District 1 is located in northeast Kansas, and includes Riley County.

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Kuopio City Library, public library in Kuopio, Finland.

Democritus meditating on the seat of the soul, statue by Delhomme (1868).

Cape Brett Lighthouse, lighthouse in New Zealand.

Lower Zambezi National Park, national park of Zambia.

Sheet 62. Burton & Walsall. Published in 1923.

Hachijiminamino Station, railway station in Hachiji city, Tokyo, Japan.

Victoria Park, Hamilton, Bermuda, park in Bermuda.

RT: blambertcarto Avancer sur l'autre version en parallle, encore bcp de boulot sur les toponymes, nommer les courbes, soigner l'habillage etc...

Mais les deux cartes seront en ligne cette semaine !

Smolenice (Slovakia), 1974
Smolenice Castle
Regional Geography, Castles, Chateaux
Graphic, Local Postcards
Tich, Ivan, (photographer)

From Digital Library and Digital Archive of Slovak National Library

The Arrogance of Space - N'Djamena, Chad
GPS: 12.1281522, 15.0559878

Arrogance of Space ratio:
Buildings: 52%
Cars: 35%
Green: 13%

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Chhayanath National Park, national park of Nepal.

Changhua City Library, public library in Changhua County.

Pl. XXX ter. Paris en 1775. Published in 1900.

Greenwood railway station, railway station in Perth, Western Australia.

Statue of Frederick Douglass, Statue of Frederick Douglass in Rochester, New York.

Trdgrdsfreningen, park in Gothenburg, Sweden.

Imperial Towers, group of 6 lighthouses on Lake Huron, Ontario, Canada.

Thanks to the weather and with help from AI, the long-in-development rebuild of vici.org finally went live today.

Functionally equivalent to the old version, but with a modern look, proper mobile support and a much more maintainable codebase.

See

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Behold, the latest from GitHub: a mystical for PRs that magically reveals your impending doom! With , you can blissfully ignore real problems while marveling at colorful risk charts like a data-driven fortune teller. But hey, at least it's and sprinkled with to make you feel futuristic.

Farol a risk map of a pull request for the person who approves it

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OsmAnd - Why Offline Search is So Hard

A concise and beautifully presented walk through how OsmAnd majorly improved its offline search.

Over the last years they realized that offline search is not really good at finding addresses. This is mainly because it was assumed that all (postal) addresses follow common rules (e.g. townstreethouse) which is not the case. They are wildly different across the globe and people type them in various forms (out of order, incomplete, with abbreviations).

After that introduction, I suspected that the solution might just be training some neural network. BUT, it's much cooler...
They are using some clever algorithms where they basically find the matching places for each search word then intersect those sets of places with each other.
Of course it's not *that* easy, so definitely go watch yourself.

The current result is an order of magnitude faster and not even restricted to addresses only.

The Arrogance of Space - Vienna, Austria
GPS: 48.2018798, 16.3960683

Arrogance of Space ratio:
Buildings: 64%
Pedestrians: 13%
Cars: 15%
Green: 6%
Cyclists: 2%

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OsmAnd: Why Offline Search is So Hard

You type an into a app on a phone in airplane mode. There is no server to ask: the phone has to find it on its own. Why is that so hard

We walk the whole road we took to rebuild offline search in : what an address really is, where we got real examples to measure search, why the old algorithm kept failing, and the new search that puts the words on the map.

Chapters

• Intro: the data was there
• Part 1 Addresses: a language without rules
• Part 2 Dataset: where do we get examples
• Part 3 The librarian algorithm
• Part 4 Words on the map
• Part 4.1 Tiles
• Part 4.2 The zipper
• Part 4.3 Skip-tile zipper
• Part 5 A puzzle of words
• Part 6 Where we are now and what's next

The new search comes with the upcoming OsmAnd 5.5, and you can try it today in our nightly builds. As always, the code is on GitHub:

When search can't find something, tell us what you typed: every miss becomes a test. And help the map: add street names and town boundaries in OpenStreetMap.

OsmAnd:

Hanover Town Library, library in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States.

Statue of Samuel Bourne Bevington, statue in London.

Iron Pot Lighthouse, lighthouse in Tasmania, Australia.

Penang National Park, national park in Malaysia.

Delamere railway station, railway station in Cheshire, England, UK.

Windsor Park, park in St. Louis, United States of America.

Revised Pribiloff Canyon, Bering Sea, Alaska. Published in 1988.

October 25, 2026

Dark Matter in a Simulated Universe
* Credit & Copyright: Tom Abel & Ralf Kaehler (KIPAC , SLAC), AMNH


* Text: Jerry Bonnell

Explanation:
Is our universe haunted It might look that way on this dark matter map. The gravity of unseen dark matter is the leading explanation for why galaxies rotate so fast, why galaxies orbit clusters so fast, why gravitational lenses so strongly deflect light, and how visible matter is distributed. The featured image from the American Museum of Natural History's Hayden Planetarium Space Show, Dark Universe, highlights one example of how pervasive dark matter might haunt our universe. In this frame from a detailed computer simulation, complex filaments of dark matter, shown in black, are strewn about the universe like spider webs, while the relatively rare clumps of familiar baryonic matter are colored orange. These simulations are good statistical matches to astronomical observations. In what is perhaps a scarier turn of events, dark matter -- although quite strange and in an unknown form -- is no longer thought to be the strangest source of gravity in the universe. That honor now falls to dark energy, a more uniform source of repulsive gravity that seems to now dominate the expansion of the entire universe.

Bardejov Spa (Bardejov, Slovakia), 1966
Bardejov Spa - park
Spa, Parks
Graphic, Local postcards
Sergjev, Vasil, (photographer)

From Digital Library and Digital Archive of Slovak National Library

The Arrogance of Space - Suva, Fiji
GPS: -18.1322698, 178.4257823

Arrogance of Space ratio:
Cars: 27%
Deadspace: 42%
Buildings: 29%
Pedestrians: 2%

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You can report road incidents on FeehubzPathFinder to help inform other road users

Dansville Library, library in Dansville, New York.

Rikuzen-Shirasawa Station, railway station in Sendai, Miyagi prefecture, Japan.

Statue of the Viscount Slim, statue in Whitehall, London.

Pocomoke Farm, human settlement in United States of America.

Jamestown Lighthouse, lighthouse in Accra, Ghana.