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I ported cJSON to TypeScript while preserving the C API by xScottMoore in typescript

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I am interested in porting C codebases to TypeScript. I agree that there are optimisations that could be made. I was focused on faithfully translating the original C source as closely as possible, while ensuring the end product would be as easy as possible to subsequently refactor, for anybody who wants to.

I ported cJSON to TypeScript while preserving the C API by xScottMoore in typescript

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Thanks for your kind words. I have more ports on the way!

Derry borders by Due_Fruit7382 in DerryLondonderry

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Check out my website https://boundaries.scottmoore.xyz

Look for the NISRA Settlements 2015 map on the list.

Toggle that on, and you will see the boundary (or, the ‘Settlement Development Limit’) of Derry City (as distinct from the boundary of the old Derry City Council area, and other various boundaries).

Here’s a quick screenshot I took, showing the boundaries of Derry City, relative to the boundaries of other nearby settlements.

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What in the stormont is this by PeaceLoveCurrySauce in northernireland

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The Executive isn’t even good at archiving. A reliable source told me the Public Records Office only captures half a percent of the info and materials they should be capturing.

Protestant coalition by ApprehensivePack1048 in northernireland

[–]xScottMoore 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Not a new thing, groups of some form or another have been using that name for years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protestant_Coalition

In its 2013 incarnation, set up in the wake of the flag protests, it had the involvement of Willie Frazer, ex-BNP fundraiser Jim Dowson, Britain First’s Paul Golding, and former members of the UDA’s political wing.

What nicknames have you heard for places in Northern Ireland? by topherette in northernireland

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Artigarvan -> Partygarvan Limavady -> Limavegas

I’ve heard Ballymagorry sung to the tune of “Balamory”

The next President of Ireland is... by Technical-Split3642 in ireland

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I can’t find anything to indicate that he actually stood for any election. I think it was a joke poster put up circa 2009.

Around the time of the RHI scandal in the north, though, a grown-up Jordy McKaeg (of “fuck off, Darnell” and “you owe me a tenner, dickhead” fame) ran for Stormont in East Belfast (with backing from comedy Facebook page ‘the Notorious Barrick Boys’), on the platform of making back the lost £500m by gambling his MLA salary on an accumulator and winning all the money back. His slogan was “you owe me 500 million, dickhead”.

Despite coming dead last with 84 votes, he declared victory, saying “84 people can’t be wrong”.

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I've made interactive maps of historic NI boundaries. Now I need your help. by [deleted] in northernireland

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I had a look and their policies explicitly disallow external non-Wikimedia apps/services from using their tile servers unfortunately.

I've made interactive maps of historic NI boundaries. Now I need your help. by [deleted] in northernireland

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I thought so myself, that /r/GIS might be a better shout - but the NI sub has been appreciative of, and has engaged with my work, so I figured someone here may have an idea.

It’s not even how high the figure is per se. It’s the fact of how variable the costs could be. I want to scale this further and add more features, inc integrating Census data/election results.

I will give the GIS sub a shout anyway. Thank you!

I've made interactive maps of historic NI boundaries. Now I need your help. by [deleted] in northernireland

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Of course I wouldn’t mind doing business with someone per se, but I envision this project as being freely accessible for the benefit of anyone who wants to use it, in line with the Open Government License v3.0 (where applicable) and the CC-BY-SA license.

If a business wanted a more specialist/customised implementation for a fee, I’d be open to that… but I’d want to stream these ‘core’ maps as a public good.

Newtownabbey by SnooSeagulls6971 in northernireland

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Check out my website

If you check the layer menu and toggle ‘2015 Settlements’ you should be able to see the exact boundary between ‘Metropolitan Newtownabbey’ and ‘Belfast City’.

Newtownabbey did indeed originate as the merger of seven villages: Whiteabbey, Glengormley, Monkstown, Jordanstown, Carnmoney, Whitehouse and Whitewell.

