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Hello to all of you people of mastodon! 🤗
This is my #introduction
Here I will share stuff and links that I would like more people to know, I will also try to write some reflexions and though on my projects. I live in Normandy, France. My current topics of interests are various: #programming #bike #osm #climatechange #selfhosting #freeSoftware #linux #maps #openstreetmap #wikidata #rust #python
I speak french 🇫🇷 and english 🇬🇧 .

The Entire History of the World—Really, All of It—Distilled Into a Single Gorgeous Chart

In 1931, John B. Sparks created the Histomap, condensing more than 4,000 years of world history into a vibrant infographic.

By Rebecca Onion (from the archives)

https://slate.com/human-interest/2013/08/the-1931-histomap-the-entire-history-of-the-world-distilled-into-a-single-map-chart.html

#history #maps

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For all people that like to eat vegan or vegetarian, and who also like Free and OpenSource Software, and community powered projects like #OpenStreetMap and #LibReviews and Linked Data,and who are #traveling:

Have a look at #VeggieKarte, it brings the above all together.

https://www.veggiekarte.de/?lang=en#@44.8181,20.4647,5660m

#vegan #vegetarian #opensource #osm #FOSS #LinkedData #rdf #reviews #restaurant #food #travel #map #maps

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New Greater Northshore and MEGAMAP (Northwest King County) bike map update!

This version is very 1 Line light-rail focused, not just adding 1 Line stations but upgrading street labels for better wayfinding. It contains several other updates and two contributions as well.

https://solarbird.net/blog/2024/08/29/greater-northshore-bike-connector-map-1-4-release/

All previous advertised permalinks remain valid.

#biking #BikeMap #BikeTooter #maps #cartography

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Finally finished implementing the classic 15 puzzle game but using the standard #OpenStreetMap tiles as the sliding pieces! 🗺️🧩

While there are many implementations of this game (some even let you upload your own image), as far as I know, not one directly uses OSM slippy map tiles for the pieces. I figured this would be a nifty side coding project and it was fun to do! 💪

Currently you can play any of 20 map locations. Enjoy! 🎉

https://seav.github.io/osm-15-puzzle/

#games #gaming #maps #Mapstodon

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#Maps & #Cartography picks of the day:

➡️ @openstreetmap - OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit

➡️ @polgeonow - Maps on current events & politics

➡️ @mapologies - Blog mixing maps with geography & other topics

➡️ @CaGIS - US org promoting map/GIS research, education & use

➡️ @BKG - German government agency for Cartography & Geodesy (in German)

➡️ @mappery - Highlighting maps in real life incl signs, posters, artworks etc

➡️ @wfgWorkshop - Artist & cartographer, maps of fictional worlds

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With this plugin you can enable South and Southeast Asian scripts for OpenStreetMaps rendered in Web GL

Scripts supported: Bengali, Devanagari, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Kannada, Khmer, Malayalam, Myanmar, Oriya, Tamil, and Telugu

https://github.com/wipfli/maplibre-gl-complex-text/

#Maps #TootSea #India #Languages #OpenStreetMaps

Here is some R code to make the world a bit less rough.
```
library(tidyverse)
library(rnaturalearth)
library(sf)
smoo = function(x,y,s)
predict(smooth.spline(y,spar=s),x)$y
d = ne_coastline(110) |>
st_coordinates() |>
as_tibble() |>
group_by(L1) |>
filter(n() > 4)
for (s in seq(0,1,.01)) {
p = d |> mutate(
i = 1:n(),
X = smoo(i,X,s),
Y = smoo(i,Y,s)) |>
ggplot() +
geom_path(aes(x=X,y=Y,group=L1)) +
theme_void()
show(p)
}
```
#rstats #spatial #maps #gis

RELEASE: Greater Northshore and MEGAMAP Bike Maps version 1.8 - 8 June 2025

Additions and changes this release:

* LOTS. Too many to list here. Mostly Seattle, but not only Seattle, as they've dropped the 2025-26 bike map, with which we have issues.

Check the blog post for changes and notes:

https://solarbird.net/blog/2025/06/08/maps-release-greater-northshore-bike-connector-megamap-1-8-and-a-decision-about-seattle-2025/

Maps download:

https://github.com/solarbirdy/NorthshoreBikeMap/

Previous permalinks continue to work.

If you like these maps, maybe hit my Patreon:

https://www.patreon.com/solarbird

Thanks!

#biking #BikeTooter #GreaterNorthshore #seattle #northshore #SnohomishCounty #Shoreline #Edmonds #MountlakeTerrace #LakeForestPark #Briar #Kenmore #Juanita #Kirkland #Bothell #Woodinville #Maltby #KingCounty #Redmond #BikeMap #maps #design

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There's been talk on the Fedi about why online maps like OSM and Google use the Mercator projection, and I think it needs a bit of clarification. (Do NOT snitch tag.)

