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Stretching the definition of "live".
by Hamuko 12d ago
Stretching the definition of "live".
- embedding-shape 12d ago"Real-time" been +seconds for decades at this point, pretty different from the "original" meaning, so "live" having the same treatment doesn't feel that out of place.
- psyphy2 12d agolive + seconds feels pretty different from a time laps over months...
- jorams 12d agoThey're calling it "live" and "near real-time" because they're aggregating the data from underlying sources daily, whereas traditionally that happened only on much larger time scales. It's not very fast compared to most things often called "live", so perhaps it's not a great label for this demo viewer, but the goal of the project seems to be to make the data available for research, not so much for this map.
- jeroenhd 12d agoTo be fair, dead birds don't tend to migrate as much (unless they're helped along and stored in a cooler, if you call that migration).