#2241: patterns, blender, languages, houthi, iwd, medellin

Wed, 13 Mar 2024, last check: Mon, 18 Nov 2024. Post history

• Promising results indicate the potential of using moving windows to analyze urban patterns and city land use evolution.
  https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/tgis.13139
• Blosm for Blender has both free and paid versions, allowing you to easily import 3D cities from Google, OSM buildings, terrain models, GPS tracks, and more with the premium version.
  https://prochitecture.gumroad.com/l/blender-osm?layout=profile
• There over 3000 endangered languages in the world, which when its speakers start teaching and using a more dominant language to their children.
  https://cam.ethnologue.com/auth/token?returnTo=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ethnologue.com%2Finsights%2Fhow-many-languages-endangered%2F
• Behshad appears to be an ordinary Iranian grain vessel, but it is actually used for weapons and information exchange for attacks in Gulf of Aden to the Houthi (paywall)
  https://www.ft.com/content/5fb8849c-b5b2-4f6f-908f-2c125159e3ce
• Issue number 52 of Mapas Milhaud's newsletter (in Spanish) highlights three important women cartographers for International Women's Day [ES]
  https://newsletter.mapasmilhaud.com/p/mujeres-importantes-de-la-historia
• The Colombian city of Medellin has created "Green Corridors" - vegetation walkways that mimic natural forests - to help reduce urban temperatures by up to five degrees globally
  https://reasonstobecheerful.world/green-corridors-medellin-colombia-urban-heat/

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