Pinboard (jm) https://pinboard.in/u:jm/public/ recent bookmarks from jm Phone geodata is being widely collected by US government agencies 2024-07-16T15:34:48+00:00 https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/02/28/government-buying-your-data-00143742 jm[Byron Tau was told] the government was buying up reams of consumer data — information scraped from cellphones, social media profiles, internet ad exchanges and other open sources — and deploying it for often-clandestine purposes like law enforcement and national security in the U.S. and abroad. The places you go, the websites you visit, the opinions you post — all collected and legally sold to federal agencies. In his new book, _Means of Control_, Tau details everything he’s learned since that dinner: An opaque network of government contractors is peddling troves of data, a legal but shadowy use of American citizens’ information that troubles even some of the officials involved. And attempts by Congress to pass privacy protections fit for the digital era have largely stalled, though reforms to a major surveillance program are now being debated. Great quote:
Politico: You compare to some degree the state of surveillance in China versus the U.S. You write that China wants its citizens to know that they’re being tracked, whereas in the U.S., “the success lies in the secrecy.” What did you mean by that? That was a line that came in an email from a police officer in the United States who got access to a geolocation tool that allowed him to look at the movement of phones. And he was essentially talking about how great this tool was because it wasn’t widely, publicly known. The police could buy up your geolocation movements and look at them without a warrant. And so he was essentially saying that the success lies in the secrecy, that if people were to know that this was what the police department was doing, they would ditch their phones or they would not download certain apps.
Based on Wolfie Christl's research in Germany, the same data is being scraped here, too, regardless of any protection the GDPR might supposedly provide: https://x.com/WolfieChristl/status/1813221172927975722]]> government privacy surveillance geodata phones mobile us-politics data-protection gdpr https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:88a788492c39/ Ireland by land quality 2022-05-03T14:29:38+00:00 https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Classification-of-Irelands-land-area-into-four-categories-in-relation-to-availability_fig1_292988995 jm rewilding rural land ireland maps geodata fishery agriculture farming https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:6c8b099c84ff/ GeoHive 2019-05-22T13:22:25+00:00 http://map.geohive.ie/mapviewer.html jm ireland mapping maps geo ordnance-survey osi geodata https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:74b7fa81e8e7/ Querying OpenStreetMap Buildings with AWS Athena – door2door Engineering 2018-10-12T14:27:39+00:00 https://engineering.door2door.io/querying-openstreetmap-buildings-with-aws-athena-ae50bf1bc5f0 jmAWS not only made OpenStreetMap planet data available on S3, but it also made it query-able with Athena. Pretty cool, no? Now, in theory, you can just construct an SQL query, send it to Athena, and then do whatever you want with the results. No more: Updating OSM planet data yourself; it gets updated on AWS whenever OSM publishes it, once a week. Transforming the data into a query-able format; Athena handles that for you. Query/request frequency limits (it’s still AWS though, so other limitations might apply 💸 💸) At door2door, we had a pretty straight-forward use-case for this: we needed to get buildings in specific regions based only on where they were, and transform those buildings into GeoJSON that we can attach our data to, and visualize on the front-end on top of our base map. ]]> athena osm buildings aws geodata mapping maps door2door cool hacks https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:1507124525ff/ Amazing thread from @gavinsblog on the Strava leak 2018-01-29T15:31:44+00:00 https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/957708645403373570.html jm FB -> FB friends -> work colleagues. Not only that but it was possible to automate.']]