cross-posted from: https://yall.theatl.social/post/3357080 > Fixed that for you

cross-posted from: https://yall.theatl.social/post/3356775 > Dionysus wants you to know...

Memes DecaturNature • Now • 90%

I just don't like it

Fixed that for you

Memes DecaturNature • Now • 89%

this isn't about you

Dionysus wants you to know...

Preppers DecaturNature • Now • 88%

Water crises

Atlanta is currently suffering from a [major water main break](https://theatlantaobjective.substack.com/p/water-water-everywhere) that has put half the city under a boil-water advisory. The city government is reportedly bringing in pallets of bottled water, so there hopefully will not be any real crisis here. But I expect this will be a wake-up call for a lot of people who have not given much thought to prepping. There are also [major droughts in Mexico City and Bogota](https://www.marketplace.org/2024/05/27/mexico-city-water-crisis-is-due-to-climate-change-and-infrastructure-problems/), threatening to dry out their taps. Do you all have any tips for folk with how to prep for loss of water service, especially for folk in cities where they may not have a ton of storage space or land for collecting water? I'll start off by referring to the [US FEMA guidelines](https://www.ready.gov/water): One gallon of water per person per day. In my experience the best format is those upright 1-gallon bottles with the opening in the top middle (not the milk-jug style with the handle).

roughdraftatlanta.com

RDA is a free-to-read local news source with an RSS feed. They put up a lot of content. Some of it may be reused (GPB). I think they have 5 different feeds for different neighborhoods, and also use tags to categorize content. Would this be a good addition? [@michael@yall.theatl.social](https://yall.theatl.social/u/michael)

Technology DecaturNature • Now • 100%

Is there a decision tree diagram for when/where I would see someone's post on Mastodon?

I understand the big picture for how mastodon works, but I am constantly running into edge cases where I don't know what to expect. Has anyone made a decision tree diagram (or flow chart) to show how Mastodon decides whether to show me someone's post, and where to show it? A complete decision tree would cover at least the following settings: 1. Post settings: Public; unlisted; etc. 2. Individual connections: Individual follow, mute, block, etc. 2. Boosts and replies 3. Instance-level moderation (same server, suspended, silenced) 4. timelines (home, local, federated), hashtag search, thread-view

This may just be a Decatur thing, but I am getting pretty frustrated with how quickly the youth sports leagues around here fill up. More than once I've had to tell my kids that a league had filled up before I got them registered. And it's not just the city league -- the private leagues like the YMCA and Druid Hills Youth Sports fill up just as fast. I don't remember that ever happening when I was a kid, and that's not because my parents were especially on top of things. I can only speculate why this might be an issue, but I'd love to hear if others have noticed it and have an idea of what the limitation is. My ideas are: 1. Density: Decatur has much higher density than where I grew up (Baltimore suburbs). Maybe there just are a lot more people per playing field, and the leagues are limited by space. 2. Growth: Decatur's population has been growing rapidly over the past decade, especially it's youth population. Maybe the infrastructure -- both physical and organizational -- just hasn't kept pace. I hope Legacy park can make a difference. 3. Popularity: Maybe more kids are playing in leagues these days (I've heard that's true) 4. Traffic: Maybe I'm not willing to drive as far my parents were because there's a lot more traffic here. Any other thoughts why this might be so hard?

www.ajc.com

cross-posted from: https://yall.theatl.social/post/1816 > Atlanta is set to receive $25 million from the federal government to ramp up construction of Beltline trails on the northeast side of the city. > > The funds mark the largest federal grant in Beltline history and will go toward expanding more than 2 miles of trails between Armour/Ottley and Lindbergh areas. The additions will be the first time the Beltline will connect to a MARTA station — which will be at Lindbergh Center.

[OpenStreetMap ](https://welcome.openstreetmap.org/what-is-openstreetmap/) is a internet project that distributes free geographical data to the world. It relies on a community of volunteer editors to keep the information up to date. One benefit of OSM is that it allows groups of editors to decide what matters to them and add the features to the map, rather than hoping that some corporation decides that a feature is profitable enough. For instance, OSM shows the location of bike racks near the Decatur Library, and properly notes that the paths through Scott Park are foot-paths.  In contrast, the Google Maps "bicycle" layer does not include bike racks and highlights those footpaths as though they are appropriate for biking (despite being right next to a building with multiple doorways and sharp turns with no visibility)  Still, OSM is not perfect -- I had no problem finding information that was right in Google Maps that was wrong in OSM (and vice versa). I figure that Google benefits either from web-scraping and more automation, or perhaps from more user feedback. OSM requires more effort, but this also means it gives us greater input over it's content (and has greater curation to avoid idiotic AI stuff). I signed up and made some edits myself -- OSM has a good editing interface and a good walkthrough tutorial. But I think the most important aspect is that OSM is free (as in speech), which means anybody can copy it and no single entity can just hide or discard all the data when it no longer fits in their business strategy. I found two cycling based projects based off of OSM: https://www.opencyclemap.org/ and https://www.cyclosm.org/. These are also shown in the "Layers" on OSM:  The maps displays are pretty complex, and I'm not sure if there's an easy app for planning your route using these data. I also found a project focused on wheelchair accessibility when I looked at the "history" view and saw that someone has been editing the decatur map from https://wheelmap.org/. So the end question is whether this map data can end up being helpful to both personal transportation and transportation advocacy in Atlanta. I'd love to hear any thoughts on this topic.