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@frankel@mastodon.top
2026-09-13 17:18:28

A short but fun post about the gotchas of #modeling the world's #geography in #softwaresystems.
Years ago, a colleague of mine told me about two pockets of foreign land surrounded by Switzer…

World geography gotchas
Years ago, a colleague of mine told me about two pockets of foreign land surrounded by Switzerland: Campione d’Italia and Büsingen am Hochrhein, respectively Italy and Germany. Both are enclaves of their respective country in Swiss territory: An enclave is a part of the territory of a state that is enclosed within the territory of another state. To distinguish the parts of a state entirely enclosed in a single other state, they are called true enclaves.

@burger_jaap@mastodon.social
2026-09-18 14:29:57

This is precisely the sort of interesting bundle of services relating to truck electrification: financing of the vehicles, construction, operation and financing of the charging infrastructure, all linked to an energy contract and energy management.
For Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
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