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How to make fancy road trip maps with R and OpenStreetMap

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Re: How to make fancy road trip maps with R and OpenStreetMap

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Post by nonethewiser »

exp1orer wrote: post #36
trabant00 wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can't believe how even a topic about open maps API gets turned into politics. And then gets voted to the top. What was HN saying about Twitter's algorithm? Something about polarization, divisiveness, outrage, etc? It's not algorithms, it's you. You're making online discussion miserable for everybody.

I actually hesitated before posting for exactly this reason, and I don't think you're wrong to be sensitive to this. But you'll notice that there's actually no real political content in the link, nor was there any political discussion in the thread, so I think your response is a little bit of an overreaction.

The project itself is political

Re: How to make fancy road trip maps with R and OpenStreetMap

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Post by muhblah »

To the author of this blog post (if he should read this):

This is amazing. Thanks so much for sharing.

And it’s even more amazing by noticing the fact that you and your wife go the extra mile and make it an adventure for your kids!

F*%k screens (iPads/iPhones). This kind of attention and adventure is what kids really need and deserve (imho).

I’m a proud father of 3 and I can imagine the joy and curiosity of your kids on this trip.

I wish you as family all the best and an unforgettable time with amazing and memorable moments!

Re: How to make fancy road trip maps with R and OpenStreetMap

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Post by m2fkxy »

Helmut10001 wrote: post #5

Why is there such a movement for making maps with R? The python ecosystem has more and better packages for making maps already. Notwithstanding that there are indeed some nice results, this new R toolchain movement towards maps feels like a waste of open source energy to me.

The mapmaking R ecosystem absolutely has been around for ages, and from a cartographer's point of view it is better suited at making actual maps than Python.

Re: How to make fancy road trip maps with R and OpenStreetMap

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Post by smcl »

trabant00 wrote: post #35
thrwawy74 wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's legit the focus of where I work :c (gestures broadly to everything)

To build an interstate underground tunnel for evacuating lgbt? This feels like 1998 on IRC. I'm shaking my head and laughing at the same time.

I think you're taking "underground railroad" a little bit literally. The commenter seems to be claiming they work in politics and that their job has recently involved putting together some materials to work around some newly introduced (or proposed) spiteful laws targeting a specific group of the population.

I mean on the internet anyone can anonymously claim they're anything, but what this person in particular is claiming doesn't sound out of the realm of possibilities at all.

Re: How to make fancy road trip maps with R and OpenStreetMap

#45

Post by smcl »

trabant00 wrote: post #23
exp1orer wrote: post #8

Vaguely related, a few years ago I made a map of "how to drive from SF to NYC while passing through the minimum number of Republican-voting counties": https://github.com/louispotok/blue-road-trip

I can't believe how even a topic about open maps API gets turned into politics. And then gets voted to the top. What was HN saying about Twitter's algorithm? Something about polarization, divisiveness, outrage, etc? It's not algorithms, it's you. You're making online discussion miserable for everybody.

I guess it's voted up because people found the comment interesting. It could have just been "I found a route following a given rule and wrote a blog on it, here's a link if you're interested" but your comment seems determined to turn it into a politics argument.

Meanwhile there is a more interesting subthread exploring an interesting historical and geological reason behind why some of the counties in question leaned Democratic you don’t seem too interested in. Strange…

Re: How to make fancy road trip maps with R and OpenStreetMap

#47

Post by pferde »

smcl wrote: post #44
trabant00 wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To build an interstate underground tunnel for evacuating lgbt? This feels like 1998 on IRC. I'm shaking my head and laughing at the same time.

I think you're taking "underground railroad" a little bit literally. The commenter seems to be claiming they work in politics and that their job has recently involved putting together some materials to work around some newly introduced (or proposed) spiteful laws targeting a specific group of the population. I mean on the internet anyone can anonymously claim they're anything, but what this person in particular is cl…

Indeed, I think the poster was referring to a metaphorical railroad. The term comes from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underground_Railroad

Re: How to make fancy road trip maps with R and OpenStreetMap

#48

Post by trabant00 »

smcl wrote: post #45
trabant00 wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can't believe how even a topic about open maps API gets turned into politics. And then gets voted to the top. What was HN saying about Twitter's algorithm? Something about polarization, divisiveness, outrage, etc? It's not algorithms, it's you. You're making online discussion miserable for everybody.

I guess it's voted up because people found the comment interesting. It could have just been "I found a route following a given rule and wrote a blog on it, here's a link if you're interested" but your comment seems determined to turn it into a politics argument. Meanwhile there is a more interesting subthread exploring an interesting historical and geological reason behind why some of the counties in question leaned…

"Avoid Republican-voting counties" was completely apolitical before I came in. This is an actual argument you thought makes sense. Ok...

Re: How to make fancy road trip maps with R and OpenStreetMap

#49

Post by avtolik »

avest wrote: post #30
avtolik wrote: post #16

I did something similar in Go for a big sailing trip this year. Just haven't had the time and energy to write a blog post about it. https://j.avtolik.net/journey/2

Looks neat, is the code open to look at somewhere?

Sorry, this is part of my effort of learning Go and is also a WIP. So I am not yet comfortable sharing the code. I can share the libraries I used:

- go html/template for the front-end

- github.com/twpayne/go-gpx for parsing the gps tracks

- github.com/fogleman/gg for drawing the images

- github.com/dsoprea/go-exif/ for reading the exif of the photos, so I can show where are they taken on the route map

Re: How to make fancy road trip maps with R and OpenStreetMap

#50

Post by cinntaile »

nonethewiser wrote: post #41
exp1orer wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I actually hesitated before posting for exactly this reason, and I don't think you're wrong to be sensitive to this. But you'll notice that there's actually no real political content in the link, nor was there any political discussion in the thread, so I think your response is a little bit of an overreaction.

The project itself is political

You don't get any roads without politics in the first place. Everything is "politics".

I don't see the issue with the comment, he didn't assign any judgement to the map. Which is where the politics problem usually arises.

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