Blog posts tagged ios
Map updates, December 2025 - Now with more PMTiles
In addition to 2025, we’ve also added new imagery from 1920, 1936 and 1961 all produced using the Allmaps Editor to georeference existing collections materials. I’ll talk more about some of the tools and workflows we’ve developed to work with Allmaps in a future blog post. All of these new maps have also been added to the interactive map application on display in the Terminal 2 SkyTerrace Observation Deck. As part of those updates we’ve also started serving these historic maps from PMTiles databases rather than folders full of individual tiles on disk.
This is a blog post by aaron cope. It was published on December 15, 2025 and tagged maps, protomaps, ios, swift and vapor.
WallLabel – Experiments with Apple’s open source machine-learning frameworks
On-device models are still someone else’s models but having the flexibility to choose one model over another, to recognize that they are systems with strengths and weaknesses rather than all-knowing oracles, and the ability to incorporate those choices in to how our projects are designed and implemented is a small, but important, step in retaining some degree of control and agency in our work.
This is a blog post by aaron cope. It was published on October 29, 2025 and tagged swift, ios, mlx, machine-learning and roboteyes.
Registrar – Experiments with Apple’s on-device machine-learning frameworks
We are releasing this work in a spirit of generousity and to encourage others to suggest improvements with the larger goal of providing resources to help the broader cultural heritage sector think about how to use machine learning technologies outside and beyond the promises of the billboards advertising these same technologies in Silicon Valley and the world over.
This is a blog post by aaron cope. It was published on October 16, 2025 and tagged swift, ios, llm, machine-learning and roboteyes.
Updating the SFO Museum Wayfinding Service - Interface changes, WebShare and Nearby
Since the last blog post about adding custom publications for wayfinding routes we’ve made the following changes and improvements: Lists and thumbnail views for route steps, galleries and public art works along a route and objects from the SFO Museum Aviation Collection related to a flights; When supported by the browser the Web Share API has been enabled for linking to (and sharing) individual routes; The new “nearby” feature allows you to find galleries, public art works and other waypoints close to arbitrary points inside the SFO terminal complex.
This is a blog post by aaron cope. It was published on July 03, 2023 and tagged wayfinding, nearby, ios and geo.
Presenting the SkyTerrace Interactive Map at NACIS 2022
The good news is that, when the airport and the museum began to resume on-site operations in earnest, the application I’d developed had been running unattended and attached to a big honking monitor for 18 months and everything still worked. The bad news was that no one wanted to touch any kind of public surface anymore.
This is a blog post by aaron cope. It was published on October 28, 2022 and tagged skyterrace, nacis, maps and ios.
Serving map tiles to yourself using Protomaps and iOS
Aside from solving an immediate technical problem we are excited about how this approach might be applied to future projects and we hope you will be too.
This is a blog post by aaron cope. It was published on March 30, 2022 and tagged swift, ios, maps, protomaps, openstreemaps and skyterrace.
The Accession Numbers Project
The goal of the “Accession Numbers” project is to compile a catalog of machine-readable patterns for identifying and extracting accession numbers in arbitrary bodies of text for as many museums and cultural heritage organizations as possible.
This is a blog post by aaron cope. It was published on December 30, 2021 and tagged golang, swift, ios and accessionnumbers.
iOS Multi-screen Starter Kit
It may be too soon to imagine that we can make everything easy but maybe we can start to make more things at least possible.
This is a blog post by aaron cope. It was published on November 18, 2020 and tagged ios, tools and mcn.