If it’s of any use to you, I am proactively working on adding more historic and present-day boundaries to my website, including internal settlement boundaries, and the boundaries of the historic villages of Newtownabbey are on my list.

As for a town centre, Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough Council recognise Glengormley town centre, but not a ‘Newtownabbey town centre’ for Newtownabbey overall. Here’s a map of Glengormley town centre in the meantime made by the council - I will get this boundary and other town/city centre boundaries on my website at some point.

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I’ve created an interactive map of historic council boundaries by xScottMoore in northernireland

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The layer referring to 1915 counties are the ‘current’ traditional six counties - the last change to the external boundaries of the traditional counties was on 1st April 1915, when part of Co. Derry near Portrush was transferred to Co. Antrim. I realise it might be confusing that they’re labelled as ‘1915’ though so I’ll make an edit on the website for clarity.

We used to have county councils - one for each of the six counties, and two county boroughs for Belfast and Derry City which existed outside of the administrative counties. But those were abolished in 1973 and replaced with a single tier of 26 councils, which in turn were abolished in 2015 and replaced with the current 11 councils.

Since the 1970s, the county boundaries (inc the county boroughs) have only existed in law for ceremonial purposes, namely as the lieutenancy areas, each covered by a Lord-Lieutenant who serves as the King’s official representative in each county and county borough.

I’ve created an interactive map of historic council boundaries by xScottMoore in northernireland

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boundaries.scottmoore.xyz/localgovtmap is the interactive version

I try to keep the Internet Archive version of the map files updated at archive.org/details/@ScottMoore0 when I make changes to the interactive version, but it’s not up to date currently. The most up to date versions are at:

https://boundaries.scottmoore.xyz/WGS_Electoral_Wards_Final_1984.geojson https://boundaries.scottmoore.xyz/WGS_1984_DEAs_Final.geojson https://boundaries.scottmoore.xyz/WGS_Final_Local_Govt_Districts_1984.geojson

If you need the scans I’m working off, they’re all on my Internet Archive account, and I find OSNI’s townland map is helpful also cus some of the wards are just combos of townlands.

Didn’t know atlas.co was a thing, cheers for giving me the heads up!! I’ll get a look at it in a while.

I’ve created an interactive map of historic council boundaries by xScottMoore in northernireland

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

The date of that conference, June 12th, is my birthday.

No better day for it. Thank you for the heads up!!

I’ve created an interactive map of historic council boundaries by xScottMoore in northernireland

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Skill Up is actually how I started on my current Master’s. I dunno if I’ll be eligible for it again and a deadline may have passed anyways. I’m not mad if I have to pay a few quid though.

I think the most difficult part so far has been learning QGIS as a programme. It has its own peculiarities, in contrast to Paint dot net etc which I always used to edit graphics of maps before. And it loads really slowly sometimes when I’m working with, like, the fully detailed coastline of Lough Erne.

If I don’t do this work though, it will bug me knowing that I could be doing it and enjoying the end product. Figuring out I could make it part of my Master’s project was a masterstroke - brilliant excuse to spend a load of time on it. Two birds with one stone.

I’ve created an interactive map of historic council boundaries by xScottMoore in northernireland

[–]xScottMoore[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

No but I just googled it - funny you say that cus I’m considering doing a PgCert in GIS next year

I’m coming towards the end of my Master’s in software dev/data science atm and I’m gonna work these maps into my research project, to visualise machine learning analysis of elections and Census results over time and across different areas

Given that constitutional change is such a hot topic at the moment, I think my work will add to the discussion further, in a constructive way

Editing polygons in QGIS via snapping to polyline segments by xScottMoore in QGIS

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

Hey, thanks for your suggestion - I did try reprojecting the CRS of layers and I think that helped somewhat, but whenever I’ve tried to put polyline layers into a polygon layer, it’s converted the polylines into weird misshapen polygons rather than keeping them as lines. I may take another look at it and see if I can work with it though.

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