Brian Mount bmount

This is a little feedback for people implementing open government (geo-) data projects — the good guys, like Bronwyn Agrios and Jay Nath. I had a little interaction today with some of you, related to a pedestrian safety dataset and interactive map:

@jay_nath @ajturner @bronwynagrios @shannonspanhake It takes more time for a programmer to figure out that API than to make a better map...
— Brian Mount (@brian_mount) October 15, 2012

"The discoveries of the last few years have radically altered our methods of treatment of sewage, both within and without the building. We have through these discoveries, learned why it is that sewage must be quickly removed from our neighborhood instead of being allowed to remain in cesspools... The science of bacteriology has become to the sanitary engineer, in a certain sense, the most

Quick look at proportion of land within SF that is covered by a structure according to city building footprint data. This excludes interior courtyards, uncovered ground-level parking, ie everything without a roof.

Area measurements in square meters, excluding the bay and lakes (census tracts may include bodies of water, this compares only land area.)

Zoom in to see the census tract outline. Also, some of the numbered links are bad, if so try the 'unbroken link'.

The Assembly and Interpretation of Transit Data

A freeway, Tilton warned, "is a device which can make or break the city. It can liberate or contribute to congestion. It can cut the city into unrelated parts, or bind it together. It can destroy values, or create new ones. The State cannot soundly develop its urban freeway plans without attention to the planning problems of the city itself." Tilton criticized the state for a narrow approach that considered merely "the assembly and interpretation of traffic data...

	// Add G, [minx, miny, maxx, maxy] as a bbox option to polymaps, after line 212:
	case "G": {
	var nw = po.map.coordinateLocation({row: c.row, column: column, zoom: c.zoom}),
	se = po.map.coordinateLocation({row: c.row + 1, column: column + 1, zoom: c.zoom}),
	pn = Math.ceil(Math.log(c.zoom) / Math.LN2);
	return nw.lon.toFixed(pn)
	+ "," + se.lat.toFixed(pn)
	+ "," + se.lon.toFixed(pn)
	+ "," + nw.lat.toFixed(pn);
	}

	# a jinja2 xml template compatible with Wordpress RSS
	# import. Based on Flickr GeoRSS format.
	# wp rss import v 0.2 did not like couple of other
	# variations on this.
	# takes dictionary like {"directory/subdir":[list, of, filenames],
	# "dir2/subdir":[other, file, names]}

	<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
	<rss version="2.0">
	<channel>

	if (!org) var org = {};
	if (!org.polymaps) org.polymaps = {};
	(function(po){

	po.version = "2.5.1"; // semver.org

	var zero = {x: 0, y: 0};
	po.ns = {
	svg: "http://www.w3.org/2000/svg",
	xlink: "http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"

	var spawn = require('child_process').spawn;
	var fs = require('fs');
	var path = require('path');
	var seq = require('seq');
	var findit = require('findit');
	var BufferedStream = require('morestreams').BufferedStream;

	module.exports = function (inStream) {
	var id = Math.floor(Math.random() * (1<<30)).toString(16);
	var tmpDir = path.join('/tmp', id);

	#include <stdio.h>
	#include <stdlib.h>

	#define X 121
	#define Y 51

	// Conway's Game of Life
	// make conway && ./conway
	// change X and Y for display area

	<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
	<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
	<plist version="1.0">
	<dict>
	<key>KeepAlive</key>
	<true/>
	<key>Label</key>
	<string>org.pg92beta.plist</string>
	<key>ProgramArguments</key>
	<array>