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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
that route follows an ancient coastline - https://starkeycomics.com/2021/06/11/how-a-coastline-100-mil...
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.
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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.
As a non-cartographer, but someone who loves maps (who doesnt?) and programming is there anything in particular that makes R more suitable than Python? Not trying to start a Python/R flame war, genuinely curious as an outsider if there's some secret sauce that R has but which Python lacks.
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.
But keeping this "limited iPads/electronics" policy for the kids: is the idea to print out these maps and put them into a journal for them to annotate on?
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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.
This is objectively useful: Now we can build an underground railroad for getting LGBT folks out of Florida and similar states.
Sure, some states are targeting Trans people with the worst offending state being Texas, whose recently indicated-and-stripped-of-power AG ken Paxton criminalized provision of gender affirming care to children as child abuse. But this map goes across the full length of the worst state for trans people, so I don't really see how that map helps LGBT people.
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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
Simple fact most Red's don't want to associate with Blue's and it's the same on the other side. Sure individuals won't agree but they are a minority. If you don't like the project, then just move on it has NOTHING to do with you.
I use https://trips.furkot.com (which is free) for this kind of trip planning. It is fantastic to determine how much stuff you can fit in a day, taking into account when you want to start/end your day, driving time, stops for food, time spent at any road-side attractions, overnight stays, ticketed events (to ensure you arrive on time), etc. It's an incredible resource that seems to "fly under the radar".
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.
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I am an european who clicked on some topic about maps routing only to be greeted by the freaking US politics again. Specifically the side that makes everything political, argues that everything is and should be political, but then pretends that the political shit that comes out their keyboard is somehow not political until I point it out. And I said by doing this you make online discussions miserable, not that I myse…
If seeing a pretty innocuous comment triggers this kind of response, then you might need to take a breather from the comments. Or click the `[-]` button to hide the reply if you don't want to. But engaging like this is about as productive as having an argument with a brick wall, it's not doing you any good.