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seav, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to random

Today is the 125th anniversary of the start of the Philippine–American War, which is the #UnitedStates‘ biggest conflict in the period between the Spanish–American War and World War I. The Americans‘ victory by 1902 cemented the U.S.‘ reputation as an imperial power with colonies across the Pacific from Manila to San Juan, Puerto Rico.

What I find really sad is that most Americans don’t even know about this war, which is glossed over in American history school books.

#Philippines #history

seav, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to firefox

Awesome! Brian Sperlongano (ZeLonewolf) has published a new #Firefox extension that modifies #OpenStreetMap object web pages to display human-readable info related to #Wikidata tags. Now in addition to the opaque QIDs, you get to see the actual item label and a link to corresponding #Wikipedia article if any!

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/osm-human-readable-wikidata/

There's also a Chrome extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/osmorg-human-readable-wik/nmncgjaphflibllipiiphlngaogimgli

Discourse announcement: https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/announcing-human-readable-wikidata-browser-plugins-for-openstreetmap-org

seav, 5 months ago to random

Happy 20th birthday to the Tagalog Wikipedia (that is according to the English Wikipedia article about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tagalog_Wikipedia) 🎉🎂

I somehow remember requesting that the Tagalog Wikipedia be created, but I no longer remember when or where I placed that request and I couldn’t find any record of how tlwp got created. 😝 But by convention @joshlim and I pegged the creation date to December 1 as the Internet Archive first crawled the domain on November 30.

#Tagalog #Philippines @pinoy

seav, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to Philippines

#30DayMapChallenge 🗺️ Day 1️⃣5️⃣: #OpenStreetMap

I guessed that most mappers would of course be rendering maps made from OSM data. But because I live and breathe OSM (I even served on the Foundation Board for 2 years!) and I don’t want to go with the bandwagon, I decided to map OSM metadata instead!

Here is a map of the bounding boxes of almost all of my 349 OSM changesets for 2023 which is obviously all over my country the #Philippines 🇵🇭.

Other data source: Base outline from #NaturalEarth

seav, 9 months ago to random

To celebrate #OpenStreetMap’s 19th anniversary today, the OSM Foundation has just launched a new “Supporting” website where you can support the project by either donating some money or joining as a normal or corporate member of the Foundation.

https://supporting.openstreetmap.org/

P.S. I’m not involved in this new website; just a messenger.

P.P.S. This new website replaces the old “Donate” and “Join” websites which now redirect to this new website.

P.P.P.S. I see some bugs/issues with the new website.

seav, 1 month ago to Philippines

I hate that we in the #Philippines 🇵🇭 have inherited a car-centric mentality due to nearly 50 years as a colony of the United States. Having experienced the excellent public transportation of cities like Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore, Berlin, London, Milan, Amsterdam, and Madrid, I can only feel sadness because the transportation system in Manila is way behind our peer metropolises in Southeast Asia.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/we-need-to-make-cities-less-car-dependent/

#PublicTransportation #CarDependency #tootSEA @pinoy

seav, 6 months ago to Philippines

#30DayMapChallenge 🗺️ Day 1️⃣: Points

I will probably regret joining this map challenge but let’s try doing this for the first time!

https://30daymapchallenge.com/

This map visualizes the 7100 islands 🏝️ of the Philippines that were catalogued by the United States and published in Volume 5 of the 1939 Census of the Philippines.

We suspected that this was the original source for the official number of 7107 islands before 2016 when 500+ more islands were identified by NAMRIA.

#Philippines #tootSEA

seav, 10 days ago to Malaysia

I guess I shouldn't have been surprised that Sabah also has a bamboo pole dance similar to the Philippines' Tinikling or Singkil. This one is called Magunatip.

#ESEAP #ESEAP2024 #ESEAPKK24 #TraditionalDances #Malaysia #Sabah #Magunatip #tootSEA #IntangibleHeritage #culture

seav, 6 months ago to random

We lost another great writer. 😧

http://www.cnnphilippines.com/news/2023/11/7/conrado-de-quiros-died.html

seav, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to random

#30DayMapChallenge 🗺️ Day 1️⃣1️⃣: Retro

This post is kinda late. 😝 Anyway, I had some #JavaScript code from several years back that lets me render a faux portolan chart as an SVG image in the browser given a GeoJSON data of coastlines. So for today I tried to resurrect this idea and chose to render a map of #SaintKittsAndNevis 🇰🇳. After drawing the basic elements, I then went into #GIMP to add labels and finishing touches.

