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Geospatial Nix – create, use and deploy today

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Re: Geospatial Nix – create, use and deploy today

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Post by detourdog » Mon, Feb 26, 2024, 2:26 PM UTC

imincik wrote: post #4

geospatial-nix author here. Thanks for your interest. geospatial-nix.today is the UI for creation of development and working environments using Nix. It provides easy instructions to get Nix running on your Linux machine, UI to declaratively configure your environment and tools for building container images. We are focusing on geospatial use cases, but this tool is not limited to geospatial only. We support all config…

Barely familiar with Nix but I'm very interested in geography, weather, satellite data. I'm definitely looking for a stable platform that integrates geospatial data in a consistent way.

Re: Geospatial Nix – create, use and deploy today

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Post by freemanon » Mon, Feb 26, 2024, 8:59 PM UTC

imincik wrote: post #9

The quick answer of the question "Why this project makes a sense ?" is following: Nix is solving the principal problems of software building, distribution, deployment, configuration, supply chain security and many others in very elegant but unique way. It also comes with plenty of other unique features which doesn't exist anywhere else. The cost of this is quite steep learning and adoption curve. geospatial-nix.today…

Go post this to https://discourse.nixos.org/ and see what sort of reaction you get.

> nixpkgs - the software collection built by Nix is the largest software repository on the planet, containing around 80 000 packages. You can use any of those packages via geospatial-nix

You sound like you should be working in the marketing department rather than dev.

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