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We saw this happening for our SAAS stack we used, why pay for a massive SAAS tool with a huge surface area when we only used the desk+room booking and payment. Before building something like this was such a huge cost now it's becoming palatable

How lambda is as bad as it is I have no clue. Not a lover of azure, but azure functions is such a nicer experience

>A successful docking with the device meant precisely centering one’s nether eye in the crosshairs of a video screen while crewmates looked on and yelled their encouragement.

Massive Interstellar vibes, I guess it is "necessary"

Speaking from experience, it's more often bored cartographers trying to inject some fun into mundane activities.

I used to try and write my initials.

Quite often it devolves into a game of seeing what you can get past the reviewers

Love this, the pure CSS option is really elegant

Another option would be self hosting vector tiles(or finding the most generous free tier vector tiles) and using a custom grey scale styling that you could tweak to your needs.

Maputnik is a great tool for building custom vector stylesheets. (1)

1. https://maputnik.github.io/

I made my son a floor bed, it's really true that when you work with code all day having something tangible that you can touch helps.

It took twice as long as I thought. It cost double what it would have cost to buy one of Etsy but it's still one of my favourite things I've done in ages. My son still gets excited when he see's it sometimes

The two are mostly unrelated, IHO members are supporting seabed 2030 but the new data formats coming at the same time is more of a coincidence than anything else

Although S-101 is the updated ENC standard for S-100 the new S-102 standard will enable the visualisation of processed bathymetric data by mariners, biggest benefits will be more granular no-go areas

For terrace houses it comes back to who owns the pavement and creating a compelling proposition for the customer and the EV charging provider

In the short term very thin flat cables are being tested. But this assumes you can park opposite your house.

Councils are happy to lease pavements to providers but it's not a lucrative proposition right now for 95% of UK streets, it's also victim to a negative feedback mechanism where home owners won't buy EVs because charging is hard which creates low demand

Councils can't solve it without investment, most likely it will solve itself when the majority of high income charging locations have been constructed. Most charging companies are operating on long-term investments leveraging debt. It's going to take years to solve, and that's without worrying about the grid infrastructure

I would look at areas of technology that can help with the societal shift towards having greater numbers of elderly people living longer and wanting to maintain a higher standard of living.

Most western societies have an age curve moving to the right. Lots of opportunities with AI and disrupting the user experience for the elderly. Have relatives who can't use a touch screen because of arthritis, bonus is the have money

I would most orgs that have massive Geo ETL problems use FME, love it or hate it, it's probably able to do it

Where I grew up eel fishing was still a very lucrative activity.

The best locations were a closely guarded secret, apparently placing the mesh cages was a real skill and something passed down between generations, always kept in the family.

on a good night they were making hundreds if not thousands. Bear in mind this was 30 years ago so serious money for one nights work.

I don't know if it was true, but the eels were said to all be bought up by Asian buyers

My guess is Mapbox would worry more about competitors in the routing and Addressing space than

The biggest danger with Open tiles is a basemap is the gateway to other data services with higher costs and an easier path to a defendable technical moat. Swapping a basemap can literally be a 10 minute job

Glad it worked!

It should only do it once per table but if you are dropping and creating tables often it will be making the DB have a heavy workload

I think theirs an assumption within the geo community of read heavy workloads but I could be wrong

Make sure you have estimated table metadata turned on, otherwise QGIS will run a bunch of queries to understand your tables I believe.

We typically use QGIS as a viewing engine only, if you let postgis do the heavy lifting it's a beautiful setup, especially with a tuned dB and a indexed clustered postgres table

I feel like it will always get traction as it preys on the underlying fear of job security of Devs

I have genuinely found it incredible in certain situations. I don't feel like I am getting as much value from it as others might be so for the moment I like the discussion

Traditional paper maps or charts are not booming at all.

The biggest producer of physical nautical charts has had to withdraw from the market as they have become unprofitable.

The increased availability of good open geospatial data along with amazing free open source tooling has made making beautiful maps easier than ever. Tools like QGIS and blender are world class

Maybe contentious but is it really a map if it's hung on a wall for artistic merit? At what point is it considered art?

The issue isn't the printing of the physical chart itself it's the compilation of data to create a readable chart that complies with the international cartographic standard.

Most UKHO charts are currently printed at a distributor location on giant inkjet printers. Incidentally the charts are only water resistant not waterproof

Agree, never ask a user what they want

But you can't go wrong with talking to users to understand the problems they are dealing with

It sounds like you were working on the project without enough contact with users to understand the value of the thing you were building.

That doesn't sound like it's your fault!

From personal experience this is a fantastic service for gov entities

For those not aware, UK gov has pretty world leading tech services, the best example is the UX of the main sites like car tax

I think readers would be surprised to find out how poorly some regions of the Caribbean or Africa are charted. It's common for source data to be from the 1950s, for some ports I have seen tidal harmonics that were first recorded on rolls of paper. Charts of the arctic still relying on data from Cook(at least it doesn't change much thanks to it being rocky...)

I doubt many will shed a tear for the super yacht owners of the world but with their desire to go to ever more exotic locations they have highlighted how poor our data is for some parts of the world.

William has a very young family, pushing him into becoming the monarch would be incredibly detrimental to their lives as a family. The queen was very against abdication in any form