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by rmc 7y ago
> Google Maps is also known to copy OSM without attribution (which is illegal, but not yet proven so clearly that I would be on a lawsuit). Not only would attribution be required, but OSM does (for some use cases) have a share-alike cl
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by rmc 7y ago
people have complained about RMS in this regard for a long time
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by rmc 7y ago
In that vein, I'm always optimistic about restaurants in non-touristy places where there's a choice of restaurants (i.e. not just the only one). Those places live and die on local traffic. And people won't go back if it'
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by rmc 7y ago
Much much more websites are HTTPS now. LetsEncrypt was set up, and browsers are better at HTTPS. That benefits people in the UK. "Encrypt everything" was a result of knowing the NSA were hooving everything up.
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by rmc 7y ago
How do I decide to stop other people uploading photos of me to Facebook?
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by rmc 7y ago
In the EU, the revelations from Snowdon were successfully used in the data protection cases which overturned the Safe Harbour exemption.
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by rmc 7y ago
There are plenty of people and groups who got good at OSM without making such a sneaky mess. Facebook tried to move fast and break things, and consequences be damned.
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by rmc 7y ago
Some of them had to be dragged kicking and screaming to do the right thing. Facebook initally dumped a pile of computer vision generated data into OSM, breaking everyone, and didn't tell anyone. It was entirely reverted ( more here:
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by rmc 7y ago
They want to be seen to be doing something with computer vision/AI.
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by rmc 7y ago
This is the point about OSM. Local people can just fix it. We don't need _artifical_ intellegence, when we have real intelligence.
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by rmc 7y ago
It is possible to "import" other data into OSM. However it's very tricky. Licencing/legal issues aside, it can be very technologically challenging to merge another database into OSM. I suggest posting to the OSM talk@ ma
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by rmc 7y ago
Apple Maps is based on OpenStreetMap, and they use OSM in many countries. I believe they use OSM for turn-by-turn routing in Denmark (or was it Netherlands) (source: Apple gave a talk at the OSM conference (SotM) in 2018, but required it no
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by rmc 7y ago
> In theory you are correct. In practice, if 97% of society exclusvely uses said aggregator/community to find videos - 97% of your potential audience will never know the video exists - is that not still censorship? Reminds me of
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by rmc 7y ago
And the fine will make sure you remember to do that in future! It's almost like laws can work.
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by rmc 7y ago
Turn by turn navigation in Apple Maps in Denmark is OSM based. (If I remember the talk from the Apple engineer at State of the Map 2018)
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by rmc 7y ago
Google has a similar policy: https://opensource.google.com/docs/using/agpl-policy/ This is a great advantage of the AGPL IMO. You can release your free software/open source code, and big tech companies w
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by rmc 7y ago
> Because OpenStreetMap is missing a lot of key information such as not having addresses in many places. OSM is a wiki. So you know the solution to that? Just keep mapping and adding data!
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by rmc 7y ago
Yes the OSM data format is good for editing, but includes everything, and isn't sorted or anything like that. So data consumers process the data, keep what they need, clean up data, process it and make into whatever format they want&#x
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by rmc 7y ago
Trying to define one English accent now or even 200 years ago is futile.
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by rmc 7y ago
There's the story of Lyndon B. Johnson suggesting that his opponent had "carnal knowledge of his own pigs", just to make his opponent deny it.
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by rmc 7y ago
Some times people say "What if $COMPANY goes evil?". But if Google couldn't make G+ successful, then them going evil shouldn't be too concerning. They're clearly not as powerful as one could think
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by rmc 7y ago
> For group discussions with no negative impact And remember, we're talking about cases of negative impact .
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by rmc 7y ago
> That philosophy makes sense for a lot of projects (like in SaaS, where you often deploy new versions by creating new virtual machines and installing everything from scratch), Does that ever happen with OSX.....
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by rmc 7y ago
I'm pretty sure credit card details aren't shared to all Amazon employees.
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by rmc 7y ago
maps.me is pretty good IMO
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by rmc 7y ago
It's a project run by the intersection of trainspotters & map programmer nerds. Of course they care about data models & tagging and curating data. :)
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by rmc 8y ago
An EU country cannot fulfil an extradition if there's a chance of the death penalty.
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by rmc 8y ago
No it hasn't, there hasn't been a trial. That's kinda the whole point of him being in the embassy.
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by rmc 8y ago
That exists. And out of date, unpatched, Wordpress sites get hacked to pieces in no time. So now the simple button on your blog gives money to someone else
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by rmc 8y ago
"PayPal suddenly froze all my money" has been a well known complaint for decades .

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