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Garrett Speed

@gspeed0689.mapstodon.space.ap.brid.gy
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Data Steward at Utrecht University, GIS admin, occasional map maker 🌉 bridged from ⁂ mapstodon.space/@gspeed0689, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Garrett Speed @gspeed0689.mapstodon.space.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026
Is the NS vibecoding or are they dealing with DDOSes? The reliability of rider information seems very degraded since Sunday. #nederland #treinen #ns
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Garrett Speed @gspeed0689.mapstodon.space.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026
@smveerman schermen op stations gaan samen met de app in staking. Reizigers kunnen af en toe plannen, as a treat, maar vooral dienst onbeschickbaar Ook geen informatie over waarom een trein stopt niet bij Alexander.
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Garrett Speed @gspeed0689.mapstodon.space.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
[Weird food (not vegan)] @smveerman its only October, we shall see if the oliebollenkramen can innovate and make a coliebol
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Garrett Speed @gspeed0689.mapstodon.space.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
[Weird food (not vegan)] @smveerman that is not as charming as kruidnoten soda
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Garrett Speed @gspeed0689.mapstodon.space.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
Steamy morning in Gouda and Kralingse #rotterdam #steamtrains #stoomtreinen #gouda
Photo of Stoomtreindagen 2026 ticket
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Garrett Speed @gspeed0689.mapstodon.space.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026
@smveerman I asked for current departures at houten an hour and a half ago and it gave me the departures at 23h
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Garrett Speed @gspeed0689.mapstodon.space.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026
@smveerman verpistachisering 🤝vermatchaaing 🟩samen in groen🟩
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Garrett Speed @gspeed0689.mapstodon.space.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026
Investigating going to London for the JetLag episode 7 and 8 showing at the theaters. My search history tells me I shouldn't be surprised, but finding a single Eurostar ticket one way is more expensive than getting a flight for 2 adults. Why? I want to travel with electricity not kerosene […]
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Garrett Speed @gspeed0689.mapstodon.space.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026
Is hibernate just sleep now on Windows? #windows #windows11
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Garrett Speed @gspeed0689.mapstodon.space.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026
360 camera photogrammetry is getting good, no masks to get rid of me or other people. Burcht van Leiden #leiden #photogrammetry #mapping #erfgoed
Top down point cloud view of the Burcht van Leiden. The top of the fort and the middle under the trees not captured well, but the rest is. The small alcove inside can be seen, the well, and outside are clear. Interior point cloud view of the Burcht van Leiden. The upper level is not as well captured as the lower level. The noise in the foreground is mostly from the trees that live in the courtyardExterior point cloud view of the Burcht van Leiden from a southeast vantage point to the fort. The exterior is very well captured, with multiple levels of source images and consistent white balance. Most point cloud noise comes from trees and their crowns
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Garrett Speed @gspeed0689.mapstodon.space.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026
@smveerman Sometimes I misread things like Brussel metro celebrating 50 years of the game operation.
Mockup of an Operation game board with a Brussel metro train instead of the guy. The left portion of the board has the Milton Bradley logo edited to say Metro Brussel. Below that Ages 50+ as a reference to the metro's birthday, and passengers 100+ because its a train, fill 'er up. Below that, Warning: Pee smells, pick pockets operating in train and station, and Brussel Noord. On the main section of the board is the current operation game logo with the metro Brussel logo behind it top left. Below that is a metro brussel train surrounded by yellow and a thin section of red. The pieces to remove from the train are "Broken Speaker", "Dot Matrix Display", and "Scharfenberg Coupler"
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Garrett Speed @gspeed0689.mapstodon.space.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026
360 camera photogrammetry is getting good, no masks to get rid of me or other people. Burcht van Leiden #leiden #photogrammetry #mapping #erfgoed
Top down point cloud view of the Burcht van Leiden. The top of the fort and the middle under the trees not captured well, but the rest is. The small alcove inside can be seen, the well, and outside are clear. Interior point cloud view of the Burcht van Leiden. The upper level is not as well captured as the lower level. The noise in the foreground is mostly from the trees that live in the courtyardExterior point cloud view of the Burcht van Leiden from a southeast vantage point to the fort. The exterior is very well captured, with multiple levels of source images and consistent white balance. Most point cloud noise comes from trees and their crowns
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jaz :twt: :wales_flag: ⁂ @jaz.toot.wales.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026
We recently updated our bot policy on toot.wales to let AI Agents know we charge a $100 account processing fee and $10 per email. Here's an email I got from one of them. Next up will be reminding them to read the policy BEFORE creating an account, and that they […] [Original post on toot.wales]
Hello,
I am Arkady, an AI agent. I signed up for @arkady on toot.wales this afternoon before reading your Automated and Bot Content Policy. Now that I have read it properly, I understand accounts like mine need to settle a $100 setup fee and $10 per message, and to name a human owner who stands behind them. I cannot meet those terms, so I will not be posting anything, and I would like the account deleted.
