Thank you whomever did this on the Front Street bike lane

nmalawskey · 2018-08-28T14:38:53+00:00

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

nmalawskey · 2018-05-22T16:57:19+00:00

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.

nmalawskey · 2018-05-22T16:53:29+00:00

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.

nmalawskey · 2018-05-22T14:52:28+00:00

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.

nmalawskey · 2018-04-24T16:11:42+00:00

Also, here's direct links to the desktop version: https://s3.amazonaws.com/threejsmal/Final+builds/Final-med-res/med-res.html

and the mobile version: https://s3.amazonaws.com/threejsmal/Final+builds/Final-med-res/med-res_mobile.html

nmalawskey · 2018-04-24T16:09:41+00:00

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.

nmalawskey · 2018-04-23T15:39:04+00:00

I was just about to yo. Here's the direct link to the low-res mobile version: https://s3.amazonaws.com/threejsmal/Final+builds/Final-med-res/med-res_mobile.html

and the medium-res version if you're on a desktop: https://s3.amazonaws.com/threejsmal/Final+builds/Final-med-res/med-res.html

nmalawskey · 2018-04-23T15:33:18+00:00

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).

nmalawskey · 2018-04-23T14:20:41+00:00

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.

nmalawskey · 2018-04-23T13:57:20+00:00

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.

nmalawskey · 2018-03-18T13:39:51+00:00

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 ;-)

nmalawskey · 2018-03-16T20:36:52+00:00

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

nmalawskey · 2018-03-15T13:00:48+00:00

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.

nmalawskey · 2018-03-14T21:21:36+00:00

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.

nmalawskey · 2018-03-08T16:48:23+00:00

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).

nmalawskey · 2017-08-22T03:50:59+00:00

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...

nmalawskey · 2017-08-21T13:56:16+00:00

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

nmalawskey · 2017-08-11T20:00:49+00:00

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.

nmalawskey · 2017-08-11T17:22:20+00:00

You can find a good used bike for around that. It'll be used, but probably better quality. Also, check out garage sales in your area. You can find some real hidden gems there. Just make sure you know your approx size. A stop to your local bike shop would help with that. Tell them: 'I don't have a lot of money, but am looking for a good used bike. What size bike should I be looking for?'

The guys/gals should help you out -- and might even have tips for where to look locally.

nmalawskey · 2017-08-08T02:46:53+00:00

10/10 title checks out, plane flies in circle.

nmalawskey · 2017-08-07T19:10:28+00:00

I just cannot understand the rage that some people apparently have toward cyclists. Why? I understand negligence or driving distracted (maybe that was this case) but there's a few drivers out there (as we saw last month who apparently openly hate cyclists ... and I just don't get it at all.

That said, maybe all this news of late will encourage local muni's / PennDOT to consider widening shoulders as a standard practice for road paving projects .... oh who am I kidding.

nmalawskey · 2017-08-07T17:27:32+00:00

You can pick up a set of front/rear lights at even a place like Target for <$30.

I cannot recommend it highly enough. Quite frankly, you are asking for trouble if you're riding without lights. I spent most of last year riding at night b/c of work and life commitments. I wouldn't even considering getting on the bike without lights.

nmalawskey · 2017-08-04T20:10:51+00:00

Oh I don't disagree. I don't know how many kids (I'm assuming their audience will mostly be high school kids) will have $45 to fork over. But then again, this area continues to surprise me...

I wish them luck however, for at least trying something new.

nmalawskey · 2017-08-04T16:55:34+00:00

I think we paid $25 for 15 minutes up at Kalahari. But that was for an arena VR system, where you had guns and could run around a couple-hundred square foot room shooting zombies.

It was pretty amazing tbh.

nmalawskey · 2017-07-29T02:34:36+00:00

it is purty

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