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Fun with vector maps

Quick TopoJSON vector tile demo map, derived from an earlier GeoJSON demo. Original README follows.

A goofy slippy map of various vector tile data sources. With some fun colours, greetz to Aaron and Mike and Mike and the whole Prettymaps crew.

Sacramento, CA •

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Thanks to Nelson's river map and Aaron's presentation, a slippy map using Polymaps and Michal Migurski's vector data to show railways, initially in central London.

Note that you can't zoom out beyond level 14 because the railways aren't supplied in the GeoJSON beyond that point. This is evidently a sign that I need to create my own set. Er.

It's also pretty slow. You can see what it's doing more clearly if you view it on its own page.

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Using mbostock's example of multiple layers to render central London's railway infrastructure.

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Using mbostock's example of multiple layers to render SF's railway infrastructure.

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Flipboard short URL http://flip.it/VjRUL with iPhone UA:

$ curl -A "Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_3_3 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Mobile/8J2 Safari/6533.18.5" http://flip.it/VjRUL
<iframe id="appLoader" style="display:none;"></iframe>
<script>
var flipboardURL = 'flipboard://showSection/flipboard%2Fsingleurl%252Fhttp%253A%252F%252Ft.co%252Fo9hDkbJXl3?resetStack=true&referrer=twitter&createDevice=iphone&canAddToFlipboard=false&createAction=shareWithComment&showPreselectedItem=true';
var appStoreURL = "http://ax.itunes.apple.com/us/app/flipboard/id358801284?mt=8";
var googlePlayURL = "https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=flipboard.app&feature=nav_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwyLDNd";

// try and launch Flipboard with the add section url

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#!/usr/bin/python

import csv
import datetime
import sys

from decimal import *

data = []

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defaults write FixedWidthFontSmoothingThreshold 9
defaults write com.barebones.bbedit FixedWidthFontSmoothingThreshold -int 9
defaults write -g NSDisableAutomaticTermination -bool yes
defaults write -g NSScrollAnimationEnabled -bool NO
defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean YES
defaults write com.apple.dock showhidden -bool true
defaults write com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled -boolean YES
defaults write -g NSDisableAutomaticTermination -bool yes
killall Dock

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#!/usr/bin/python

import simplejson
import urllib

api_url = 'http://api.flickr.com/services/rest/'
api_method = 'flickr.photos.search'
api_key = '6cbbb899ee09051e575a63f57e954a5a'

results = {}

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#!/usr/bin/python

import re
import time
import urllib
from xml.dom.minidom import parse, parseString

# data structure

ids = dict()

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exiftool -make=Lomo -model="Lomo LC-A+" -makernotes:all= DSCF0001.jpg