Nerdy #GIS post but anybody know why would I ever want a GeometryCollection over a FeatureCollection in a GeoJSON file? Seems to break a number of tools like QGIS and tippecanoe
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We're at it again! CalMatters is tracking each of California's lawsuits against the second Trump administration
https://calmatters.org/politics/2025/01/california-trump-lawsuits/
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Lollll I’d give myself a C/C- on this attempt. The stick pile was like a 24 inch cube and this is all I got and some of it clearly turned to ash
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Attempting to turn a huge-ish twig and wood pile into some homemade biochar in my small, urban backyard and not sure I nailed it tbh
Anybody have tips on how to achieve pyrolysis without special equipment?
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The fires in LA seem to be particularly destructive for an array of factors but a major one is just how dry it is in the area!
Soil moisture levels across southern California are between just 2% and 5% of average, "leaving dust where there should be mud" and resulting in alive plants burning like they're already dead, reports Alastair Bland
https://calmatters.org/environment/wildfires/2025/01/dry-danger-zone-california-fires-climate-change/
[#]news #california #lafires
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In his reporting, Alastair talked to Alexandra Syphard, a senior research ecologist & adjunct prof at San Diego State who said not only would clearing brush from the whole area not have made a big difference on this fire, it might make things worse!
https://calmatters.org/environment/wildfires/2025/01/dry-danger-zone-california-fires-climate-change/#h-brush-clearing-wouldn-t-help-much-experts-say
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Per a city spokesperson Chan will be paid $340,812.60 annually (he got $593,240 when he was city manager) and will get "all benefits under that classification for up to 12 month" in his new role
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Ummm I have no real idea what nostr is but I do know that every reply I get from there is semi-unintelligible, somehow about BTC, and the usernames make no sense. I guess that's just part of the federation game
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FWIW, $352,000 for a city manager in California is nowhere near the top of the highest paid list. Here's the pay for city managers across the state
https://publicpay.ca.gov/Reports/Cities/Cities.aspx?year=2023&rpt=9
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Last night #Sacramento City Council approved the contract for Interim City Manager Leyne Milstein (previously Asst. CM) with an annual salary of $352,000
But look who's back (or maybe just never left?): Howard Chan as "Special Advisor to the City Manager"
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The fires in LA now cover an area larger than 40,000 acres, a huge swath of land roughly the size of Washington, DC.
Still having a hard time visualizing the size? Use my latest interactive map for CalMatters to compare it to a place you know much better: where you live.
https://calmatters.org/environment/wildfires/2025/01/la-fires-size-mapped/
[#]lafires #dataviz #datavis
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CalFire's data continues to get better and better! Or I just keep finding new stuff.
Either way, came across this #EatonFire dataset that has damage assessments per house & gets updated frequently. Not only that but it looks like there's a similar dataset for other recent major fires.
[#]opendata #gis #lafires
https://gis.data.cnra.ca.gov/apps/2e9b269c863c43a7a8cffadb951e19f1/explore
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Here's a screenshot of a neighborhood in Altadena with the data showing where homes were damaged & by how much
Also drives home the point that fire perimeters are just that: perimeters - they don't mean that everything within them has burned
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All the photos are stunning but this one really got me - I'm finding it nearly impossible to imagine my neighborhood reduced to ash & chimneys
This photo, taken by Jules Hotz, shows only a fireplace remaining after a home was burned down by the Eaton Fire in Altadena on Jan. 8, 2025
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There's no shortage of heart-breaking photos from the fires in LA (support your local media with $$ or it might not be there next year!) but the CalMatters visuals team published a sad and harrowing collection today
https://calmatters.org/environment/wildfires/2025/01/la-fires-photos/
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The state Senate Insurance Committee doesn't have a chair as the huge fires in LA escalate the state's insurance crisis because of questions around a federal corruption investigation reports Ryan Sabalow for CalMatters
https://calmatters.org/politics/2025/01/california-democrat-senate-bribery-investigation/
[#]caleg #calmatters
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Thinking of Aaron Swartz today & I’m stuck on this photo - he & OpenAI CEO Sam Altman (both circled) each scraped 1000s of docs but one did it to make the knowledge free for all while the other did it to make $$$$ through probabilistic plagiarism. The US DOJ only came after one of them & the other is feted by tech bros and executives.
Thank you Aaron for so much, for RSS, for Markdown, for Creative Commons and more. I’m sorry our society failed you.
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