"Symmetry is what this kind of mapping aims for: not mapping in a way such that the map is symmetrical to the world, but in a way that the map is symmetrical to what humans know about the world." #gischat #eochat #AugmentedReality #geodata worldbuilder.substack.com/p/…

Problem with these kinds of maps is they are simply a proxy for population/population density

Also fun fact: Ulysses S. Grant was gifted a stallion by Sultan Abdul Hamid II of the Ottoman Empire, its name was Leopard

Yes, it’s June. But also — Switzerland just had a record-breaking winter with 18.7M hotel overnight stays. ❄️⛰️ Start planning your 2026 winter vacation! 🇨🇭 💡More info here: ow.ly/t5Ji50Z9WqC #Switzerland #WinterGetaway #SwissTourism #VisitSwitzerland

I think this mostly is just fun with maps creating fantasy kingdoms But Cascadis would really not include anything east of the scablands and high desert in central Washington, no Idaho. It could be North American Chile!

Zugersee Water is crisp cold

Study nuclear engineering!

This could be cool and starlink coverage too

Interlaken? 🇨🇭

Chacaltaya, a now abandoned ski resort in Bolivia at 17,500 ft (~5300m) The glacier disappeared in 2009 atlasobscura.com/places/aban…

This is what makes it tough to make a startup, a small business, be a freelancer in the USA.

I mapped all 16 World Cup 2026 Stadiums, to scale. A whole continent of football, shrunk to the same footprint, side by side.

In many places it is unbearable. The Dolomites, Firenze, etc have it no easier than Zermatt and Lauterbrunnen

New bank on my town (old one was down the street) Quite a pleasing building remodel Added it to OpenStreetMap today ✅

El surrealismo germánico en las dunas del desierto. Lüderitz es un pueblo costero construido por los alemanes a principios del siglo XX durante la fiebre del diamante. Lo curioso es que está en Namibia, aislado de todo. Edificado con una arquitectura art nouveau y luterana alemana, es el choque visual definitivo. Iglesias luteranas alemanas de tejados empinados y casas coloniales de colores pastel plantadas en medio del árido y desolado desierto del Namib. A pocos minutos se encuentra el pueblo fantasma de Kolmanskop, donde la arena ya invade los salones de las mansiones abandonadas.

This rings true. For fun I was able to make a simple blog page that I just login to with GitHub. Only I can modify and post because I am in the GitHub project. Same for dashboards. You can vibe code then and put behind a GitHub login. The real Sagas is just making auth for it

I have only vague memories of ever paying tolls in the US and it feels like most were either to cross a bridge or use an urban turnpike/fast lane, but default slower toll free option tends to almost always be there I am from western USA so tolls are pretty alien concept

NASA has selected the company Astrolab as one of the providers of a new crewed lunar rover for the Artemis campaign. The vehicle, called CLV-1, will rely on critical technologies developed by Venturi Space teams in Switzerland, Monaco and France.

Ode to Yosemite, v2 I fed Fable replies from the thread and let it cook > weather system: drifting clouds, rainstorms, snow that accumulates over time, fog that fades as the day passes > ravens soar El Capitan, mule deer graze the meadows > pulled OpenStreetMap data: 1,244 buildings real roads, traffic at the valley's actual 25mph speed limit > synthesized rain, birdsong and crickets sounds from scratch AND it created this video completely by itself!

A vision for EU highways that describes American highways

OpenCV 5 is here! This is the biggest update in years for computer vision: >Brand new DNN engine with 80% ONNX coverage >Built-in LLM & VLM support >Faster performance (often beating ONNX Runtime) >Better 3D vision, Python integration, and hardware acceleration OpenCV is not just a computer vision library but the settle stone for millions of projects.