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from my link log —
How Google Maps quietly allocates survival across London’s restaurants, and how I built a dashboard to see through it.
https://laurenleek.substack.com/p/how-google-maps-quietly-allocates?triedRedirect=true
saved…

How Google Maps quietly allocates survival across London’s restaurants - and how I built a dashboard to see through it
I wanted a dinner recommendation and got a research agenda instead. Using 13000+ restaurants, I rebuild its ratings with machine learning and map how algorithmic visibility actually distributes power.

"Besuchte Orte"-Tracking in Apple Karten: Wo es geht – und wie
Nutzer von Google Maps können schon lange Ortsdaten automatisch speichern – manchmal gar unfreiwillig. Ein neues Feature für iOS 26 funktioniert nicht überall.

Dear #Apple
have you not heard of Buses as transportation? Public Transit?
https://maps.apple.com/
jeez!

Prospects for #Comet C/2026 A1 MAPS - a comet with a narrow tail in the evening twilight, with uncertain but potentially high brightness? https://hdr-astrophotography.com -> Tail simulations for comet MAPS: https://groups.io/g/comets-ml/message/34888 - in order not to depend on a single prediction, i have simulated different scenarii.

Interessante Info zu dem BIC Bürogebäude #Hasenheide 23-27, 10967 Berlin,
könnte auch aus dem Angebots '"Portfolio"' eines Immobilienmaklers stammen
Google-Rezension über BIC Bürogebäude
https://goo.gl/maps/ya…

"How Google Maps quietly allocates survival across London’s restaurants - and how I built a dashboard to see through it"
https://laurenleek.substack.com/p/how-google-maps-quietly-allocates?utm_campaign=post

How Google Maps quietly allocates survival across London’s restaurants - and how I built a dashboard to see through it
I wanted a dinner recommendation and got a research agenda instead. Using 13000+ restaurants, I rebuild its ratings with machine learning and map how algorithmic visibility actually distributes power.

Google releases fully managed, remote MCP servers to help developers connect AI agents to services such as Maps, BigQuery, Compute Engine, and Kubernetes Engine (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/10/google-is-going-all-in…

Google launches managed MCP servers that let AI agents simply plug into its tools | TechCrunch
Google is rolling out managed MCP servers to make its services “agent-ready by design,” starting with Maps and BigQuery, aiming to simplify messy integrations and help AI agents use real tools.

celegans_interactomes: C. elegans interactomes (2009)
Ten networks of protein-protein interactions in Caenorhabditis elegans (nematode), from yeast two-hybrid experiments, biological process maps, literature curation, orthologous interactions, and genetic interactions. The WI8 network combines WI2004, WI2007 and BPmaps, while the Integrated Network combines data from all sources.
This network has 912 nodes and 22738 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions, Unweighted<…

It is beyond his comprehension that some people don't always want to cheat to win.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/11/indiana-republicans-redistricting

Indiana Republicans reject effort to redraw voting maps in rebuke to Trump
Measure to redistrict, which would add two GOP-friendly seats, failed 19-31 after 21 Republicans joined 10 Democrats

Well, we made it to Borrego Springs. Yaaay!!!
It may not look like much from Google maps' satellite view, but it is rather nice. The wildflowers are not yet in mass bloom, but there are still a lot of 'em.
And the weather is nice - I'm typing this among palms next to a pool.
https://maps.app.goo.gl/y8a…

Trying to find a hotel in Mexico City feels a bit.. overwhelming
#cdmx #mexicocity

From 350.org
We’re calling on governments to send ministers to the first-of-its-kind international summit in Colombia this April and turn words into concrete road maps that end fossil fuels for good. Public pressure can move the needle. Let’s make the transition to renewable energy inevitable so that even Trump and the oil lobby can’t save fossil fuels.

