Awesome thanks for sharing. I've worked with OSM data extensively but didn't know about the routing possibilities shown here. Will have to try soon!
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
#72To the author: great write up and cool project
Would have loved to see the end result at the top of the article instead of having to scroll all the way down to the bottom for it
Thank you
Re: How to make fancy road trip maps with R and OpenStreetMap
#73Why 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.
Interesting, I’ve used both for years and have found R to be way more intuitive for data exploration and visualization. R looks different than most programming languages, but once it clicks it’s actually really nice.
ggplot is the best! R has some fantastic packages especially for visualizations. And the community is great :)
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#74Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
I appreciate everybody's totally genuine concern about my mental health. May I suggest though that you do you and I do me? Take your own advice and follow it. I will continue to post what I think when I think. Over and out.
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Re: How to make fancy road trip maps with R and OpenStreetMap
#75I hope when you talk about "days", those are just travel days. Be sure to stop a while somewhere nice and explore if you have time.
As Rick Steves says, if you can't justify staying somewhere for at least one night, it might be a good idea just to keep moving!
Re: How to make fancy road trip maps with R and OpenStreetMap
#76To 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…
Yeah the journal idea made me smile. Very thoughtful and constructive parenting.
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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.
What roads? It has nothing to do with roads - it's purely a map of contiguous democrat counties. Besides, that's moving the goalpast from "its not political" to "well yeah it is political but its ok". It's also a bad example precisely for the same reason you (presumably) think it's a good example people can relate to - everyone agrees we need roads.
Furthermore, clearly some things are too political to bring up in some places. This is not controversial. We can all agree we shouldn't let schools preach political propaganda to our children "because everything is political anyways." Or that churches shouldn't preach political propoganda "because everything is political anyways." This is one such case - it's a divisive partisan viewpoint that is only loosely related to the original topic and has nothing to do with hacker news. I assume the original poster meant no harm but it's still a negative contribution.
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#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
I appreciate everybody's totally genuine concern about my mental health. May I suggest though that you do you and I do me? Take your own advice and follow it. I will continue to post what I think when I think. Over and out.
The whole point of this thread was that you wanted to change our behaviour to suit you. We were already following "you do you" and you didn't like it :-/
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#79Earlier quoted context omitted.
The project itself is political
Every single thing is political. What you eat? political Religious? political What TV show you watch? political What job you do? political. Welcome to modern America where every single thing is a political us vs them shit show. This is the county we as citizens have let be forced on us. 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 the…
It's a negative contribution. Do you feel the same way about someone preaching political propoganda in a church, business, school, etc. that you aren't a member of simply because "every single thing is political?" And can't we agree that OP's post is not political? Or if it is, the degree is orders of magnitude less than the map of contiguous counties belonging to one party?
It seems to me that "everything is political" is just a way to provide cover for pushing partisan viewpoints places.
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The topic involves a political party, so no it's never going to be "completely apolitical". But that's not what I said - I said that you're the one who seemed keen to kick off an argument about politics. Also you complained about being miserable, if you don't seek out conflict you won't be so miserable.
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…
For over a decade I ran a very famous /r/ with ~2,000,000 subscribers...
I made it a point to have the sub remain Apolitical - total disaster to the point where the corrupt reddit admins got involved and kicked me out of the sub (admins have tons of alt accounts they use to get mod status in /r/'s)
Its very hard to be apolitical at all these days because the constant barrage of damage control and distractions used to shield US lawmakers from corruption scrutiny. And it affects our lives on a daily basis.
Look at the news cycle today. Literally today ; talking about 'running out of money and raising the debt ceiling' - but zero acknowledgement of the ~250 BILLION dollars we have thus far sent to Ukraine for another proxy war. Fuck that.
We have fucking zombies slurping off the government tit (feinstein) and a crap ton of geriatric long time sitters with dementia and corrupt insider activities
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