The Why of the How

One of the things I’ve taken to saying in recent years is that sometimes we make mistakes because of circumstance and sometimes we make bad decisions because of reasons… so please just write those reasons down somewhere.

This is a blog post by thisisaaronland. It was published on February 27, 2018 and tagged elasticsearch, go, python, spelunker, whosonfirst and why-of-the-how.

WOF in a Box (part 3)

The Spelunker was rebuilt on a bare Ubuntu 16.04 Linux server, following Dan’s WOF in a Box instructions and everything worked without a hitch. Along the way, I made some updates to the “fetching and indexing data” piece specifically to make things faster and easier for people who just want to work with the data as-is and don’t need to make updates.

This is a blog post by thisisaaronland. It was published on February 20, 2018 and tagged spelunker, sqlite, whosonfirst and wof-in-a-box.

Privatezen

The first week I started at Mapzen, in 2015, I remembering thinking I wonder if I can swap out each one of third-party services used by Privatesquare with an equivalent Mapzen service? The answer, at the time, was “No”. It was a useful reminder of the work we had set out for ourselves.

This is a blog post by thisisaaronland. It was published on February 02, 2018 and tagged electron, mapzen, privacy, privatesquare, sqlite, venues and whosonfirst.