End Fossil Fuels Forever
Time is running out. Our planet is hitting record temperatures, while coal, oil and gas giants rake in billions, and our energy bills skyrocket. But we finally have a chance to break the cycle. Over 80 countries are joining forces to phase out coal, oil, and gas. This is a historic opportunity to end the fossil fuel era and ensure a transition away from dirty fuels that protects communities, workers and the planet. But to win, we need more world leaders on board. We’re calling on governments …

Great 'text on maps' work presented by Katie and Bert #FF2025
Katie posted: If you want to play around with our text on maps data viz interface the link is https://text-on-maps-viz.allmaps.worke

Gemini navigiert Fußgänger bei Google Maps
Google Maps bekommt dank Gemini eine KI-Navigation für Fußgänger und Fahrradfahrer. Dazu gehören auch Umgebungsinformationen.
https://www.heise.de/news/G…

🤯 RUSSIANS with WWII maps are attacking DONETSK REGION #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/05/russians-with-wwii-maps-are.html

#MapSurfing Mt Tongariro & Mt Ngauruhoe (New Zealand)... so, so inspirational!

As you may know, India has border disputes with China and Pakistan. And because OSM’s on-the-ground policy means that the default borders are based on the actual lines of control, this does not square with India’s requirement to show their preferred borders making most OSM-based maps illegal in India.

"New report confirms 2025 among Hawai'i's driest, warmest on record"
#Hawaii #Climate #ClimateChange

New report confirms 2025 among Hawai'i's driest, warmest on record
In 2025, Hawaiʻi experienced its second-driest year in more than a century, alongside persistently above-average temperatures throughout the year—a stark reality detailed in the inaugural Hawai'i Annual Climate Report 2025. Published by the University of Hawai'i Sea Grant College Program, this first-of-its-kind report uses plain language, along with easy-to-interpret maps and figures, to summarize statewide rainfall, temperature, and drought conditions over the past year.

The Supreme Court, in a Thursday evening order, put on hold a lower court ruling that blocked Texas’ aggressive gerrymander,
a maneuver the state legislature carried out on orders from the Trump administration and the president himself,
hoping to preserve Republicans’ majority in the U.S. House in 2026.
In a brief order, the Court argued, among other things, that the District Court had intervened to block the maps too close to next year’s midterm election.
Justice Sam A…

Supreme Court Conservatives Reinstate Texas’ Gerrymandered House Maps
The Supreme Court, in a 6-3 order, has put on hold a...

Virginia Democrats Propose New Congressional Maps Ahead of Midterms (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/us/politics/virginia-redistricting-maps-midterms.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260205/p132#a260205p132

"We are a higher court, but not a better one": Kagan rages at SCOTUS decision to allow Texas maps - Salon.com
https://www.salon.com/2025/12/04/we-are-a-higher-court-but-not-a-better-one-kagan-rages-at-scotus-decision-to-allow-texas-maps/

Spatially resolved polarization swings in the supermassive binary black hole candidate OJ 287 with first Event Horizon Telescope observations: #EventHorizonTelescope observations of OJ 287 reveal shock waves interacting with Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities in the jet, producing polarization rotations in opposite directions.

Recently released Quake Brutalist Jam III has 77 new maps plus new monsters, weapons and more -- it's designed to be played with Ironwail, a fork of GLQuake descendant QuakeSpasm (it also has native Linux support).
You'll need Quake from Steam (https://store.steampowered.com/app/2310/Q…

Zu unbedeutend: Apple Maps und Apple Ads keine Gatekeeper in der EU
Für Apples Kartendienst und Werbeplattform sollen in der EU keine verschärften Wettbewerbsregeln gelten – zumindest fürs Erste.
https://…

#StormBram seems to be affecting the southeast most

celegans_interactomes: C. elegans interactomes (2009)
Ten networks of protein-protein interactions in Caenorhabditis elegans (nematode), from yeast two-hybrid experiments, biological process maps, literature curation, orthologous interactions, and genetic interactions. The WI8 network combines WI2004, WI2007 and BPmaps, while the Integrated Network combines data from all sources.
This network has 431 nodes and 438 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions, Unweighted

An interesting social media datapoint: @… and I recently posted about our new research:

I submitted a small talk proposal to our local event called installfest.cz.
It's about @…. Any feedback on it? https://pretalx.ins…

Google expands Gemini's hands-free conversational capabilities to walking and cycling modes in Google Maps, available on iOS and rolling out on Android (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/29/google-maps-now-lets-you-…

Google Maps now lets you access Gemini while walking and cycling | TechCrunch
When you're walking around and navigating with Maps, you can now ask Gemini questions like "What neighborhood am I in?" or "What are top-rated restaurants nearby?"

