Gregory's Server
My point on #30DayMapChallenge is, with enough insight, any map is a bad map.
(And any map is a good map at the same time.)
Funny or useless doesn't equal bad.
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The original a18z techno manifesto or something is too long, so I read the abridged version, that doesn't lose any of the meaning. https://bengrosser.com/files/Techno-Optimist-Manifesto-Andreessen-redacted-by-Grosser.pdf (Thanks to Ben Grosser and @todayintabs) Was looking for a thing in my repos, and found a GeoJSON point editor I made three years ago. Suprisingly fun! Use it when you need to quickly populate a points table, or edit something. It's got filtering and proper copy-pasting. Doesn't lose non-points from imported files and saves edits to a local session to prevent data loss. https://zverik.github.io/point_ed/ Booked my stay in Antwerp at Yust hostel: https://www.yust.com/antwerp/ Looks very clean and private, reviews are exceptional. Half an hour walk (or a very short tram ride) from the @sotmeu venue. Just 200 € for five days. Here's a useful thing for people who write command-line OSM processing scripts in Python: https://github.com/Zverik/cli-oauth2 Authenticate with OAuth2 in one line of code. Stores tokens permanently, doesn't require you to do anything else. Just updated my Simple Revert and OSM to Sandbox scripts to use it. Tested SketchMapTool by @heigit, from the recent grant news. Printing a map works fine, GeoTIFF referencing works as expected (from a file, not a scanned copy). Still, nothing new over https://fieldpapers.org/ Was intrigued with its vector detection. The resulting GeoJSON was incorrect (not WGS-84 and polygons are wrong), but QGIS reads it. Scribbles are imported as polygons, so there's not much benefit over GeoTIFF. Try it here: https://sketch-map-tool.heigit.org/ @zverik Hi, thanks a lot for testing our tool and getting in touch! In our next project phase, we will also work hard on improving the SMT, so your feedback helps us a great deal 🤝 We want to encourage our followers to test our tools and reach out to us for suggestions and constructive critique! 👍 Greetings from Heidelberg! I so much want just a year for working on my unfinished projects! A map editor, a public transport app, two more useful apps, restarting OSM Awards and one other thing, the new PostGIS-OSM tool, maybe even starting a book on OSM I've postponed for three years... Like, you know what I've done and can imagine what I would. Why do I need to devote my life to corporates instead T_T This article on mobile mapping and first steps in OpenStreetMap is pretty good: https://gnulinux.ch/mitarbeit-bei-openstreetmap-viel-lesen-um-alles-richtig-einzutragen-oder-fang-einfach-an (in German) Planning to organize a BoF room on mobile mapping at @sotmeu (hey @streetcomplete) and maybe a lightning talk on @everydoor. Come join! Buy your tickets now: https://pretix.eu/sotm-eu/2023/ Huh, TIL that you can autofill tags from the Name Suggestion Index in @vespucci by choosing an autocomplete item from the "name" tag value. Somehow Android development has run itself into a dependency hell. There is a Gradle, Gradle wrapper, Kotlin Gradle Plugin, Android Studio itself; they have a complex compatibility matrix, plus modules have their own dependencies... Argh. Already published iOS beta, but waiting for another Gradle distribution to download to get the next share of build errors. And yes, all these libraries and SDKs take more than 10 GB, already ran into out of disk error once. Today was musing again on how best to make the cycleway map I plan to do, and suddenly came to an idea that might change the landscape for open source field data collection. (Only after I got that Every Door grant of course: needs one feature from its roadmap.) Сейчас читал Velonation про измерение ширины велодорожек и вспомнил, как в 2020 году для минского велообщества проехал пр. Независимости в Минске от начала до конца и составил список рекомендаций для улучшения велополос по обеим его сторонам. Не думаю, что он кому-то помог. Но хоть фоточки ностальгичные. Какая же колхозная велодорожка — мы по ней полгода в школу катались. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1v7q1p1mkBmjwXSAKchLZOG9NGbvDLXc1tMIzzqGjXo8/edit Wrote about @tracestrack for Shtosm: https://shtosm.ru/all/tracetrack/ Looks nice and feels fast, good job! This study on LLMs using the "how do I steal a duck" question is as amazing as it is thorough: https://dynomight.substack.com/p/ducks Looking at an interview roadmap for a bigtech company, and I'm pretty sure the sheer size and intimidation of it turns skilled people away from these companies. You need a specific mindset to participate on either side of this, one that prioritizes tech over anything else. Their "what's next" emails even contain multiple page-overview on "how to succeed" with a dozen links and 40 bullet-points. I am absolutely sure there was a D&I complaint identifying the issue, and the only way they could solve it is by adding guidelines for helping interviewees train better. Which is wild and kinda highlights the issue, not solves it. I've worked at a bigtech company and have seen how D&I suffers. "We had a goal to have more non-white employees, so this year 70% of our unpaid interns were from minorities! FTW!" D&I is always a top management problem. I cannot be fixed from the bottom.  @zverik A very interesting take. Is that just the interview phase, or the onboarding phase? Включил пару дней назад джаз (ведьма от музыки Hiromi попала в Tiny Desk, ну и покатилось) и вспомнил, что это единственная музыка, которая повышает мне настроение. Каждый раз это вспоминаю, но почему-то слушаю его всего раз-два в месяц. Finally my impromptu @foss4g talk on maps in games got published: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgsQbdg96LI Six games and few observations on how game maps differ from real ones and at the same time follow the common conventions. And on ways to get inspiration for your own maps. Yes, I connected my Switch to the projector — didn't bring my laptop to Kosovo. Video recordings for Baltic GIT Conference (it's for geospatial technology) room 2 are up! All the SotM Baltics 2023 talks and many other GIS-related. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkvzAel8ISD3SA9zxy5oD8acd1gpPmmr7 Learn how bots manage addresses in Latvia, and one person validates all of Lithuania! Cheer for @openstreetmap with a beginner mapper! Enjoy people telling success stories of open source GIS in teaching and enterprise businesses! #gischat |
