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by lukeqsee 6y ago
Founder, Stadia Maps here. We're looking into this, as well as trying to build consensus with the other map vendors on how to approach it. If you're a vendor and what to be part of it, email me (luke at stadiamaps.com).
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by lukeqsee 6y ago
There's also quite a few barracks / bases around, but not usually in places one drives.
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by lukeqsee 6y ago
A significant change here is the licensing. Mapbox now reserves their right for their libraries to phone home, so if you're using v2, you should be aware of their data collection policies.
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by lukeqsee 6y ago
Yes, thanks to the sibling comment, I'm more aware than I was when I made my initial comment. The startup bent seems to be toward cutting edge in hard sciences (bio, materials, etc.), and as a result, most of the startups are outside m
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by lukeqsee 6y ago
The last link is what I was looking for, thanks. More startup infrastructure is there than I was aware of. I’m not certain it changes my overall assessment, though: I wouldn’t chose to move to Switzerland based on its vibrant community of t
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by lukeqsee 6y ago
That’s a good quote, I shall use it in the future. :) I never disputed that there’s lots of spin-offs from ETH, but I was unaware of the precise count. It’s higher than I thought. Thanks for bringing the data. However, even with a few dozen
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by lukeqsee 6y ago
Good point. I should have qualified. ETH is an excellent school—I'd be happy to have an ETH degree! They produce tons of good research in computer science (especially geospatial), material science, and others. I think Google is especia
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by lukeqsee 6y ago
As an American immigrant to Switzerland, don’t move here to be on the cutting technical edge. You will be sorely disappointed. It’s a function of societal mentality (slow to change as a way of ensuring enduring stability) and size (fewer pe
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by lukeqsee 6y ago
Switzerland is also very small, as countries go. The longest train route is IC 1 (St. Gallen <-> Geneva) going from the (almost) easternmost point to the westernmost point, and it’s 4 hours (it does have a few higher speed sections cl
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by lukeqsee 6y ago
Practice. Passion. Stubbornness. Patience. (And a bit of innate skill and luck.) Everyone I've known who has mastered something simply has done it a million times, observed what they did right and wrong, corrected it, and leveled up ea
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by lukeqsee 6y ago
That's perfect! I'll keep an eye out for that.
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by lukeqsee 6y ago
This same client is a bit of a penny-pincher. Are there any plans to open this up so we could host the infrastructure and then pull a SQL import dump or something along those lines after running the CLI part? This would reduce your ongoing
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by lukeqsee 6y ago
As billed, this is good stuff. I have a client who has millions of rows of data in production—and we have to run our test suite against production because they have no curated staging data set. This would allow us to save multiple minutes e
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by lukeqsee 6y ago
Yes. We use all three at different points of the stack for different purposes. It's great.
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by lukeqsee 6y ago
As a load balancer, NGINX is subpar in almost every feature comparison, especially at the open-source (free to use) tier. HAProxy gives you the following that are musts for load balancing (in my opinion), that NGINX does not, at least not e
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by lukeqsee 6y ago
Sounds like par for the course. I compiled it from source on our edge servers for a long time (as opposed to packaged), simply so I could apply these real time patches as needed.
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by lukeqsee 6y ago
HAProxy is a unique piece of software. I’ve had the privilege to interact directly with Willy (the main developer for many years, still the project lead) on the mailing list, in person at the conference, and even though I’ve never paid a di
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by lukeqsee 6y ago
The difficulty depends on what size of market you're trying to serve at what reliability target with geographic constraints, how often you want to update your data, and how many map tiles / second you want to serve. Consider a few
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by lukeqsee 6y ago
Correct. OSM has spawned many companies, Mapbox being the most well-known that offers general services.
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by lukeqsee 6y ago
For anyone looking to migrate to an OpenStreetMap-backed map and location data provider, https://switch2osm.org has a good overview of how, why, and who is offering services. I’m partial to my own (in bio), of course, but I woul
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by lukeqsee 6y ago
No, it already supports basically every other format, and has for a long time. The new bit is that it supports MVTs, not that it newly supports any sort of vector tiles.
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by lukeqsee 6y ago
> It's worth noting postgis has exported to mapbox vector tiles for some time (ST_AsMVT). It's pretty conceivable to use ST_AsMVT now in QGIS to power a layer or two. We use QGIS pretty extensively to work with PostGIS tables a
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by lukeqsee 6y ago
In case anyone was wondering what the broader appeal here is—the plugin is not specific to MapTiler. It looks like any Mapbox GL JSON compatible-theme can be used ( https://github.com/maptiler/qgis-maptiler-plugin#load-a
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by lukeqsee 6y ago
Can confirm, from Switzerland. I was quite confused why my query for a well-known brand name was returning nothing. Bang queries still work.
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by lukeqsee 7y ago
Yes. For me it correlates to elevated stress either in the moment or the few days (or weeks) before. If I've also not slept well or enough, I notice it faster. I no longer consider it a thing to be fixed, but a fact of life. Delivering
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by lukeqsee 7y ago
Thanks for the kind words, KingOfCoders! I'm cofounder of Stadia Maps, and I'm happy to field any questions folks may have.
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by lukeqsee 7y ago
Based on the article, I’m not sure there’s enough information to even determine if this is a deferred payment scheme (interest continues to accrue) or a postponement without additional interest accrual. Certainly, if this affects you, check
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by lukeqsee 7y ago
Since it’s in the 60GHz range, that means it would basically require line-of-sight to function, right? Not downplaying the significance, but I’m not sure we’ll get WiFi at 1.5km just yet because of it.
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by lukeqsee 7y ago
> get everyone to reach a consensus about the real world that we all live in. I think that’s the point. This is impossible. The only way the entire world agrees on every single boundary is, barring world peace another way, a single world
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by lukeqsee 7y ago
Ah, yes, valid. Unfortunately that’s precious few public companies.

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