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It’s an old picture, but it highly relates to the way November went down for me and my family. Two or three colds, or maybe it was even four, of which one required antibiotics. With two small kids means everything is half speed, at best.

At work, we held a meeting for the local GIS community, GIS Väst (yes, that site actually features what looks like a photo of an iPaq). I and Peter Thorin gave a presentation on trends in Open Source GIS (in swedish). Funny pictures and all, and even an interactive map within the presentation. I think it went ok.

Since GIS Nerd Tools was linked from the presentation, I felt obliged to finally do something about this very old, but sometimes really useful, app. As mentioned before, I rewrote it from scratch, this time using npm and Browserify. It was quick and it was fun, and I like how it turned out.

Vladimir Agafonkin, creator of Leaflet, refactored its projection system, and allowed me to give some hints on how, from the experiences collected from Proj4Leaflet. For anyone using Leaflet with projections other than spherical Mercator, it’s a great step forward, making it both easier and more flexible. For Proj4Leaflet, it means most of the tricky parts can be removed, keeping it small and (somewhat) simple.

It also felt like I worked through an unusual amount of Proj4Leaflet issues. After wrestling a local Korean coordinate system that isn’t on Spatial Reference, where the tile’s zoom levels were offset and reversed, I’m once again tempted to say I know the ins and outs of projections and tiling, but I’m pretty sure something even weirder will come up in December.

While not really what I usually listen to, I got curious on Vladimir’s band Obiymy Doschu (or Обійми Дощу, which at least looks cooler if you, like me, hardly know the cyrillic alphabet). They’re on Spotify, so the album is easily accessible, and I like it having listened through it a few times. It didn’t make it to November’s playlist, though. Still just U.N.P.O.C.