Data is of course from #OpenStreetMap (licensed under the ODbL 1.0).

seav, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to Philippines

#30DayMapChallenge 🗺️ Day 7️⃣: #Navigation

Decided to do something “simple” for today. Here is a map of all ferry routes ⛴️ in the #Philippines 🇵🇭 that have been mapped in #OpenStreetMap. Data has been extracted via #OverpassTurbo (data licensed under ODbL 1.0) and rendered via #Leaflet.

Since the Philippines is an archipelago, ferries and boats are important means of transportation especially since the thousands of small islands are too small to host airstrips.

#ferries #tootSEA @pinoy

seav, 3 months ago to random

I never thought I'd live to see the day JPE turn 100 years old. Also that means he's eligible to receive a cash gift of ₱100,000.00 from the DSWD.

#JPE #Enrile #phpol

seav, 9 months ago to random

Congratulations to @siobhan_leachman for being the 2023 Wikimedia Laureate winner! 🥳🎉

#Wikimania2023 #Wikimania #Wikimedia

seav, 9 months ago to Wikipedia

Day 0 of #Wikimania2023 is done!

The massive 6-foot-tall cardboard sculpture of the Wikipedia 'W' logo is pretty nifty. And the plenary hall is massive! 😮 I will be presenting here on Thursday and I'm already intimidated. 😱

#Wikimania #Wikipedia

View of the plenary hall for Wikimania from the far side showing some round tables at the back, rows of chairs in the middle, a raised stage at the front and with a giant horizontal LED screen spanning the backdrop of the stage.

seav, 3 months ago to random

The dry, cool season is pretty much over because daytime temperatures are back in their low 30s. 🥵 (High 80s to low 90s for the unmetricated folks in the U.S.)

seav, 7 months ago to Philippines

The New Yorker interviewed Patricia Evangelista, one of Rappler's best investigative journalists, on the occasion of the publishing of her book Some People Need Killing.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/a-journalist-exposes-the-philippines-extralegal-killings

#Rappler #PatriciaEvangelista #NewYorker #Philippines #tootSEA #journalists #journalism

seav, 7 months ago to random

As an Asian watching American/British TV shows or movies, I can’t get over the fact that people just wear their shoes that have been outside inside their bedrooms. 👞

seav, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to Astronomy

I know the Fediverse generally skews towards the scientific consensus, but I'm curious with how you feel about the International Astronomical Union (IAU) demoting Pluto to dwarf planet status back in 2006?

#Pluto #astronomy #planets #SolarSystem

seav, 5 months ago to random

I wonder if there should should also be a #30DayOSMChallenge next year in November? Basically try to map something new or improve an existing object based on a daily theme in #OpenStreetMap.

So for example, Day 8 could be “Roads”, and you could map a new road or add a surface=* tag or name:etymology=* tag to an existing road.

It would be something fun to do and could help folks achieve the 42 days needed to qualify for free membership to the OSM Foundation (if they want to join).

seav, 9 months ago to til

The @internetarchive is one of the most enduring partnerships that the Wikimedia movement has and IA's director, @mark, just gave an update of their work here in #Wikimania2023. One thing I learned today (#TIL) is that they also work on adding links to book citations in Wikipedia articles to their collection and not just web references (via the Wayback Machine). 🎉

#Wikimania #InternetArchive

seav, 9 months ago to singapore

The main program of #Wikimania2023 #Singapore 🇸🇬 has just ended! Woohoo! 🎉🥳

Thank you to the @wikimediafoundation, the conference Core Organizing Team, and the #ESEAP hub for a really wonderful event!

See you next year (I hope) in #Kraków #Poland 🇵🇱 for #Wikimania2024!

#Wikimania #Wikimedia #Wikipedia

The Core Organizing Team of Wikimania 2024 on the stage welcoming the audience to Kraków next year.

seav, 5 months ago to Spotify

I wonder how many of the musicians that recorded video messages for #SpotifyWrapped did so grudgingly because of the low royalties they get from streaming services? 😏

#Spotify #music #songs

seav, 10 months ago to Philippines

This Vogue Philippines article about the Filipino painter Juan Luna is impressive, painting a conflicting picture of the hero/genius vs. monster conundrum that besets many people.

https://vogue.ph/lifestyle/art/juan-luna-martin-arnaldo-film-hymen-oh-hymenee/

#Philippines #JuanLuna #tootSEA @pinoy

seav, 8 months ago to random

The recent English-only drama over on #Fosstodon just made me aware that my instance, en.osm.town, is ostensibly an English-primary instance (it's right there in the hostname!) and was created after the now-defunct French-language fr.osm.social instance but we welcome any language toots. And we have four moderators all speaking at least 6 languages among us. Then again, we are a pretty small instance.