Ian Webster

@iwebst

"curator of the world's largest digital dinosaur database" among other things

San Mateo, CA
Joined December 2012

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  1. 19 Oct 2020

    Thanks to for adding Yolo and Andy Lin for adding Solano. If you'd like to contribute to the map, join us here

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  2. 19 Oct 2020

    CA tax map update: - San Bernadino, Contra Costa, Marin, Solano, and Yolo counties added (~1.2 million additional properties) - LA partially added (over 1 million properties) Bay Area: SoCal:

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  3. 13 Oct 2020

    This is very much a work in progress. I'm working on adding more counties! It's open source and I could definitely use help:

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  4. 13 Oct 2020

    Recent project: scraping 2 million property tax pages to visualize the effect of California's prop 13

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  5. 23 Jan 2020

    Added support for parabolic and hyperbolic orbits to spacekit.js. Here's 'Oumuamua, Borisov, and a couple other comets.

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  6. 25 Dec 2019

    My Christmas gift for Ancient Earth: fancier 3d pins on the globe 📍

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  7. 22 Oct 2019
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  8. 11 Aug 2019

    Working on a new library, spacekit.js, to easily build physics-based space simulations. Here's Jupiter and its 79 moons:

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  9. 17 May 2019

    Web viewer for 2014 MU69 (Ultima Thule), thanks to New Horizons flyby + yesterday's Science publication

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  10. 11 Mar 2019

    Created a service that generates chart images directly from a URL. Good for embedding charts in email, SMS, etc with no dependencies. It's open source at

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  11. 24 Oct 2018

    Webmasters - use this banner JS snippet to encourage your users to vote on Nov 6! 140,000 people in the US saw this reminder last week

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  12. 7 Jun 2018

    Latest project: enter an address and see where it was up to 750 million yrs ago. Screenshot of NYC on Pangaea during mid-Triassic (240Mya):

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  13. 5 Jun 2018
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  14. Retweeted
    23 Apr 2018

    Wow wow: Dust, stars, and cosmic rays swirling around Comet 67P, captured by the probe (+ amazing processing by )

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  15. 13 Sep 2017

    Really great visualization of Cassini's Saturn exploration

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  16. 19 Aug 2017
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  17. 13 Aug 2017

    Check out my kitchen light through counterfeit solar eclipse glasses

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  18. 8 Aug 2017

    now updated with last year's CAMS data - nearly 7,500 Perseids meteroids tracked

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  19. 8 Aug 2017

    Interactive 3D viz showing upcoming Perseids meteor shower from space (data from and ):

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  20. 16 Jun 2017

    A follow-up to stackoverflow's tabs vs. spaces survey: choice of editor vs salary

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