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by rmc 9y ago
I think you'll find that many feminists and activsts are not happy with most juristictions rape laws.
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by rmc 9y ago
There's nothing wrong with stating pseudo-science. It's just that people won't take you seriously.
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by rmc 9y ago
Do you like trains? Train nerds have made a detailed map ( https://www.openrailwaymap.org/ ) There are a few local specific maps ( Here's one in Welsh https://openstreetmap.cymru/ ) Interested in what
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by rmc 9y ago
You can install Nominatim om your own hardware and then make as many queries as you want. There are also companies offering hosted Nominatim (e.g. geofabrik), which will come with a limit and a way to see how much you have used.
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by rmc 9y ago
> It wasn't possible. We'd have to add it via JOSM or the web based editor. That's strange. What were you trying to do? If you convert your data to OSM's relatively simple XML format, you can open that file in JOSM,
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by rmc 9y ago
Yes, you can do just that.
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by rmc 9y ago
> just syncing the map data from osm regularly would require decent hardware You can get country level extracts, which can be updated every day. Nearly any server which can import OSM data is able to keep it up to date.
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by rmc 9y ago
I agree that it is ominous, and you're describing a benefit of the GDPR.
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by rmc 9y ago
If FB gives up on the EU market, then they've opened a massive weak spot for themselves. Social networks benefit from the more connections between people. If FB leave the EU, then some EU company can copy the software (we know what kin
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by rmc 9y ago
There is no global editing priorities. People map what they want. So in Ireland a few of us spent a while mapping historic administrative boundaries. Someone who's interested in cycling will map cycle infastruvture etc.
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by rmc 9y ago
OSM.org does provide a "per minute" data feed https://planet.openstreetmap.org/replication/minute/ "basic map" with "roads and streets" is choosing one thing. What about country names
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by rmc 9y ago
> Right now, most of our execs just google the information e.g. highway toll and update it. Careful not to copy from other maps! That's copyright infrigment, and against the OSM rules.
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by rmc 9y ago
> There's a lot of comparisons between Wikipedia and OpenStreetMap Yes there is. There are some differences, which the OSM community has written up to help Wikipedians get up to speed: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org&#x2
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by rmc 9y ago
Some open source apps like OSMAnd and Maps.me have offline routing. It's probably not as good as google, which is in the top 3 largest companies in the world.
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by rmc 9y ago
OSM doesn't generally demand proof from people. I suspect the root cause was avoiding copyright infringment, not abuse.
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by rmc 9y ago
It's great to see people, esp governments, using OSM. It's strange you had that problem with the one-way street. OSM definitly doesn't require that everything has photographic evidence. I suspect a concern was copyright inf
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by rmc 9y ago
EU Data protection law might kick in as well.
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by rmc 9y ago
Places like the EU, which have a "constitution" right to personal data protection, will have something to say about this.
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by rmc 9y ago
Technically you can edit OSM yourself and correct routing errors like that. The problem is either in the data (which is easier to fix) or in the router code (which is harder to fix, but even filing a bug with an example is helpful).
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by rmc 9y ago
Technically OSM is a database of geographic objects. You can use that to make a map, or to power a routing engine (like OSRM).
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by rmc 9y ago
Not really. But OSM is a wiki. So there is no central body to "confirm" changes. If you want, you can just edit things as you go. You can even edit OSM on your phone (e.g. with Vespucci), so you could drive along a road, think &qu
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by rmc 9y ago
> Is there an official OSM app? No. OSM is kinda decentralised and the project prefers to not have "official" or "blessed" apps or services, and instead takes the approach of letting there be a constellation of serv
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by rmc 9y ago
> Of course you could also just follow them IRL if you were there, so I'm not sure this is a big deal. Yes. But in that case, the person being followed can tell that they are being followed. A spy (MI6/CIA/etc) might be
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by rmc 9y ago
Surely that means that the people who replicate it from your ("your friends" and "your friends of friends") would be required to delete the (personal) data?
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by rmc 9y ago
> I think companies should be responsible for implementing effective security That's what the EU data protection law requires! And there are high fines, and new abilities coming into force in May!
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by rmc 9y ago
> PII CAN be protected reasonably well. It takes executive will to do so These is where the EU's new data protection law (GDPR) could help. It has large fines, and the ability for NGOs to sue you on behalf of users. When the alter
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by rmc 9y ago
> Not every firm has the resources or know-how to do all that The upcoming EU Data Protection law (GDPR) has fines for data protection breeches. It can be up €20 million or 4% of global revenue. And NGOs can sue you on behalf of affect
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by rmc 9y ago
There's also slightly more requirements than that. The credit must be placed so a reasonable user will see it. This is important if you have (say) an app. You cannot just bury the credit deep in the settings screen.
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by rmc 9y ago
Mapbox use OSM data. You can download it here ( http://planet.openstreetmap.org/ ). If you know how to process it, you can use it any way you want (subject to the liberal OSM licence)
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by rmc 9y ago
The OSM licence (the ODbL 1.0[1]) requires this of the attribution: > You must include a notice associated with > the Produced Work reasonably calculated to make any Person that uses, > views, accesses, interacts with, or is otherw

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