The NPS API is still missing a bookings API, which is the carrot that was needed for developers to create new and useful experiences.
The bookings are all done through rec.gov
Readit Newsjimmyrocks commented on U.S. National Park Service API nps.gov/subjects/digital/... · Posted by u/jeffennell
jimmyrocks commented on U.S. National Park Service API nps.gov/subjects/digital/... · Posted by u/jeffennell
Who says they have a SQL DB? This looks to be almost entirely static data, occasionally updated.
It’s Apache Solr. Most of the data is static, but alerts and events get frequent updates.
jimmyrocks commented on U.S. National Park Service API nps.gov/subjects/digital/... · Posted by u/jeffennell
Love that this exists. I found that they also have a Github(1) with a public data archive. Any existing projects using this API in an interesting way?
The GitHub is mostly outdated repos, although Symbol Library is still active. The developer API is great though.
jimmyrocks commented on Self Hosting a Google Maps Alternative with OpenStreetMap wcedmisten.fyi/post/self-... · Posted by u/thunderbong
A few reasons:
1) Some of the most popular map library frontends like Leaflet support only raster tile layers out of the box.
2) Quality vector generalization (feature-dropping) is much more difficult than raster generalization.
3) A large fraction of use cases just need a "good enough" basemap without those extra features.
I'm surprised I don't see more implementations caching and serving vector tiles. I know some (most?) large mapping companies do this.
I maintain a heavily used map of the US, and I found that storing data/serving in vector format seems to be the most efficient (on AWS s3 / DO spaces), and converting to raster in the browser or with a service call / lambda really opens the doors to a lot more use cases. I suspect parent can talk more about this than I can.
jimmyrocks commented on Testing the strength of different wood species woodgears.ca/wood_strengt... · Posted by u/Ivoah
I’m not surprised by Osage Orange. There is a reason it is prized by bow (as in archery) makers.
Too bad they couldn’t do Yew too. That is another top bow wood.
After watching this, I made the connection that the French "Bois d'arc" for Osage Orange refers to its use in bows. It turns out that Osage Orange really is one of the best woods for bows.
jimmyrocks commented on PA is Full of Bologna... Lebanon Bologna (2010) pabook2.libraries.psu.edu... · Posted by u/johntfella
I grew up in PA and my siblings and I used to have Lebanon bologna in our school lunches every day. I'm not sure what there is to say about it, it's alright, sort of like a sweeter thicker cut salami. Ama I guess.
From PA, can confirm. Also, it's pronounced Leb-nin.
jimmyrocks commented on Why radio receivers won’t tune 800-900 MHz computer.rip/2020-11-28%2... · Posted by u/jtakkala
As a child in the 80s I was given an intellivision and a old (even in those years) ~13" black & white tv to play it on.
It had the ability to tune to the higher UHF channels 70-83 [0] which while planned for use in tv broadcast, never ended up being used, but they didn't know that at the time of the construction of the tv set. The frequency covered by those channels were reallocated in 1982 by the CCIR worldwide convention, and covered approximately 806 to 890mhz.
What was most interesting to me as a young teenager in the early 90s about this particular tv set, was that I found out I could hear an occasional phone call when tuned to those UHF channels, even more so when I used the fine tuning nob.
On a side note, the tv set also allowed me to view scrambled channels on the cable system which I could unscramble to various degrees by turning the tuning nob at certain rates back and forth. I suppose modern 90s systems were not designed with my old tv set in mind.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_channel_frequencies...
I had a TV that did this exact same thing! Except I was given it as a color "monitor" for an Apple IIE. I would spend hours building my own antennas and spinning the fine tune knob to try to bring in far away signals.
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jimmyrocks commented on What OpenStreetMap can be blog.systemed.net/post/15... · Posted by u/Doctor_Fegg
We recently overlaid the Microsoft buildings over Boulder Colorado aerial maps and in some places they were pretty good. In others, where there was just the right amount of tree cover, it was pretty bad. Houses cut up into 2 or 3 or 4 chunks, for example.
It's a great data set, but it'll probably need some curation.
There is also a good buildings dataset from DRCOG that we're (OSM Colorado) importing into OSM. Reach out to us, or come to our next meetup if you're interested.
Really great idea to compress the spatial data into Paths.
I would suggest using Natural Earth data instead of OSM so you could drop the ODbL license.
It’d also be really cool if you included the tool that converts the spatial data into Paths.