Online maps are _mostly_ used at small scales, of a district or a city. At these scales, the earth is approximately flat, so users expect a map that is _conformal_, one that preserves angles and shapes.

Online maps are continuously zoomable from continents down to your house. They usually aren't rendered on your browser straight from vectors, but are batch-rendered offline into square tile images. If you're on a slowish Internet connection, you can see them loading individually.

As you zoom an online map, tiles get replaced with higher-resolution ones, and as you scroll, tiles get filled in to fill the gaps. You could theoretically scroll and zoom forever, so the map needs to not have a magically special reference latitude or longitude. These constrains mean that the map needs to be _equatorial_, so that no point gets special treatment, and _cylindrical_, so that meridians are vertical and lines of latitude are horizontal.

And which is the map projection that is all of equatorial, cylindrical and conformal? Mercator!

#Maps #Cartography #OpenStreetMap

Do you want to host State of the Map 2026, the global OpenStreetMap conference?

We're now soliciting bids and we'd welcome your suggestions!

Read more: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/State_of_the_Map_2026/Call_for_venues

(@sotm 2025 is happening in Manila)
#OpenStreetMap #OSM #geo #maps #sotm #sotm2026

Maps are great, but this is greaterest 😊

@bookstodon @fantasybookstodon @speculativefictioncomedy @bookbubble @humour

#FantasyMemes #Fantasy #Memes #Map #Maps
#Low #High #Epic #Science #Comedic #Whatever #GiveMeAllYouveGot
#Book #Books #Novel #Novels
#Mastobooks #BooksofMastodon #Bookstodon #Bookworm #Bookwyrm #Bookstodon #BookLove #BoostingIsSharing

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An Anciente Mappe of Fairyland by Bernard Sleigh, 1920

If you believe in fairies, this ancient map and guide will help you know them and find them

By Paul Sorene

https://flashbak.com/an-anciente-mappe-of-fairyland-bernard-sleigh-1917-476957/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=an-anciente-mappe-of-fairyland-bernard-sleigh-1917

Fairyland at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/37291

#Maps #Books #Literature

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RELEASE: Greater Northshore and MEGAMAP Bike Maps version 2.0 - July 15, 2025

Additions and changes this release include a pretty big project of enlarging City of Seattle's street name labels, which were too damn small.

But there's more; check the blog post for changes and notes:

https://solarbird.net/blog/2025/07/14/maps-release-greater-northshore-bike-connector-megamap-2-0/

Maps download:

https://github.com/solarbirdy/NorthshoreBikeMap/

Previous permalinks continue to work.

If you like these maps, maybe hit my Patreon:

https://www.patreon.com/solarbird

Thanks!

#biking #BikeTooter #GreaterNorthshore #seattle #northshore #SnohomishCounty #Shoreline #Edmonds #MountlakeTerrace #LakeForestPark #Briar #Kenmore #Juanita #Kirkland #Bothell #Woodinville #Maltby #KingCounty #Redmond #BikeMap #maps #design

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Last week we published a set of three in-depth #map reports covering territorial control across #Somalia's claimed territories from 2023 to present. The June 2024 report is free for all readers, and shows the height of "#IslamicState" (#ISIS/#ISIL) control in the country:

https://www.polgeonow.com/2025/06/somalia-territorial-control-map-2024-isis-shabaab.html

#HornOfAfrica #cartography #maps #geography #Somaliland #Puntland #SSC_Khaatumo #mapping @geography @cartography @geopolitics #AlShabaab #AlQaeda #security #OSINT

En.osm.town is an independent Mastodon server for people active in the OpenStreetMap community.

This server has been operating since 2018.

https://en.osm.town

You can find out more at https://en.osm.town/about or contact the admin @compass

cc @openstreetmap

#FeaturedServer #OpenStreetMap #OSM #Geospatial #GIS #Maps #Mapping #Cartography #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse

There is 1 pic on #Google #Maps that has #Washy in it twice 😆

He's everywhere! George however is sleeping behind the window

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RELEASE: Greater Northshore and MEGAMAP Bike Maps version 2.0.1 - 4 August 2025

Updates this release are fairly minor EXCEPT for the decades-awaited connection from Elliot Bay Trail to Waterfront, and an important new set of bike lanes on Meridian in Shoreline.

As always, check the blog post for the deets:

https://solarbird.net/blog/2025/08/04/maps-release-greater-northshore-bike-connector-megamap-2-0-1/

Maps download:

https://github.com/solarbirdy/NorthshoreBikeMap/

Previous permalinks continue to work.

If you like these maps, maybe hit my Patreon:

https://www.patreon.com/solarbird

Enjoy!

#biking #BikeTooter #GreaterNorthshore #seattle #northshore #cascadia #SnohomishCounty #Shoreline #Edmonds #MountlakeTerrace #LakeForestPark #Briar #Kenmore #juanita #Kirkland #Bothell #Woodinville #Maltby #KingCounty #Redmond #BikeMap #maps #design

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