 Planning your week? This Friday ๐๏ธ 24th is the final Friday of the month, which means #fridaygeotrivia ! This time we'll play at 17:00 Berlin ๐ฉ๐ช time / 4pm London ๐ฌ๐ง / 11am New York ๐บ๐ธ As always the rules, prizes are up on the blog: https://blog.opencagedata.com/post/geotrivia-november-2023 Hope you can join us. Irish ๐ฎ๐ช #geoweirdness, secrets strange and bold, 1/ 2. First of all, some clarification on terms: Ireland is an island in the north Atlantic. The island is divided between the country Ireland ๐ฎ๐ช (รire in Irish, and One on-going project here at OpenCage HQ has been to expose more of our internal tools and utilities. Need to find the distance between two pairs of coordinates?  @opencage You could make it linkable somehow. Dynamically update a hash in the URL containing the two coords. Time for #fridaygeotrivia, this toot start the thread. Once again our question revolves around country chains. But this time we consider the attribute of GDP per capita. ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฐ What is the longest chain of countries such that each successive country in the chain shares a land border with and has a higher GDP per capita than the previous country? Example: Portugal ๐ต๐น - Spain ๐ช๐ธ - France ๐ซ๐ท - Andorra ๐ฆ๐ฉ As always you must include the #fridaygeotrivia hashtag, emoji flags of the countries. We are using the CIA estimate of GDP/capita (because they have an estimate for every country and territory) See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)_per_capita#Table Don't forget !!! #fridaygeotrivia trivia later today! The question goes up at 18:00 Berlin ๐ฉ๐ช time, 5pm London ๐ฌ๐ง, 1 pm New York ๐บ๐ธ. Who among you will take home the coveted emoji trophy ๐? Details, rules, etc: ๐จ Reminder - #fridaygeotrivia is this week ๐จ We will play on ๐๏ธ Friday, 3rd of November at 18:00 Berlin ๐ฉ๐ช time, 5pm London ๐ฌ๐ง, 1 pm New York ๐บ๐ธ. Details, rules, etc: https://blog.opencagedata.com/post/geotrivia-october-2023 Recently a follower who enjoys our #geoweirdness threads challenged us to create such a thread for Luxembourg ๐ฑ๐บ. Challenge accepted! Join us for a look at the geographic oddities of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. 1/ 2/ First up, Luxembourg ๐ฑ๐บ is a constitutional monarchy headed up by a Grand Duke. It is a last remnant of a time when central Europe was a patchwork of tiny fiefdoms. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_duchy Long-time followers will recall we asked about "non-kingdom monarchies" as our March 2023 #fridaygeotrivia question. It's only a few days until Oct. 3rd, German "Day of Unity", a holiday in Germany ๐ฉ๐ช celebrating reunification. A fitting reason for us to make Germany the focus if this week's #geoweirdness thread 1/n 2/ Located in the center of Europe, the area we today refer to as Germany ๐ฉ๐ช is a natural crossroads, and the borders and political geography has changed A LOT over the centuries. Material enough for many threads, but today we'll focus on modern bits of #geoweirdness ๐จ Here we go! ๐จ The #fridaygeotrivia question: What is the longest chain of countries, such that each country shares a land border with and has a shorter name than the previous country? Ex: Luxembourg ๐ฑ๐บ (10 chars) Belgium ๐ง๐ช (7) France ๐ซ๐ท (6) Spain ๐ช๐ธ (5). - you must include the hashtag #fridaygeotrivia and emoji flags - spaces in the name count as a char. Ex: โSouth Africaโ (12) - โThe โ at start of the name does not count. Ex: โNetherlandsโ (11) not โThe Netherlandsโ (15) Don't forget: #fridaygeotrivia is back this Friday (29th) at 18:00 Berlin ๐ฉ๐ช, 5pm London ๐ฌ๐ง, 12 noon New York ๐บ๐ธ time. See you then! Details, rules, prizes, etc: https://blog.opencagedata.com/post/geotrivia-september-2023 ๐จ๐จ After taking last month off for a summer break #fridaygeotrivia - our geo trivia game played on the final Friday of the month - returns! We will play this ๐๏ธ Friday (29th) at 18:00 Berlin ๐ฉ๐ช, 5pm London ๐ฌ๐ง, 12 noon New York ๐บ๐ธ time. Best way to prepare is to quiz yourself with past questions, which you can find over on the blog: https://blog.opencagedata.com/tagged/fridaygeotrivia See you here on Friday! Many will play #fridaygeotrivia, but only one can raise the coveted emoji trophy ๐ We will see who of the regulars used the summer to diligently train and who wasted it. cc: @AtanasE @ccferrie @matt_travis @amapanda @VictimOfMaths @arferrand @gravitystorm @ryankas @puntofisso 1/ Time for this week's #geoweirdness thread. For the first time in our series we turn our focus to the Arab world. Join us as we look at the geographic oddities of the United Arab Emirates ๐ฆ๐ช 2/ The United Arab Emirates ๐ฆ๐ช is often referred to as "The UAE", making it one of the few countries commonly referred by its initials. Others are the US ๐บ๐ธ, the UK ๐ฌ๐ง, and PNG ๐ต๐ฌ People seem to like controversy, so for this week's #geoweirdness thread we thought weโd post about a very contentious geo topic we often get asked about: disputed borders. 1/n 2/ More borders around the world than you might think are disputed. Sometimes between countries, sometimes within countries, for example regions that want independence. Each case is unique with its own history and cultural context. But how should our geocoding API handle this?
