ellen's disorganized thoughts

Over the last few weeks I’ve been hard at work building a FOSS maps app for Android from the ground up based on Material 3 components and industry standard maps tooling.

In 2022, I started the Headway maps project, aiming to democratize maps services by making it easy to self-host your own web maps based on OpenStreetMap data.

Disclaimer: I did not quantifiably break SOTA, but I claim my parser is dramatically better than SOTA for geocoding purposes, for reasons I elaborate on.

About a month ago I began work a new geocoder (demo), or search engine for places and addresses.

I’ve grown a bit tired of the temperature variation displayed by my pre-millenium La Pavoni.

The Nokia 3310.

This is mostly a venting post, it’s not going to be especially coherent but it feels important to write.

Every time I send out a new prototype for manufacturing, I spend a lot of time thinking about the possibility of it not working.