🚲 Martijn van Exel 🗺️
@osm.lol
Salt Lake City, OpenStreetMap, bikepacking, Rhodes, photography (analog and digital), The Netherlands, old computers, vegetarian food, bad jokes. Old school tech guy yelling at cloud.
🌎 vanexel.net / osmutah.org / flickr.com/photos/rhodes
🌎 vanexel.net / osmutah.org / flickr.com/photos/rhodes
track your time where you live. Coming to a terminal near you! github.com/mvexel/timet...
August 16, 2025 at 10:50 PM
track your time where you live. Coming to a terminal near you! github.com/mvexel/timet...
Next #OSM #Utah
map night is tomorrow at Woodbine Food Hall in SLC! Please join us if you're local to SLC and are interested in GIS / maps! --> osmutah.org/our-map-nigh...
map night is tomorrow at Woodbine Food Hall in SLC! Please join us if you're local to SLC and are interested in GIS / maps! --> osmutah.org/our-map-nigh...
Our Events | OpenStreetMap Utah
OpenStreetMap hosts monthly Map Nights, usually on the second Tuesday of every month. Map Nights are open to anyone! Joi
osmutah.org
July 14, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Next #OSM #Utah
map night is tomorrow at Woodbine Food Hall in SLC! Please join us if you're local to SLC and are interested in GIS / maps! --> osmutah.org/our-map-nigh...
map night is tomorrow at Woodbine Food Hall in SLC! Please join us if you're local to SLC and are interested in GIS / maps! --> osmutah.org/our-map-nigh...
Just mapped my neighborhood with ACTUAL sidewalk data.
Even in one of SLC's "most walkable" areas, 87% of nearby amenities are outside a true 15-minute walk. That cluster of dots at 9th & 9th? Just out of reach.
We're not building 15-minute neighborhoods, we're building 15-minute lies.
Even in one of SLC's "most walkable" areas, 87% of nearby amenities are outside a true 15-minute walk. That cluster of dots at 9th & 9th? Just out of reach.
We're not building 15-minute neighborhoods, we're building 15-minute lies.
July 12, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Just mapped my neighborhood with ACTUAL sidewalk data.
Even in one of SLC's "most walkable" areas, 87% of nearby amenities are outside a true 15-minute walk. That cluster of dots at 9th & 9th? Just out of reach.
We're not building 15-minute neighborhoods, we're building 15-minute lies.
Even in one of SLC's "most walkable" areas, 87% of nearby amenities are outside a true 15-minute walk. That cluster of dots at 9th & 9th? Just out of reach.
We're not building 15-minute neighborhoods, we're building 15-minute lies.
I posted the annotated slides for my "Meet Your Mappers" Lightning Talk at #SOTMUS2025
mvexel.prose.sh/20250524-mee...
mvexel.prose.sh/20250524-mee...
Meet Your Mappers
My lightning talk at State of the Map U.S. 2025
mvexel.prose.sh
June 24, 2025 at 5:22 PM
I posted the annotated slides for my "Meet Your Mappers" Lightning Talk at #SOTMUS2025
mvexel.prose.sh/20250524-mee...
mvexel.prose.sh/20250524-mee...
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Sad news - Meta is cutting their budget that includes the work I do on Rapid, so I’m looking for a new job.
If you’re looking to hire someone remote/NYC with solid frontend skills, particularly maps, dataviz, WebGL (but I’m open to anything interesting), let’s talk!
If you’re looking to hire someone remote/NYC with solid frontend skills, particularly maps, dataviz, WebGL (but I’m open to anything interesting), let’s talk!
January 28, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Sad news - Meta is cutting their budget that includes the work I do on Rapid, so I’m looking for a new job.
If you’re looking to hire someone remote/NYC with solid frontend skills, particularly maps, dataviz, WebGL (but I’m open to anything interesting), let’s talk!
If you’re looking to hire someone remote/NYC with solid frontend skills, particularly maps, dataviz, WebGL (but I’m open to anything interesting), let’s talk!
Is it still the Gulf of Mexico? Check here --> gulfofwhat.com you're welcome
January 29, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Is it still the Gulf of Mexico? Check here --> gulfofwhat.com you're welcome
December 23, 2024 at 1:59 AM
Reposted by 🚲 Martijn van Exel 🗺️
OK this is an absolute delight
What happened to the world’s largest CRT? @shankmods.bsky.social went on a quest to find the last surviving Sony 43” tube TV, tracked down from one of only two known photos of the 440-pound behemoth.
