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Max Lenormand @maxlenormand.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

What are some of the greatest contributions of SRTM? I'm looking for real world application, uses cases. Best lead so far is a 2011 "SRTM DEM and its application advances" that goes over some research papers + shows it was used in some natural disaster mapping The more specific the better

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Max Lenormand @maxlenormand.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

A few radar images made their way into Johnny Harri’s last video about War in Space And I couldn’t help but smile seeing my name in the corner there too!

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Max Lenormand @maxlenormand.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Nearly 2y after its initial release my video on satellite images passed 100k views! 4 videos in this channel: 1 with > 50k 1 with > 100k 1 with > 500k Very excited so many people are interested about satellite images & maps

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Max Lenormand @maxlenormand.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

I'm looking for any info about how & why it was decided to use the Space Shuttle do create SRTM in 2000 A few questions I have: - How of the world had we mapped in 3D before 2000? - Why the Space Shuttle over a dedicate satellite (or pair of satellites) - How the data was processed

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Max Lenormand @maxlenormand.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

If you’re a @cloudnativegeo.org in Utah and want to nerd out about: - 🐍 Python Serverless - ⚙️ Scaling geospatial workflows in 1 line of code - 🏎️ Speeding up Data Science workflows Hit me up!

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Max Lenormand @maxlenormand.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

I’ve really been enjoying reading Mr Money Mustache’s back catalog of blogs over the last few months His latest today on the current status of the stock market is no exception. Great read: stay calm and stay the course, wild times are the norm www.mrmoneymustache.com/2025/02/25/s...

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Wow, have you seen the stock market lately?

– And by lately, I mean the past several years or more. The value of the S&P 500 index of stocks, where most of us hopefully have a good chunk of our retirement savings stashed into…

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Max Lenormand @maxlenormand.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Sometimes, just sometimes, the world gives you what you secretly hoped for

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Max Lenormand @maxlenormand.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

My first demo of Fused to a live audience at @geomob.bsky.social London yesterday! Catching up a with familiar faces -and new ones- is always nice! It's nice to get some live feedback from people rather than doing everything online / remotely If you were present and want to follow up, hit me up!

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Max Lenormand @maxlenormand.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

I’m in London for Geomob London tonight! Managed to enjoy the sun while it’s out this afternoon If you’re in town and want to nerd out about maps & geospatial come along thegeomob.com/post/jan-30t...

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Max Lenormand @maxlenormand.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

@gregmilner.bsky.social big fan of your book PinPoint! I'd really like to have a chat but can't get a hold of you but I do see you're following me here so: Hi 👋 What's the best way to get in touch? 😄

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Max Lenormand @maxlenormand.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

I’ve listened to a bunch of podcasts with authors, but don’t remember any with editors Are there good conversations with editors talking about their craft? Helping others write better?

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Max Lenormand @maxlenormand.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

I'm doing more & more research on the history of GPS and I'm amazed by the official US Gov's dedicated website for GPS: gps.gov It's so old school it actually looks cool And it ends up quite easy to navigate (would have been ironic otherwise)

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Max Lenormand @maxlenormand.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

For the last few years I’ve taken some time to write about the past year around the new year period I like to take some time to think about work, relationships, health, finances, what I’ve spent my free time doing Do you do something similar? If it’s public send me your writing

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Max Lenormand @maxlenormand.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Every once in a while I think about all the people out there working in projects that aren’t ready yet Movies, hardware, code, video games, books Things that will become a big part of people’s lives that don’t exist yet but people are working on today

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Max Lenormand @maxlenormand.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Turns out spending half a year making a video about a game series leads to a lot of in game hours Most played game of 2024: FS2020 1/5th of all my playing time of the year on that 1 game

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Max Lenormand @maxlenormand.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

The AWS favicon looks a lot like the Vision Pro's Photo icon to turn 2D images into 3D Special thought to @davidimel.com: Is the cube the sparkles emoji of "spatial computing"?

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Max Lenormand @maxlenormand.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

I can’t believe I have to ask for this: Does anyone have good, basic iOS calculator app recommendations? Loosing the ability to do the same operation again by hitting = is a huge annoyance

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Max Lenormand @maxlenormand.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

I really enjoyed @kylebarron.dev 's interview on the CNG website about his background and then the usefulness of cloud native geo formats I've been looking for a good, concise resource to 1. read on and 2. send people to for "WHY" we need cloud native formats Any recommendations?

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Max Lenormand @maxlenormand.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

I have 2 main takeaways from my trip in NYC: - The city is way more billable that I expected. - Entrées are starters, not mains. It’s so confusing

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Max Lenormand @maxlenormand.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

If 'Minds Behind Maps' is in your #SpotifyWrapped this year, let me know! Thank you to everyone who's been listening the podcast this year!

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Max Lenormand @maxlenormand.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

The Verge is launching a subscription As someone who sorts does some work in media (in part) now I'm very interested in looking at how bigger orgs are trying to make sustainable, well funded, well reported on journalism I really hope this works for them www.theverge.com/2024/12/3/24...

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Here we go: The Verge now has a subscription

A lot of our site will remain free, but you can now pay to get fewer ads and unlimited access to all of our work.

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Max Lenormand @maxlenormand.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Beautiful day to spend some time in New York! 👋

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Max Lenormand @maxlenormand.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

ESA has these cool ads in Amsterdam’s airport Makes me smile to see Sentinel 2 images in the airport But I have no idea why it’s branded as Ariane 6, when Ariane didn’t send Sentinel 2 🙃

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Max Lenormand @maxlenormand.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

This was a really informative read! My favourite part though:

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Max Lenormand @maxlenormand.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

I’m gonna go explore the world & map of Flight Sim 2024 in 30min Live on my YouTube channel Come hang out and nerd out about maps, airplanes and Flight Simulator www.youtube.com/live/jKeDH2n...

