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Re:Show HN: Printercow – Turn any thermal printer into an API endpoint
on Tuesday January 21, 2025 @09:16AM (#42780284)
Nice! you've built a whole product around and the Twitch demo is great.
In case you need a very basic version of this, I've created a project some time ago, where you can print text over a template, also trough an API and using ESC/POS compatible printers:
Show HN: Mapping with WhatsApp
I've created this super-simple solution for creating maps with WhatsApp chatsIt was developed to help emergency services and humanitarian organizations to get locations from people in the field during disasters and emergencies, but it can be used for anything else.The common approach to use it is:1. Create a WhatsApp group and invite people to it2. Ask people to share locations followed by a...
Re:Yerba Mate: South America's Indigenous Tea, from Paraguay to Syria
on Monday May 27, 2024 @12:00PM (#40491992)
Argentinian here, if you are alone, you drink alone, if you are with other people, you share. Sometimes there are more than one mate in the round.
People from the north of Argentina also drink tereré, with cold water or juice.
What's different from Brasil is the yerba they use, here is dried, there is not.
Re:Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team
on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @04:53PM (#34700329)
HOT's Tasking Manager is a platform for coordinating the work of mappers. Only authorized organizations can create projects, but anybody can contribute.
In this case, Yer Cizenler (yercizenler.org) is coordinating with representatives of local organizations and consultants from IFRC (The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies) for the collection of road and building datasets.
The goal of this tasks is to complete missing data on the map, for example adding building and roads like in this case. Data is then available on OpenStreetMap for different uses. Some examples are:
* View the map on openstreetmap.org * View the map on OsmAnd or other similar software * Download spatial data using Overpass or HOT's Export Tool (https://export.hotosm.org) * etc, etc
The output of people doing those tasks can be seen querying the changes on the map. There's a tool that is currently unmaintained but you can use it to get some additional stats about the contributions:
https://galaxy.hotosm.org/mapathon-report/summary
If you put a date range like "6 February, 2023 12:00 AM" to "6 February, 2023 11:45 PM" and a Tasking Manager project's id (example: 14218) you'll see something like:
Total Unique Contributors: 507
Features Created:
- building: 48962 - source: 34317 - highway: 7770 - highway_km: 924 - surface: 508 - name: 474
Re:9th Circuit holds that scraping a public website does not violate t...
on Monday September 09, 2019 @10:54PM (#20924679)
Or this other case https://gizmodo.com/instagram-boots-ad-partner-hyp3r-for-rep...