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Cake day: June 16th, 2023

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  • Okay so you want to use the online maps instead?

    If that is the question I use Microsoft Earth as an underlay with the offline map. The slider can change the transparency as needed. It looks like this

    This setup relies on the offline map data which is a downside for you. But I think you can do something similar with an online map tile overlay and sat underlay and not show offline data

    Edit: I played around and you can make that work with online maps too. I used Microsoft Earth as an underlay and Cycle OSM as the primary map. This is what it looks like and the settings







  • There was a movie I found a while ago called The Train made in the 60s. It’s about (you guessed it!) a train. It has a full load of stolen French artwork headed for Nazi Germany to be sold.

    Aside from the immense cultural value the money could also be used to fund a whole division’s worth of equipment so the French Resistance is tasked with stopping it, ideally without blowing it up. They also have to mark the car roofs to keep allied strafing runs from destroying them.

    I had never heard of it but it was surprisingly awesome. There is tense sabotage, full on practical effects air raids and train derailments, railroad repair shown with real equipment etc. Not the best ever imo but I enjoyed it