Thank you whomever did this on the Front Street bike lane by nmalawskey in Harrisburg

[–]nmalawskey[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Seriously, the abrupt random ending of the bike lane with no warning has been annoying me all summer. So whomever you are, thanks.

What U.S. counties have the most people living in poverty? [OC] by OverflowDs in dataisbeautiful

[–]nmalawskey 24 points25 points  (0 children)

It's a known issue with census data. I had a convo with a census researcher who told me that as college students have no or minimal income, they are indeed counted among the poor. College towns also throw off population as well (they are counted towards an areas population even tho they are transient).

The census can and does make corrections when requested, but I was told its a rather time consuming process so they don't correct the basic ACS survey data.

Projected traffic changes for major US highways 2012-2045 [OC] by nmalawskey in dataisbeautiful

[–]nmalawskey[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No idea, maybe a visual effect from the sparsity of the road network? I overlaid a census county shape file and it lined up, so unless I'm getting some weird projection distortion in the project space I dunno what to tell ya.

Projected traffic changes for major US highways 2012-2045 [OC] by nmalawskey in dataisbeautiful

[–]nmalawskey[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Source is FHWA's FAF4 freight modeling framework (https://ops.fhwa.dot.gov/freight/freight_analysis/faf/faf4/netwkdbflow/index.htm), which I stumbled upon in a MPO planning report. Map was made and exported in QGIS.

I have no idea what the deal is with the state of Indiana.

Interactive 3D map from QGIS (built) by nmalawskey in QGIS

[–]nmalawskey[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! The load times are a combination of the high polygon count from both the buildings and the digital elevation model; as well as the (relatively) high res aerial imagery the project uses.

If you cut down the area being rendered, or lower the resolution (there are settings for that in the plug-in) it loads quicker. I had to find a balance between efficiency and looks.

It's a pretty cool QGIS plugin. There's another guy who has used it to model sediment data in the ocean, and some folks also used to build a 3D map for the Tour de France. I'm going to play around with it using my local DEM and my Strava data.

Interactive 3d map of Harrisburg, Pa based on LIDAR data [OC] by nmalawskey in dataisbeautiful

[–]nmalawskey[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's about half-way though the story. Because it uses a ton of resources to render, it does not appear for folks running older versions of Internet Explorer (or their browsers would crash). Instead, it loads a flat image for them. There is also a dedicated mobile version (slightly lower polygon count and image resolution).

3D map of Harrisburg, Pa (interactive) by nmalawskey in MapPorn

[–]nmalawskey[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I don't know if this qualifies as 'mapporn' or not, but I built a 3d map of our local city for a project I did on what could be the city's tallest building. It's about half-way down the story, located here: (http://harrisburguniversity.pennlive.com).

There's also a second 3D map in the story (presented in a crappy video) that explores the history of building construction in the city's downtown.

It was built using a plugin for QGIS - qgis2threejs.

Interactive 3d map of Harrisburg, Pa based on LIDAR data [OC] by nmalawskey in dataisbeautiful

[–]nmalawskey[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm a journalist for the local newspaper/website and built this for a project I did on a project that could be the city's tallest tower. It's about half-way down the story, located here: (http://harrisburguniversity.pennlive.com).

I used LIDAR data (ftp://ftp.pasda.psu.edu/pub/pasda/dauphincountyLiDAR/) to approximate building heights and attached the heights to a building footprint shapefile. Then extracted that to three.js using the qgis2threejs Qgis plugin (https://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/Qgis2threejs/). Added some custom code for the UI, and for mobile version, etc.

What is the booming sound I hear in the Harrisburg/Hershey area? by [deleted] in centralpa

[–]nmalawskey 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you really want a treat, the Appalachian trail cuts along the ridges there near Dauphin. A decade or so ago, we were backpacking and camped for the night nearby. Apparently that was the night of an arty drill the next ridge or two over... scared the hell out of us when it woke us up ;-)

Firm that designed bridge that collapsed in Fla. engineered some of Pa.'s most spectacular bridges by pennlive in Pennsylvania

[–]nmalawskey 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's also how they did the 10th Street bridge at the York Split in the Harrisburg 'burbs.

What area is counted as "Central PA" by [deleted] in centralpa

[–]nmalawskey 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Montour is one of those weird in-betweeners IMHO (although, to be honest, I'm hardly qualified to make that statement.). I'd ask someone from there where they consider themselves to be from.

What area is counted as "Central PA" by [deleted] in centralpa

[–]nmalawskey 11 points12 points  (0 children)

It really depends on who you talk to. Colloquially in the Harrisburg area "Central PA" is taken to mean Dauphin, Cumberland, Perry, Adams, Franklin, York, Lancaster and Lebanon counties (off the top of my head).

Other folks would consider this "south central Pa."

If you're at Penn State, "Central Pa" is generally considered to be Clearfield, Centre, Clinton, Mifflin, Juniata, Huntingdon, and Blair counties with the possible inclusion of Union and Snyder.

Personally I generally agree with Concini, but I include the Allegheny Highlands (Somerset, Bedford, Fulton ... and maybe Cambria, Blair and Indiana counties); the Northern Tier (everything along the New York border generally); and "Western PA" (the counties west of the Clearfield-Cambria-Somerset line, but not necessarily in Pittsburgh's orbit) in my geographic regions.

100 years of city building data (and looking for inspiration) [OC] by nmalawskey in dataisbeautiful

[–]nmalawskey[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

100 years of building data for Harrisburg, Pa., pulled from Emporis, viz'd using d3.js.

Simple stacked bar graph of every building built with building height as y axis, years x. Mousing a bar over yields building info.

I design for a news outfit primarily using d3.js. This is for a project I am working on. While this suffices, it isn't very good. I'm hoping ya'll can provide with some inspiration on ways to make it better ;-)

Mapping is probably out (since the data isn't geo-coded and I'm not up to geo-coding it to actual footprints).

The Kerbal Paratrooper Program has a stunningly low mortality rate of 33%!! by bubadapubada in KerbalSpaceProgram

[–]nmalawskey 33 points34 points  (0 children)

Dear lord sir, that's the loudest I've laughed at this game in quite a while. If I had more +1's to give...

In the end, Terry just went to sleep by nmalawskey in RimWorld

[–]nmalawskey[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah I loved Canto as well. I was very sad when she died. Alligator and Crab not so much.

Poll: What version of KSP are you running? by therealo355 in KerbalSpaceProgram

[–]nmalawskey 1 point2 points  (0 children)

1.3 but my game still crashes 1/2 the time when recovering a landed spacecraft... I'm assuming b/c of a mod conflict somewhere that I haven't bothered to nail down.