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Clockwork Micro
Company blog · clockworkmicro.com/blog · on HN as brendan8229dataprogramming
Clockwork Micro is the company blog at clockworkmicro.com, writing about data and programming. Since 2022, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in an HN thread about Felt, a map-making tool. The one comment discusses making maps accessible to non-professionals compared with GIS desktop software such as QGIS and ESRI, and putting maps online.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Map tools that work like clockwork. Map Tools. Modular, Interactive, Low code/no code
What Hacker News says?
Making maps is something everyone does and existing map software is really targeted to professionals. Even if you figure out how to make a map with the GIS desktop software (QGIS or ESRI), taking the maps you made and putting them online is another huge hurdle that requires a separate skillset. I think Felt is taking the winning approach - to enlarge the market by making map making possible for everyone and making i…
Comment linking /
on “Felt”Submitted AirTable to Geojson as a story · 2 points
HN discussionVery interesting. We've worked on implementing a UI to choose settings for hill shade tiles and then use gdal on the fly using the MapZen Terrain tiles ( https://www.clockworkmicro.com/terrain-tile-styler ). But of course in this case the settings are still applied globally. It certainly makes sense to change the light source and azimuth regionally.
Comment linking /terrain-tile-styler
on “Eduard: Swiss-Style Relief Shading for Maps Using Machine Learning”Submitted Complete Cadastral Map of France Using PMtiles as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Geospatial Software Microservices as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Convert Shapefile to Vector Tiles with FileTiler as a story · 1 points
HN discussion