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A lightweight JavaScript library (~1 kB) that creates a static map image centered on a specified latitude and longitude. It leverages OpenStreetMap (OSM) tiles to render an arbitrarily-sized map in any container, with custom zoom levels.
www.cssscript.com/static-map-i...
www.cssscript.com/static-map-i...
Generate Static Map Images Using OpenStreetMap Tiles - tiny-static-map.js | CSS Script
A lightweight JavaScript library to create static map images. Center on any location, customize zoom, and use OpenStreetMap tiles.
www.cssscript.com
February 14, 2025 at 7:44 AM
A lightweight JavaScript library (~1 kB) that creates a static map image centered on a specified latitude and longitude. It leverages OpenStreetMap (OSM) tiles to render an arbitrarily-sized map in any container, with custom zoom levels.
www.cssscript.com/static-map-i...
www.cssscript.com/static-map-i...
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Seville, Spain eliminated 5,000 car parking spaces and built an 80 km protected cycling network in just 18 months with 32 million €.
Result: An average 70,000 bike trips a day.
Leadership.
Result: An average 70,000 bike trips a day.
Leadership.
February 11, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Seville, Spain eliminated 5,000 car parking spaces and built an 80 km protected cycling network in just 18 months with 32 million €.
Result: An average 70,000 bike trips a day.
Leadership.
Result: An average 70,000 bike trips a day.
Leadership.
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Chengdu: an enormous Chinese city (21 million people) that most Americans have never heard of (I know it mostly because it was the wartime capital of Chiang Kai-Shek's regime). It had zero subway/train transit in 2010. Look at this expansion. America could never. Gasped when the ring line came in.
Evolution of the Chengdu Metro 2010-2027 (geographic map)
YouTube video by Metro Liner
www.youtube.com
January 31, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Chengdu: an enormous Chinese city (21 million people) that most Americans have never heard of (I know it mostly because it was the wartime capital of Chiang Kai-Shek's regime). It had zero subway/train transit in 2010. Look at this expansion. America could never. Gasped when the ring line came in.
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"I wouldn’t be able to find a commercial reason for founding DeepSeek even if you ask me to,” said founder Liang Wenfeng: www.wired.com/story/deepse...
How Chinese AI Startup DeepSeek Made a Model that Rivals OpenAI
When Chinese quant hedge fund founder Liang Wenfeng went into AI research, he took 10,000 Nvidia chips and assembled a team of young, ambitious talent. Two years later, DeepSeek exploded on the scene.
www.wired.com
January 25, 2025 at 2:50 PM
"I wouldn’t be able to find a commercial reason for founding DeepSeek even if you ask me to,” said founder Liang Wenfeng: www.wired.com/story/deepse...
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How to Install DeepSeek R1 for Free in VS Code Using Cline or Roo Code
softtechhub.us/2025/01/26/h...
#DeepSeekR1 #VSCode #Cline #RooCode #FreeInstallation #CodingTutorial #SoftwareDevelopment #TechTips #OpenSource #Programming #DeveloperCommunity #AIIntegration #CodeEditor
softtechhub.us/2025/01/26/h...
#DeepSeekR1 #VSCode #Cline #RooCode #FreeInstallation #CodingTutorial #SoftwareDevelopment #TechTips #OpenSource #Programming #DeveloperCommunity #AIIntegration #CodeEditor
January 26, 2025 at 6:54 AM
How to Install DeepSeek R1 for Free in VS Code Using Cline or Roo Code
softtechhub.us/2025/01/26/h...
#DeepSeekR1 #VSCode #Cline #RooCode #FreeInstallation #CodingTutorial #SoftwareDevelopment #TechTips #OpenSource #Programming #DeveloperCommunity #AIIntegration #CodeEditor
softtechhub.us/2025/01/26/h...
#DeepSeekR1 #VSCode #Cline #RooCode #FreeInstallation #CodingTutorial #SoftwareDevelopment #TechTips #OpenSource #Programming #DeveloperCommunity #AIIntegration #CodeEditor
Seems like an interesting and useful free resource for learning geospatial software development. I will try to follow the course.
📢 I'm teaching a Geographic Software Design course this semester at the University of Tennessee! 🎉 All course materials will be freely available online, with new video lectures dropping three times a week.
January 22, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Seems like an interesting and useful free resource for learning geospatial software development. I will try to follow the course.
