The Skorasaurus – The Blog of Will SkoraShort notice, but I’ll be giving a presentation on using Openstreetmap and my work on Cleveland in OSM Tonight at BW’s ACM’s Chapter meeting if any readers are interested. 7:00 PM, Room 147, Math and Computer Science Building, Baldwin-Wallace College (This Room is in the Mathematics wing).
Behind the scenes, I’ve been relatively busy with the Cleveland Neighborhood Map. Here’s the status of it… In Dec. 2011 while developing 5.14, I was soliciting for feedback from some professional cartographers over at cartotalk (a great place by the way). I received some good critiques, some of which I didn’t implement because I had [...]
Quote of the Meeting: “I didn’t fall off the turnip truck last night” – Coyne. (My comments in Italics) In attendance: Special K, Pinkney, Coyne, Bowen, Lumpkin, Cleveland, Brown. Surprisingly, the meeting started on time. This Week’s agenda: http://planning.city.cleveland.oh.us/designreview/drcagenda/2012/02172012/index.php Here’s a couple of the highlights: Dow’s rezoning plan: Councilman Dow was sponsoring because he had [...]
Upon hearing about the (ill-fated) proposed parking garage for the May Company building a couple weeks ago, I wanted to highlight the existing amount of parking that already exists downtown. So, here’s a map of Downtown Cleveland’s parking, here’s a map of Downtown Cleveland parking broken down by garage, underground, and surface, hosted by mapbox. [...]
Furthering my exploration in cartography, I’ve been experimenting with Tilemill lately, particularly using data from openstreetmap [that's in a postgis db]. [The rest of this entry assumes you're at least familiar with Tilemill and its terminology]. I started learning to make my own Tilemill stylesheets [written in carto]. As of now, there’s only 3-4 other [...]
[intentionally left blank]. There was no City Planning Commission meeting on Jan. 6, 2012. City Planning Director Bob Brown told me that there was not anything submitted, so there wasn’t any need for a meeting although it’s normally held the 1st and 3rd Friday of every month. There you have it. The next meeting is [...]
The shortest Planning Commission meeting that I’ve been to [out of the dozen or so] Ended by 10:30am. Attendance: Krumholz, Coyne [Chair], Pickney, Cleveland [9:20a], Bowens [9:50] Very minor ; here’s a very quick recap, and I’ll flesh it out later today or tomorrow. – CWRU’s Planning Director said that they’re considering renovating a portion [...]
Quote of the meeting: that what it ends up being…being there at the right time.. – Special K, Norm Krumholz Attendence: Krumholz, Pickney, Bowen (late), Cleveland (10:15) and Bob Brown (not-voting) One of the more noteworthy things was who was missing, rather than who was actually there. There’s 7 Commissioners, each have full-time jobs but [...]
Another day, another building demolished in Cleveland. This time it was the Paris Art Theatre, 3151 West 25th Street, Cleveland, OH 44109. I noticed it demo’d on Monday, Nov. 7th. You can find more information on the property by entering the Parcel #: 008-10-010 in Cuyahoga County’s property database. (Credits to otterphoto for some pictures [...]
I have been rendering maps of my local city [Cleveland, Ohio] recently. Because of Cleveland’s administrative borders, I had to extract the city of Cleveland using a large bounding box that included a lot of data outside of the city of Cleveland. As a result, I had to manually remove many ways and nodes (via [...]
