Before you travel, you have to do lots of prep. work.
Like map the buildings from aerial imagery into #OpenStreetMap so there's some base for you to work with when you do the on-the-ground survey 😅
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It took until Book 6, but I *finally* had a dream set in the fictional world portrayed in Martha Wells' #Murderbot series. Thank you, subconscious, please send more.
Starting my first foray into sashiko embroidery. Hopefully I can finish something in time for the wife's birthday (< 1 month).
cops
Go out there and plant some cool shrubs on corporate property. Who's gonna stop you, the cops? They're too busy shooting dogs and Deaf people and the homeless and the Disabled and their caregivers and black people and—
niche bureaucracy rant
Oh, and Exhibit D:
There are, at minimum, 7 required data layers from every single data provider (roughly one for each county in IL). We are all to be submitting our layers separately, while also communicating with our neighbors to ensure that our data aligns perfectly.
It's hard, knowing that you aren't in the best timeline. #OpenStreetMap could do everything #ng911 is trying to do, but so, so much better.
Welp. Back to ArcMap. 😖
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And sure, you've got a human dispatcher who can review and adjust on the fly, but if fixing problems in your data model are both possible and exceedingly simple to implement, I'd say you have no excuse not to.
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Exhibit B: There is NO WAY to distinguish a legitimate "no outlet" street from a "dangle" error, because we don't have any kind of nodes in the street network.
Exhibit C: Dual carriageways (streets with medians or concrete dividers) are maintained as SINGLE CENTERLINES.
There's just all kinds of implicit connectivity in the data which does not exist in the real world.
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I'm working on getting my county's data ready for Next Gen 911. It's definitely a positive move for dispatching generally, but I am continually dumbfounded at how seemingly basic elements of a road network / address locator dataset have just been overlooked or omitted.
Exhibit A: There is currently NO WAY to indicate that two roads may cross in two-dimensional space without actually intersecting. Is it an intersection or an overpass? WE DON'T KNOW.
Trying to get neighboring counties and municipalities to agree upon where their boundaries *are*. 😭
#ng911
Thanks, Aldi! It was very considerate of you to throw away the avocadoes, tomatoes, limes, and red onions all at once, none of which having any problems with them. Guacamole is good. Free guacamole is *great*.
#fregan
Likes: knitting, sewing, OpenStreetMap, foraging, dumpster diving, gardening.
Husband, father of three.
During the day, you can find me doing cadastral mapping and sys admin stuff for Kendall County, Illinois.