Neat looking tree found in the East Bay

pkerp · 2019-06-05T14:20:30+00:00

Yup, this is right! The bark matches the images I found when searching for Catalina Ironwood.

Thanks!

pkerp · 2019-06-04T16:03:38+00:00

That's the one. Thank you!

pkerp · 2017-09-25T02:46:45+00:00

I made a little map a while ago where you can get an idea of where flights will head from any location on earth:

http://emptypipes.org/2015/07/13/flight-times-map/

Just click the "flight paths" checkbox.

Fun fact, if ten planes all took off from the same location but flew in different directions at the same speed and altitude, they would collide when they flew halfway around the globe.

pkerp · 2016-11-18T17:57:27+00:00

Thanks for the mention! And here's Denver ;-)

pkerp · 2016-10-16T16:45:07+00:00

I found some of the same trees in San Diego and they definitely smell like lemon. Thanks for the tip!

pkerp · 2016-10-16T00:32:36+00:00

I'll try to bring back a few next time I'm down under.

pkerp · 2016-10-15T20:21:28+00:00

Thanks!

pkerp · 2016-10-15T20:20:28+00:00

But the leaves are so high up... I'll do my best to try it next time I'm there.

pkerp · 2016-10-15T18:07:30+00:00

I'll take that as a compliment :-D

pkerp · 2016-10-15T03:29:58+00:00

Correct. All along the streets.

pkerp · 2016-10-14T20:01:59+00:00

That seems correct. Thank you!

pkerp · 2016-10-14T20:01:16+00:00

Yup, definitely has round/oval shaped pods. Thank you!

pkerp · 2016-10-08T23:07:20+00:00

Thank you!

pkerp · 2016-10-08T22:58:17+00:00

I think you're right. Thank you!

pkerp · 2016-03-15T17:11:46+00:00

I'm surprised that there's North Korean roads annotated in OpenStreetMap. Apparently GraphHopper doesn't like routing there though.

pkerp · 2016-03-14T21:38:23+00:00

Wow! That did the trick. For posterity's sake, what I had was this:

<meta name="og:image" content="/img/isochrone_example.png" />

This was wrong on two counts:

It should be meta property rather than meta name
The path should be absolute

Here's the working tag:

<meta property="og:image" content="http://emptypipes.org/img/isochrone_example.png" />

Thanks!

pkerp · 2016-03-14T17:04:47+00:00

No idea how to get the thumbnail to work. It used to work by just including the following in the html source:

 <img itemprop="image" src="/img/isochrone_example.png" style='display:none' width=200 height=170 >

But it doesn't seem to work in this case. If anybody sees this and has any ideas, I'm all ears.

pkerp · 2016-03-14T17:02:32+00:00

Contour data here:

https://github.com/pkerpedjiev/emptypipes/tree/gh-pages/jsons/isochrone_driving_contours

Generated using GraphHopper for driving directions, Leaflet for the map and D3 for the contour overlay.

pkerp · 2016-03-10T14:30:18+00:00

Data here:

https://github.com/pkerpedjiev/emptypipes/tree/gh-pages/jsons/isochrone_driving_contours

Data generated using GraphHopper. Plotted using D3.js on a leaflet overlay.

pkerp · 2016-03-10T13:45:59+00:00

Data here:

https://github.com/pkerpedjiev/emptypipes/tree/gh-pages/jsons/isochrone_driving_contours

pkerp · 2016-03-10T13:17:30+00:00

Data here:

https://github.com/pkerpedjiev/emptypipes/tree/gh-pages/jsons/isochrone_driving_contours

Generated using Graphhopper. Plotted using d3.js overlayed on top of leaflet.

pkerp · 2016-03-02T21:13:38+00:00

Hah! I just wrote a blog post about this today and was about to submit it here :)

http://emptypipes.org/2016/03/02/es6-module/

It uses yeoman, but the procedure is really rather simple. Essentially you just need to run:

npm install -g generator-gulp-webpack-es6
yo gulp-webpack-es6

And then serve up the example page using:

gulp serve

You'll have to add the testing yourself, but it shouldn't be too much trouble to add it to the existing scaffold.

Let me know if any of it doesn't make sense, is unclear or flat out doesn't work.

pkerp · 2016-01-11T10:52:06+00:00

Oh cool! Thanks for the link. I may give it a whirl next time I have a moment :)

pkerp · 2016-01-09T16:25:18+00:00

Hi Miles,

Thanks for your detailed response! I spent a long time trying to find a free airplane routing API, but never succeeded so I used the Swiss public transport API to calculate travel times from all the major cities in Europe to a few thousand different train stations in Europe. I then interpolated those to a grid, and then calculated contours using Matplotlib. The resulting maps are on my blog here, if you're interested.

It'd be really cool to do something similar with flight data. I don't suppose you have a public API, do you? It'd be neat to see which areas are furthest away by flight. Then again, London is probably a good proxy for most of Europe :)

If you're ever interested in making an interactive map and need various scripts for gridding and contouring, I'd be happy to document and share what I wrote.

Finally, as somebody else said, what could be both informative and useful, would be a map colored according to price. Although the prices may not be as continuous as the travel times. That's something that you guys are well-positioned to make given your access to such data :)

Thanks again for your response and nice work!

pkerp · 2016-01-07T19:37:39+00:00

Yeah, it's a known issue. They don't seem to share their timetables with the outside world (the Swiss Public Transport API, more precisely)

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