Warm welcome to my blogging place! I am Saurav. I love maps and building software tools/products with maps. Currently, I am helping build Baato, a maps based APIs service for Nepal.
Unturf [draft]
I have been working with maps for some years now. But I have little tried to understand the core working of them. Realizing this, I am now trying to understand behind the scenes of many spatial concepts. I want to start that by understanding the functions behind TurfJS, thus the name “Unturf”. Along bbox
More Walks To Map Them All!
I really love to walk. Walking is my best way of clearing my thoughts, thinking over something, or even to “un-think” of something. If a place is within walkable distance (and within a reasonable time), I prefer to walk. Lately, I have been on an evening mapping streak for some days with strolls around my neighborhood. It warms up the body in this colder season and provides a form of physical exercise....
Getting the length of JSON object with command-line using jq
There’s a lightweight and flexible command-line JSON processor called jq. It has wide range of capabilites but something that I came across lately and is quite useful for me is printing out the length of a JSON object. cat testjson.json | jq '. | length'
On Technology
We usually talk about improving lives of people through the use of technology and simplifying things for them. But, I usually encounter people who are far above the reach of what we are doing. We talk about big things, while they are happy with any small thing they have. I have always believed that - technology, whatever advance it may be, can never be greater than the solution it brings. Hope we just don’t get involved in a futile technological pursuit while whom we fight for have already found some other simple way out....
When you don’t understand enough
I had a difficult time with Asterisk server last Friday (January 19th ,2018). We were running an IVR (Interactive Voice Response) system with Asterisk and Digium TDM410P card on Ubuntu 16.04. The computer where Asterisk server was running went off and I had to restart the system. It was normally an easy process. Sometime the Dahdi configuration would mess-up and I had to recompile that (At that time, I didn’t know why it needed to be recompiled, but it was also an easy task following the guide we had prepared)....