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wipflion Launch HN: Voygr (YC W26) – A better maps API for agents and AI apps

Not yet. I can ping you once I do some comparison

wipflion Launch HN: Voygr (YC W26) – A better maps API for agents and AI apps

I started scraping restaurant websites in Zürich and extracted and hand-checked opening hours in the OpenStreetMap format. The goal is to build a corpus for evaluation purposes which maps website texts to correct opening hours strings for all restaurants in Switzerland. Maybe you can use that to benchmark your own hours extracting system... https://github.com/wipfli/opening-hours/

wipflion Adventures in mapmaking: the search for grayscale tiles

The Protomaps basemap has also a grayscale style. The grayscale map looks like this: https://maps.protomaps.com/#map=5.09/47.14/8.64&theme=graysc...

Instructions for self-hosting a PMTiles file are available here: https://docs.protomaps.com/.

wipflion Launch HN: HyLight (YC S23) – Hydrogen airships to inspect energy infrastructure

That's a very cool project! I am a hot-air balloon pilot and I love everything that flies with the lighter-than-air principle.

One limitation I could see for your business model is that airships can only be flown in a controlled direction at rather slow wind speeds. That is because they just have such a huge attack surface and the motors have limited thrust.

Did you do an estimate how many days per year you could fly your vehicle in a given economic area of interest? I fly balloons in Switzerland and I think you can get at most 100 days of good flight conditions a year. But yeah, with some climate data and your operational limitations you can probably estimate how many days you get in a given area...

wipflion Replacing Mapbox with open source solutions

If you like PMTiles you should consider supporting Brandon financially as a GitHub Sponsor.

Brandon is a solo-developer who builds Protomaps alone and we get all his great stuff for free...

https://github.com/sponsors/protomaps