'Unauthorized' Edit to Ukraine's Frontline Maps Point to Polymarket's War Betting https://www.404media.co/unauthorized-edit-to-ukraines-frontline-maps-point-to-polymarkets-war-betting/

What Causes Wars: An Introduction to Crisis Bargaining Theory by Lines on Maps Extra
#uspol

celegans_interactomes: C. elegans interactomes (2009)
Ten networks of protein-protein interactions in Caenorhabditis elegans (nematode), from yeast two-hybrid experiments, biological process maps, literature curation, orthologous interactions, and genetic interactions. The WI8 network combines WI2004, WI2007 and BPmaps, while the Integrated Network combines data from all sources.
This network has 431 nodes and 438 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions, Unweighted

Does anyone have experience reverse engineering register maps and generally figuring out how to interface to hardware given no documentation other than an upstreamed Linux kernel driver?
I'm sitting here looking at device tree snippets and source code and realizing I have no idea how any of this maps to raw MMIO transactions.

Ukraine says no counteroffensive near Hulyaipole, debunks Russian front-line maps: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/10/ukraine-says-no-counteroffensive-near.html

61 European alternatives to Google, X, Gmail, Chrome, Maps, DropBox, Google Drive, WhatsApp, and other popular services https://www.xataka.com/basics/61-alternativas-europeas-a-google-x-gmail-chrome-maps-dr…

Supreme Court Clears the Way for Republican-Friendly Texas Voting Maps (Abbie VanSickle/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/us/politics/supreme-court-texas-congressional-maps.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251204/p132#a251204p132

Someone built a map feature for Träwelling :Traewelling: @… !
🔗 https://fabian-c.github.io/Traewelling-Maps/…

And on a non- political gripe: Once again, #Google maps directions for walking wants to send me across a busy street, midway between 2 traffic lights.
Why does Google want pedestrians to take risks? Or do they just want to kill me because I'm not taking Waymo?
This is a well mapped area (San Francisco) so they must have the data on both traffic and signals.

And on a non- political gripe: Once again, #Google maps directions for walking wants to send me across a busy street, midway between 2 traffic lights.
Why does Google want pedestrians to take risks? Or do they just want to kill me because I'm not taking Waymo?
This is a well mapped area (San Francisco) so they must have the data on both traffic and signals.

How climate breakdown is putting the world’s food in peril - in maps and charts https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2025/dec/18/how-climate-breakdown-is-putting-the-worlds-food-in-per…

Finally got around to working on some data mining and processing for https://www.wyrimaps.net/wow/ by generating the in-game world maps. With some varying success, while to a certain degree, these maps are technically somewhat correct. They make no sense.

celegans_interactomes: C. elegans interactomes (2009)
Ten networks of protein-protein interactions in Caenorhabditis elegans (nematode), from yeast two-hybrid experiments, biological process maps, literature curation, orthologous interactions, and genetic interactions. The WI8 network combines WI2004, WI2007 and BPmaps, while the Integrated Network combines data from all sources.
This network has 2724 nodes and 14322 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions, Unweighted…

New maps that added
five Republican districts in Texas
hit a legal roadblock on Tuesday,
with a federal judge saying
the state cannot use the 2025 maps
because they are probably “racially gerrymandered”.
The decision is likely to be appealed,
given the push for more Republican-friendly congressional maps nationwide
and Donald Trump’s full-court press on his party to make them.
A panel of three federal judges in Texas said in a decision t…

Putting another restaurant on my shit list because they got Google to remove my critical 3-star Google Maps review. I appealed the decision with Google, and recommend people stay away from Süllberger Alm in #Hamburg. Food was okay, but too expensive, and restaurants that manipulate Google reviews don't deserve anyone's business.

