Roads! (Pivot, I'm just doing Simcity in R now) #RStats #rayshader #rayrender

TOMORROW NIGHT! RED EMMA'S! COME GET YOU SOME REGIONAL GAY HISTORY IN A CUTE LIL BOOK!

📍 Interesting early-stage project: RQGIS Console An R console integrated directly into QGIS -- letting you write and run R code inside QGIS with full access to your active project (layers, CRS, extent, and metadata). https://github.com/jsmendozap/rqgis #qgis #rstats #gis #geocomputation #rspatial

Our road mappers have been hard at work adding major highways throughout the United States. #Route66 is more or less fully mapped from 1926 to present between the Colorado River and Seligman, and several related routes are mapped too, thanks to Matthew Anderson. #SavingPlaces

More experiments in civic vibecoding: "Chicagoland Explorer," a take on Census Reporter/Social Explorer built on CMAP's community data snapshots and Rob Paral's historic Chicago data. As always, very interested in feedback about what would make this more useful. danielkayhertz.com/chicagoland-...

Baltimore friends, come out to @redemmas.org on June 16 to hear my bae Whit Strub talk about his latest book, a biography of radical left filmmaker Robert Kramer. redemmas.org/events/whitn...

By popular demand housing-developer-game.dhertz.workers.dev

Maryland election thread! Early voting begins on the 11th so let’s look at what’s going on shall we?

YAML deserves a defense! opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-05... The complaints are real but historical as they describe YAML 1.1, not the 1.2 spec that fixed them in 2009. The post traces the full history and introduces py-yaml12, a fast Rust-backed Python library for the modern spec. Hope you enjoy!

Someone brought up variable naming and it reminded me of how much fun I had writing this blog post #rstats #databs benharrap.com/post/2025-03...

Gribouille v0.1.0: a Grammar of gGraphics for Typst. Modelled on ggplot2, drawn on cetz. Declare plots with aes, geom-*, facet-wrap and themes; compose hoists a shared legend. One toolchain, data straight to PDF. mickael.canouil.fr/posts/2026-0... #typst #rstats #grammarOfGraphics #ggplot2 #cetz

New report from the Family Housing Fund written by @curaumn.bsky.social based on a survey of over 1k tenants living in single-family homes in the Twin Cities. Big takeaway: Large landlords (inclduing private equtiy, and REITs) scored worse across all metrics even after controling for other factors 🧵

Glad the #NCHRP report I assisted finally published; to estimate the benefits of closing gaps in sidewalks, bikeways & trails apps.trb.org/cmsfeed/TRBN... Happy #Bike Month @bikepedantic.bsky.social @jenniferdillpsu.bsky.social

📣 The Call for Papers for FOSS4G NA is open! Share your work through presentations, workshops, lightning talks, or posters. Topics include GeoAI, Cloud-Native Geo, Climate, and Open Data. 🌐 Submit your proposal today! www.foss4gna.org/cfp... #GIS #Geospatial #OpenSource

On this day in 1933, Nazis raided the Magnus Hirschfeld library in Berlin. The world’s greatest collection of LGBTQ books and scientific papers were looted and later burned, erasing decades of research into sexuality and gender identity. ‘Where they burn books, in the end they will burn humans too’.

#gischat #geosky join us!!! This is the best conference I've been to for learning about and sharing workflows for open source geospatial tools. This is how I learn the things and build the community I need to do my job well.

This kind of mixed use urban planning is illegal in America

Philly folks on here: would welcome information about our incoming CEO of city schools, Dr Dawson who currently serves as your deputy superintendent. Looks like he's had lots of shorter stints in Philly, Birmingham, Atlanta, Orlando, Jacksonville. EdD from Northcentral U but no diss online.

We want it all New design collab with @harebrained.bsky.social

A shocking new poll result: Many Americans somehow don't have a favorite dinosaur. And only 6% give the correct answer (triceratops). Check out YouGov's new polling on Americans and dinosaurs: yougovamerica.substack.com/p/whats-your...

fyi the new bench at charles/25th is the exact same one that the mayor sat on during his sotc speech last week (trust me im a woodworker)

Baltimore families: SB554 is being voted on by the City Delegation tomorrow morning. Senator Hayes is still pushing to move and consolidate power for board appointments away from families and young people and toward the mayor and Annapolis. Please call your delegate and urge a no vote.

Wishing you and yours a very merry Confederate Surrender Day.

I made a Quarto extension ('cascade') because I was too lazy to copy-paste slide headings. DRY principle? More like "I refuse to type the same title twice (or more)" principle (also '---' for headless slide? Really?!). 😇😎 github.com/mcanouil/quarto-revealjs-cascade #Quarto #QuartoPub #Slidecrafting

WE DID IT! Our illegal union @uam-umd.bsky.social is a lot less illegal today. 12,000 contingent faculty in MD just won the right to collectively bargain. Life-changing win for teachers and students. Only happened bc thousands of people worked together to beat our bosses in the statehouse.

