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robertogreco · 16 hours
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Susan Kare: “The Amtrak USA route system, interpreted in pixels for “The National” magazine in 2018.”
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motel-22 · 5 months
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maps of hà nội (2023)
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reasonsforhope · 2 months
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"As countries around the world begin to either propose or enforce zero-deforestation regulations, companies are coming under growing pressure to prove that their products are free of deforestation. But this is often a far from straightforward process.
Take palm oil, for instance. Its journey from plantations, most likely in Indonesia or Malaysia, to store shelves in the form of shampoo, cookies or a plethora of other goods, is a long and convoluted one. In fact, the cooking oil or cosmetics we use might contain palm oil processed in several different mills, which in turn may have bought the raw palm fruit from several of the many thousands of plantations. For companies that use palm oil in their products, tracing and tracking its origins through these obscure supply chains is a tough task. Often it requires going all the way back to the plot level and checking for deforestation. However, these plots are scattered over vast areas across potentially millions of locations, with data being in various states of digitization and completeness...
Palmoil.io, a web-based monitoring platform that Bottrill launched, is attempting to help palm oil companies get around this hurdle. Its PlotCheck tool allows companies to upload plot boundaries and check for deforestation without any of the data being stored in their system. In the absence of an extensive global map of oil palm plots, the tool was developed to enable companies to prove compliance with regulations without having to publicly disclose detailed data on their plots. PlotCheck now spans 13 countries including Indonesia and Malaysia, and aims to include more in the coming months.
Palm oil production is a major driver of deforestation in Indonesia and Malaysia, although deforestation rates linked to it have declined in recent years. While efforts to trace illegally sourced palm oil have ramped up in recent years, tracing it back to the source continues to be a challenge owing to the complex supply chains involved.
Recent regulatory proposals have, however, made it imperative for companies to find a way to prove that their products are free of deforestation. Last June, the European Union passed legislation that prohibits companies from sourcing products, including palm oil, from land deforested after 2020. A similar law putting the onus on businesses to prove that their commodities weren’t produced on deforested land is also under discussion in the U.K. In the U.S., the U.S. Forest Bill aims to work toward a similar goal, while states like New York are also discussing legislation to discourage products produced on deforested land from being circulated in the markets there...
PlotCheck, which is now in its beta testing phase, allows users to input the plot data in the form of a shape file. Companies can get this data from palm oil producers. The plot data is then checked and analyzed with the aid of publicly available deforestation data, such as RADD (Radar for Detecting Deforestation) alerts that are based on data from the Sentinel-1 satellite network and from NASA’s Landsat satellites. The tool also uses data available on annual tree cover loss and greenhouse gas emission from plantations.
Following the analysis, the tool displays an interactive online map that indicates where deforestation has occurred within the plot boundaries. It also shows details on historical deforestation in the plot as well as data on nearby mills. If deforestation is detected, users have the option of requesting the team to cross-check the data and determine if it was indeed caused by oil palm cultivation, and not logging for artisanal mining or growing other crops. “You could then follow up with your supplier and say there is a potential red flag,” Bottrill said.
As he waits to receive feedback from users, Bottrill said he’s trying to determine how to better integrate PlotCheck into the workflow of companies that might use the tool. “How can we take this information, verify it quickly and turn it into a due diligence statement?” he said. “The output is going to be a statement, which companies can submit to authorities to prove that their shipment is deforestation-free.” ...
Will PlotCheck work seamlessly? That’s something Bottrill said he’s cautiously optimistic about. He said he’s aware of the potential challenges with regard to data security and privacy. However, he said, given how zero-deforestation legislation like that in the EU are unprecedented in their scope, companies will need to sit up and take action to monitor deforestation linked to their products.
“My perspective is we should use the great information produced by universities, research institutes, watchdog groups and other entities. Plus, open-source code allows us to do things quickly and pretty inexpensively,” he said. “So I am positive that it can be done.”"
-via Mongabay, January 26, 2024
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Note: I know it's not "stop having palm oil plantations." (A plan I'm in support of...monocrop plantations are always bad, and if palm oil production continues, it would be much better to produce it using sustainable agroforestry techniques.)
However, this is seriously a potentially huge step/tool. Since the EU's deforestation regulations passed, along with other whole-supply-chain regulations, people have been really worried about how the heck we're going to enforce them. This is the sort of tool we need/need the industry to have to have a chance of genuinely making those regulations actually work. Which, if it does work, it could be huge.
It's also a great model for how to build supply chain monitoring for other supply chain regulations, like the EU's recent ban on companies destroying unsold clothes.
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cf-12 · 23 days
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MΛNITU (2024) youtube / vimeo
Set of 144 glyphs, displayed in digital and analogue form simultaneously. Light installation
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Geomorphic dungeon tutorial
Geomorphs are essentially little bits of dungeon that fit together in any orientation, and they're probably one of the most fun things I've ever messed around with when it comes to TTRPG mapping.
They're great to make when the blank page seems too intimidatong because a little 10x10 bit of a dungeon is a smaller commitment than a full dungeon, you can make them in a couple minutes, and if you get into the habit of drawing one or two every once in a while you'll soon build up a big library you can use to make dungeons of any size.
So here's how to make 'em.
Draw a 10 by 10 square. Place entrances on the 3rd and 8th square of every side
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(You can actually do any size as long as all entrances are the same distance from the corner)
Draw a bit of a dungeon however you want. Not all entrances need to be accessible from each other, some can even be dead ends.
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Optionally, draw some 5x10 and 5x5 ones to close off edges and corners.
