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 something like this was such a huge cost now it's becoming palatable
>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.
Massive Interstellar vibes, I guess it is "necessary"
Another option would be self hosting vector tiles(or finding the most generous free tier vector tiles) and using a custom grey scale styling that you could tweak to your needs.
Maputnik is a great tool for building custom vector stylesheets. (1)
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 double what it would have cost to buy one of Etsy but it's still one of my favourite things I've done in ages. My son still gets excited when he see's it sometimes
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 the updated ENC standard for S-100 the new S-102 standard will enable the visualisation of processed bathymetric data by mariners, biggest benefits will be more granular no-go areas
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 cables are being tested. But this assumes you can park opposite your house.
Councils are happy to lease pavements to providers but it's not a lucrative proposition right now for 95% of UK streets, it's also victim to a negative feedback mechanism where home owners won't buy EVs because charging is hard which creates low demand
Councils can't solve it without investment, most likely it will solve itself when the majority of high income charging locations have been constructed. Most charging companies are operating on long-term investments leveraging debt. It's going to take years to solve, and that's without worrying about the grid infrastructure
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 of living.
Most western societies have an age curve moving to the right. Lots of opportunities with AI and disrupting the user experience for the elderly. Have relatives who can't use a touch screen because of arthritis, bonus is the have money
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 passed down between generations, always kept in the family.
on a good night they were making hundreds if not thousands. Bear in mind this was 30 years ago so serious money for one nights work.
I don't know if it was true, but the eels were said to all be bought up by Asian buyers
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 with higher costs and an easier path to a defendable technical moat. Swapping a basemap can literally be a 10 minute job
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 only, if you let postgis do the heavy lifting it's a beautiful setup, especially with a tuned dB and a indexed clustered postgres table
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 am getting as much value from it as others might be so for the moment I like the discussion
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 increased availability of good open geospatial data along with amazing free open source tooling has made making beautiful maps easier than ever. Tools like QGIS and blender are world class
Maybe contentious but is it really a map if it's hung on a wall for artistic merit? At what point is it considered art?
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 UKHO charts are currently printed at a distributor location on giant inkjet printers. Incidentally the charts are only water resistant not waterproof