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Sweet! I must be very incompetent, but how does one get the image to Zazzle to make a mug? I don't see a button anywhere...
Typing that out made me think I might have made a mistake by hiding print functionality too far. I just didn't want to be too aggressive showing this option
I would not suggest getting Chicago made into a mug:) https://www.zazzle.com/map_mug-168739066664861503?t_map_iid=...
Cool, very pretty visualization. I might have to get a mug of the mountains I live in :)
I gotta say the bonus section of the README is my favorite part. Could of had a referral link of where to buy cool map mugs from :)
I think I did terrible job here by hiding it too far. For me it is a struggle between usefulness of the feature and level of annoyance it could bring to those who are not interested
It's nice at a large enough away distance, but not so great if you zoom in. [edit]: Here are the alps, quite nicely rendered (kind of reminds me of a Tolkien map of middle earth). https://anvaka.github.io/peak-map/#6.31/46.111/10.14 But here's a zoomed in rendering (of Sudtirol / Dolomites), no so great IMO: https://anvaka.github.io/peak-map/#10/46.148/11.4086
Pretty cool. Nobody thought so yesterday tho... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21969708
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Oh dear, that's also bad news for joysticks and the red "Joy Button" on the Thinkpad keyboard. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21757484 (But then again, since when did IBM ever shy away from selling their products to Nazis?) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust
No it's not. "Joy" isn't a bad word. Joysticks seem to be fine. It's specifically that the band "Joy Division" was named intentionally after a regrettable piece of history, and "joy plots" are named because of a Joy Division album cover. Words aren't bad -- it's the meaning and derivation behind them. Etymology matters.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21870821
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_Strip
>The Control Strip is a user interface component introduced in the "classic" System 7 Macintosh operating system. It currently exists as part of the Touch Bar interface in macOS.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortifications_of_the_inner_Ge...
>In the West, the control strip became known as the "death strip" (Todesstreifen) because of the shoot-to-kill orders given to the border guards. The East Germans preferred to call it by the more euphemistic name of the "action strip" (Handlungsstreifen). It was also nicknamed the Pieck-Allee ("Pieck Avenue") after East Germany's president Wilhelm Pieck (1949–60).
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That's really, really stupid. I wish the endless quest for moral purification of language would just die already but it's only getting worse. Prudes used to get upset over words for their meanings, then because the wrongs kinds of people used them. Now the etymology can be mined for cancellation reasons even if present usage is conceptually removed twice over. I wonder how the author copes with the ones that derive f…
You're wrong a million times over. The term "joy plot" was coined in 2017, just three years ago. It's not some ancient term. This isn't about "cancelling". It's about something being in bad taste in the first place, even if the originator hadn't been aware of it. It's kind of like how we don't use the racist term for Brazil nuts anymore. [1] Follow the link for the phrase, I'm not going to write it here. Surely you d…
"Joyplot" harms literally nobody. There are no victims of joyplots. There aren't even victims of Joy Division. It's a reference to an image associated with a band which was grimly ironically named in reference to a historical atrocity. The connection is so tenuous that you can't get your feelings hurt by it unless you're actively trying. It's so obscure that nobody even noticed it until some asshole wanted to make waves, obviously it was entirely about cancelling the word because it wasn't even an issue until then.
So who am I supposed to show empathy for? Descendants of Holocaust victims who are into data visualization but evidently feel too threatened by the community to speak up for themselves? Get a grip. There is nobody hurt by this. There is nobody to have empathy for. You're just abusing "empathy" to insinuate I'm not even a decent human being if I don't go along with your personal taste. That's not empathy, that's bullying. I don't feel sorry for you over a piece of trivia.
https://anvaka.github.io/peak-map/#11.19/52.2305/8.9095 This is one of my favorite spots on the map. The mountainrange is dividing a big part of the north from southern region called Westphalia. Only one river breaks through it allowing for an easy way across the mountains. The citys name at that spot is Porta Westfalica which is Latin and means "gate to Westphalia". I think this visualization illustrates the reason…
Not wishing to disrespect the coding that went into this, but I don't see the point? The "standard" map used by the author already shows a visualisation of the area concerned, I'm not exactly sure what this magical plot style brings to the party other than a different way of drawing the same type of thing.
what do you mean by the standard map? The one before you press "draw the height map"? Or is there another one I'm missing. If it is that map then the point is that it looks way better with the height map as you can actually visualize the height of mountain range relative to others. This isn't really discernible with the original map.
Are these joy plots more accessible to novice viewers somehow? To me, contour lines provide a very clear understanding of terrain but I admit I am pretty fluent in reading them. They bunch up to show steep slopes and cliffs, but give a much clearer sense of slope direction and more subtle topography like bowls, saddles, and stream beds.
I cannot really recall how I first experienced them as a novice. I was a child looking at USGS quadrant maps of the Sierra Nevada.