Whether they are allowed or not, probably depends on the place.
In Germany, at Frankfurt, I had to dump in a garbage bin a smaller Swiss army knife, to be allowed to pass.
I had it because my high-speed train of Deutsche Bahn had arrived more than one hour late, so there was no time to check in my luggage.
After losing the knife, I ran through the airport towards my gate, but I arrived there a few seconds after the gate was closed. Thus I had to spend the night at a hotel and fly next day, despite losing my knife in the failed attempt to catch the plane. Thanks Deutsche Bahn !
>Whether they are allowed or not, probably depends on the place.
It's a EU thing, even though the Swiss are outside... and I was sure it was a directive until:
The recommendation allows for light knives and scissors with blades up to 6 cm (2.4 in) but some countries do not accept these either (e.g. nail care items)[citation needed]
I thought it was universal mostly since I had no issues at the airports.
Prior to the 6 cm rule, once I had to run to a post office at the airport and mail a parcel to myself with the pocket knife (which is also a memento)
I don't recall it in Frankfurt last summer, but it was definitely going earlier this month. Though, they've got a weird security setup for some of the gates, so I'm sure it varied from gate to gate. Dublin and Edinburgh have had it for a while too, Dublin since last summer. Really speeds up security.
Yeah, even small airports like Belfast City have had it for the past couple of years. Other London area airports (Luton, City, and Gatwick - not sure about Stansted) have had it for about as long, too.
Heathrow's definitely a straggler - I'm assuming it was a more difficult project for them due to their sheer size.
It's a specific liquid scanner that's done on bottles that have been pulled aside for extra scanning (at least, that's what Frankfurt was doing a couple weeks ago)
As far as I know, it's not. You're now specifically told to not take liquid out of your luggage.
At least that was the situation when I flew out of London Gatwick last time - they had people going up and down before the scanners admonishing people to leave everything in their bags to avoid delay.
We had 4 bags go through, 3 had liquids (2 water bottles and one Barenfang) in them. All three were pulled for secondary screening, at which point they put the specific liquid bottles in a secondary scanner and cleared them.
So, yes, they stay in the bag, but then they're pulled out and scanned separately, at least in Frankfurt.
I've noticed every airport is different, and major airports are usually more likely to have the big fancy looking scanners that help keep the crowd moving along, without taking everything out. Smaller airports seem to have less of that tech and are thus often more of a hassle.
And yet somehow, airport security staff frequently get impatient when people in line ask whether to remove their shoes, laptop, etc. As if the travelers are stupid for asking.
This is a fairly new change - the new scanners are being rolled out "everywhere", but not everyone has them again, and there were some snafu's last summer that caused them all to be decertified within the EU, and at least for a while only scanners from one company had been recertified.
It'll probably be chaos for the next couple of years while this sorts itself out.
1) It's not. Maplibre is a JS library for displaying map data. OpenStreetMap is a collection of map data that is published in various formats. Different levels of the stack.
2) It's an optimization/advancement. There are some pain points in the older version that 10 years of experience can fix in a newer format.
3) Attention, funding. Technically, they're at the leading edge of open source.
Additionally to point 2, the older format was created by a company (Mapbox) that used to be open source-friendly but has recently made a larger pushback against open source and open standards, changing the licenses of much of their formerly open source work. (The Maplibre JS library itself is a fork of that company's previous open source work from its last open source drop to keep the work open source.)
Lack of tessellation was a big one. In many cases you'd rather have the polygons pre-tessellated in the file format. Now you can. Or you can avoid doing that and save the bytes.
The format is also designed to slide onto the GPU more easily. If you're writing a vector map from scratch, I say just do MLT.
There was never any support for more complex geometry. Now someone could add curves.
Attributes had to be fairly simple. Now you could conceivably do hierarchical attributes.
The requirements for navigation data tiles get specific and weird (from a visual perspective). Now it can be added without breaking existing data.
Me too. Mini has gone from main dev machine, to backup, to kids, and now to Lightroom. It wasn't a slouch BITD, 6 core and 32G ram. It's a bit slow now, but not that bad even on the 4k screen. But it's the best thing I have that runs 32 bit MacOs.
Interesting that citibike publishes trip level data. The bike share schemes in Dublin only publish station counts or free bike locations. So you can see the overall pattern of bike motion, but there’s no way to see how many north side trips go to the docks vs Heuston station vs the city center.
Greylistibg is very effective in my experience, but there are definitely some confirm your email loops that won’t work without whitelisting. It’s a combination of multiple ip addresses and retry times greater than the life of the code.
At least Germany has trains that go places. Ireland ripped most of their tracks out in the 50's and now there are two separate rail networks that are "joined" by taxi between Heuston and Connoly station in Dublin. Going from Sligo to Ballina (both on the west coast) means going through Dublin. I don't think any airport in Ireland is served by rail.
Fun fact; there used to be about _six_ terminus stations. Harcourt and Broadstone are gone, though parts of their lines have become parts of the luas system. Pearse used to be a terminus, but the loop line in the 19th century linked it in to Connolly, and it’s now a through station. Connolly used to be two separate termini for different companies, which is why it has such an anwkward internal layout.
There was supposed to be another ‘loop line’ linking Connolly to Heuston, but it never happened; DART Underground was also supposed to do that, but was cancelled. They just have a luas for now. The 2050 plan contains yet _another_ Heuston-Connolly link. Separately, Dart+ SW will provide a link from Connolly to a new station beside Heuston, which will be called Heuston West, presumably for maximum confusion of tourists. Trains from Connolly actually pass Heuston platform 10 (note that there is no platform 9 and never has been), but do not stop there.
The “loads of terminals in slightly awkward places” thing was actually a somewhat common feature of Victorian rail, but in most places they were at some point either consolidated or linked via metro. Irish Rail is simply preserving the highly inconvenient past :)
The worst bit is, it is likely that in the next couple of decades, Dublin will need a third terminus, because Connolly is more or less at capacity (and will be overcapacity after Dart+ is finished in 2030 or so) and can’t realistically be made larger.
