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Harald Kliems
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Researcher, bike advocate, union member, #Rstats, #openData, #transit, #urbanism, sustainability ...
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I'm not feeling the video editing mojo today and so I'm doing a bunch of adjacent chores -- rendering the 3D satellite imagery of the day's route, animating the route graphic, writing out a bit more of the narration, adding links. That kind of stuff.
3D render of a red route in Alpine territory My to-do list about Day 6 video from Obsidian. A bunch of items have been completed, but many are still undone.
December 15, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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#frostpendeln (Symbolbild)
Ein altes Schwinn-Fahrrad. Der Lenker ist komplett mit Eis überzogen, und Eiszapfen hängen vom Lenker herunter. Die Schutzbleche und Frontleuchte sind ebenfalls mit Eis und Schnee überzogen.
December 14, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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Okay, one more: Midwest. Me in a Santa suit. And the Wienermobile. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wienermobile
I hope I'm not going to have my #vegan card pulled.
Selfie of me in Santa costume, goggles, balaclava. Standing in front of the front end of a Wienermobile, a novelty vehicle shaped like a hot dog. Its license plate is "OH I WISH."
December 13, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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Surprisingly high turnout for the #madisonwi Santa Cycle Rampage. Probably 50-100 Santas, elves, reindeer, ... And -17C/0F
Shout out to the Wisconsin Bike Fed for organizing and not calling it off!

#fedibikes #frostpendeln
A crowd of people in Santa outfits and with bikes on Breese Stevens Field, which is solidly covered in snow. Selfie in a Santa outfit, but also with ski goggles and a serious balaclava. My fake beard has a big snotsicle in it.
December 13, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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Does it make a whole lot of sense to buy a German railroad discount card for a year when I live in the US? Probably not, but Deutsche Bahn sent me a 80% offer and I guess I'll be in Germany at least twice in the next year. Trraaaainzzz!
Booking confirmation of my Bahn Card 50. 50% off on flexible tickets, 25% of discounted ones. Travel with 100% renewable power on long distance trains. Etc.
December 12, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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I was browsing through some of my photos, searching for overpasses in Madison. Which, as a side effect, yielded some nice train shots from Graubünden.
A train emerges from the Landwasser tunnel and is on the Landwasser viaduct. In the valley below several people on bike and foot are looking at the train. A red train emerges from a tunnel portal on the route between Davos and Filisur. Immediately after the tunnel is a short bridge over a mountain stream. A train crosses the Wiesener Viadukt.
December 11, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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What happens when I read about potential pasta tariffs and then also find a good online deal...
Three cardboard boxes with the "Barilla" logo stacked on our dining room table. The top box is open and has a single box of Rigatoni pasta sitting on it. Overall, you're looking at 36 pounds of pasta.
December 9, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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Alright, it's time to start editing episode 6 of our Alps #biketouring adventure. In which I am irrationally(?) angry at a bike path; we have to walk up a road for the first time, arrive in the Dolomites, and have the first pizza of the trip.

It'll take me a […]

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Ben on his touring bike riding through a town at the bottom of the Mendel pass. The street is empty and lined with old buildings. Looking into the Val Gardena from the descent of the Passo Pinei. You can see some tall Dolomites peaks in the distance. A pizza box strapped to the top of the handlebar bag of my pink bicycle.
December 6, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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@Tim_Eagon The Southeast Area Plan was at the Transportation Commission yesterday, and yeah, there were a lot of missing sidewalks! And some differing opinions on them. https://madison.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=14991698&GUID=68154790-C00C-44B7-AC31-A06E4F4C6A17
Slide from the SE Area Plan presentation, titled "Missing sidewalks." What we heard: • Sidewalks are too expensive • Areas without sidewalks are unsafe for Children and pedestrians Draft Actions: • Sidewalk policy education • No longer assessed to individual property owners • Work with Traffic Engineering on ways to save trees while adding sidewalks • Prioritize locations for sidewalk improvements
December 4, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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It took me over two hours after work to finally motivate myself to go ride the indoor trainer. And, to everyone's surprise, I feel much better after doing it. I also broke the 1 kW power output threshold, if only for 2 seconds. Those Zwift timed power segments are fun.

#zwift #indoorcycling
Notification from intervals.icu, telling me that I had my best 5 second power for the season, at 975 W
December 3, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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Next week Sunday (Dec 7) I'm giving a presentation on #openstreetmap for biking and bike advocacy at Machinery Row Bicycles in #madisonwi
No prior experience or RSVP required -- just come by.
Text screenshot of the event announcement: # Bike advocacy meetup: An introduction to OpenStreetMap for Biking OpenStreetMap is a global free database and map, created by volunteers. Some describe it as the "Wikipedia of maps." OpenStreetMap data powers many popular products for cyclists, such as RideWithGPS, Strava, and Komoot. It is also used for advocacy projects, such as the People for Bikes city ranking. At the meetup, longtime OpenStreetMap contributor Harald will give an introduction to the project, showing how you can use OpenStreetMap data and how you can make the map better by contributing your local cycling knowledge. No prior experience is required; you can but do not have to bring a laptop or smartphone for some hands-on OpenStreetMap experience. December 7, 5:00-6:30 PM, Machinery Row Bicycles
November 29, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Oh, wen sehe ich denn da als Autor in der neuesten Bicycle Quarterly!? #fenderfest @gerolf_antritt
Die Titelseite des Artikels "Fenderfest in Germany". Story: Gerolf Meyer. Photos: Stefan Haehnel Titelseite der Bicycle Quarterly No. 89. Zwei Personen durchfahren ein riesiges Geröllfeld in den Bergen auf dem Rad
November 26, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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Madison has some long signs. Here are the longest by character count, according to the city's open data portal. All of them somehow related to parking, standing, and stopping […]

