robintw's recent activity
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Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp
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Comment on What creative projects have you been working on? in ~creative
robintw LinkI've been doing some more acrylic pouring recently, experimenting with various different techniques. A few photos available here. I'm quite pleased with them so far, and have shown a few friends...I've been doing some more acrylic pouring recently, experimenting with various different techniques. A few photos available here.
I'm quite pleased with them so far, and have shown a few friends how to do it recently and they've produced some pieces they're really pleased with. I want to get more familiar with some of these techniques now, and then start properly trying to mix my own paints - at the moment I'm using pre-mixed pouring paints, but that gets expensive.
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Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp
robintw LinkI've been working on some extensions/new versions of a web app that I released recently called the British Placename Mapper (https://placenames.rtwilson.com/). That site lets people search for...I've been working on some extensions/new versions of a web app that I released recently called the British Placename Mapper (https://placenames.rtwilson.com/). That site lets people search for parts of British placenames (like names that start with "Great" or end with "burgh") and see them on a map. It got a fair amount of traction when I released it, and a load of people were interested in similar apps for other countries.
Someone has released one for Lithuania using the same code (with my permission), but I've been playing with a few new apps too. I've done the same app for the United States, but I'm not sure my technical approach will work so well with the larger number of places in such a big country - it worked ok (but a bit slowly) for me but a number of friends who tried it said it failed to load properly.
I've also been thinking about other little geographic web apps I could create, as this one went down so well. My main expertise is in backend stuff (I'm a freelancer in geospatial software engineering), but I'm trying to gain more experience with web development and front-end stuff. I've currently got a very simple MVP of a 'centroid app' that lets you find the centroid of a polygon on a web app. Very simple geographically and coding-wise, but I've seen a lot of people discussing where the geographic centre of various places (cities, counties etc) actually is - so people might find it interesting.
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Comment on Sharing drone photography? in ~hobbies
robintw LinkI found quite a good place at Grey Arrows (https://greyarro.ws/) - it's a drone forum, but has regular competitions on a certain theme ('castles', or 'straight down' etc) which encourage you to...I found quite a good place at Grey Arrows (https://greyarro.ws/) - it's a drone forum, but has regular competitions on a certain theme ('castles', or 'straight down' etc) which encourage you to get out and fly, along with lots of advice and tips and general sharing of images. Most of the people there are way better than I am at drone photography, but it gives me inspiration.
I've been playing with some geospatial AI stuff recently, since I did a training course on it a month or so back. I've got a lot of geospatial experience (I work in the field), and quite a bit of AI knowledge but hadn't really put them together much before.
I spent a while putting together a simple app that can search an aerial photo using text queries like "roundabout" or "school playground". I got it working on my computer a while back, but working out how to deploy it properly on the internet, with a server that was powerful enough to deal with the AI model, HTTPS and all that jazz took a while.
The current version of it is working at https://server1.rtwilson.com/aerial - feel free to have a play, comments welcome. I definitely have some things to improve for the next version, but it's a reasonable tech demo at the moment, I think.