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by enf 14y ago
Congratulations! You are Le Corbusier and you have invented midcentury modernist city planning. In all seriousness, if you are going to build a city with no vehicles on the surface, Towers in a Park is not the way to do it. There are many s
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by enf 14y ago
I would love to make live versions of these, but the rate of data coming in is slow enough that they don't work very well in real time—even New York only has one geotagged tweet every 4 seconds, so using it would mostly be sitting and waiti
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by enf 14y ago
I really should clean up the source code and release most of it. The toolchain for most of them is kind of ridiculous: giant flat text files feeding through Unix pipelines and Perl scripts into PostScript files and Ghostscript. A lot of the
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by enf 14y ago
I've tended to make them statically, but I really ought to go back and update some of them with more data.
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by enf 14y ago
Thanks, and sorry the maps aren't useful to you. They're artifacts of the process of trying to understand the world, and maybe someday I'll make it all the way there.
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by enf 14y ago
Caseorganic is a woman, by the way.
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by enf 15y ago
TIGER is the Census geo data set. This is "zip code tabulation areas," not strict zip codes. The Census does update its maps more frequently than every 10 years though.
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by enf 15y ago
The reason you can only search for whole words is that it's straightforward to build an inverted index for whole words, but it takes dramatically more storage to make an index to search for arbitrary substrings, since there are exponentiall
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by enf 15y ago
No, privately owned horses were always a rarity. Walking was the dominant form of transportation in all towns and cities.
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by enf 15y ago
Architects spend a lot of time worrying about accessibility requirements. Accessibility, fire safety, and car parking are the major factors that shape buildings.
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by enf 15y ago
When you are making the lights anticipate the every move of cars, please make them anticipate the every move of pedestrians too.
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by enf 15y ago
And also Carfree Cities by J.H. Crawford, which advocates a form of linked neighborhoods similar to what is described here. http://www.carfree.com/book/
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by enf 15y ago
Thanks, glad you liked it!
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by enf 15y ago
Thanks! Glad you liked it.
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by enf 15y ago
It would be great to see if there was a market for a premium bus service, but your competition is probably municipal buses, not subways, since your bus can't compete with subways on passenger capacity (limited to 62 feet) or speed (subject
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by enf 15y ago
If you're going from the East Bay to the South Bay every day, the trip will make you insane. I did this for far too long, and it was a terrible idea. Even in the best of circumstances, it takes half an hour to get from Oakland or Berkeley
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by enf 15y ago
Likewise. The left and right versions look close to identical to me.
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by enf 15y ago
5000 people per square kilometer is only 20 people per acre, and any standard rowhouse neighborhood has 14 lots per acre, so this is only 1.4 people per house, a much lower density than you would get with large families or with multistory a
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by enf 15y ago
That sounds like a cloverleaf interchange... Once a very popular choice to build because it only requires building one bridge, now less common because of that problem and because they use land very inefficiently.
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by enf 15y ago
Only in facial recognition would it be considered a breakthrough to have a 30% chance of coming up with one successful match plus nine false positives! It's kind of amazing how poorly this stuff still works.
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by enf 15y ago
At the University of Chicago it was called the "pic book" instead.
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by enf 15y ago
Registering a domain name was pretty important if you wanted to be able to send and receive e-mail.
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by enf 15y ago
Oh, I wasn't thinking of places that far north as part of Silicon Valley. Didn't mean to exclude them.
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by enf 15y ago
Palo Alto and Mountain View have real places; the rest is pretty much all miserable sprawl. I miss working in downtown Palo Alto.
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by enf 15y ago
People also take a lot of pictures of local businesses, although looking at Street View for that street that also seems a little unlikely. Maybe it is one of those people with a bicycle helmet camera taking pictures of their commute every
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by enf 15y ago
And the lines connect places where the same person took multiple pictures reasonably close together in time and distance.
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by enf 15y ago
Thanks for the publicity!
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by enf 16y ago
A lot of the delay in getting an initial GPS fix is downloading the almanac for the satellites at the very slow GPS bit rate. The iPhone 4 probably periodically retrieves the almanac over GSM instead, allowing much faster location fixes.
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by enf 16y ago
Pretty amazing. My tips to anyone else trying this out: * Remember that cd was spelled chdir in v6 * "stty -lcase" will make it stop putting everything in caps
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by enf 16y ago
Yes, if you make the vehicleLocations request without specifying a route ( http://webservices.nextbus.com/service/publicXMLFeed?command... ) you get the locations of all the vehicles at once.

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