Hey, does anyone understand why both Google Maps and Apple Maps directed me to take the downtown Q subway from the 23rd St. station yesterday? Seems like patent falsehood?

Because it's populated by cheshire cats.
https://qoto.org/@bibliolater/115600269765129742

Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 (@bibliolater@qoto.org)
Attached: 1 image 🇳🇿 **Why does New Zealand keep disappearing from world maps?** _Cooper-Jones points out that even a New Zealand government 404 error page once displayed a world map missing the country entirely, with a cheeky message: "We’re sorry, something’s missing…"_ 🔗 https://www.rnz.co.nz/life/books/why-does-new-zealand-keep-disappearing-from-world-maps. #NewZealand #NZ #Maps #Cartography #Image attribution: See page for author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Common…

Was wondering how to use Subresource Integrity with dynamic import() — thought maybe there was a path forward using import attributes (no) but I did stumble across this excellent post about using it with Import Maps (from @…):

Polymarket's Ukraine war betting, based on ISW's map, generated $1M in volume for "Will Russia capture Myrnohrad?"; an "unauthorized" map edit resolved the bet (Matthew Gault/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/unauthorized-edit-

'Unauthorized' Edit to Ukraine's Frontline Maps Point to Polymarket's War Betting
It looks like someone invented a fake Russia advance in Ukraine to manipulate online gambling markets.

Supreme Court Conservatives Reinstate Texas' Gerrymandered House Maps (Talking Points Memo)
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/supreme-court-conservatives-reinstate-texas-gerrymandered-house-maps
http://www.memeorandum.com/251204/p124#a251204p124

Flyover-Touren: Apple streicht Feature in Maps
Mit einer besonderen Funktion konnte man sich seit 2014 in Apples Karten-App Städte zeigen lassen. Das Feature wurde mit iOS 26 kommentarlos gestrichen.
https://www.

Google, ESPN reach deal before Cowboys-Raiders MNF? All Week 11 TV viewing maps https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/11/15/nfl-week-11-tv-viewing-maps-espn-youtube-tv-agreement/8729189…

Enjoyed the wide variety of maps in #SecretMaps at the British Library and then... a live action team text adventure exploring the world of libraries. Thanks Seth Kriebel for an unpredictable and excellent experience! I'm still wondering what the spice smell was

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #RileyAndCoe
Mark Peters:
🎵 The Box Of Delights
#MarkPeters
https://mark-peters.bandcamp.com/track/the-box-of-delights-maps-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/77WKbgv3Hb5KZtEk66jEym

Never thought about this. Use the good ol' image maps to provide alt text for possibly more complicated images https://www.w3.org/WAI/tutorials/images/imagemap/
The `href` attribute for `<area>` may be omitted too

Manifolds and Modules: How Function Develops in a Neural Foundation Model
Johannes Bertram, Luciano Dyballa, T. Anderson Keller, Savik Kinger, Steven W. Zucker
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.07869 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.07869 https://arxiv.org/html/2512.07869
arXiv:2512.07869v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Foundation models have shown remarkable success in fitting biological visual systems; however, their black-box nature inherently limits their utility for under- standing brain function. Here, we peek inside a SOTA foundation model of neural activity (Wang et al., 2025) as a physiologist might, characterizing each 'neuron' based on its temporal response properties to parametric stimuli. We analyze how different stimuli are represented in neural activity space by building decoding man- ifolds, and we analyze how different neurons are represented in stimulus-response space by building neural encoding manifolds. We find that the different processing stages of the model (i.e., the feedforward encoder, recurrent, and readout modules) each exhibit qualitatively different representational structures in these manifolds. The recurrent module shows a jump in capabilities over the encoder module by 'pushing apart' the representations of different temporal stimulus patterns; while the readout module achieves biological fidelity by using numerous specialized feature maps rather than biologically plausible mechanisms. Overall, we present this work as a study of the inner workings of a prominent neural foundation model, gaining insights into the biological relevance of its internals through the novel analysis of its neurons' joint temporal response patterns.
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from my link log —
Why NUKEMAP isn't on Google Maps anymore.
http://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2019/12/13/why-nukemap-isnt-on-google-maps-anymore/
saved 2019-12-14