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Max Lenormand @maxlenormand.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

The main channel just passed 5k subscribers on YouTube!

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Max Lenormand @maxlenormand.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

@justinjackson.ca just saw your video about Bluesky, thanks for making it Is there a way you can share how to make a "Quiet Posters" feed? I'd really like something similar! I don't even know if this question makes sense, I haven't looked into customs feed to much yet

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Max Lenormand @maxlenormand.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

I'm not American, but want to wish all my US friends a great Thanksgiving I've tried to be more grateful in my life. It's is probably one of the simplest, highest net positive things I have done I can only respect a country that's celebrates a whole day around that Hope you all have a great day!

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Max Lenormand @maxlenormand.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

What are the best 1st pages of book you’ve ever read? I’m getting more & more interested in how people start stories and looking for inspirations Also goes for best 1min of movie you’ve ever seen? And why you liked it

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Benoît Bovy @benbovy.github.io · 25/11/2024

I enjoyed watching this video! The title of the video makes me realize I loved "playing" at Flight Simulator not so much I dreamed being a pilot as I love exploring maps.

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Max Lenormand @maxlenormand.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Alright bluesky, I need your help A week ago I dropped a 45min doc about the history of Flight Simulator, now seen by 220k+ people I'd like to have Jörg Neumann, the head of Microsoft Flight Simulator on my podcast to talk about Flight Simulator 2024 Can anyone put me in touch?

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Max Lenormand @maxlenormand.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

I’m stupid, I totally forgot that YouTube required a 24h check before you can stream for the first time And I forgot to do it yesterday So… this won’t happen today

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Max Lenormand @maxlenormand.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

It seems like the game is somewhat stable now, so I just got the latest Flight Sim If the weather is still crap in the Netherlands I might stream for a bit to explore the world, see how it holds up to the previous ones

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Paul Franz @paul-franz.com · 23/11/2024

Max has really tapped into the analysis of the rapidly emerging field of map video and visual storytelling with geography. ⏬

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Phil Edwards @philedwardsinc.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Very fun map chat!

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Max Lenormand @maxlenormand.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Here's my conversation with Ex-Vox video producer, turned independent Youtuber @philedwardsinc.bsky.social about how he thinks about maps to tell stories We talk video stories, journalism on Youtube, and of course, maps! Watch: youtu.be/zTL5OHu_wNo

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Max Lenormand @maxlenormand.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

I’m looking for good books on the history of GPS and anything adjacent So basically how we got location tech, why GPS ended up being the dominent tech and why Any good recommendations welcomed

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Max Lenormand @maxlenormand.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

New Minds Behind Maps episode dropping soon 👀 Nerding out about maps with @philedwardsinc.bsky.social

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Max Lenormand @maxlenormand.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Another opportunity to make an airplane joke That aside, I’m excited to see so many people on here!

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Max Lenormand @maxlenormand.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

⚡️ The Fastest Way to Access the new Foursquare 100M+ POI dataset 📍 fused.io/public/UDF_F... Yesterday Foursquare released a huge open source dataset of POIs At Fused we jumped on it, partioned it as GeoParquet files to make it simple to work with

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Max Lenormand @maxlenormand.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

There’s something deeply weird about having a video of mine all of a sudden blow up It’s like I’ve been working on something for years for which a tiny amount of people cared about And all of a sudden a LOT of people have opinions about it

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Christoph Rieke @chrieke.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

This is such a good documentary about the tech behind Microsoft Flight simulator, loved the world map generation parts! Also cool personal connections for me: Just 2 days ago drank beers with 2 devs who did work on the building modeling for FS. And my uni professor was involved in the SRTM mission!

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Max Lenormand @maxlenormand.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Video editors in Resolve: Any good resources on how to organise projects in a simple but effective way? I'm working on 30min project more, lots of footage, music, etc. And I'm not the most organised, looking for inspiration of people who have effective bin / timeline structure

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Max Lenormand @maxlenormand.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

A Behind the Scenes of my Flight Simulator documentary is available on Patreon: patreon.com/posts/bts-ma... It’s also the best way to support the channel and help me make more videos!

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Sam Barrett, PhD @ai4geo.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

If you're still waiting for Flight Sim 2024 to work, check out @maxlenormand.bsky.social's fantastic video "How Microsoft Accidentally Made the Most Realistic Map"!

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How Microsoft Accidentally Made the Most Realistic Map

YouTube video by Max Lenormand

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John Wiseman @lemonodor.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Max, who made that Flight Simulator video, also makes my favorite mapping/geospatial podcast, Minds Behind Maps: www.mindsbehindmaps.com

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Max Lenormand @maxlenormand.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

This is wild: 100,000+ people have watch my 45min video about the story of a map, in a video game, in just 4 days! I’m so grateful to everyone who’s watched this

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Max Lenormand @maxlenormand.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Flight Sim 2024 comes out in 45min You know what’s about 45min? This video Just sayin’ 🛫

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John Wiseman @lemonodor.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Best video I've seen on the history of the Flight Simulator series, and the special achievement of Flight Simulator 2020.

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Max Lenormand @maxlenormand.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 comes out tomorrow I have no idea how the launch will go, but I'm so grateful to all the teams at Asobo & Microsoft for all the work they've done on the previous one, and most likely this next one Thanks for all the flights 🛫

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