h34
Learning resources for GIS in Python with cloud-native geospatial, PostGIS and more
Robin Wilson    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...
17  march     10h30
A load more links
Robin Wilson    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...
14  march     20h41
My talk at FOSS4G UK South West 2024
Robin Wilson    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...