TrailStash (Daniel Schep)

Our third and final event with PlanRVA will be this Thursday Aug 7 @ 6:30pm. Please click the link below to RSVP and see event details. Please bring a laptop if you'd like to participate in a group mapping sesh! […]

A friend of mine who lives in Austin saw this at a bar and said she had never been so offended by something she 100% agreed with.

The Mothership Vortex: An Investigation Into the Firm at the Heart of the Democratic Spam Machine How a single consulting firm extracted $282 million from a network of spam PACs while delivering just $11 million to actual campaigns.

The annoying spam texts destroying the Democratic brand:

$678M raised through those spam tactics

$282M to one consulting firm: Mothership Strategies.

$11M to actual campaigns (1.6%)

The party isn’t just treating donors like marks—it’s being fleeced itself yet continues to back Mothership.

Virginia schools received $2.5billion for schools from the federal government, which the state government will have to try and make up somehow.

This is 1/5 of that.

So, we're underwater without even looking at things like healthcare.

Built fish tinder so I could moderate fish really fast

The city released a dataset of cell phone telemetry they purchased joined to road data. Here's a visualization I made of how much over the speed limit each road is traveled on, on avg.

Green - below speed limit
Yellow - 0-5 over
Orange - 5-10 over
Red - 10+ over

#rva #speedkills

Two stacked cinder blocks full of pool noodles at a crosswalk.

Spotted in Carytown #rva #imwalkinghere #pedestrian #bancars

This is resolved. Sorry for the inconvenience folks

Another workaround: choose any non-OpenMapTiles styles. Those don't rely on styles.trailsta.sh which is what's broken.

Booo. So old fashioned.

Not even delete and redraft????

Ultra A web based tool for making MapLibre GL maps with data from sources such as Overpass, GeoJSON, GPX, KML, TCX, etc

FYI, styles on Ultra are broken currently due to an SSL cert issue. Not sure why as they're hosted on gitlab pages. No ETA on even investigating it as I'm on vacation and don't have a computer with me.

The dev version uses OpenFreeMap styles directly, so it still works: ultra.trailsta.sh

Ugh. Does @bsky.app really not allow post editing???

Next Thurs, 7/24, is "The Future of Bike and Pedestrian Mapping in RVA"

Join @maprva.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy at PlanRVA's beautiful office in Manchester to hear @trailsta.sh and others talk about their efforts mapping how to move about the city sans-car.

open.trailsta.sh
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Florida man drove around as a cellphone-jamming vigilante for two years The Verge is about technology and how it makes us feel. Founded in 2011, we offer our audience everything from breaking news to reviews to award-winning features and investigations, on our site, in vi...

Shit like this makes me wish we could all get away with this: www.theverge.com/2014/5/1/567...

“When fascism comes to America, it will come wrapped in a pedophile gameshow host.” - Sinclair Lewis

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But is it really?

Salut travailleuses, travailleurs.

omg Stamen liked our Richmond water crisis talk!

Any one know if Dominion's AI-fueled rate increases were approved? Fuel rate was set to increase this month and it's radio-silence over on the Dominion press release page. news.dominionenergy.com/press-releas...

#virginia #richmond #va #rva

oh interesting, that's actual crash data.

I don't have search for ghost bikes currently, I would like to someday add search for all the POI types I include, but need to figure out a clean GUI for that.

I get all the data for open.trailsta.sh from osm.org

I'm sure the Wednesday Night Ride saw it. Alas I didn't make this Robyn ride bc of a wrist injury.

Screenshot of a map showing a ghost bike in the center

open.trailsta.sh shows ghost bikes for two reasons:
1. It serves to honor and remember my friends and all other cyclists killed by traffic violence
2. It's a useful data when biking in a place you don't know, similar to having the location of avalanche fatalities in an app for backcountry skiing

When Robyn was living in Richmond, Virginia they road with the DFL RVA bicycle club. On the anniversary of Robyn's death (June 24th), DFL RVA posted this Story on Facebook. As stories are ephemeral, disappearing after 24 hour, I made a capture before it went away. I am glad Robyn is thought about!

I'm a member of DFL. We ride to Robyn's ghost bike on the Wednesday closest to the anniversary of their death and closest to their birthday every year 🖤