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by rmc 7y ago
ActivityPub. Open Protocols. re-decentralize the web
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by rmc 7y ago
And Allan Mustard is now Chairperson of the OpenStreetMap Foundation Board of Directors https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Board_Member_Bios
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by rmc 7y ago
Er, no. Do you have evidence that Google Maps is copying data from OpenStreetMap? Because if you do, please document it. It would be a bombshell .
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by rmc 7y ago
The proper way to map a private driveway in OSM is `highway=service,service=driveway,access=private`. I can see why you, or a simplistic data consumer, would class that as “service road”
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by rmc 7y ago
Due to ODbL licence they can't mix OSM data directly with other data. The ODbL has no restrictions on mixing, unlike the creative commons “no derivies” clause. The ODbL just says that you need to share those changes, and that new dat
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by rmc 7y ago
Everyone is welcome to edit OSM! Be careful about bulk uploading a pile of data you get. The licence has to be OK, and merging it into the existing OSM data can be pretty complicated. Imports are not suitable for beginners.
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by rmc 7y ago
> Apple and Google are directly competing with OSM Apple Maps _is_ OpenStreetMap in many countries. In Denmark it's used for turn-by-turn navigation even. (Source: Talk by Apple employee at the OSM'a 'State of the Map&#x27
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by rmc 7y ago
Apple Maps _is_ OpenStreetMap in many countries. In Denmark it's used for turn-by-turn navigation even. (Source: Talk by Apple employee at the OSM'a 'State of the Map' conference 2018 https://2018.stateofthema
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by rmc 7y ago
> Speaking of bandwidth and OSM reminds me, is there an "SETI-but-for-bandwidth-not-CPU-cycles" kind of thing one could help out with? Like a torrent for map data? OSM used to have tiles@home, a distributed map rendering stack,
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by rmc 7y ago
> it is usually not easy to realize this and understand that OSM is where you need to go to fix a map error The OSM licence requires that people using OSM data attribute OSM, i.e. that their users are aware that the data comes from OSM.
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by rmc 7y ago
> I would like to switch to OSM but I haven't been able to find a quality replacement for the Google Places API, which is critical to our application. I know a lot about OSM, but next to nothing about Google APIs like this. Can you
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by rmc 7y ago
> OSM seems like a great fit for this since information is tagged in a structured way: OSM both is, and isn't, structured. It's free form tagging system, where anyone can start adding new tags whenever they want, without any ga
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by rmc 7y ago
> OSM should be big enough to scrape their own parcels / subscribe to someone who does at this point. You do realise OSM runs on like £50,000 per year, and has basically sorta one employee? it's not that big!
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by rmc 7y ago
You can make it better!
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by rmc 7y ago
> pushes the features to OSM Do you have any more documentation on what you're doing, how you're doing it? That sounds interesting. Any OSM Wiki page about the project?
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by rmc 7y ago
There are plenty of companies offering hosted OSM Tile servers, or are willing to install the software on your server
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by rmc 7y ago
Yes, that's OSM's usual rule, but an exception was made for Crimea, and it is mapped as part of Ukraine & Russia (overlapping borders)
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by rmc 7y ago
> A volunteer organization in US (or wherever OSM is) The OpenStreetMap Foundation, which supports the OpenStreetMap project, and owns the domain name, trademarks & hardware, is registered in England & Wales
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by rmc 7y ago
iD, instructs the users browser to fetch an image from graph.facebook.com. The problem is that this tells Facebook that you're interested in a certain brand, if you're logged into Facebook, then FB associates the two. We all know
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by rmc 7y ago
Everything you do on Facebook is tracked, monitor and used. Everyone knows that. If you start requesting images of fast food chains from Facebook, we all know Facebook is going to analyze and utilize your new found interest in fast food.
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by rmc 7y ago
People used to force gay people to do that
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by rmc 7y ago
CoC always are about promoting a specific moral framework, one where traditionally marginalized people are protected. So yes, going against that framework is going against the CoC.
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by rmc 7y ago
CoCs are always political.
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by rmc 7y ago
they didn't open source the code that produces those road suggestions, but they have released the data output
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by rmc 7y ago
Describing what those companies do as “collaborating with the [OSM] community” might be a bit of a stetch. At best some companies have been dragged kicking and screaming to actually talking to the OSM community.
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by rmc 7y ago
FLOSS doesn't require that you give your software away for free. It's totally fine to require payment. (Now, the traditional 'sell copies of software' doesn't work so well for FLOSS, since every customer of yours ca
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by rmc 7y ago
social pressure?
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by rmc 7y ago
But to address you, to talk to and about you, I need to know your name. And often, your pronouns.
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by rmc 7y ago
I think other British politicians do it. What do you think websearching for "Jacob Rees-Moog lying" will get you now?
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by rmc 7y ago
Yep! The multi-billion dollar company doesn't see a commerical reason to get good at walking details. Cars are more profitable. So they don't put effort into it. A goal of OSM is to map _what we want mapped_, not what makes commer

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