MattBlissett

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by MattBlissett 8y ago
That's correct — I'd forgotten that, as my project has the open data use license. However, as an example, the one-time $40 for Colorado is likely to be much cheaper than generating them yourself, and is probably adequate if you do
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by MattBlissett 8y ago
They're under something like a non-commercial license. Three parts of a map are copyrightable. The map data is © OpenStreetMap under their open license, but OpenMapTiles claim copyright on the cartography of their tiles — since they ar
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by MattBlissett 8y ago
The fastest way, if you don't have resources and don't mind being up to a few months behind, is to use OpenMapTiles vector tiles [1]. The download is an SQLite database with a standard-ish structure (MBTiles), you can either write
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by MattBlissett 8y ago
You can read all of "Kunstformen der Natur" (Artforms of Nature) at the Biodiversity Heritage Library, along with lots of other beautifully illustrated natural science literature. Even though it's old, this is still useful sc
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by MattBlissett 8y ago
These map tiles are based on OpenMapTiles [1], which has a non-commercial side with less-frequent exports of OSM, and a commercial side with frequent updates [2]. The exports can be downloaded as MBTiles (SQLite) databases of vector tiles.
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by MattBlissett 8y ago
This weekend (and another in May) has the City Nature Challenge[1], which encourages people to photograph wildlife -- that definitely includes insects! -- and upload the photos to iNaturalist[2], where naturalists will help to identify them
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by MattBlissett 8y ago
Don't just speculate! http://nature.com/articles/doi:10.1038/nature21709 It had a measurable impact when planting "wild"flowers on 2% of the land alongside English fields, with a little more searchi
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by MattBlissett 9y ago
Even without a requirement to stay particularly up to date, the size of the datasets makes working with OpenStreetMap reasonably complicated. I needed tiles in non-web-standard projections: equirectangular and polar (EPSG:4326, 3575 and 303
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by MattBlissett 9y ago
GBIF, https://www.gbif.org/ , aggregates biodiversity occurrence data (observations, where specimens held in museums are from, etc). Everything is available through an open API, although we don't index threat status. Pe
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by MattBlissett 9y ago
Thanks for reporting, something very strange is happening here. I assume you can see other pages on http://www.gbif.org ? I see successful downloads of the PDF in the Varnish logs, and it is served from the same place as other st
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by MattBlissett 9y ago
Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) | Software Developer | Copenhagen, Denmark | ONSITE, VISA, SALARY:615k DKK http://www.gbif.org/ GBIF is an international organization and open-data research infrastructure, wh
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by MattBlissett 10y ago
I wanted to see the user agent and request headers, since there's another comment about other sites being blocked. I simply looked at basic web server logs. It's a beta site with hardly any traffic, so the only log entries were my
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by MattBlissett 10y ago
I submitted three URLs from GBIF.org (my employer), and two of the people who got them are still browsing 20 minutes later . Pretty sea slugs: https://demo.gbif.org/occurrence/gallery?taxon_key=2292251 Bugs: https:&#
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by MattBlissett 10y ago
Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) | Web Developer | Copenhagen, Denmark | ONSITE VISA http://www.gbif.org/ GBIF is an international organization whose purpose is to make scientific biodiversity data available