Brandon ℒⅈ∪

Flexport Atlas - Global Shipping Visibility Real-time tracking of vessels, flights, ports, and shipping routes worldwide

ships on a globe with @protomaps.com map

atlas.flexport.com

What the United States Owns Interactive map of Federal Real Property Profile (FRPP) buildings across the United States.

Made some improvements this week to my map of United States real property (federal land, buildings and other fixed structures)
- new agencies and better geocoding, including USPS, TVA and State
- filter by property type (e.g. "parking structure") and year built
- where available, actual land areas

TASA(Taiwan Space Agency) has recently released five images captured by FORMOSAT-8. According to TASA, the image resolution met the originally designed 1m resolution. This is a great improvement over FORMOSAT-5’s 2m resolution images.
www.tasa.org.tw/zh-TW/announ...

cool new map built on pmtiles + @protomaps.com

Weeknotes, 2026W04: Boundary Issues I recently nerd-sniped myself into thinking about political points of view on maps, and wondering whether it’d be possible to create…

I recently nerd-sniped myself into thinking about political points of view on maps, and wondering whether it’d be possible to create OpenStreetMap-derived, Wikipedia-informed national borders on a Protomaps base map legal for educational use in countries in conflict.

medium.com/@michalmigur...

short note about S2 Geometry

bdon.org/2025/12/19/s...

"We will not devalue the EPSG dataset by including such inappropriate geodesy and cartography."

Was looking at my cloudflare worker serving maps via pmtiles, saw there is a new dashboard on cloudflare with a map of request locations, poked around into how it works and indeed cloudflare themselves are serving their map via the pmtiles cloudflare worker

nanodijkstra

can't defend yourself against what you can't see

Developers with contempt for marketing are usually the ones most susceptible to it

For those who couldn't catch our latest podcast live, here's the recording! Thank you @bdon.org for sharing your thoughts about all things cloud-native maps, and to everyone who tuned in live, especially those joining us from Norway and Egypt in the wee hours!
youtu.be/VACq-POg_dw

happy html day ❇️

html day 2025 taipei

bdon.github.io/html-day-2025

Betel nut sign

Indeed… @htmlenergy.bsky.social is all around us

“Fractions of this work will be sold to online buyers, after which the collective will use a hot wire jig to slice the baby apart”

anyone in nyc want to #geobreakfast this Friday?

9:30 AM @ downtown brooklyn mile end deli, reply or DM for rsvp please! (we need a headcount)

Extending our sight -- seeing in infrared Night Vision Goggles Needs batteries light from screen disrupts sleep - heavy look like a fascist Stacking a bunch of theatrical lighting gels - Acoustic - look deranged - blocks blue light (and all other light) - and go outside! You won't believe what you see. DO NOT LOC Serious, permanent eye damage can occur in seconds. Then t

come observe my presentation tomorrow (first apply to itp camp two months ago)

blog.greg.technology/2025/05/22/g...

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The business model of food is drinks
The business model of transit is real estate
The business model of maps is ?

blogging update: i am posting through my dissertation, it is very bare bones and a painfully niche topic but I'm pretending this is me making progress: placing.technology

just opened up limited edition preorders for poetry.camera ~

(it feels weird to do self-promo on bsky but i also want to celebrate our first batch drop!! a long time coming)

The Visual Display of Qualitative Information

I sometimes muse about the savage job-destroying nature of the open source community: hundreds of thousands of developers working tirelessly to unemploy as many of their peers as possible by giving away the code they've written for free.

Make cool stuff. Share it with people

tailscale is the game changer here, basically any task I would use a EC2 spot instance for I can do for "free" on a 64gb ram+ gamer box (CapEx vs. OpEx, etc)

limiting factor is fan noise

tired of landing pages and single-page sites. you should make websites with as many pages possible

Screenshot of the Spectral Codex website showing off the search bar and search results dropdown.

My site now has a search feature! You can also filter by region or theme to narrow results.

Technical details: this is a Pagefind implementation, completely static, using the astro-pagefind integration. Overriding parts of the default UI with Tailwind feels like a bit of a kludge but hey, it works.

I don't want gen AI in my geospatial technology. I want

we’re almost there guys. we’re gonna do it. we’re eliminating income taxes. we’re replacing them with only ta…

…taxing the unimproved value of land