A container for all my views with excerpts from technology, travel, films, books, kannada, friends and other interests. I am Thejesh GN, friends call me Thej.
For a long time the Indian OpenStreetMap community and DataMeet Community was looking for an official external boundaries. Even-though the commercial counter parts had it, the community didn’t have access to it. That status has changed now. Now we have the official external boundaries of India by Survey of India out in public...
Brunel defines a highly succinct and novel language that defines interactive data visualizations based on tabular data. Brunel is Visualization language. It’s a domain specific language. It has its own grammar. It feels familiar to anyone who thinks in data and want to visualize it. Brunel is also open source and works well...
I am an electronics and communication engineer by education 1. The most fascinating subjects during my engineering were Antenna theory and Fields & Waves. They were also very difficult and confusing. Mostly because it was just theory and we didn’t have much lab. Also it took me a long time to understand the...
I am a big fan of Minecraft. I remember buying it in 2011 from Mojang for 15 euros. It’s one of the few games I bought. It’s also one of those games I visit once in a while. My recent experiments with it has been using Minecraft pi and Minecraft API mostly around...
This morning I was trying to print some maps in Kannada using Marble. Then to my surprise1 I found Philippines in English, which means there is no Kannada translation available. Then ran a simple query on Overpass to see the missing Kannada country names. The query prints the details in CSV format (separated...
For a while I have been using KDE Marble as my desktop map client. The project describes itself as “a virtual globe and world atlas — your swiss army knife for maps”. It can do a lot but I use it for my day today work like bookmarking areas, creating KML files etc....
One of the biggest challenge when you want to use ML in your project is training models using right data. It’ not super tough if you have enough data to build a model but most of the time when I want to quickly experiment, i don’t necessarily have the data for it, forget...
Thejesh GN (ತೇಜೇಶ್ ಜಿ.ಎನ್) “Thej” is an Independent Technologist, Hacker, Maker, Traveler, Blogger, InfoActivist, Open data and Open internet enthusiast from Bangalore, India.
He loves experimenting with all things life and hence some times he is called hacker and other times duct tape.
You can read more about him here.
Email [ i @ thejeshgn dot com]