Street capacity is a public resource to be allocated in the public interest.

Help the faculty union at the Community College of Baltimore County get a fair contract by signing this petition. They unionized 18 months ago and still don’t have a contract. ✊ docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

This seems like an appropriate time to plug @99pi.org 's recent episode all about 311, where you can learn that Baltimore was the first city to launch a 311 system! 99percentinvisible.org/episode/serv...

Bmore queenside today ---come check us out at red Emma's 1st & 3rd sundays from 2-4. Poly friendly! 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 We are here for anyone who is looking for a safer and more inclusive chess experience www.instagram.com/bmorequeenside

Introducing 🌳tarborist: a VS Code extension providing tree-sitter powered static analysis of {targets} pipelines with target info on hover, tar_map() autocompletion, cycle detection, and upstream/downstream info/links #RStats Github: github.com/tylermorganw... OpenVSX: open-vsx.org/vscode/item?...

New blog entry: "Capital funding poisons software projects." In short: Using capital funding instead of operational funding is a major source of government software project failures. The fix? We've got no good playbook here, but it's probably an IT investment fund.

“Streets for play, streets for freedom” by @aliceferguson.bsky.social & @timrgill.bsky.social makes the case for a "child lens" on transport policy. Time to prioritise those most impacted yet least considered in planning our streets: Children. Read more here: playingout.net/take-action/...

Nope, I was wrong. Written testimony due by 6pm tonight! Please submit written testimony!

Only 23% of government workers believe they “can report a suspected violation of a law, rule, or regulation without experiencing retaliation.” That's way down form the share the prior year (72%) who said they could report suspected illegal activity without fear www.thebulwark.com/p/two-more-g...

📣 New historical data visualization! "How Fast Was the Mail?" is an interactive map showing how long information took to travel across the US between 1882-1908: cblevins.github.io/mail-time/ +

I finally found it: the Port Authority Wayfinding manual Ever since I flew into the new LaGuardia I can’t get this out of my brain. It’s made all the other public transportation places I go feel inferior. wayfinding.panynj.gov/pa-cms/wp-co...

Baltimore folks: SB554 being heard before the City Delegation on Friday. You can sign up for oral or written testimony via the Delegation website www.baltimorecitydelegation.com by 5pm TH (tomorrow! 3/26!) Please help parents and families preserve local control!

Banner article on SB554. When I note that the Community Panel is drawn from historically harmed groups, I am not speaking metaphorically. Panel members are drawn from plaintiffs groups in Bradford and Vaughn G over funding and special education, respectively. www.thebanner.com/education/k-...

An interactive geotiff viewer extension for #vscode / #positron powered by @kylebarron.dev's amazing deck.gl-raster. Just click on a tif file and take a peek. Early days but give it a spin and let me know if there are any issues. ✌️ github.com/belian-earth...

Calling all #RStats + #Transport researchers! stats19 v4.0.0 is here - a major update to the UK's road crash data package. Blog post: www.robinlovelace.net/post/stats19... Issues: github.com/ropensci/sta...

the whole piece was fun but this is the part i am still thinking about tonight

thats maryland class solidarity baby

Happy International Women's Day to the original International Woman

{calcite} v1.0.0 is out 🎉 Oh and {mapgl} has esri-basemap support now 👀 Try it out with calcite::open_example("page-sidebar-penguins") 🤖 using Claude? Feed it calcite context! r.esri.com/calcite/llms... A release post coming soon.... #rstats

Missed the sign on to oppose a bill that would cut community voices off from school governance? Not too late to sign here ahead of March 11 hearing before the Maryland Senate Education, Energy, and Environment Committee c.org/YWPbb2Nbhz Please share.

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New in R's mapgl: native support for Esri basemap styles! Build your maps and apps in R & Shiny, display your data over your favorite Esri styles that you use in ArcGIS Pro / Online. Just grab your ArcGIS API token and use `esri_style()` for dozens of choices.

I did a thing! I got my example data running on @developmentseed.org's stac-map on my GitHub Pages site. The data is bounding boxes of three USGS topos. Eventually it will be maps we're scanning and gereferencing. It's not perfect, but it's progress! #gischat micheletobias.github.io/historical-s...

Baltimore's Black Arts Then & Now: Behind the Scenes of a Collaborative Public Humanities Project is available for preorder. We hope public historians, educators & artist-activists find our examination of Black vernacular poetry as intergenerational dialogue useful. uipress.uiowa.edu/books/baltim...