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Explore the world of form with Morphology (2017)(mapzen.com)
1 points by drewda 9y ago|0 comments
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by drewda 9y ago
To be more precise, I meant storefronts, a few bike lanes, some trees, and then an "open air sewer for automobiles that pay no direct usage fees but still take up huge amounts of urban space per person" ;) Snide remarks aside, the
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by drewda 9y ago
It's exciting to think ahead to what that part of Mission Bay and Potrero might feel like someday when the train tracks are put in an underground tunnel (for Caltrain and high-speed rail to the Transbay Center) and I-280 is turned into
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by drewda 9y ago
At Mapzen, all our code is open source, from front-end UIs to back-end "glue." Have a look at: - web and mobile SDKs: http://github.com/mapzen/ - map rendering library: http://github.com/tangr
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by drewda 9y ago
I found this recent article on the history of Velodyne interesting: https://www.forbes.com/sites/alanohnsman/2017/08/08/how-a-34...
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by drewda 9y ago
Many public transit agencies provide both static and real-time data. - static data often is sharing using the "GTFS" specification, which includes stop locations, route geometries, scheduled trips, etc. See http://gtfs.
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A “data-driven” approach to improving HMM map-matching(mapzen.com)
1 points by drewda 9y ago|0 comments
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Bootleg: Simple deployment and server automation for Elixir(hexdocs.pm)
1 points by drewda 9y ago|0 comments
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by drewda 9y ago
Nah, no need for new ML approaches. It's just time for the pendulum to swing back again from the current craze of data-driven/"deep learning"/continuous modeling to the alternative of symbolic/"Good Old-Fa
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by drewda 9y ago
I'm all for Sci-Hub disrupting the dominance of RELX Group (a.k.a. Elsevier) and other for-profit publishers that make such a big profit off the backs of researchers (who write and edit for free) and grant-making organizations (who fun
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by drewda 9y ago
If you'd like to try map matching as a hosted API right away, see screenshots, demos, and more at https://mapzen.com/blog/map-matching/ Context: This is a link in to Valhalla documentation. Valhalla is an ope
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by drewda 9y ago
Seems like the Scala and SBT equivalent of https://npm.runkit.com/ (which allows in-browser use of Node and NPM packages)
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by drewda 9y ago
It's not a stand-alone chart-drawing API, like Google Charts, but here's where AWS is getting into the "lines and bars" business: https://quicksight.aws/
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by drewda 9y ago
See the forward to Neil Postman's "Amusing Ourselves to Death": > "But we had forgotten that alongside Orwell's dark vision, there was another--slightly older, slightly less well known, equally chilling: Aldous H
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by drewda 9y ago
If you're more comfortable with Python, have a look at Mapzen's set of tools for working with MVT-formatted vector tiles: https://github.com/tilezen/ (Disclosure: I'm a Mapzen staffer.)
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by drewda 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_marketing
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by drewda 10y ago
Ha! I got a good laugh out of this comment. For those wanting the "inside baseball" reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair
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by drewda 10y ago
Thanks for the pointer to GraphFrames. I was unaware that effectively supersedes GraphX. I had been thinking back to https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-3789 and now that I've doubled checked that iss
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by drewda 10y ago
Speaking of Python wrappers for Spark, do you know if this release allows use of GraphX from Python? Or is that still only available through the Scala libraries?
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by drewda 10y ago
Re Sprockets, I found this recent talk at RailsConf about the history, problems, and future of Sprockets maintenance and development to be an interesting read: http://schneems.com/2016/05/31/saving-sprockets.h
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by drewda 10y ago
... and Microsoft is far more willing than Apple to put effort into backwards compatibility.
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“Transit Nerds Get a Handy New Tool for Easily Turning Data into Apps”(wired.com)
2 points by drewda 10y ago|0 comments
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by drewda 10y ago
Glad to answer any questions here. (I'm a Mapzen staffer.) Or we're available at hello@mapzen.com, @mapzen and @transitland
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JavaScript libraries that power Google's interactive LED lobby artwork(github.com)
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by drewda 10y ago
I've also been surprised that there are no JSON editors that are both powerful and attractive. The one that comes closest in my experience is http://www.jsoneditoronline.org/ but I'd appreciate pointers to any oth
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by drewda 10y ago
I've seen multiple UPS Stores with 3D printers on-site. (Granted I do live in the SF Bay Area.)
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by drewda 10y ago
Another option to consider: Valhalla, the only open-source routing engine that can plan multimodal journeys (car, transit, walk, cycle) around the world. It can, for example, plan a journey on foot, rail, and bus that crosses multiple metro
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by drewda 10y ago
An open data gazetteer https://whosonfirst.mapzen.com/
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Hilary Putnam, Giant of Modern Philosophy, Dies at 89(nytimes.com)
1 points by drewda 11y ago|0 comments
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by drewda 11y ago
West Coast point of comparison: http://www.willowgarage.com/pages/about-us/history

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