home.social

#tarrant — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #tarrant, aggregated by home.social.

  1. A solid 24-hour sprint later -- I had to wrangle data from tables in PDFs to get a solid baseline to work with (#csv here: pastebin.com/JGLxQMbT) -- and I've got all of the polling stations for tomorrow's #election in Tarrant county mapped out in #osm #OpenStreetMap :D

    overpass-turbo.eu/s/23ok

    I experimented a bit within the polling_station:* namespace. Thinking I might be settling into a pattern, at least for #Texas. I dunno if I want to build up explicit relations between polling places and their (typical) associated buildings/areas or not. So for now, I chucked the relation data in a tag instead.

    Ideally, future elections won't be such a pain to get bootstrapped; most polling stations tend to stay the same across elections.

    #Tarrant #TarrantCo #dfw #FortWorth #gis #OverpassTurbo

  2. A solid 24-hour sprint later -- I had to wrangle data from tables in PDFs to get a solid baseline to work with (#csv here: pastebin.com/JGLxQMbT) -- and I've got all of the polling stations for tomorrow's #election in Tarrant county mapped out in #osm #OpenStreetMap :D

    overpass-turbo.eu/s/23ok

    I experimented a bit within the polling_station:* namespace. Thinking I might be settling into a pattern, at least for #Texas. I dunno if I want to build up explicit relations between polling places and their (typical) associated buildings/areas or not. So for now, I chucked the relation data in a tag instead.

    Ideally, future elections won't be such a pain to get bootstrapped; most polling stations tend to stay the same across elections.

    #Tarrant #TarrantCo #dfw #FortWorth #gis #OverpassTurbo

  3. We were mostly showing our signs to passing cars and chanting. Many of the drivers were supportive. Just a few haters. Maybe 5 people in a pro-Trump counter-protest for about an hour. Considering that this county voted for Trump in 2024, 2020, and 2016, this was remarkably positive!

    #Burleson #Tarrant #Texas #HandsOff

  4. We were mostly showing our signs to passing cars and chanting. Many of the drivers were supportive. Just a few haters. Maybe 5 people in a pro-Trump counter-protest for about an hour. Considering that this county voted for Trump in 2024, 2020, and 2016, this was remarkably positive!

    #Burleson #Tarrant #Texas #HandsOff

  5. Alrighty. Several hours later, and I have Tarrant County's updated early voting locations :D

    Overpass-turbo query: overpass-turbo.eu/s/21qx

    Actual location info from county (can match up the numbers on the map to addresses): tarrantcountytx.gov/content/da

    And a reddit post in the FortWorth subreddit: reddit.com/r/FortWorth/comment

    #reddit #pdf #OverpassTurbo #OSM #OpenStreetMap #OpenData #FortWorth #Tarrant #dfw #txpol #uspol

    So far, I only have locations that serve (at least) as early voting centers. There are several more pages of day-of voting centers that I could conceivably add. I'm debating building a small, static, mobile website with #Leaflet to perhaps make a "show me my closest voting station" feature, and maybe a "schedule my voting time" feature that spits out an ical file or something. The opening hours are all there in the OSM data.

    (Annoying sidenote: most college/university locations are either early vote only, election day only, or not open at all :()

  6. Alrighty. Several hours later, and I have Tarrant County's updated early voting locations :D

    Overpass-turbo query: overpass-turbo.eu/s/21qx

    Actual location info from county (can match up the numbers on the map to addresses): tarrantcountytx.gov/content/da

    And a reddit post in the FortWorth subreddit: reddit.com/r/FortWorth/comment

    #reddit #pdf #OverpassTurbo #OSM #OpenStreetMap #OpenData #FortWorth #Tarrant #dfw #txpol #uspol

    So far, I only have locations that serve (at least) as early voting centers. There are several more pages of day-of voting centers that I could conceivably add. I'm debating building a small, static, mobile website with #Leaflet to perhaps make a "show me my closest voting station" feature, and maybe a "schedule my voting time" feature that spits out an ical file or something. The opening hours are all there in the OSM data.

    (Annoying sidenote: most college/university locations are either early vote only, election day only, or not open at all :()

  7. @Incognitim Want to know which location is closest? Too bad! The map is "coming soon":

    tarrantcountytx.gov/en/electio

    tarrantcountytx.gov/content/da

    Incidentally, every TCC campus -- except its downtown location -- is on the early voting list:

    tarrantcountytx.gov/content/da

    I'm sure that's an oversight though. Guess I gotta show up to Yet Another Meeting and give my rEprESenTAtiVeS a stern talkin' to.

    #DFW #FortWorth #tx #Texas #Tarrant #TarrantCounty #TarrantCo

  8. @Incognitim Want to know which location is closest? Too bad! The map is "coming soon":

    tarrantcountytx.gov/en/electio

    tarrantcountytx.gov/content/da

    Incidentally, every TCC campus -- except its downtown location -- is on the early voting list:

    tarrantcountytx.gov/content/da

    I'm sure that's an oversight though. Guess I gotta show up to Yet Another Meeting and give my rEprESenTAtiVeS a stern talkin' to.

    #DFW #FortWorth #tx #Texas #Tarrant #TarrantCounty #TarrantCo

  9. @easwatch #TXwx #EAS for Collin, #TX; #Dallas, #TX; #Denton, #TX; #Kaufman, #TX; #Rockwall, #TX; #Tarrant, #TX; #Wise, #TX: National Weather Service: A FLASH #FLOOD WARNING is in effect for this area until 9:00 AM CDT. This is a dangerous and life-threatening situation. Do not attempt to travel unless you are fleeing an area subject to flooding or under an evacuation order. Source: NWS Fort Worth TX** DO NOT RELY ON THIS FEED FOR LIFE SAFETY, SEEK OUT OFFICIAL SOURCES ***

  10. @easwatch #TXwx #EAS for Collin, #TX; #Dallas, #TX; #Denton, #TX; #Kaufman, #TX; #Rockwall, #TX; #Tarrant, #TX; #Wise, #TX: National Weather Service: A FLASH #FLOOD WARNING is in effect for this area until 9:00 AM CDT. This is a dangerous and life-threatening situation. Do not attempt to travel unless you are fleeing an area subject to flooding or under an evacuation order. Source: NWS Fort Worth TX** DO NOT RELY ON THIS FEED FOR LIFE SAFETY, SEEK OUT OFFICIAL SOURCES ***

  11. @easwatch #TXwx #EAS for Collin, #TX; #Dallas, #TX; #Denton, #TX; #Kaufman, #TX; #Rockwall, #TX; #Tarrant, #TX; #Wise, #TX: National Weather Service: A FLASH #FLOOD WARNING is in effect for this area until 9:00 AM CDT. This is a dangerous and life-threatening situation. Do not attempt to travel unless you are fleeing an area subject to flooding or under an evacuation order. Source: NWS Fort Worth TX** DO NOT RELY ON THIS FEED FOR LIFE SAFETY, SEEK OUT OFFICIAL SOURCES ***