Ah of course!

I guess one of the things the Google originally solved was that the internet if full of crap and not all sites should have equal weighing. With AI spam sites these days, you’d probably also need a method of weighting results?

Ah that sounds really interesting! Does it scale OK? I guess you could index at a word level and filter quite quickly for quick searches, but it seems you’re going to have to store the full text of every website?

For the no.lastname.nz bit, I think leave the background of that white and treat it like a white rectangle, don’t go behind the text. For the !trees bit, probably the same. Might make sense to focus on the bit to the left of the bottom of the south island.

That sucks. What was the novel search engine approach?

This is the part I messed up which is a little bit away from where you’re working. I re-did some of it so it wasn’t so obvious, I think it looks OK now:

I also squeezed in a mini @[email protected], not sure what do do about the ‘hi’ though. It doesn’t seem to be part of anything around it. The black on black doesn’t quite work.

I’ll help! I was doing the yellow background but apparently I’m not smart enough for that because despite careful measuring when two parts came together they didn’t line up 🤦

I think NZ’s is a similar story. GovHack is run in NZ as well, though I haven’t personally been involved in an event.

I think earlier on when there were fewer engines it was less of a problem as they all had fairly distinct shapes being based on different real engine classes

Even so, it’s hard explaining to a 4 year old no no that’s not Edward that’s Thomas look at the flat sides, the flat bits come further towards the front than on Edward.

Jesus.

NZ as well: https://data.govt.nz

Though this it takes work for the different government departments to maintain. The team at data.govt.nz work with the different government departments to try to identify suitable data sources and get them into an update cycle, but there’s definitely not all data that can be released on there.

Do you know how confusing it is that Thomas the Tank Engine has three blue, two red, and two green characters and they are the same shade of paint? We read Thomas books and my kid gets confused because Emily drives past Thomas, then meets Thomas coming down the line, past Thomas number 3.

I’m gonna guess British shops only sold three colours of paint in 1984?

The event isn’t over, so perhaps there were still holes at the time up to where this time lapse covers, that were filled in after this time lapse end time?

The guy lives in the country of drop bears and emu wars. I’m not gonna get on his bad side.

Yes it’s looking really good, especially the top left which is looking really complete.

I tell you what, @[email protected] is a man with a vision and he made it into reality! That Aussie flag looks great, I was worried it was too big but the combination of the other art overlapping and the Brits helping with the union jack meant it all came together in the end 🙂

Thought I’'d post an update. Looking good! I’ve started to fill in some background and doing some refinement on the edges of where things touch.

All the more reason to not be concerned when someone reports a gunman on the roof?

That’s a really good point, it must be hard keeping them on top of their game.

Yeah, but we don’t know how often they get false reports. I think from now on the security approach will probably change.

I honestly think you’re underestimating how hard this is. 3 minutes is probably not enough time to get to the roof let alone find him if he moved.