The existence of Global South means there is Global North. But, are there Global Midlands? Does anyone have a map?
Want to understand the geography of Gaza? Read this thread by Mohammed.
(And then try and help his fundraiser, if you can, as he’s currently being forced to endure genocide and famine.)
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#Gaza #geography #GazaVerified #Palestine #israel #genocide #StopIsrael #StopTheGenocide #FreePalestine https://mastodon.social/@mohshbair/115260404732758534
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New Book: DSL thinks about mobility of people’s, materials, and ideas along pipelines (specific conditions) to present an amazing analysis of the spatial structures within which native peoples exist within White US mainstream society — compelling & passionate!! #persistence #lumbee #geography
New Book: DSL thinks about mobility of people’s, materials, and ideas along pipelines (specific conditions) to present an amazing analysis of the spatial structures within which native peoples exist within White US mainstream society — compelling & passionate!! #persistence #lumbee #geography
Bjørnar (he/him)
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Exciting news for fans of non-Mercator map projections: the African Union has voted to promote the Equal Earth projection which more accurately represents Africa's relative size compared to other continents.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/african-union-urges-adoption-world-101441939.html
#Geography#Geopolitics#Africa#AfricanUnion#Cartography#Mercator#GallPeters
Exciting news for fans of non-Mercator map projections: the African Union has voted to promote the Equal Earth projection which more accurately represents Africa's relative size compared to other continents.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/african-union-urges-adoption-world-101441939.html
#Geography#Geopolitics#Africa#AfricanUnion#Cartography#Mercator#GallPeters
The research fairy
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I (too) rarely post on Mastodon... But here I would be very grateful if you could help me disseminate these job offers for three PhD and two Postdoc researchers positions, on ‘Land use, Sustainability, and Democratic Backsliding’
https://landsystems-lab.earth/news/25-07-30-ludemo-phd/
https://landsystems-lab.earth/news/25-07-30-ludemo-postdoc/
And please encourage enthusiastic and skilled candidates to apply! We value diversity, inclusivity and creativity and we encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds to apply.
#geography #phd #postdoc #sustainability #LandUse #research #democracy #environment
Advertisement for Postdoc positions, text available at:
https://landsystems-lab.earth/news/25-07-30-ludemo-postdoc/
Advertisement for PhD positions, text available at:
https://landsystems-lab.earth/news/25-07-30-ludemo-phd/
I (too) rarely post on Mastodon... But here I would be very grateful if you could help me disseminate these job offers for three PhD and two Postdoc researchers positions, on ‘Land use, Sustainability, and Democratic Backsliding’
https://landsystems-lab.earth/news/25-07-30-ludemo-phd/
https://landsystems-lab.earth/news/25-07-30-ludemo-postdoc/
And please encourage enthusiastic and skilled candidates to apply! We value diversity, inclusivity and creativity and we encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds to apply.
#geography #phd #postdoc #sustainability #LandUse #research #democracy #environment
Advertisement for Postdoc positions, text available at:
https://landsystems-lab.earth/news/25-07-30-ludemo-postdoc/
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Does anyone know of a self-hosted tool that creates a heat map of all the places you’ve been? Specifically for walking / running / cycling, like Strava’s feature but fully local. I want to use it to set myself goals to walk all the streets in an area.
#selfhosted #cycling #hiking #data #strava #heatmap #geography
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If anyone with a #geography undergraduate degree could tell me what they now do for a living, that would be super helpful for my 17 year old nephew, who is floundering a bit trying to decide about University. TIA!
If anyone with a #geography undergraduate degree could tell me what they now do for a living, that would be super helpful for my 17 year old nephew, who is floundering a bit trying to decide about University. TIA!
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places.pub
I’m making an initial version of places.pub available today. places.pub is a collection of Place objects suitable for use in geosocial applications on the ActivityPub network.
Part of my work in the Social Web Community Group at the W3C has been participation in the GeoSocial Task Force. This is a sub-group of the SocialCG that focuses on implementing user stories in ActivityPub related to the intersection of geographical systems and social networking, for example, tagging an image with the place it represents, or checking in to a location.
One important need for geosocial software is that all objects in ActivityPub, including Place objects, need to have a permanent URL as their id property, which shares the description of that object in Activity Streams 2.0 format. However, there isn’t a good dataset of geographical objects — countries, states or provinces or regions, cities, buildings, businesses, parks, streets — available in AS2 on the Web right now. That is slowing down experimentation in the Geosocial Task Force.
