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nirab.bsky.social
Open data, Maps, Civic Tech
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A lightweight JavaScript library (~1 kB) that creates a static map image centered on a specified latitude and longitude. It leverages OpenStreetMap (OSM) tiles to render an arbitrarily-sized map in any container, with custom zoom levels. www.cssscript.com/static-map-i...

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Seville, Spain eliminated 5,000 car parking spaces and built an 80 km protected cycling network in just 18 months with 32 million €. Result: An average 70,000 bike trips a day. Leadership.

submitted 18 days ago • 35 comments

Chengdu: an enormous Chinese city (21 million people) that most Americans have never heard of (I know it mostly because it was the wartime capital of Chiang Kai-Shek's regime). It had zero subway/train transit in 2010. Look at this expansion. America could never. Gasped when the ring line came in.

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

"I wouldn’t be able to find a commercial reason for founding DeepSeek even if you ask me to,” said founder Liang Wenfeng: www.wired.com/story/deepse...

submitted 34 days ago • 2 comments

How to Install DeepSeek R1 for Free in VS Code Using Cline or Roo Code softtechhub.us/2025/01/26/h... #DeepSeekR1 #VSCode #Cline #RooCode #FreeInstallation #CodingTutorial #SoftwareDevelopment #TechTips #OpenSource #Programming #DeveloperCommunity #AIIntegration #CodeEditor

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

Seems like an interesting and useful free resource for learning geospatial software development. I will try to follow the course.

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

The Nazis think this was a Nazi salute, but, hey, what would they know?

submitted 39 days ago • 977 comments

It’s interesting that the emojis show the earth from three angles 🌎 🌍 🌏 but not the fourth. Though 🔵 is a fair approximation of what it would look like. People underestimate the Pacific.

submitted 84 days ago • 591 comments

Orcas have started wearing dead salmon as hats again, just fyi www.iflscience.com/wearing-a-sa...

submitted 93 days ago • 383 comments

The world’s 280 million electric bikes and mopeds are cutting demand for oil 4x more than electric cars due to their staggering uptake in China and elsewhere.

submitted 89 days ago • 49 comments

Buildings in Barcelona. Created with Observable Plot with data from Overture Maps. (✅ @tanyashapiro.bsky.social) #30DayMapChallenge Day 29 Overture #ObservablePlot

submitted 91 days ago • 3 comments

“They cut speed limits, changed street design, removed space for cars… Now it appears that work is paying off. #Oslo & #Helsinki are reaping the rewards of committed action on making their roads safer, reducing pedestrian fatalities to zero last year.” #VisionZero www.theguardian.com/world/2020/m...

submitted 99 days ago • 36 comments

yle.fi/a/74-20123004 It's quite fascinating that the dietary recommendations are similar to food habits of many people in Nepal.

submitted 99 days ago • 0 comments

Throwback to the ABC trek. October/November is the best time to visit Nepal for trekking as the weather is awesome and it is also festival season.

submitted 100 days ago • 0 comments

Not sure if there is already an alternate way of doing this but 1 thing I am missing in blue sky is the ability to save some posts. There are some posts with awesome resources that I would like to save for later reference but not sure how I can do that.

submitted 100 days ago • 0 comments

My maps show how far you csn cycle in an hour from the center of cities like Amsterdam 🇳🇱, Copenhagen 🇩🇰, Ghent 🇧🇪, or Strasbourg 🇫🇷. Curious about creating these isochrone maps yourself? 🔗 Check out the tutorial here: youtu.be/UNGzJrx8VrE #GIS #RStats #maps #dataviz

submitted 102 days ago • 4 comments

Here’s a cool fact I came across today: the world’s population doubled between 1975 and 2020 (nothing new there). But at the same time, built-up areas almost tripled! You can really see this infrastructure boom in action with this video of Las Vegas growing over the years, created with Landsat data

submitted 100 days ago • 2 comments

Foursquare just open sourced their 100 million place point of interest dataset! Some notes on poking around with it using DuckDB (it's Parquet files on S3) simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/20/...

submitted 101 days ago • 23 comments

Just thinking about a #location activates mental #maps in the brain. MIT neuroscientists have found that the brain uses the same cognitive representations whether navigating through space physically or mentally.

submitted 101 days ago • 0 comments

A meteor shower

submitted 102 days ago • 376 comments

I had a lot of fun with #Python in the last year, but whoever thinks that #Java dependency management with #Maven and #Toolchains is hard, did never experience Python, Pip, virtual environments and system package managers, let alone breaking changes in minor versions all over the place.

submitted 102 days ago • 41 comments

Just when I thought I've seen it all, a PostgreSQL extension shows up that allows you to embed a SQLite database inside a table. github.com/frectonz/pgl...

submitted 101 days ago • 87 comments

We may have a hope addiction problem.

submitted 105 days ago • 46 comments

The last Photo I took.... Hopefully the first of many more over here on Bluesky...

submitted 105 days ago • 686 comments