12½ years ago, I made a map of all the buildings in the Netherlands. Unexpectedly, people loved it!
Ever since, I have been wanting to make an updated version of the map. Newer data, higher resolution, more interactive! I never got around to it, until last week: bertspaan.nl/buildings
Mapbox GL JS v3.21.0
github.com/mapbox/mapbo...
"Add first-class support for PMTiles via the new TileProvider API and an official plugin (``mapbox-gl-pmtiles-provider.js`) that loads on demand."
Brooklyn Web Workers is one week away!
Our first speaker this month is Brandon Liu (@bdon.org) with "Maps as a new web primitive"
Made some improvements this week to my map of United States real property (federal land, buildings and other fixed structures)
- new agencies and better geocoding, including USPS, TVA and State
- filter by property type (e.g. "parking structure") and year built
- where available, actual land areas
TASA(Taiwan Space Agency) has recently released five images captured by FORMOSAT-8. According to TASA, the image resolution met the originally designed 1m resolution. This is a great improvement over FORMOSAT-5’s 2m resolution images.
www.tasa.org.tw/zh-TW/announ...
cool new map built on pmtiles + @protomaps.com
I recently nerd-sniped myself into thinking about political points of view on maps, and wondering whether it’d be possible to create OpenStreetMap-derived, Wikipedia-informed national borders on a Protomaps base map legal for educational use in countries in conflict.
medium.com/@michalmigur...
"We will not devalue the EPSG dataset by including such inappropriate geodesy and cartography."
Was looking at my cloudflare worker serving maps via pmtiles, saw there is a new dashboard on cloudflare with a map of request locations, poked around into how it works and indeed cloudflare themselves are serving their map via the pmtiles cloudflare worker
nanodijkstra
can't defend yourself against what you can't see
Developers with contempt for marketing are usually the ones most susceptible to it
For those who couldn't catch our latest podcast live, here's the recording! Thank you @bdon.org for sharing your thoughts about all things cloud-native maps, and to everyone who tuned in live, especially those joining us from Norway and Egypt in the wee hours!
youtu.be/VACq-POg_dw
happy html day ❇️
Betel nut sign
Indeed… @htmlenergy.bsky.social is all around us
“Fractions of this work will be sold to online buyers, after which the collective will use a hot wire jig to slice the baby apart”
anyone in nyc want to #geobreakfast this Friday?
9:30 AM @ downtown brooklyn mile end deli, reply or DM for rsvp please! (we need a headcount)
Extending our sight -- seeing in infrared Night Vision Goggles Needs batteries light from screen disrupts sleep - heavy look like a fascist Stacking a bunch of theatrical lighting gels - Acoustic - look deranged - blocks blue light (and all other light) - and go outside! You won't believe what you see. DO NOT LOC Serious, permanent eye damage can occur in seconds. Then t
come observe my presentation tomorrow (first apply to itp camp two months ago)
The business model of food is drinks
The business model of transit is real estate
The business model of maps is ?
blogging update: i am posting through my dissertation, it is very bare bones and a painfully niche topic but I'm pretending this is me making progress: placing.technology
just opened up limited edition preorders for poetry.camera ~
(it feels weird to do self-promo on bsky but i also want to celebrate our first batch drop!! a long time coming)
The Visual Display of Qualitative Information
I sometimes muse about the savage job-destroying nature of the open source community: hundreds of thousands of developers working tirelessly to unemploy as many of their peers as possible by giving away the code they've written for free.
Make cool stuff. Share it with people
tailscale is the game changer here, basically any task I would use a EC2 spot instance for I can do for "free" on a 64gb ram+ gamer box (CapEx vs. OpEx, etc)
limiting factor is fan noise