Why NUKEMAP isn’t on Google Maps anymore
The top-secret story of why NUKEMAP switched from Google Maps to Mapbox+Leaflet.

really great that we have a government made up of criminals who purposefully completely ignore this for personal gain https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2025/dec/18/how-climate-breakdown-is-putting-the-worlds-food-in-peril-in-maps-and-charts

MapComplete — Verschiedenen Themenkarten, zu denen ihr beitragen könnt
Nutze @…, um Daten zu einem bestimmten Thema auf @… einzutragen. Beantworte Fragen, und in wenigen Minuten sind deine Beiträge überall verfügbar.…

MapComplete - editable, thematic maps with OpenStreetMap
MapComplete is a platform to visualize OpenStreetMap on a specific topic and to easily contribute data back to it.

The conservative majority on the U.S. Supreme Court
has cleared the way for Texas to use a gerrymandered congressional map in next year’s midterm elections
that a lower court found racially discriminatory.
The 6-3 ruling is another political win for Donald Trump and his allies,
who have gotten a number of favorable rulings from the justices after being stymied by lower courts.
Trump has asked Republican-led states to redraw their maps
in order to preserv…

Rigging Democracy: Supreme Court Approves Racial Texas Gerrymander, Handing Trump Midterm Advantage
The conservative majority on the U.S. Supreme Court has cleared the way for Texas to use a gerrymandered congressional map in next year’s midterm elections that a lower court found racially discriminatory. The 6-3 ruling is another political win for President Donald Trump and his allies, who have gotten a number of favorable rulings from the justices after being stymied by lower courts. Trump has asked Republican-led states to redraw their maps in order to preserve the narrow GOP majority in …

Side note: a minimal installation – base without base (pictured in my previous toot) – is not recommended.
Key mapping fails. This might be acceptable with American keyboards, but the consequences for other maps can be frustrating.
<https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_…

I Made My Own Navigation App That Beats Google Maps by Railways | Retro Tech | DIY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRt9NebmZfA

#DYK that server names in #OpenStreetMap are fictional dragons? Why dragons? Because “here be dragons” is a trope on old maps: https://en.wik…

Here be dragons - Wikipedia

celegans_interactomes: C. elegans interactomes (2009)
Ten networks of protein-protein interactions in Caenorhabditis elegans (nematode), from yeast two-hybrid experiments, biological process maps, literature curation, orthologous interactions, and genetic interactions. The WI8 network combines WI2004, WI2007 and BPmaps, while the Integrated Network combines data from all sources.
This network has 2528 nodes and 3864 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions, Unweighted

this is kind of amazing: a handdrawn 2002 attempt to map every #surveillance camera in times square & midtown #nyc, by the surveillance camera players, activist/prankster group. feel like these #maps would bot…

Them: We're almost at AGI.
Also, Google Maps: here's a toll road on your…walk in Manhattan tomorrow morning. Thanks, Zohran.

I've noticed in the last week that google maps has started making mistakes or showing me worse routes/glitching a lot for places I use it for frequently. I wonder if other people are having similar experiences. (And yes I know, g o o g l e bad, but its a service I can't let go yet)

