Erwin Olario @[email protected]

Orgs who make bicycle parking available, formal or not, is a subtle way of encouraging commuters to consider cycling as a viable transport alternative.

https://bit.ly/mapthatrack

Great data source tip from @[email protected] !
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It looks like access to #Ha@[email protected]'s tiles via ArcGisMapServer is back online.

You can connect to it in #QGIS through Browser/Data Source Manager (CTRL+L) -> ArcGisMapServer -> New Connection.

Use the following URL for the connection: https://app.georisk.gov.ph/arcgis/rest/services/
https://twitter.com/benhur07b/status/1219364062380748800

“[A city’s] best car plan is a bike plan,” or a plan that promotes active mobility, including walking.
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“We had people complaining that a drive of 300 metres became a car journey of two kilometres,” says Ghent’s deputy mayor about the city’s traffic circulation plan. “We had to explain that we don’t want people to use a car for 300 metres: they should walk.” https://www.theguardian.com/envi…
https://twitter.com/carltonreid/status/1219184785807085568

RT @[email protected]
Netflix announces Studio Ghibli films will arrive on the streaming site on February 1.

Do you know that #OpenStreetMap is a free-tagging mapping platform? See: https://osm.org/wiki/Any_tags_you_like

I recently noticed two bike shops in #Marikina that's been recently tagged with "bicycle:fixie=yes", to probably mean that those establishments specializes in fixed-gear bikes.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fixed-gear-bike.jpg
Photo by Andy Armstrong, CC-BY-SA. Wikimedia Commons.

Metro folks on their utility bike, plying a trade

#folksonwheels

Kudos @[email protected] ! May you inspire more people to get into biking, no matter where they're starting from.
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Glory @[email protected] is on the top of an @washingtonpost article ALL ABOUT biking while fat!! https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/they-call-themselves-fat-cyclists--and-they-want-to-get-more-people-of-all-sizes-on-bikes/2020/01/17/c09a3c26-3968-11ea-95…
https://twitter.com/MarleyBlonsky/status/1218539159691771904

Layo-genic ka talaga, #Manila

I couldn't imagine living inside an active volcano, but there are people who do, regardless of the risks involved.

Burog is likely to be just one of the many other local erms they use related to the volcano's nature.
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Residents living on Volcano Island have their own word for Taal’s earthquakes: “burog.”

“When the residents in ‘Pulo’ (local name for the Volcano Island) felt the burog, they kne…
https://twitter.com/bumaBAgyo/status/1218733811132841986

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Wow. Barcelona has declared a climate emergency that gets straight to the point: "The current economic model is based on endless growth, consumption & a permanent race for profit. This economic system threatens the ecological balance of our planet & has multiplied inequalities."

That may be true, but some "legacies" they fail to highlight are blatantly apparent, including how most of what this administration does only serve their own interests.
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It’s too early to present Duterte’s ‘legacy’ – Lacson https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1214919/lacson-says-its-too-early-for-duterte-legacy-presentation via @inquirerdotnet
https://twitter.com/FDPascual/status/1218584111582871553

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It’s too early to present Duterte’s ‘legacy’ – Lacson https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1214919/lacson-says-its-too-early-for-duterte-legacy-presentation via @[email protected]

Ganito 'yung ginigisa sa sariling mantika.
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Well, see it in a perverse manner, the firm has demonstrated its efficiency in building those fake islands such that it can also construct the airport in no time? https://www.philstar.com/headlines/2020/01/17/1985577/chinese-firm-sangley-airport-project-helped-build-south-china-sea-artificial-islands
https://twitter.com/CollinSLKoh/status/1218110842148835328

[Moral] reforms and deteriorations are moved by large forces, and they are mostly caused by reactions from the habits of a preceding period. Backwards and forwards swings the great pendulum, and its alternations are not determined by a few distinguished folk clinging to the end of it. ~Sir Charles Petrie (British historian), The Victorians

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A word of caution to all: most volcanoes are only appeased by virgin sacrifices.

Some people may already know this, but there are still many who are unconscious about its effects.

https://hbr.org/2020/01/advertising-makes-us-unhappy

#LiveSimply

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Turns out that this article is a good example of how many people read only the headline and don't even bother with the first para. Worrying. https://www.forbes.com/sites/carltonreid/2018/10/21/i-do-not-wear-a-bicycle-helmet/#12de6b497848

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Still waiting for a government official to explain how they justify giving away 50k to soldiers for their birthday while "offering" 25k loans to farmers who lost their crop.

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'Huwag tayong mag-N95 dito sa Metro Manila. Ibigay po muna natin sa ating kababayan dito sa areas ng Batangas and Cavite... Quezon and Laguna mangangailangan na din,' a DOH official says. https://bit.ly/36VE0O4