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maptime

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    Comment #48178616

    We saw this happening for our SAAS stack we used, why pay for a massive SAAS tool with a huge surface area when we only used the desk+room booking and payment. Before building some…

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    Comment #48084214

    How lambda is as bad as it is I have no clue. Not a lover of azure, but azure functions is such a nicer experience

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    Comment #47772184

    >A successful docking with the device meant precisely centering one’s nether eye in the crosshairs of a video screen while crewmates looked on and yelled their encouragement. Massi…

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    Comment #46110754

    Speaking from experience, it's more often bored cartographers trying to inject some fun into mundane activities. I used to try and write my initials. Quite often it devolves into a…

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    Comment #40896826

    Love this, the pure CSS option is really elegant Another option would be self hosting vector tiles(or finding the most generous free tier vector tiles) and using a custom grey scal…

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    Comment #40246041

    I made my son a floor bed, it's really true that when you work with code all day having something tangible that you can touch helps. It took twice as long as I thought. It cost dou…

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    Comment #39929802

    The two are mostly unrelated, IHO members are supporting seabed 2030 but the new data formats coming at the same time is more of a coincidence than anything else Although S-101 is …

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    Comment #38126436

    For terrace houses it comes back to who owns the pavement and creating a compelling proposition for the customer and the EV charging provider In the short term very thin flat cable…

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    Comment #37372280

    I would look at areas of technology that can help with the societal shift towards having greater numbers of elderly people living longer and wanting to maintain a higher standard o…

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    Comment #36925183

    I would most orgs that have massive Geo ETL problems use FME, love it or hate it, it's probably able to do it

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    Comment #36014466

    Where I grew up eel fishing was still a very lucrative activity. The best locations were a closely guarded secret, apparently placing the mesh cages was a real skill and something …

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    Comment #35093935

    My guess is Mapbox would worry more about competitors in the routing and Addressing space than The biggest danger with Open tiles is a basemap is the gateway to other data services…

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    Comment #34757349

    Glad it worked! 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 wi…

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    Comment #34750633

    Make sure you have estimated table metadata turned on, otherwise QGIS will run a bunch of queries to understand your tables I believe. We typically use QGIS as a viewing engine onl…

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    Comment #34658490

    I feel like it will always get traction as it preys on the underlying fear of job security of Devs I have genuinely found it incredible in certain situations. I don't feel like I a…

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    Comment #34494062

    Traditional paper maps or charts are not booming at all. The biggest producer of physical nautical charts has had to withdraw from the market as they have become unprofitable. The …

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    Comment #34127579

    The issue isn't the printing of the physical chart itself it's the compilation of data to create a readable chart that complies with the international cartographic standard. Most U…

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    Comment #33524388

    Agree, never ask a user what they want But you can't go wrong with talking to users to understand the problems they are dealing with

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    Comment #33523249

    It sounds like you were working on the project without enough contact with users to understand the value of the thing you were building. That doesn't sound like it's your fault!

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    Comment #33473508

    From personal experience this is a fantastic service for gov entities For those not aware, UK gov has pretty world leading tech services, the best example is the UX of the main sit…

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    Comment #33244954

    I think readers would be surprised to find out how poorly some regions of the Caribbean or Africa are charted. It's common for source data to be from the 1950s, for some ports I ha…

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    Comment #32770226

    William has a very young family, pushing him into becoming the monarch would be incredibly detrimental to their lives as a family. The queen was very against abdication in any form…