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by rmc 9y ago
I really hope the people who are looking for intercontinental missles have some training.
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by rmc 9y ago
Bet they complain that it's so hard to hire people, and that there's a shortage of tech talent.
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by rmc 9y ago
Sounds like he was a bad culture fit.
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by rmc 9y ago
I suspect that once you get big enough, Apple is reluctant to touch you. Remember, Uber broken Apple's app rules, and were not banned, merely threatened[1]. If Apple removes the app, then who will people blame? The app or Apple? I susp
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by rmc 9y ago
OK, that's what I thought. I thought the DMCA required something to be down for a certain amount of days (1? 3?), like you cannot just auto put it back up, right?
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by rmc 9y ago
> YouTube doesn't use the DMCA system Are you sure? Wouldn't they then lose the "safe habour" protection from the DMCA, and then be more liable? I know they can, and do, go beyond the DMCA, and take down things more
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by rmc 9y ago
I don't know about mapzen, never used their tools. But a common first way to use OSM data is to use osm2pgsql to import the data into PostgreSQL. Yes, on beefy hardware, it can take ~24 hours to import the whole OSM database file for t
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by rmc 9y ago
You don't have to do an import, you could just have a MapRoulette challenge. Or some sort of JOSM todo plugin, so people could whiz from one to the next
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by rmc 9y ago
> Would be very interested to read a post mortem. Did they simply struggle to find users, was their pricing strategy wrong, was quality an issue? Didn't they only start charging for anything 9 months ago? Before then everything
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by rmc 9y ago
The elevation data in OSM is mostly just an elevation data on peaks and such, not actually DEM stuff
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by rmc 9y ago
> If Facebook declines to pay these fines, then presumably their execs would be arrested if they ever travelled anywhere in the EU. Facebook Ireland Ltd is a company in Ireland (an EU member). Every FB user outside the US & Canada
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by rmc 9y ago
Yes, it's possible that FB will abandon the EU market, but the EU is large, and I'm sure they get a lot of revenue from EU adverts. If they turn off access for the EU, then many people will try to produce a new social network that
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by rmc 9y ago
You're suggesting a free market approach. "Just don't use the service if you don't like the terms". That's fine. But there should be limitations on what people can sign away. You cannot agree to work for below
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by rmc 9y ago
You are allowed to get a request of all personal data that someone/some company has one you. So you can contact Facebook and say "Please give me a copy of all the data you hold on me" and they have to give it to you. When Max
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by rmc 9y ago
> This implies Mozilla is intrinsically a political organization ... Does Mozilla describe itself as a political organization anywhere? I can’t immediately find a statement of its principles/values. Basically yes. Look at the &quo
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by rmc 9y ago
> The Mozilla CEO fired for his personal donation in opposition to gay marriage. He wasn't fired, he stepped down.
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by rmc 9y ago
Sure, but Google does claim to be an open company, and giving things back.
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by rmc 9y ago
> I don't see any reason why Google can't add OpenStreetMap as an additional data source in some or all areas (right in the spirit of the article). The OSM licence requires that if you merge another database with it, you need
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by rmc 9y ago
ish. You can generate a map image of it, and combine that with other data and that only requires attribution
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by rmc 9y ago
> this really does make me worried for OpenStreetMap. If the competition is so powerful and has a moat protecting it that will only grow larger, how can it ever hope to catch up? When OSM started in 2004 (before Google Maps), the only re
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by rmc 9y ago
> is available for the low price of attribution That depends. The OSM licence requirements depends on what you do. If you don't produce a geo database, then there's only an attribution requirement, otherwise you have to attri
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by rmc 9y ago
VC money is try to see how far you can go by ignoring existing laws
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by rmc 9y ago
OSM is popular in Europe, and Germany in particular. So when the German train nerds are mapping and choosing colours, they tend to have a European focus.
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by rmc 9y ago
Correct there is only one OSM database feeding both this map and the main map on openstreetmap.org (and other maps). It shows the power of open data. You can take the OSM database, and slice out the bits you want and only show what you want
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by rmc 9y ago
It's kind of a shame that Google doesn't release all this data they have collected/created as open data.
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by rmc 9y ago
And if you don't like how OSM is showing something, you're free¹ to take the data and make your own map showing your own things. [1] free to set up a rendering database that is
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by rmc 9y ago
It heavily depends on the area/country/city.
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by rmc 9y ago
China is on OSM. There is only a measley 383MB of map data though, about the same level of detail as Sweden. http://download.geofabrik.de/asia/china.html
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by rmc 9y ago
I wonder if the fact that they have a union has anything to do with it....
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by rmc 9y ago
> There's this growing trend of everyone wanting your photo and some ID, and then you have no way to verify that information is being kept securely or used for appropriate reasons. This is why in the EU there are laws about that s

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