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  RE: https://mastodon.online/@Pepijn/116990877305503207 i saw one of these the other day claiming that ArcelorMittal near Martigues was on fire and i was like holy shit that's horrific, why haven't i seen that in the news? but no, it's just the biggest¹ single source of pollution in Europe continuing to be the biggest single source of pollution in Europe 1: you can probably argue about this but it is definitely in the big leagues

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  New map for you all: mean annual PM2.5 weighted by population https://compute.olie.science/expo/?data=pollution/public_satpm_v6gl03_2024_h3_5.arrow&h3precision=false#x=13.7388&y=16.2597&z=1.2276 Stuff that jumped out at me: 1) by global standards the 'western world' is doing pretty well. australia for all the coal it mines has unjustly good air 2) london has some of the cleanest air in the country now. banning wood stoves and dirty cars seems to have done something? 3) th...

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  you've surely heard all the excellent¹ security advice about forcing people to use characters they can barely read and limiting password lengths to 19 characters and disallowing repeated characters and, of course, blocking paste but are you aware how much more secure your application will become if you force people to type in their passwords on an orthonormal azerty keyboard with no space bar? 1: actually, the most up to date advice says people should blink their passwords using morse

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  more progress on my uniform population projection maps. have fixed the holes in the previous ones this is showing population density as experienced by people - every square is approx 150k people, and the colour of that square tells you the density they live at (blue = dense, red = sparse) i particularly enjoy how you can see how unusual the US is - the only country that comes close in terms of sprawl is Russia now the next job is to understand why the mapping has gone up from 2MB to 150MB...

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  @ptrc but you can move the camera @HaTetsu

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  new javascript package for you all using geonames data: https://github.com/bovine3dom/tiny-geocoder go from string -> all cities/towns that match it in a few microseconds go from lat/lon -> closest city/town in a few tens of microseconds please use it to add while-you-type search boxes to your maps that are pleasant to use :)

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  I just played #fahrtle daily #4! Crewe, GB ➡️ Tours, FR (700 km) 🐾⏳🚆⏳🚆⏳🚆🚇⏳🚆⏳🚆🐾 🏁 2h 51m 34s faster than driving 🎉 Finished in 8h 49m 42s! Can you beat me? https://compute.olie.science/fahrtle/?daily=1&d=Easy easy one today. driving got absolutely trounced

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  why are french politicians so bad at politics 1) petrol prices have gone up a bit but the market is functioning well and there are no shortages 2) government leans on Total as usual to cap prices 3) there is a petrol shortage 4) people start panic buying so there is even more of a shortage i just hope ordinary people will start to realise that their cars are not quite as reliable as they believe them to be

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  France has decided to gut the budget of transport.data.gouv.fr 🙃 I mean, obviously, when you have something as good as the Swiss or Norwegians, we should get rid of it https://mobilitydata.org/temoignage-de-la-valeur-de-transport-data-gouv-fr/ cc @cycling_on_rails

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  new map for you all: "how big can trains be?" across europe using declared loading gauges from the ERA RINF. purple = big trains, red = small trains, green = somewhere in between. https://compute.olie.science/expo/?data=loading_gauge/2026-03-18#x=8.0973&y=48.8056&z=5.0605 thanks go to @kaat0 for helping with the data. all mistakes are my own :)