#mapping technology

[benjokovar77]

Dreame Self-Emptying Robot Vacuum: A Game-Changer for Smart Home Cleaning

In the ever-evolving world of smart home technology, Dreame has emerged as a frontrunner in the self-emptying robot vacuum market. With its cutting-edge features and innovative design, the Dreame self-emptying robot vacuum is revolutionizing the way we approach household cleaning.

Imagine a world where you never have to worry about emptying your vacuum's dustbin again. The Dreame self-emptying robot vacuum takes care of that tedious task for you. Equipped with a large-capacity dustbin and an automatic self-emptying system, this remarkable device ensures that your home stays spotless with minimal effort on your part.

What sets the Dreame self-emptying robot vacuum apart is its advanced navigation system. Utilizing cutting-edge mapping technology, it efficiently navigates through your home, meticulously cleaning every nook and cranny. Say goodbye to missed spots and hello to a truly thorough cleaning experience.

But that's not all – the Dreame self-emptying robot vacuum also boasts powerful suction capabilities, making it adept at picking up even the most stubborn dirt and debris. From pet hair to fine dust particles, this versatile vacuum leaves no surface untouched, ensuring a pristine living environment for you and your loved ones.

With its sleek and modern design, the Dreame self-emptying robot vacuum seamlessly blends into any home decor. Its user-friendly app allows you to schedule cleaning sessions, monitor performance, and even control the vacuum remotely, putting convenience at your fingertips.

Embrace the future of smart home cleaning with the Dreame self-emptying robot vacuum. Experience the ultimate in hassle-free living and enjoy a spotless home without lifting a finger. Upgrade your cleaning routine today and let Dreame revolutionize the way you approach household chores.

[ophelia-martin]

Dreame Vacuum Mops: Revolutionizing Smart Home Cleaning

In the ever-evolving world of smart home technology, Dreame has emerged as a frontrunner in the vacuum mop industry. Their innovative products seamlessly combine powerful suction and efficient mopping capabilities, making household cleaning a breeze.

Dreame's vacuum mops are designed with cutting-edge features that elevate the cleaning experience. With advanced sensors and mapping technology, these intelligent devices navigate your home effortlessly, ensuring every nook and cranny is thoroughly cleaned. The combination of vacuuming and mopping in a single unit not only saves time but also ensures a spotless and hygienic living environment.

One of the standout features of Dreame's vacuum mops is their impressive battery life, allowing for extended cleaning sessions without the need for frequent recharging. Additionally, their intuitive app integration enables you to schedule cleanings, monitor performance, and even control the device remotely, providing unparalleled convenience.

As the smart home industry continues to flourish, Dreame's commitment to innovation and customer satisfaction has solidified their position as a trusted brand. With their vacuum mops, they have redefined the concept of effortless cleaning, empowering homeowners to enjoy a cleaner, healthier living space with minimal effort.

[irene-hanscom]

Dreame Hoover with Mop: Revolutionizing Smart Home Cleaning

In the ever-evolving world of smart home technology, Dreame has emerged as a trailblazer, offering innovative cleaning solutions that combine convenience and efficiency. One of their standout products is the Dreame Hoover with Mop, a game-changer for effortless floor cleaning.

This cutting-edge device seamlessly integrates vacuum and mopping capabilities, ensuring a thorough and hassle-free cleaning experience. With its powerful suction and advanced mopping system, the Dreame Hoover with Mop effortlessly removes dirt, debris, and stubborn stains from hard floors and carpets, leaving your home spotlessly clean.

What sets the Dreame Hoover with Mop apart is its intelligent navigation system. Utilizing advanced sensors and mapping technology, this smart cleaning companion efficiently navigates through your home, meticulously covering every nook and cranny. No more missed spots or redundant cleaning paths – the Dreame Hoover with Mop ensures a comprehensive and consistent clean every time.

Designed with user convenience in mind, the Dreame Hoover with Mop can be controlled via a user-friendly mobile app or voice commands, allowing you to schedule cleanings, adjust settings, and monitor its progress from the comfort of your couch. Say goodbye to the tedious task of manual cleaning and embrace the future of smart home cleaning with Dreame.

[desireeturner2569]

Dreame Best Buy Robot Vacuum Mop: Revolutionizing Smart Home Cleaning

In the ever-evolving world of smart home technology, Dreame has emerged as a trailblazer, offering cutting-edge solutions for effortless cleaning. Among their innovative products, the Dreame Robot Vacuum Mop stands out as a game-changer, combining advanced robotics with intelligent cleaning capabilities.