Beam Test Performance of AstroPix sensor with 120 GeV protons
Bobae Kim, Regina Caputo, Manoj Jadhav, Sylvester Joosten, Carolyn Kierans, Henry Klest, Adrien Laviron, Richard Leys, Jessica Metcalfe, Jared Richards, Nicolas Striebig, Amanda L. Steinhebel, Daniel Violette, Maria Zurek
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.06084 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.06084 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.06084
arXiv:2602.06084v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: AstroPix is a high-voltage CMOS (HV-CMOS) monolithic active pixel sensor (MAPS) developed for precision gamma-ray imaging and spectroscopy in the medium energy regime, as well as for precise shower imaging and tracking in the Barrel Imaging Calorimeter (BIC) of the Electron Proton/Ion Collider (ePIC) detector at the future Electron-Ion Collider (EIC). We present beam test results of the AstroPix v3 sensor using a 120 GeV proton beam at the Fermilab Test Beam Facility (FTBF), performed as part of the broader experimental campaign for the BIC prototype calorimeter. The sensor's 500 um pixel pitch enabled precise measurement of the beam profile, providing important information for calorimeter performance studies. Using the measured 120 GeV proton data, we measure the energy deposit of minimum ionizing particles and use them to extract the corresponding effective depletion depth.
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No. 1 overall is locked in: Here’s the Raiders’ 3-round mock draft plan https://raiderramble.com/2026/01/06/no-1-overall-is-locked-in-heres-the-raiders-3-round-mock-draft-plan/

New report confirms 2025 among Hawai'i's driest, warmest on record #Hawaii

New report confirms 2025 among Hawai'i's driest, warmest on record
In 2025, Hawaiʻi experienced its second-driest year in more than a century, alongside persistently above-average temperatures throughout the year—a stark reality detailed in the inaugural Hawai'i Annual Climate Report 2025. Published by the University of Hawai'i Sea Grant College Program, this first-of-its-kind report uses plain language, along with easy-to-interpret maps and figures, to summarize statewide rainfall, temperature, and drought conditions over the past year.

Genus-0 Surface Parameterization using Spherical Beltrami Differentials
Zhehao Xu, Lok Ming Lui
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.01589 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.01589 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.01589
arXiv:2602.01589v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Spherical surface parameterization is a fundamental tool in geometry processing and imaging science. For a genus-0 closed surface, many efficient algorithms can map the surface to the sphere; consequently, a broad class of task-driven genus-0 mapping problems can be reduced to constructing a high-quality spherical self-map. However, existing approaches often face a trade-off between satisfying task objectives (e.g., landmark or feature alignment), maintaining bijectivity, and controlling geometric distortion. We introduce the Spherical Beltrami Differential (SBD), a two-chart representation of quasiconformal self-maps of the sphere, and establish its correspondence with spherical homeomorphisms up to conformal automorphisms. Building on the Spectral Beltrami Network (SBN), we propose a neural optimization framework BOOST that optimizes two Beltrami fields on hemispherical stereographic charts and enforces global consistency through explicit seam-aware constraints. Experiments on large-deformation landmark matching and intensity-based spherical registration demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed framework. We further apply the method to brain cortical surface registration, aligning sulcal landmarks and jointly matching cortical sulci depth maps, showing improved task fidelity with controlled distortion and robust bijective behavior.
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🗺️ Digital humanities scholars map lost art in novels
#cornell

Digital humanities scholars map lost art in novels
Books with maps are like Captain Flint's buried loot in Robert Louis Stevenson's "Treasure Island"—a rare find, according to new Cornell research.

Supreme Court upholds Texas congressional map, a win for Trump administration (Dallas Morning News)
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2025/12/04/supreme-court-upholds-texas-redistricting-maps/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251204/p116#a251204p116

What TV channel is Cowboys v. Giants? Time, NFL Week 18 viewing maps https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/12/31/where-to-watch-cowboys-vs-giants-tv-channel-live-stream/87971961007/

celegans_interactomes: C. elegans interactomes (2009)
Ten networks of protein-protein interactions in Caenorhabditis elegans (nematode), from yeast two-hybrid experiments, biological process maps, literature curation, orthologous interactions, and genetic interactions. The WI8 network combines WI2004, WI2007 and BPmaps, while the Integrated Network combines data from all sources.
This network has 759 nodes and 1593 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions, Unweighted

It is hard to imagine a worse decision than the Supreme Court’s ruling on Thursday
allowing Texas to use its new congressional maps designed to elect five more Republicans to the House of Representatives.
In a 6-3 decision, the six conservative justices have opened the door to states being able to adopt unconstitutional laws on voting
— with immunity from judicial review for at least one election.
At the urging of President Trump, Texas’ Republican-controlled state L…

