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Should web maps be centralized services?(bdon.org)
3 points by bdon 6y ago|0 comments
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by bdon 6y ago
DXF is useful as a minimal exchange format; For developers I would recommend a look at OpenNURBS(.3dm): https://www.rhino3d.com/opennurbs/ It's a format as well as C++ implementation that's freely licensed an
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by bdon 6y ago
I suspect Leaflet's current install base is many times that of any alternative - it's certainly not dead, and I'd argue its simplicity makes it ideal for most basic mapping applications.
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by bdon 6y ago
I don't see an issue with this - It's well understood that this can happen with permissive licenses, although often it's from BSD -> GPL/copyleft license.
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by bdon 6y ago
Mapbox has been extremely generous in releasing their rendering libraries under a permissive license. Creating a map renderer that matches the user experience of Google Maps is a FAANG-level effort, and Mapbox GL also encompasses: * A sing
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by bdon 6y ago
I don't think there is an area-preserving projection that can work for all the scales online map services are designed for. If you are creating your own global-extent map at a limited range of scales, most of the OSM tooling for exampl
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by bdon 6y ago
Precomputing raster tiles became painful once screen densities started to demand @2x and even @3x resolution images. https://github.com/go-spatial/fresco and https://github.com/maputnik/editor are
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by bdon 6y ago
Vector tiles with OpenLayers doesn't feel as smooth to me compared to MapboxGL or Tangram https://openlayers.org/en/latest/examples/mapbox-style.html but it seems to be improving rapidly.
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by bdon 6y ago
You are describing a problem inherent to using PostgreSQL, not OpenStreetMap itself. My presentation is specifically about my solution to this, which can easily import planet.pbf in 7-8 hours on a laptop with SSD, and can cut extracts for c
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by bdon 6y ago
Most production raster tile systems use osm2pgsql + Mapnik. These are not easy to install. You may need to generate two or three sets of raster tiles for different pixel densities. The total number of tiles will explode past around zoom lev
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by bdon 6y ago
Because user expectations are high for interactive web maps - zooming and panning should retrieve new data near-instantly. OpenStreetMap is an unwieldy but not "big" dataset - it fits easily on a consumer grade SSD. You need to in
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A look inside TSMC(economist.com)
116 points by bdon 7y ago|65 comments
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by bdon 7y ago
Interesting. How would you respond to an argument that the output of a ML model is transformative / fair use? Would your argument apply to this specific application, or to ML in general?
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by bdon 7y ago
Neato. What are the copyright implications of commercializing this though?
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How to design perfect software products (2013)(hintjens.com)
93 points by bdon 8y ago|21 comments
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American Dreams in a Chinese Takeout(theringer.com)
2 points by bdon 8y ago|0 comments
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by bdon 8y ago
Not mentioned in the article is that the official blue garbage bags need to be purchased. Garbage collection is effectively pay-by-volume. They're cheap, but the fact that they're not free changes people's behavior towards us
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by bdon 8y ago
I like this topic a lot. Part of the reason this works is because households in Taiwan are much more likely to be multi-generational - there's usually someone home in the evening to take the trash out at the scheduled time. In higher e
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by bdon 8y ago
Dev here, what browser are you on?
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The coming corpus-based reexamination of the Second Amendment(languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu)
3 points by bdon 8y ago|1 comments
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by bdon 9y ago
Good catch, thanks. I use Safari so didn't notice... favicon is updated now.
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by bdon 9y ago
Those were in St. Louis, MO https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pruitt–Igoe
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Land Lines – Chrome Experiments(lines.chromeexperiments.com)
4 points by bdon 10y ago|1 comments
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by bdon 10y ago
That's certainly the case, I'm just pointing out that price really isn't a factor in buying the 2015 model over the 2016 one unless you specifically want 128GB disk.
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by bdon 10y ago
It's an appealing upgrade product to current Air owners (myself included) that want to keep roughly the same form factor without getting the slower MacBook, so yes, I do care about the slightly smaller dimensions.
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by bdon 10y ago
The extra $200 is because the 2016 base model starts at 256GB disk instead of 128. If you configure the 2015 model with 256GB the price is the same.
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Show HN: The Average American Athlete(pureinformation.net)
2 points by bdon 10y ago|0 comments
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by bdon 10y ago
Yes, from the SF city open data portal: https://data.sfgov.org/Geographic-Locations-and-Boundaries/B... ? We're working on importing this data into OpenStreetMap: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki
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Musk: Falcon lands on droneship, tips over post landing [video](instagram.com)
30 points by bdon 11y ago|10 comments
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NSSM – The Non-Sucking Service Manager(nssm.cc)
13 points by bdon 11y ago|6 comments

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