What Happened to the World's Largest Tube TV?
YouTube video by Shank Mods
youtu.be
December 22, 2024 at 8:39 PM
OK this is an absolute delight
These specially modded #citroën CX “Tessier” were used to distribute French newspapers to European cities. They would leave Paris in the middle of the night and barrel up the Autoroute to Brussels and Amsterdam at high speed. You’d see them parked in Amsterdam during the day. flic.kr/p/3guPo
enlarge your car now
size does matter
flic.kr
December 22, 2024 at 6:04 PM
These specially modded #citroën CX “Tessier” were used to distribute French newspapers to European cities. They would leave Paris in the middle of the night and barrel up the Autoroute to Brussels and Amsterdam at high speed. You’d see them parked in Amsterdam during the day. flic.kr/p/3guPo
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God Locks Heavenly Gates After Spotting Mormon Missionaries Milling Around Outside
God Locks Heavenly Gates After Spotting Mormon Missionaries Milling Around Outside
THE HEAVENS—Groaning to Himself as the professionally dressed evangelists rounded the corner, the Lord God Almighty reportedly locked the gates of heaven Tuesday after spotting Mormon missionaries mil...
theonion.com
December 22, 2024 at 4:24 PM
God Locks Heavenly Gates After Spotting Mormon Missionaries Milling Around Outside
Yesterday was my last day at Ready. Learned a ton & made new friends in the process. I'm grateful for that!
No career update right now - going to enjoy spending time with loved ones and reconnecting with mapping friends. And that '78 Rhodes is not going to fix itself :)
Happy Holidays y'all!
No career update right now - going to enjoy spending time with loved ones and reconnecting with mapping friends. And that '78 Rhodes is not going to fix itself :)
Happy Holidays y'all!
December 21, 2024 at 9:17 PM
Yesterday was my last day at Ready. Learned a ton & made new friends in the process. I'm grateful for that!
No career update right now - going to enjoy spending time with loved ones and reconnecting with mapping friends. And that '78 Rhodes is not going to fix itself :)
Happy Holidays y'all!
No career update right now - going to enjoy spending time with loved ones and reconnecting with mapping friends. And that '78 Rhodes is not going to fix itself :)
Happy Holidays y'all!
Reposted by 🚲 Martijn van Exel 🗺️
December 21, 2024 at 3:02 AM
New Orleans, Old Charity hospital (2018) flic.kr/p/2qxdL8K #photography
#bw
#architecture
#abandoned
#urbex
#bw
#architecture
#abandoned
#urbex
New Orleans (2018)
Old Charity hospital; abandoned after Katrina
flic.kr
November 30, 2024 at 8:16 PM
New Orleans, Old Charity hospital (2018) flic.kr/p/2qxdL8K #photography
#bw
#architecture
#abandoned
#urbex
#bw
#architecture
#abandoned
#urbex
Reposted by 🚲 Martijn van Exel 🗺️
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/...
Reposted by 🚲 Martijn van Exel 🗺️
BREAKING NEWS: The Great Salt Lake has dropped to 2021 levels, triggering some concern among policymakers tasked with reversing its declines: Great Salt Lake drops back down to 2021 levels www.fox13now.com/news/great-s... #utpol #Utah
Great Salt Lake drops back down to 2021 levels
The Great Salt Lake has dropped to 2021 levels, triggering some concern among policymakers tasked with reversing its declines.
www.fox13now.com
November 20, 2024 at 3:07 PM
BREAKING NEWS: The Great Salt Lake has dropped to 2021 levels, triggering some concern among policymakers tasked with reversing its declines: Great Salt Lake drops back down to 2021 levels www.fox13now.com/news/great-s... #utpol #Utah
Finished #reading app.thestorygraph.com/books/63e14e...
Okay read if you like post-apocalyptic / dystopian fiction.
Okay read if you like post-apocalyptic / dystopian fiction.
American War by Omar El Akkad
An audacious and powerful debut novel: a second American Civil War, a devastating plague, and one...
app.thestorygraph.com
November 15, 2024 at 2:26 AM
Finished #reading app.thestorygraph.com/books/63e14e...
Okay read if you like post-apocalyptic / dystopian fiction.
Okay read if you like post-apocalyptic / dystopian fiction.
