Notices by Eugene Alvin Villar (seav@en.osm.town)

#TheDress viral photo will be 10 years old next month. And to me it still looks like a #WhiteAndGold dress and not #BlueAndBlack. I can’t adjust my perception to make it look blue and black unlike with other reversible optical illusions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_dress

Today is Rizal Day, a public holiday in the #Philippines 🇵🇭 honoring the martyrdom of national hero #JoséRizal. Rizal was executed on 30 December 1896 after being charged for sedition and rebellion against the Spanish colonial government.

As a simple token, here is a photo I took in 2017 of a historical marker installed by the Philippines’ national historical agency in Berlin at the site where Rizal stayed while writing his first novel, Noli Me Tangere.

#HistoricalMarkers #history #tootSEA

What consumerist capitalist dystopia are we living in that there exists “Amazon influencers” and they sue each other? #smh

https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/26/24303161/amazon-influencers-lawsuit-copyright-clean-aesthetic-girl-sydney-nicole-gifford-alyssa-sheil

“The Japan Meteorological Agency reported that it was the first time since records began in 1951 that so many storms co-existed in the Pacific basin in November.”

https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/153575/typhoons-line-up-in-the-western-pacific

While I wasn’t affected too much by recent storms / #typhoons (at worst it was just rainy weather), the incoming #ManYi / #PepitoPH is likely the closest to approach #Manila, #Philippines 🇵🇭 .

#weather #meteorology #ExtremeWeather #TropicalCyclones

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“Trump has also said he will once again remove the U.S. from the Paris climate accord, under which countries agreed to try to limit warming to under 1.5 degrees C and ‘well under’ 2 degrees C.”

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/2024-will-be-the-first-year-to-exceed-the-1-5-degree-celsius-warming/

#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis

I wouldn’t dream of trying this back in 2010, but I think the state of JavaScript + Canvas is good enough that I could do this now.

The original party render script uses the Cairo graphics library and HTML5 Canvas is essentially an almost direct counterpart.

Check out this map’s source code in GitHub: https://github.com/seav/osm-cavite-mapping-party

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#30DayMapChallenge 🗺️ Day 5️⃣: A journey

Back in 2010, the #OpenStreetMap #Philippines 🇵🇭 community held a mapping party in Cavite.¹ To show off the event, I created an animation using the popular #Python OSM party render² script:

https://youtu.be/u2ezOvWRT_M

After 14 years, I thought that this would be an excellent animated map to recreate using current #HTML5 technologies. And it looks good!

https://seav.github.io/osm-cavite-mapping-party/

¹ https://www.vaes9.com/posts/a_huge_cavite_road_trip
² https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Party_render

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Where’s the lie?

This is a political drawing by Hermann-Paul published in 1899 in Le Cri de Paris, a French magazine, and was created as a commentary on the Boxer Rebellion.

#politics #PoliticalCartoons #colonialism

I finally processed and then uploaded this 1875 map (annotated in 1902) of the #Philippines 🇵🇭 to #WikimediaCommons.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Carta_General_(en_dos_hojas)_del_Archip%C3%ADelago_Filipino_(1875_and_1902).tif

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#Mapstodon #maps #cartography

Who else has a soft spot for text figures, also known as lowercase or old style numerals, in #typefaces?

They look beautiful when used properly. Of course, they are hardly appropriate in coding fonts and financial/accounting contexts.

#typography #TextFigures

#MetroManila, the #Philippines’ 🇵🇭 national capital region, has just been placed under a state of calamity by the Metro Manila Council (MMC) and the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) due to extensive #flooding. 🌧️

https://www.gmanetwork.com/news/topstories/nation/914547/ncr-state-of-calamity-floods/story/

#Gaemi #CarinaPH #habagat #tootSEA #floods

Did you know that there is a 1:1 scale replica of the world-famous #Shibuya Scramble intersection that can be rented by TV and film productions located 80 km northwest of Tokyo in the city of #Ashikaga? The real intersection is so busy that nobody can close it down for controlled filming.

This set was notably used in the hit Japanese TV series Alice in Borderland.

Location in OSM: https://osm.org/go/7Q9Mdm_mk?m=

#DYK #Tokyo #Japan

#NileRed already does some really dangerous chemical experiments 😱 but this one is kinda more insane.

https://youtu.be/zMaTrgUKC1w

#chemistry

Joke's on you! I use #OpenStreetMap!

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/16/barcelona-bus-route-removed-map-apps-tourist-overcrowding-park-guell

https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/7889541

The Sora announcement by OpenAI is kinda frightening/exciting and Marques does a really good job discussing the implications of this new technology.

https://youtu.be/NXpdyAWLDas

What's not discussed as much as well is the huge amounts of water and electricity that is required to run this tech.

#OpenAI #Sora #GenerativeAI

@phiofx I'm not exactly sure but you might be thinking of @ohm? OpenHistoricalMap is sort of like OSM (mostly uses the same tech, tools, apps, and other software) but is intended to map the complete geographic history of the Earth whereas OSM is intended to document Earth as it actually is right now.

While doing some editing in #OpenStreetMap, I stumbled onto this dramatic transformation at Domoroy Point in Barangay Matayum, Cataingan, Masbate, #Philippines 🇵🇭. In a bid to boost tourism, the local government created the huge man-made Matayum Lagoon.

You can see the transformation by switching to different aerial imagery layers. Mapbox at the top shows the area before the lagoon was created, the middle from Bing with the initial excavation, and the bottom from Esri with the finished lagoon.

Siguro naman hindi lang ako ang walang pakialam na hiwalay na sina Daniel at Kathryn?

#Kathniel

@youronlyone there are ways to tag in #OpenStreetMap if a Jollibee store is owned/operated directly by JFC (tag: operator=Jollibee Foods Corporation), but there's currently no good way to tag that it is a franchise store.

@rom @heliosef

MetaBallStudios' videos are always a pleasure to watch but this first-person POV video of various fictional spaceships (plus the ISS) takes the cake!

https://youtu.be/lw6qppma02s

At some point though the ships become so freakishly huge that you lose all sense of scale. 🤪