This remarkable device seamlessly integrates vacuum and mopping functions, ensuring that your floors are not only spotless but also sparkling clean. With its powerful suction and intelligent navigation system, the Dreame Robot Vacuum Mop effortlessly navigates through your home, meticulously cleaning every nook and cranny.

One of the standout features of this smart cleaning companion is its advanced mapping technology. It creates a detailed map of your home, allowing it to clean efficiently and systematically, without missing a single spot. Moreover, the Dreame Robot Vacuum Mop can be controlled and scheduled through a user-friendly mobile app, providing you with ultimate convenience and flexibility.

Designed with user-friendliness in mind, this robot vacuum mop is incredibly easy to maintain and operate. Its large dustbin capacity and self-cleaning mopping system ensure minimal effort on your part, allowing you to sit back and enjoy a spotless living environment.

As the smart home industry continues to evolve, Dreame's commitment to innovation and user satisfaction remains unwavering. The Dreame Robot Vacuum Mop is a testament to their dedication, offering a seamless blend of cutting-edge technology and practical functionality for modern households.

[micheal-mckeever]

Dreame Auto Vacuum Cleaners: Revolutionizing Smart Home Cleaning

Dreame, a leading brand in the smart home industry, has been making waves with its innovative auto vacuum cleaners. These cutting-edge devices are designed to make household cleaning effortless and efficient, allowing you to enjoy a spotless home with minimal effort.

Dreame's auto vacuum cleaners are equipped with advanced sensors and mapping technology, enabling them to navigate your living spaces seamlessly and clean every nook and cranny. With powerful suction and intelligent navigation, these vacuums can tackle even the most stubborn dirt and debris, ensuring a thorough clean every time.

One of the standout features of Dreame's auto vacuum cleaners is their self-emptying capability. No more hassle of constantly emptying the dustbin – these vacuums automatically transfer the collected debris into a larger bin, allowing for extended cleaning sessions without interruptions.

In addition to their impressive cleaning performance, Dreame's auto vacuum cleaners are designed with convenience in mind. They can be controlled and scheduled through a user-friendly mobile app, allowing you to customize cleaning routines and monitor the vacuum's progress from anywhere.

With their sleek and modern design, Dreame's auto vacuum cleaners seamlessly blend into any home decor, making them not just functional but also aesthetically pleasing. Experience the future of smart home cleaning with Dreame's innovative auto vacuum cleaners and enjoy a hassle-free, spotless living environment.

[reasonsforhope]

"As countries around the world begin to either propose or enforce zero-deforestation regulations, companies are coming under growing pressure to prove that their products are free of deforestation. But this is often a far from straightforward process.

Take palm oil, for instance. Its journey from plantations, most likely in Indonesia or Malaysia, to store shelves in the form of shampoo, cookies or a plethora of other goods, is a long and convoluted one. In fact, the cooking oil or cosmetics we use might contain palm oil processed in several different mills, which in turn may have bought the raw palm fruit from several of the many thousands of plantations. For companies that use palm oil in their products, tracing and tracking its origins through these obscure supply chains is a tough task. Often it requires going all the way back to the plot level and checking for deforestation. However, these plots are scattered over vast areas across potentially millions of locations, with data being in various states of digitization and completeness...

Palmoil.io, a web-based monitoring platform that Bottrill launched, is attempting to help palm oil companies get around this hurdle. Its PlotCheck tool allows companies to upload plot boundaries and check for deforestation without any of the data being stored in their system. In the absence of an extensive global map of oil palm plots, the tool was developed to enable companies to prove compliance with regulations without having to publicly disclose detailed data on their plots. PlotCheck now spans 13 countries including Indonesia and Malaysia, and aims to include more in the coming months.

Palm oil production is a major driver of deforestation in Indonesia and Malaysia, although deforestation rates linked to it have declined in recent years. While efforts to trace illegally sourced palm oil have ramped up in recent years, tracing it back to the source continues to be a challenge owing to the complex supply chains involved.

Recent regulatory proposals have, however, made it imperative for companies to find a way to prove that their products are free of deforestation. Last June, the European Union passed legislation that prohibits companies from sourcing products, including palm oil, from land deforested after 2020. A similar law putting the onus on businesses to prove that their commodities weren’t produced on deforested land is also under discussion in the U.K. In the U.S., the U.S. Forest Bill aims to work toward a similar goal, while states like New York are also discussing legislation to discourage products produced on deforested land from being circulated in the markets there...