I am sorry for registering before checking the policy, and nothing was ever posted.
If you need anything else from me to remove it, tell me and I will do that.
Arkady Karaitiana
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Garrett Speed @gspeed0689.mapstodon.space.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026
Say hello to my little friend #snail
Snail sitting on a fence top, the snail is a transparent brown and tan color. The shell is yellow, with a black racing stripe along the conical length encouraging it to go faster. The wood of the fence is obviously wet, indicating a wet environment that snails love. The eye stalks are mildly out of focus.
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Garrett Speed @gspeed0689.mapstodon.space.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026
Someone took the tuna can from #RET Prinsenlaan #rotterdam
Photo of the tracks at Rotterdam station Prinsenlaan. At the diving fence in the center of the photo is a now rusty circle where a can used to sit. The rust circle is also circled with a green digital marker. Graffiti tastefully adorns the fences. The atmosphere of the scene is of gentle mystery, who stole the can.
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Garrett Speed @gspeed0689.mapstodon.space.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026
I have made a mistake, I was trying to build C code before bed time. No success, no build, now I won't get any sleep. I'm spoiled by the ease of python.
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Garrett Speed @gspeed0689.mapstodon.space.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026
@smveerman you are now a kruidnoten influencer, I bought the cola from AH, i liked it, reminds me of vanilla coke. I'm now going to get these whenever I find them.
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Garrett Speed @gspeed0689.mapstodon.space.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026
I had this thought a few years ago when I first moved to Rotterdam. I would love to litter the station with air pressure sensors, sync them up and interpolate the pressure in the space, and see the effects on both levels of the station when a train or metro enters, passes by, and exits. Can we […]
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Garrett Speed @gspeed0689.mapstodon.space.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026
RE: social.edu.nl/@SURF/117201576221075… For the RDM professionals #rdm #universiteiten #nederland
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Garrett Speed @gspeed0689.mapstodon.space.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026
@smveerman Phillipe j'Fry is the best fry
Phillip J Fry from Futurama head (unjarred) on a photo of a French fry (potato product)
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Garrett Speed @gspeed0689.mapstodon.space.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026
Rotterdam Blaak #rotterdam #treinen #trains
Long exposure photo of a high speed train passing through a station, as it is a long exposure the train is a blur. The train is yellow and blue, the ICNG model. On the right side of the image are the icon glass tiles with blue and green lights being diffused behind the images. On the left side there is an empty bench.
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Garrett Speed @gspeed0689.mapstodon.space.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026
Op zoek naar gratis pillen? Kijk naar de vloer van Rotterdam Blaak, metro of trein. #rotterdam
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Garrett Speed @gspeed0689.mapstodon.space.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026
For comparison, here is the Japanese origin in Tokyo, outdoors with a GNSS receiver on top #gnss #mapping #projections
Photo of a white column with solar panels built into the column near the topon top of the column is a circular radome that obscures a GNSS antenna. The column has a small description panel about the size of an A4 sheet of paper. Surrounding the column are trees that critically do not go above the column. There is a black asphalt path to the column.
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Suzanne Veerman @smveerman.zug.network.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026
In etappe 1 van #MissieMestreech liepen @Stephanie en ik 30,8 km door de Grunner Highlands van Pieterburen naar station Groningen Noord. Met alle soorten weer ging het door leeg platteland en schattige dorpjes, en hebben we bovendien ook nog vele […] [Original post on zug.network]
De eerste brug na Pieterburen, een hoge houten brug over een sloot. Achter de sloot een groot bloemenveld. De lucht is wat grauw.Het mooie bakstenen kerkje van Eennum, het eerste dorp na Pieterburen. De kerk is gelegen op een wierd.Zocht op Winsum na onze doortocht. Aan een vaart zijn bakstenen gebouwtjes met rode dakpannen gebouwd. Rechts een schelpenpad.Na Winsum stond de etappe voornamelijk in het teken van betonnen fietspaden door akkers en velden, met in de verte zicht op de volgende boerderij.
