San Francisco Standard: Meet the teen whose viral SF tow truck tracker got banned after 3 hours . “Inspired by local tech prankster Riley Walz, [Rodin] Roohipour, who lives in Los Angeles, vibe-coded an app(opens in new tab) that maps the location of San Francisco tow trucks in real time. He launched it Tuesday between his morning classes at Chadwick School in Palos Verdes. By the time he’d […]

Merde! I am in the process of writing a scraper for a database of public administration documents because official website is so slow and annoying and bad at search. And *every* time I try to download any significant amount of data from it, it just takes down the site for everyone. And this doesn't even require botnet level traffic, just a regular for loop in Python will do. Thinking to extend my little project to a full competitor to the current platform... 😆

#openData #openGovernment

Ce n'est pas tous les jours que je reçois une mention spéciale en français ! Merci beaucoup !

It’s not every day I receive a special mention in French! Thank you!

Não é todo dia que recebo um reconhecimento especial em francês! Gratidão!

ebook: https://plages.hypotheses.org/8566

My chapter about mapping beach access on OpenStreetMap:

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17858614

#OpenStreetMap
#opendata
#coastalmanagement
#geography
#oceanography

What I Learned Publishing My First Public Dataset https://tinyurl.com/yk5jsyhm

#OpenKnowledge #OpenData #PublicDatasets #KnowledgeInfrastructure #SystemsThinking #DigitalPublishing #DataModeling