For A Project™, I need to learn about the historical origins of #bitmap#fonts. Highly doubt these were first created on computers; where in the world have rectangular #tiles or #bricks carried a textual message? (The tiled signs in the #NYC subway are #mosaics, not based on a grid.) Where did bitmap fonts really start?
Does anyone know the story behind these tiles about Alice? I run into different ones from time to time on walls around the Southside of Glasgow, mostly in the vicinity of Queen's Park.
There are few things which beats a wally close for making a great first impression. This one is in the Hyndland area of Glasgow. For those who don't know, a wally close is the communal entrance to a tenement which is lined with tiles, and often beautifully crafted ones.
I love these tile panels which you occasionally find in tenement closes. They're not as common as the individual decorative tiles or borders, but there are still quite a few around. This one comes from a block of tenements in the Cathcart area of Glasgow.
There are some things I can't seem to resist photographing each time I pass. These rather amazing tiles on Alexandra Parade in Glasgow are one of them.
The newest instance of the Glasgow Coat of Arms on the snout of the Beithir by Nichol Wheatley which was recently unveiled at the Stockingfield Bridge on the Forth and Clyde Canal.
Tiles from the communal stairwell of a tenement in the Hillhead area of Glasgow. Whenever I've come across this tile pattern before, it's always been arranged in pairs like these ones.
I love this piece of decorative tiling at the entrance to one of the lodge houses at the Great Western Road entrance to the Glasgow Botanic Gardens. The building was designed by A.B. McDonald and constructed in 1894.
Decorative tiles at the entrance to Victoria Chambers on West Nile Street in central Glasgow. The flowers appear to be the red Rose of Lancaster from the 15th Century English Wars of the Roses, which is an unusual motif for a Glasgow Building.
I finally managed to track down the last couple of street art mosaics in Wilma van der Meyden's Glasgow Street Swallow series. This beautiful one on James Watt Street is made from the type of unglazed porcelain tiles often uses to make threshold mosaics on older Glasgow buildings.
Jetzt ist im Export von #GeoActivityPlayground der gpx und GeoJSON Daten jede Kachel im Sichtbereich enthalten, die man noch nicht befahren hat, und nicht nur die Umrandung des bereits befahrenen Gebiets.
So kann man wirklich schön mit z. B. https://bikerouter.de planen, nachdem man die gpx-Datei dort hochgeladen hat.
Die #Heatmap von #GeoActivityPlayground besteht in der aktuellen Version nicht mehr aus einzelen Punkten, sondern aus "Strecken"/"Linien?", keine Ahnung, aus Strichen halt.
Dadurch kann man auch bei großen Zoomstufen noch die gefahrenen Wege erkennen. Vorher waren es irgendwann nur noch vereinzelte Punkte ohne erkennbaren Zusammenhang.
Hab ich eigentlich schon mal geschrieben, wie schön ich das finde, dass @martin_ueding so etwas Cooles entwickelt, sodass man so viele schöne Dinge und auch interessante Daten aus aufgezeichneten GPS-Tracks herausfinden kann, ohne das alles einer hungrigen Datenkrake hinwerfen zu müssen?