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September is going to a very big month for Geomob, the geospatial event series and podcast we organize, so we thought we'd make it the topic of this week's geothread. In the next four weeks there will be Geomob events in London ๐ฌ๐ง, Barcelona ๐ช๐ธ, Berlin ๐ฉ๐ช, and Lisbon ๐ต๐น So what is Geomob? 1/n 2/ The goal of Geomob is to provide a relaxed, informal forum for anyone doing anything interesting related to geospatial to share their project. Could be start-ups, hobbyists, academics, big cos, govt bodies, museums, anyone. ๐๐ฅณ๐ฐ Our motto: โGeoinnovation - for fun or profitโ The last few weeks our weekly threads have been about OpenStreetMap, but this week we get back to #geoweirdness Join us as we consider the geographic oddities of the Republic of Poland ๐ต๐ฑ 1/n 2/ At first glance you might think Poland ๐ต๐ฑ does not have much #geoweirdness The country has no exclaves or overseas territories. Indeed, Poland is the 9th most rectangular country (Egypt ๐ช๐ฌ is first): https://pappubahry.com/misc/rectangles/ but there are a few bits of oddness After a week off to enjoy the summer this week's #geoeducation thread again focuses on OpenStreetMap The OpenStreetMap community is massive (and growing) ๐ช, global ๐, and very dynamic ๐บ๐! The OSM database has millions of edits per day. Lots of things are happening all the time. But ... that can also be a bit overwhelming. How do we stay aware of what's happening? 1/n 2/ First up you read/subscribe to the OSM weekly, a volunteer-run, weekly digest with a broad overview OSM news available in many different languages: @weeklyOSM Bonus points: you can (should!) also submit OSM news 2/ One of coolest things about OpenStreetMap is that the world is such a geographically and culturally diverse place, and yet we all contribute to the same open database. Sounds obvious, but really how many examples of truly global cooperation are there? ๐จ๐ฉโ๐ฆฑ๐ฉ๐พโ๐ฆฑ๐ณ๐ผโโ๏ธ๐ฉ๐ผโ๐ฆฐ๐ง๐พโ๐ฆฑ๐ง๐พ Time for this week's geothread, a dose of #geoeducation rather than #geoweirdness Today we thought we'd cover a common geocoding use case: extracting the coordinates from images ๐ธ and geocoding the location the image was taken. 1/n 2/ When you take a picture by default most digital cameras record all sort of meta info, and store that data in the resulting image file. Things like type of camera, exposure time, etc. This is known as "EXIF data". Exif stands for "Exchangeable image file format" @opencage This could be practical for OSIRTโopen source investigative research techniques (fka OSINT) !! ๐จ Time for #fridaygeotrivia ๐จ Name countries (or parts of countries) that use the postal system of other countries. An example: Liechtenstein ๐ฑ๐ฎ uses the Swiss ๐จ๐ญ postal system. As always you need the emoji flag and #fridaygeotrivia hashtag for full points. Rules/Prizes/etc on the blog: https://blog.opencagedata.com/post/geotrivia-july-2023 |
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