Readit NewsIt 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
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
I'm still waiting to hear how the government plans to solve this or incentivize private investment for this setup to work. Because yeah, if you live in UK and don't have a private drive then I have no idea how you're using an electric car, unless you literally have a Tesla and live right next to a supercharger(I know one person with that setup and it works fine for them, it's literally one 20 minute stop a week and they get enough charge to last them a week).
>>Most of my miles are done on long journeys.
Funnily enough, for that use case you should be ok-ish, as most motorway stops in the UK are now equipped with rapid chargers, so if you're just driving up and down the country you should be able to just charge when you stop for a break, and with modern EVs easily doing 200+ miles per charge this really shouldn't be an issue.
The other thing is - you are an outlier if most of your driving is done on long journeys. Most people use their car to do a school run and commute to work, usually no more than 30-50 miles a day. If that's your setup(and you can charge at home), then EVs(and PHEVs to a large extent) are just a no brainer.
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
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
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
If you are going to to set up that infrastructure you could just use an mbtiles file which has been around for years.
The interesting thing to me is that this stuff is all built on the open source technology of mapbox, and it seems like a real threat to large parts of their business model. Interested to see how it plays out.
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
That fixed it, thanks! Looking at the manual, there is a tip that tells you to turn that on, otherwise it will read the entire table to characterize the geometries... It's a bit mad that the default behavior has it querying potentially gigabytes of information across the network every time you open the app and click a dropdown, with no progress bar. But it's definitely the type of app where you need to read the manual, and it says so right there.
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
One thing that's frustrated me, and I want to make sure it isn't a misconfiguration on my end, is that QGIS feels really slow. For example, I have a 150MB geojson file which has 300,000 points with associated metadata. Even when I'm zoomed in such that I can only see a few thousand points at a time, if I pan the map over by 50% it takes at least 10 seconds before it loads in the new points. Many long operations seem to take place synchronously on the UI thread, so the whole app is unresponsive while they take place. Clicking the drop down arrow on a PostGIS Schema to view the tables spins for several minutes. No other Postgres tool I have takes that long, so it's not the database. The PostGIS import/export tools were also extremely slow and didn't have progress bars. I'm using 3.24 currently. I don't want to rag on it too hard, but it's really hampered my enthusiasm for working with maps and GIS.
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
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/