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The new GDAL 3.11 CLI has context-aware bash completion and spelling suggestions – options, formats, sub-commands, and more! No more fumbling for inconsistent names or orderings.

Join us at the GDAL CLI Deep Dive webinar on June 3rd at 1400 UTC to learn more. https://numfocus-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_oW6mA6DNSKe8FUTm1-tkRQ#/registration

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For all you slackers out there, we are offering a flash sale on State of the Map US tickets! Enjoy 15% off General Admission using the code SLACKER-LOVE. Act fast because we've only reserved 15 tickets for this sale! Snag your tickets here: https://bit.ly/sotmus2025tix

#StateoftheMapUS #OpenStreetMap #slackers

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https://protomaps.com/blog/new-pmtiles-io/

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You know what never gets old? Watching knowledge spread one @wikidata sitelink addition at a time.
Today there are already Wikipedia articles about Pope Leo XIV in 123 languages and if you watch the Wikidata Item's edit history you'll see when the next one gets written: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6109517

The sitelink section of the Wikidata Item for Pope Leo XIV showing the list of Wikipedias that have an article about him.

A screenshot of a part of the edit history of the Wikidata Item for Pope Leo XIV showing new sitelinks being added.

@rbellinger Transportation Alternatives petition is here - https://act.transalt.org/a/repeal-the-criminalization-of-biking-policy

@gollyhatch criticism is good and helps the project grow. I'll note to mention it to people when I help them sign up.

@gollyhatch the availability of seeing user's edits and interacting is great for building a local community. For example messaging fellow local users about meetups or asking about whether they surveyed another nearby feature. There's even https://welcome.osm.be/ to help with finding new users.

I agree though that if you are concerned about personal privacy you should use an alias or rotate accounts, you can still interact without being identifiable. Or just edit on your own, that's ok too.

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🎉 New paper out: CoolWalks for active mobility in urban street networks
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-97200-2

We study the potential for shaded walking, using building footprints and street networks.

Higher sun avoidance alpha implies choice of routes that are not physically shortest but that minimize experienced length. (A) Example of three different links connecting two nodes in the street network, from shortest and least shaded (1, blue) to longest and most shaded (3, green). (B) The choice of which link to take depends on the pedestrian’s sun avoidance alpha. Increasing sun avoidance increases the experienced length because walking in the sun becomes less tolerable. At the threshold between different regimes, for example 1 (blue) to 2 (orange), the experienced length of the shaded link 2 becomes shorter than the experienced length of sunny link 1, implying a preference for link 2 despite longer physical length (dashed orange line). (C,D) Generalization from links to shortest paths with an example of five routes.

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Ever needed to simplify street networks? I did. And it is a pain. So we joined forces with @anavybor and @JamesGaboardi and wrote an algorithm that does that for us. And can do for you, as it is available as a Python package called `neatnet`.

Here's a short blog about it - https://martinfleischmann.net/simplification-of-street-networks/

And here's, not so short preprint - https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.16198

But you probably want the package. That is here - https://uscuni.org/neatnet.

Happy coding!

#python #networks #geopython

Original network on the left, simplified one on the right.

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Just another park made pretty in OSM - it deserves more than just being a lonely green polygon! #micromapping

@ian I imagine these are the same addresses that were imported into OpenStreetMap from the E911 dataset (or another one, not sure) a couple years ago. (https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/New_York_(state)/NYS_GIS_SAM_Address_Points_Import)

I wonder what we're missing with these updates...

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Every three months I get an email from Craig in the New York State GIS department with a new set of addresses for OpenAddresses. An hour of automated processing later and we've got updated addresses available for everyone to use!

(And a pretty cool picture of the data, too)

A map of the state of New York with a dot for every one of the millions of addresses in the state.

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today's fun! Hoot-Nanny The Magic Designer is a spirograph predecessor from the 1930s (originally produced in 1933)

box for the Hoot-Nanny The Magic Designer, green with kaleidoscope like designs on it

the hoot-nanny magic designer, a green metal device with a spinning platter in the center and several gears around it, with a pencil in a compass-like device for drawing on paper on the platter

@BenRossTransit looks like there was a state bill that would have given them more power to do something but it stalled out last year - https://www.wbaltv.com/article/out-of-state-virginia-license-plate-registration-house-bill-332/46826156

Ariel Kadouri boosted:

I made a thing! :lgbtqosm: https://github.com/Lumikeiju/pride-map

Introducing Pride Map, an Ultra-powered visualization of LGBTQ+-friendliness data in OpenStreetMap!

#OpenStreetMap #pride

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Psst. Need 360 camera gear for mapping?

Mapillary is expanding their collaboration with OpenStreetMap US. Capturing this data supports remote mapping and urban transformation.
https://blog.mapillary.com/update/2025/04/10/announcing-camera-grant-program-v2
#mapillary #openstreetmap

@mvexel with the foil you can then unwrap it and put it straight in the oven/toaster.

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New on the blog: A Usefully Useless Projection. I have released a free wall #map, in my new asymmetric monstrosity projection. Prints are also available if someone wants to shock me by buying one.

(The post also explains how/why I made this)

https://somethingaboutmaps.wordpress.com/2025/04/10/a-usefully-useless-projection/

A world map, in a strange-looking, highly interrupted projection. The water is a grey blue and varies in lightness by depth. The land is mainly tan/brown, with some variations in lightness. The projection has various bulbous and/or spiky protrustions. The title at the bottom "The Physical World" can be read. The map is in a simulated black frame, on a subtly textured background.

A detailed view of part of the map, from a low angle. Australia and New Zealand are the focus. The projection changes suddenly along the parallel that passes through North Island. Sharp angles can be seen in the graticule.

A detailed view of part of the map, from a low angle. The focus is on the northern two-thirds of Africa. Along the Prime Meridian, there is a major interruption cutting Europe in half, also going through parts of north Africa.

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arXiv is freshly hiring for 3 positions:

- Software Engineer
- DevOps Software Engineer
- Software Engineer Scientist

US-only, NYC-based, hybrid/remote possible.

Share and help us build a backbone of Open Science.

https://info.arxiv.org/hiring/index.html

#openscience #arxiv #hiring

@mvexel my old MacBook is on its last legs. I've since started using a desktop for most personal things.

I have considered getting a Linux laptop when I feel the need to go mobile again. It looks like they've come a long way based on these reviews - https://www.wired.com/story/best-linux-laptops/

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