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| | zevross.com
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| | Several months ago MapBox added a blog post to their site discussing vector tiles. As part of the post they had some fun examples including one based on comic books and one based on pirate treasure...
| | appendixnbookclub.com
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| | Our Patron Book Club joins us to discuss James Enge's "Blood of Ambrose", obscure words from classic languages, Scooby Doo episodes, slowing down for character development, The Book of the New Sun books, magic from alchemy, flying horses, world maps, DCC spell corruption, blood that catches fire, other notable works by the author, trial and...
| | blog.nobugware.com
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| | Maps are fun, self hosted maps are awesome ! Serving world maps was reserved to big companies like Google, thanks to the OpenStreetMap project, we now have access to an open world of data. Generating Tiles MapBox (and others) worked hard to create a vector format bundled in a SQLite file: mbtiles format. It's vector based as opposed to older raster maps containing 256x256 PNG images. The Openmaptiles folks did a great job automating the map generation.
| | beneaththetangles.com
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| What's scarier than aliens and ghouls? Humans, of course-specifically the kind who will destroy the vulnerable to gain and maintain power. In Jiji's village, that's the Kito family, a ghoulish clan who fears nothing (except maybe the Chamber of Commerce). They run the town that Jiji lives in, and have mixed themselves up with Jiji...