Vik1ng

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by Vik1ng 12y ago
normal g+ post: https://plus.google.com/100293158896126941899/posts/T7huGEQ7...
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by Vik1ng 12y ago
Attribution...
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by Vik1ng 12y ago
I would argue that really depends on the subject. Maps are to some extent limited. Yes, they are never 100% up-to-date, but looking at my small village if I had mapped that 10 years ago all I would have had to change up until today would be
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by Vik1ng 12y ago
MapQuest Open is probably the style you are looking for. You can even select that as a layer on openstreetmap.org http://tools.geofabrik.de/mc/#14/52.5147/13.3899&num=4&mt0=m...
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by Vik1ng 12y ago
http://regio-osm.de/listofstreets/index.html uses streetname lists from local governments to see if anything is missing, spelled wrong etc. There are usually always a few errors.
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by Vik1ng 12y ago
Steve Coast the founder of OpenStreetMap who now works at Telnav also wrote about this on this on his homepage: http://stevecoast.com/2014/05/19/why-openstreetmap-is-now-na...
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by Vik1ng 12y ago
But a lot of apps are just used in a certain area. For example transportation apps. And when it comes to websites there are even more of those. Not to mention that more and more apps use data that only OSM provides.
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by Vik1ng 12y ago
In the end is simply all comes down to limited resources. Should I edit the wiki or contribute to the map. Should I develop something that makes it easier contribute the data or fix errors or should I make a nice application for average use
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by Vik1ng 12y ago
You can compare the maps here, but that of course ignores a huge amount of "hidden" data: http://mc.bbbike.org/mc/?lon=13.38885&lat=52.51703&zoom=11&n... Then there was a small analysis in Germany
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by Vik1ng 12y ago
> The main feature that we can’t get anywhere else is Street View, something that nobody has come close to replicating. Some people are working on it http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mapillary ;) (but yes right no
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by Vik1ng 13y ago
More information in the OpenStreetMap Wiki: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2014_West_Africa_Ebola_Re... Here is also a great visualization of the development after satelite images were available: https:/&#x2F
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The race to contain West Africa's Ebola outbreak(wired.co.uk)
113 points by Vik1ng 13y ago|38 comments
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Online army helps map Guinea's Ebola outbreak (OpenStreetMap)(newscientist.com)
3 points by Vik1ng 13y ago|0 comments
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by Vik1ng 13y ago
It's not that bad then either. If you have 3 gallons per 100 miles, then 3 fits into 14 a bit less than 5 times so you will get like 470 miles. I mean it's not going to be exact anyway depending on the conditions.
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by Vik1ng 13y ago
It's the only one that doesn't make my brain hurt xd Every time I'm confronted with MPG I first have to think what is better and when I calculate I always confuse M/G and G/M. While always having that 100km distance
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by Vik1ng 13y ago
I'm not expert on this, but I'm pretty sure the IT guys in our Formula Student Team use a Ethernet cable to connect their laptop to the Autobox and then the Box runs the CAN signals. http://www.dspace.com/de/g
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Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team crowdmapping in Guinea after Ebola outbreak(hot.openstreetmap.org)
2 points by Vik1ng 13y ago|0 comments
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by Vik1ng 13y ago
It's not about google making money with it they can already do that today. > It doesn't affect me and it doesn't undermine OSM. Just that that's exactly what it does. Google takes OSM data, combines it with their gre
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by Vik1ng 13y ago
> it still fulfills OSMs mission of making mapping better for everyone. Yeah, OSM alone isn't as high quality as OSM+Google, but who cares? One of the main reason I contribute to OpenStreetMap is because I don't like googles m
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by Vik1ng 13y ago
Consider contributing yourself. If everybody would just add his house with his address and make sure the street is there and maybe some houses around you that would already help a lot.
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by Vik1ng 13y ago
I don't think it is missing that many business listings, after all foursquare is for example using OSM. What it lacks is a service that extracts the data, makes it searchable and has ratings etc.
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by Vik1ng 13y ago
What are you missing? I always just used the one in the browser and that did most things just fine. Just recently used JOSM which of course has some advantages, but the basics seems to work everywhere.
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by Vik1ng 13y ago
http://searchengineland.com/google-has-stopped-street-view-p...
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by Vik1ng 13y ago
I think the reason Google maps works so great now is why a lot of people support OpenStreetMap. They simply don't want a private company to have some kind of almost monopoly on good online maps, which then can dictate the rules how it
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by Vik1ng 13y ago
> Does OSM have bike paths? http://www.opencyclemap.org/ > Does it have bus routes, train schedules? http://www.öpnvkarte.de/ It has the routes, but no it does not have train schedules. Why? Because O
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by Vik1ng 13y ago
http://sautter.com/map/?zoom=15&lat=48.25459&lon=16.27698&la... Use the slider at the top.
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by Vik1ng 13y ago
> why should we ever legalize drugs? Because enforcing strong anti-drug laws causes even more damage. It's not that most people want drugs to be legal, it banning them does not work. On the other hand a legislation like this is easy
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The rise of OpenStreetMap: A quest to conquer Google’s mapping empire(thenextweb.com)
366 points by Vik1ng 13y ago|192 comments
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by Vik1ng 13y ago
So you don't support things like this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transatlantic_Trade_and_Invest...
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by Vik1ng 13y ago
> remove the 140 char limit; we've moved away from 140 chars with sms for a reason and it is time for twitter to do the same I disagree. I think that is the only reason Twitter still exists. 140 allow you to look trough the stream v

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