mxfh
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Comment · 8 days ago
Because hosting with some other entity is not what you want for a regional focus where you want to set your own relevance criteria and licensing agreements ideally.
Germany and Austria have quite a bit of local Wikis with more than 20 active editors. Usually as some entity adjacent to the cities archive or run by some local foundation.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regiowiki#Deutschsprachige_Reg...
Comment · 8 days ago
Like german speaking folks didn't invent the same thing 20 times over 20 years ago.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regiowiki
Filtering is all nice, but for a truly local wiki you should get different relevance criteria and different licensing criteria, to be able to negotiate citing local more recent sources.
Comment · 24 days ago
in the further reading there is also a list with a number of recreations of related digitzed routed fonts:
https://aresluna.org/the-hardest-working-font-in-manhattan/r...
Comment · 24 days ago
Kind of ambivalent state of things, a research thread to solve that provenance
issue to some degree of certainty is always only one prompt away too.
Comment · 1 month ago
The study is called Hot Drinks and Oesophageal Cancer, so that's all you need to know about this kind of headline.
Comment · 2 months ago
I once saw a patent on that already earlier somewhere, which i assumed was the reason none of the automotive navigation UI's where doing this.
Just checked again, and it's verbatim this use case and even active until 2030 still:
https://patents.google.com/patent/US20100305853A1/en
3-D map display
Abstract
A computer generated 3-dimensional map display includes a reference icon identifying an observation point in the geographic area defined by the map, the map being presented on a curved surface which extends from a first plane to a second plane which is substantially orthogonal to the first plane. The observation point is located in the first plane. The display is configured such that the height of landmarks and buildings in a defined foreground of the reference icon are presented normal to the first plane, the height of land marks and buildings at a defined far distance are presented normal to the second plane and the height of land marks and buildings in a defined middle ground are presented normal to the non-linear portion of the curved surface. The geographic area represented can be translated along the curved surface to provide a perception that the reference icon is roaming through the displayed geographic area.
By no other than "Here and There" Schulze and Webb Ltd later rebranded to BERG.
The generic use case of a multiperspective camera method for that was arguable covered in a 1997 Disney paper latest.
Multiperspective Panoramas for Cel Animation https://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/fall00/cs597b/p...
Comment · 2 months ago
The main purpose of SpaceX is separating pension funds from their money. /s
Comment · 2 months ago
The offset also forces the gore to be bent in two directions, so it’s also bit tricky, and makes the gore stiffer then it needs to be, dampening the paper there certainly helps.
Comment · 3 months ago
https://observablehq.com/@mxfh/a-papercraft-friendly-world-m...
I made a custom projection once, that's a bit friendlier to fold and comes in one tile.
Has no rendered flaps, but you should get the idea where to place them.
Still somewhat stiff, but managed to actually build two of them, would recommend printing on heavy A3 sheets or bigger.
Anyone is welcome to iterate. There even is a todo list with obvious things to improve upon.
Comment · 3 months ago
Also I don't get the point why you would want them easily scrapeable to begin with.
If you have eyes to read and can walk across YOUR neighborhoods, you would have eventually seen one. I thought that was the whole point? They are not exactly hidden.
I find those public bookcase incidental low barrier offerings to a reading exprience you just stumble upon, nothing you would seek out on a map.
Why would you want to have more people from anywhere else possibly raid them for anything useful? This way nobody is inclined to put anything worthwhile in there if it just ends up outside of their communities. Not that I'm in general pessimistic, just would like to know what is gained by putting the exact location into a map and not just have a list of neigborhoods with a book corner and optional photo on that neigborhood level, if people want to network around them.
Comment · 3 months ago
No reference to Ulead GIF Animator?
Was expecting some time travel step in between.
Comment · 3 months ago
If you submit some map, at least don't have the title contradict the content description:
"the 2,435 most significant landmarks worldwide, ordered by a fame ranking that blends Wikipedia coverage with real readership."
or someone fix the title here please to what on the app right now:
"Map of the world's great castles & fortresses" whatever that means.
Germany's Saxony alone has 700+ fortications with about 100 being touristically interesting. In the map I count like 9.
Comment · 3 months ago
Until robots discover FFT.