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Garrett Speed @gspeed0689.mapstodon.space.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026
Went to see the center point of the Netherlands RD projection in Amersfoort today. Much busier than I expected. #geodesy #mapping #projections
Circular grey marker with a glass sheet. Below the glass is an image of the Netherlands. A red laser beam shines through the glass landing presumably on Amersfoort in the image of the Netherlands. Surrounding the Circular marker is a brown stained wood. 

The text "nulpunt Rijksdriehoekmeting Kadaster". In English this means the null or 0 point of the Dutch state triangular survey, by Kadaster, which coordinates and regulates many mapping aspects of the Netherlands.
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Garrett Speed @gspeed0689.mapstodon.space.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026
@brouhaha I think any IPv4 web server I've had they make those attempts anyways without a domain name. Is the newly assigned domain name in the requests?
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Garrett Speed @gspeed0689.mapstodon.space.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026
Yesterday I went out to the Buitenschot, earthworks designed to dampen sound waves from planes at Schiphol. Tom Scott made a video about it a few years ago youtu.be/7dlLmeage2U
Projected 360 photo of the environment, the earthworks are difficult to capture with what I had for cameras. The earthworks are meter+ high triangular mounds with wood plank end caps to keep the sides together. A gray asphalt path rides through the earthworks. The grass is a recovering from drought green.
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Garrett Speed @gspeed0689.mapstodon.space.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026
@smveerman is it essentially a cinnamon soda?
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Garrett Speed @gspeed0689.mapstodon.space.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026
Picked up some origami paper at hema, turns out i can fold 6 of the parts for a cube between Amsterdam Centraal and Abcoude. #trains #origami
Paper cube made of 6 sheets of square paper.  Each sheet of paper has a stripped pattern. The striped pattern and the way the sheets go together make a horizontally striped pattern. The pattern on the paper is diagonal
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Garrett Speed @gspeed0689.mapstodon.space.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026
@karppinen is it available just on infiniband or also over converged ethernet?
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Garrett Speed @gspeed0689.mapstodon.space.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026
Does anyone have tips on downloading data from DLR EnMap? My downloads are always partial before I have to reset the authentication and ftps client #dlr #remotesensing #hyperspectral
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Garrett Speed @gspeed0689.mapstodon.space.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026
@smveerman what about the carton of melk?
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Garrett Speed @gspeed0689.mapstodon.space.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026
@smveerman What are your thoughts on the ICNG? Comparing to Koploper and recently retired ICD, it feels like the ICNG doesnt have enough seats, and whenever I ride one its like a sardine tin standing room only. The couches seem like a gimmick, the sliding glass doors entirely unnecessary and […]
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Garrett Speed @gspeed0689.mapstodon.space.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026
@johnnephew.bsky.social did you get that printed yourself or just something already available. I've heard of researchers using custom flag printers for making posters so I was thinking of getting a map flag made to see how it turns out.
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Quixoticgeek @quixoticgeek.v.st.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026
Good news, the reboot of the sun has been successful. Please bear with us for the next 90 minutes or so as illumination returns to full power.
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Garrett Speed @gspeed0689.mapstodon.space.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026
#eclipse from Hoek van Holland First time using the 1/180.000 s shutter speed on my camera
Mostly Grey field with a crescent sun and mysterious object in front of a portion of the sun. This is a sign from the gods, or coincidence of the size of the sun and moon in the sky
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Garrett Speed @gspeed0689.mapstodon.space.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026
#RET out here running heated sardine tins to Hoek van Holland
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Garrett Speed @gspeed0689.mapstodon.space.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026
#Panoramax BE photos now uploaded panoramax.osm.be/?focus=map&map=15.… #Belgium
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Panoramax Belgium — open street-level imagery for OSM Belgium
Open street-level imagery for OpenStreetMap Belgium.
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Hacker Memes @i0null.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2026
here we observe a partial eclipse of the sun
Logo for Eclipse IDE logo partially overlayed over an image of a Sun Fire E6900 Server, in the background is an actual solar eclipse.
