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by rmc 8y ago
OpenStreetMap has a lot of things left to map. Sometimes, some correct data is better than no data.
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by rmc 8y ago
You can add a "source" tag to changesets. But if someone doesn't want to use that, they can just turn it off.
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by rmc 8y ago
Yes that's totally wrong. The OSMF (now) has about 1,000 members, and OpenStreetMap has ~4,200,000 registered accounts.
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by rmc 8y ago
In many places, OSM can be improved with satellite imagery
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by rmc 8y ago
"The problems came to a head in November when the Open Street Map Foundation’s board of directors rejected membership requests for “more than 100 applicants” from GlobalLogic, thereby restricting the number of outsourced representative
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by rmc 8y ago
This post is from 20 Nov. The situation is evolving and the OSMF board is looking into it and looks like it has overrules that working group.
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by rmc 8y ago
> A fine (no matter how big) will be seen by FB and its investors just as “cost of doing business" Depends how big you think. FB had revenues of $40bil. So let's fine them $50 billion.
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by rmc 8y ago
Maybe the problem is profit-driven companies...
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by rmc 8y ago
> Often agencies use interns for these kinds of image search —and things fall through the cracks. You mean... if we paid employees properly, it might prevent fuck ups like this?!?!
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by rmc 8y ago
> It only takes one blog in a web of follows jumping ship to motivate all the other producers and the fans of that blog and its related blogs to move to alternatives. Perhaps this is a neglected downside. By banning porn you will turn
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by rmc 8y ago
I never said it was easy to keep Google running. The complete opposite instead.
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by rmc 8y ago
OSM has used an "On the ground rule" for a long time. For names and for country borders.
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by rmc 8y ago
How long does it take to get a sysadmin up to speed? And how much money do they lose while their websites are unavailable? What happens if YouTube.com doesn't work for a week while they get up to speed?
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by rmc 8y ago
I hope they get somewhere. There's a tactic that has historically been quite effective. A strike. Sysadmins can't be replaced on a moments notice, taking weeks to get up to speed. If google.com 404s for a few minutes, management w
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by rmc 8y ago
Combined with becoming a massively popular and influencial media company. Facebook can swing elections. So people who get elected are gonna get suspicious.
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by rmc 8y ago
Fair enough. But the OSM project would rather not try to find the legal limits of this idea, and would rather play it safe.
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by rmc 8y ago
There is "Vector Tiles" which do client side rendering, look at OpenLayers, Tangram or MapboxGL. Server side rendering can be less intensive for the client, since it just has to show an image.
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by rmc 8y ago
Many other industries don't require people with lots of experience, like waiters, or front line customer service support or delivery drivers.
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by rmc 8y ago
How do you want to use it? On your android phone you can just get an app like Maps.me, or OSMAnd.
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by rmc 8y ago
It takes, weeks to get a sysadmin up to scratch. You can't get scabs in if you go on strike. If the employees turn off google.com for 5 minutes, management will talk.
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by rmc 8y ago
Couldn't you just say "I run Jenkins available from https://blah.com and Ubuntu from https://blah.com" ? Doesn't sound too strenuous
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by rmc 8y ago
> MongoDB is under a non-approved license and therefore IS NOT OPEN SOURCE. It might still be open source. It's accurate to say it's not under an OSI approved open source licence, but that's not exactly the same thing.
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by rmc 8y ago
Even if 90% of men never do it, it's possible for 10% of the men to harass (say) 80% of women. So "not all men", but "yes, all women" is accurate. That's just how statistics work.
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by rmc 8y ago
Making sexual overtures, in a bar , or on a Tinder date is one thing. In the workplace? From someone who can make or break your company?
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by rmc 8y ago
> Unless you're in a jail cell, of course. Or dead.
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by rmc 8y ago
"Maps" is the Maps.me app but without the adverts and tracking. For the record OpenStreetMap doesn't have one official app. It doesn't even have any "official" apps. People use OSM data to make other maps.
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by rmc 8y ago
OSM is a wiki, anyone can edit things, and there's wiki-like community review. So the owner of a business can add the details if they want, or someone walking past and looking at a sign can.
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by rmc 8y ago
The BBC might do this, good for them. But other similar organisations might not. This happened in Germany over a Creative Commons NC licence. https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140326/11405526695/germa...
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by rmc 8y ago
> If you take an image that's Creative Commons BY-SA-NC ... but your site is filled with ads you use to make money off your writing ... have you violated that license? Other examples: Is the BBC commerical? It's technically a p
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by rmc 8y ago
Or they are running their own tileserver, generating their own map tiles, from their own local database (this is exactly what openstreetmap.de is doing), and would not be affected by this at all.

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