PlotCheck, which is now in its beta testing phase, allows users to input the plot data in the form of a shape file. Companies can get this data from palm oil producers. The plot data is then checked and analyzed with the aid of publicly available deforestation data, such as RADD (Radar for Detecting Deforestation) alerts that are based on data from the Sentinel-1 satellite network and from NASA’s Landsat satellites. The tool also uses data available on annual tree cover loss and greenhouse gas emission from plantations.

Following the analysis, the tool displays an interactive online map that indicates where deforestation has occurred within the plot boundaries. It also shows details on historical deforestation in the plot as well as data on nearby mills. If deforestation is detected, users have the option of requesting the team to cross-check the data and determine if it was indeed caused by oil palm cultivation, and not logging for artisanal mining or growing other crops. “You could then follow up with your supplier and say there is a potential red flag,” Bottrill said.

As he waits to receive feedback from users, Bottrill said he’s trying to determine how to better integrate PlotCheck into the workflow of companies that might use the tool. “How can we take this information, verify it quickly and turn it into a due diligence statement?” he said. “The output is going to be a statement, which companies can submit to authorities to prove that their shipment is deforestation-free.” ...

Will PlotCheck work seamlessly? That’s something Bottrill said he’s cautiously optimistic about. He said he’s aware of the potential challenges with regard to data security and privacy. However, he said, given how zero-deforestation legislation like that in the EU are unprecedented in their scope, companies will need to sit up and take action to monitor deforestation linked to their products.

“My perspective is we should use the great information produced by universities, research institutes, watchdog groups and other entities. Plus, open-source code allows us to do things quickly and pretty inexpensively,” he said. “So I am positive that it can be done.”"

-via Mongabay, January 26, 2024

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Note: I know it's not "stop having palm oil plantations." (A plan I'm in support of...monocrop plantations are always bad, and if palm oil production continues, it would be much better to produce it using sustainable agroforestry techniques.)

However, this is seriously a potentially huge step/tool. Since the EU's deforestation regulations passed, along with other whole-supply-chain regulations, people have been really worried about how the heck we're going to enforce them. This is the sort of tool we need/need the industry to have to have a chance of genuinely making those regulations actually work. Which, if it does work, it could be huge.

It's also a great model for how to build supply chain monitoring for other supply chain regulations, like the EU's recent ban on companies destroying unsold clothes.

[fruitiermetrostation]

[apenitentialprayer]

This week, Australia became one of a growing group of countries that give workers the "right to disconnect" — they don't have to respond to after-hours messages from the boss unless it's an emergency. [...] After France became the first country to pass a right-to-disconnect law in 2016, many nations in Europe and South America followed suit. Even more companies stepped up in the wake of the pandemic when telework became more common and the lines between home and office were further obliterated. [...] Once upon a time, "after work" meant something. No more. "The very idea that, once work hours were over, no one could get hold of you —via email, text, Slack, whatever— is completely alien to contemporary young people, who never let their cellphones leave their hands," Slate's Dan Kois wrote last year. […] Technology and the remote work revolution mean your boss can reach you at any time, for any reason. Some countries are looking to restore some sanity to the situation.

[i-am-dumb]

They have been lost in in the forest for 45 minutes now. Crepe doesn't know how to read a map but they also refuse to accept defeat so they are pretending to know what they are doing. Vanilla knows Crepe has no clue what they are doing, but he just as lost as they are so he's just trying to stay calm and decipher the map.

Raisin knows EXACTLY where they are, but since Crepe insists that they know what they are doing, she decided to just chill and wait for them to either figure it out on their own or give up and ask for help.

without blur

[twothpaste]

i wanna rave and ramble about my m3 postcanon worldbuilding but choosing where to begin is a herculean task all its own.

[psychiatricmentalhealthfacility]

Claiming those without sufficient technological or life extension access are proven criminals or non-citizens or are artificial simulations resembling life that do not need technological access or to have data recorded in relation to them. Criminals claiming their victims are merely automated. Automatics. Automated.

[mapsontheweb]

Distribution of weighing technology. The lines shows the spread of weighing technology based on archaeological evidence. Anatolia, Europe, Mesopotamia, and the Indus valley

[doubleunion]

The making of the SF family swim map!

