2025-01-09 TIL: city-roads, Earth Peel, llama-ocr & Rendezvous Meaning
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city-roads
city-roads allows you to render every road in any city at once using WebGL.
- Roads are fetched from OpenStreetMap via the Overpass API.
- To enhance download performance, ~3,000 cities with populations over 100,000 were indexed into a protobuf format.
- Name resolution is handled by Nominatim.
- You can customize the display and export visuals for further use.
Earth Peel
The Earth Peel explores how projections flatten Earth’s spherical surface into a 2D map.
- It highlights the trade-offs and distortions in flattening a round object.
- Check out The Impossible Map for a creative demonstration of projections using fruit.
llama-ocr
llama-ocr converts documents to Markdown using Llama 3.2 Vision.
- It leverages the free Llama 3.2 endpoint from Together AI to parse images into Markdown.
- Inspired by Zerox, a PDF-to-Markdown tool, this library focuses on image-based OCR for structured outputs.
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rendezvous
Rendezvous (noun) /ˈrɑːn.deɪ.vuː/
- An arranged meeting, often secret, at a specific place and time.
- A place where a particular group regularly gathers by arrangement or habit.
