Gavin McGough

I like computers and maps. Exploring the world of GIS.

Gavin McGoughosgav@vis.social
2025-03-22

@Krisss very kind :D i haven't seen this one for a while!

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2025-03-22

Sittig Cat (1918)
By Julie de Graag

#art #mastoart #cats #caturday catsofmastodon

Vintage artwork of an orange cat to a vlack background
Gavin McGoughosgav@vis.social
2024-07-25

source: Geoff Marshall

it's hard to say who out of #maps enthusiasts or #trains enthusiasts or #lego enthusiasts would enjoy this most, but i know if you've watched a few videos from Geoff then, yeah, you'll enjoy it

youtube.com/watch?v=9WCkRFYnHf

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2024-06-05

Manhattan Bridge, NYC, 2023.

More than a dozen pixels for every story in the naked city at flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/52

#photography

The underside of a large early 20th century building, crossing a river, at night.
Gavin McGoughosgav@vis.social
2024-05-22

what happens when xenocartographer and neogeographer walks into a bar?

#gischat

xenocartographer = @tjukanov

neogeographer = @bdon

(tjukanov ref: youtube.com/watch?v=7J6ixGr_uA)

(bdon ref: mastodon.social/@bdon/11248269)

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brandonbdon
2024-05-22

"Add and Remove skills on your LinkedIn profile”

Gavin McGoughosgav@vis.social
2024-05-22

@gsuberland Channel U vaguely rings a bell, but i can't name anything from then. well... "skepta" is all i can muster.

Gavin McGoughosgav@vis.social
2024-05-22

@gsuberland blimey that's grimey - i never knew it, but nice :D

Gavin McGoughosgav@vis.social
2024-05-01

if you like nature, photography, fractals, and the infinite beauty of Earth then i have a treat for you:

vis.social/tags/lichensubscrib

(aka search for the #lichensubscribe hashtag and enjoy)

#nature #photography #fractals #beauty #earth #lichensubscribe

Gavin McGoughosgav@vis.social
2024-04-26

@foone Vivaldi does that, amongst its many other million settings

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Terence EdenEdent
2024-04-07

🆕 blog! “The Fediverse of Things”

One of the most frustrating things in modern technology is the effort spent trying to artificially restrict abundance. Take, for example, this tale from museum-worker Aaron Cope: I was out with a friend who worked for Twitter and I asked them whether it would be possible for the museum to “create 200,000 Twitter accounts, one […]

👀 Read more: shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/04/the-f

Gavin McGoughosgav@vis.social
2024-03-27

@danielaKay @stevefaeembra @blinry

glitchgallery.org/neon-giraffe

wahey!

thank you to @stevefaeembra for the title, and thank you to @danielaKay for telling me about The Glitch Gallery!

Gavin McGoughosgav@vis.social
2024-03-08

@danielaKay @stevefaeembra that's cool! and that website is delightful. maybe indeed! i'll put a link here if i am so lucky.

Gavin McGoughosgav@vis.social
2024-03-04

@stevefaeembra @danielaKay haha! i am forever changed :P this data is from Lothian Buses themselves. it comes in JSON form via tfe-opendata.readme.io/docs/se - i've since updated my script with a unique ID for each route within each service so the straight lines are gone (but admittedly i like what they added in the image above!)

Gavin McGoughosgav@vis.social
2024-03-03

@stevefaeembra @danielaKay yup, spot on @stevefaeembra! the glitches are because i haven't don't have a single field to uniquely identify each route right now. i used "Destination" so, "Royal Infirmary" for example, has 6 bus services combined into a single line. that causes 5 straight lines that shouldn't be there. the brighter the line the more bus routes traverse that particular street, so a kind of traffic density i suppose?

Gavin McGoughosgav@vis.social
2024-03-02

@walruslifestyle i would be wrong if i said that wasn't right!

Gavin McGoughosgav@vis.social
2024-03-02

not what i was aiming for, but satisfying nevertheless

would anyone like to venture a guess as to what they're looking at?

#gischat

a black canvas with a network of squiggly red lines drawn over it. the red lines have a glowing effect like neon lights. the glowing effect is more intense for some parts of some of the lines. there is a central nucleus of glowyness within the network. there is also a bunch of straight red lines that are less prominent that shouldn't be there. oops.

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