Vik1ng

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by Vik1ng 12y ago
12 listings... Well, that seems to work really great considering google is complaining about thousands of requests.
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by Vik1ng 12y ago
The ruling applies to every search engine. 90%+ of Europeans use google. How many use DuckDuckGo? So not having that stuff on google is pretty effective. how about Usenet and news aggregator sites like HackerNews? Who uses that stuf
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by Vik1ng 12y ago
OpenStreetMap attribution...
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by Vik1ng 12y ago
The only thing that pisses me off is that when I contribute I'm expected to write half a site in addition to such an infobox, otherwise a mod comes along and movees it into my sandbox. That's the main reason I always stopped editi
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by Vik1ng 12y ago
But does the government really stay out of the way? Maybe my view is biased, but I always had the impression that in Russia a lot was about party and influential people connections.
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by Vik1ng 12y ago
(the number of drivers increase with the surge pricing) I doubt there would be suddenly tens of thousands of additional drivers more after the WC final on Sundary in Germany to drive all the people home from the bars and public vie
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by Vik1ng 12y ago
Because when demand rises due to certain events or circumstances, potential drivers are also often part of that. Want more drivers on 4th July do get drunk people home from bars? Guess what - a lot of potential drivers just got shitfaced at
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by Vik1ng 12y ago
Yeah this it also allows you to be sure that you will be able to get a taxi on New Year’s Eve as long as you’re willing to pay extra. was already possible. But "extra" here doesn't mean a few bucks, but a shitloa
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by Vik1ng 12y ago
Not so much what OpenStreetMap has done, but simply due to the nature of the project one big difference is, that OSM maps what is on the ground. So there isn't going to be a discussion if that river is relevant or not, if there is a ri
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by Vik1ng 12y ago
but worse because they don't have the resources to fight back. Germany has more than 500 active mappers every day. http://osmstats.altogetherlost.com/index.php?item=countries Google does not come anywhere clos
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by Vik1ng 12y ago
I think the real problem is this google has the half baked crowd-sourcing. Where you actually have a closed system and then let some people crowd source on top of it and have different ranks and people approving. It's the same reason W
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by Vik1ng 12y ago
And how do you beat google on search when google is the one with a tracker on almost every important website out there? The search engine which gets the most traffic and can analyze and optimize it? Not to mention the cost to crawl the web
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by Vik1ng 12y ago
The reality is that someone who has 50 applications on his table and wants to invite 5-10 for an interview for 1 position is looking for easy ways to narrow them down.
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by Vik1ng 12y ago
Short term maybe, but long term it is really just a waste of resources and certainly not a better life for the next generations. Promoting alternatives outside big cities and spending the money there to attract companies instead of spending
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by Vik1ng 12y ago
or Brazil lagging behind the rest of the continent. Except that when it comes to map data it they aren't lacking behind and that's exactly what is shown on OP's map. Adjusting for mappers would remove the essence of
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by Vik1ng 12y ago
@1 I think the main goal is simply to display OpenStreetMap node density. Nothing more and nothing less. For mappers it's kinda interesting. He did't want to make a map where the most active mappers are.
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by Vik1ng 12y ago
> Fresno Data Import http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Fresno_County,_Calif...
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by Vik1ng 12y ago
Blogpost from the guy who made it: http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/tyr_asd/diary/22363
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by Vik1ng 12y ago
Let's hope this gains some traction http://wiki.hsr.ch/StefanKeller/ReMAPTCHA
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by Vik1ng 12y ago
Tried it too. Wasn't that happy. I was also never a fan of different search options in my browser bar so the !bang feature wasn't really my thing either. Now I'm contributing to OpenStreetMap, because I think at least that st
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by Vik1ng 12y ago
The problem is that Facebook forces brands to create engagement. You get rewarded for posting easy to consume content that generates a lot of likes and but not for a few quality posts.
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by Vik1ng 12y ago
A driver didn't have enough sleep or one whith medical condition might very well kill you in an accident though.
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by Vik1ng 12y ago
Or you know people care about their privacy...
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by Vik1ng 12y ago
> SkyBox was meaningful to the OpenStreetMap movement, in being a source for recent, traceable imagery. I really don't feel like it is that important. Right now OpenStreetMap is still lacking active contributors more than anything.
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by Vik1ng 12y ago
Not a programmer, but from what I have read on various forums the problem seems to be you have a client.
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by Vik1ng 12y ago
I think the only way to discourage people from doing that is adding something like +/- in addition. Won't prevent it, but might improve the situation.
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by Vik1ng 12y ago
• Specialized search is making inroads. >>> !Bang https://duckduckgo.com/bang.html Personally it's not really my thing, but a lot of users really seem to love this, especially when having DuckDuckGo as default
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by Vik1ng 12y ago
> But people think they're safe once the can't find it via Google because Google is all they know. But the same is probably true for the average person looking for it. A small Employer might look trough a few results to see if
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by Vik1ng 12y ago
Also open data like OpenStreetMap will really help DuckDuckGo and other services to contest google in that market. Especiylly when that data is connected to Wikipedia & Wikidata then they can show similar snippets as google.
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by Vik1ng 12y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_search So what you say might answer the first question, but not the follow up one. Well, your "e.g. on GOOGLE:" answers it, but the fact that you use google for that exam

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