https://www.rostrum.blog/tags/mapbox/ Recent content in Mapbox on rostrum.blog Hugo -- gohugo.io en-gb Thu, 09 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.rostrum.blog/2023/02/09/londonmapbotstodon/ Thu, 09 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.rostrum.blog/2023/02/09/londonmapbotstodon/ tl;dr I’ve (finally) ported the londonmapbot Twitter bot to Mastodon. Like a mammoth rising from the ashes. TOOOOOOOT Twitter is burning to the ground, yada yada. For example, it appears that the free API tier will disappear soon. Soon like… today. Oh wait, maybe not yet?1 Cool customer communication, brah. Anyway, this news will obviously devastate contributors and fans of the mapbotverse Twitter list. You don’t know what the mapbotverse is? https://www.rostrum.blog/2022/07/22/mapbot-rtweet-v1/ Fri, 22 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.rostrum.blog/2022/07/22/mapbot-rtweet-v1/ tl;dr Version 1.0 of the {rtweet} package has been released with breaking changes. I’ve updated the R script of londonmapbot so that its scheduled GitHub Action doesn’t fail. New hymn sheet I wrote a Twitter bot a while ago called londonmapbot. See the recent talk at LondonR or the blogpost about its inception. Basically, an R script runs on schedule via a GitHub Action. It generates a random point in Greater London and pulls a corresponding satellite image from MapBox. https://www.rostrum.blog/2022/02/12/mapbotr-londonr/ Sat, 12 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.rostrum.blog/2022/02/12/mapbotr-londonr/ tl;dr I spoke at a LondonR hootenanny1 (in-person!) about how to create your own simple Twitter bot powered by GitHub Actions and {rtweet}, just like my @londonmapbot creation. The mapbotverse I created a Twitter bot called @londonmapbot. It uses the {rtweet} package by Mike Kearney to tweet out a random satellite image of Greater London via Mapbox, scheduled and executed by GitHub Actions. I’ve written about this before: https://www.rostrum.blog/2020/09/21/londonmapbot/ Mon, 21 Sep 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.rostrum.blog/2020/09/21/londonmapbot/ tl;dr I made @londonmapbot: a simple Twitter bot that uses the R package {rtweet}, GitHub Actions and the Mapbox API. Find the source on Github. London from (socially-distant) space I’ve wanted to make a Twitter bot for a while, but it seemed like Hard Work. Spoiler: it’s not. So, I’ve made @londonmapbot: a completely unsophisticated proof-of-concept Twitter bot. What does it do? It posts a satellite image from random coordinates in Greater London (well, from a bounding box roughly within the M25 motorway) on schedule.