Heh. O velho mapa imperialista tuga teve resposta todos estes anos depois.
https://mapstodon.space/@mapasmilhaud/115648725809602712

Mapas Milhaud (@mapasmilhaud@mapstodon.space)
Attached: 1 image Angola no es un país pequeño (2011) https://mapasmilhaud.com/mapas-propagandisticos/angola-no-es-un-pais-pequeno-2011/ #Maps #Mapas

See how Victoria’s bushfires spread: a visual guide to the scale of devastation https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jan/16/how-victorian-bushfires-spread-maps-area-visual-guide

Gatekeeper-Dienste: EU prüft Apple Karten und Apple Ads
Apple Maps und Apple Ads erreichen in der EU jetzt offenbar genug Nutzer, um unter striktere Wettbewerbsregeln zu fallen. Brüssel prüft, Apple widerspricht.
ht…

from my link log —
OpenLayers: easy dynamic maps on web pages.
https://openlayers.org/
saved 2019-12-11 https://dotat.at/:/3XH8E.html

OFERA: Blendshape-driven 3D Gaussian Control for Occluded Facial Expression to Realistic Avatars in VR
Seokhwan Yang, Boram Yoon, Seoyoung Kang, Hail Song, Woontack Woo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.01748 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.01748 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.01748
arXiv:2602.01748v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We propose OFERA, a novel framework for real-time expression control of photorealistic Gaussian head avatars for VR headset users. Existing approaches attempt to recover occluded facial expressions using additional sensors or internal cameras, but sensor-based methods increase device weight and discomfort, while camera-based methods raise privacy concerns and suffer from limited access to raw data. To overcome these limitations, we leverage the blendshape signals provided by commercial VR headsets as expression inputs. Our framework consists of three key components: (1) Blendshape Distribution Alignment (BDA), which applies linear regression to align the headset-provided blendshape distribution to a canonical input space; (2) an Expression Parameter Mapper (EPM) that maps the aligned blendshape signals into an expression parameter space for controlling Gaussian head avatars; and (3) a Mapper-integrated Avatar (MiA) that incorporates EPM into the avatar learning process to ensure distributional consistency. Furthermore, OFERA establishes an end-to-end pipeline that senses and maps expressions, updates Gaussian avatars, and renders them in real-time within VR environments. We show that EPM outperforms existing mapping methods on quantitative metrics, and we demonstrate through a user study that the full OFERA framework enhances expression fidelity while preserving avatar realism. By enabling real-time and photorealistic avatar expression control, OFERA significantly improves telepresence in VR communication. A project page is available at https://ysshwan147.github.io/projects/ofera/.
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😂 Only those who has done maps stuff knows this (tho’ not the hydrogen atom part)

urban_streets: Urban street networks (2017)
20 urban street networks, corresponding to 1-square-mile maps of 20 cities around the world.
This network has 252 nodes and 334 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Roads, Unweighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.de/net/urban_s…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #RileyAndCoe
Swell Maps:
🎵 A Morning Star
#SwellMaps
Please 🔁 BOOST to share what you like
- your followers don't see if you ⭐ favourite a post

I love taking transit in other cities and see how it compares to home.
Mexico City has of course lots of coverage: 195 stations and 12 lines. It cost 5 pesos (0.40 CAD).
It’s often faster to an equivalent car ride when comparing with Google maps.
It feels safe as a foreigner (totally subjective) and they have reserved female trains as well.
#transit

What a brilliant idea to have an animated/interactive cartogram of the world’s population! 🗺️
#maps

The EC says it got notification from Apple that Apple Ads and Apple Maps likely meet DMA thresholds; Apple says the services should not be called "gatekeepers" (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-co

The Atacama #Cosmology Telescope: DR6 maps / power spectra, likelihoods and ΛCDM parameters / constraints on extended cosmological models: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1475-7516/2025/11/061 / https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1475-7516/2025/11/062 / https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1475-7516/2025/11/063 -> ACT releases its final data, shaping the future of cosmology: https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1106637

