back
user profile
riordan
2,324karma·110submissions·September 29, 2009
recent activity (110 total)
comment
Have you considered teaching your journalism students Docker first?
comment
This is awesome and exactly the kind of thing that can give the OSM Armchair Mappers some very accurate superpowers. It'd be great to see this fed into the OSM Tasking Manager [1] or Maproulette[…
comment
Friends don't let friends use RDF
comment
This is such a good post about: a. how the internet archive is building its political archive b. proving to other cultural heritage institutions that they can get their act together and preserve cultu…
comment
I hope I'm not alone in saying: BURN. IT. ALL. DOWN.
comment
Totally; on a number of occasions, Al's talked about address-formatting was a big underpinning of this effort. I'd be happy to help out with some of those other regions! I'm pretty exci…
comment
Well this is delightfully terrifying. Neural Networks that can create environments and people on their own.
comment
Oh, you mean Car Pools I'll show myself out
comment
My bad, we moved the main domain over to search.mapzen.com from pelias.mapzen.com and hadn't updated the documentation for the project background repository! We're super flattered over all t…
comment
Indeed! Map vectorization is one the things NYPL Labs is actively working on: https://github.com/nypl/map-vectorizer It's designed to work primarily with old fire insurance …
comment
Yep. Back when I was at NYPL Labs[0], we developed a bit of an obsession with OCR. It turns out that so much of it depends on the context of the documents, original scan quality (unpaper and deskewing…
comment
Grant, I'm from the team at NYPL working on the Space/Time Directory effort. This is absolutely amazing. We'd love to have you (and everyone here) help out! We've been so surprised…
comment
For ebooks without images [10Print inspired]: https://github.com/mgiraldo/tenprintcover-p5 For ebooks with images [Gutenberg]: https://github.com/mgiraldo/te…
comment
MapPLUTO's footprints aren't for the buildings, but rather the boundaries of the property. It's a big shapefile for each borough. Totally worth exploring. It's got an insanely deta…
comment
You LITERALLY built that map warper! ^^ this guy ^^ is one of the partners at Topomancy, the crew who envisaged and built our whole historical geospatial stack with our Geospatial Librarian. And the M…