For those who couldn't catch our latest podcast live, here's the recording! Thank you @bdon.org for sharing your thoughts about all things cloud-native maps, and to everyone who tuned in live, especially those joining us from Norway and Egypt in the wee hours! youtu.be/VACq-POg_dw

happy html day ❇️

Indeed… @htmlenergy.bsky.social is all around us

“Fractions of this work will be sold to online buyers, after which the collective will use a hot wire jig to slice the baby apart”

anyone in nyc want to #geobreakfast this Friday? 9:30 AM @ downtown brooklyn mile end deli, reply or DM for rsvp please! (we need a headcount)

come observe my presentation tomorrow (first apply to itp camp two months ago)

blog.greg.technology/2025/05/22/g... 🙏

The business model of food is drinks The business model of transit is real estate The business model of maps is ?

blogging update: i am posting through my dissertation, it is very bare bones and a painfully niche topic but I'm pretending this is me making progress: placing.technology

just opened up limited edition preorders for poetry.camera ~ (it feels weird to do self-promo on bsky but i also want to celebrate our first batch drop!! a long time coming)

The Visual Display of Qualitative Information

I sometimes muse about the savage job-destroying nature of the open source community: hundreds of thousands of developers working tirelessly to unemploy as many of their peers as possible by giving away the code they've written for free.

Make cool stuff. Share it with people

My site now has a search feature! You can also filter by region or theme to narrow results. Technical details: this is a Pagefind implementation, completely static, using the astro-pagefind integration. Overriding parts of the default UI with Tailwind feels like a bit of a kludge but hey, it works.

I don't want gen AI in my geospatial technology. I want

we’re almost there guys. we’re gonna do it. we’re eliminating income taxes. we’re replacing them with only ta… …taxing the unimproved value of land

vector mind, raster soul

Enjoyed being on @jeremyjung.com's Software Sessions podcast! Topics: * Maps as a primitive of the web * The appeal of static sites * @protomaps.com vs. OSM * Dynamics + biz of FOSS vs. SaaS * Thinking about "finishing" projects Listen + read transcript at www.softwaresessions.com/episodes/pro...

I talked to @bdon.org about self hosting static maps with @protomaps.com! He mentioned open source maintainers usually only hear complaints from their users 😣 If someone's project helped you build something let them know! www.softwaresessions.com/episodes/pro...

cooking some test tilesets for new Rasterio PMTiles plugin pmtiles.io?url=https%3A...

This week, I'm working on creating dynamic Open Graph images for various parts of allmaps.org. The first is for latest.allmaps.org, a small website that shows the last 250 maps georeferenced with Allmaps.

I've been very quiet on Bluesky. It's time to change that! Hello, my name is Bert, I'll post about maps and computers.

New example program for generating the minimum viable PMTiles, a single PNG: github.com/protomaps/go...

protomaps is for lovers

"Millions of Chinese know little about America; Yet, many of them know us by reputation and you can be proud of the fact that that reputation is good. The first thing you should learn to say in China is “I am an American.” It is the best passport you can have." upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co...

the quantity of passion in passionfruit relative to its size is kinda low

People think PBCs are many things that they are not

wrote a little 3D interactive clickable map viewer for 400+ GPX traces from @taiwantrailsandtales.com - truly an awesome hiking resource mtn-tw.onrender.com

primitives of euclidean geometry

Tilezen railways at zoom 5. Can inspect the map here by selecting only the transit layer: pmtiles.io?url=https%3A...

N O O R D Z E E

It's not just the gulf! Here's all the places in the U.S. that share a name with foreign countries - and the etymology behind a sliver of them. w/ the data champ @andrewvandam.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Updated 80s.nyc to support HTTPS finally thanks for the tip @chrisamico.bsky.social !

It continues to bother me that it’s possible for me to read newspapers from 100+ years ago and not data journalism from the 10 years ago (when I wrote about this back then, the main cause was technical breakage and not corporate malevolence)

#NICAR25! If you make interactive data visualizations and want to learn more about making them accessible to screen readers, I wrote this article showing how to make basic interactives accessible: joemurph.com/article/deta...

everyone is partying, discovering new music, creating formative memories ...in ogg vorbis

Hands-on session at 3:30 today (Lafayette bay 8F) on interactive maps for newsrooms: schedules.ire.org/nicar-2025/i... repo and slides: github.com/bdon/NICAR25... #nicar #nicar25

Minneapolis #nicar #nicar25 Geobreakfast 🍳 Saturday March 8, 8AM @ Keys at the Foshay (walking distance from marriott) Reply if you’re in so we can get a rough headcount #geobreakfast

i am organizing "QR Show" on March 16th in NYC it's a show about qr codes its website is bonkers, designed by a bonkers person - qrshow.nyc do you make/create/curate/know of/love/hate/breathe/smoke qr codes?? art?? qr code art?? submit your art!! to the show! and then join the show as an artist.

CAMP is opening a show at the MoMa! Those in New York, please come for the show! I'll be there the last week of February. Am a huge fan of all the work CAMP has done and always proud / honoured to have played a small part in its being. moma.org/camp - come hang out in New York!

AMA about my love of maps observablehq.com/blog/maps-an... thanks @allisonhorst.bsky.social for the cosy chat

One thing maybe not discussed enough is the long term opportunity cost of not investing and supporting open source software. Imagine the more and better Blenders, GIMPs, Firefoxs, InkScapes, QGISs etc we would of had (+ could have) if open source was taken more seriously by government and businesses

surreal to work on an open source map and then open your YouTube feed to a short with 12 million views where the first frame is that map (this is also why we didn't clone an existing map style for the @protomaps.com default and instead made it visually distinctive) www.youtube.com/shorts/rc1WE...

I'm also reading a variety of older (ie. 1990s) sources about mapping, and it's interesting how ubiquitously they refer to overhead maps of the earth as being produced by Landsat. Now that we take access to satellite maps for granted, we've somewhat forgotten their technical and space-based origins.

Have you ever wanted to see Sutro Tower up close? Now you can! I'm releasing a very high quality model of the tower that you can easily fly through on your own, thanks to very cool developments in Gaussian splatting 🧵...

Tiling タイリング https://buff.ly/40Uatl3 (Repost/Crosspost) #p5js #math #physics #code #art

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