This is a technical blog post showcasing a project (swim.joyfulparentingsf.com) made by Double Union members! Written by Ruth Grace Wong.

Emeline (a good friend and fellow DU member) and I love swimming with our kids. The kids love it too, and they always eat really well after swimming! But for a long time we were frustrated about SF Rec & Park's swim schedules. Say today is Wednesday and you want to swim, you have to click on each pool's website and download their PDF schedule to check where and when family swim is available, and the schedules change every few months.

Emeline painstakingly downloaded all the PDFs and manually collated the schedules onto our Joyful Parenting SF blog. The way Rec and Parks structure their schedule assumes that swimmers go to their closest pool, and only need the hours for that particular pool. But we found that this was different from how many families, especially families with young children, research swim times. Often, they have a time where they can go swimming, and they are willing to go to different swimming pools. Often, they’re searching for a place to swim at the last minute. Schedules hence need to allow families to search which pools are open at what time for family swimming. Initially, we extracted family swim times manually from each pool’s pdf schedule and listed them in a blog post. It wasn't particularly user friendly, so she made an interactive map using Felt, where you could select the time period (e.g. Saturday Afternoon) and see which pool offered family swim around that time.

But the schedules change every couple of months, and it got to be too much to be manually updating the map or the blog post. Still, we wanted some way to be able to easily see when and where we could swim with the kids.

Just as we were burning out on manually updating the list, SF Rec & Park released a new Activity Search API, where you can query scheduled activities once their staff have manually entered them into the system. I wrote a Python script to pull Family Swim, and quickly realized that I had to also account for Parent and Child swim (family swim where the parents must be in the water with the kids), and other versions of this such as "Parent / Child Swim". Additionally, the data was not consistent – sometimes the scheduled activities were stored as sub activities, and I had to query the sub activity IDs to find the scheduled times. Finally, some pools (Balboa and Hamilton) have what we call "secret swim", where if the pool is split into a big and small pool, and there is Lap Swim scheduled with nothing else at the same time, the small pool can be used for family swim. So I also pulled all of the lap swim entries for these pools and all other scheduled activities at the pool so I could cross reference and see when secret family swim was available.

We've also seen occasional issues where there is a swim scheduled in the Activity Search, but it's a data entry error and the scheduled swim is not actually available, or there's a Parent Child Swim scheduled during a lap swim (but not all of the lap swims so I can't automatically detect it!) that hasn't been entered into the Activity Search at all. Our friends at SF Kids Swim have been working with SF Rec & Park to advocate for the release of the API, help correct data errors, and ask if there is any opportunity for process improvement.

At the end of the summer, Felt raised their non profit rate from $100 a year to $250 a year. We needed to pay in order to use their API to automatically update the map, but we weren't able to raise enough money to cover the higher rate. Luckily, my husband Robin is a full stack engineer specializing in complex frontends such as maps, and he looked for an open source WebGL map library. MapBox is one very popular option, but he ended up going with MapLibre GL because it had a better open source license. He wrote it in Typescript transpiled with Vite, allowing all the map processing work to happen client-side. All I needed to do was output GeoJSON with my Python script.

Originally I had been running my script in Replit, but I ended up deciding to switch to Digital Ocean because I wasn't sure how reliably Replit would be able to automatically update the map on a schedule, and I didn't know how stable their pricing would be. My regular server is still running Ubuntu 16, and instead of upgrading it (or trying to get a newer version of Python working on an old server or – god forbid – not using the amazing new Python f strings feature), I decided to spin up a new server on Almalinux 9, which doesn't require as frequent upgrades. I modified my code to automatically push updates into version control and recompile the map when schedule changes were detected, ran it in a daily cron job, and we announced our new map on our blog.

Soon we got a request for it to automatically select the current day of the week, and Robin was able to do it in a jiffy. If you're using it and find an opportunity for improvement, please find me on Twitter at ruthgracewong.

As a working mom, progress on this project was stretched out over nearly half a year. I'm grateful to be able to collaborate with the ever ineffable Emeline, as well as for support from family, friends, and SF Kids Swim. It's super exciting that the swim map is finally out in the world! You can find it at swim.joyfulparentingsf.com.

[arolesbianism]

I am once again being haunted by "a paradox" holy fuck Olivia what the fuck is going on here what did you get yourself involved with and what did you do after it speak to me Olivia I can't keep living like this

[life-spire]

@ mutecevvil

Shop this aesthetic.

[of-fear-and-love]