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wipfli commented on Adventures in mapmaking: the search for grayscale tiles   newsletter.pnote.eu/p/map... · Posted by u/przem8k
wipfli · a year ago
The Protomaps basemap has also a grayscale style. The grayscale map looks like this: https://maps.protomaps.com/#map=5.09/47.14/8.64&theme=graysc...

Instructions for self-hosting a PMTiles file are available here: https://docs.protomaps.com/.

wipfli commented on Launch HN: HyLight (YC S23) – Hydrogen airships to inspect energy infrastructure    · Posted by u/ThomasLaporte
wipfli · 2 years ago
That's a very cool project! I am a hot-air balloon pilot and I love everything that flies with the lighter-than-air principle.

One limitation I could see for your business model is that airships can only be flown in a controlled direction at rather slow wind speeds. That is because they just have such a huge attack surface and the motors have limited thrust.

Did you do an estimate how many days per year you could fly your vehicle in a given economic area of interest? I fly balloons in Switzerland and I think you can get at most 100 days of good flight conditions a year. But yeah, with some climate data and your operational limitations you can probably estimate how many days you get in a given area...

wipfli commented on Replacing Mapbox with open source solutions   kschaul.com/post/2023/02/... · Posted by u/gaws
wipfli · 3 years ago
If you like PMTiles you should consider supporting Brandon financially as a GitHub Sponsor.

Brandon is a solo-developer who builds Protomaps alone and we get all his great stuff for free...

https://github.com/sponsors/protomaps

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KarmaCake day47February 17, 2023View Original