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Study of Lyft rideshare data confirms minorities get more tickets

Ars Technica

But this leaves open the question of why. Combined with a detailed map of Florida's roads, along with their speed limits, they could determine when a given driver was speeding.

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PyrOSM: working with Open Street Map data

Towards Data Science

Efficient geospatial manipulations for OSM map data Photo by Tabea Schimpf on Unsplash If you’ve worked with OSM data before, you know it’s not the easiest to extract. In fact, if you wanted, you could download the entirety of Open Street Maps data into one file, known as Planet (around 1000 Gb of data)! ?‍? Thanks for reading!

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Visual language maps for robot navigation

Google Research AI blog

Building robots that are proficient at navigation requires an interconnected understanding of (a) vision and natural language (to associate landmarks or follow instructions), and (b) spatial reasoning (to connect a map representing an environment to the true spatial distribution of objects).

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Google Maps now lets you create Street View photos with just a phone

The Verge

Google Maps is getting a new update that lets you create Street View photos using just a phone. Where people contribute connected photos, they will appear in the Street View layer on Google Maps as dotted blue lines.”. Google is allowing submissions initially in Toronto, New York, Austin, Nigeria, Indonesia, and Costa Rica.

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Apple Maps is now available for web browsers

TechSpot

A beta version of Apple Maps is now available for web browsers, opening the Google Maps alternative to non-Apple platforms. The preview lacks some of the native app's features, but updates are planned in the coming months. Read Entire Article

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Why Journey Mapping is so Important to Creating Amazing Member Journeys

The MatrixFiles

Some newsletters are open to the public, while others are members-only. The form itself will look simple BUT it will ultimately be the result of intentional journey mapping to ensure that the sign-up process is simple and amazing. Then we map out the journeys they need to take to get what they want. Get more people signed up.

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HubSpot — The Anti-CRM CRM for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

This may come as a surprise, given our opening about the changes in the tech needed by nonprofits. Introducing the Mission Action Pack (MAP) To further enhance the accessibility and affordability of HubSpot for nonprofits, we are proud to introduce Mission Action Pack (MAP).

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