We received a request on how someone might display a map of the townlands in County Down. One way to display that map is using Overpass Turbo. The query to display the data is: [out:json][timeout:25]; area[name="County... » More
Based on an enquiry from a visitor to the OSM Ireland website I had a little play with the OSM data for Ireland to see if I could offer advice on how to generate shape files of townland areas. Below is the process I used and it can be adapted for other... » More
If troubleshooting inside a container that does not have curl installed and also doesn't permit installing then an option is to use a curl binary that has been statically compiled. There are a list of curl binaries here download one matching the arch... » More
These notes describe loading VPC Flow Logs in parquet format into DuckDB for visual analysis in Apache Superset. I had never used any of these components before but was able to visualise the addresses using the most bandwidth. If time permits I may also... » More
Dean Mac Cu Uladh hosted a walk along the towpath and pointed out some of the native flowering species. Photographs of just three are below.
Stitch Wort
Marsh Marigold
Dog Rose
Original MapTiler Swindle Post MapTiler Swindle: Update 1 MapTiler Swindle: Update 2 Wee Jiri got back to me. The message is shown below but for the TLDR; MapTiler have their own definitions of words and they do not match what you will... » More
MapTiler got back to me about my assertion that it was unfair to remove download links for older versions of their software that customers had paid for. MapTiler changed their pricing model to a SaaS model so they now benefit from charging customers... » More
On the OpenDataNI portal some of the data sources show X,Y co-ordinates for the Irish Grid reference system (EPSG:29902). I wanted to be able to convert these to latitude longitude values I could use with OpenStreetMap and the cs2cs tool from the... » More
TLDR; I suppose this is a warning to contributors to OpenStreetMap that while MapTiler make use of our contributions their sole purpose is maximum profiteering from the mapping community. As an active contributor to OpenStreetMap I had a use-case to... » More
Using the fish shell I needed to increase a timeout to allow me to use Esc-. keyboard sequence to print the last argument from the previous line: Add the following line to ~/.config/fish/fish_variables to fix the problem: SETUVAR... » More
We received a request on how someone might display a map of the townlands in County Down. One way to display that map is using Overpass Turbo. The query to display the data is: [out:json][timeout:25]; area[name="County... » More
