With the release of MapLibre GL JS v5.12.0, MapLibre Tiles (MLT) are now generally accessible to the normal user in a web browser!
This post gives a quick introduction to MapLibre Tiles and then peeks into their internal layout.
Until now, the standard vector tile format for MapLibre and Mapbox has been Mapbox Vector Tile (MVT). MapLibre introduced its own format at FOSS4G Europe this year.
The official English spec lives here.
Until a few months ago, I never really was interested in my age, or the age of people around me. When someone asked me my age, I would have to pause and think about what year it was (a number I often forget) and calculate the years. Being born in 1990, it wasn’t too hard. Just add 10 to the last two numbers of the current year. My birthday is in November, so if it was currently before November, I’d just minus one.
Yesterday was my last day at Geolonia. I had been working at Geolonia since the beginning of 2021, making it just over 3 years. During my time there, I worked on many interesting projects, but I felt that it was time to make a change.
In these 3 years, a lot has changed. The world has seen the rise of LLM-based AI solutions appear and grow rapidly. There are many questions about its effectiveness and ethics, but it’s too late for that now. It’s time to really think about how AI technologies can be used to advance society.
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先日、Geoloniaでの最終出勤日でした。私は2021年の初めからGeoloniaで働いていたので、3年ちょっとになりました。在籍中、多くの興味深いプロジェクトに携わりましたが、そろそろ新たな一歩を踏み出すべき時だと感じました。
この3年間で、多くの変化がありました。LLMを活用したAIソリューションが急速に成長し、様々な業界に広がり始めています。その有効性や倫理についての議論はまだ続いている場面もあるかと思いますが、正直もう遅いと思います。今こそ、AI技術を社会の発展にどう活用すべきかを本気で考えるべき時です。
I live in a small town that occasionally broadcasts announcements over the radio. For the past few years, I’ve been building a small Raspberry Pi appliance to transcribe these broadcasts to text. However, there are many broadcasts that don’t contain spoken content, so I wanted a way to recognize the kind of broadcast and make a decision whether to send it to the speech-to-text service or not.
Here’s what I have right now:
Happy New Year! For the past few years, I’ve been using the year-end break to reflect on the past year and set a theme for the next. Last year, I was mainly focused on doing work at Geolonia and increasing the amount of output in terms of blog posts.
My theme for this year is experimentation. While I’m going to continue working on output – this time, with more focus on my personal blog – I want to work on running focused, meaningful experiements. I generally enjoy trying new things and playing with new toys, but this year, the focus will be less on the playing and more on actually learning from these experiments. I’ve found that I can learn from playing around, but I struggle with deciding when to move on, or whether I should stick around and keep on iterating.
This year, I really wanted to work on my output, and I think I’m doing pretty well. Here are some things that I’ve been publishing:
However, updates on this personal blog has been not so great – the previous post is the “2023 review” post, after all.
I’ve been updating this blog from 2012, when we officially incorporated Flagship. I have since left Flagship, but it has a special place in my heart as it was where I learned how to bridge between programming and delivering results.
This year was an eventful year. The biggest event was by far moving from Tokyo to Yakushima, but there were a lot of other events that happened this year.
We made the move at the end of February, and my wife and I started out by working in a spare room in her father’s workshop. We then moved our workspace to the house when it was finished around July. During that time, I’ve worked on a few things at Geolonia, including growing the engineering team by a couple people and creating a few new products with the team.
最初の記事 は引っ越して1ヶ月で書きましたが、そこからだいぶ経ちました。。その間色々ありましたが、地道に改善を追加しています。最初公開したときに比べると、こういうところを改善しています:
約1ヶ月前に、屋久島に移住しました。屋久島の安房地方は、防災放送が結構回数が多くて、存在感があります（ 詳しくは、放送についてのブログを書いたので興味あれば読んでください）。たまに、重要な情報も流れます。ただ、聞き逃しや聞き違いとかあるので、移住前からでも、サイト化できないかと思って考え始めた。
実際に移住してからちょっと時間ができましたが、こんなの作れました。
