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by rmc 8y ago
There was a long discussion on some OSM mailing lists about this. Since plus codes are basically a lat/lon encoding system, then any app or service that uses OSM data (or any other map data) can easily support plus codes right now.
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by rmc 8y ago
They changed the name of some other things. Roads in New York being renamed after a certain dictator with a small moustach. That kind of thing.
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by rmc 8y ago
> the osm letter didn't mention exactly what happened. What do you mean? It's quite clear what happened. Someone logged into OSM, they edited the "place node" for New York and changed the name.
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by rmc 8y ago
Also interesting that they refer to the southern border. Is there something different about the northern border? Different type of people, perhaps???
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by rmc 8y ago
There were a few other edits by the same person which were a little more extreme and anti-semetic
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by rmc 8y ago
> Wikipedia wouldn't be possible without it OpenStreetMap wouldn't be possible without it either. :) For OSM, humans are the strongest link, they are often the best way to fix these kinds of changes. A strong local community
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by rmc 8y ago
> this vandalism was spotted and reverted in less than 24 hours in OSM Even better, less than 2 hours.
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by rmc 8y ago
> what's the usecase for user submitted data on the map? The entire map is user submitted! It's a wiki map. OSM isn't finished (and never will be), so we need to keep adding to it. Even the place node for New York (which
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by rmc 8y ago
No, the bad edit in question is still there. OSM only "redacts" changes when there is a copyright problem. The licence was changed in Sept 2012, so there are lots of redactions from before then from people who didn't agree to
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by rmc 8y ago
Labels like that are often from place=city nodes. Here's the node in question. Compare v60 (the vandalism) with v61 (the repair) https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/61785451
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by rmc 8y ago
It was fixed within 2 hours on OSM.
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by rmc 8y ago
> I suppose non-pescatarians aren't a protected class so there's no legal argument. Correct. But sometimes these things can bump into protected classes. Like if someone has a medical disability that would require them to eat
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by rmc 8y ago
> Very few people there are irreplaceable Ah, but they're not replaceble fast enough. It's hard to get a scab up to speed quick enough. It could take weeks before someone's able to come in at short notice and replace a s
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by rmc 8y ago
> I will not respect or tolerate a person because they are gay. I will respect and/or tolerate them because they are human and a colleague. Good for you! The problem is that some people don't respect or tolerate a person be
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by rmc 8y ago
> Why are companies ... telling workers to attend 'lgbt tolerance' meetings Often, companies requires employees to undertake training in this area because the company is legally required to provide a workplace that is free fr
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by rmc 8y ago
Hi, I'm a long time OSMer, and I'd like to help. OSM has a flexible tagging system, so it could be possible to map your addresses the way they should be. You shouldn't have to shoe-horn things into a schema that doesn't
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by rmc 8y ago
> I'm also not quite sure how often large chains are importing their opening hours into OSM Very rarely, to almost not at all. Most OSM imports are still either roads, address points or buildings. PoI imports are very rare (to be al
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by rmc 8y ago
As Max Erickson says, they need their own OSM account. You can write your own editor, which submits changes to the OSM API. Users can authorise your editor to edit in their name via OAuth. Once someone has auth'ed your app, they can st
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by rmc 8y ago
StreetComplete is an Android app for answering simple questions about things in OSM. https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/StreetComplete
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by rmc 8y ago
Yes, OSM.org shows one map for everyone. But you can take the OSM database, and make your own map to show whatever you want. For example, the Indian OSM community have an OSM map, which shows the borders of India as per Indian law (w.r.t. K
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by rmc 8y ago
OSM is a very flexible data model. It's possible to add a lot of detail to things. Just because there isn't the data there for everywhere, doesn't mean it can't be added.
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by rmc 8y ago
There might be 3rd party apps that do it, but OpenStreetMap doesn't store or support traffic data flow. Maybe http://opentraffic.io/ ?
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by rmc 8y ago
> Do you have a link to some commentary on this? https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:AI-Assisted_Road_Tr... https://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=57942 https://forum.ope
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by rmc 8y ago
> if a street is wrong, and you supply the correct information, it’s not always accepted right away I'm a long time OSMer, and I'm a little confused by this, because OSM is a wiki. There are no data controls. When a user make
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by rmc 8y ago
The "Maps" app in fdroid[1] is actually a recompilation of Maps.me[2], which is from another company, not Mapbox. [1] https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.github.axet.maps/ [2] https://map
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by rmc 8y ago
> Only sad thing is perhaps some day we won't be able to have the fun of making contributions ourselves, if the big companies handle all that for us like Google There is some opposition within the OSM community from getting big te
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by rmc 8y ago
Yahoo (remember them?) allowed OSMers to use their aerial imagery from 2007 till 2011. Microsoft has allowed OSMers to use Bing aerial since 2010, and to be honest, it's probably been the most beneficial contribution to OSM of the ones
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by rmc 8y ago
One thing I love about the GDPR is that you can consent to data processing, but the requirement is that you can withdraw consent and "It shall be as easy to withdraw as to give consent". So "click a button here to consent, se
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by rmc 8y ago
> the obvious meaning for the expression “open source software”—and the one most people seem to think it means I disagree. I think if you ask nearly people who know what the term "source code" means, if you ask them what &quo
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by rmc 8y ago
Sometimes you can tell what someone means by what they don't say, especially if saying the thing is embarrassing/bad for them.

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