I recently launched several major new features for Curvature, my program that generates maps of the twistiest roads world-wide. I’ve had these in the works for several years and finally found the time to wrap them up.
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Where to eat in Middlebury? A long running topic of discussion with my colleagues is: “Where should we eat for lunch?” Our small rural town has a pretty vibrant dining scene for its population with between 40-50 establishments that serve food or drink. This number is just large enough to…
Drupal 8 has a great Plugin API that not only allows one to write plugins that modify Drupal core’s behavior, but also to define your own pluggable system that you and others can plug into as well. The Plugin API documentation has a number of examples that cover many common…
By now many folks have seen Geoff Boeing’s really neat charts of street orientation that highlight how “gridded” (or not) the layout of city streets are: US Cities World Cities Since Geoff was kind enough to provide a full open-source tool-chain, I decided to tweak it to chart the orientations…
Several years after creating Curvature –my program that analyzes road-geometry and builds maps of twisty roads– it now has a dedicated site of its own: roadcurvature.com The new site is written to help non-techies understand how to use the curvature files with step-by-step instructions and a lot less jargon than…
As a software developer or system admin have you ever encountered regular expressions that are just a bit too hard to understand? Kind of frustrating, right? As a rule, regular expressions are often relatively easy to write, but pretty hard to read even if you know what they are supposed…
This entry was original published as a Ride Report on the Adventure Rider (ADVrider) forums. The only changes are reformatting to flow as a single article. Prologue Day 1: Down the Green Mountains Day 2: Across New England Day 3: Acadian Entry Day 4: Fundy Crossing Day 5: On the…
Update October, 2020: Curvature is now available as an in-browser map. Update November, 2016: New dedicated Curvature site — roadcurvature.com Update October, 2013: Google Earth KML files generated by curvature.py are now available covering the entire world. In the process of taking up motorcycling this summer I also gained an…
Today I found unexpectedly good reading in Middlebury’s new 2012 Town Plan. The document is really well done and its quality highlights the vigorous engagement between the town, its citizenry, and businesses that makes this a fabulous place to live. While all 226 pages are worthwhile, I found Section 2.13 …