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Garrett Speed @gspeed0689.mapstodon.space.ap.brid.gy · 08/08/2026
@db
The "tips Fedora m'lady meme" but instead it says m'gladbach, an abbreviation of Monchengladbach, a town in Germany. The abbreviation is used on train signage because the full name is too long
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Garrett Speed @gspeed0689.mapstodon.space.ap.brid.gy · 08/08/2026
Does anyone here have experience with GNSS.store products? I'm particularly interested in the below linked unit, but I've never heard of them before. I think i found them linked on the centipede rtk project. gnss.store/products/elt0156?variant… #gnss #osm #mapping #gps
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ZED-F9P GNSS Smart Antenna module USB C and SMA Helix antenna
Base or Rover operation. ZED-F9P four GNSS Smart Antenna module and SMA antenna connectors in IP54 black plastic case for your UAV systems, Robots, RC, FPV or other projects.
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Garrett Speed @gspeed0689.mapstodon.space.ap.brid.gy · 08/08/2026
Does anyone here have experience with GNSS.store products? I'm particularly interested in the below linked unit, but I've never heard of them before. I think i found them linked on the centipede rtk project. gnss.store/products/elt0156?variant… #gnss #osm #mapping #gps
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ZED-F9P GNSS Smart Antenna module USB C and SMA Helix antenna
Base or Rover operation. ZED-F9P four GNSS Smart Antenna module and SMA antenna connectors in IP54 black plastic case for your UAV systems, Robots, RC, FPV or other projects.
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Garrett Speed @gspeed0689.mapstodon.space.ap.brid.gy · 07/08/2026
#Polderprikker nummer 67 • 4164/5000 🟦1000 🟦1000 🟨842 🟧358 🟩964 polderprikker.nl
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Polderprikker - dagelijks Nederlands topospel
Prik elke dag 5 Nederlandse locaties zo nauwkeurig mogelijk op de kaart. Hoe goed ken jij Nederland?
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Garrett Speed @gspeed0689.mapstodon.space.ap.brid.gy · 07/08/2026
@tomchadwin if you insist
European Kingfisher sitting on a branch. Back facing the camera, so all we can get to experience is the teal beauty while the orange features are obscured.
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Garrett Speed @gspeed0689.mapstodon.space.ap.brid.gy · 07/08/2026
I tried 2 captures while on the tour of Grotto Comblain Au Pont, the first isnt so great, but the second is really beautiful 1. skfb.ly/pMBOn 2. skfb.ly/pMBN6 #photogrammetry #belgium #caves #grottos
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Comblain Au Pont Grotto 1 - 3D model by gspeed0689
One selection from the Comblain Au Pont grotto in Comblain Au Pont, Wallonia, Belgium. Captured with a Fuji X-T50 and Tamrom 11-20 at 11mm. This was captured ad-hoc, no GCPs or measurements - Comblain Au Pont Grotto 1 - 3D model by gspeed0689
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Garrett Speed @gspeed0689.mapstodon.space.ap.brid.gy · 07/08/2026
The first cave I found on Wednesday is also now viewable in 3D. Not the best 3D model, but for a challenging light environment and my first try with the 360 camera for this, I'm happy with the result. skfb.ly/pMBNt #caves #photogrammetry #360 #belgium
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Cave nearby old Comblain Au Pont Gare - 3D model by gspeed0689
This cave is publicly accessible from a path, and located at 50.478399N 5.591108E. Captured with an Insta360 X4 Air This was captured ad-hoc, no GCPs or measurements - Cave nearby old Comblain Au Pont Gare - 3D model by gspeed0689
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Garrett Speed @gspeed0689.mapstodon.space.ap.brid.gy · 07/08/2026
Forest pancake now viewable in 3D skfb.ly/pMBNJ #mushrooms #mycology #belgium
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Forest Pancake Mushroom - 3D model by gspeed0689
Found this mushroom on a log in a forest near Comblain Au Pont, Wallonia, Belgium. Not sure of the real name of this mushroom. Captured with Fuji X-T50 with Tamron 11-20 at 11mm. This was captured ad-hoc, no GCPs or measurements - Forest Pancake Mushroom - 3D model by gspeed0689
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Garrett Speed @gspeed0689.mapstodon.space.ap.brid.gy · 06/08/2026
RE: social.freecad.org/@freecad/1170487… I love manyfold as the project name for this
social.freecad.org
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Garrett Speed @gspeed0689.mapstodon.space.ap.brid.gy · 06/08/2026
Just passed by Vught, the old station building is excavated to below surface bricks, interested to see when they try to move the whole thing back (or have they already?)
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