Directions for Compass

David Shanske recently shared some of his thinking about Compass, prompted by the news that the developer, Aaron Parecki, is going to update it soon. I recently went through my own process of updating a fork of Compass and doing a bit more with it, so I reckon I might chime in too. David’s thoughts mostly concern weather records, reverse geocoding, and map tile providers. I confess, I’m less interested in recording the weather, and I’m OK with using OpenStreetMap, though that could change in future. I’m very much with David on the desire for Compass to generate a variety of stats on the fly. I have a collection of janky Python scripts that can process the data, but partly because they’re janky and partly because I don’t actually do anything with the stats, except display them, I gave up. Maybe a quick average distance and speed per transport mode would be worth having. Should it be in Compass? Maybe, although I could also see asking Claude to dejankify my scripts (or start again). On…

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