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jatorre | 2 years ago | on: Google Earth 3D Models Now Available as Open Standard (GlTF)

Having Google followed an OGC standard is an incredible good step forward for the google maps ecosystem. This can really speed up developments on the clients side. It was not that useful to have the best client if there was always a place where the data looked better. Kudos to google.

jatorre | 3 years ago | on: Parquet: An efficient, binary file format for table data

And if you are interested on encoding Geospatial Data there is a format called Geoparquet that is on the way of standarization: https://geoparquet.org/ Essentially adding metadata on the extensible schema metadata streucture that parquet supports. Think of WKB in a column. With more exciting stuff coming that way.

jatorre | 4 years ago | on: Leaflet was created 11yrs ago by Vladimir Agafonkin, a Ukrainian citizen in Kyiv

Hey Vlad, just came to say hi and wish you the best. You are one of the best engineers I have ever met, and one of the nicest persons too. It is really sad to see you and your entire country going through this. Will keep following your advice on how to support Ukraine and if there is any mapping support or anything else, well, you know where we are. We are following you closely. Big hug.

jatorre | 7 years ago | on: Uber pays –$29M/year for Google Maps

Here is the actual contract https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1543151/000119312519... It includes other topics like Uber has to share their location data to Google and can not use any other 3th party provider at the same time as Google Maps.

jatorre | 10 years ago | on: Distribution of the 37M users on Ashley Madison

Geographic profile maps which are basically Internet users maps https://xkcd.com/1138/

jatorre | 12 years ago | on: Visualization of tweets during Champions League final

Clearly noone tweets from Germany, or none activate the location

jatorre | 12 years ago | on: Apple is reportedly launching iOS in the Car with Ferrari, Mercedes, Volvo

Poor Nokia...

jatorre | 12 years ago | on: Online mapping for beginners A free online course

There is some more info here:

http://cartodb.com/academy

jatorre | 12 years ago | on: The World's Most Polluted Cities Map

Here is a video on how it was made https://vimeo.com/77289264

jatorre | 13 years ago | on: Every recorded meteorite strike on Earth since 2,300 BCE mapped

If you are interested on how it was made, checkout https://vimeo.com/59791629

jatorre | 13 years ago | on: Every recorded meteorite strike on Earth since 2,300 BCE mapped

Totally on 2. Checkout Oman, there a lot there, why? http://www.emirates247.com/news/oman-is-major-site-for-meteo...

jatorre | 13 years ago | on: Every recorded meteorite strike on Earth since 2,300 BCE mapped

Some explanation over the map is here http://www.theverge.com/2013/2/18/4001936/map-every-recorded...

jatorre | 13 years ago | on: A map of all Rolling Stones tours done with reveal.js and cartodb.js

Yes. We tried smooth vertex and personally I thought they look better, but well, got into a design discussion and I lost. The color idea I think is a good idea, also maybe arrows? maybe too old school.

jatorre | 13 years ago | on: Red Bull Stratos Skydive visualized LIVE on a map

The idea is that as the jump starts, we will see the ground approaching on the map.

jatorre | 14 years ago | on: Comparing Fusion Tables to Open Source CartoDB

A totally different post will be needed to discuss about the differences on pricing, but for the most obvious there was some previous discussion in here about Google Maps not being free anymore: https://plus.google.com/118383351194421484817/posts/foj5A1fU...

jatorre | 14 years ago | on: SimpleGeo customers: Move your data to Geoloqi with one command

If you just want to dump your data to CSV to later decide what to do with it, here there is a script https://gist.github.com/1610866