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The Nazis think this was a Nazi salute, but, hey, what would they know?
Right-Wing Extremists Are Abuzz Over Musk's Straight-Arm Salute
Right-wing extremists are abuzz over Elon Musk giving an awkward straight-armed salute during an inauguration rally for Donald Trump.
www.rollingstone.com
January 20, 2025 at 10:12 PM
The Nazis think this was a Nazi salute, but, hey, what would they know?
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It’s interesting that the emojis show the earth from three angles 🌎 🌍 🌏 but not the fourth.
Though 🔵 is a fair approximation of what it would look like.
People underestimate the Pacific.
Though 🔵 is a fair approximation of what it would look like.
People underestimate the Pacific.
December 6, 2024 at 3:52 PM
It’s interesting that the emojis show the earth from three angles 🌎 🌍 🌏 but not the fourth.
Though 🔵 is a fair approximation of what it would look like.
People underestimate the Pacific.
Though 🔵 is a fair approximation of what it would look like.
People underestimate the Pacific.
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Orcas have started wearing dead salmon as hats again, just fyi
www.iflscience.com/wearing-a-sa...
www.iflscience.com/wearing-a-sa...
Wearing A Salmon On Your Head Is Back In Fashion For Orcas, After A 37-Year Break
In 1987, there was a strange trend amongst killer whales. Recent sightings show it's back in fashion.
www.iflscience.com
November 27, 2024 at 3:50 PM
Orcas have started wearing dead salmon as hats again, just fyi
www.iflscience.com/wearing-a-sa...
www.iflscience.com/wearing-a-sa...
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The world’s 280 million electric bikes and mopeds are cutting demand for oil 4x more than electric cars due to their staggering uptake in China and elsewhere.
The world’s 280 million electric bikes and mopeds are cutting demand for oil far more than electric cars
Electric vehicles get all the press – but it’s the smaller unsung two wheelers cutting oil demand the most.
theconversation.com
December 1, 2024 at 6:10 PM
The world’s 280 million electric bikes and mopeds are cutting demand for oil 4x more than electric cars due to their staggering uptake in China and elsewhere.
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Buildings in Barcelona.
Created with Observable Plot with data from Overture Maps. (✅ @tanyashapiro.bsky.social)
#30DayMapChallenge Day 29 Overture #ObservablePlot
Created with Observable Plot with data from Overture Maps. (✅ @tanyashapiro.bsky.social)
#30DayMapChallenge Day 29 Overture #ObservablePlot
November 29, 2024 at 7:27 PM
Buildings in Barcelona.
Created with Observable Plot with data from Overture Maps. (✅ @tanyashapiro.bsky.social)
#30DayMapChallenge Day 29 Overture #ObservablePlot
Created with Observable Plot with data from Overture Maps. (✅ @tanyashapiro.bsky.social)
#30DayMapChallenge Day 29 Overture #ObservablePlot
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“They cut speed limits, changed street design, removed space for cars… Now it appears that work is paying off. #Oslo & #Helsinki are reaping the rewards of committed action on making their roads safer, reducing pedestrian fatalities to zero last year.” #VisionZero www.theguardian.com/world/2020/m...
How Helsinki and Oslo cut pedestrian deaths to zero
After years of committed action, neither city recorded a single pedestrian fatality in 2019
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2024 at 7:16 AM
“They cut speed limits, changed street design, removed space for cars… Now it appears that work is paying off. #Oslo & #Helsinki are reaping the rewards of committed action on making their roads safer, reducing pedestrian fatalities to zero last year.” #VisionZero www.theguardian.com/world/2020/m...
yle.fi/a/74-20123004 It's quite fascinating that the dietary recommendations are similar to food habits of many people in Nepal.
Meat firms react to Finland's "no cold cuts" recommendation
The chief concern surrounding processed meats is research that found links between their consumption and the risk of colon cancer.
yle.fi
November 21, 2024 at 9:35 AM
yle.fi/a/74-20123004 It's quite fascinating that the dietary recommendations are similar to food habits of many people in Nepal.
Throwback to the ABC trek. October/November is the best time to visit Nepal for trekking as the weather is awesome and it is also festival season.
November 20, 2024 at 12:22 PM
Throwback to the ABC trek. October/November is the best time to visit Nepal for trekking as the weather is awesome and it is also festival season.