Using the service
So, I worked on making places.pub for geosocial hackers to experiment with. It’s a service that exposes places from the amazing OpenStreetMap collection of data as AS2 objects on the Web. So, given an OpenStreetMap object like the Rogers Centre Ottawa, it provides an AS2 version suitable for use in geosocial activities in ActivityPub. It also has a rudimentary search mechanism, although I think most users will want to use the Nominatim service for searching the OpenStreetMap database, and then map the IDs onto places.pub.
Once you know the places.pub ID for a place, you can use it for geotagging objects, people, activities, or using special geosocial activity types like check in, check out, and travel. There is a good list of examples on the places.pub home page, but obviously this is not an exhaustive list!
How it is built
This wasn’t my first time trying to build places.pub; I’d done two earlier versions with different architectures and the same interface. The first time out, about 7 years ago, I created a full NodeJS server that used a full mirror of the OpenStreetMap database, so I didn’t need to hit the OSM API to fetch data. It worked pretty well, but it was really expensive — hundreds of dollars per month to keep a database server of that size running and synched.
I tried a second version a few months ago, which did batch generation of AS2 Place objects from the OpenStreetMap exports, and then uploaded them to the S3 service at Amazon Web Services. This was a whole lot cheaper, but it took a long time to download, convert, and re-upload the data.
This third implementation, with source code available on GitHub, is a little bit easier than both. Instead of sloshing the huge OSM dataset back and forth, I used the version of the data stored in the Google Cloud Public Datasets system on BigQuery. This let me ignore the effort of moving data, and just focus on giving it a good ActivityPub-compatible interface using a Google Cloud Run function. It seems to work pretty nicely.
Next steps
I’d love to see some experimentation with using places.pub for geosocial activity in the social web. I’m going to work on some implementations in my own ActivityPub software. If you find problems with the software, please add an issue on GitHub or let me know on the Fediverse at @evanprodromou.
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places.pub
I’m making an initial version of places.pub available today. places.pub is a collection of Place objects suitable for use in geosocial applications on the ActivityPub network.
Part of my work in the Social Web Community Group at the W3C has been participation in the GeoSocial Task Force. This is a sub-group of the SocialCG that focuses on implementing user stories in ActivityPub related to the intersection of geographical systems and social networking, for example, tagging an image with the place it represents, or checking in to a location.
One important need for geosocial software is that all objects in ActivityPub, including Place objects, need to have a permanent URL as their id property, which shares the description of that object in Activity Streams 2.0 format. However, there isn’t a good dataset of geographical objects — countries, states or provinces or regions, cities, buildings, businesses, parks, streets — available in AS2 on the Web right now. That is slowing down experimentation in the Geosocial Task Force.
Using the service
So, I worked on making places.pub for geosocial hackers to experiment with. It’s a service that exposes places from the amazing OpenStreetMap collection of data as AS2 objects on the Web. So, given an OpenStreetMap object like the Rogers Centre Ottawa, it provides an AS2 version suitable for use in geosocial activities in ActivityPub. It also has a rudimentary search mechanism, although I think most users will want to use the Nominatim service for searching the OpenStreetMap database, and then map the IDs onto places.pub.
Once you know the places.pub ID for a place, you can use it for geotagging objects, people, activities, or using special geosocial activity types like check in, check out, and travel. There is a good list of examples on the places.pub home page, but obviously this is not an exhaustive list!
How it is built
This wasn’t my first time trying to build places.pub; I’d done two earlier versions with different architectures and the same interface. The first time out, about 7 years ago, I created a full NodeJS server that used a full mirror of the OpenStreetMap database, so I didn’t need to hit the OSM API to fetch data. It worked pretty well, but it was really expensive — hundreds of dollars per month to keep a database server of that size running and synched.
I tried a second version a few months ago, which did batch generation of AS2 Place objects from the OpenStreetMap exports, and then uploaded them to the S3 service at Amazon Web Services. This was a whole lot cheaper, but it took a long time to download, convert, and re-upload the data.
This third implementation, with source code available on GitHub, is a little bit easier than both. Instead of sloshing the huge OSM dataset back and forth, I used the version of the data stored in the Google Cloud Public Datasets system on BigQuery. This let me ignore the effort of moving data, and just focus on giving it a good ActivityPub-compatible interface using a Google Cloud Run function. It seems to work pretty nicely.
Next steps
I’d love to see some experimentation with using places.pub for geosocial activity in the social web. I’m going to work on some implementations in my own ActivityPub software. If you find problems with the software, please add an issue on GitHub or let me know on the Fediverse at @evanprodromou.