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SThe Squawk #Hacker-News#politics#squawk#stewardship#trail

A viral X post says updated Google Maps imagery shows Rafah’s destruction

This one attracted a massive amount of views

We could not find unbiased reporting on this

On September 26, Ali Abunimah posted a Google Maps view of part of Rafah in southern Gaza, saying Google Maps had been updated to show the destruction. The post drew about 4.1 million views. We have not independently checked the imagery or when Google updated it.

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  • Rafah

    After exploring Google Maps has been updated to show … Rafah, for background from a less partisan source, read Rafah.

    Background on the city in the southern Gaza Strip: home to about 172,000 people in 2017, now described as largely destroyed and depopulated.

    Wikipedia · Wade · 5 min

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TThe Trail #Hacker-News#sports#trail

Inside Shimano’s bicycle museum near Osaka

Practical if you’re visiting Kyoto or Osaka.

The Inner Ring reviews Shimano’s bicycle museum in Japan’s Kansai region, praising a bilingual collection that tells the bicycle’s history rather than the company’s.

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  • Shimano

    After exploring Shimano Bicycle Museum Review, for the company, read Shimano.

    The company behind the museum: the Japanese maker of cycling components, fishing tackle and rowing equipment.

    Wikipedia · Wade · 5 min

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StreetComplete, the OpenStreetMap survey app, opens an iOS beta on TestFlight

The tracking thread has the TestFlight link and the known caveats.

StreetComplete, which lets people improve OpenStreetMap by answering simple questions on walks, posted its first iOS build to TestFlight on September 30 after a Kotlin Multiplatform port; the maintainers list known bugs.

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  • StreetComplete

    After exploring iOS – Testing! (tracking issue), if you’re new to it, start with StreetComplete.

    What the app does: it asks walkers simple questions like "What are the opening hours here?" and turns the answers into OpenStreetMap edits.

    Wikipedia · Wade · 5 min

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The Drawn World: 37,500 border drawings show the map as people remember it

The Drawn World overlays every border and coastline drawn from memory by players of a geography game onto the real map, country by country.

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  • Mental mapping

    After exploring The Drawn World, the idea behind the project is Mental mapping.

    In behavioral geography, a mental map is a person’s own perception of the world around them, which is what these drawings capture.

    Wikipedia · Wade · 5 min

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California grape growers can’t sell their harvest as wine sales fall

KQED talks to growers in the vineyards; the numbers show how fast drinking habits are reshaping farmland.

Wine sales have fallen more than 20% over five years, and growers have taken roughly a quarter of California’s vineyards out of production. KQED reports Lodi-area growers leaving grapes unpicked and tearing out vines for almonds, pistachios and olives.

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What really caused the Bronze Age collapse

In Works in Progress, Patrick Fitzsimmons examines why the eastern Mediterranean’s great powers—Egyptians, Hittites, Mycenaeans and others—collapsed within a few centuries of the Battle of Kadesh.

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  • Late Bronze Age collapse

    After exploring Why the Bronze Age collapsed, for the full debate, read Late Bronze Age collapse.

    The broader picture: the sudden, violent collapse across Egypt, Anatolia, the Aegean and beyond in the late 13th to early 12th century BC.

    Wikipedia · Swim · 30 min

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How Delhi cut electricity losses from 50 percent to 5 percent

A first-person account of a grid turnaround.

A power-systems professor at Jamia Millia Islamia describes how Delhi went from near-daily outages and 50% losses in the early 2000s to about 5%.

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