Not sure if there is already an alternate way of doing this but 1 thing I am missing in blue sky is the ability to save some posts. There are some posts with awesome resources that I would like to save for later reference but not sure how I can do that.
November 20, 2024 at 10:06 AM
Not sure if there is already an alternate way of doing this but 1 thing I am missing in blue sky is the ability to save some posts. There are some posts with awesome resources that I would like to save for later reference but not sure how I can do that.
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My maps show how far you csn cycle in an hour from the center of cities like Amsterdam 🇳🇱, Copenhagen 🇩🇰, Ghent 🇧🇪, or Strasbourg 🇫🇷.
Curious about creating these isochrone maps yourself?
🔗 Check out the tutorial here:
youtu.be/UNGzJrx8VrE
#GIS #RStats #maps #dataviz
Curious about creating these isochrone maps yourself?
🔗 Check out the tutorial here:
youtu.be/UNGzJrx8VrE
#GIS #RStats #maps #dataviz
November 18, 2024 at 7:32 AM
My maps show how far you csn cycle in an hour from the center of cities like Amsterdam 🇳🇱, Copenhagen 🇩🇰, Ghent 🇧🇪, or Strasbourg 🇫🇷.
Curious about creating these isochrone maps yourself?
🔗 Check out the tutorial here:
youtu.be/UNGzJrx8VrE
#GIS #RStats #maps #dataviz
Curious about creating these isochrone maps yourself?
🔗 Check out the tutorial here:
youtu.be/UNGzJrx8VrE
#GIS #RStats #maps #dataviz
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Here’s a cool fact I came across today: the world’s population doubled between 1975 and 2020 (nothing new there). But at the same time, built-up areas almost tripled!
You can really see this infrastructure boom in action with this video of Las Vegas growing over the years, created with Landsat data
You can really see this infrastructure boom in action with this video of Las Vegas growing over the years, created with Landsat data
November 20, 2024 at 9:50 AM
Here’s a cool fact I came across today: the world’s population doubled between 1975 and 2020 (nothing new there). But at the same time, built-up areas almost tripled!
You can really see this infrastructure boom in action with this video of Las Vegas growing over the years, created with Landsat data
You can really see this infrastructure boom in action with this video of Las Vegas growing over the years, created with Landsat data
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Foursquare just open sourced their 100 million place point of interest dataset! Some notes on poking around with it using DuckDB (it's Parquet files on S3) simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/20/...
Foursquare Open Source Places: A new foundational dataset for the geospatial community
I did not expect this! > [...] we are announcing today the general availability of a foundational open data set, Foursquare Open Source Places ("FSQ OS Places"). This base layer …
simonwillison.net
November 20, 2024 at 6:08 AM
Foursquare just open sourced their 100 million place point of interest dataset! Some notes on poking around with it using DuckDB (it's Parquet files on S3) simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/20/...
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Just thinking about a #location activates mental #maps in the brain. MIT neuroscientists have found that the brain uses the same cognitive representations whether navigating through space physically or mentally.
Just thinking about a location activates mental maps in the brain
Mental representations known as cognitive maps are activated when the brain performs mental simulations of a navigational route, according to new MIT research.
news.mit.edu
November 19, 2024 at 9:19 AM
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A meteor shower
November 18, 2024 at 2:26 PM
A meteor shower
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I had a lot of fun with #Python in the last year, but whoever thinks that #Java dependency management with #Maven and #Toolchains is hard, did never experience Python, Pip, virtual environments and system package managers, let alone breaking changes in minor versions all over the place.
November 18, 2024 at 11:50 AM
I had a lot of fun with #Python in the last year, but whoever thinks that #Java dependency management with #Maven and #Toolchains is hard, did never experience Python, Pip, virtual environments and system package managers, let alone breaking changes in minor versions all over the place.
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Just when I thought I've seen it all, a PostgreSQL extension shows up that allows you to embed a SQLite database inside a table. github.com/frectonz/pgl...
November 19, 2024 at 2:19 PM
Just when I thought I've seen it all, a PostgreSQL extension shows up that allows you to embed a SQLite database inside a table. github.com/frectonz/pgl...
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The last Photo I took.... Hopefully the first of many more over here on Bluesky...
November 15, 2024 at 11:31 AM
The last Photo I took.... Hopefully the first of many more over here on Bluesky...