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Likes: knitting, sewing, OpenStreetMap, foraging, dumpster diving, gardening.
Husband, father of three.
During the day, you can find me doing cadastral mapping and sys admin stuff for Kendall County, Illinois.
A GIS / network / routing problem has occurred to me:
Given a series of ALPR camera points with direction information, what is the optimal route to visit all of them from their blind side?
Like the "traveling salesman" problem, but with a bat.
RE: @OpenStreetMapUS@en.osm.town
Boundary relations are like middle children: they're probably not okay, and could use more attention than they're getting.
If you're coming to #SOTMUS2026, I would love to see you at my workshop! And if you're not, I'll be putting all the workshop materials online at some point anyway.
Unexpected project for the day:
If we wanted to design our own variant of the board game Metro [1], how could we create the tiles with the least amount of manual drawing?
Square tiles feature 8 connection points, 2 per side. 4 routes cross the tile. They may intersect, but they do not branch or merge.
After figuring out the 8 unique connection shapes, a bit of looping code gets you there!
FWIW, there are 65 valid tiles. Back to work!
I write my work emails in plain text mode, because honestly, you don't need inline images, formatting, or a thousandth copy of the County seal in my signature. The information I want you to have is in the text.
And then we have my colleague. Email signature includes three tiny images for his contact info.
When I try to reply as plain text, it grabs all the images in the thread and attaches them.
Faced with removing all these attachments, I'm considering just not responding at all.
Just now up to 5