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A two-column table. The left column shows the "TextLong" variable with the text on traffic signs. The right column is the number of characters. The longest traffic sign has 137 characters. All top contenders have to do with parking.
November 23, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Huh, adding the new iPad to our Google Fi plan was super smooth. Scan QR code from Fi account with the iPad, confirm, wait 30 seconds. Done. No additional cost either on our plan. Every once in a while I look at other mobile plan options, but for us Google Fi […]

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Screenshot from the devices page on the Google Fi website, showing two cell phones and a data-only SIM.
November 22, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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Saturday morning baking: two loaves of sourdough bread. Good to warm up the house on a chilly morning.

#breadposting
Two round loaves of bread, with a fairly dark bake, on a messy counter
November 22, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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I have been collecting a lot of 360 degree street level imagery in #madisonwi for @mapillary and @panoramax during the past two months, as part of the #completethemap challenge. Now I can focus on using the imagery to update @openstreetmap One area of focus […]

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A map of the near west side of Madison, from the Mapillary website. Overlaid on the basemap are the locations of 20 mph speed limit signs, of which there are many.
November 20, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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I managed to do things on the internet for 82 minutes before encountering the first #cloudfare outage-related issue. Pretty good, I'd say.
Screenshot from Turo website: "turo.com Please unblock challenges.cloudflare.com to proceed."
November 18, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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@Andres4NY You probably already know this, but some support for quote posts was included in the Nov 8 release of Phanpy.
Screenshot of the quote UI from Phanpy, on the original post.
November 15, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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Belated report from yesterday's #coffeeneuring2025 ride to Fat Cat Coffee Works in New Glarus. Absolutely gorgeous day for it. And Fat Cat is a wonderful small town coffee shop, right on the bike trail. I had the cold brew, which isn't the greatest coffee, but […]

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A shot downward while I'm riding my bike over fallen leaves. My bike and stem are pink and there's a blue handlebar bag attached to the bike. A straight country road. An old oak tree without leaves on the left. The sun is in the upper right third of the frame A picture of my legs on the patio of Fat Cat Coffee. On a table to my right a glass with cold brew coffee and my bike helmet. Sunlight is bleeding into the picture My pink bike parked in front of Fat Cat Coffee Works patio.
November 15, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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I'm finally back to video editing. Episode 5 from my 2025 bike trip through the Alps has been mostly stalled since the spring. Today I recorded much of the remaining voice over. If everything goes well, I might finish the episode this weekend. You can watch […]

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Screenshot from Adobe Premiere Pro, with a relatively straightforward timeline. The program monitor shows a road cyclists taking an uphill turn at speed.
November 14, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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Nice sunset on the bike commute home today.

#madisonwi
A square photo taken from the Alicia Ashman overpass looking west over Campus Drive. The sun is below the horizon already and a sharp line separates a sliver of clear sky from a layer of clouds.
November 14, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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The advantage of waking up way too early: it's 7 am and I already have baked fresh bread. I'm slowly getting to the point of having fine tuned temperature and time for the new oven. 470 F and a baking time of 29+25 minutes (lid on/off).

#breadstodon #sourdough
Two round loaves of sourdough bread.
November 10, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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#coffeeneuring2025 Ride 5: Alice Good in #veronawi. The weather is supposed to turn wintery tomorrow and so I headed out to Verona today. Alice Good is a really great coffee shop: High quality coffee, very friendly staff. Their hours used to limit how often I […]

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A cup of espresso, a glass of water, and a card with information about the coffee on a wooden tray. Behind it my bike helmet with an OpenStreetMap sticker and a 360-degree camera. A tree-lined bike path covered in oak leaves. Lake Mendota Drive on a fall day. The sun is still fairly high and the foliage from the trees creates beautiful light. A residential street on the west side of Madison lined with large trees in full yellow fall foliage.
November 8, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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#uwmadison has a whole bunch of #flock #surveillance cameras on campus, often surveilling city streets. I just found another one today :-/ Added to #openstreetmap https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/13288110415
A Flock ALPR on a pole. A parking lot in the background.
November 7, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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#rstats #rspatial #tmap geek question: I need a log10 scale for my line widths, which I can get with `tm_scale_continuous_log10`. But in the legend, I'd like to have "1, 10, 100, 1000" rather than "10^0, 10^1, ..." I haven't been able to figure out how to do this.
A tmap map showing lines of different widths. The width represents "Potential student cyclists" according to the legend. The legend labels all have log10 notation.
November 5, 2025 at 2:29 PM