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by sarcher 9y ago
Combined Sewer Overflows (CSOs) represent a big problem that is not technically difficult to address. The issue is only money and political will. We have a great example in Maine of how well CSOs can be addressed and minimized in the twin-c
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by sarcher 9y ago
You've summarized only the first four paragraphs of the Santillan's story (which starts in paragraph 7) and covers up to 2009. The meat of the story covers their recovery, 2009-2017, and is contained within the 20+ paragraphs aft
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by sarcher 9y ago
Agreed. Largely I am protected from the worst impacts of the 2018 tax plan, but I'm not an island - the tax plan does my community no favors. It not only favors the wealthy over those who really could benefit from tax relief, but it st
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by sarcher 9y ago
I think the 'tradeoffs of the paradigm' are largely inherent in the concept of GIS software that's useful for a ton of different use cases. Digging into just symbology functions showcases this - it's a broad toolset that
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by sarcher 9y ago
Perhaps our experiences are different, I've noticed the opposite. There will always be a strong role for GIS applications, but I rarely see geospatial problem solving these days that doesn't require some amount of code. I still do
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by sarcher 9y ago
I agree with you. That being said, it's a go-to tool for me when I'm cleaning road networks and for the subsequent network analysis. And that's a hugely underwhelming use-case, I'm touching a fraction of what GRASS does.
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by sarcher 9y ago
I see some comments noting that the EPA needs "serious trimming" and "some serious cleaning" and is an agency that needs to "focus on its core mission" (the implication being that the EPA is currently NOT focus
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by sarcher 9y ago
Good for Amy's, just figured I would plug another vegetarian fast food chain worth eating at: https://www.cloverfoodlab.com/ Thirteen locations in the Boston area.
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by sarcher 9y ago
Nice catch, I should have included the HERS Index. It's a decent standard with wide adoption.
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by sarcher 9y ago
Generally, an easy way to figure it out is to look at where the glass intersects the frame. On a single pane window you'll see the interior frame, a gap (the glass) and the exterior frame. On a double pane you'll see a gasket betw
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by sarcher 9y ago
There are a couple of certification programs out there that are well regarded (with vary levels of real-world usage): Energy Star: https://www.energystar.gov/newhomes/ Zero Energy Ready Homes: https://energy
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by sarcher 9y ago
Most likely your house has double glazed windows - I only see single-glazed windows in antique wooden windows these days (but perhaps it's different outside of New England). Good triple-glazed windows are expensive, but there are some
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by sarcher 9y ago
Spray foam products are excellent for a variety of reasons, but their effects can be overstated concerning air sealing (one of the techniques in the original article - I know you aren't directly addressing air sealing in your comment).
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by sarcher 9y ago
Air-tightness is a spectrum - a reasonably tight house still leaks enough to make up most ventilation needs introduced by an exhaust only ventilation system. Very tight homes may need air inlets (literally fancy holes in the wall somewhere)
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by sarcher 9y ago
Great summation of the issue! ZIP code related issues are a constant problem. Often the administrators of data sets don't know how to geocode a full address, and there are few easy ways to have participants record 'good' geog
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by sarcher 10y ago
I agree, building them out of wood will allow much lower frame costs and greater design control.
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by sarcher 10y ago
Prefab is a loaded term - unfortunately, depending on people's experiences, it can be loaded in very different ways. At YC, there's Acre (Pacific NW, California, Colorado): http://www.acredesigns.com/ I work with
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by sarcher 10y ago
jlarocco laid out a few of the open source options (all of which are quite good at this stage), and when it comes to web mapping I would say ESRI is well matched by Mapbox, CARTO, etc. If you're looking for a specific non-ESRI tool, po
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by sarcher 10y ago
Ha, sometimes I wonder if I've ever had an original idea.
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by sarcher 10y ago
Product idea: automatically generate dimensional metaphors with regional cultural context based on geoIP.
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by sarcher 10y ago
I agree that there doesn't seem to be a consensus, which is why I haven't made progress. The guide you linked to does seem to be more complete than the ones I've seen in the past, thanks! The gallery linked was especially use
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by sarcher 10y ago
I also still have a T400 chugging along with Arch. It got put in storage for a few years until I dug it out while recycling some other junk and realized it still had considerable life in it. I just set someone up with a T420 with a few upgr
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by sarcher 10y ago
The common answer is that it's survivor bias. Every once and a while I run across a home from the 1800s that probably shouldn't have survived, and the shortcuts the builders took are similar to today's shortcuts. Improperly s
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by sarcher 10y ago
There is some good work on this subject being done by good (not all) Low Income Housing Credit developers, but it is difficult. Like many tax credit programs, application, syndication, and compliance is a real expense both in time and focus
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by sarcher 10y ago
Some of the better returns, in my limited experience, are reaped by land and under-improved property speculators/developers (development, I this case, referring to lot subdivision or other methods of locking in construction approvals a
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by sarcher 10y ago
This can be prototyped pretty quickly using Leaflet to serve the zoom-able tile map and topojson to reduce the size of the overlay data (in this case, train tracks and stations). I haven't tried topojson for a map of the lower 48, but
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by sarcher 10y ago
I also would be interested in how people organize vector datasets. Between GRASS, shapefiles, postgres, and geojson files (the four types of file storage I utilize most often) I find keeping organized to require an unusual amount of effort.
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by sarcher 10y ago
I agree, I hope Acre does well. I wouldn't say they are in a crowded market - but they are in a market where existing offerings (prefab or predesigned green homes marketed regionally/nationally) have struggled to make the numbers
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by sarcher 10y ago
Totally agree about prevalence of 4326/3857 as a net positive. Given I still find projection/coordinate representation a little tricky, I think the chances that widespread education on the subject would ever exist to be pretty sli
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by sarcher 10y ago
From my perspective, new projections are very interesting but largely irrelevant until a specific use case is defined. Just minimizing a specific type of projection error isn't typically enough, since a large amount of map comprehensio

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