> strava privacy military security geotagging geodata gavin-sheridan https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:11232126fe18/ Internet mapping turned a remote farm into a digital hell 2016-04-10T22:39:21+00:00 http://fusion.net/story/287592/internet-mapping-glitch-kansas-farm/ jmThe trouble for the Taylor farm started in 2002, when a Massachusetts-based digital mapping company called MaxMind decided it wanted to provide “IP intelligence” to companies who wanted to know the geographic location of a computer to, for example, show the person using it relevant ads or to send the person a warning letter if they were pirating music or movies. ]]> maxmind fail location ip geodata gps mapping kansas https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:0a76526f6689/ Lasers reveal 'lost' Roman roads 2016-02-15T16:01:14+00:00 https://www.gov.uk/government/news/lasers-reveal-lost-roman-roads jmThis LIDAR data bonanza has proved particularly helpful to archaeologists seeking to map Roman roads that have been ‘lost’, some for thousands of years. Their discoveries are giving clues to a neglected chapter in the history of Roman Britain: the roads built to help Rome’s legions conquer and control northern England. ]]> uk government lidar open-data data roman history mapping geodata https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:b5d8a08d755e/ Why Eircode is a shambles, by someone who works in the transport industry 2016-01-25T17:55:48+00:00 http://tigercooke.com/blog/2015/07/21/irish-postcodes/ jmWithout having a distinct SORT KEY for a geographically distinct area, a postcode is of no real benefit to any type of transport firm or agency.  To take one example, Eircode have used the same sort key, F92, for Arranmore (Donegal’s largest inhabited island) and the north western Donegal mainland.  Cill Rónáin, Inis Mór, the largest of the Aran Islands, has the same sort key H91, as Connemara and Galway City.  Galway city and the Aran Islands may be in a relatively small geographical area, but keen eyes may have noticed that the Aran Islands are separated from the mainland by a small section of the Atlantic Ocean.  Sort codes which ignore clear and obvious boundaries, like seas or oceans, need to be redesigned. In two seconds a [UK] website could tell a Hebridean that his delivery will take 4 days at a cost of fifty quid by using the first three characters of the postcode.  The Eircode-using Irish equivalent website would need to lookup a large database to tell an Arranmore resident the cost and time for delivery – and they’d need the full exact code.  Any mistake made here, and your estimated delivery time, and cost for delivery will be wrong. ]]> postcodes eircode loc8code fail couriers delivery geodata geocoding galway aran-islands https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:a6a2b80e49bc/ [LUCENE-6917] Deprecate and rename NumericField/RangeQuery to LegacyNumeric - ASF JIRA 2015-12-14T11:30:30+00:00 https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-6917 jm lucene performance algorithms patches bkd-trees geodata numeric indexing https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:e2894da4d414/ Art Meets Cartography: The 15,000-Year History of a River in Oregon Rendered in Data 2015-11-25T17:22:36+00:00 http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2015/11/willamette-river-history-dan-coe/ jm art data mapping geodata oregon rivers willamette-river history lidar https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:0ada87a6bf91/ England opens up 11TB of LiDAR data covering the entire country as open data 2015-10-13T13:02:48+00:00 https://environmentagency.blog.gov.uk/2015/09/18/laser-surveys-light-up-open-data/ jmAll 11 terabytes of our LIDAR data (that’s roughly equivalent to 2,750,000 MP3 songs) will eventually be available through our new Open LIDAR portal under an Open Government Licence, allowing it to be used for any purpose. We hope that by giving free access to our data businesses and local communities will develop innovative solutions to benefit the environment, grow our thriving rural economy, and boost our world-leading food and farming industry. The possibilities are endless and we hope that making LIDAR data open will be a catalyst for new ideas and innovation. Are you reading, Ordnance Survey Ireland?]]> data maps uk lidar mapping geodata open-data ogl https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:38d949a2d84d/ DublinDashboard 2014-09-22T09:32:58+00:00 http://dublindashboard.ie/ jm dublin dashboards maps geodata time-series open-data ireland https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:67d569d18f12/ Forecast Blog 2013-08-29T20:59:15+00:00 http://blog.forecast.io/how-quicksilver-images-are-generated/ jm quicksilver forecast forecast.io neural-networks ai machine-learning algorithms weather geodata earth temperature https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:38284b85153b/ Rectangular subdivisions of the world 2011-09-25T21:05:13+00:00 http://flowingdata.com/2011/09/22/rectangular-subdivisions-of-the-world/ jm maps mapping bounding-boxes world earth geodata geotagging twitter https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:b80afccedd9c/ Whisky Map of Distilleries in Scotland (Malt Madness Distillery Data) 2010-01-26T21:49:47+00:00 http://maltmadness.com/whisky/map/Scotland/index.html?maplocation=Caol%20Ila jm whisky yum reference maps geodata distilleries single-malts https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:199412a7fd65/