How to Think Like a Geopolitics Analyst by Lines on Maps Extra
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8ZYys3u9TI

HeatMat: Simulation of City Material Impact on Urban Heat Island Effect
Marie Reinbigler, Romain Rouffet, Peter Naylor, Mikolaj Czerkawski, Nikolaos Dionelis, Elisabeth Brunet, Catalin Fetita, Rosalie Martin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.22796 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2601.22796 https://arxiv.org/html/2601.22796
arXiv:2601.22796v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect, defined as a significant increase in temperature in urban environments compared to surrounding areas, is difficult to study in real cities using sensor data (satellites or in-situ stations) due to their coarse spatial and temporal resolution. Among the factors contributing to this effect are the properties of urban materials, which differ from those in rural areas. To analyze their individual impact and to test new material configurations, a high-resolution simulation at the city scale is required. Estimating the current materials used in a city, including those on building facades, is also challenging. We propose HeatMat, an approach to analyze at high resolution the individual impact of urban materials on the UHI effect in a real city, relying only on open data. We estimate building materials using street-view images and a pre-trained vision-language model (VLM) to supplement existing OpenStreetMap data, which describes the 2D geometry and features of buildings. We further encode this information into a set of 2D maps that represent the city's vertical structure and material characteristics. These maps serve as inputs for our 2.5D simulator, which models coupled heat transfers and enables random-access surface temperature estimation at multiple resolutions, reaching an x20 speedup compared to an equivalent simulation in 3D.
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from my link log —
Maps of cities coloured by street/road/ave/etc.
https://erdavis.com/2019/07/27/the-beautiful-hidden-logic-of-cities/
saved 2019-10-21 …

The Beautiful Hidden Logic of Cities
After finishing my map of the most common road suffixes by length, I realized I could also map each individual road, colored by its suffix. This has led to the loveliest maps I’ve made. Drivi…

New York must redraw its congressional map, a state judge ruled on Wednesday,
handing Democrats another key opportunity to pick up another US House seat before this fall’s midterm elections.
The ruling from Jeffrey Pearlman,
a New York state supreme court justice,
comes after a Democratic-aligned law firm challenged the boundaries of New York’s 11th congressional district,
which includes the borough of Staten Island and portions of south Brooklyn.
The dis…

celegans_interactomes: C. elegans interactomes (2009)
Ten networks of protein-protein interactions in Caenorhabditis elegans (nematode), from yeast two-hybrid experiments, biological process maps, literature curation, orthologous interactions, and genetic interactions. The WI8 network combines WI2004, WI2007 and BPmaps, while the Integrated Network combines data from all sources.
This network has 2436 nodes and 136930 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions, Unweighte…

Federal court upholds California's new congressional districts in a victory for Democrats (Jenny Jarvie/Los Angeles Times)
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-01-14/la-me-pol-judges-decision-california-prop-50-maps
http://www.memeorandum.com/260115/p25#a260115p25

For four months, Trump had been haranguing Indiana Republicans to redraw their congressional district maps
to carve out two new safe Republican seats.
Right now, Indiana is overwhelmingly Republican.
Seven of the state’s nine congressional districts are solidly red.
But Republicans control Congress as a whole by a mere three votes.
Given how dramatically Republican measures and candidates under-performed this year,
Trump has reason to worry in the 2026…

urban_streets: Urban street networks (2017)
20 urban street networks, corresponding to 1-square-mile maps of 20 cities around the world.
This network has 467 nodes and 692 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Roads, Unweighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.de/net/urban_stre…

celegans_interactomes: C. elegans interactomes (2009)
Ten networks of protein-protein interactions in Caenorhabditis elegans (nematode), from yeast two-hybrid experiments, biological process maps, literature curation, orthologous interactions, and genetic interactions. The WI8 network combines WI2004, WI2007 and BPmaps, while the Integrated Network combines data from all sources.
This network has 1237 nodes and 1735 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions, Unweighted<…