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With regard to the first example, lowering volume of playing media when you get a phone call, I had that set up on my Nokia N900 a decade ago (Dbus on the N900
by Mediterraneo10 8y ago
With regard to the first example, lowering volume of playing media when you get a phone call, I had that set up on my Nokia N900 a decade ago (Dbus on the N900 would trigger a script to ssh into my computer and pause mpd). Naturally this was a nerdy thing and not something accessible for the general public, but I mention it here just to encourage my fellow nerds to realize how much power they might already have with existing tools.
The writer says that a business owner must add their office info to Google or Yelp and suggests there are no alternatives to such centralized repositories of information. However OpenStreetMap also has opening hours for businesses and medical practioners and that data is yours to process and play around with as you like.
In fact, there is just so much data present now in OSM, we simply lack convenient end-user tools to extract and process it automatically.
- dwighttk 8y agoOSM is open, but it is still centralized. It doesn't come to your webpage and get the information about your hours from you (as far as I can tell)
- floren 8y agoA hybrid approach seems sensible: the OSM data contains a vetted/known URL for your business, then your client uses that URL to fetch the hours from the website. In a perfect world, anyway.
- rmc 8y agoOSM is a wiki, anyone can edit things, and there's wiki-like community review. So the owner of a business can add the details if they want, or someone walking past and looking at a sign can.
- dwighttk 8y agoRight but the semantic web idea is that the business owner puts the hours on their site and that lets everyone who wants to know the hours. No central site (OSM, google, yelp) required. I mean the person looking for the hours would probably go to one of those sites, but the hours wouldn’t be stored there.