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CascadiaRail, 2 days ago to cascadia

New video from prolific High Speed Rail Youtuber "Lucid Stew" about Cascadia High Speed rail, which sketches out the details of a new hypothetical route between Eugene and Vancouver, BC. What do you think of this route?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBiSqyTSKH0

#Cascadia #CascadiaHSR #CascadiaRail #HSR #PNW #Eugene #Portland #Seattle #Vancouver

alan, 3 days ago to random

Very surprised that the world's largest compass rose isn't tagged with anything that would make it render on #OpenStreetMap!

https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/69195744/

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/world-s-largest-compass-rose

alan, 3 days ago to maps

I'm greatly enjoying the latest version of the Old Maps Online website. It has a very smooth time scrubber where you can see political borders change through time, and then browse georeferenced historical maps from map libraries like the David Rumsey collection.

https://www.oldmapsonline.org/

And just the interactive map without the historical scans is available at TimeMap.org

h/t @friedrich

#OldMapsOnline #DavidRumsey #TimeMap #maps #cartography #history

alan, 4 days ago to Dragonlance

Via becca.explains.the.occupation on Instagram, here's a map of Palestinian villages before the Nakba, created by Zochrot.org (available in English, Hebrew, and Arabic)

You can click on the markers and read the history of each village.

https://www.zochrot.org/villages/nakba_map/en?target=6&Nakba_Map

#map #maps #palestine #israel #nakba

alan, 8 days ago to random

That feeling when you spend a bunch of time tracking down people's Mastodon handles so you can properly credit them with something awesome... and find that their Mastodon accounts have been dead for a year and they're active daily over on bluesky.

😥

alan, 16 days ago to olympia

"Evergreen State College to explore Israel divestment after deal with students"

"Protesters at The Evergreen State College in #Olympia agreed to remove their week-old encampment Tuesday night after striking a deal with administrators that includes the school publicly calling for a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war and exploring divestment from companies that profit from 'the occupation of Palestinian territories.'"

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/law-justice/evergreen-state-to-explore-israel-divestment-after-deal-with-students/

#divestment #bds #EvergreenState #Washington

alan, 16 days ago to cycling

This is a big deal for bikes in Bellingham! We have a new protected bike lane on Holly Street, the most important thoroughfare through downtown, and previously a big gap in our cycling network. Very excited to use this new route!

https://mstdn.social/@mgrass/112372352727627934

#BellinghamWA #biketooter #cycling #BikeLane

Wijfi, 22 days ago to random

Stayed up too late playing writing shaders to use on layers in @maplibre

Psychedelic patterns drawn on a map of Mexico

alan, 23 days ago (edited 22 days ago) to random

I hadn't visited @OpenInfraMap in a while: it's a pretty impressive custom rendering of power and telecommunication infrastructure in OpenStreetMap.

If you need something new to map in OpenStreetMap, looks like lots of neighborhoods still need to have their power poles mapped! 😳

https://openinframap.org

#OpenStreetMap #OpenInfraMap #OpenInfrastructureMap #OpenData #OSM #Infrastructure #cartography

alan, 23 days ago (edited 22 days ago) to random

I dug into my archives and found this map I made of 2016 election results aggregated by the (then) new Whatcom County council districts introduced in 2017. Gives a rough sense of the political alignment in our small county here in the northwest corner of Washington State.

I need to update this map with new data from all the elections since 2016, obviously, but it's a hassle to work with the precinct level results. Soon.

#wapoli #waelex #WhatcomCounty #Whatcom #BellinghamWA #uspol

alan, 24 days ago to random

Southwest Airlines is pulling out of Bellingham International Airport, citing delays on production of Boeing planes.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/25/business/boeing-problems-southwest-ends-service-4-airports/index.html

#Southwest #SouthwestAirlines #BLI #BellinghamWA #Boeing #BellinghamInternationalAirport

alan, 26 days ago to random

"Here’s a Clever Way to Uncover America’s Voting Deserts:
Mathematicians are using topological abstractions to find places poorly served by polling stations."

https://www.wired.com/story/voting-deserts-maths-topology/

Sure, this is clever. But you know what's even more clever? Eliminating polling places entirely and switching to 100% vote-by-mail like in Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Vermont, and Hawaii.

(With some in-person polling places as needed for accessibilty reasons)

#elections #VoteByMail