[Ráfaga] #2241: patterns, blender, languages, houthi, iwd, medellin

[Rafagas team]

#2241: patterns, blender, languages, houthi, iwd, medellin

Wed, 13 Mar 2024 by Raf

* Promising results indicate the potential of using moving windows to
analyze urban patterns and city land use evolution.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/tgis.13139

* Blosm for Blender has both free and paid versions, allowing you to
easily import 3D cities from Google, OSM buildings, terrain models,
GPS tracks, and more with the premium version.

https://prochitecture.gumroad.com/l/blender-osm?layout=profile

* There over 3000 endangered languages in the world, which when its
speakers start teaching and using a more dominant language to their
children.

https://www.ethnologue.com/insights/how-many-languages-endangered/

* Behshad appears to be an ordinary Iranian grain vessel, but it is
actually used for weapons and information exchange for attacks in Gulf
of Aden to the Houthi (paywall)

https://www.ft.com/content/5fb8849c-b5b2-4f6f-908f-2c125159e3ce

* Issue number 52 of Mapas Milhaud's newsletter (in Spanish)
highlights three important women cartographers for International
Women's Day [ES]

https://newsletter.mapasmilhaud.com/p/mujeres-importantes-de-la-historia

* The Colombian city of Medellin has created "Green Corridors" -
vegetation walkways that mimic natural forests - to help reduce urban
temperatures by up to five degrees globally

https://reasonstobecheerful.world/green-corridors-medellin-colombia-urban-heat/

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Translated by Isaac, Jaume, Jorge, and Wladimir

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