I live in #BloomingtonIN and my formerly best source of #tornado information was to search for "Bloomington tornado" on the bird site. That always lead me to Cody K's tweets, which never failed to have the best updates.

Now on #Mastodon, I've created a list named "Tornado" with only his account on it, so even if I forgot his account again, I can still find it.

Glad to see you on Mastodon, @codykirkp !

Dear #GIS, I do independent spatial analysis work that I like to visualize as web maps. You can see examples here: https://mark.stosberg.com/mapping/

At times I have access to ArcGIS Online and I like those visualization tools, but I'd love to know if there are alternatives for hosting some web maps for less than $100/year-- I don't need all the features of the ArcGIS subscription-- I just want to publish some webs maps (Something like StoryMaps are great too)!

Work is being done to allow GitHub-like services to interoperate on the fediverse

https://forgefed.org/ @forgefed

I've published software used to create a heatmap of locations to prioritize for sidewalk funding.

Write-up: https://mark.stosberg.com/how-to-create-a-heatmap-sidewalk-location-priority/
Direct code link (Node.js): https://gitlab.com/markstos/sidewalk-priority-map

#gis #UrbanPlanning #TranspoEquity #opensource #BloomingtonIN

I've tried a number of #CLI file managers / file browsers for #Linux but I always keep coming back to #fish shell and #vim as an efficient solution for me.

I've only got bandwidth to memorize so many tools and so much syntax. New tools in the toolbox don't just have to be good, they have add significant efficiencies over using the existing toolset!

For #Neovim, I add the "vinegar" plugin to enhance the `netrw` file browser without adding much more to learn. https://github.com/tpope/vim-vinegar

Dear #GIS, I'm working on some spatial analysis command line tools that may be of use to GIS folk or #UrbanPlanning types to run who don't code much or at all.

I understand most will be using Windows due to Esri system requirements, but can I expect much experience with PowerShell or Unix sells like Bash?

My code is in Node now, but I'm also wondering if I should rewrite it in Python, which seems to be used a lot more.

Thanks!

Thanks to @calyxos I'm able to sell old #Android phones at a premium by deGoogling them with #CalyxOS

These were phones I bought for family members on eBay, they used them for a couple years and now they were sold for about the same price they were bought for instead of significant depreciation!

“Toronto’s Curbside Patios Made 49 Times More Money Than the Parking They Replaced”

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2022/11/22/torontos-curbside-patios-made-49-times-more-money-than-the-parking-they-replaced
#urbanplanning

On #Linux, writing in #Markdown and copying an HTML version to the clipboard to paste into email is easy enough:

pandoc README.md | wl-copy --type text/html