Benjamin Td

Engineer. Working energy storage at Storio Energy. Made Maps, data, products, algorithms.

[Benjamin Td @_benjamintd]

🚄 Where can you go by train in Europe - 8h edition!

I made an update to https://t.co/V04gxR0BV4, with configurable travel times from 1-8h, and more frequent data updates.

[Benjamin Td @_benjamintd]

@VictorTaelin you don't flip infrastructure + distribution overnight

[Benjamin Td @_benjamintd]

.@thsottiaux frustrating codex behavior:
- click "new chat" within a project (📝 )
- type question, forget to click "work"
- codex realizes it's a work question
- continues in Work but outside the project
- context, permissions, etc. are not scoped to the project.

[Benjamin Td @_benjamintd]

@NatalieMarleny @GitlipDotCom . @VictorTaelin git in bend

[Benjamin Td @_benjamintd]

visualize any city on https://t.co/y05rpfKoOd

[Benjamin Td @_benjamintd]

How far can you travel by train in 8h?
An isochrone map shows you where you can go by rail from any station in Europe.

[Benjamin Td @_benjamintd]

@threepointone @linear is doing it right. I believe this is where this pattern originated?

[Benjamin Td @_benjamintd]

but when do we get flying high-capacity urban transit

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Turns out the future does have flying cars

[Benjamin Td @_benjamintd]

Which one is it, Gemini?

[Benjamin Td @_benjamintd]

@antdotvgr les vélibs dispo, j'adore.

[Benjamin Td @_benjamintd]

@cbed32 It came from the leg Singen → Heidelberg in just 39 minutes, which is an anomalous Nightjet 470 entry in the Swiss timetable data, valid on only one day in March. I'll fix thanks!

[Benjamin Td @_benjamintd]

A few recent updates to Chronotrains: - much cleaner isochrones design, i'm so happy about this one! - see destinations reachable in up to 12h - revamped the navigation controls - some data upgrades, including better suggestions. Tiny details compound :)

[Benjamin Td @_benjamintd]

@cbed32 Oh yes I'll check it out thanks for spotting.

[Benjamin Td @_benjamintd]

"You're not worth my tokens", he said
To the shiny new side project
Which went on to be forgotten
Unmaintained

[Benjamin Td @_benjamintd]

@Ziem86 @milan_janosov @Rainmaker1973 what do you mean?
Marseille is in the 5h isochrone (even in the 4h isochrone, it's not sub-3h)

[Benjamin Td @_benjamintd]

@shahab_jozdani I think the goals are complementary. I think the need for fast webmaps with pretty landmarks exists, and detailed, game-engine-based renderers as well.

But I don't think procedurally generating buildings gives realistic results so far?

[Benjamin Td @_benjamintd]

oh yes let's build an open database of 3d landmarks, put those tokens to good use!

[Parchment @parchmentmaps]

experimenting with 3d landmark models. could this work as a open, crowdsourced database? would ya'll be interested in something like that?

[Benjamin Td @_benjamintd]

@shahab_jozdani haha yes, but.

[Benjamin Td @_benjamintd]

@rawaz oh i see your guide is extrusion-based - the OSM datamodel is not suited for more advanced 3d like my screenshot unfortunately.

[Benjamin Td @_benjamintd]

@rawaz It's a balance of keeping the network light for clients, and mapping buildings that have a low likelihood of changing.

If we were to map all buildings with high fidelity, I think another model than "make a 3d file for each one individually" would be warranted.

[Benjamin Td @_benjamintd]

@cwkdotone @awohlnation @parchmentmaps If you do, and want them to be open, please contribute ! 😍