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Draw a lot of them
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When you have a full page, cut them
(I store mine in ziploc bags to avoid losing them)
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Assemble them! If you placed the entrances correctly, they should fit together no matter how you place them or rotate them.
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You can ever stagger them like bricks
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Then, transfer it to a more permanent medium (redraw it or just take a picture)
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Here are some more examples of dungeons I've made using my geomorph set:
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jamesusilljournal · 4 months
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'This is a map of downtown Chicago but with a GIS data rendering method that's incompatible with the data', Collin Pearsall, 2023
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River basin map of the Horn of Africa. Colours represent different catchment areas.
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lunarcrown · 6 months
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Haha but what if I did Atlas for the “tumblr sexyman” prompt but as the onceler…….
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shalmonsgamedev · 1 month
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So I'm psure the way I did this may not be viable long-term but 👀👀👀 I am excited to share this highly compressed alpha/wip gif of henri, strolling around in my own parallax scene with some overlay action! my little chkn is growing up and walking behind things 😭😭 but yea this is still that map w/the grand total of, like 5 passable tiles lol will be embiggening the floor area & rearranging accordingly (and still various things needing textured of course)
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alisters-mapping-blog · 9 months
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The Balkans after the Treaty of Berlin 1878
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armixi06 · 1 year
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Gensokyo's Map v2.0
Bigger, more detailed, more accurate and alternative versions here : http://shorturl.at/ijW19
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gumbuk9 · 5 months
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The City of Slaughter.
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Extended my test map from an older post (way, way older upload on this blog....)
originally i added the interior warehouse area for the sake of something i was gonna add in the LUA, but i ended up fixating on detailing it instead of working on the gamemode feature...
i think the touchups i made make the map look a bit better than it was, though still not very "ghetto like", as was my original intent,,,,, uhh,,,,, 10 or 11 months ago now? (well, fuck) and the way the buildings cut off is still completely dogwater, though that's something i'll fix in a later version if ever that comes :]
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custom propoganda garfield and femtanyl grafitti drawn by @tdutb's immaculate tallent. decalized by me,
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Hybrid Theory decal (processed) by me i just took a greyscale off google duckduckgo images, did a simple color to alpha, colored it, and added wear.
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who-is-this-weirdo · 4 months
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Rewrite maps
First without the landmarks
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Now with the landmarks
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The circles are cities or points of interests, those with "stars" are capitals or palaces
Pyrrhia:
D = Diamond Trial Cave
P = Perception's Citadel/Temple
S = Sanctuary, rewrite name for Possibility
R = Respite, rewrite name for Sanctuary
U = Union, a historical multi-tribe and hybrid city
J = Jade Mountain Academy
O = Oracle's Citadel/Temple
T = Nightwing Animus Tunnels
Pantala:
C = Clearsight's Temple
The paler points are Ruins
Biome Colormap
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cf-12 · 2 months
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変わらないキミは特別です
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atloteam · 6 months
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Döntőbe jutott a világ legfontosabb információdizájn-versenyén, az Information is Beautiful Awardson az "És megremeg a Föld" című interaktív munkánk a "Humanitarian" kategóriában. A döntőben többek között a Reuters, az USA Today, a Texty.org, a Világbank, a Voilá és a Graphicacy dizájnstúdió munkáival versenyzünk az arany, az ezüst és bronz elismerésért. https://atlo.team/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/foldrengesatlasz.html https://www.informationisbeautifulawards.com/showcase?acategory=humanitarian&action=index&award=2023&controller=showcase&page=1&pcategory=short-list&type=awards
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corvidist · 11 months
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Earth, 400,000 PA
The bombs fell 400,000 years ago, a product of wars between long-dead nations over dwindling water and farmland. Thunderous explosions, raging fires, then utter, terrible silence. Humans, a mammalian species that by this point would be considered megafauna, did not immediately go extinct, even as nuclear cooldown and radiation led to the mass death of plant and animal life globally. They clung to life in bunkers and isolated corners of the world, and eventually, the radiation and the cold wore off, only to be replaced by a decimated ozone layer, worsened greenhouse effect, and skyrocketing global temperatures.
This would prove the final nail in Humanity's coffin, as over the course of hundreds of years, the few remaining survivors struggled to hold on in patches of the far north and south, nomadic, unable to recover past technological advancements, and left with few significant, reliable sources of food. As the calamity reached its first crescendo, an ancient disease, risen from the melted permafrost, burned through much of the remaining Human population, leaving only small bands and individual wanderers, who, one by one, slowly died out, the last around 1000 PA.
This would not be the end of Humanity's impact on the Earth, however. The catastrophic rise in temperatures led to the melting of much of Earth's remaining ice caps, and combined with the nuclear cooldown before it, led to the annihilation of a not insignificant portion of the Earth's plant life, and while it made a lopsided recovery towards the poles as temperatures warmed and the sky cleared, the planet's equatorial region would see no such recovery, with some regions seeing temperatures as high as 70 degrees Celsius by 400,000 PA and much of the planet between 40 degrees north and 30 degrees south becoming varying kinds of desert, the equator uninhabitable and for a time nearly impassable.
By 400,000 PA, the time of early Corvid development, the planet had reached somewhat of a new status quo. Little animal life larger than medium-sized dogs remains on land, though this will eventually change. Plant life is slowly evolving to better withstand higher temperatures, though oxygen levels remain lower than they did during the Anthropocene. No visible traces of Human society remain on Earth's surface, though their legacy is felt in the conspicuous lack of fossil fuels and certain rare substances. In the end, their legacy will have reverberating effects throughout the history of Earth and its second complex sophont society, even if the first was not around to see it.
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